LATEST NEWS ON CONGRESSMAN KUCINICH & OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES

‘Real’ Democrat Kucinich Challenges ‘Retreads’
James Q. Lynch, The Gazette
http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071113/IOWACAUCUS/711120034/1011/IOWACAUCUS
Dennis Kucinich was "pointedly not invited" to speak at Iowa Democrats' Jefferson Jackson Day dinner, but that won't stop the Ohio congressman's campaign for the heart of the Democratic Party and its 2008 presidential nomination. "I don't need the permission of the Iowa Democratic Party to run for president," Kucinich said Monday afternoon. "I can't be bought or bossed by any group anywhere. I don't get on my knees and genuflect to any interest groups or political machine." Instead of hearing from a "real" Democrat, the 9,000 people who attended Saturday "heard a bunch of Democratic Leadership Council retreads," he said.

The Courage Of Kucinich In Pelosi's House Of Wacks
Linda Milazzo, BuzzFlash
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1430

Dennis Kucinich is Not a Joke
Mary Shaw, National Ledger
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272617183.shtml

War Crime In Motion - Kucinich Warns Of Bunker Buster Attempt On Iranian Nuclear Research Labs
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=78312

A War Crime In Motion - Kucinich Warns Of Bunker Buster Attempt On Iranian Nuclear Research Labs
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentPrint.aspx?DocumentID=78312

INNER PEACE - The Contagious Power of Calmness
During the Vietnam war, a platoon of American soldiers, crouching in rice paddies, was engaged in a battle with Vietcong guerrillas. Suddenly, a line of six monks started walking along the elevated grounds that separated the paddies. Perfectly calm and poised, the monks walked directly toward the line of fire.

"They didn't look right, they didn't like life. They walked straight through," recalls David Bushch, one of the American soldiers. "It was really strange, because nobody shot at 'em. And after they walked over the berm, suddenly all the fight was out of me. It just didn't feel like I wanted to do this anymore, at least not that day. It must have been that way for everybody, because everybody quit. We just stopped fighting."

Daniel Goleman comments: "The power of the monks' quietly courageous calm to pacify soldiers in the heat of battle illustrates a basic principle of social life: Emotions are contagious. . . . We send emotional signals in every encounter, and those signals affect those we are with."

Source: Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence. Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036, U.S.A. http://theosophy.ph/pi-inet5.htm

Iraq Veteran Healthcare Could Top $650 Billion – Doctors Group Warns Possible Crisis Looming
Bryan Bender, Boston Globe Staff
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/11/09/iraq_veteran_healthcare_could_top_650b?mode=PF

Clinton Under Fire for Planting Fake Questions
Ari Melber, The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071126&s=melber

[Duchess Note: The Clinton cow will do whatever it takes to be the Democrat nominee. Whether it’s legal or illegal and she’ll use her overstuffed war chest of loot to do it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I’ve never ever liked nor trusted her since 1992. Just like the neocons, she has a “special” agenda, and being there for the majority of Americans isn’t on it. Not by a long shot.]

An Appeal to Barack Obama
Commentary by Tom Hayden
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/10/5140/

[Duchess Note: Many thanks to Linda in TX and Chris in NY for the articles.]