Seder on Monday x 2

Sheople!

FYI I can hear you on the Sammycam

Sounded great except for an occasional echo/reverb on your voice...

thats the best news I've heard in days!

hella excited....Sam and the season premier

of Weeds all in the same day, what did I do

to deserve this?

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You can right click and open new window on the link provided above.

You can also use this one if you want.

:)

Thanks Fernando. :)

you can use the following in its own window

http://www.smackchannel.com/sidebyside_viewer_samseder_secure.swf

Is anyone going to post an Audio link of Sam filling in for Rachel/Mike tonight?
I have to leave work now and am not sure I can get back online tonight.

I can't wait to hear what Sammy has to say about MC Rove.

Thanks - Audio link - Much Needed!

less clutter

(And to the liberals Press and Schultz?)
http://www.counterpunch.org/nader08112007.html

the following will play the aar stream in windows media player

http://winmedia.voxcdn.net/aar

no video on the sammy cam

On the Sammy cam?

do u need flash player and what version to see video?

SAMMER!!!! youve been missed!

I have to leave the blog to "spend more time with my family"

If someone can Link to a Podcast for tonight - it would be much appreciated.

My family thanks you : ) and so does Rove's

Hey, you kinda sound like Rachel. Me thinks she has the deeper voice tho. *snark*

Is it working for anyone?

Great to hear you on a weeknight. BTW, no vido here either.

But glad to get the audio on the stream. I knew you'd have some serious stuff to say & people to interview about Rove. This show is a refreshing change from the awful stuff that now dominates my AAR affliate, the once-flagship WWRL. When will Mark Green wake up and realize that the dreck that's on AAR now is not helping it to survive and grow?

August 13, 2007 -- Rove to resign effective August 31.

Karl Rove hinted last year that he was prepared to step down as George W. Bush's chief political adviser. However, that was when he was a target of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the criminal probe of the leak to the media of the identities of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her covert counter-proliferation brass plate company by Scooter Libby, Rove, and other administration officials. After Fitzgerald declined to indict Rove, even with a sealed indictment from the grand jury in hand, Rove stayed on through the November 2006 election.

However, as WMR has previously reported, federal investigators have opened a criminal investigation into the activities of Rove in helping to formulate and carrying out the political prosecution of and criminal conspiracy against now imprisoned former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman by at least two Republican U.S. Attorneys; at least one federal judge; and top Alabama Republicans, including Governor Bob Riley, Attorney General Troy King, Deputy Attorney General Joseph Fitzpatrick, and former Attorney General Bob Pryor.

Our Alabama sources have revealed that the FBI began an investigation of Rove and Alabama Republicans based on information received from a number of confidential sources and witnesses to the criminal conspiracy to destroy the political career of Siegelman and the future of the Alabama Democratic Party through the political prosecution of Siegelman and the use of rigged voting machines in the 2002 gubernatorial election.

WMR has learned that unlike the investigation of Rove for his role in the CIA leak case, the criminal investigation of Rove and the Alabama GOP in the Siegelman matter has the personal support of FBI Director Robert Mueller and career FBI agents in Washington and in field offices in Alabama and Florida.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070813

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Republicans for Voldemort

HELLO SEDERISTAS!!!

Say what memo was Jane from FDL talking about yesterday about those two pro-anti-pro war shills' op-ed in the NYT?

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

THIS IS GREAT! Just like when Sam & Janeane & The Majority Report came after Randi!

Good times, good times...

And... no IM? Are we playing straight radio today>

AC
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I just lost audio too.

"This show is a refreshing change from the awful stuff that now dominates my AAR affliate, the once-flagship WWRL."

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the following will play the aar stream in windows media player

http://winmedia.voxcdn.net/aar

Thanks. I don't suppose you have one that works with RealPlayer, do you? I hate having to play the radio in my browser, and I like to be able to choose between players (especially if one goes bad, as is often the case).

AC
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i'm getting no video on the 'improved' cam.

Happy Happy Monday!

It's been a long time since I've been able to say that...

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Was she perhaps talking about the Glenn Greenwald interview with Michael O'Hanlon?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.html
(Scroll down to "The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq")

Sammy,

Just wanted to say hello.
Great night for you to be filling in for Rachel and Malloy. My husband is working late, so I can listen uninterrupted.My husband and your Nicki have nothing to fear; it's just a liberal radio kind of love.

Juliane

she should go and spend more time with her family....speaking of, isn't Rove gay? talk about
family values, he has no wife and kids to go spend
more time with, being gay and all

"Is anyone going to post an Audio link of Sam filling in for Rachel/Mike tonight?"

Ordinarily - and I assume tonight, too - There's a link for the daily archive stream at the top on Rachel's page that will play the most recent show for the following 24 hours. The latest show is often posted immediately but if they are delayed it will usually be up by ten PM Eastern time.

Rachel's stream.

AC
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is doing video for malloy's time slot. here you can only listen.

Subbing Rachel Maddow's Show 6-8pm est

[Watch Olbermann cry tears of joy at Turd Blossom's departure - 8-9 pm EST]

Then for MIke Malloy 9-midnight [est]

He's great! I couldn't agree with him more about Karl Rove being a psychopath, existing in his own little world very divorced from reality.

goddessdelirious.com

the link http://winmedia.voxcdn.net/aar can be used in the windws media play file menu open url

i know there's a real player one but don't know what it is. if you go to the aar listen page i think you can snag it from viewing source for the page.

He should have some Rovian Spin

Now that Sam has a home studio, he can work nights if he wants to.

somebody please render Rove to the Netherlands where justice can be brought to turdblossom

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Iowa GOP Straw Poll Post Mortem
by BC · 8/13/2007 04:34:00 PM ET

So, the first real test of the 2008 Presidential campaign came and went in Ames, Iowa. And what did we really learn?

Is Romney the new frontrunner? Not really. He allegedly spent a ton of money to outpace Huckabee and Brownback. I know he's supposed to be an excellent business man, but I'm not sure he's making good investments.

No, what we really learned this past weekend is that the GOP is depressed. The turnout in Iowa for this straw poll was pathetic, much worse than the last competitive primary in 1999. This is good news for the Democratic nominee, as long as they don't screw it up:
For starters, turnout this year declined sharply from the 1999 straw poll. That year, more than 23,000 Iowans--only Iowans are allowed to vote, though anyone is welcome to come to Ames--cast ballots. On Saturday, only 14,302 votes were cast. Why should an event that draws only 14,000 people be given the significance the straw poll receives.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/08/iowa-gop-straw-poll-post-mortem.html

Good to read ya.

*

Thanks for the WMR, Katarina. : )

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/

you will find a stream to use in the right Margin.

C9

He was talking to the guy that wrote Bush's Brain.

Security developments in Iraq, Aug 13

Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:52PM EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 8 a.m. EDT on Monday:

* YUSUFIYA - U.S. and Iraqi forces searching for information about the kidnapping of two American soldiers detained 22 suspected insurgents on Saturday, the U.S. military said. The U.S. military said Iraqi troops had entered a mosque to detain the suspects in Yusufiya just south of Baghdad, while U.S. forces surrounded the mosque but did not enter it. The two American soldiers have been missing since May.

* BAGHDAD - Three people were wounded by a mortar attack in eastern Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed three insurgents and arrested 11 on Sunday in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry said.

* KIRKUK - Three were wounded in a roadside bomb attack near a police patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said. They also said a person was injured in a separate mortar attack.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. troops captured a key financier of a militant group believed to have direct ties to Iran during a pre-dawn raid in western Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSANW22961120070813

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Submitted by GBC on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 6:13pm.
Hey, you kinda sound like Rachel. Me thinks she has the deeper voice tho. *snark*

*

I didn't have the cahones, Sir Charles.

Bush's Brain

http://www.bushsbrain.com/

"i know there's a real player one but don't know what it is. if you go to the aar listen page i think you can snag it from viewing source for the page."

Not anymore. I used to get a choice, but now the page automatically gives me an in-browser Windoze player, and I can't find the RP one. This may be a local phenomenon, but I'm not getting any options now.

AC
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AL-ZAP - Gunmen killed the head of the Sunni Arab al-Jubour tribe and wounded two of his sons when they burst into his house on Sunday night in al-Zap 35 km (20 miles) southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed an estimated three to five men suspected of bringing weapons from Iran and arrested 13 others in a pre-dawn raid in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

SAMARRA - Gunmen killed three civilians on Sunday when they opened their fire in central Samarra 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

HILLA - Gunmen killed one Iraqi soldier in central Hilla 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Police said they recovered a body from the Euphrates river and found another one Iskandariya 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad on Sunday.

TIKRIT - Bombers blew up an empty house belonging to colonel Esam al-Azzawi, head of a police academy, in Tikrit 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

TIKRIT - Kidnappers seized the mayor of the town of Dijla, near Tikrit, police said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSANW22961120070813?pageNumbe...

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Catharine

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 6:31pm.

He was talking to the guy that wrote Bush's Brain.

***

That makes sense. I like that guy!

goddessdelirious.com

I have heard K-Lo say on Rachel's show that he hate's being called K-Lo:)

Sam on my radio! Stupid NYC staion does not carry his show till the last hour on Sunday.

Sorry I thought the pic was yours Fernando! The link I tried to post was to EOntario online. They had the picture as a part of the story of Rove quitting. It was so freakin funny to see it on the google front page.

Gina

Academic accused of insulting Thai king in exam paper

Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:10PM EDT

By Darren Schuettler

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Question 8 on Professor Boonsong Chaisingkananont's examination may seem a harmless academic exercise.

"Do you think the monarchy is necessary for Thai society? How should it adapt to a democratic system? Please debate."

But in Thailand, one of the few countries where laws protecting royalty are strictly enforced, it is a taboo question which could land the 46-year-old philosophy lecturer in jail.

Acting on a complaint from a fellow professor at Silpakorn University, police are investigating whether Boonsong insulted King Bhumibol Adulyadej by asking his first-year students to debate the role of the monarchy in exams in 2005 and 2006.

Professor Winai Poonampol said he went to police because Boonsong's teachings posed "a threat to society".

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBKK13776320070813

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Katrina aid goes toward football condos
By Jay Reeves, Associated Press Writer | August 13, 2007

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --With large swaths of the Gulf Coast still in ruins from Hurricane Katrina, rich federal tax breaks designed to spur rebuilding are flowing hundreds of miles inland to investors who are buying up luxury condos near the University of Alabama's football stadium.

About 10 condominium projects are going up in and around Tuscaloosa, and builders are asking up to $1 million for units with granite countertops, king-size bathtubs and 'Bama decor, including crimson couches and Bear Bryant wall art.

While many of the buyers are Crimson Tide alumni or ardent football fans not entitled to any special Katrina-related tax breaks, many others are real estate investors who are purchasing the condos with plans to rent them out.

And they intend to take full advantage of the generous tax benefits available to investors under the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005, or GO Zone, according to Associated Press interviews with buyers and real estate officials.

The GO Zone contains a variety of tax breaks designed to stimulate construction in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. It offers tax-free bonds to developers to finance big commercial projects like shopping centers or hotels. It also allows real estate investors who buy condos or other properties in the GO Zone to take accelerated depreciation on their purchases when they file their taxes.

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.c...

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When: Dan Rather Reports, "The Trouble with Touch Screens", will air
Tuesday, August 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Good to see ya!

I think this Siegelman investigation [that WMR reports on, may be the thing that brings down Rove, precisely because it has flown so far under the radar of mainstream news that there is no opportunity to spread counter-propaganda about it, when it hasn't even been brought up. AND, Mueller is behind it. Hmmm....

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This has so much more energy and focus than Rachel's usual show--a rehash of the NYTimes headlines and a few tidbits poached from blogs.

Venezuela's Chavez says oil headed for $100 barrel

Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:05AM EDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - World oil prices are headed for $100 per barrel, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez predicted on Saturday, and said he will cut supplies to the United States if the U.S. government "attacks" the South American nation again.

"I've always said that oil prices are headed straight to $100 per barrel," he said during a televised speech. "We should prepare ourselves for those prices of one hundred dollars."

Chavez said high oil prices were the sign of a "global crisis" in energy caused by voracious consumption that has vastly reduced available oil reserves.

Chavez has accused the United States of plotting a bungled coup that ousted him for two days in 2002, though Washington denies the accusations, and has repeatedly made conditional threats to cut off oil sales to the United States that historically account for 12 to 15 percent of U.S. imports.

"No one should think that we're going to stop sending oil to the United States, no -- unless they attack us again," Chavez said during a speech to leaders of Caribbean nations meeting in Caracas for an energy summit.

"If they attack us again like they did in April of 2002 ... there will be no oil."

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1131469520070812

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Catharine,

That Italian/Iraq arms sales story...I have yet to hear it on the MSM.

Maybe Keith will talk about it tonight.

Thanks for trying to make it work.

and improved about the cam?? I was looking forward to finding out.

Gina

Speaking of flying under the Radar

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 6:45pm.

Catharine,

That Italian/Iraq arms sales story...I have yet to hear it on the MSM.

Maybe Keith will talk about it tonight.
***

Actually, somehow people I spoke with today who aren't particularly plugged in, mentioned this to me. I was surprised they had heard of it. I am not sure where they got it, but they are not people who actively go online searching for news. Either they heard it somewhere on the MSM or someone mentioned it or emailed it to them.

Shocking.

goddessdelirious.com

Four foreign soldiers killed in Afghan attacks

Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:49AM EDT

KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed three foreign soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, a U.S. military statement said.

The soldiers were conducting combat operations in Khogiani district of Nangarhar province when their vehicle was hit. A civilian interpreter also was killed, the statement said.

It did not give the nationalities of the victims, but most soldiers operating with U.S.-led coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan are Americans.

In a separate incident, one British soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the British Ministry of Defense said.

The incidents bring the numbers of foreign troops killed in action in Afghanistan this year to 99.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL26274320070812

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http://aarlive.voxcdn.com/live.m3u

start realplayer, do file open, and paste the above in the dialog box.

Blast injures 12 soldiers in southeast Turkey

Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:19AM EDT

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Twelve soldiers were injured, three of them seriously, on Sunday when Kurdish guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb in southeast Turkey, military officials said.

They said militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) planted the bomb on a country road in the Eruh district of Siirt province near the border with Iraq and exploded it as a minibus carrying the troops passed by.

Soldiers launched an operation in the region to capture the rebels.

Roadside bombs have become an increasingly common tactic of the PKK which launched a separatist insurgency in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1226798820070812

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That last caller was a little odd...

The only time I heard it mentioned was on c-span's Washington Journal!

The host read part of the story from one of the papers. Maybe they read it in the paper. I don't remember which one the host read it from. But is was an AP story yesterday.

Heh, heh, heh!

The Alabama investigation will certainly chap ol' Turd Blossom's ass. (I mean, beyond what Dim Son & Guckert have left behind.) The part where the FBI is hot on THIS investigation, as opposed to l'affair Plame, sounds like something an uncompromised investigative reporter can break wide open. I wonder if Rove, Bush, et al know something that we don't know...or don't know NOW? : )

Oh, Frank...Frank Rich. What's in your queue?

hope they put you back on during the week,

later everyone, L@L, Cat, toniD, GBC

everyone else.

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Sorry I missed you.

How're you doing?

I haven't see SJ on the blog in a few. Is he on vacation?

Campaign report reveals
Romney to be worth $250,000,000

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the wealthiest White House contender from either party, is worth as much as $250 million, according to information released by his campaign Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070813/ap_on_el_pr/romney_wealth;_ylt=Aogcj...

Thanks to the person who sent out the myspace bulletin about Sam being on the show today!!!!

Rev-24

Edwards on Rove:
Goodbye, good riddance

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Edwards today released the following statement: "Goodbye, good riddance."

http://johnedwards.com/news/press-releases/20070813-karl-rove/

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[ - Attica ]

The DEMS are exactly where they drive themselves. Rove may have used a sharpie to mark up a map with the path to disaster that has made EXXON more profit than any CORP in history, revitalized the DoD with a new and improved perpetual war to replace the "COLD" one and secured the PRIVATE FEDERAL RESERVE OFF SHORE BANKING instruction in perpetuity, but at any point the DEMS could have followed the advice of Gen. Odom, John Dean, James K. Galbraith, Gore Vidal .or even Gravel and Kucinich to stear the TITANIC away from the now inevitable collapse of US CURRENCY and GLOBAL DOMINATION by the PMC IRON TRIANGLE NEW WORLD ORDER.

The Business Plot exposed by Smedley Butler, the cocktail putsch to oust FDR was founded on the GOOD intention of using Hitter's tactics to reverse the crash of the great depression. That GOOD intention is once again on the horizon, so stand by DEMS. You are made more vulernable every time you choose not to do the right thing, in favor of doing the politically "SMART" Shrum type thing.

RIP USA, LONG LIVE THE BUSHKING who is an inch away from having another DoD sourced ANTHRAX ATTACK to extend his reign indefinitely.

Nevermind, keep following Pelosi, Hoyer, Reid, Webb. See you in hell!

http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewcontributor...

http://www.airamerica.com/lionel/node/89/1484#comment-1484

http://www.airamerica.com/thomhartmannpage/node/81/2986#comment-2986

http://www.airamerica.com/thomhartmannpage/node/83/3047#comment-3047

Officials discuss how to delay Election Day

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/

Ridge warned Thursday that al Qaeda terrorists were planning a large-scale attack on the United States "in an effort to disrupt the democratic process." (Full story)

Ridge said he had no specific or credible information about threats to the political conventions. The four-day Democratic convention kicks off July 26 in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Republican National Convention begins August 30 in New York City.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU CAN SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES ... THE PROPAGANDA BEING CATAPULTED IS FAR MORE CREDIBLE ... RIGHT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day off?

Ha Ha Ha Ha!

Romney should have offered his sons' [yes, that apostrophe is perfectly placed]pork on a stick to get people to show up.

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Thanks, dan!

AC
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Ruh Roh, Romney!

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Target: NYT
LA Times | Joseph Menn | August 13, 2007 01:15 PM

If the Gray Lady didn't have enough problems battling industrywide woes, now she has Rupert Murdoch to worry about.

The media billionaire has made no secret of his desire to take aim at the New York Times once his News Corp. acquires Dow Jones & Co. and its flagship Wall Street Journal in a $5-billion deal expected to close this fall.

Murdoch said during an earnings conference call last week that he wanted the financial newspaper to have "more coverage of national, international and nonbusiness news . . . all to better compete with the New York Times and other national newspapers."

In private, Murdoch has been more blunt.

"Rupert thinks the Times is vulnerable," a longtime senior executive said. "He's going to go after them."

Like other newspapers across the country, the Times has been tightening its belt and has seen its stock price languish as readers and advertisers migrate to the Web. Nonetheless, it has fared better than other publications, retaining much of its circulation and advertising by remaining the essential newspaper of the East Coast elite.

So where does Murdoch believe the Times is vulnerable?

Read more here

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nytimes13aug13,1,3773523.story?col...

not necessarily dog crap tight, like his campaign/career

Don't be a stranger!

goddessdelirious.com

Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent The Guardian Monday August 13 2007
Experts are warning internet users to be more careful with their private information after secret code from the popular social-networking site Facebook was published on the internet.

This is the first time that some of the site's secret operational code has been made public. Although it does not allow hackers to access private information directly, it could help criminals close in on personal data, according to one expert.

Nik Cubrilovic, of Techcrunch.com, said: "This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a user's private data really is. Facebook has become such a success and has such a high profile that it has become a magnet for attacks against its systems."

The Facebook craze has been sweeping the world, and the site now has more than 30 million users, including 3.5 million in Britain. New users registering for a profile on the site usually publish their date of birth and home town for anybody to see, and in many cases let approved friends see more personal details such as their home address and telephone number. Though this information is semi-private, criminals who become "friends" with other users have the potential to find out much more information about them.

The company blamed the leaked code on a "bug" that meant that it was published accidentally, and said users should not be concerned. Facebook's spokeswoman, Brandee Barker, said: "It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/13/internet

But those Romney boys scare me! Geez, they have themselves a basketball team - I'd say brigade, but I don't get the soldier vibe...

Great new updates to the site!

is the cam working ?

Target: NYT LA Times |

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:14pm.

Target: NYT
LA Times | Joseph Menn | August 13, 2007 01:15 PM

If the Gray Lady didn't have enough problems battling industrywide woes, now she has Rupert Murdoch to worry about.
***

Think about it... this is a good thing. The NYTimes leaves a lot to be desired. Let them fight to the finish like some battle of Godzilla vs. Mothra!!

***

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[compliments of driftglass]

Don Karleone Quits

[check out his "vulture-kitty" pet *snark*]

The Architect and the War
Karl Rove played a key role in the selling of the Iraq War, which may help explain why he’s still bullish on the ultimate outcome, no matter how grim the news.

By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Updated: 2:35 p.m. CT Aug 13, 2007
Aug. 13, 2007 - In the summer of 2003, Karl Rove flew off to Bohemian Grove—the famed male-only retreat for the wealthy and powerful—where he had a revealing exchange in the Northern California woods about the state of affairs in Iraq. Spotting AOL founder James Kimsey, a big financial backer of President Bush who had just gotten back from Baghdad, Rove shouted out: “Hey Kimsey, it must have been wonderful to see the happy faces on all those liberated Iraqis!”

Kimsey was appalled. “Are you nuts?” he replied. He tried to tell the president’s political guru that the Iraqis he saw were sullen and resentful and that “if we don’t do something soon, all hell is going to break loose.”

But Rove wanted to hear nothing of it. “Nice talking to you,” Rove responded and walked away.

That exchange (recounted in the new afterword to the paperback edition of "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War," the book I co-wrote with David Corn, tells much about the brook-no-dissent ethos that Rove brought to the Bush White House. It also puts in some context Rove’s cheery comments this weekend to friendly journalist Paul Gigot, the editorial page director of the Wall Street Journal, as he announced his surprise resignation from the White House (and his plans to write a book on the Bush presidency). “Iraq will be in a better place,” as the surge continues, he said. As for President Bush’s political standing, “he will move back up in the polls.”

Maybe so. But from the day he went to work in the White House, Karl Rove has been Bush’s enabler as much as his master strategist–a key adviser who saw no subtleties or nuance, brushed aside internal qualms and ferociously went after critics who raised any questions about the president’s policies.

This was especially true of Iraq—the defining initiative of the Bush presidency—in which Rove’s behind-the-scenes role in the selling and spinning of the war was far more significant than is commonly known.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20251378/site/newsweek/?from=rss

THE INTERNETS!!!!!!!! The Media of the people!

Protect the Internet!

***

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I've been listening to SAMMY on AAR. Is there a SAMMY CAM?
Janice Brown

Dems Work to Foil White House Recess Ploys
By Paul Kiel - August 13, 2007, 4:03 PM
Perhaps a little wiser after seven months in the majority, Democrats have strategized to prevent the White House from utilizing some of its sneakier powers while Congress is in recess.

There'll be no recess appointments this time around, Roll Call reports (sub. req.), meaning the White House won't be taking advantage of Congress' vacation to install any contested nominees. That's due to a deal between Bush and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

Last recess, the White House made a number of controversial recess appointments, including Swift Boat backer Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium. In order to prevent that sort of thing from happening again, Reid had plotted to keep the Senate in "pro forma" session during the recess -- whereby the Senate floor personnel show up every three days to make it an official session. But now Reid and Bush have made a deal, according to Roll Call. Bush won't make any recess appointments and Reid has promised to move some of his nominees when Senate gets back in session.

Roll Call also reports that there's a similar game being played over the ethics and lobbying reform bill that Congress passed last month.

Continue reading...

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003913.php#more

Is this the website he mentioned?

http://www.wgaeast.org/

Looking for the report...

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Italian Gun Runners in Biz with Iraqi Ministry
By Spencer Ackerman - August 13, 2007, 12:38 PM
The Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki takes support where it can get it. Over 160,000 U.S. troops guarantee its existence. It's cultivating an ever-closer bond with its fellow Shiites in Iran. But Italian criminals have to rank as rather unexpected allies.

The Iraqi government, a very shady Iraqi company and a group of Italian arms smugglers found a potent business opportunity in Iraq's black market for weapons, according to Italian investigators cited by the Associated Press. And that's a thriving trade. Just last week, a Government Accountability Office report found that the U.S. military's training command in Iraq couldn't account for 190,000 pistols and AK-47s sent to the Iraqi army and police in 2004 and 2005. Those guns, in all likelihood, made their way from the Iraqi security forces to the thriving black market in weaponry, where they're sure to be joined by many more: Iraqi soldiers are set to receive 100,000 M-16s and M-4s from the U.S., making their old AK-47s a new source of quick cash.

Enter the Interior Ministry, by far the most powerful bureaucracy in Iraq, and one that exists as an instrument of Shiite power.

Continue reading...

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003911.php#more

Toni, wasn't the original post you linked from yahoo news or something like that? I could have sworn.

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I can't believe it Karl Rove is leaving the WH and Sam is on twice today!!! Can life get any better today??????

Oh wait which Republican canidate is he planning evil deeds for?

http://corky.wgaeast.org/decline_news/737.html

I think this is the report...
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Submitted by CeeCee on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:36pm.

http://corky.wgaeast.org/decline_news/737.html
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thanks...

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Kissing...? And Embracing???

Okay - time to catch the train folks.

Sees ya. :)

VoteVets solicits NFL’s help obtaining Tillman documents. In a letter released today by VoteVets, twenty veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan write to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, asking him to call on Bush to release documents related to the death of Pat Tillman. “We know that the National Football League is not in the business of partisan politics, nor should it be,” the letter states. “However, in this case…the House committee requests were signed by both the Democratic Chairman and Republican Ranking Member, so this is not a partisan witch-hunt, but merely a quest to get to the truth about the death of Pat Tillman.”

http://www.votevets.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=336&It...

UPDATE: In its press release, VoteVets cites arguments made by ThinkProgress commenters. Check it out here.

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/presser.JPG

I am so sick of their evilness......If these people are christians I am glad I am a jew!!!!

Conyers: Rove still needs to come clean. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) released a statement, saying that Rove’s departure does not put an end to the investigation into the attorney firings scandal:

The need for Karl Rove to explain his role in the firing of the U.S. Attorneys does not diminish when he leaves the White House. Our investigation to date has revealed the White House’s contempt for the rule of law and its interest in the politicization of the Department of Justice.

While resignations at DoJ and the White House continue to mount, questions raised by this investigation remain. We will continue to seek answers to these questions and expect full cooperation from Mr. Rove and other officials regardless of whether they are employed by the White House.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/13/conyers-rove-still-needs-to-come-cle...

Corn Fields Are Killing Fields Too, If You Close Your Eyes Real Hard and Pretend

Via TPM Cafe, we learn why Mitt Romney's handful of strapping sons--a.k.a, the 5 Neat Guys--haven't marched their pristine asses down to the nearest military recruiting office.

[...] It is in this noble tradition of adventure and sacrifice that Romney's son, Biff, I mean, Trey, I mean Troy, I mean Lane, I mean Josh, that's it, Josh, is out there every day braving potholes and crop-duster planes circling ominously low across long stretches of deserted road:

Italian Gun Runners in Biz with Iraqi Ministry
Submitted by Catharine on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:34pm.
Toni, wasn't the original post you linked from yahoo news or something like that? I could have sworn.

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It was Catharine. It was an AP Article. But I found others since.

This latest was fromt TPM Muckraker.

It's all over the blogs, but not on the MSM.

http://web1.wgaeast.org/index.php/articles/article/wgreview/xaraya/var/u...

I think :}

It was Catharine. It was an AP Article. But I found others since.

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Well, the fact that it's on Yahoo or popular news services like that means it is getting around. Yay!

This is the new MSM... via the internet, so that explains why more people know about it than I would have thought. They got it in an email or when they started up their computer and it went to yahoo news, or whatever other ubiquitous online news service. Yay!

goddessdelirious.com

:)

I don't remember...

I don't remember... I don't recall... I have no recollection... I have no memory...

There is a disease sweeping the Bush Adminstration. A vicious viral infection for which there is no treatment and no cure. That diease is called REAGANESIA!!!! Victims of Reaganesia should in no way be held accountable for their actions. They can't control themselves and deserve our pity rather than our scorn. Be merciful.

I don't get it ToniD - how do you do it? Since I remember, you've consistently pumped out a flurry of articles and comments like a machine...

It doesn't give audio and it looks like a series of still photos.

The old system worked far better.

If you can. Get a refund.

lvictor, they are not Christians.

It has been a while since I had the infamous flagship station of AAR on in the 7-8 hour. Let's review. Mark Green is useless.
The reception on WWRL at this time is a joke. I live 15 miles from Midtown Manhattan and the station is barely audible.
Sam, please, go to Nova M, build a real station with Malloy. You are needed 5 days a week. No less. It's too hard keeping up without you on 3 hours a day. Take care. Just want you to know that because of your schedule tonight I must videotape both David Duchovny and Anthony Bourdain. Not a problem.

He's tilting at windmills that he imagines from his past. The NYTimes has terribly declining readership, and the Wall Street Journal is crap too. Murdoch is holding on to the dream of the heavyweight championship between him and the NYTimes that he has had for over 2 decades. The world has moved on. Everyone around him, even his sons are telling him he's wasting his money; but ol' Rupert is hanging on to this dream he has had forever. He is another guy [like Rove] who is living in a fantasy world far far from reality. I hope he sinks everything he can into this fight, and so does the Times, and then we just sit back while they both take each other out.

And if we're lucky, just like a few years ago when every other MSM organization tried to copy Murdoch, the other mainstream media corps will follow his lead.

Oh happy day!

goddessdelirious.com

my main man, T. Heart said, "He's a magic man, Mama!" Much like our own SAMMY SEDER. LUV U, toniD.

Janice Brown

Internet Machine!
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Submitted by Rev-24 on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:52pm.
I don't get it ToniD - how do you do it? Since I remember, you've consistently pumped out a flurry of articles and comments like a machine...

The good Christians I know are loving caring people. Some of the religious right reminds me of the inquitions.

Don't know how I do it. I guess I have a nose for news.

I hope that was a compliment!

Really I want to know what is going on so I look for stories. If I hear some things on TV, I search the net for more on the story and links.

Janice Brown

a full hour without seder? just got warmed up....

but how happy would I be if Sam had his show at this time slot during the week. I might actually listen to Air America again...

Great show, I'll listen tonite

Sorry this is it...
Submitted by CeeCee on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:42pm.

http://web1.wgaeast.org/index.php/articles/article/wgreview/xaraya/var/u...

I think :}

goddessdelirious.com

The alternating overexposed and dark images on the Sammy Cam are resulting in some interesting Seder Op Art... I captured one particularly nicely composed image and dabbed it with a little dry brush as I scaled it up... nice result.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i305/BlueHorde/Sammy.jpg

The Blue Horde

Daily PLEASE!!!

UBL PDB IGNORED, WTC-7 CONTROLLED DEMO . EVAPORATING PLANES IN PA & PENTAGON ... PAY ATTENTION DUMMY!!!!!!!

The fact that HABEAS CORPUS is history, means that being disappeared without motivation of your relatives. that NLS have GAG orders attached, etc. IS A REAL THREAT!!!!

You have no personal experience with COINTELPRO, but its REAL!!!!

THE ENDTIMERS GET THE CODE, WHY DONT YOU?

Finally called Rove turd blossom!

John Dean is on tonight plus James Moore who wrote Bush's Brain.

Nothing yet about the Arms Deal!

Sammy Cam Art
Submitted by Blue Mark on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:59pm.

Toni is a very lovely woman [just so you know]...

goddessdelirious.com

I may be Da Man, but I am not A man. My name sounds like a man's name I know. But I'm a girl, woman, grandma.

;)

aka wdruid

They create a great forum with an unbelievable talent, SAM SEDER, then they ruin their own sand castle, to try to build another one--how stupid is that? I don't know about the rest of you but I spend a lot of time just trying to be where SAMMY will be and I plan to keep supporting SAM on any station that he decides to go to next. Mark Green--genious.
Janice Brown

I am woman, hear me roar...

goddessdelirious.com

thanks for the new wallpaper! Looks great.

Lawton Smalls might check in.
Submitted by CharlieNine on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 6:27pm.
He should have some Rovian Spin

"Hello to my friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

...you get THREE more hours of Sammer subbing for Malloy from 9-12 est tonite.

Listen here.

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G'nite, gang!

Peace

I am proud to be in the same gender, giirrrrl!

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:03pm.
I may be Da Man, but I am not A man. My name sounds like a man's name I know. But I'm a girl, woman, grandma.

Janice Brown

Let's see if I can post this in the blog ...

The Blue Horde

Maybe it is time for a woman for President, I am a little surprised at myself, I try to remain gender neutral but society and politics rarely include women in the conversation. It's funny because I thought that toniD is very sensative for a guy. LOL!
Janice Brown

Sammy Cam Art
new
Submitted by Blue Mark on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:09pm.
Let's see if I can post this in the blog ...

Almost looks like a water color!

Sammy Cam Art

Submitted by Blue Mark on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:09pm.

Let's see if I can post this in the blog ...

goddessdelirious.com

http://bluehorde.blogspot.com/

goddessdelirious.com

house full, damn it all to hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNFoNBz9Dbs

How'd you do it?

Catharine. I'm a drummer.
Janice Brown

Submitted by Rev-24 on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 7:52pm.
I don't get it ToniD...
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Would that I had a nickel for every time someone voiced that sad inquiry, "I don't get it?"

August 13, 2007 -- A Streetwise Guide to next month's anti-war, anti-regime protest.

By WMR contributors

The Common Sense Guide to the September 15th DC War Protest: Part I

Because it's common knowledge that Washington, DC authorities and their lackeys in the political media vastly under-count protest marchers, it's common sense to undertake creative methods to ensure that the vital messages of next month's peace marches on September 15th resonate. Too many people have to make too many sacrifices to have their efforts trivialized in the way we in the Beltway see so often. Marchers are shunted off the Washington Mall onto side streets so that no accurate air photo estimate can be taken. Usually, there's some type of bogus rationale provided, such as "protecting the grass." Then hundreds of thousands are typically described as "tens of thousands."

In the spirit of Tom Paine and his Common Sense pamphlet of yore to help patriot's fight the first "King George" to blight our lives, these times also demand a courage, creativity and a fighting spirit. Here then are a few modest proposals for my fellow marchers to derive maximum impact:

· Don't march all the time. Counter-intuitive though it might be, the main arena on the Mall is not necessarily the place to be, at least for much of your stay. For the reasons mentioned, your efforts will be largely ignored and trivialized. Undercounts are only part of the problem. Photo images of the most bizarre and outlandish of the marchers" will be mainstreamed to prompt fear and animosity thought the country. Demagogues will reasserts their "Us-versus-Them" rhetoric ad nausea.

· Be creative, targeted and personal in your marching. This isn't simply a battle of the fat cats, religious fundies, and neo-fascists against America. There's not enough of them to prevail without their enablers in the business-as-usual centers of the media, lobbying community, Democratic Party, official bureaucracies and elsewhere who know the right thing to do -- but have lost their way by their skill at selling out the public interest -- and everything they wrote or said to enter professions -- in order to cash in on career advantage.

Coming later this week: New outrages, new solutions. A hint: This is a good time to "Pamper" a politician of your choice.

goddessdelirious.com

Really, it's dada's site.

So, you're a drummer, eh? Want to join a band? In NYC?

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Love the GODESSDELIRIUOS site,

Submitted by jbrownboogie on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:22pm.

Catharine. I'm a drummer.
Janice Brown

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goddessdelirious.com

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"Hello to my friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Now that's a headline I'd like to see! The man is the

Human Weasel.

(THC for me and thee! Vote legalization!)

Submitted by Peter Dragon on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:32pm.
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I can't see you divide. (Thought you'd like to know.)

Putting power on paper: researchers create thin battery
Published: Monday August 13, 2007

US researchers said Monday that they have invented a super lightweight, flexible, biodegradable battery in the form of a piece of paper in a development that is sure to create a buzz among makers of consumer electronics.

By harnessing the power of nanotechnology among other things, the researchers figured out how to shrink, reinvent and otherwise repackage the components of a regular lithium-ion battery in a sheet of cellulose paper.

An early prototype of the device, just big enough to be held between thumb and forefinger, kicks out 2.5 volts, enough juice to power a small fan, or illuminate a light, and its inventors say the battery can be easily scaled up to provide enough power to run any number of electronic gadgets.

"You can stack one sheet on top of another to boost the power output," said Robert Linhardt, a biology and chemistry professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and a member of the project's team.

"We've already experimented with 10 sheets, but there's nothing to stop you using 500, and they can be rolled, bent or folded into any shape or space you like. There are endless design possibilities."

Lithium-ion batteries are the rechargeable power storage devices that drive many of today's modern consumer electronics gadgets such as laptop computers, digital cameras and cell phones, and even the electric motors in hybrid vehicles.

But as with every other component in these popular gizmos, manufacturers are constantly looking for ways to make these batteries more compact and efficient in order to maker their products still more functional and more portable.

Like many companies that are investigating alternative power storage devices, the Rensselaer scientists used carbon nanotubes -- tiny filaments -- as one of the basic building blocks of their invention.

The scientists substituted nanotubes for the electrodes used in a conventional battery and used an ionic liquid solution as the battery's electrolyte. The nanotubes were embedded in the cellulose -- the plant cells used in newsprint -- while the electrolyte was soaked into the material.

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Frawstory.com...

I took it along on a weekend trip up in the mountains of West

Virginia and discovered that it doesn't work at over 2300 feet

elevation. Back to the drawing board.

August 13, 2007 -- Indications and warnings point to money movements preparatory for another "incident" in U.S.

WMR has learned from knowledgeable intelligence sources that there have been recent suspicious money movements involving a U.S-based Saudi businessman, Little Rock-based financial interests, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, a region where the Taliban from Afghanistan and so-called "Al Qaeda" forces still hold considerable sway, thanks to the stewardship of Pakistan's military dictator and George Bush ally General Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf recently conducted a pow-wow with Pakistan's top tribal leaders.

The Little Rock connection is a legacy of an old and clandestine money movement channel used by covert U.S. and foreign entities during the Savings & Loan scandals of the 1980s.

WMR has learned that suspicious money has recently moved into FATA from a Saudi source via Little Rock. WMR has also learned that the Saudi connection uses the name "Hassan" and the FATA interlocutor goes by the name "Adeel." The money has been associated by our intelligence sources with a future unspecified "plot" in the United States.

The Little Rock connection also reportedly involves financial interests in the Arkansas capital that were associated with the presidential campaigns of former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton. One particular connection is also linked to the funding of George W. Bush's political campaigns for Governor of Texas and President.

The corporate media in Washington and New York are beginning to embark on a new perception campaign designed to fixate the American people on a renewed "terrorist" threat. Trial balloons have been floated on requiring subway and bus passengers in Washington to submit to random searches and the resurrection of the military draft as indicated in recent remarks made by Bush's "war czar" Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute. According to an August 12 report in the Boston Globe, the Department of Homeland Security is handing out millions of dollars to cities and towns across America for video surveillance equipment. One such system is slated for Liberty, Kansas (population 95).

The Selective Service System, located amid a myriad of defense contractors at 1515 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn, Virginia, is outfitted with advanced office and telecommunications systems and has over 300 employees standing ready to oversee a renewed military draft. Regional Selective Service offices, such as the large one in Chicago, are ready to coordinate renewed conscription. Over 2000 local draft boards are linked to the Selective Service System and are standing by to identify which local young men are draft eligible.

And with the news of Karl Rove's sudden departure as Bush's top political adviser, look for the vacuum to be filled by Dick Cheney, anxious for a military confrontation with Iran that could spur another "false flag" terrorist incident and re-imposition of the draft to supplement a weary and decimated active duty and reserve Army.

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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070812_1

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Global shares mixed as central banks inject more cash
Published: Monday August 13, 2007

World share prices were mixed Monday after heavy losses last week as central banks again pumped billions of dollars into the global banking system to ease worries about a possible credit crunch.

US shares failed to hold earlier gains and closed flat to marginally weaker, while European shares closed with large gains and most Asian stock markets were positive.

"Talk of a market meltdown is wildly overdone," said Julian Jessop, chief international economist at Capital Economics in London.

"This is the third sell-off since the start of 2006: markets recovered from the last two without any significant fall-out on the wider economy," he said.

"Admittedly, the latest sell-off is relatively severe. But for all the talk of a crisis on Wall Street, the SP (Standard Poor's) actually rose by 1.4 percent over last week as a whole," Jessop added.

On Wall Street Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 3.01 points, 0.02 percent, at 13,236.53 while the Nasdaq composite lost 0.10 percent to 2,542.24.

The broad-market Standard Poor's 500 index declined 0.05 percent to 1,452.92.

In Europe, the London FTSE 100 index closed up 2.99 percent at 6,219 points, in Frankfurt the DAX 30 gained 1.78 percent to 7,474.33 points and the Paris CAC 40 climbed 2.21 percent to 5,569.28 points.

Analysts agreed that action by central banks worldwide to head off a credit crunch, in which commercial banks restrict lending to companies, had been effective.

The European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan all injected cash into the money market to address liquidity shortages at commercial banks amid growing fears about the distressed US home loan sector.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Global_shares_mixed_as_central_bank_0813200...

I have been looking for some serious musicians to rock with.
What do you have in mind?

Janice Brown.

Thanks, Janice!
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Submitted by Catharine on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:27pm.
Really, it's dada's site.

So, you're a drummer, eh? Want to join a band? In NYC?

See this Youtube video clip to familiarize yourself with what the police, in this case the Federal Protective Service, a fourth-rate police agency that falls just ahead of K-Mart security guards as far as professionalism is concerned, have in mind for the general populace in the event of massive nationwide demonstrations following a general crackdown on dissent.

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World share prices were mixed Monday after heavy losses last week as central banks again pumped billions of dollars into the global banking system to ease worries about a possible credit crunch.

So. How do we get this infusion to "trickle down" and benefit the majority?

An ABC/Washington Post poll shows that 71 percent of Americans favor video surveillance systems, although the polling means and intentions of these two corporate entities are extremely dubious. A CBS/New York Times poll conducted in 2005 showed that 52 percent of Americans believed their privacy was under serious threat and 30 percent believed their privacy had already been lost. The ABC/Post poll would have us believe that two years later, and five years after 9/11, Americans have changed their positions and are now willing to give up their privacy right to intrusive video surveillance systems.

The agreement of the Democratic Congress to grant Bush more electronic surveillance powers will undoubtedly result in the Bush regime taking even more liberties with our inherent constitutionally-mandated freedoms.

Bush's presidential directive in May granting himself total government powers in the event of another catastrophic terrorist attack is clouded in secrecy. Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, was denied access to classified portions of the presidential directive.

The economic meltdown of the United States economy, the U.S. dollar, and the cash reserves of the nation may also trigger the Bush regime to take drastic and draconian actions.

The suspicious money movements a month before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks represent another indication that Americans should now be on guard and brush off personal and family contingency plans that, at a minimum, should include a "get-away" case containing valid passports for all family members, valid visas (where applicable), important family and other papers and documents (including birth certificates, DD-214 military discharge papers, deeds, titles, and stock and bond certificates, birth and death certificates for parents and grandparents born abroad [important for establishing residency permits in countries like Ireland], and retirement documents), cash (U.S. dollars and various foreign currency, as applicable (Canadian dollars, Euros, Swiss francs, Mexican pesos, e.g.), vaccination and inoculation documents, credit and/or debit cards, diplomas and professional certificates, life and medical insurance papers or cards, prescriptions and a supply of prescription drugs, a Tri-band cellphone that is compatible with foreign telecommunications company SIM cards, other forms of identification (including driver licenses, pilot licenses, press credentials, employer ID, law enforcement badges, etc.), a high-capacity thumb drive storing important computer files, travelers' or cashier's checks, and, where possible, an open-ended airline, AMTRAK, or long distance bus ticket.

A longtime U.S. diplomat told WMR that he believes the country is where Germany was in 1937, which means that we could be on the verge of a severe crackdown on outbound foreign travel and intensive border controls. Remember the Coast Guard motto -- Semper Paratus -- "Always Ready" -- when contemplating your preparations for the next moves of the Bush regime.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070812_1

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US mounts major Iraq assault
Published: Monday August 13, 2007

US troops in Iraq launched a major assault against Al-Qaeda-linked militants and alleged Iranian-aided extremist groups on Monday as a Sunni leader accused Iran of plotting genocide against his people.

Operation Phantom Strike, the military announced, was being waged nationwide to disrupt Shiite extremist networks and insurgents affiliated to Al-Qaeda, which the Americans blame for most of the violence besieging the country.

"It consists of simultaneous operations throughout Iraq focused on pursuing remaining AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq) terrorists and Iranian-supported extremist elements," the military said.

"My intent is to continue to pressure AQI and other extremist elements throughout Iraq to reduce their capabilities," said Lieutenant General Ray Odierno, the number two commander of US forces in Iraq.

The US military declined to elaborate, citing "security concerns."

"But I can say this effort will be a top priority for combat units operating in Iraq for this period leading up to Ramadan," a spokesman said, referring to the Muslim month of fasting due to begin in the second week of September.

US authorities regularly accuse Iranian elements, including Tehran's elite Quds Force, of arming, funding and training Iraqi extremist groups to carry out attacks on its troops in Iraq -- charges denied by Tehran.

The US military also announced the arrests of a top "financier" of Iraqi extremist groups believed to be supported by the Quds Force, and a medical doctor it accused of harbouring and supplying Al-Qaeda affiliates in Baghdad.

Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads a party in the main Sunni bloc that resigned from Iraq's fraying coalition government two weeks ago, meanwhile, launched a vitriolic verbal attack on Iran, accusing it of supporting genocide in Iraq.

In an open letter written in the name of Sunni Arabs, Dulaimi's office appealed to the wider Arab world to intervene.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_mounts_major_Iraq_assault_08132007.html

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AEP's $2.5 million battery helps make electricity more reliable and efficient.

A new type of engine could be relatively inexpensive.

MIT students demonstrate wireless power transfer.

"Hello to my friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

CATHARINE,,
Submitted by jbrownboogie on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:48pm.

I have been looking for some serious musicians to rock with.
What do you have in mind?

Janice Brown.
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I am not really the musician, but dada is. That's his music on the website, and he is definitely looking for new people to jam with.

What kind of music do you usually play?

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goddessdelirious.com

He's on Nova M now.

Well, the Republicans and bluedogs will ensure that. Here is where we turn:

The left is as easily distracted, currently by the phantasm of impeachment. Why all this clamor to launch a proceeding surely destined to fail, aimed at a duo who will be out of the White House in sixteen months anyway? Pursue them for war crimes after they’ve stepped down.

Mount an international campaign of the sort that has Henry Kissinger worrying at airports that there might be a lawyer with a writ standing next to the man with the limo sign. Right now the impeachment campaign is a distraction from the war and the paramount importance of ending it.
A Cockburn

Switch from AAR to NovaM. (Actually, Lee Raeburn is doing a good show.)

We all know skateboarders are considered 2nd class citizens in the eyes of coppers. If people only knew the illegal dick moves cops pull on kids just because they have a piece of plywood under their feet....

It's already two in the morning...

AC
More liberal media at The Sideshow

Are you in Europe? What part? England? Ireland?

Or,will that just get in the way of ending the war?
True,We would go to jail!Unlike Bush Admin.officials! :(

Impeachment doomed to fail? Duh!
Submitted by Nicky Rose on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:57pm.
Well, the Republicans and bluedogs will ensure that. Here is where we turn:

The left is as easily distracted, currently by the phantasm of impeachment. Why all this clamor to launch a proceeding surely destined to fail, aimed at a duo who will be out of the White House in sixteen months anyway? Pursue them for war crimes after they’ve stepped down.

Mount an international campaign of the sort that has Henry Kissinger worrying at airports that there might be a lawyer with a writ standing next to the man with the limo sign. Right now the impeachment campaign is a distraction from the war and the paramount importance of ending it.
A Cockburn

"Hello to my friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I've been looking for musicians, too.

We could get together at a rehearsal studio, see how it sounds.

Send me an email if you're interested:

goddessdelirious@gmail.com

serving up the Nation.

new thread
IN for Malloy
Submitted by SEDER on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 8:55pm.

in for MIke Malloy 9-midnight on NOVAM

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1054#new

I think Im gonna BARF! Rove is an a__hole!

Submitted by MMRules on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 9:07pm.
Or,will that just get in the way of ending the war?
True,We would go to jail!Unlike Bush Admin.officials! :(

Get involved in an organization to end the war. All Campus strike 1970. Orange Revo. Paris '68. Out in the streets in large numbers. Do it now. Lead, and the netroot dems might follow.

just got back from the Perseides campout and turned Sam on at Mikes show to find out Rove has left!

Whoa! gotta leave more often

if that kinda stuff is what greets me when i get back!!!

Another American abroad. Where are you?

AC
More liberal media at The Sideshow

One election at a time...

Google: TOPOFF

In Oct...military exercises, dirty bomb, ect.
Pheonix, AZ, Portland, OR, and Guam.

One election at a time...

525 days left till that idiot is out of office. I don't know how I am going to make it.
Sam I love ya.

ToniD, I'm in London
Submitted by Avedon on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 9:15pm.
Another American abroad. Where are you?

AC
More liberal media at The Sideshow

I'm in Illinois, Chicago Suburbs.

I've been to London. Really liked it.

Janice Brown

Sam has provided a new thread

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/1054#new

Janice Brown

Sam, Nova M Radio needs you and so do we. Please - I need to hear you 5 days a week.

Call me a female PRINCE, or whatever he goes by these days. I've produced 3 CDs so far. I sing, rap, play drums, do sound, program, set stage, do remotes, I love to perform. I am a rock chick, I love what dada is into. Let's hook up sometime. I have a couple of beat masters, too. jbrown@parkterrac.com Hit me up!

Janice Brown

Janice Brown

I am so glad you responded to my post!
I can listen tomorrow morning or after the Mulloy show.

Child is in bed and husband gone to play bass. I love liberal me time!

"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."

h/t boingboing.net

link

Harriet from Bayside, New York

Randi Rhodes is away this week. I wish that you could sit in for her.

Although you and I don't always see eye to eye, I really miss you.

hellow,
friends..
yes i needed flash player for view the videos of the sites...
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