WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

·   7 US Deaths in Iraq From Thanksgiving to Sunday - NO LINK - We could not find them reported anywhere except on the Centcom website.

·  Suicide Bomber Kills 15 in Afghanistan - A Pakistani suicide bomber detonated himself in a crowded restaurant Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding 24, including an Afghan special forces commander and a district chief, the provincial governor said.

·  Middle East facing three civil wars, not just Iraq: Abdullah - "The difficulty that we're tackling with here is ... the strong potential of three civil wars in the region, whether it's the Palestinians, that of Lebanon or of Iraq," he told ABC television Sunday.

·  Why Shouldn’t Iran Support the Iraqi Insurgency? - If there was ever a justification for causing trouble this is it!

·  Do peace deal with Taleban, Britain told - THE British will never win in Afghanistan by military means and should open negotiations with the Taleban, according to the former leader of Pakistan’s forces in the border areas.

·  Ferocity of Iraq attacks leaves US troops helpless - US forces were reduced to near-impotent bystanders as the violence ignited by Thursday’s car bomb attacks on Shi’ite targets in Baghdad spawned a spiral of revenge.

·  Calls for calm as crowd stones Iraqi PM - Angry fellow Shi'ites stoned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's motorcade in a Shi'ite stronghold of Baghdad on Sunday in a display of fury over a devastating car bomb that tore through their area.

·  Iraq War Has Now Lasted Longer Than WW II - Only the Vietnam War (eight years, five months), the Revolutionary War (six years, nine months), and the Civil War (four years) have engaged America longer.

·  Mortars hit U.S. military post in Baghdad, police say - Suspected Sunni-Arab insurgents hit a U.S. military post in eastern Baghdad with two mortar rounds Sunday, setting it on fire, police and witnesses said.

·  Iraq Hospitals (Before the US invasion) - Crimes against humanity? It is estimated that Saddam killed 300,000 people during his 24 year rule. The US/UN imposed sanctions killed over 2,000,000 in only 12 years. That is a rate of more than 10 to 1 over Saddam. Both Bush's, Rumsfeld, Clinton, and the entire UN "security" council should hang right next to Saddam for crimes against humanity.

·  Clerics lay blame for Iraq's strife on U.S. mistakes - In interviews Saturday and recent sermons, clerics articulated one message that appears to be gaining traction on both sides of Iraq's civil war: The U.S. presence is making matters worse, and the Americans should go home.

·  'In Saddam's time I never saw a friend killed in front of my eyes. I never saw neighbours driven out of their homes just for their sect. And I never saw entire families being slaughtered and killed' - Against a backdrop of spiralling violence in Baghdad, The Times persuaded six ordinary Iraqis to visit its bureau to describe their lives. Sunni or Shia, they all had a strikingly similar tale to tell

·  Iraq a moral blunder, says war hero - THE former SAS officer who devised and executed the Iraq war plan for Australia's special forces says that the nation's involvement has been a strategic and moral blunder.

POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

·    W library in record book - He may be a certified lame duck now, but President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping, half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library.

·  Bush plans week of high-stakes diplomacy - President Bush reaches out to allies this week for help in quelling violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a burst of diplomacy from a Baltic summit of NATO partners to Mideast talks with Iraq's prime minister.

ECONOMY : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#economy

·  How Rent Makes Poverty - It is a general point that free markets do grow wealth, but they also grow inequality.

·  Good old days gone for biotech - Of the estimated 260,000 Californians who work in the life-science industry, about 70 percent are employed in high-paying jobs in drug, medical-device or diagnostic-tool companies.

·  Bankers wage open war on workers - This is a(nother) wakeup call for those stubborn working class conservatives who still believe that pinko commies are out to get them. Nothing can be further from the truth.

9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

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CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress

·    Democrats say no liberal plans in next Congress - Three Democratic congressmen who are about to take important leadership posts said on Sunday they plan to pass popular legislation blocked by Republicans but would refrain from pushing some of the most controversial elements on the liberal agenda.

DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

·   Arrested for Epilepsy - When a Seizure Gets You Thrown in Jail
TVNL Comment: America the beautiful!

·  Colo. Residents Spar Over Peace Sign - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.

·  Experts Concerned as Ballot Problems Persist - After six years of technological research, more than $4 billion spent by Washington on new machinery and a widespread overhaul of the nation’s voting system, this month’s midterm election revealed that the country is still far from able to ensure that every vote counts.

·  Massachusetts Governor Sues to Compel Vote on Same-Sex Marriage Amendment - Gov. Mitt Romney filed a lawsuit Friday asking the state’s highest court to order the legislature to vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage or to place it on the 2008 ballot if lawmakers do not take up the provision.

ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

·   Case could shape policy on warming - The Supreme Court this week will begin hearing perhaps the most significant environmental case ever to reach its marbled halls — a dispute that could shape the future of U.S. policy on global warming.

·  Energy Information - Do you wonder how long the media has manipulated you? Read the 2002 preface to a 1918 book "The Free Press" - Need further proof that information is suppressed? - In the late 50’s, I met a retired Florida college physics professor, he had a patent for a device to run an engine on water, The government had classified his patent and this prevented him from developing his device.

INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

·  West must prepare for Chinese, Indian dominance: Wolfensohn - Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China and India, whose rapid economic rise will soon fundamentally alter the balance of power, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn has warned.

·  Osman Warns Against the Danger of the Israeli Nuclear Arsenal on the Region - Chairman of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission , Ibrahim Osman , has warned against the Israeli nuclear arsenal which is still outside the international inspection foreboding a nuclear environmental catastrophe and undermining all the efforts exerted for having a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.

·  Islamists Dominate Bahrain Elections - Islamist candidates swept to victory in Bahrain's parliamentary election, splitting the vote between hardline Shiite and Sunni Muslims while female and liberal candidates fared poorly in the U.S.-allied kingdom, preliminary results showed Sunday.

·  Word on the street ... they’re listening - POLICE and councils are considering monitoring conversations in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras, write Steven Swinford and Nicola Smith.

·  US carried out madrasah bombing - THE bombing of a Pakistani madrasah last month, in which 82 students were killed, was carried out by the United States, a Pakistani official has admitted, writes Christina Lamb. - “We thought it would be less damaging if we said we did it rather than the US,” said a key aide to President Pervez Musharraf. “But there was a lot of collateral damage and we’ve requested the Americans not to do it again.”

MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military

·   Secret Pentagon Documents Classify Central Coast Group as a "Threat" - Secret Pentagon documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union provide details of how the organization called "Veterans for Peace" was considered a threat.

·  Feds plan redo of weapon sites - The federal government will head to Las Vegas this week to discuss its proposed top-to-bottom makeover of the nation's nuclear weapons system, an archipelago of research and production sites across two-thirds of the country.
TVNL Comment: I have an idea...why not make it a rule that people whp work these plants can not wear any protective clothing and must handle the plutonium unprotected! I would vote for that in a second!

·  Long stints in Iraq fracture families - 3rd Infantry Division will be the first deployed for a third year-long tour

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

·   The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism - They’ve taken over the country. They’ve taken over the policy. They’ve driven us into two disastrous wars, disastrous for our country and even more disastrous for people in the Middle East. And they have sucked up the wealth of this country and given it to the rich, and given it to the multinationals, given it to Halliburton, given it to the makers of weapons. They’re ruining the environment. And they’re holding on to 10,000 nuclear weapons, while they want us to worry about the fact that Iran may, in ten years, get one nuclear weapon. You see, really, how mad can you be?

JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media

· Al-Sadr loyalists take over Iraqi television station - Followers of the militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state-run television Saturday to denounce the Iraqi government, label Sunnis "terrorists" and issue what appeared to many viewers as a call to arms.

HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

·  Folic acid 'reduces stroke risk' - Scientists have discovered that the nutrient lowers blood levels of homocysteine - a substance believed to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#rights

·   Nobel winner says spend on women, not bombs - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said on Saturday nations with nuclear capabilities should spend money to stop exploitation of women instead of making bombs.

·  Pinochet takes responsibility for 'everything' - Gen. Augusto Pinochet took full responsibility for the first time Saturday for the actions of his 1973-90 dictatorship, which carried out thousands of political killings and is blamed for widespread torture and illegal imprisonment.

·  When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty. - Was the CIA involved? Did Washington know? Was the public deceived? Now we know: Yes, Yes and yes.

·  Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former US army general - Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain's El Pais newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which allowed civilian contractors to use techniques such as sleep deprivation during interrogation.

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