TeenScreen, part of Bush’s National Mandated Mental Health Screening program, is a 10 minute mental health test that may cause kids to be diagnosed with a mental illness and put on psychiatric drugs. When it was done in Colorado, 71% of the kids who took the test were told they had a mental disorder.

From TeenScreenFacts.com: (more…)

WALDENBURG, Arkansas — Randy Wooten figured he would get at least one vote in his bid for mayor of this town of 80 people — even if it was just his own.

He did not. Now he has to decide whether to file a formal protest.

Wooten got the news from his wife, Roxanne, who went to City Hall on Wednesday to see the election results.

“She saw my name with zero votes by it. She came home and asked me if I had voted for myself or not. I told her I did,” said Wooten, owner of a local bar. (more…)

Will Democrats repeal and impeach or salute and follow? Mobbed-up establishment sycophant Nancy Pelosi is nobody’s savior, as sacrificial lamb Rumsfeld steps down

The Democrats have swept the House and the Senate may well follow but did 7/11 really herald the defeat of the Neo-Con agenda or will establishment sycophants like Nancy Pelosi hijack and misdirect legitimate discontent and shield Bush from impeachment while blocking efforts to repeal legislation he passed?

Pelosi is widely tipped to become speaker of the house but she is already on the record as saying that no impeachment proceedings against President Bush, whether it be for deliberately lying a nation into war or being complicit in 9/11, will take place.

“Impeachment is off the table….it’s a pledge….it is a waste of time,” Pelosi told 60 Minutes recently. (more…)

There really is no escape. The all-seeing eye of CCTV is making its way to Shetland.

Britain’s most northerly group of islands is spending £200,000 to install 14 closed-circuit TV cameras around the islands’ capital, Lerwick.

The move has been driven by growing fears about antisocial behaviour linked to drink in Lerwick, but comes despite the islands having the second-lowest number of crimes of anywhere in Scotland. (more…)

Last week a voters’ revolution swept through Washington, brushing aside key members of President Bush’s inner guard. Now a new group of powerful figures has emerged to reshape the future of politics in the United States

Sifting through the political tea leaves of the stunning Democratic election victory is now America’s favourite sport. One man, the Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, already believes they show him the way to the White House. Vilsack waited less than 24 hours after the polls shut last Tuesday before declaring that he would run for the presidency in 2008. Barely had one race ended than the next had begun in the permanent campaign that is American politics.

Along with many other Democrats, Vilsack thinks the clear message from the Republican defeat is that America wants decisive change. But that change needs to come from a conservative Democrat: a man with a record of governing in the heartland and someone who is hard to paint as a liberal. As a popular Democrat governor in the Midwest, Vilsack would seem to fit the bill. ‘We’re jumping in with both feet!’, he enthusiastically told reporters on his first conference call as an official 2008 presidential candidate. (more…)

Just days after Democrats took over Congress, Americans embraced their top goals and President George W. Bush’s job approval rating slid to 31 percent, according to a Newsweek poll issued on Saturday.

Huge majorities of those polled said they approved of the legislative priorities cited by Democratic leaders after their party seized control of the Senate and the House of Representatives from Republicans, the magazine said.

But they also expressed concerns that Democrats might seek to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq too quickly or hamper the administration’s efforts to combat terrorism, it said. (more…)

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a five-day trip to the United States on Sunday, armed with an agenda focusing on the Iranian nuclear threat and Israel’s relations with the Palestinians.

On the flight over, Olmert repeated his view that Iran will not scale back its nuclear ambitions unless it fears the consequences of its intransigence, a spokeswoman said.

“They (the Iranians) have to be afraid of the consequences if there isn’t a compromise,” spokeswoman Miri Eisin cited Olmert as telling journalists on the flight to Washington.

Olmert appeared, however, to play down a senior Israeli official’s suggestion that Israel is preparing for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program. Asked to comment on Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh’s remarks, Olmert replied that on such matters, “we have to be very careful about what we say,” Eisin said. (more…)

Undercover American agents are staging secret ’sting’ operations in Britain against criminal and terrorist suspects they want to extradite to the US.

In a recent operation, agents from America’s Department of Homeland Security set up a suspect by posing as dealers wanting to illegally sell night-vision goggles for export to Iran.

The spies arranged a series of clandestine meetings in London hotels, which they secretly filmed as evidence. It is thought to be the first time American agents have been caught using such sting tactics in Britain.

It was reported about a month ago that the FBI was doing this sort of thing in Canada as well. (more…)

· Bishop admits right to life for newborns is not absolute
· Nuffield inquiry to publish guidelines on premature births

Church of England leaders want doctors to be given the right to withhold treatment from seriously disabled newborn babies in exceptional circumstances. The move is expected to spark massive controversy.

The church leaders’ call for some children to be allowed to die - overriding the presumption that life should be preserved at any cost - comes in response to an independent inquiry, which is to be published this week, into the ethics of resuscitating and treating extremely premature babies. (more…)

TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday criticized the United Nations Security Council over its efforts to impose sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program.

“It is most embarrassing that the U.N Security Council, which should be the defender of nations’ security and rights, threatens countries pursuing nuclear fuel under the law to provide fuel for peaceful purposes,” Ahmadinejad said.

Addressing the seventh conference of the general assembly of the Asian Parliaments Association for Peace, Ahmadinejad criticized the U.N. for applying a double standard, noting that “countries, armed with nuclear weapons, deny the rights of other countries to produce nuclear fuel and exploit it for peaceful purposes.” (more…)

The United States vetoed on Saturday a U.N. Security Council resolution urging an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and condemning an Israeli attack there that killed 19 Palestinian civilians.

Nine of the council’s 15 members voted for the measure, while four abstained: Britain, Denmark, Japan and Slovakia.

But the “no” vote cast by U.S. Ambassador John Bolton — his second since he arrived at U.N. headquarters in August 2005 — was enough to kill the resolution.

The Hamas-led Palestinian government said the veto showed the United States backed Israel’s action. (more…)

BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber killed 35 people at a police recruiting centre on Sunday as Iraq’s prime minister announced a cabinet reshuffle in an apparent response to his government’s failure to rein in sectarian violence.

The blast, claimed by an al Qaeda-linked Sunni militant group, also wounded 58 people when a bomber wearing an explosive vest walked into a crowd of young men lining up outside a police commando recruiting centre in Baghdad.

It was the bloodiest attack in months against recruits hoping to join Iraq’s fledgling security forces, a key part of Washington’s plan for an eventual withdrawal of its troops. (more…)

One would think that Tuesday’s election, which produced some changes in the Heartland, would have been a major topic on John Kasich’s show 11/12/06. Perhaps because these changes were beneficial to Democrats, Kasich avoided the subject except for a mention of John McCain on the cusp of declaring his candidacy and Tom Vilsack’s announcement of his run for the presidency. But Kasich did have a segment devoted to “what to expect when democrats win.” His only pundit was Susan Estrich because Michael Steele was “MIA.” (more…)

Democrats, who won majorities in the U.S. Congress in last week’s elections, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months.

“The first order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy,” said Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is expected to be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the new Congress.

Levin, on ABC’s “This Week,” said he hoped some Republicans would emerge to join Democrats and press the administration of President George W. Bush to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was “not open-ended.” (more…)

Kenkneeb, says that a November 11th editorial brings “breaking, awesome, hope-filled news”. Let’s hope this is the first of many editorials callling for a real investigation into the events of 9/11, followed by criminal prosecutions.

UPDATE: Now verified; online here.

Here’s the editorial: (more…)