Stuff I Read Today 10/19/06

Leaders debate plan to legalize drugs in Mexico - Unlike America, they've grown tired of the corruption and high crime rates that Drug Wars foster.

Bush accepts Iraq-Vietnam comparison - ABC interview elicits a rare moment of honesty from King George.

Fighting the imperial internet - Corporate media are looking to use the "free market" to add the internet to their empire. But we can't let them dominate the 'net and undermine our democracy.

Here's why cable TV is so expensive - ...and they want to run the internet the same way.

A billion dollars a year for pot? - Yes, that's what we spend on controlling the demon weed these days.

Marijuana may help stave off Alzheimer's disease

Loose Change Documentary airing nationally on 10/24 at 8 PM (Central) - If you haven't seen this, you really should - you may not agree with all of its assertions about 911, but you have to wonder what kind of government would prefer that its citizens be left to speculate about events so central to its foreign and domestic policy rather than offer proof that such speculations are wrong. They claim doing so might harm national security...but if terrorists were behind 911, then don't the terrorists already know more about what they did than anyone else? Perhaps it may harm national security if it is confirmed without a shadow of doubt that 911 was a government orchestrated event...

One man still locked up from 911 sweeps - This is what happens with 'arrest first, ask questions later' policies.

Music industry commits 8000 new counts of extortion

FBI director wants ISPs to track users - It doesn't get any more Orwellian than this.

Judge vacates conviction of Kenneth Lay - Hey CEOs of America, YOU TOO can rob your shareholders blind and extort half the country! If you're exposed, just play the system to allow you to keep your $2M a year insurance payout. They'll even declare you innocent after you're dead!

The worst congress ever - Rolling Stone has done a fantastic piece that should be required reading for current and future generations.

Government targets American bloggers as enemy propagandists - Just before I came across this article, I had learned that Have Skunk had been contacted. Scary...