30 Jun, 2008
SCHIEFFER: Obama hasn’t ... ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.
all the guy did was respond to a question from Bob Schieffer:
CLARK: I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.
aparently Obama denouced the
What a Peyton place approach to public policy popular "journalism"
actblue's FISA page
(More)
29 Jun, 2008
RIP GC
in this blogospheric funeral it seems approriate to
offer some awakinging words about
Identification From Adyashanti
20 Jun, 2008
Retroactive Immunity: Betrayed by Republicrats again
The Dem "majority" has not ended the war crimes in Iraq. The Dem majority (in the house) has passed
retroactive immunity for the telecoms for illegally spying on Americans
ActBlue is on the case
What would you like to say to Steny Hoyer?
republicrats.org
18 Jun, 2008
‘there is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war crimes.’
Now can we impeach?!
14 Jun, 2008
$23 Billion in Cash ‘Lost, Stolen’ in Iraq
BBC Uncovers $23 Billion in Cash ‘Lost, Stolen’ in Iraq
Also, KO nails McCain for his roles in selling and perpetuating this war of lies and murder & theft
07 Jun, 2008
Bush Lied us into war - No Longer under dispute
KO puts it well:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/87280/
06 Jun, 2008
GL & MCsame's lobbyist keepers
Lobbyist / keepers, they left out Vicky...
30 May, 2008
John McCain Info
John McCain supports NAFTA and big corporations rather than hard working Americans
John McCain housing policy shaped by lobbyist
John McCain for a century of war
John McCain shares Bush's non-exit strategy
the Classic John McCain Photo
More information & the OpenLeft campaign
29 May, 2008
Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
- 14. Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
- 24. Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
- 20. Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
& The rest of the 25 hidden news items
22 May, 2008
Non-Issue Issue
First to this list of non-thing things was the non-conservative conservative.
20 May, 2008
What James Comey objected to in Ashcroft's hopsital room
8 Million Targeted with Giant DB
This must be what James Comey objected to in Ashcroft's hopsital room on constitional grounds
Radar Article
There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously." (emphais EmptyWheel)
-Digby
The following information seems to be fair game for collection without a warrant: the e-mail addresses you send to and receive from, and the subject lines of those messages; the phone numbers you dial, the numbers that dial in to your line, and the durations of the calls; the Internet sites you visit and the keywords in your Web searches; the destinations of the airline tickets you buy; the amounts and locations of your ATM withdrawals; and the goods and services you purchase on credit cards. All of this information is archived on government supercomputers and, according to sources, also fed into the Main Core database. (emphais op )
15 May, 2008
Shock Doctrine & the military experts scandal
Bernard Weiner puts it well:
Because the media, always eager to curry favor with the Administration, did not vet the bona fides of these "private consultants," the public had no knowledge of the retired officers' deep and abiding connection to the Pentagon. These ex-military officers received special briefings, including by Rumsfeld himself, on the Administration's daily spin points, and they either had or would soon be receiving high-paying jobs with various defense contractors.
What the public now knows is that the daily commentary and advice by the "military experts" -- supposedly independent analysts, free of any conflicts of interest -- helped "catapult the propaganda" (to borrow Bush's own term) in favor of war with Iraq.
And it worked: CheneyBush and their neo-con ideologues inside the
Administration got U.S. boots on the ground in Iraq, controlled the oil
flowing out of that country, created chaos and catastrophe from which
their huge private-corporation sponsors could make huge pots of money,
built the world's largest new embassy in Baghdad, and constructed
permanent military bases inside that country from where the U.S. will
help control the geopolitics of the greater Middle East for generations
to come, etc. etc. All this presents a perfect illustration of Naomi
Klein's thesis of "shock doctrine" and "disaster capitalism." ( www.crisispapers.org/essays8w/klein.htm ) More...
09 May, 2008
Better ways to spend $3 Trillion
05 May, 2008
McSane
he has morphed into an older and crankier version of the man he couldn’t stomach voting for in 2000.
More Here
27 Apr, 2008
MIC: Mil Ind Cx: “Military Generals’ scandal
CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC, NBC and MSNBC decline PBS’ interview request over the “Military Generals’ scandal