They're spying on everyone, including us.

Hi Guys hate to nearly first but we are dealing with a machiavillian villian as our president. Too bad the vote did not go the other way.

Oops the blog forgot me. This is not bloggers anonymous is it?

Right you are!

capt

may turn out to be an explosive story

ya they're all explosive stories, remember gannongate? as if. even the downing street memos barely fizzled. nsa spying? that's so yesterday! and what the devil is a plame anyway? mary mcCarthy? is that jenny mcCarthy's mom?
I won't even waste a good ha on any explosive stories anymore.

911hoax.com better wake up soon.

Well, if Mary McCarthy deserves to be investigated, so does the Leaker-in-Chief.

She was unsuccessful getting her superiors' attention on this matter, and the Repug Congress sat on its hands, so she told a few things to Dana Priest because she believed what she knew had to be revealed because it was wrong -- for the nation.

Condi leaks like a sieve. The Cabinet oozes with leaks. bush leaks. cheney leaks. But that's okay. Fuck 'em.

So Capt can I ask why bunnypants became named bunnypants. I like it along with Chimpy Mcflightsuit but somebody blogged bunnypants was your nickname and I wanted to know the logic and the ridiculness of it.

The Federal Reserve and Housing:
A Cluster of Errors?

Unfortunately, the common American does not understand he is being manipulated and impoverished by the Federal Reserve. When money is no longer real (i.e. fiat currency vs. gold and silver), then people may come to believe in the surreal, and a hyperreality emerges. In particular, during the reign of Alan Greenspan, money and credit –†created out of thin air –†rained upon Americans as if to assure us that crop failures and misfortune had been banished from U.S. soil. Hence, we came to live in a world of plenty where one may become wealthy by simply purchasing a house –†with lots of borrowed money –†and by "investing" in stocks for the long run. What a dream it is to become wealthy without effort. This mass delusion is only one step away from collectively believing that cotton candy is a cash crop. Alas, Americans will soon discover that housing values don’¥ grow to the sky and that heavy mortgage debt leads to a harvest of financial despair. The Austrian theory of the trade cycle will be validated yet again.

So here’≥ a quick trip down memory lane. Early in my underwriting career, cash and savings were king. Accordingly, this frame of mind was reflected in personal financial statements. As the 80s rolled on, Americans bought into the pop culture that is Wall Street. Without fail, I saw people cash in CDs and purchase mutual funds. Peter Lynch, indeed, popularized such "investment" vehicles for long-term wealth creation. Then John Bogle flaunted the low-expense-ratio S&P 500 Index Fund as the wisest way to build a substantial retirement nest egg. And who can forget the dot.com and telecom crazes of the late 90s? Americans envisioned themselves retiring to Easy Street based upon owning shares of Amazon.com and Global Crossing. Lastly, let’≥ not forget the Wall Street darling known as Enron. This company’≥ common stock was going to make each of its shareholders wealthy. So why aren’¥ Americans taking early retirement, en masse, to lives of luxury? Where is all the wealth promised by Wall Street?

Mas AQUI

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I am reminded that the rat race is always one by a rat.

capt

Bunnypants was originally from a guy that used the name in front of a co-worker, the co-worker called the FBI and the guy was interviewed as a potential POTUS threat.

I have used it with glee ever since, hoping to see a couple of suits come to the door.

That and go to google images and type in Bunnypants - there are many funny pictures!

Commander Codpiece comes from the flightsuit pictures where Bunnypants has his crotch straps cinched up tight (most pilots undo then once out of the plane).

capt

I have been leaning more towards Dictator Dummypants lately but seldom speak to the individuals issues so Busheney works better - like Bushco for the whole gang of slugs.

http://crusaderbunnypants.blogspot.com/

http://zehmaloim.com/president_bunnypants.htm

Re previous thread:

Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, have lived in Rancho Mirage since leaving the White House in 1977.

It is appropriate that Ford lives in RANCHO MIRAGE -- he is seeing illusory and unattainable "mirages" in Rummy's competence.

I use the term bushco to signify all of them together - but I refuse to ever put a capital b on the bush name.

ground was broken on the pentagon building--eerily, on September 11, 1941.

In the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, part of their plan leading to its fulfillment is the discrediting of politicians, so they can bring in their false messiah.

We are quite possibly in that final stage now. They could not have picked a better stooge for this than Shrub.

100777.com

Sept. 11, 1297: William Wallace leads over 15,000 Scottish soldiers to victory over the English Army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Battle depicted in the film Braveheart.

Sept. 11, 1499: French forces take Milan, Italy, with little opposition. At that time Italy was comprised of regions with city states.

Sept. 11, 1609: Henry Hudson sails into New York harbor and discovers Manhattan Island and the mouth of the river later named in his honor - the Hudson River.

Sept. 11, 1709: The Spanish War of Succession (1702-14) represents the first European war of the Modern Era. On September 11, 1709 an Anglo-Dutch-Austrian force defeat the French in the Battle of Malplaquet, and on September 11, 1714, after 13 months of siege, Spanish and French troops broke into Barcelona, ending Catalonia's sovereignty.

no, YOU go away

Sept. 11, 1776: After the fall of New York to the British, a Peace Conference was held between General Howe and three prominent representatives of the Continental Congress - Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge. After taking the Americans key city, Howe thought he was entitled to a peace settlement. The Americans, having declared independence in July, considered separation from England as non-negotiable. The conference of Sept. 11, 1776, ended and the war continued for seven years.

Sept. 11, 1777: The British defeat the Americans, led by George Washington, at the Battle of Brandywine Creek in the American War of Independence. The battle is regarded as the first where Americans carried the American Flag (Old Glory) to battle.

September 11, 1777: American Flag First Used in Battle

Sept. 11, 1782: The siege of Fort Henry begins, and becomes the last battle of the American Revolution.

Bush admits he offered Blair way out of the Iraq conflict

The Prime Minister insisted he would rather risk losing office than retreat

George Bush yesterday revealed the extent of the political gamble Tony Blair took over Iraq, disclosing that he had spurned the offer of a get-out clause on the war even amid fears that it would cost him his government.

In a rare glimpse inside the so-called special relationship, the US President disclosed how he had offered to release his 'close friend' Blair from the military coalition because he feared that domestic opposition to the war would actually bring him down. But the Prime Minister retorted that he would rather lose his government than retreat.

Bush's description of the events surrounding what he called a 'confidence vote' - the knife-edge Commons vote in March 2003 over military action - reveal not just the depth of trouble Blair was in, but the extent to which he was willing to gamble.

More HERE

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I wonder if Blair appreciates this?

I think it might get some MP's upset.

capt

Bush admits he offered Blair way out of the Iraq conflict

The Prime Minister insisted he would rather risk losing office than retreat

George Bush yesterday revealed the extent of the political gamble Tony Blair took over Iraq, disclosing that he had spurned the offer of a get-out clause on the war even amid fears that it would cost him his government.

In a rare glimpse inside the so-called special relationship, the US President disclosed how he had offered to release his 'close friend' Blair from the military coalition because he feared that domestic opposition to the war would actually bring him down. But the Prime Minister retorted that he would rather lose his government than retreat.

Bush's description of the events surrounding what he called a 'confidence vote' - the knife-edge Commons vote in March 2003 over military action - reveal not just the depth of trouble Blair was in, but the extent to which he was willing to gamble.

More HERE

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I wonder if Blair appreciates this?

I think it might get some MP's upset.

capt

Sept. 11, 1814: The American navy defeat the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

Sept. 11, 1855: The siege of Sevastopol ends when British, French, and Piedmontese troops capture the main naval base of the Russian Black fleet in the Crimean War.

Sept. 11, 1922: Despite Arab protests, a British mandate is proclaimed in Palestine on September 11, 1922. The mandate came into effect at the end of September 1922.

Sept. 11, 1941: Construction of the Pentagon began on this day in 1941. The purpose was to provide a temporary solution to the War Department's critical shortage of space. The ground breaking ceremony also took place on September 11, 1941. Sixty years later, to the day, the Pentagon is attacked for the first time in it's history on Sept. 11, 2001.

Sept. 11, 1944: President Roosevelt, British PM Winston Churchill, and Canadian PM Mackenzie King meet in Canada, at the Quebec Conference. Also, the US 1st Army crosses the border into German territory.

Sept. 11, 1948: Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the first head of state for Pakistan dies in Karachi. He is called "The Great Leader" and "Father of the Nation". Born on Christmas Day, 1876, he is schooled in London and later returns to build the nation of Pakistan. Jinnah, a Muslim, was a strong advocate for Muslim - Hindu unity.

Sept. 11, 1972: The troubled Munich Olympic Games end on September 11, 1972 Eleven Israelis are killed by terrorists.

Sept. 11, 1973: Chilean President Salvador Allende is killed in a violent military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.

Sept. 11, 1990: U. S. President George Bush addresses Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis, vowing that "Sadam Hussein will fail" in his takeover of Kuwait.

Sept. 11, 1999: The Jewish calendar is 6,000 years old. September 11, 1999 is regarded as the 6,000th anniversary of Adam's creation. September 11th is recognized by many faiths as the end of a major cycle.

Sept. 11, 2001

Medical Marijuana's Catch-22

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration issued a statement reaffirming its opposition to the medical use of marijuana, declaring that "no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use. There are alternative FDA-approved medications in existence for treatment of many of the proposed uses of smoked marijuana." This, despite the existence of a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, which concluded that marijuana was "moderately well suited for particular conditions, such as chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and AIDS wasting." As the New York Times notes in its front-page coverage:

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The FDA knows there are benefits from marijuana. In my opinion liquor is far worse in every way.

capt

Have y'all seen this video of Pink? It's her song "Dear Mr. President".

Pink

"Dear Mr. President"
(feat. Indigo Girls)

Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why

Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We're not dumb and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye

Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
Would you

~ Pink

Which President is Pink talking about? The subjects ranted about have been going on for quite some time.

I use the term bushco to signify all of them together - but I refuse to ever put a capital b on the bush name.

i use bu$hCo--i've been calling the preznit 'smirkey mcBruisey' lately just because i can.

Why did she take the polygraph? Lying while wired up like that is a conscious attempt to decieve, which is another crime.

If she had been acting honestly, she would have quit rather than take the polygraph. What would have happened if she had beat the polygraph?

Did her past experience with polygraphs persuade her that she could leak and lie without being caught by the machine? How does someone come to believe that they can beat a polygraph machine?

Corn's Hero.

Selectively punishing politically damaging leaks
Greenwald | 4/22/06

The CIA's firing of the official who allegedly leaked the existence of Eastern European black prisons to Dana Priest of The Washington Post has prompted an orgy of celebration among Bush followers, who apparently believe that the dreams they harbor -- whereby anyone who discloses information which results in political harm to the leader will be imprisoned -- are about to be realized. The NSA leakers are next, they gleefully proclaim, followed by the whole parade of nefarious, traitorous "cockroaches" -- including reporters -- who have leaked and/or published information that resulted in embarrassment to The Commander-in-Chief in this Time of War.

Read mode here (link)

the Israeli lobby is hard at work pressuring for this case to be dismissed.

Lawyer: Rice Allegedly Leaked Defense Info

By MATTHEW BARAKAT
The Associated Press
Saturday, April 22, 2006; 12:59 AM

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday.

Prosecutors disputed the claim.

The allegations against Rice came as a federal judge granted a defense request to issue subpoenas sought by the defense for Rice and three other government officials in the trial of Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman. The two are former lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are charged with receiving and disclosing national defense information.

Defense lawyers are asking a judge to dismiss the charges because, among other things, they believe it seeks to criminalize the type of backchannel exchanges between government officials, lobbyists and the press that are part and parcel of how Washington works.

During Friday's hearing, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said he is considering dismissing the government's entire case because the law used to prosecute Rosen and Weissman may be unconstitutionally vague and broad and infringe on freedom of speech.

Unauthorized disclosures, more than anything else, are what accounts for the fact that Americans finally realized what type of government we really have, and caused literally millions of Americans to abandon this President and his administration. Is it really any wonder why the president's followers are so eager to imprison the people responsible for these types of leaks, while insistently ignoring the leaks designed to help the president? This has nothing to do with national security or with safeguarding classified information. It is about punishment, vengeance, and deterrence -- all focused on those who have exposed, or who could expose, government misconduct that results in political harm to George Bush.

It is worth noting that the President does not have unfettered authority to declare any information he wants as classified. To the contrary, Section 1.8 of the still binding 1995 Executive Order governing the classification process specifically prohibits classifying information in order to conceal governmental wrongdoing:

(a) In no case shall information be classified in order to:

(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;

(2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;

The Firing of Mary McCarthy
Larry C Johnson | 4/22/06 | (link)

Mary never worked on the Operations side of the house. In other words, she never worked a job where she would have had first hand operational knowledge about secret prisons. She worked the analytical side of the CIA and served with the National Intelligence Council. According to press reports, she subsequently worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2001 thru 2005. That is a type of academic/policy wonk position and, again, would not put her in a position to know anything first hand about secret prisons. . .

I am struck by the irony that Mary McCarthy may have been fired for blowing the whistle and ensuring that the truth about an abuse was told to the American people. There is something potentially honorable in that action; particularly when you consider that George Bush authorized Scooter Libby to leak misleading information for the purpose of deceiving the American people about the grounds for going to war in Iraq. While I'm neither a fan nor friend of Mary's, she may have done a service for her country.

Dare we be surprised that bushco ignores the law in its favor and screams to apply the same laws to those who'd dissent?

Patriots should stand up to cheer Mary McCarthy, and demand that her heroic exposure of the renditious torture of many, many humans be the example to other government employees who see insidious wrongdoing.

What happens to Ms.McCarthy will be endemic to what happens to the republic!

-T

Sunday Morning Funny (pic)

#2: Actually, Dave, it WOULD have gone the other way, except for the Elephascist Party's mastery of electoral fraud, both computerized and old-fashioned (digital and analog?).

Wow David, you were busy while I was sleeping! This is just more bait and switch. Thoses goons are better at coming up with idiot distractions then any group I"ve ever seen. BTW, what ever happened to the censure motion that was all the rage awhile back? Did those faithful dems finally force Feingold to give it up? If they can't agree to a slap on the wrist for that murdering psycho, how will they ever progress to impeachment? I hate being a naysayer, but I knew that wouldn't get anywhere, unless they are still working on it in secret, could that be it?

Mary McCarthy is the Joe Wilson of 2006. The lawfulness of her disclosure aside, is there any question her utterances of the truth were motivated by patriotism?

Joe revealed war-justifying lies about Iraqi acquisition of Niger uranium. Mary McCarthy told the truth about secret prisons.

If Mary broke the law, she must pay the penalty. If the government broke the law by having secret prisons or torturing detainees, policy makers in the government must pay the penalty.

The Bush administration will try to prosecute leaks of classified information that make it's policies look bad, even if the leaks are the truth; while the administration itself will engage in leaks, both truth and LIES, that advance its political goals. This hypocrisy is not lost on the American people.

What is in question is the extent of the damage the Bush administration will do to our system of government before his time runs out.

capt #8, that article explains why there are still so many happy delusionals out there. They can't see the train wreck from their house yet, so it must not be happening! And whoever is suffering from it must deserve it. That quote I posted from greenspan yesterday proves that he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew what it meant to take our money off the gold standard and what the results would be, a nation of impoverished people living on borrowed money and time as their real wealth was slowly being stolen from them. I wish more people would take an interest in the economic realities surrounding us, then they would come to understand that both left and right have contributed equally to this mess we're in, that in fact it was a dem that started it to begin with, also knowing what would happen, that's why it was done in secret while congress was in recess. That is why they both have to go if we are to have any hope at all of rescuing this country from the abyss.

Mary's a genuine patriot act. Where do we get (more of) such women and men?

We Aren't in America Any More
News Hounds | 4/21/06 | (link)

The woman [Wang Wenyi, 47] began her protest, begging for President Bush's help, just as Chinese President Hu Jintao began speaking, only moments after Bush had this to say about China:

"China has become successful because the Chinese people are experience the freedom to buy, and to sell, and to produce -- and China can grow even more successful by allowing the Chinese people the freedom to assemble, to speak freely, and to worship."

Freedom of speech? Are we sure we even have that in this country anymore?

What was not mentioned at ALL on Special Report, was after this brave woman stood up to the Dictator of Communist China, begging the President of the free world to help save her people, she was arrested and, according to Yahoo News, "she had been charged with disorderly conduct and that a charge of intimidating or disrupting foreign officials was also being considered."

The charge of "intimidating" a foreign official carries a prison term of 6 months. IN AMERICA.

(video) from C&L
White House heckler charged (link)
links to press stories (link)

Here's a story that will get the Bushevicks faithful fired up:

NASCAR adds Fuel-Price Surcharge (wink)

Good for you Sal, but I fear it is already too late and we are just waiting for the hammer to fall. It seems that no matter what, the economics are the one thing that will destroy this country, and possibly the rest of the world.. Remember he who controls the money controls the country, he who controls the food controls the people. So all of these little fleeting bits of distraction still don't bring any focus or attention on the real disaster facing us. Plus no one has mentioned the word deriviatives, that is the big one, too much money hedging and no one can explain how this market works, but banks, and companies are heavily invested in these through other funds etc. The amounts are enormous and if it cracks then the whole show will fall rapidly. Imagaine this, you wake up one day and gas is over five bucks a gallon, a hundred dollars doesn't buy you much at the grocery store, clothing is so expensive as to be unattainable. The economy has started to slide and no one has enough money to make it through one week. Except of course the rich, who are busily trying to look poor. Kidnapping becomes a growth industry along with private security. Armored vehicles ferry kids to the schools which look more like fortresses instead of learning places. Think it can't happen here, look around the third world once in a while, happening there and not mentioned in the press. Yep, the world is a changing and we don't see the big ones, just the distractions that are flogged on the tube daily. To Capt, just a thought I read once. Just when you think you are winning the rat race, along come faster rats.

O'Reilly, I've been on the rampage about that for the past several days. It is simply astounding what that fool in the WH can get away with. If James post above is correct, and it is the goal to discredit the politicians, I must say, they are doing a heckava job!

33%: Cutting Into The Base
Pam Spaulding | Firedoglake | 4/22/06

I figured that once we hit 33%, it would represent the bottom for the Chimperor. After all, there's a hardcore Base, the blind followers of this disaster of a president who simply won't give in, won't accept the reality of major failures like Iraq, the rotten-to-the-core widespread corruption, or the fact that Bush is, to be charitable, a dunce and embarrassment at home and abroad.

You know what? I heard also howls coming from the fetid swamps of Freeperland when I saw that poll. At 33%, we are digging into the rotting flesh of the most vile, ardent fans of Dear Leader, and they are yelping in pain.

We have a few ready to abandon their man, others are still tethered to IVs filled with wingnut-flavored Kool-Aid concentrate. and a subset who, even by the swamp?s standards, are ready for the padded cell.

For more red meat, read on HERE

WTF, I hate to say it's too late, but the thought has certainly crossed my mind. One thing all the politicians have in common, down to the very least of them, is their refusal to address the one problem that will wipe this country out. Maybe they remember what happened to Kennedy when he crossed that world wide mafia known as the Federal Reserve. He was dead 3 weeks later. They are all cowardly and spineless, and the people are too clueless to know what is going on right in front of their eyes. It's that cluelessness, and the apathy that accompanies it, that make me feel hopeless. It doesn't matter who is (s)elected, that one aspect is never going to change, and there is nothing we can do to change it. There is still time to make provisions for yourself and loved ones, but don't hold your breath waiting for some politician in shining armor to save the day, they are all in the bankers pockets. And they know what will happen if they make waves.

Upcoming International Conference sponsored by www.911truth.org
Source: 911 Truth
URL Source: http://www.911truth.org/ChicagoConference.htm
Published: Apr 22, 2006

Upcoming International Conference sponsored by http://www.911truth.org and the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth http://www.mujca.com

Chicago, Illinois June 2-4, 2006

Embassy Suites Hotel Chicago-O'Hare Rosemont

The 9/11 truth movement has gained enormous credibility and momentum in 2006. Help us build that momentum into a political force that will carry us to success. Let us reveal to all that 9/11 truth offers the greatest opportunity in modern history for courageous, ethical people to positively influence the future of humanity. We hope to achieve no less than a return to Constitutional rule with the re-establishment of our precious civil liberties, the end of fraudulent wars and true justice for all the victims. We should act on this opportunity with gratitude and intelligence, sounding an alarm as well as a declaration that we are free and in charge of our own destiny as awakened and empowered citizens shaping a better world.

In Chicago we will be offering an intensive weekend which will include workshops, presentations, strategy sessions and abundant opportunities for the growing 9/11 truth movement to come together. We are very pleased to announce we have early commitments from human rights attorney William Pepper, BYU Physics professor Steven E. Jones, author Webster Tarpley, Peter Phillips of Project Censored, Canadian activist Ian Woods of Global Outlook magazine, researcher Jim Hoffman, scientist Kevin Ryan, Dr. Faiz Khan, author Jim Marrs, Canadian media critic Barrie Zwicker, Scholars for 9/11 Truth founder Jim Fetzer, strategist David Kubiak, Ken Jenkins, Rick Siegel of 911 Eyewitness, Ralph Schoenman, California 9/11 truth congressional candidate Carol Brouillet and Charles Key and Chris Emery of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Committee. Media coverage is planned by INN World Report, KPFA Berkeley, KPFK of Los Angeles, http://TVNewsLies.org and many others. Many more important luminaries, authors, researchers, organizers and media activists can be expected, including 9/11 survivor and rescue hero William Rodriquez.

This gathering has been taking shape since last fall with the help of a diverse group of grassroots activists. We expect this conference to be a major, watershed event bringing together the many new credible voices from across the political spectrum. It will be an education and strategy conference that moves beyond past 9/11 events. We particularly wish to have widespread representation from across North America and abroad so please consider participating or helping to send people from your community.

Everything we need to succeed -- we now have.
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But the most important thing is support.
Anyone in the Chicago area may be interested in attending this conference. I wish I could go.

"W" dons spinal-tap codpiece (pic)

And for anyone who can't attend but would like to contribute.

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Commander-in-Codpiece (pic)

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Dorothy originally wore silver shoes -- Hollywood changed the shoes to ruby when the movie was produced.

Some people claim that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written as an allegory of Populist demands in the 1890s for a bimetallic monetary system. Saladin, perhaps you should start a push to teach economics to kids using The Wizard as the textbook -- I'm not being facetious.

BTW, another Alan Greenspan quote that I think is very indicative of his ability to communicate clearly (or not): “I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.”

Oil Tops $75 a Barrel
Taylor Marsh | Firedoglake | 4/22/06

Oil prices could be the issue of the year, just like it was back in Jimmy Carter days. ANWAR isn't the answer. Just wait until summer and people start driving on vacations. This could get really ugly, especially if another oil executive gets a golden package that resembles the collective wealth of several small countries combined.

Read on (dude)

The Whistler Blower: patriot or criminal?

micki, that's a great idea. I will get started as soon as we save this country from economic suicide! If we don't, all the economic classes in the world won't help, we don't have enough time to wait on the next generation to fix it.

The Whistleblower Gets Whacked
Taylor Marsh | Firedoglake | 4/22/06

. . . a whistleblower, a member of the CIA's Inspector General's office, leaks the existence of illegal black sites to a reporter, because she feels something wrong is being done in the name of the American people, and she gets fired. Not only fired, but pulled out and identified as nothing short of a traitor. In other words, the Nixon rule really does apply. If the president does it it?s okay, but if it?s done by a whistleblower she gets fired, with humiliation and the "traitor" tag waiting for her on her departure. Even people who don?t like Mary McCarthy are saying something smells.

(more?)

something smells? Jeez Louise! What will it take to get the people's attention?

I just read that it costs 1.4 cents to make a penny! Save your pennies, the copper value will make it worthwhile.

#55 hahaha Our generation sure as hell can't fix it...just holding out hope for the next generation, before the qaqaa gets too deep

If our generation doesn't fix it, the next one can kiss their country goodbye. That mushroom cloud they were talking about? That's the world wide monetary collapse, when we go down, everyone else goes down too, that is why China has been funding bushco's madness this long. Eventually they will realize it's a lose-lose proposition and will back out before it's too late, that's when the pain begins.

"I would not rattle the tactical nuclear weapon sabre with Iran, it's counterproductive."

- Sen. Kennedy 4/23/06

Israel Calls For Assassination of Iranian President
Source: english.farsnews.com
URL Source: http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8502020527
Published: Apr 23, 2006

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Haertz columnist Amir Oren openly called for the assassination of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said that the issue is on Tel Aviv's agenda.

The Zionist Regime has repeatedly embarked on the assassination of the Palestinian leaders in the past, but this is the first time that it is trying to assassinate the head of another country in recent years.

The paper described Ahmadinejad as a ticking atomic bomb who is the most threatening character for the so-called state of Israel and further termed assassination of the Iranian president reasonable.

The paper has also called for not only assassination of more and more Palestinian leaders, including Hamas leaders, Hamas administration, and Hamas representatives at the Palestinian legislative assembly and others, but also asked for the destruction of Mecca as the most important Islamic site and a symbol of Muslim unity and solidarity.

Describing such measures, including the assassination of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a moral, legal, and reasonable action, the columnist says to defuse the Islamic wave of Vigilance which has been aroused all across the Muslim world by President Ahmadinejad, Israel is faced with two options.

"One is destroying Mecca in case the wave grows and comes closer to the Zionist Regime, which will certainly arouse the wrath of a billion believers from Mauritania to Malaysia against Israel. And the second option for the Zionist Regime is elimination of leaders whose behavior and policy create existential danger for Israel, tantamount to a ticking atomic bomb, including assassination of the Iranian president which will arouse less Islamic sentiments and thus, cost Israel less."
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So, the press can spin lies about what the Iranian president said, but Israel can openly call for assassinations and no one even blinks. After 90+ years of attacks and attempted genocide of the Muslim people, is it any wonder why they despise the west and the Zionist regime in Israel?

On teaching ECONOMICS/HISTORY using THE WIZARD OF OZ as a guide

Just for the heck of it....

#61 Too bad the busheviks don't see that it's counterproductive.

US intel report: Major increase in terrorist incidents

But experts say a common definition of terrorism is a great challenge and a global issue.

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

In a report to be released next week, US government figures will show that the number of terrorist attacks in the world jumped sharply in 2005, totalling more than 10,000 for the first time. That is almost triple the number of terrorist attacks in 2004 -- 3,194. Knight Ridder's Washington bureau reports that counterterrorism experts say that there are two reasons for the dramatic increase: a broader definition of what consitutes a terrorist attack, and the war in Iraq.
More than half the fatalities from terrorism worldwide last year occurred in Iraq, said a counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the data haven't been made public. Roughly 85 percent of the US citizens who died from terrorism during the year died in Iraq. The figures cover only noncombatants and thus don't include combat deaths of US, Iraqi and other coalition soldiers.
"There's no question that the level of terrorist attacks in Iraq was up substantially," said the official, who's familiar with the methods used by the National Counterterrorism Center to track terrorist trends. The center is part of the US intelligence community.

Knight Ridder also reports that the new definition was used in 2004, but 2005 was the first year that analysts had more time to use the new method. In past years, only terrorist attacks that involved people from more than one country were counted. But officials realized this would, for instance, leave out incidents like the one in the Philippines where terrorists sank a ferry killing 132 Filipinos.

The latest figures will be released in conjunction with the US State Department's annual report on terrorism.
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YUP, the war a terror creating more terror. Oh well, as long as we don't have to fight 'em here! As long as it's someone elses family getting blown to smithereens.

micki, that link gave me a 404 error. I hope there's no creepy ghost lady in the bathtub in there!

The boogeyman speaks.

New bin Laden tape promises attack on US
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Al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden issued an ominous new statement on AlJazeera television, appearing to justify attacks on civilians in the West.

"I say that this war is the joint responsibility of the people and the governments. While the war continues, the people renew their allegiance to their rulers and politicians and continue to send their sons to our countries to fight us," bin Laden said in an audio tape.

The al-Qaeda chieftain, who last issued a message via the satellite television broadcaster on January 19, said the people of Western countries were equally responsible with their governments for what he called "a Zionist (Jewish) crusaders (Christian) war on Islam".

He further said that the Western cut off of funds to the Palestinian Hamas-led government proved the US and Europe were at war with all Islamic people.

"The blockade which the West is imposing on the government of Hamas proves that there is a Zionist (Jewish) crusaders (Christian) war on Islam," the tape said.

It was the first new message from bin Laden since January 19. That tape was posted in full on a website a month later and included a vow by the terrorist leader never to be captured alive.

"I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived," bin Laden said, in the 11 minute, 26 second tape.

In that message, bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaeda terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil.
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How convenient that he always manages to show up when bush needs him the most.

Texans Forced To Pawn
Shops To Get Extra Gas $$
CBS 11 News
4-22-6

DALLAS -- High gasoline prices are causing some people to take desperate measures.

Pawn shops say their business is increasing, with some customers saying they're selling things to buy gas.

Gas prices are climbing again, with most stations prices hovering at, or just below $3.00 a gallon. For some people the high fuel prices are overwhelming.

"We just have customers come in and have to tell us that they need money 'till the end of the week, for gas to get back and forth to work," said pawn shop owner, Gerald Costner.

Everything from high end jewelry, to name brand purses, and televisions pawn shop owners say they are seeing it all come in. They say customers are frustrated and have no place to go to get extra cash for gas.

"Some of the construction people tell us they are having to pawn their tools to buy gas, but when they pawn their tools they can't go out and work in the construction business 'cause their tools are in pawn. So it kind of a catch-22," Costner said.

Mary Rodriguez has worked at the Casa View Pawn Shop for five years. She says she's seen people of all ages coming in looking for help.

"We've always had a clientele of the young kids, or middle age kids, and now we're getting an older generation. Which, it just seems wrong that they have to pawn things just to get gas, or ya know, to make ends meet on things like that."

As prices continue to rise at the pumps, many motorists say they don't see things getting better anytime soon, for the consumer.

"It is frustrating, but the thing is they know they can get away with it, because people need gas," Rodriguez said.

At Casa View Pawn, the owner says they've seen the increase in numbers over the past couple months.
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Yes indeedy! The economy is hunky-dory, fine and dandy, peachy keen, never been better! I can't see the struggling from MY house, HA!

Sunday Funnies - Bunnypants (pic) (pic) (pic)

Saladin, I'm not saying this didn't happen, as your cited article states, but I'd prefer to see additional sourcing: Haertz columnist Amir Oren openly called for the assassination of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said that the issue is on Tel Aviv's agenda.

I went to Haaretz and could not find anything where Oren called for this assassination. Do you have another source for this information, in addition to the Fars News Agency?

Federal debt is paid off

Peter Costello
THE Federal Government will today finally manage to do what most Australians struggle to achieve –†pay off the dreaded credit card.

Treasurer Peter Costello has declared today debt-free day to mark the Government's final payment on the commonwealth credit card.

As best as we can tell, tomorrow, the commonwealth of Australia will eliminate its net debt, he told the Committee for Economic Development of Australia yesterday.

Tomorrow, April 21, 2006, will be Debt-Free Day.

In fact, from tomorrow, our Government will become a net saver, to save for some of the big challenges of the future, Mr Costello said.

However, Mr Costello warned that even though the national debt would be paid off, it was no time for a government spending spree.
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If you can proove that you can support yourself, by showing 1 million dollars in assets, you too can live in Australia!

Alleged Bin Laden Tape: West at War With Islam (link)

Saladin try this:

http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/OZ/Littlefield.html

Young Officers Join the Debate Over Rumsfeld (link)
SHANKER, SCHMITT | NYT | 4/23/06
The revolt by retired generals who publicly criticized Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has opened a debate among younger officers.

File this under: "The Decider"

I found it amusing that the report on the
FDA re: medical marijuana, was issued on 4/20.

Later,
th

micki, here is an article from The Tehran Times, I wouldn't be surprised if the Haaretz source has been pulled already. I'm also not surprised that no western media have covered this.

Israel's state-sponsored terrorism

By Hassan Hanizadeh
The April 22 edition of the Israeli daily Haaretz quoted Zionist security officials as saying that the Mossad is plotting to assassinate Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

The daily also quoted Israeli security affairs analyst Amir Oren as saying that Zionist security organizations are planning to assassinate the Iranian president and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.

Oren also claimed that Israel will not face very many problems or serious reaction from the international community after the assassination of these two figures.

Haaretz stated that the final decision on the assassination of Ahmadinejad and Haniya would be taken upon the approval of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The publication of such news in the Israeli media and the explicit statements of the Zionist security officials about the assassination of prominent figures indicate that Israel is still vigorously pursuing a policy of state terrorism while the international community, and particularly the United States and its Western allies, the self-proclaimed standard-bearers of the global war on terrorism, have failed to take any measures against this ominous phenomenon.

Also, in the past, Israel has assassinated a great number of Palestinian and Lebanese figures, including the famous caricaturist Naji al-Ali, and a number of fighters including Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyyad), Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), former Islamic Jihad secretary general Fat’®i Shaqaqi, Palestinian political leader Kamal Adwan, and former Hezbollah secretary general Seyyed Abbas Mousawi.

It should be noted that after all these assassinations, international organizations took no appropriate measures against the Zionist regime for these despicable crimes.

Obviously, when both the United States and its Western allies encourage Israel to commit such crimes and to intensify its state-sponsored terrorism, we cannot expect to see global terrorism eradicated. Violence always begets violence.

Flouting international law and enjoying the financial and propaganda support of the United States and its Western allies, Israel, which as the center of international terrorism has trained hundreds of agents to assassinate prominent political figures throughout the world, is trying to suppress the worldwide anti-Zionist movement through the use of force and terror tactics.

It just astounds me that people cannot tell the diffrence between a leaker and a whistleblower.

Daniel Elsberg had to vomit when he realized what he was going to have to do. It is scary as hell taking on our government. I know from experience. One must have the courage of their convictions and true patriotism. Three can be horird consequencs, especially with this administration.

When as many government staff begin coming forward, and this has been going on for several years, it just didn't make Cable, anyone with more than three neurons firing has got to now that this is not politics as usual.

Now we have The Generals and the latest CIA Concerned Person.

In a Democracy, the people must know the truth.

It seems to me that as many people who are now coming forward, is far from politics; it is coming from abject fear of BushCo and what they will do next. I think that the people who are coming out now, believe that Bush and Cheney are both deeply pathological.

We are getting a warning like I have not seen in my 57 years. This country is in more danger than we have ever been before, including the cuban missile crisis.

The people must respond. If we do not, it will be at out own peril, and possibly that of the rest of the world.

This is about as serious it gets.

th, I didn't even notice that! Once again big looby money pays off.

whoops! I meant LOBBY.

This morning we studied the boy scout oath. My skill and business savvy and accompnying superior income, faith in financial markets makes me happy and signifies my excelelnt judgement and superlative fitness as a fabulous human being in the free-market world. Some win, some lose. You are the losers and my success is a feta complee.

The rest of the article.

Yet, if state-sponsored terrorism, which the Zionist regime is trying to develop, is not addressed, it will eventually become a directionless blind terrorism that will threaten global security.

International organizations, and particularly the United Nations, should immediately condemn the Zionist regime for its threat to assassinate the Iranian president since ignoring such problems will lead to the law of the jungle ruling the international community.

Although the Zionist regime will never dare to assassinate the Iranian president, its explicit threat to assassinate President Ahmadinejad will increase Islamic nations’†hatred of Israel, eventually to the point where the United States and its Western allies will no longer be able to control the situation.

Zionist officials should be prosecuted by an international tribunal for carrying out acts of state-sponsored terrorism because the Middle East will definitely witness a new wave of insecurity if these threats continue.

The publication of such threats is an explicit violation of international law. The United Nations should take serious action to confront this so that no other regime will ever dare to try to deal with its opponents through the use of force and violence.
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The most important thing to realize is that the Zionist regime currently in charge in Israel, as well as directing US foreign policy, should not be confused with the Jewish people as a whole. They use the Jews as a shield for their corrupt and illegal practices while a large portion of Jews are dead set against them. Just as bushco uses the evangelical "christians" as a shield. He's no christian, but it is a handy label!

I like it when corn posters post one or two or three of the best paragraphs of an article and provide a link so interersted readers can find the rest of it.

Reuel Marc Gerecht was on C-span this morning spewing more of his anti-Iran (regime change) inflammatory rhetoric.

The very same folks who lied us into Iraq have been beating the war drums for military action against Iran just after the invasion of Iraq. Watch closely to see if the Israeli lobby continues to be successful at delaying the Aipac trial. It was first delayed from January to March to April 25th now to May.

If I were Larry Franklin I would be looking over my shoulder. I hope this guy has body guards, I would think the Aipac folks would be gunning for him.

THE RACE TO IRAN IS AGAINST THE AIPAC TRIAL
Well the race is still on, the one I saw so long ago in the Chinese resteraunt is now coming to fruition. Larry Franklin the spy for AIPAC in the DOD had his trial on Jan 3d and he got 12 years in jail, which means he had to have made a plea bargain, because you get 20-40 or death for spying. The OSP wants to go to war with Iran before April because the trials from Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman are in April. Congress is voting on a nuclear option which is scary. They want to nuke a non-nuclear country.

The CIA can not prove that Iran does not have nukes anymore because the teams in charge of that had their cover blown when Lewis Libby (Cheney's Chief of staff) told reporters Judith Miller and Robert Novak the name of a clandestine agent named Valerie Plame. She worked for a front company called Brewster Jennings & Associates and so did many other agents all of whom were in charge with tracking nuclear weapons proliferation in the ME and Africa. Well when she was revealed, so was BJA and thus all the agents had to pull out. Like 20 people died but that’≥ not on the news.

The reason Libby narked on Plame was because either she or her teams could have proved that Iraq was not trying to buy Uranium from Niger Africa back in 2002-3. (it had nothing to do with Joe Wilson which should be evident by the mere fact that the media reported on it.) Bush got that intel not from the CIA but from a yet to be named Zionist (a Karl Rove adviser name named Michael Ledeen in my opinion) who ,as evidence is leaning, fabricated it in Italy with two former agents. However separate from that there were these bastards who were spying from inside the Defense department to pass info to Israel's lobby group AIPAC. They were gathering information about Iran's nuclear capacity, which as it turns out, is harmless (according to the IAEA international atomic energy agencies and also shared intel from European governments). They knew that by undermining our ability to check they would have enough fog of war to make their claims for Iran.

Who knows what they were going to do, because thre FBI caught Frankilin on tape giving documents to AIPAC officials, Weissman was an Iran specialist and Rosen who was their top money man. Well both of these guys are squealing. They are even suing AIPAC because AIPAC fired them to distance themselves from the spies and to protect Israel. Libby has resigned and his old boss Perle and his under secretary Feith have ALL resigned. So basically come April the whole world could find out that Israel has been spying on the US and a cabal of Zionist invented the BS that lead to the war with Iraq and also for coming war with Iran. They even wrote what they would do in 97 in policy papers called PNAC which also came out of Israel and its mission statement by David Wurmser is called "A Clean Break for Israel" and talks about the goals of Greater Israel.

I reported everything and I was blocked. I got censored in whatever I wrote. No one even reviewed it when I reported it to the papers. But now they have to because it is all going to public courts. So basically it is a race... can we stall the war with Iran long enough to get the trials under way and expose what happened or will they attack first in March (probably during the Israeli elections) and throw everything off? NOW they have to listen to what we have been saying for years.

Letter of Resignation by John H. Brown, Foreign Service Officer

To: Secretary of State Colin Powell

March 10, 2003

Dear Mr. Secretary:

I am joining my colleague John Brady Kiesling in submitting my resignation from the Foreign Service (effective immediately) because I cannot in good conscience support President Bush's war plans against Iraq.

The president has failed:

--To explain clearly why our brave men and women in uniform should be ready to sacrifice their lives in a war on Iraq at this time;

--To lay out the full ramifications of this war, including the extent of innocent civilian casualties;

--To specify the economic costs of the war for ordinary Americans;

--To clarify how the war would help rid the world of terror;

--To take international public opinion against the war into serious consideration.

Throughout the globe the United States is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force. The president's disregard for views in other nations, borne out by his neglect of public diplomacy, is giving birth to an anti-American century.

I joined the Foreign Service because I love our country. Respectfully, Mr. Secretary, I am now bringing this calling to a close, with a heavy heart but for the same reason that I embraced it.

Sincerely,

John H. Brown
Foreign Service Officer

John H. Brown, a Princeton PhD, joined the Foreign Service in 1981 and has served in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev, Belgrade and, most recently, Moscow.

A senior member of the Foreign Service since 1997, he has focused his diplomatic work on press and cultural affairs. Under a State Department program, he has, up to now, been an Associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, where he was assigned in August 2001.

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This is what happens when those who care resign out of protest - we never hear a thing until long after the crimes are committed.

capt

Saladin -- thanks for the new info. The Tehran Times tells the story a little differently than Fars News Agency: Tehran Times states what Oren allegedly reports; Fars accuses Oren of calling for the assassination himself. Huge difference!

Tehran Times: The daily also quoted Israeli security affairs analyst Amir Oren as saying that Zionist security organizations are planning to assassinate the Iranian president and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.

FARS: Haertz columnist Amir Oren openly called for the assassination of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said that the issue is on Tel Aviv's agenda.
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One reason this distinction is important, is that it's just one more example of someone with a particular bias BLAMING the messenger, i.e. the media. Sometimes undeservedly so...

Letter of Resignation by John H. Brown, Foreign Service Officer

Microsoft has written and is currently campaigning for spyware legislation that may end up giving software companies access to consumers’†computers, according to the Oklahoma Gazette.

The bill, known as the Computer Spyware Protection Act, would impose heavy fines on any person or company that is caught accessing a computer without obtaining permission from the owner. However, once a computer user authorizes software updates and accepts a user’≥ agreement, the software will be allowed to do anything in order to detect or prevent illegal or fraudulent activity.

In other words, Microsoft will be allowed to install and run software that searches for pirated copies of Excel, Word, or any other pirated software and remove those programs if it could be considered fraudulent or illegal. Technically, software companies could go as far as tracking user behavior or scan through a computer’≥ hard drive to search for any type of illegal activity. For example if Microsoft scanned through a computer’≥ browser history and found out that someone plays poker online, they could notify authorities.

Proponents of the bill claim that it will protect computer users from spyware and hackers. However, privacy experts are criticizing the bill because they argue that it will give software companies the legal authority to take control over people’≥ computers.

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The mega-money multinationals have our best interests at heart. They will write regulations and legislation that help us even if it costs them more to do the right thing, right.

capt

No Longer Sitting Pretty

The retired generals' revolt has raised questions about the Commander in Chief, such as: How come he's the last person in the room to know the war is going poorly and that the guy he picked to run it has screwed up royally? The White House had Bush speak out in defense of Rumsfeld, but did they really believe the public would take the word of a onetime MIA National Guardsman over that of the generals--especially when Bush's credibility, because of those missing weapons of mass destruction, is shot? Bush and his White House tacticians don't seem to get it: It doesn't matter what he says anymore. He's delivered a series of we're-making-progress speeches to rally support for the war, but there has been no discernible impact on the public's attitude. He's busted in the rhetoric department. Reality, for the moment, has trumped his spin.

There's still plenty of time for him to make things worse (see Iran). But the Rumsfeld imbroglio is a pointed reminder that this is a man stuck too much within himself and his world of distortion. And relying on false or disingenuous assertions is not working for him the way it once did. So finally--years too late--he is paying a price. Alas, so is the rest of the world.

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We all (the whole planet) will be paying the tab Busheney have run up.

capt

No to Prowar Democrats

When Los Angeles teacher Marcy Winograd saw her Democratic representative in Congress making excuses for George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program on NBC's Meet the Press in February, she decided that someone had to challenge Jane Harman's acquiescence in Bush's reckless agenda. So Winograd, a veteran activist who had been instrumental in getting the California Democratic Party to take a firm stand against the war in Iraq, leapt into the June 6 primary. She quickly found that others shared her frustration with Harman; Winograd's been endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America, Southern California Americans for Democratic Action, the Western Region of the United Auto Workers union and a half-dozen presidents of local Democratic clubs. Recently her supporters blocked an early Harman endorsement by the state party after Winograd told a caucus: "When elected, I will have the courage to cut funding for the war in Iraq, to say no when the imperial George Bush wants to wiretap your home without a warrant and to immediately sign on to legislation for universal single-payer national healthcare."

Winograd is one of a growing number of challengers to Democratic House and Senate incumbents accused of being too supportive of the war in particular, and of the Bush Administration in general. Not since the early 1970s, when anti-Vietnam War insurgents like Ron Dellums in California, Father Robert Drinan in Massachusetts and Elizabeth Holtzman in New York defeated entrenched Democrats in primaries, has there been such ferment over foreign policy within the ranks of the party.

More HERE

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That is one of the deal breakers for me. I will not support nor will I vote for ANY pro-war candidate.

capt

#62 We know that Israel can demand military action against Iran, make inflammatory remarks in sync with the neo-cons in the U.s. and the MSM does not touch it. We should all be watching the continued delays of the Aipac trial. The Israeli lobby knows that if this case comes to trial their aggressive measures to implement the plan drawn up by David and Liv Wurmeser and Richard Perle called " A CLEAN BREAK, A NEW STRATEGY FOR SECURING THE REALM" will no longer be possible to implement.

The Israeli lobby must have something big on Judge T.S. Ellis III this is the third time this trial has been delayed with Ellis claiming he may dismiss the whole case.

Another great article by John Dean at Findlaw
If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President
By JOHN W. DEAN
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Friday, Apr. 21, 2006

President George W. Bush's presidency is a disaster - one that's still unfolding. In a mid-2004 column, I argued that, at that point, Bush had already demonstrated that he possessed the least attractive and most troubling traits among those that political scientist James Dave Barber has cataloged in his study of Presidents' personality types.

Now, in early 2006, Bush has continued to sink lower in his public approval ratings, as the result of a series of events that have sapped the public of confidence in its President, and for which he is directly responsible. This Administration goes through scandals like a compulsive eater does candy bars; the wrapper is barely off one before we've moved on to another.

Currently, President Bush is busy reshuffling his staff to reinvigorate his presidency. But if Dr. Barber's work holds true for this president -- as it has for others - the hiring and firing of subordinates will not touch the core problems that have plagued Bush's tenure.

That is because the problems belong to the President - not his staff. And they are problems that go to character, not to strategy.

Barber's Analysis of Presidential Character

As I discussed in my prior column, Barber, after analyzing all the presidents through Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, found repeating patterns of common elements relating to character, worldview, style, approach to dealing with power, and expectations. Based on these findings, Barber concluded that presidents fell into clusters of characteristics.

He also found in this data Presidential work patterns which he described as "active" or "passive." For example, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were highly active; Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan were highly passive.

Barber further analyzed the emotional relationship of presidents toward their work - dividing them into presidents who found their work an emotionally satisfying experience, and thus "positive," and those who found the job emotionally taxing, and thus "negative." Franklin Roosevelt and Reagan, for example, were presidents who enjoyed their work; Thomas Jefferson and Richard Nixon had "negative" feeling toward it.

From these measurements, Barber developed four repeating categories into which he was able to place all presidents: those like FDR who actively pursued their work and had positive feelings about their efforts (active/positives); those like Nixon who actively pursued the job but had negative feelings about it (active/negatives); those like Reagan who were passive about the job but enjoyed it (passive/positives); and, finally, those who followed the pattern of Thomas Jefferson -- who both was passive and did not enjoy the work (passive/negatives).

More at Findlaw John Dean↓

David

It's not good leaks vs. bad leaks

It's legal leaks vs. illegal leaks

I'm not suprised Corn-nuts don't know the difference, but I am suprised that you don't.

Let's see Judge Ellis III will allow the defense to call Condi Rice to the stand in the Aipac trial, to support the defenses claims "that everybody passes classified intelligence around:. The "everybody does it" defense.

Yet the "alleged" Israeli spies Naor Gilon and Rafi Barak who 'allegedly" collected this classified intelligence from Aipac's Steve Rosen and Weismann refuse to testify. HMMMM .

Israelis won't testify in AIPAC trial
By Nathan Guttman
10/02/05 "Jerusalem Post" -- -- The three Israeli diplomats who were in touch with former AIPAC staffers now standing trial in Virginia are unwilling to cooperate with defense attorneys and do not intend to agree to come and testify in the case.

In a court hearing on September 19 at the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, Judge T.S. Ellis asked attorney Abbe Lowell, who is representing Steve Rosen, the former policy director of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), if he intends to summon any foreign nationals to testify in court. The term "foreign nationals" in this case refers to Israelis, who were mentioned in the indictment as having contacts with Rosen and with the second defendant, Keith Weissman, a former Iran specialist at AIPAC.

Lowell told Judge Ellis that he has been in touch with attorneys for the Israelis and that his impression is that it will be difficult to get them to testify.

"They are not going to make this very easy," Lowell told the court.

The indictment, accusing Rosen and Weissman of conspiring to communicate classified information, mentioned three "foreign officials" that received information from the two former AIPAC employees as well as from the third defendant in the case, Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin. Though the they were not named in the legal documents, Israeli and US sources confirmed that two of the Israelis involved in the case are Naor Gilon, who was the political officer in the Israeli embassy in Washington, and Rafi Barak, who served as the Deputy Chief of Mission. US sources said the third Israeli is presumed to be a representative of the military intelligence in Washington, but his identity was not confirmed by other sources.

All three Israelis are no longer in Washington and all have diplomatic immunity,

#77
TWF,
I agree. I look at Mary McCarthy as someone who was desperate to get word out that crimes were being committed and when she saw actions that were not at all in the best interest of her government. There comes a point where you have to decide who you work for, the president or the country. The president is a servant of the people. He serves the country. So does Mary McCarthy. She has served more than one president. She has always served on country. Loyalty to country must be first. The CIA is an organization that has been gutted of good people by the Bush administration. The Bush administration wants yes men and incompetents in place. That way they can have what ever agenda they want.

Did Mary McCarthy have a...compliance officer, or a superior she could go to when she realized what the CIA was being asked to do? Did she have a superior who could guide her direction? I can answer the question. NO. I say no because the superior is the commander in chief. The Bush administration was the planner of this rotten agenda.

The CIA officers have been put into a lose lose situation. If they follow orders they will be living with their actions for the rest of their lives. They could, in fact, in some cases be dealing with legal actions. However if they act, what happens? They get smeared, they have the justice department coming down on them, their career is over.

The phrase 'between a rock and a hard place' is very applicable.

Will the Israeli lobby be successful at shutting this trial down?

Allegations of Israeli Spying Usually Disappear -- Eventually
Alex Safian, CAMERA Associate Director - www CAMERA.org - [Originally published August 29, 2004]
Reports that the FBI suspects a mid-level Pentagon employee specializing in Iranian affairs of conveying classified documents to the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, and further that two of the lobby's employees may have passed those documents to Israel, have led to a predictable storm of press coverage, much of it overheated. CBS, for example, led its Nightly News on Friday with its "scoop," and ABC's Nightline replaced its scheduled program with coverage of the spy story. For some unexplained reason the Nightline program included a segment on the USS Liberty incident and an interview with discredited Israel-basher and conspiracy theorist James Bamford.

Israeli officials and AIPAC have strongly denied any involvement in spying on America, and it is far too early to say whether anyone will be arrested or convicted of anything in this case, or whether any sensitive information was compromised. But there is no doubt that in its coverage of the affair the media has forgotten two fundamental facts:

There have been entirely similar charges in the past of alleged spying for Israel which ended up being dropped for lack of evidence or merit.

Countries don't just spy on their enemies, they also spy on their friends. It is well known, for example, that Israel has spied on America at least once in the past, in the Jonathan Pollard affair, which Israel apologized for. Less well known, however, is the fact that the United States has also spied on Israel, even recruiting Israeli military officers and politicians.
Israel's Alleged Spies

Supposed spies for Israel have included David Tenenbaum, an Orthodox Jew and engineer who worked at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command in Warren Michigan. Tenenbaum was charged with passing sensitive information on the Patriot missile and advanced armor to Israel. (Detroit Free Press, Feb. 20, 1997) More than a year later the case was quietly dropped, with the FBI stating only that "The case is closed. No criminal charges have been filed."

After the case was dropped, Tenenbaum got his job back, but he has filed a lawsuit against the government claiming that he was singled out for scrutiny and prosecution solely for his religious beliefs. (Detroit Free Press, Oct. 13, 2000)

Also suspected of spying for Israel was CIA employee Adam Ciralsky. According to an internal CIA memo, Ciralsky was guilty of "deliberately compromising U.S. government classified information to an Israeli national, accepting compensation from an Israeli national in exchange for U.S. government classified information, and deliberately concealing from the U.S. government a relationship with an Israeli national." (Associated Press, Feb. 7, 2000)

more at the Jonathon Pollard website

Pollard Revisited: Is Mr. X Spying Again in Washington?
May 18, 1997 - Yossi Melman - L.A. Times
Yossi Melman, a journalist for the Daily Ha'aretz, specializes in intelligence and terror affairs. He is coauthor of "Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community" (Houghton Mifflin).

JOhTEL AVIV - What do they mean when they say "Mega"? Is it an innocent code word used by the Israeli Mossad to describe the CIA? Or is it a sinister cipher referring to an American traitor who works for Israeli intelligence? Since last January, these uncertainties have poisoned the usually good and collaborative relations between the intelligence communities of United States and Israel. They have also revived bad memories of the Pollard affair.

Ironically, the latest espionage scandal began when U.S.-Israeli relations seemed to be back on track. In January, Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet signed off on a U.S.-brokered agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Israeli troops withdrew from Hebron, and handed most of the city over to Yasser Arafat's police and security forces. As a guarantor, Secretary of State Warren Christopher gave the two sides two different letters spelling out the U.S. commitments. The Clinton administration revealed the content of the two letters in only general terms.
Eager to see the exact wording of the letter given to the Palestinians, Netanyahu asked Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben-Elissar to get him a copy. Newly arrived in Washington and lacking good contacts in the capital, Ben-Elissar turned to the chief of the Mossad station at the Israeli Embassy. The chief, whose name Israeli censors refuse to reveal, was reluctant to comply with his request. He called his immediate superior, a senior official and head of the Tevel (universe) unit at Mossad headquarters. Their short conversation was intercepted by listening posts of the National Security Agency. According to the Washington Post, the station chief said: "The ambassador wants me to use Mega to get the letter." His superior replied: "We do not use Mega for this."

As a matter of procedure, a translated transcript of the intercepted communication was disseminated by the NSA to the other U.S. intelligence agencies. FBI counterintelligence experts suspected that Mega was a code word for a senior and well-connected administration official with access to the letters, as well as to other Middle East top secrets.

Johnathon pollard website

#52
Micki,
What a great idea. The guy who was involved in the movie, Yip Harburg could also be studied. Very political story.

A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz

AMY GOODMAN: Who wrote the Wizard of Oz originally, the story?

ERNIE HARBURG: Frank L. Baum was an interesting kind of maverick guy who at one point of his life was an editor of a paper in South Dakota. And this was a time of the populist revolutions or revolts or whatever you want to call it in the Midwest, because the railroads and the eastern city banks literally dominated the life of the farmers and they couldn’¥ get away from the debts that were accumulated from these. And uh, Baum set out consciously to create an American Fable so that the American kids didn’¥ have to read those German grim Fairy stories where they chopped off hands and things like that. You know he didn’¥ like that, he wanted an American fable. But it had this under layer of political symbolism to it that the farmer, the scarecrow was the farmer, he thought he was dumb but he really wasn’¥, he had a brain. And the Tin Woodman was a result…∑as the laborer in the factories who with one accident after another he was totally reduced to a tin man with no heart, alright, on an assembly line. And uh, the cowardly lion was William Jennings Bryan who kept trying, was a big politician at that time promising to make the world over with the gold standard, you know. And the Wizard was a humbug type was the Wall Street finances and the Wicked Witch probably the railroads, but I’≠ not sure. So it was a beautiful match-up here with Frank Baum and Yip Harburg. Okay? Because in the book the word rainbow was never once mentioned and you can go back and look at it, I did three times. The word rainbow is never once mentioned in the book.
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Yip Harburg is a really intesting guy.

Pawnshops see spike in pawning as gas prices rise

Video

"They're pawning anything they can just to get gas."

Jeff Shepherd of Old Town Jewelry and Loan says he has seen more people coming in to pawn their stuff for gas money. He says four or five people each day come in for gas money.

So has Jay Johnston of Albuquerque Pawn Shop, who says many of his customers need just some gas money just to make it to pay day.

Gas prices are among the highest they’∂e been in recent memory. The average gas price submitted to AlbuquerqueGasPrices.com is $2.90 –†more than 70 cents higher than a year ago. The national average, according to AAA, is $2.88 a gallon.

Those prices have people pawning anything from tools to jewelry –†even guns –†to help fill the tank.

More HERE

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No great insight to what $3 a gallon means to the little people.

The independent truckers are getting cooked by the increase in fuel expense.

capt

Israeli Cabinet Minister Spied for U.S. - New U.S. Docs Reveal
Hamodia Staff - Israel News - Hamodia - June 23, 2004
[Original title: Was There An American Spy In the Israeli Government?]
Justice4JP Prefacing Note:

The article below describes newly-released American government documents which reveal, that around the time of the Six Day War, the U.S. ran a senior Israeli cabinet minister as a spy. This revelation puts the lie (once again) to America's self-righteous insistence that Israel broke a sacred trust between the two countries by running a spy in Washington. The Americans continue to use this falsehood to justify their harsh treatment of Jonathan Pollard and the grossly disproportionate sentence he is serving. In spite this and of other obvious contradictions which have surfaced over the years, such as the cases of IDF officer Yossi Amit, and Angie Kielczynski- both are Israelis who spied for the U.S. - Israel has never repudiated the American lies which keep Pollard in prison.

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With all the hubbub last week about Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his sons, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz's decision, the disengagement, and all the rest, a stormy subject that in any other country would have made headlines, was shunted aside.

It turns out that according to papers from 1967 made public recently by the U.S. Administration, the U.S. had a senior spy in the Israeli government at that time, apparently one of the ministers.

The minister in question would pass on a steady stream of information to the Americans about inside doings in Jerusalem.

In the United States, it is permitted to release old U.S. government documents after a certain number of years pass. So it is that documents from President Lyndon Johnson's administration have now been approved for release. Those sifting through the sea of papers that were made public found U.S. intelligence evidence saying that during the Six Day War the Americans knew everything the Israelis were doing, thanks to that high-ranking source, who also passed on army and government documents.

#67
Sal,
Was he wearing a wedding ring?

#96
Capt,
My husband told me about that story. It makes me so sad. These people are selling stuff for gas to get to work. Thank you Mr. Bush.

micki, I see very little distinction between openly calling for and that they are planning for an assassination. In either case what is being said is immoral, illegal and should be dealt with by the international community. When the Iranian presidents words are twisted in the press the whole world is up in arms over it, but life threatening statements by Israel, and outright murders of opposing political leaders and American citizens, is completely ignored by the press and everyone else.

At the Aipac website

Bill to Increase Pressure on Iran Nears House Vote
The House of Representatives is set to vote next week on the Iran Freedom Support Act, legislation that would renew and strengthen sanctions intended to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Introduced by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Tom Lantos (D-CA), the bill also urges support for democratic forces in Iran and calls for American divestment from foreign companies investing in Iran’≥ petroleum sector. A companion version of the bill is awaiting consideration in the Senate. Urge your lawmakers to support this legislation. CALL YOUR REPS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AGAINST THIS LEGISLATION

Latest Palestinian Attack Linked to Iran and Syria
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said evidence ties Iran and Syria to the Monday suicide bombing that killed nine Israelis and wounded nearly 60, The Jerusalem Post reported. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the group that carried out the bombing, is headquartered in Damascus and receives most of its funding from Iran. Ҕhe large amounts of Iranian money flowing to Islamic Jihad clearly are allowing it to draft many volunteers, mostly young, for suicide attacks in Israel,Ӡwrote Zeեv Schiff, Israelճ pre-eminent security analyst.

I know bunnypants is a funny person and he does look dumber that dumber but I must rain on your parade.

A Matter of Time

Dear Cornposters:

There are people who wonder whether or not God gives us some indication of our future. I want to share with you some articles that will look into our future. These articles will unfold our future before our eyes. You can believe the path we are on or you cannot believe. We all have a free will. Here are the articles.

Article One

The Price We'll Pay for Countenancing Presidential Omnipotence by Peter Stern April 22, 2006 from LewRockwell.com

As long as we have a Congress that has abdicated their system of check and balance, we have now a god in the WH. He will declare martial law and there will be no 2008 presidential election.

Article Two

Happy days are here again –†or are they? April 20, 2006 from Economist.com

The article will give no joy to the Democrats. Incumbents are difficult to unseat. When you add rigged electronically voting machines into the equation that favor the repugnants, there will be more repugnants who will gain seats to Congress.

Article Three

They're Staying by Kevin B. Zeese April 22, 2006 from LewRockwell.com

When you read this article, you will see the Nazi Americans will never leave Iraq. Nazi America will be in Iraq just as long as Nazi America is in South Korea. Iraq will have permanent Nazi American bases that will be the launch pad for nuclear wars into Iran and Asia.

Article Four

Iran: The Day After by Phyllis Bennis April 21, 2006 from Mother Jones

What will the day be like after we nuclearize Iran? Will it be a total wasteland? Will we nuclearize to prevent China from receiving her oil? The plan to nuclearize Iran has been settled and now the date will be discussed. THERE WILL BE A NUCLEAR ATTACK UPON IRAN!!!!!

Article Five

More muscle, with eye on China by Bill Gertz April 20, 2006 from The Washington Times

Nazi America is expanding more nuclear weapons to Guam. Nazi America will before 2015 commence a nuclear war upon China and any other country close to Guam, such as North Korea. Five percent of the world population will control what the other 95% want or do not want in the world. THERE WILL BE A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST THAT WILL BE COMMENCED BY NAZI AMERICA.

I believe that God through these articles and authors has given us some glimpse into our future. It is only a matter of time before a nuclear holocaust will commence. You can believe or not believe.

Sincerely,

Gerald

Christian Solidarity

Saladin, I really like 'looby money'. That's what loobys do, you know. Washington, D.C., is suffering from a plague of loobys.

Micki, a limerick about loobys, please?

The Silence, Vast and Still

The Silence, Vast and Still is a great piece from the Nonviolent Jesus website.

Anyone with vision can see that Nazi America is committing war crimes against humanity. But, since we lack a conscience, no Nazi American really cares about the war crimes that we are committing.

We need whistle blowers like Mary McCarthey to fight evil in our country, in Congress, in our Supreme Court, and in the White House!!!!!

The firing of Mary McCarthy....may turn out to be an explosive story...

It is a story of utmost "Unease"; far more so than the retired axe-grinding-half-dozen-generals.

What we have is a senior CIA official, playing God, who `preliminarily':

1) Violated her oath to uphold the secrecy of classfied information;
2) Did so (likely) out of partisan politics (she had donated $2k to Kerry's `04 campaign);
3) Disrupted ongoing `black-box' operation that (likely) played critical roles in US security since 9/11;
4) Greatly damaged the trusts needed for sensitive cross-border intelligence cooperations critical to the current War on Terror.

It is also SAD that Pulitzer Prizes are now based on treasonous leaks. I hope your next book are not employing similar tactics!

Iran has every right to develop nuclear technology

Americans exist to cause damage

The President, who leaked selected portions of a classified document the National Intelligence Estimate, secretively and surreptitiously through the Vice Presidentís Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, to justify claims of IRAQ Nuclear Weapons and bolster popular support for his illegal war, should be tried for treason.

The Leaker-in-Chief misled the American People when he said he did not know who was leaking the classified information. People who still support him donít mind being lied to by their president

The biggest threat to our country is the incompetent and untrustworthy administration in the White House.

Nobody Can Believe These Guys Anymore

There once was a government with loobys
Congressmen sucked on their tits just like boobies
Reelected there were
With money to burí
Corrupt congress is indebted to loobys

Re #114: Thank you, O'Reilly!

Maybe they can bring Fred Malek out of retirement to find the Jews at the CIA.

It is a story of utmost "Unease"

I'll say. Chainee/bush should be uneasy whenever the truth comes out of what they've been doing. Your points above, corrected below.

1. Maybe, maybe not. When the classified info is illegal activity, then everything changes. Note that it is illegal to classify documents to keep from being exposed.

2. If that were the case, she would've exposed it sooner, to affect the election. Her higher duty is to country and constitution, not to any one president, and certainly not to illegal activity.

3. See #2. If it's illegal, the higher duty is not to help or abet a crime, it's to make a stand on your own morals to live with it or expose it... and being able to smile at the face staring back at you from the mirror. Plus, there's no evidence that rendition and torture has prevented a thing.

4.More illegal activity. What you are describing are acts of war. It is highly illegal to pre-emptively start a war of aggression.

You lose, again!

Happy, you missed your calling. You should've been born in Germany and lived/worked/idolized/and worshipped Hitler.

I hope David Corn recognizes that the profanity I employed was not gratiutous but rather an artistic expression to make a political point. If I banned from DavidCorn.Com as a result of my limmerick, I emplore you to looby on my behalf with David Corn, the human lie detecter. Thanks.

Hey, I thought I was banned earlier. Not really, but I sure wondered. I couldn't get the site to come up for shyt. All I got was the red header and a blue screen full of error messages.
'Bout 45 minutes later, and after trying a few times in that period, it popped up on the screen like normal. Anybody else have any problems with the site today?

David:

On this, your 1st post on the McCarthy firing, you called CIA's overseas secret prisons to be...."CIA abuses"! This is a Judgement, not a FACT, right?

Is there any proof our CIA (not a GOP or DEM CIA) is NOT permitted to run such prisons on non-US soils? Being slightly more trusting of our Gov't than the paranoid Left, I'd assume that CIA's General Counsel had vetted this route before implementation.

BTW, even your hero Paul Pillar feels ?Proud? Ms. Mary erred!

You also say "The White House also has recently barraged the agency with questions about the political affiliations of some of its senior intelligence officers..."

This is, unfortunately, a sign of the time as partisanship has rapidly become ingrained into every aspect of our society. For good or bad, this could well be a legacy of the Shrill Left and the Netroots. As career intelligence or diplomatic personnel move act in increasingly partisan fashion, party affiliation seems a logical question to have in `profiling'.

In the past few months, I even noticed ads for dating sites that target Liberals or Conservatives! Yeah, maybe I'm behind the times and all dating/match sites had, from the very beginning, asked for political leanings in `profiles'.

Oh uhh, David, I had written you a short email about the site being down. Before you read it, the site came up for me, so I 'unsent' it. If it's still listed in your mailbox... that's why it will say 'not available' or whatever the hell they say.

If any cornblogger is arrested by the FBI or CIA or Homeland Security and threatened by extraordinary rendition, and furthermore that same cornblogger vows to us that they are not Al Qaeda or subversive to the USA, I hereby pledge to fight for their liberty rather than have them shipped to Syria or eastern Europe and be cruelly and inhumanly tortured.

There are reasons why people have a presumption of innocence and the right to a jury of their peers. Even good people with good judgment can make mistakes when it comes to judging if another person has broken the law.

Torture and extraordinary rendition is cruel and unusual and Americans have loudly and broadly rejected it. Why does our President reserve the right to use torture, and are American Officials torturing people in the secret CIA prisons throughout the world?

I got the same thing Alan: the DAVIDCORN.COM banner, the background colors and a couple of script error messsages Ftp file blaa blaa. Just like you it was back up about 45 minutes later. . . so the webserver was up the whole time but someone was mucking with drive volumes or script language.

Just like you it was back up about 45 minutes later. . .

See, I ain't craaaazy! haha
Thanks for hollering.
"shhhh", but David is online right now. Maybe a new post is coming. Anything good on the Sunday morning talk shows??

I watched Press the Meat, Chris Matthews, and the first half hour of Fox. Nothing jumped out at me.

How about you?

I have the SHO (Shell Houston Open) on, waiting for "60 Minutes". It should be a good one.

Public Servant. Patriot. Fired. Lawbreaker? (pic)

The administration's interest in party affiliations of CIA public servants is a troublesome politicization of the agency and a marker for how this administration views Democrats - an enemy of the government.

The implication of this inquiry is that Democrats cannot be trusted to keep secrets. Isn't this the same President who claims to be a decider not a divider?

the intensity of the administrations' view of the Democrats

Ignore the fragment above.

David: Seems to me this deserves more than a sentence.

That caught my eye too. If true, it's yet more proof that the busheviks will go to any length to politicize intelligence and ensure that no one points out their baldfaced lies. And that's exactly why people like Mary McCarthy need to speak out. There's much more than the "internal discipline" of the agency at stake here.

Another interesting point in the article was the the assertion by one source that some in the agency refused to attend meetings concerned with "extraordinary rendition." Good, I thought, pangs of conscience. But no, it wasn't that at all. What worried these folks, the source said, was the prospect of being impoverished by lawyers' fees if there were ever an investigation. So much for morality.

But all praise to Ms. McCarthy for her moral courage (assuming she did actually leak). Let's hope more like her continue to heed Ray McGovern's call and refuse to be good Germans.

Alan, do you think David's in on a Sunday to:

a. work on the book
b. finish his taxes
c. post the latest mpeg of bloggerhead.tv
d. scour the blog for profanity and block evil-doers
e. check to score of the Brown Penn LaCrosse game
f. post a new thread on DAVIDCORN.COM

Colleagues Say C.I.A. Analyst Played by the Rules

WASHINGTON, April 22 — In 1998, when President Bill Clinton ordered military strikes against a suspected chemical weapons factory in Sudan, Mary O. McCarthy, a senior intelligence officer assigned to the White House, warned the president that the plan relied on inconclusive intelligence, two former government officials say.

Ms. McCarthy's reservations did not stop the attack on the factory, which was carried out in retaliation for Al Qaeda's bombing of two American embassies in East Africa. But they illustrated her willingness to challenge intelligence data and methods endorsed by her bosses at the Central Intelligence Agency.

(skip to last graf)

But some former C.I.A. employees who know Ms. McCarthy remain unconvinced, arguing that the pressure from Mr. Goss and others in the Bush administration to plug leaks may have led the agency to focus on an employee on the verge of retirement, whose work at the White House during the Clinton administration had long raised suspicions within the current administration.

"So much for morality."

Pretty much sums it up, eh?

capt

US deploys elite forces worldwide to spearhead terrorism battle

WASHINGTON: The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has approved the military's most ambitious plan to fight terrorism around the world and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the case of a terrorist attack on the US, according to defence officials.

The long-awaited campaign plan for the global war on terrorism, as well as two subordinate plans also approved within the past month by Mr Rumsfeld, are considered the Pentagon's highest priority, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The plans envisage a greatly expanded role for the military - and in particular a growing force of elite special operations troops - to combat terrorism outside of war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

More HERE

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$40 billion for intelligence and we need to use troops? Now the idea of combating terrorism outside of the "war zones" sounds like a bunch of hooey! Our military taking action sounds ominously like more and bigger war.

capt

60 minutes - tick tick tick tick. A CIA official involved with the Iraq War criticizes the White House; anti-aging medicine; the success of Starbucks.

#132 all of the above??

Them golfers are sweating up a storm out there in the Texas sun. If they played that tournament a month or so later, some of 'em would be dropping out with heat stroke.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true: Demosthenes

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As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities: Voltaire

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The tale of the slaughter at Wounded Knee in South Dakota is [an] example too well known to require detailed repeating here, but what is less well known about that massacre is that, a week and a half before it happened, the editor of the South Dakota's Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer -- a gentle soul named L. Frank Baum, who later became famous as the author of The Wizard of Oz -- urged the wholesale extermination of all America's native peoples: "The nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are.": David E. Stannard

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"We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war. Tony Benn

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Thanks ICH Newsletter~!

Note that Mrs. McCarthy's bio strongly indicates that she was a member of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service since 1994. SISes, like other civil service SESes, are formally equivalent to flag-rank officers in the military. So she's like a one- or two-star general who decided to leak.

thanks old cia guy.

LITTLE QUIZ-Y

Do you most closely identify yourself as a

1. Republican
2. Conservative
3. Democrat
4. Progressive
5. Independent
6. Idiot
7. None of the above

Do your friends most closely identify you as a

1. Republican
2. Conservative
3. Democrat
4. Progressive
5. Independent
6. Idiot

D. Benson, lube, short for looby. It's what loobyists do. Thanks for making me laugh you guys!

Anytime Sal. Also, I mean what I say about any cornblogger being detained and threatened with torture and extraordinary rendition.

Carol, one of the dial-ups had no problem with this site today. Just for the record. AND AIN'T SPRING BEAUTIFUL! I can't stay in the house!!!!

With Ethics in Question, GOP Seeks Answers

The ethical furnace keeps getting hotter for House Republicans. Even Rep. Tom Reynolds, who heads the GOP reelection effort, is feeling some heat.

O'Reilly, if any of us ever get dragged away I doubt if we will be given the time to post it on the blog, but it's the thought that counts!

Check it out everyone, I, me, actually found some news that made me go WOO HOOOO!!!

April 22, 2006

Bush Impeachment - The Illinois State Legislature is Preparing to Drop a Bombshell
Utilizing a little known rule of the US House to bring Impeachment charges
by Steven Leser

http://www.opednews.com

The Illinois General Assembly is about to rock the nation. Members of state legislatures are normally not considered as having the ability to decide issues with a massive impact to the nation as a whole. Representative Karen A. Yarbrough of Illinois' 7th District is about to shatter that perception forever. Representative Yarbrough stumbled on a little known and never utlitized rule of the US House of Representatives, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature. From there, Illinois House Joint Resolution 125 (hereafter to be referred to as HJR0125) was born.

Detailing five specific charges against President Bush including one that is specified to be a felony, the complete text of HJR0125 is copied below at the end of this article. One of the interesting points is that one of the items, the one specified as a felony, that the NSA was directed by the President to spy on American citizens without warrant, is not in dispute. That fact should prove an interesting dilemma for a Republican controlled US House that clearly is not only loathe to initiate impeachment proceedings, but does not even want to thoroughly investigate any of the five items brought up by the Illinois Assembly as high crimes and/or misdemeanors. Should HJR0125 be passed by the Illinois General Assembly, the US House will be forced by House Rules to take up the issue of impeachment as a privileged bill, meaning it will take precedence over other House business.

The Illinois General Assembly joins a growing chorus of voices calling for censure or impeachment of President Bush including Democratic state committees in Vermont, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and North Carolina as well as the residents themselves of seven towns in Vermont, seventy Vermont state legislators and Congressman John Conyers. The call for impeachment is starting to grow well beyond what could be considered a fringe movement. An ABC News/Washington Post Poll Conducted April 6-9 showed that 33% of Americans currently support Impeaching President Bush, coincidentally, only a similar amount supported impeaching Nixon at the start of the Watergate investigation. If and when Illinois HJR0125 hits the capitol and the individual charges are publicly investigated, that number is likely to grow rapidly. Combined with the very real likelihood that Rove is about to be indicted in the LeakGate investigation, and Bush is in real trouble beyond his plummeting poll numbers. His cronies in the Republican dominated congress will probably save him from the embarassment of an impeachment conviction, for now, but his Presidency will be all but finished.

Scroll down to see joint resolutions.

Saladin, right. Loobyists lube.

O'Reilly, if you need me to lube with David Corn, I'll be pleased to do a really greesey job!

How many more new audiotapes from Osama Bin Laden will we receive before our Commander-in-Chief apprehends the international outlaw murderer and brings him to justice?

Isn't Osama and Al Qaeda the enemy that killed thousands of people in NY, raised WTC buildings 1,2 &7, attacked the pentagon, hijacked four passenger jets and tried to attack the WH or Capital? WHAT is Bush waiting for?

Re #149: O'Reilly, intelligence? ...his, I mean.

Here's a winning slogan alternative to Had Enough?

"We'll will fight for democracy over here so your children don't have to fight for Iraq over there."

Picking apart the Flight 93 soap opera

Mustaqim - Musings of a flying Imam
I'm a German living in England, a Muslim and a pilot - in today's oppressive neo-fascist climate this means walking a tight rope. And it requires speaking out. I have done so through articles, pamphlets and books, many of which are available on my website Mustaqim Islamic Art and Literature. I am also a regular contributor to the Mathaba News Network. To facilitate responding to current affairs more speedily I have set up this blog and hope readers find it useful.

It took the authorities a long time to come up with evidence from the flight recorders which they had earlier stated were not recoverable. It seems to me they still did a rather sloppy job when replacing the real recordings with this dramatic production. Here is why:

First of all, Cockpit voice recordings and recordings of air traffic communications are separated, yet in this case they appear together. I only have the transcript to go by since the actual recordings have not been released...

According to the transcript air traffic control received a communication that there was a bomb on board, but we do not hear the pilots stating so. Air traffic control ask another plane on the frequency whether this is what they heard and they confirm. This means that the pilots must have stated so on the frequency. Air traffic control could not have gauged this information from the transponder code selected by the pilots as this would not be accessible to the crew of the third plane nor would it be specific....

However, let's assume, unlikely as this is, that they did pick up what the hijackers said according to the transcript, namely: "Ladies and Gentlemen. Here the captain, please sit down keep remaining seating. We have a bomb on board. So sit." Here the script writers for the audio/video presentation made their biggest blunder. According to the script those remarks were made in Arabic. Air traffic could have got them translated, although not instantaneously, and they would have had to figure out what language they were dealing with first, but there is no chance that the crew of Executive Jet 956, the third plane on the frequency, could have understood those remarks.

With the above quoted remark they have, however, gone over the top by making the translation sound foreign as well. Either they had a very incompetent translator or they weren't sure whether they should script this remark in Arabic or English - "keep remaining seating" sure does not sound like a good translation....

Later in the tape we are treated with some more drama which would suit a Hollywood movie but not the real world of flying. It seems the hijackers discovered that there was a fight in the cabin. To control the situation one of them suggests to cut off the oxygen. What a folly! Breathing at high altitude in modern aircraft is achieved through cabin pressurisation not through the supply of oxygen...

But we are made to believe that the hijackers were stupid. They tried to take control of the plane but didn't really know how to fly it. One of them is heard to instruct the other with short commands like "pull it down", "up, down, up, down", "down, push, push, push, push", "hey, give it to me". In the end, I suppose this explains why the flight crashed just like it happens on Microsoft flight simulator when you mess about with a 757. To emphasise the loss of control they suddenly all repeatedly say "Allahu akbar", but not the Shahadah.

Nice try, I say, but there is no doubt in my mind that, once more, we are being taken for a ride.
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Yes, they were so stupid they learned to fly jet airliners on flight simulators, with no navigational skills, and managed to trick NORAD and the Airforce with a conveniently scheduled drill that just happened to mock several hijacked aircraft crashing into buildings in NY and DC at the same time it was actually happening! WOW! How stupid can you get?
Now, who was it that assured us this transcript, NOT audio recording, could be fully depended upon for accuracy because of the fact that it was in the hands of who? Those same people that told us we could see a mushroom cloud any second courtesy of saddam?

O'Reilly, they don't pursue OBL because they know he didn't do it.

"keep remaining seating"

Lame, huh?

I've talked with my husband about attending the Chicago 9/11 convention and he is agreeable. I really want to meet these people and feel a part of this important movement. It is this which is the foundation of all our grief and the deaths of so many thousands of innocent people, including the maiming, poisoning and murder of our own dear troops. I want to do something, any little thing, to help bring those lying murderers down.

Treason by association

Almost every Bush follower screeching about the Mary McCarthy story thinks it is extremely significant that (a) she donated money to John Kerry's campaign; (b) Dana Priest's husband knows Joe Wilson, as does McCarthy herself; and (c) McCarthy has professional ties to Sandy Berger. While many of them are content to insinuate darkly about the nefarious Plot against America which has likely been revealed by exposure of this web, others are more bold, explicitly speculating that this is but the tip of an iceberg of a traitorous conspiracy.But if one's political and professional connections to a leaker cast aspersions on the person's integrity and patriotism, there are plenty of aspersions to be cast. Larry Franklin, for instance, is a former Department of Defense official who -- unlike McCarthy -- has actually been convicted of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, to which he had access as a result of his Pentagon job, and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Franklin was a top aide to Douglas Feith, the No. 3 official in Bush Defense Department, and had long-standing and very close ties to Paul Wolfowitz, deputy to Don Rumsfeld. He did not merely pass classified information to the American media, but to AIPAC, a group with close ties to a foreign government. Franklin has all kinds of friends in the pro-Bush media who defended him and insisted that he could not possibly be guilty, and had close ties to the highest and most powerful Bush officials.

More HERE

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Some real good stuff!

capt

The fact the government led family members of flight 93 into a highly secure area told them they couldn't record or talk about the flight recording struck me as completely inexplicable. Why the secrecy? There is no intelligence value in the flight 93 flight recording. There is no reason to conceal them. . . .or is there?

Time for 60 minutes. tick tick tick tick. BBL

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

For cartoon Republican Jesus! HA!

capt

"I think people will look back and say. . . . This is going to be one of the great policy mistakes of all time."
- Tyler Drumheller, former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe

"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy."
- Tyler Drumheller

Where have we heard this before?

When stories like this one make it to TV, people start to catch on. . . . that is, people who aren't watching Americas favorite home videos.

Tyler Drumheller, former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe (link)

Alan and O'Reilly ...same thing happenned to me with the site..

Thx Kathleen. I'm sure it happened to everybody that accessed DAVIDCORN.COM during that period.

Contrary to your posting, no arrest has yet been made.

I GUESS YOU'VE ALL SEEN THIS:

The Iran Plans/Seymour Hersh

I posted this on the other thread, but realized you've all moved to this one. I was sick when this came out, so I assume you've all seen it. If not, it is absolutely essential reading.

I am in a state of shock.

"Recently, close Bush ally, Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, was found by investigators to have leaked highly sensitive, classified information to Fox News' Carl Cameron and CNN's Dana Bash while Shelby served on the Senate Intelligence Committee -- an unauthorized and serious leak which, for some odd reason, the Bush Justice Department refused to prosecute. No Bush followers, at least that I know of, objected to the decision to allow Sen. Shelby to leak with impunity...

read on

I GUESS YOU'VE ALL SEEN THIS:

The Iran Plans/Seymour Hersh

It came out when I was sick, so I assume you've all seen it. If not, it is essential reading.

I am in a state of shock.

Okay, David B. Benson...just got back from Harrison Hot Springs for the day (SPECTACULAR!) and immediately did my assignment. ;-)

There was a K-Street gang known as Lobbyists,
Who got what they wanted with their money lists,
Some of 'em were loobies,
But all of 'em were boobies,
Making their own rules with their iron fists.

*Main Entry: loo·by
Pronunciation: 'lü-bE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural loobies
Etymology: Middle English loby
Date: 14th century
: an awkward clumsy fellow

Main Entry: [1]boo·by
Pronunciation: 'bü-bE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural boobies
Etymology: modification of Spanish bobo, from Latin balbus stammering, probably of imitative origin
Date: circa 1603
1 : an awkward foolish person : DOPE

PS I learned a new word today -- Saladin, I didn't know there was such a word as looby! But, there is!

I'm going to try one more time.

GUESS YOU'VE ALL SEEN THIS:

The Iran Plans/Seymour Hersh

This came out when I was sick, so I assume you've all read this. If not, it's essential reading.

As I tried to post before, this has put me in a state of shock.

Hey, Jeanne! Thnx for the link -- that is fascinating!

Thanks Micki. That's two looby limericks in one day!
...and also I learned that loobies lube!

Ffolks,

Not to bring down the "Booby" party (gods's know I just LUV's 'dem Boobies!) but we heard from Spec.Spanky today. Seem he's been such a successful "patrol leader" that they're sending him elsewhere.

"Northwest", to a more populated area", was all he'd say... I'm thinkin' maybe Mosul, but it'll remain speculation for now.

Oh, and a battlefield promotion of some type is apparently in order. With any luck at all he could be sent to NCO school. Same thing happened to Sgt.Karl (whose wedding is in August) and he got sent home for a month or so to Wisconsin...and then sent right back...

Whatever! Hope all the boobies are "in their cups" and enjoying the support!

-T

#117
Alan,
Very good points. It amazes me that there are people like Bush and his group able to transfix so many people while we have a generation still alive that lived through WWll. I learned from my parents history. I don't want any part of a similar history.

#139
That is interesting, old CIA guy. Thank you.

#147
Sal,
That article is an example of why I'm proud to be an American.

Hajji,
I have a friend with a son in Iraq. Like Spec. Spanky his brother had been there also. They both asked for beef jerky. Has either Sgt Karl or Spec. Spanky asked for that?

COURT FILING IN CASE OF INDICTED BUSH OFFICIAL SUGGESTS OHIO CONGRESSMAN PROVIDED FALSE REPORT TO CONGRESS

John Byrne and Ron Brynaert | Raw Story | 4/21/06

A pre-trial motion filed by federal prosecutors in the case of indicted former Bush Administration official David Safavian contends that his share of the costs in a trip to play golf in Scotland and England arranged by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff should have been nearly five times more than what he paid, RAW STORY has found.

Perhaps more significantly, however, it also provides the first formal evidence that powerful Ohio Republican Bob Ney ? then chairman of the House Administration Committee ? provided false figures for the cost of his own trip to Scotland. Ney has been under fire for his role in allegedly helping Abramoff aid his clients in violation of House ethics rules and possibly federal laws.

Ney was referenced as ?Congressman #1? in a plea agreement Abramoff made in January, in which he admitted to bribing members of Congress and their staffs.

David Safavian, chief of staff of the United States General Services Administration (GSA) at the time, paid Abramoff $3,100 for a trip that prosecutors say "was in excess of $130,000." According to The Washington Post, tax records show that a non-profit owned by Abramoff, the Capital Athletic Foundation, doled out $150,225 for the trip.

(link)

CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002

Tonight on 60 Minutes, Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA’≥ Europe division, revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others were told by CIA Director George Tenet that Iraq’≥ foreign minister —†who agreed to act as a spy for the United States —†had reported that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction program. Watch it:

BRADLEY: According to Drumheller, CIA Director George Tenet delivered the news about the Iraqi foreign minister at a high level meeting at the White House.

DRUMHELLER: The President, the Vice President, Dr. Rice…ä
BRADLEY: And at that meeting…ø

DRUMHELLER: They were enthusiastic because they said they were excited that we had a high-level penetration of Iraqis.

BRADLEY: And what did this high level source tell you?

DRUMHELLER: He told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program.

BRADLEY: So, in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam’≥ inner circle that he didn’¥ have an active program for weapons of mass destruction?

DRUMHELLER: Yes.

BRADLEY: There’≥ no doubt in your mind about that?

DRUMHELLER: No doubt in my mind at all.

BRADLEY: It directly contradicts, though, what the President and his staff were telling us.

DRUMHELLER: The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy.

Read the full transcript HERE.

UPDATE: More at CBS News.

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"But Bush did not know he was lying"

HA!

capt

Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic?

In January 2001, with the inauguration of George W. Bush as president, America set on a path to cease being good; America became a revolutionary nation, a radical republic. If our country continues on this path, it will cease to be great - as happened to all great powers before it, without exception.

From the Kyoto accords to the International Criminal Court, from torture and cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners to rendition of innocent civilians, from illegal domestic surveillance to lies about leaking, from energy ineptitude to denial of global warming, from cherry-picking intelligence to appointing a martinet and a tyrant to run the Defense Department, the Bush administration, in the name of fighting terrorism, has put America on the radical path to ruin.

Unprecedented interpretations of the Constitution that holds the president as commander in chief to be all-powerful and without checks and balances marks the hubris and unparalleled radicalism of this administration.
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What have we become?

#179
I call the Bush administration pond scum but I'm sure pond scum has some use. It does have a useful place in the scheme of things. The Bush administration is a disgrace. What an embarrassment.

My family and I were sitting and having dinner and they mentioned that when Bushitler said he was the decider, it is their feeling that Bushitler not only thinks he is a god but that he also believes he is a god. He thinks of himself as our father maybe he believes that he is a god, the father.

We haven't completed our operations in Iraq and Bushitler is having our men and women fifghting around the world to control terrorism. Are our men and women the real terrorists? Are they trying to overturn governments so Nazi America can take over the resources of a country? You know that 15 corporations want to control all of the planets resources. Bushitler is really insane!!!!! He never completes anything in his life because he screws up everything. He is one big screw up!!!!!

100

micki, I see very little distinction between openly calling for and that they are planning for an assassination. In either case what is being said is immoral, illegal and should be dealt with by the international community. When the Iranian presidents words are twisted in the press the whole world is up in arms over it, but life threatening statements by Israel, and outright murders of opposing political leaders and American citizens, is completely ignored by the press and everyone else.

Posted by: Saladin at April 23, 2006 01:34 PM

Saladin, I am not looking for an argument on this...but there is a distinction. AMIR OREN is a reporter for Ha'aretz -- and from what I have been able to ascertain, he did his job: He reported that there was a call for an assassination of Mahmond Ahmadinejad -- Amir Oren, a reporter for Ha'aretz, DID NOT CALL FOR THAT ASSASSINATION. I repeat for clarity: He reported on the possible assassination -- he was doing his job. Just because one does not agree (or even disagree) with the substance of the story being reported, it is no reason to condemn the reporter, which that first story you posted does.

Ahmadinejad's words, twisted or otherwise, have nothing to do with the fact that Amir Oren REPORTED the assassination story -- it is apples and oranges.

Are you familiar with Ha'aretz? Ha'aretz is hardly an apologist for the Mossad, the Likud, Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, AIPAC, et al -- in fact, it is a rather secular, more left-leaning publication. It even as a reporter on staff who has lived in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and I think currently lives in Ramallah. She is a full-time Jewish Israeli journalist who lives amongst Palestinians, and IMO, makes a good effort to report fairly and accurately.

She is known for reporting that is often sympathetic to and understanding of the Palestinian point of view and is often critical of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians.

In fact, she tries so hard to do her job as an honest Jewish Israeli journalist that she has been subjected to opposition from both Palestinian and Israeli authorities. Her name is Amire Hass.

The reason I have gone to this much time and effort to respond to the article you posted that claimed that Amir Oren PERSONALLY CALLED for the assassination, is because that claim is not accurate. He REPORTED the story. In fact, claiming that he called for the assassination is an example of inflammatory, biased propaganda. Wouldn't you want to know if a group or person had called for the assassination of the president of the United States, no matter who that president is? I would.

How many more American soldiers must be killed and maimed for Bushitler's lies???

GREAT IS THE GUILT OF AN UNNECESSARY WAR. John Adams

American Soldiers

2,674 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his lies.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Sir Winston Churchill

Henry Kissinger says that military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. Napoleon Bonaparte

Nazi America is a mirror image of Hitler Bush.

Arundhati Roy says that Hitler Bush is the world nightmare incarnate. Gerald asks the question is Hitler Bush the father of the devil incarnate party?

Confucius spoke that before you seek revenge dig two graves.

When an illegal war is launched, every person killed and injured, every piece of property destroyed, and all environmental damage is a war crime. A war without borders and limits is a perpetual war. This war of aggression proliferates terrorism in proportion to its reckless widening, making the world ever more dangerous. TCR News

One cannot help but wonder: Where there alternative ways of spending a fraction of the war's $1 to 2 trillion in costs that would have better strengthened security, boosted prosperity, and promoted democracy? Joseph E Stiglitz The dollar amount for the war now rages around $8 trillion.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

G.K. Chesterton said that Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics.

The thought of Jesus being stripped, beaten, and derided until His final agony on the Cross should always prompt a Christian to protest against similar treatment of their fellow beings. John Paul II

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander. Ramman Kenoun! Yes, Bushitler, as Commander in Chief, is the American soldier's main enemy. His endless lies and his love for nuclear wars will destroy planet, Earth.

Since 911, 2,674 American soldiers have given their lives in wrong and immoral wars.

Capt,
I think you posted the Pink song. I just watched it on Crooks and Liars. It was great.

Dear Miss Jeanne:

You should sign on with one of those comedic talk shows that are on the cable channels. Eyes closed!

Miss Jeanne, I have to share something with you from personal experience. The vice president of the United States, the one who shot a man in the face at close range on a hunting trip in Texas, certainly looks asleep to me in that photograph that is all over the Internet, including on major news organizations' websites.

Here's what I want to share. Cheney looked exactly that way, chin on chest, kind of hunched and bunched, slouched down in his chair, after lunch that day on the quail hunt, after the "beer or two."

I know a sleeping Cheney when I see one. He was sleeping. I cannot understand why those people who speak for the vice president are now saying he was reading his notes. He reads his notes with his eyes closed? Well, as you say, he shoots with his eyes closed.

still free

View Marc Ecko tagging Air Force One.

I was surprised I liked the Pink song. Would have never heard it but for the post from Alan (I think).

capt

you know what he DOESN'T do with his eyes closed? schedule several terror alert war games that just happen to coincide exactly with the time/place/manner of the phony terror attacks of 911.

Dear Harry,
He looked tired, too tired. He looked more exhausted than you the day you left the hospital. You know what Harry? I think that is who Dick Cheney is now. I think he's a hunched and bunched, slouched down in a chair, old man. I think George Bush started asserting himself because he could. Cheney wasn't going to stop him. The puppet boy cut the strings. Too bad the puppet boy is an idiot instead of a leader.

manipulating video in real time

think of the first down line in a televised football game - except with bad guys instead.

Son of the Bridge to Nowhere
NYT | 4/23/06

It was only last month that the Senate staged a breast-beating debate about the need to control the rampant pork-spending abuse of earmarks - boondoggle appropriations tucked into vital legislation with little public scrutiny. Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, orated on the side of the angels in calling for reform. Well, the angels have lost another player. As the Senate returns from recess it will confront the year's prize porker blithely trotted out by Senator Lott - a $700 million earmark to relocate a Gulf Coast rail line, which was just rebuilt, post-Katrina, at a cost of $250 million.

(link)

The Outsiders
GERGEN | NYT | 4/23/06

YOU probably remember this old joke. Question: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change. It's a punch line that comes to mind these days as President Bush fights the darkness by rearranging his team.

Mr. Bush is the eighth straight president, stretching back to Lyndon Johnson, who has tried to rescue his administration at a low moment by shaking up his staff. It has rarely worked, and on the few occasions when it has, the two crucial factors have been that the president has acted in time and, critically, has wanted to make fundamental changes.

We have not yet seen the end of the current reshuffling and should not underestimate Josh Bolten, the extremely capable new chief of staff. But these changes probably come too late, and so far, Mr. Bush seems to be acting only reluctantly, while remaining firmly opposed to instituting fundamental change.

(link)

Ok, just for clarity, the tagging of AF 1 is a hoax. I knew before I sent it (read about the hoax in the paper, and that it fooled the SS too, enough to make 'em go check the plane), but thought it was a cool clip.

It was a rented plane and they done a partial temp paint job.

Dear Harry,
Reading...I can't stop laughing. I used to read like that to my kids when they were little and my youngest daughter didn't sleep for the first six months of her life. I was a little tired. I would be reading and then all of a sudden my older two would be yanking me awake and telling me to keep reading. "Finish the story!" My oldest one was seven. She went from a first grade reader to fifth grade in one summer. You wonder why.

#194
Alan,
I love it. That is soooo great. I have to tell Maggie about that.

Out of Iraq in 2006 Petition

Night all. Especially you Harry. Take care of yourself. A good Republican is hard to find.

micki, I understand the difference. My point is that no matter what was reported, no one contradicted the fact that an assassination is being proposed by Israel on an officially elected president. I don't care how it's worded, god knows our own press is full of twists and tweaks. But, the story remains the same. But what will be done? Nothing is my guess, just like usual. And that is what pisses me off, not the slightly inaccurate wording. I tried to provide everything I could find. Justice and Israel never seem to find one another.

Merle's "Rebuild America First

Dixie Chicks, Pink, Neil Young, and now Merle Haggard. Listen/watch this song.

It's past time for a serious look at Pat Roberts' activities.

Witnesses leery of testifying while Roberts stays on leak investigation

Two witnesses interviewed by the FBI in its probe of classified information leaked from a joint congressional inquiry in 2002 say they are very concerned about cooperating with a Senate Ethics Committee review of the matter because Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) has not recused himself from the review.

Cool song!

Maybe music is what has been missing from the anti-Bush pro-American movements. As these songs and albums get airtime it is the repetition that will break through to some of those that cannot take the time to entertain the facts.

We should all support those artists and make sure the sales for pro-American music are through the roof.

capt

Talking Points Memo

(April 23, 2006 -- 07:49 PM EDT)
By now you've probably seen or heard about the 60 Minutes segment with the interview with Tyler Drumheller, the now-retired CIA officer who was head of covert operations in Europe during the lead up to the Iraq War.

I just got off the phone with Drumheller. But before we get to that, let's run down the key points in the story.

http://covertoperations.blogspot.com/

"If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."
--- Jimi Hendrix

THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND ITS PERMANENT WAR ECONOMY

Relations between Bush and Perot had gone downhill ever since the Vice President had asked Ross Perot how his POW/MIA investigations were going.

“Well, George, I go in looking for prisoners”, said Perot, “but I spend all my time discovering the government has been moving drugs around the world and is involved in illegal arms deals ... I can’t get at the prisoners because of the corruption among our own people.”

This ended Perot’s official access to the highly classified files as a one-man presidential investigator. “I have been instructed to cease and desist”, he had informed the families of missing men early in 1987.

Two Important Events on Saturday, April 29, in New York and California

1. Peace March in New York
APRIL 29 in New York City
March for Peace, Justice, and Democracy
Unite for change - let's turn our country around!
http://www.April29.org

Democrats for Peace Contingent gathering for New York March
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/demsforpeace

2. Impeachment Forum in California
The Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party Presents: Impeachment: Dialogue, Debate & Action
April 29 at 8:30 PM
The Crest Theater, 1013 K Street, Sacramento, CA
Scheduled to appear on the panel are:
• Representative Maxine Waters
• Shayana Kadidal, lead attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights, and co-author, Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
• Elizabeth de la Vega, former lead prosecutor, San Jose and author of an upcoming book on impeachment
• Bob Fertik, President, Democrats.com & co-founder afterdowningstreet.org
• Mike Malloy, syndicated host of AirAmerica Radio, will moderate
• Opening statement by Tim Goodrich, founder, Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Tickets: $10 donation. You may preorder tickets through at the Crest Theater box office, (916) 442-7378 or at http://www.tickets.com

Portions of this event will be broadcast later on the Mike Malloy Show on Air America. Mike will be discussing the upcoming forum this coming Friday evening.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/9227

It's Fiesta time in San Antonio. We'll be partying for the next couple of weeks (playoff games thrown in). WooHoo.

Fun. Fun. Fun.

Bush lies. Conservative lies. Birds of a feather. LBH @109 two threads back, make up your mind is the drop in wages caused by the immigrants or the lack of education? This is the third time you've tried to claim victory in an argument where you took both sides. If you're going to flip-flop back and forth like Mr. Bush, we can't have a real discussion.

"It was also Pande that complained and is still complaining that an increase in Black owned business's is no big deal"

You're lying again. Conservatives. There's no stopping you once you start with all your lying bullshit. I said that the economic policies enacted under Mr. Bush were the source of the problem. No business owner (white, brown or black) could afford wage increases for middle and low income workers. YOU are the racist that thinks that lower wages are these black and hispanic business' fault. Why do you hate black and brown people?

"and that Hispanics are better than blacks when it comes to starting business according to Pandes interpetation of the Census report he posted."

Again, you're lying. You claimed that blacks were kicking hispanic's asses under Mr. Bush. I cited a handful (out of many) data points that proved you wrong. Click here and scroll down to numbers 18 and 81. Your lying is rather telling. You have no argument to back up your contention; so you make shit up. Pathetic.

"I know Pande has easily convinced you that he is the "Deceiver in Chief" but come on get a clue!"
Posted by: LBH at April 21, 2006 05:02 PM

Calling me a liar without proving it is one of the stupidest things you've ever done here (aside from claiming that Reid was under investigation for his connection to Abramoff). You are 0 for 40 when it comes to proving me wrong. Wait, you might be able to claim victory on the one where you said that Bush was a moron because he leaked information legally and threatened to fire someone for leaking that information. Yeah, I'll give you that one. 1 for 39.

"First of all, there was no data on Clinton years vs. Bush years so you're blowing smoke out of your ass again."

Look at the time frame 97-2002 (careful it's one of those pdf jobbies). From '97 to 2002, There were 3 Clinton years and 2 Bush years. What would the level of growth have to be for the Bush years for there to be more black-owned business started under Bush than Clinton? Keep in mind the Entrepreneurial activity in those years. Notice who's on top during all those years? Look at the numbers from 92-97 and extrapolate. Do the math and get back to me. Till then, keep talking out of your ass.

"Second, the reason small business's were finally starting to take off in 97 from Clintons biggest tax increase in history after 5yrs of no growth is because the Rebublicans took over Congress in 94 and finally got things back
on the right path."

5 years of no growth is bullshit. How many times did Big Dawg have to veto big spending and shut down the government to keep the Grand Ol' Spending Party from busting the budget that he proposed? If it weren't for the steady hand of Clinton and support from fiscally responsible Democrats, the deficit would be infinitely worse than it is now. When was the last time we had a fiscal year surplus? Yup.

"It was a rather clever attempt to mislead ...."
Posted by: LBH at April 21, 2006 05:23 PM

Try proving it. Cite some facts. Save up a little (or like Hapless, borrow some) and buy a freekin' clue.

Time to hit the road.

Weyant - The Hill (cartoon)

PHOTO of the Day - The Hill

Anne Yang cries at House International Relations Committee hearing Wednesday on human rights in China. Ms. Yang practices Falun Gong, and has had many friends tortured by the Chinese government for being members of the banned movement.

"I firmly planted the flag of liberty for all to see that the United States of America hears their concerns and believes in their aspirations. And I am excited by the challenge and am honored to be able to lead our nation in the quest of this noble goal, which is freeing people in the name of peace."

Petra Alvarado, Factory Worker, on her Birthday, El Paso, TX, from In the American West, April 22, 1982 (pic)

Tyler Drumheller's story
Will the Media investigate? (link)
John Amato | Crooks & Liars | 4/24/06

60 Minutes (video)

Marshall says:
"Did the Robb-Silverman Commission not hear about what Drumheller had to say? What about the Roberts Committee? He was quite clear. He was interviewed by the Robb-Silverman Commission. Three times apparently... Now, quite a few of us (me included) have been arguing for almost two years now that those reports were fundamentally dishonest in the story they told about why we were so badly misled in the lead up to war. The fact that none of Drumheller's story managed to find its way into those reports, I think, speaks volumes about the agenda that the writers of those reports were pursuing.

"But what it shows even more clearly is that none of this stuff has yet been investigated by anyone whose principal goal is not covering for the White House."

Atrios says: "The real point isn't the actual revelation, it's that he's revealed it before to people tasked with investigating this stuff, who promptly filed it in the circular filing cabinet."

Late Nite FDL: Is The Country Catching On?
(link)

I watched the 60 Minutes segment tonight on the Niger uranium intelligence and thought it was very much of a piece with the Rolling Stone Worst President In History cover ? a simple, direct narrative that will reach millions of Americans and let them know that they have been duped. We talk about this stuff all the time on the blogs but it?s not often things this clearly damning are so widely disseminated. Shock waves feel like they are starting to ripple out and it?s hard to know how far they are going to extend.

If you didn?t catch it you can see part of the video at C&L and read about it here. They interviewed Joe Wilson but didn?t get into the exposure of his wife as a CIA agent ? they kept it quite simply about the intelligence on Niger uranium, the 16 words and the myriad sources who told the Administration that the claims were bogus from the get. As Atrios notes there?s nothing really new, but it does play havoc with claims of the authoritarian cultists that Bush acted in good faith, relying on credible intelligence.

Tyler Drumheller, Come on Down! You're the Latest Former Government Official About to be Accused of Being a Liberal Partisan Hack Out to Sell a Book! (link)

Gerald, Do these two make you foxes list? (pic)

Word on the Street
Davis & Parker | PJstar.com | 4/42/06

Former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald is fond of telling the story of Al Capone's final ouster. The mob boss was untouchable because he had paid the watchdogs - police, prosecutors, even reporters - to turn the other way. Republican powerhouse and Chicago Tribune publisher Col. Robert McCormick had another idea. He went to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who sent agent Eliot Ness to Chicago.

That was the end of Capone.

Years later, inspired by that story, Sen. Fitzgerald wanted to find his own modern-day Ness to deal with a modern-day mess known as Illinois politics.

In came Patrick Fitzgerald, a New Yorker of no relation to Peter.

Out went Gov. George Ryan, and some 75 of his closest acquaintances. Read on (link)

Lost His Magic
James Moore | The Independent | 4/24/06

There is a hoary Texan aphorism that must now be striking resounding notes in George Bush's head. A new chief of staff, a change in the political mastermind Karl Rove's responsibilities, and a neophyte policy director are changes that can impress only the American president. If Bush were out in the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas where he spent his childhood, he might hear someone in a coffee shop suggesting that "it's like puttin' earrings on a hog; there's some ugliness you just cain't hide."

And in Rove's case, it is likely to get uglier.

Read on (link)

Jeanne,

Slim Jims, jerky, Skoal, (wintergreen pouches) Sports Illustrated and Maxxim...are all part of the regular bi-monthly shipment.

With any luck, last week's package will arrive before he moves.

He's been living in a little 2-person, "Hootch" trailer. He says he's made it a "liitle piece of home in the middle of insanity."

Thanks for asking about him.

Sorry I didn't answer last night. The CIA guy on the first part of "60 Minutes" floated a lot of the old anger to the top. After a day of deck-building, I took some muscle relaxants (alcohol MIGHT increase the effects) drank some Sam Adams' "Summerfest" and went nighty-night.

The ferrier's coming today...so donkey and goat 'rasslin festivities this afternoon!

Woo HOO!

-T

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Patrick Fitzgerald, too, carries an awful burden, even though he considers himself little more than a good citizen just doing his job.

Untold millions of Americans are relying on this son of Irish immigrants to renew their faith that we remain a nation of laws. Too many of us have a well-earned cynicism; we see our country wandering desperately through a historical fog. We fear America has entered a permanent state of decline.

A little justice, though, might just begin a great renewal.

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Patrick Fitzgerald, too, carries an awful burden, even though he considers himself little more than a good citizen just doing his job.

Untold millions of Americans are relying on this son of Irish immigrants to renew their faith that we remain a nation of laws. Too many of us have a well-earned cynicism; we see our country wandering desperately through a historical fog. We fear America has entered a permanent state of decline.

A little justice, though, might just begin a great renewal.

Sorry about the double post. I got an error referring to a problem with a temp file after I pressed the Post button, fyi.

Six Months of Do or Die (link)
Marsh | Firedoglake | 4/24/06

They've got an idea and it's just got to work. There are six months to get it done, with no other way out. Because if George W. Bush loses Congress to the Democrats his presidency is beyond collapsed, it's finished, kaput, Karl bar the door. It will be hello subpoena power, good-bye presidential propaganda, because it just won?t work anymore. There are five steps Bush and Bolten have decided will keep Congress, one more short-sighted than the next, but it doesn't matter. It's all about now.

First stop, President Bush is going to bail on immigration fairness, proving once and for all he?s conservative with his compassion. It?s bring home the base, baby, and let someone else worry about the people. Hispanics and Latinos will just have to understand that it?s all about George W. Bush.

O'Reilly, I believe that the 32% who still support bushco, (I suspect it's closer to 22%) don't care what he does, as long as they can believe he loves us and wants to protect us. bush could go on national TV and admit outright that they were behind the attacks of 9/11 but that it was done for the good of the country and that tiny minority would cheer! Then call the rest of us terrorist loving traitors for daring to criticize his decisions. That's how sick and twisted these people are. These are the people who slather over that weiner savage's call to murder 100 million Muslims, just because. They are sick, sick, sick.

The Jerk at the Podium: Scott McClellan Steps Away
Jay Rosen | PressThink | 4/20/06

"McClellan, Bush, Cheney, and Rove proved there were other ways. Replace news management with press nullification. Drop the persuasion model, in favor of the politics of assent. Choose non-communication to demonstrate that you ought not to be questioned (it only helps our enemies.)"

Read on (link)

Sic, Sic, Sic (pic)

Guns and badges? It's too little too late.

bush, the diplomat

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I just read that hillary is in favor of a border wall. She's gonna get dizzy if she doesn't stop courting both sides of the isle!

Mortar explosions kill 6 in Iraq
23/04/2006 08:17 - (SA)

Baghdad, Iraq - About 11 mortar rounds exploded in central Baghdad on Sunday, including three that hit the heavily guarded Green Zone, killing at least six Iraqi civilians and wounding two, police said.

The Iraqis were just entering the Green Zone at about 08:00 after making their way through several heavily guarded checkpoints when the three mortars exploded just inside its walls, said police Lt Maitham Abdul-Razzaq.

Iraq's parliament meets in the compound on the banks of the Tigris River, and it also is home to country's Defence Ministry and the US and British embassies.

Abdul-Razzaq said it was hard to identify the six fatalities because the powerful explosions and shrapnel from the mortars had severed their limbs and destroyed their identification cards. But he said one of the wounded Iraqis worked at the Defence Ministry.

A spokesperson at the US Embassy had no immediate information about the attack, saying officials were still checking to see what had happened.
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So much for a safety zone.

U.S. plans economic sanctions on Iran

Ynet | April 24 2006

Americans estimate Tehran will not cease its nuclear plans; identifying banks financing exported Iranian oil, European companies trading with Iran is next move
Ynet

The United States believes that the ultimatum which was given to Iran demanding to freeze its nuclear enrichment program by April 28 and the report of the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will have no affect on the Iranian nuclear program.

A clear indication to the situation was given Sunday when the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said that progress of the Iranian nuclear program is "irreversible."
The U.S has begun planning its own moves to face the conflict against Iran, not military moves but rather economic ones. Time Magazine reports that next month the U.S and the European Union will ask the U.N Security Council to pass a resolution that will pave the way to economic and political sanctions against Iran.

If, as anticipated, Russia and China - both of whom are permanent members of the Security Council –†will torpedo the move by imposing a veto, the U.S. could employ a U.N-bypass track and form an international coalition which will isolate Iran "diplomatically and economically", as Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said last week.

Countries that trade with Iran should start reconsidering their commerce ties, he noted.

Along with reports about the U.S. preparing for military attack against the nuclear plants in Iran, the U.S. has also targeted economic moves; on its target are Europeans financial institutions that manage accounts for Iran and maintain generous deposits for Iran.

'Stop dealing with bad guys'
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Who exactly ARE the bad guys here?
Do what we say or we will stop buying your oil!! Un-f**king believable. Get ready for $5 a gallon gas, at the very least.

April 24, 2006 -- WMR has received information from a veteran member of the U.S. Intelligence Community that fired CIA Inspector General (IG) officer, 61-year old veteran CIA employee Mary O. McCarthy, was the result of a White House-launched political vendetta designed to ferret out pro-Democrats in the CIA. The source also revealed that McCarthy, who was fired rather than being permitted to resign, is almost certain to write a tell-all book that will reveal even more misconduct and illegal activity, in addition to secret prisons and rendition flights, on the part of the Bush administration and CIA director Porter Goss. These may include CIA drug smuggling activities to support off-the-books operations and targeted assassinations. McCarthy, as an IG officer, would have known about all CIA misdeeds reported through her office.

Inside sources report that McCarthy must have ran afoul of the Bush administration early on. After serving as a National Intelligence Officer and liaison to the White House National Security Council, ...

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Yeah, I want you to be interested enought to click the link.

Gee, I thought those three little dots would show up better...

Um, what link?

More from Wayne Madsen:

April 24, 2006 -- Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz, who helped craft the suspension of military aid to countries that refused to exempt U.S. military personnel from prosecution by the International Criminal Court, has used his position as World Bank President to reward with debt relief those nations that signed the exemption agreements, so-called Bilateral Immunity Agreements, or "Article 98s, with the United States. Wolfowitz was the subject of a puff piece in yesterday's Washington Post as part of a campaign to makeover his war hawk image. But Wolfowitz's actions at the World Bank demonstrate he still takes his orders from his right-wing neocon friends in the White House and Pentagon.

The countries granted debt relief that signed the Article 98s with the United States, include Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia. Three countries that have not signed Article 98s with the United States -- Mali, Niger, and Tanzania -- are under intense pressure to do so and the Wolfowitz debt relief action may be a tool to pressure them into signing the agreements. The Bush regime is attempting to get Niger to amend its constitution to permit it to sign an Article 98. Tanzania is embarrassed to sign such an agreement as the host of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The Bush administration brought direct pressure on the Malian President to sign an Article 98 in exchange for the financial assistance now being dangled by Wolfowitz and his neocon cabal at the World Bank.

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Debt relief in exchange for immunity? Isn't that called buying justice? The act itself should be prosecutable.

Justin Raimando was ahead of most reporters on the build up to the illegal invasion of Iraq.

April 24, 2006
Two Trials
And a treasonous trio
by Justin Raimondo
What about this and this is the same? What is different?

These sorts of questions sound like some you might encounter on one of those annoying tests they made you take in school, which are supposed to gauge intelligence but probably wind up measuring only one's aptitude for test-taking. The exercise, at any rate, may prove valuable in helping us understand what the War Party is up to these days.

In the beginning of April, court documents [.pdf] filed by Scooter-gate prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald detailed that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, with "approval from the president through the vice president," had selectively leaked portions of a classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) about Saddam Hussein's alleged efforts to procure nuclear weapons. Scooter conveniently left out those sections of the NIE that undercut the administration's case for war with Iraq, but that is hardly the most shocking aspect of this revelation. After all, the neocon coven nested in the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the civilian hierarchy of the Pentagon considers lying a high art, and certainly more than a few of their efforts rate as masterpieces of the genre.

at antiwar.com

Sal, the three little dots (which didn't show up in blue as nicely as I thought they would) hyperlink to Wayne Madsen Reports.

Robert, it's business as usual at thug central.

#233 Robert, On Sunday Chris Matthews nailed Paul Wolfowitz and the other idealogues that lied us into this war of choice. Micheal Ledeen, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, James Woolsey etc.

Matthews reminded the american public that Wolfowitz was one of the main pushers and architects and that Rumsfeld at this point is being used as the fall guy.

War Pigs

Will Grigg reads the Weekly Standard (so you don't have to).

Friday, April 21, 2006, 06:13 PM
Generals gathered in their masses; just like witches at Black Masses; evil minds that plot destruction; sorcerers of war's construction....

Reading "Target: Iran," the recent Weekly Standard essay by Thomas McInerney, former assistant vice chief of the U.S. Air Force, it's difficult not to imagine the author panting –†his face flushed, his pupils dilated, sweat beading on his upper lip, hair sprouting on his palms –†as he describes a possible US military strike on Iran. Like so many other military analysts, McInerney is positively concupiscent as he revels in the techno-porn of the anticipated assault (feel free to skim over this section, just to get the gist):

# 220 O'Reilly. I believe you are absolutely right on this one. For some of the americans paying attention Fitzgerald is the saviour figure at this point.

I continue to hold onto his words shared at his press conference last fall. Fitzgerald said "that truth is the engine of our judicial system". I sure hope and pray there is some "truth" in those words.

There is still time to "frog march" these psychopaths out of the not so White House. Although it is not soon enough for the Iraqi people who have been murdered or the american soldiers sent to Iraq based on these psychopaths lies.

THESE DELAYS ARE TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY..FOUR OF THEM SO FAR. WILL THE MSM HELP THE ISRAELI LOBBY AS THEY ALWAYS DO..OR WILL THE TRUTH BE TOLD? SO FAR IT IS NOT LOOKING GOOD FOR THE TRUTH.....

April 24, 2006
Let the AIPAC Spy Trial Begin
Why prosecuting Weissman and Rosen matters
by Grant F. Smith
Judge T.S. Ellis III has offered a rare second opportunity to the Rosen and Weissman defense team. They again made their case that the indictment of the two former AIPAC lobbyists was "trampling on their 1st Amendment rights." Although Judge Ellis established an August 2006 trial date, he continues to consider a motion to dismiss charges altogether.

In a similar March 2006, hearing, the defense concentrated on portraying the 1917 Espionage Act as fundamentally flawed and unconstitutional. The indictment charges Rosen and Weissman with violating sections of the Act by having "unlawful possession" of "information relating to the national defense." Written in 1917 and never updated, the Espionage Act does not use the term "classified" when referring to national defense information. The law's musty antiquity offers the defendants abundant openings for attack.

The mainstream press has come to the aid of Rosen and Weissman by promulgating the "slippery slope" argument. The Washington Post has argued more than once that the charges leveled against two foreign lobbyists run amok could soon be turned against investigative reporters:

at antiwar.com

Good morning, DBB: The Inner City Mother Goose Limerick:

There once was a party of lubes,
Who sold us straight down the tubes,
Their reforms were qa-qaa,
Pure shit and rah-rah,
Treating ordinary people as rubes.

Thank you corn folks for giving me hope

lATER

GOP House Weakens Lobbying Measure

In addition, the measure would:

+ Freeze junkets paid for by private interests, but only until after the November elections.

+ Place no new restrictions on lawmakers and aides who leave Capitol Hill to become lobbyists.

+ Leave enforcement of the rules in the hands of a House ethics committee that is paralyzed by partisan tensions.

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Yup. SSDD. Wow! This is really tough reform. Not!

I nominate micki for the first annual Robert Frost Memorial tell-it-like-it-is snarky poet award for nailing it.

good one micki!

Kathleen - Matthews is a media whore, who did more than enough of his own war pushing.

I remember him yelling at a young man who opposed the war and who had lost a family member on 9/11 that "everybody thought he [Saddam] had WMD" as if there wasn't Scott Ritter's analysis and the caveats in the administration's own intelligence.

So if he has his doubts now, it probably relates to Keith Olberman's ratings for being more confrontational.

But, let's face it, the folks who bring good things to life, such as impliments of death, aren't in the informing trade so much as in the manufacture of consent, as Chomsky puts it.

While we are on the subject of G.E., parent to NBC, here's this:

How to Manufacture a War Criminal
Saddam and Me: a True Story
By JEFF KLEIN

Enjoy!

239 kathleen, I wish I could take credit for those words. The opinion column was written by a guy named James Moore who is a writer/reporter from Texas. Moore has known Rove for about 25 years.

Retired chief justice for third circuit says Rumsfeld shows 'disregard' for military law
RAW STORY
Published: Monday April 24, 2006

John J. Gibbons, a former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals appointed by President Richard Nixon and a former officer in the U.S. Navy, joined the chorus of critics attacking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Monday, RAW STORY has learned.

"As many distinguished experts have concluded, Donald Rumsfeld has failed in his job as Secretary of Defense," Gibbons said in a statement released to RAW STORY. "I believe our security, our military and our rule of law have all suffered under his leadership.

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DailyKOS (link) | Georgia10 | 4/24/06

If you're not familiar with the details of the phone-jamming case, click the [LINK] for a great overview of the entire scandal.

As the scandal unfolds, it seems like the 2002 race between Republican John Sununu and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen created some unique political vortex that sucked in every element of Republican taint you can imagine. Jack Abramoff? Tom Delay? The RNC? They've all been implicated by the facts.

The evidence shows that dozens of calls were made on election day from the New Hampshire GOP to Ken Melhman's office in the White House (he was the political director in 2002). Specifically, the number dialed belonged to Alicia Davis, Mehlman's deputy for the Northeast. Mehlman maintains that the dozens of calls that occurred on election day were normal, and that his office "regularly communicated with competitive Congressional campaigns and Republican Party organizations."

The era of news management lasted 40 years from 1963, when the networks first began their 30-minute nightly broadcasts, to 2003, when McClellan, Bush, Cheney, and Rove proved there were other ways. Replace news management with press nullification. Drop the persuasion model, in favor of the politics of assent. Choose non-communication to demonstrate that you ought not to be questioned (it only helps our enemies.)

Bush made no secret of his preference for government-by-assent. That's why he created the Bush Bubble, a remarkable practice in which the White House routinely prevented non-believers from attending the President?s speeches and asking questions of him in public. (It's now being relaxed somewhat.)

Other parts of the Bush presidency that fit in the puzzle with McClellan's hapless style. (link)

#216 O'Reilly, I am keeping the list to fifteen for now. There are many foxes out there but trying to keep up with all them is very difficult. Please feel to offer names of possible foxes.

The Fifteen Foxes

What is great about the computer, I can log onto different websites and focus on some people and their articles. The fifteen foxes for me are Arianna Huffington, Maureen Dowd, Teresa Whitehurst, Karen Kwiatkowski, Eleanor Clift, Molly Ivins, Cindy Sheehan, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, Naomi Klein, Devvy Kidd, Nora Ephron, Helen Thomas, Linda Schrock Taylor, and Karen Horst Cobb. Not only are these fifteen women pleasant to look at, but they also write exceptional articles.

Here is a brief overview of why these writers are foxes for me.

1. Cindy Sheehan is a mother of a soldier that was killed in Iraq. She wants to know what noble cause killed her son. The chickenhawk, Bush, refuses to answer the question.
2. Eleanor Clift may not write articles like the rest of the women but I enjoy her intelligence in standing up to the bushcos when she appears as a guest on the various talk shows.
3. Molly Ivins is from Texas and she, too, will not take any crap from Bush or his family. Plus, any woman who drinks beer from the bottle is my kind of woman.
4. Arianna Huffington is a Republican but she is an objective person in assessing America’≥ problems. She chooses her country over her party.
5. Karen Kwiatkowski is a retired military colonel with a Ph.D. Her articles are well written and her love for the military is noted but she will not go along with stinking military thinking from the other generals and from that chickenhawk, Bush.
6. Teresa Whitehurst is a Ph.D. clinical psychologist who writes great Christian articles that reveal her discipleship in following Jesus.
7. Maureen Dowd is a columnist with the NYTimes. She, too, writes very good articles that reveal her innate nurturing and sensitivity as a true female. Why this gorgeous woman is not married I do not know.
8. Katrina Vanden Heuvel is also on the list of foxes and she is a valuable member. Katrina writes articles for The Nation magazine.
9. Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, can be read on NCRonline.org. Sister Joan is a bit of a maverick for a Catholic nun but she does convey some interesting thoughts.
10. Naomi Klein writes for The Nation and her writings are also published in the Guardian.
11. Devvy Kidd writes for News with Views website. She has several interesting articles to read. You can also type in her name and you can check the articles.
12. Nora Ephron is a writer whom I have come to read her articles on The Huffington Post website. She is an author and has worked on the Hollywood scene.
13. Linda Schrock Taylor has been added to my list of foxes. I have read her articles on LewRockwell.com.
14. Helen Thomas is another woman added to my list of foxes. How could I have missed her? For years she was the first news reporter to ask a question at presidential press conferences. Since Helen had the opportunity to ask the first question, she tried to be fair and impartial. Today, she is more open in her news reporting.
15. Karen Horst Cobb is a freelance writer from New Mexico. She has written two great articles about Christians.

There will probably be other names of foxes that will be added to my list but these fifteen names are a good start.

Scientists Probe the Use of the Tongue By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Apr 24, 3:43 AM ET

In their quest to create the super warrior of the future, some military researchers aren't focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They're looking at tongues.

By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish.

Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition envision their work giving Army Rangers 360-degree unobstructed vision at night and allowing Navy SEALs to sense sonar in their heads while maintaining normal vision underwater — turning sci-fi into reality.

The device, known as "Brain Port," was pioneered more than 30 years ago by Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist. Bach-y-Rita began routing images from a camera through electrodes taped to people's backs and later discovered the tongue was a superior transmitter.

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Not at all what Bush had in mind about human-animal hybrids, is it? Or is it?

#246 Robert. You are right that Matthew's is a "media whore". Although once in a while I see signs of someone with a conscience. I do believe he sucked up all of the pre-war horse shit like many mainstreamers. He trusted his own "media whores" for the twisted information and repeated lies coming out of the Bush administration.

He does have a serious tendency towards being a bully, (he often does not listen) but I have witnessed a change. He "sometimes" hammers the folks that he sarcastically refers to as "the best and the brightest" David Frum, William Kristol, etc. He does have Amy Goodman and Katrina Van Heudal (sp?) on periodically. He does present opposing views, although never really sticks his neck out very far. He was one of the only MSMer's to mention the Aipac trial (very quietly one night).

I believe that he is genuinely pissed off about the WMD lies and the cherry picked intelligence. He has spent some time over at Walter Reed Hospital interviewing the severely injured (not enough, but more than the rest of the MSM>) I see flames coming out of his eyes and he hammers hard when any of his guest try to repeat the lies. Although he has yet to challenge the repeated claims being made about Iran by the same fucking "cakewalk" folks who lied us into Iraq.(this started just after the invasion of Iraq, and the MSM allowed the momentum to build without any challenging questions)

I would like to directly challenge that white boy Chris about one of his clever comments during the Katrina catastrophe. Matthews said that "Katrina ripped the scab off of the issues of racism and poverty in the U.S." My response to Chris is "yeah Chris on your program for about a month". He has barely touched the goings on along the gulf coast since that disaster. All it would take to help improve that situation is for his program do a bi-weekly report on the recovery process. He has done very little to keep that scab off of the problems of poverty and racism in this nation. In fact this lack of coverage on poverty and racism helps put the scab right back on.

I know the MSM does not offer much in the way of objectivity and truth but I continue to apply pressure in my way and sometimes I am presently surprised.

Sorry for the triple postings back there on the Seymour Hersh story. It wasn't showing up as posted on my end.

I know Sal has undoudtedly seen this by now. But for the rest of you to peruse:

Thermite Identified as Culprit in WTC Collapse

Charity versus the State

The Post, David, is one paper that is not likely to do any investigative reporting here. Their spin has been (i) on the editorial page, that Bush was right to leak thru Libby; (ii) also on the editorial page, that the retired generals are wrong to speak out against Rummy; (iii) on the news page, that McCarthy was in such a sensitive position that firing is hardly punishment enough. (the Times had a much different initial take, revealingly I think).

Two Trials

#241 Gerald sure like your list. But I would refer to these women as SHE-WOLVES...willing to go for the throat or to do some bitch slapping when necessary.

#258 kathleen, good point!!! I like to view my foxes as nurturing and sensitive human beings who love humanity and God's children. They are also interested in conveying to us the truth with objectivity.

Silence of the Lambs

Silence of the Lambs

Nazi America prepares to form a mushroom cloud over Iran

We are becoming a radical republic

NAZI AMERICA HAS CEASED TO BE GREAT BECAUSE SHE IS NO LONGER GOOD!!!!!

Pande

Make up your mind is the drop in wages caused by illegal immigrants or lack of education?

posted by Cornfused Pande

Pande, you almost get it! It is caused by "uneducated - illegal - immigrants".

Your buddy O'Reilly has the liberal solution: free health care benefits and higher wages for illegal immigrants.

Black start up business's are kickin your arse as well as whites (your numbers, not mine). You are the one who brought up the black vs. brown numbers. I only commented on the increase by black start ups. I'm just guessing that you felt a need to point out that Hispanics are better than Blacks at starting new business's out of some type of weird jealousy. I could care a rats ass!

This would make you the fibber of truth young man

I love black, brown, yellow, red you name it. You're the one who brought up the race card with the Grand Ol Lynching Party comment. Racism is a dirty tatic you want to use that needed to be exposed with facts, which I have effectively done or you wouldn't be on defense.

Again, this would make you the fibber in chief

Did I mention that your buddy Mollohan stepped down as the top Democrat on the Ethics commitee for 250 ethics violations. What happened to the Corn-nut mantra of corruption being a Republican scandal? I guess the Dems aren't all Saints like Pande wanted us all to believe.

This would make you a Hypo-Corn

NAZI AMERICA FEELS GLORIFIED THROUGH THE FORMATION OF MUSHROOM CLOUDS ALL OVER THE PLANET!!!!!

NAZI AMERICA AND INHUMANITY ARE SYNONYMOUS!!!!!

These people suck. UNIFIERS, my ass! What are they gonna try to purge the entire gov't of all non-GOP supporters???

This is Bush's version of the Nixon/Fred Malek moment.

Nixon asked for a list of the Jews in government.

Bush asked for a list of Dems in government.