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President Obama has apparently accepted the resignation of his environmental advisor Van Jones.

The White House environmental adviser under fire for inflammatory statements made before he joined the administration resigned after what he called a "vicious smear campaign against me."

The resignation was disclosed without advance notice by the White House in a dead-of-the-night e-mail on a holiday weekend. It came as Obama is working to regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.

The problem with accepting this resignation is the weak bowelled fibrillation of political tendons as all kinds of air leaks out of the health care debate without reason. As John Farmer, Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission Report admits, the administration lied to us. We all have every reason to doubt the official story. Van Jones was justified in his comments and gave away his post rather than educate the moronic media as to what actually happened. Here, take 16 minutes and listen to this senior government official admit that we were lied to. This interview by Hal Sparks on Stephanie Miller Friday August 4th 2009, hours before the resignation was accepted:

Was the sacrifice worth it? Not hardly. Obama is proving he has no stomach to actually bring Americans into the realm of reality. So what is he planning to dish on the ninth? Is he going to tackle the noise of the right wing and demand a public option? Not according to the David Gregory on today's Meet The Press. According to the talking elite, they all bristled as the exchange was gloriously embellished as a potential point of agreement.

According to Nancy Pelosi there is no bill without a public option.. So who is telling the truth? Both of them? If so, absent a public option, I support it.

If President Obama proves the right is accurate in saying that he is pursuing a Fascist agenda, mandating insurance without a nation wide public option then his presidency is over. And I will help make sure that happens.

But what if there is no mandate and only state wide exchanges which are the same thing as co-ops? Some states will still have insurance monopoly co-ops and will fail. Are we expected to wait around for reforms to prove beneficial to the morons who don't already understand we need a public option? Not me. I'd rather watch the house burn down and start over. Even if it takes 20 more years. I don't see a time difference between accepting worse terms now in the hopes for improvements later verses just letting the corporations prove how greedy they are and forcing the entire country to figure it out. And when they all figure it out, there will be no more questions or debate.

Have you heard of the Death Panels? How about the line that they will take over your bank accounts?

Do you want to track what is actually in the Health Care Bill? Do you want to make contacting your representatives about it more efficient?

If so, you need an OpenCongress.org LogIn account. Go take a peek at H.R 3200 the - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Show it to your friends that have been misinformed about the actual bill. It's the quickest way to dispel the myths.

Or if you just want a summary of H.R. 3200 you can just go - HERE.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22882.html

Gramma Opposition Party Reveal

Come one, come all to the Gramma Opposition Party Reveal. The Gramma Opposition Party - GOP circus is open for viewing. Gawk at the conservocrazies as they are pwnd by the Speaker.

OR a Mullet trashing party.

Bush administration henchman, Philip Zelikow is as trust worthy as a termite and now that we know how instrumental he was in the 9/11 Propaganda Commission project, while also serving for Condoleeza Rice who approved these techniques in 2002, all has been revealed. He and Condi continue to play us, it seems. George and Dick were wise to put that weasel in this commission they abhorred.

No one should see his testimony as anything but self serving CYA.

I always knew he was involved at the highest levels of the 9/11 Omission report but I did not know how intimate he was in the torture campaign with Rice. Knowing that torture is used to propagandize using false confessions for the purpose of making war, all puzzle pieces combine to show us the picture. What a tool.

America doesn't have the guts to investigate what really happened on 9/11 but I am even more convinced the Bush Administration was at least complicit in the attack. Fuck all of the corporatized talking heads who call me nuts too. They are paid to keep us stupid. JUST LOOK HOW RANDI IS TALKING NOW THAT SHE WORKS FOR CLEAR CHANNEL AGAIN. Now the denials are conjuring images of 1984 finger counts.

Phillip Zelikow knew torture had been approved because his boss approved it like the monster she truly is. Phillip Zelikow steered the 9/11 report from the White House on her behalf and used 9/11 torture data to base much of the rhetoric in that report MEANT TO HIDE THE FACTS. Torture is used to get false confessions and they knew how to use that against a frightened population.

"We were not aware, but we guessed, that things like that were going on," Philip Zelikow, the 9/11 Commission executive director, told NBC News. "We were wary…we tried to find different sources to enhance our credibility." - NBC

AMY GOODMAN: Philip Zelikow, your response, chair of the 9/11 Commission—executive director of the 9/11 Commission?

PHILIP ZELIKOW: No, of course I don’t know that they didn’t, and I don’t know that they did. So what’s the obligation here? - DemocracyNow

Now we know HE KNEW BUT DIDN'T ASK BECAUSE HE COULDN'T TAKE THE ANSWER.

Zelikow: I was working on counterterrorism before 9/11, looking both as scholar and policy maker, I do remember what it was like after 9/11, I've had some responsibility in having to make tough decision on the policy side. Reasons why we got into such a program. Collective failure, a lot of Americans felt they needed a program like this to protect the country. Collective failure, to learn from the mistake. I talk about our suspicions growing about them in 9/11 Commission, included recommendation designed to anticipate these issues. - EmptyWheel

I woke up early Wednesday morning at 1:30am and couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to read some news at the Huffington Post.  A banner across the top read Harsh Interrogation Tactics Used To Find Iraq-al Qaida Link and it shocked me to the point that I started reading. The article validated a long standing fear that the Bush administration had made a political calculation to install a torture state in our name so as to bolster a rational for starting an illegal preemptive war.   The chill that went down my spine reading the article made going back to sleep impossible.   

Within the article was a link to the 232-page, newly declassified report published by the Armed Services Committee on November 20, 2008.  The report clearly spelled out what we had all assumed was going on but could not prove.   A context for the abuses of Abu Gharib came into clear focus as the sun came up and I rushed off to work.

As is often the case, I was unaware that my psyche had been cast over a cliff.  I proceeded through my day in the typical robotic state.  By the end of the day I noticed something was wrong.  I had been rude to a friend at work and snapped at him and all day long my throat was hurting.  I figured I was getting sick and was justifiably tired so when I got home I decided to go to bed early and eat right and not drink anything but water.  I expected to wake up with a fever or feel fine.

Again, I could not sleep and woke up real early and decided to take Excedrin PM to sedate my head back into a coma.  It worked, I got up in time for work but hardly felt rested.  I guess it was after lunch before I had noticed I was wearing all black and my throat was still hurting with no other symptoms.  I also noticed that I've been near zombie like for a long time and zoning off.

I recognized how I was feeling by the time I got in my car to go home from work .  It's the same feeling I had when I found out my Godfather had died.  It was like the news had ripped an organ out of my chest and my sore throat was a persistent lump that had swollen up in grief as I grew to understand how inhuman our culture had become.  What?  Were cavemen this cruel?  The knowledge that this abuse was perpetrated in my name for the sake of the GOP's political objectives dependent on greed and control was like a satanic golden shower of filth on my typically happy disposition.

I'm writing this here only to provide reason if I'm acting like a jerk.  I'll blog lightly.

We are the army of the fourth branch of government and we failed our country.

The Majority Report Radio archives are nearly restored. A few gaps exist. Almost all of the podcasts (2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007) are now available from the site. There are also broken links that need to be fixed. Please let me know if you find the original link and I'll fix them. Also, let me know if you have any of the missing pieces and I will add them.

I would like to thank maggiesboy for his 2004 recordings of the show, gloryoski for the 2005 and 2006 podcasts, Jmach1P for fixing img links, and of course Sunshine Jim for whom without his 2004 archive, the origins of this whole effort would be lost.

I just noticed that MRR started on Passover 2004! Good job Sam and Jeanne, mission accomplished. When you started liberal ideas were the scourge of the land but together you educated a country. Since your sacrifice the country has gone from a wrong minded Congress and President to open minded people in both branches.

Now what are you folks doing to correct the Judicial branch! F'n slackers....