Ring Of Fire

Hannity has confirmed it was George Soros, Mastermind and Ruler of the World set up Sen Craig ... From the GOP Clown College

To: mngran

wht it he’s innocent? He claims to have been railroaded, and I must say it looks like he was. This looks like a setup from the word go. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone like Soros was behind it.

4 posted on 09/05/2007 10:22:34 AM PDT by balch3
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To: balch3
It wouldn’t surprise me if someone like Soros was behind it.

Soros now controls the Minneapolis Police Department, Hennepin County Prosecutors and the Minnesota State Courts? Wow, he's more powerful than I imagined. It's amazing he hasn't taken over the world by now.

Take off the tin foil hat.
8 posted on 09/05/2007 10:27:27 AM PDT by mngran
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To: mngran

Call it tinfoil if you want to, but Sean Hannity raised this very point last night.

10 posted on 09/05/2007 10:31:51 AM PDT by balch3
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8-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891542/posts#comment?q=1

Free Democracy

Norman Finkelstein and the Heroic DePaul Students:
http://www.counterpunch.org/abraham09052007.html

Your blog is always the last to know,
and then we have to find out from each other!?
Sheesh! >:(

...

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=19&ItemID=13698
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The Employee Free Choice Act passed the House of Representatives on March 1 but faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Republicans have promised a filibuster. And President Bush has said he would veto it.
...

More than a decade after the signing of the Peace Accords that ended 30 years of brutal conflict costing 200,000 lives, violence and shabby politics still walk hand-in-hand in Guatemala.

McCain Blasts Rudy on National Security
For the first time, the well-credentialed candidate and war vet went after his rival's glaring weak spot.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/_finally_mccain_questions_rudys_na...

Are the Netroots a Paper Tiger?

http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=13697&sectionID=72

Thompson's First Ad Unveiled

Fred Thompson will air the ad during a GOP debate he's otherwise skipping.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/thompson_rolls_out_first_tv_ad.php

St. Vinent dePaul

Born to a peasant family. A highly intelligent youth, Vincent spent four years with the Franciscan friars at Acqs getting an education. Tutor to children of a gentlemen in Acqs. He began divinity studies in 1596 at the University of Toulouse. Ordained at age 20.

Taken captive by Turkish pirates to Tunis, and sold into slavery. Freed in 1607 when he converted one of his owners to Christianity.

Returning to France, he served as parish priest near Paris where he started organizations to help the poor, nursed the sick, found jobs for the unemployed, etc. Chaplain at the court of Henry IV of France. With Louise de Marillac, founded the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity. Instituted the Congregation of Priests of the Mission (Lazarists). Worked always for the poor, the enslaved, the abandoned, the ignored, the pariahs.

Nothing about AIPAC here.

Going After Gore
Check out the Vanity Fair piece and ask yourself, why do these reporters, having committed this atrocity of coverage, still have jobs?

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/sep/04/going_after_gore

Is it any wonder her fan club posts her picture on every thread?

The Long Run
In Turmoil of ’68, Clinton Found a New Voice
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html

Megachurch bigot
D. James Kennedy dies

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The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a pioneering megachurch pastor who became one of the nation's most prominent evangelical broadcasters and a key figure in the rise of the religious right, died Wednesday, a church spokesman said. He was 76.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_re_us/obit_kennedy;_ylt=AvCzBH...

No show: Only a dozen people
showed-up for Brownback speech

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Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback, during a speech at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. on Tuesday addressed less than a dozen people.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070904/480/5ca0cf5624ad4cb59c18a7e2ebe0f469

only now he posts himself....not nice Sam, we need to know!!!

U.S. seizes 'Iran agent' in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S.-led coalition forces say they have captured a "highly sought" individual in Iraq with alleged ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force.

The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, attends a news conference, in Tehran.

The raid took place early Wednesday south of Baghdad in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Karbala, a U.S. military statement said.

According to the military, the detainee was suspected of coordinating with high-level Quds force officers, whose goal it was to transport Iraqis into Iran for terrorist training.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/05/iraq.iran/index.html?eref=rss_...

Apple confirms iPhone Price at $399 for This Holiday Season

seriously, ask yourself, how have you ever been able to get by without a 400 dollar cell phone?

Bush: 'She Can Be My Date'

SYDNEY, Australia — Condoleezza Rice has been President Bush's foreign policy tutor, sports buddy, national security adviser and his secretary of state.

Bush came up with a new designation Wednesday at a dinner in his honor.

"She can be my date," the president said, reaching out his left hand to touch Rice's arm as they stood before the cameras at a dinner hosted by Prime Minister John Howard and his wife Janette at their residence, Kirribilli House .

First lady Laura Bush had stayed back in Washington, saying a pinched nerve prevented her from taking long flights.

Bush rode across Sydney Habor in a luxury cruiser flanked by police boats and police on jet skis. Photographers called it a boater-cade. Helicopters watched from overhead as a spitting rain fell from a darkening sky.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep05/0,4670,BushapossDate,00.html

must be people in new hampshire still know how to think for themselves.

you really read the faux news site?

Demo fundraiser skips court hearing, whereabouts unknown

Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, a fugitive wanted on a 15-year-old felony warrant, is on the lam once again after he failed to appear in San Mateo County Superior Court this morning to surrender his passport.

Hsu's San Francisco attorney, Jim Brosnahan, said he did not know his client's whereabouts.

"It could be a mistake, somehow, on his part. It could be something else," Brosnahan said as he left a Redwood City courtroom. "We don't know."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/05/BAA2RVJIS.DTL&ts...

what do you want from me???? no! was from RAW story

http://goleft.tv/view.asp?v=477

the heels will go straight into my culo....sweet!

Get Specter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3zrdkoCdY

if i want too....toniD i posted the go left news for you---check the posting before the fetish lady....sorry rock star, oh sorry that was rumsfeld....oh you know what i mean

world domination.

mmmm nice!

http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky2.htm

Wikipedia on Saul Alinsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky

tapping loafers.

Judge scolds U.S. on wiretapping records

Judge Scolds Justice Department Over Warrantless Wiretapping Records

A federal judge scolded the Bush administration Wednesday for responding with sometimes blanket secrecy to a request for documents on its warrantless wiretapping program.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/09/judge_scolds_us_on_wiretapping...

to dirty loafers...what a turn off!

on the last thread,right?! ;)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

is gw on sam's website? em, em....

because it illustrates a point that I have been making about some

fundamental differences between we liberals and fascists like

yourself. You and all fascists are in powerful opposition to the

basic concept of freedom. Freedom requires personal responsibility,

it doesn't mean that you can just do what you want to do. That is

called licentiousness and you were being licentious. When you come

here, you have been given the freedom to say what you want here.

It's what liberals are about. You, however, cannot exercise the

personal responsibility required so you continue to spam the site.

You feel that you can do what you want here. You feel that you can

be licentious. It's the same with fascists, all the way to the top.

Look how the fascists in government have raped the country....

depleted the treasure...taken away the basic concepts of freedom

while greedily stuffing their pockets. Every time you come in here

and spam the board you make this point. You and people like you,

despise freedom and refuse to exercise personal responsibility.

so he wanted to show us that he is aware of it....

Sen. Craig!

Fernando, i cant wait for ToniD....could you post the picture on the think progress website with gw licking his upper lip with his eyes looking a quarter past twelve....a scream!

Mr. Senator.

what's the slurl to your place?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/ipod-nano-hands-on-296715.php New Nano plays video

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/first-hands-on-the-new-ipod-touch-plus-... iPod Touch is the iPhone, minus the phone! (Same 3.5" widescreen, etc)

slurl - a url when you've been drinking (just kiddin, i know its a second life thingy)

PLAYBOY: The assumption behind the Administration's Silent Majority thesis is that most of the middle class is inherently conservative. How can even the most skillful organizational tactics unite them in support of your radical goals?

ALINSKY: Conservative? That's a crock of crap. Right now they're nowhere. But they can and will go either of two ways in the coming years -- to a native American fascism or toward radical social change. Right now they're frozen, festering in apathy, leading what Thoreau called "lives of quiet desperation:" They're oppressed by taxation and inflation, poisoned by pollution, terrorized by urban crime, frightened by the new youth culture, baffled by the computerized world around them. They've worked all their lives to get their own little house in the suburbs, their color TV, their two cars, and now the good life seems to have turned to ashes in their mouths. Their personal lives are generally unfulfilling, their jobs unsatisfying, they've succumbed to tranquilizers and pep pills, they drown their anxieties in alcohol, they feel trapped in longterm endurance marriages or escape into guilt-ridden divorces. They're losing their kids and they're losing their dreams. They're alienated, depersonalized, without any feeling of participation in the political process, and they feel rejected and hopeless. Their utopia of status and security has become a tacky-tacky suburb, their split-levels have sprouted prison bars and their disillusionment is becoming terminal.

http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky3.htm

Love these, NR... :)

:)

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/podcast.html

...on her new book
The Shock Doctrine

Interview by Anna Marie Tremonti
on CBC radio

How do you explain this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5cCzDbtVnM

Stop enabling that deviant behavior.

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

Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/health/04psych.html?ex=1189569600&en=e...

...
The spread of the diagnosis is a boon to drug makers, some psychiatrists point out, because treatments typically include medications that can be three to five times more expensive than those for other disorders like depression or anxiety.
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Lindsey???? rugs??? $5???

My brother just left. He's doing well for a 76 year old.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bundaberg/50/140/71

Randi just mentioned Mitch McConnell to the gay blogger. I can't wait to be news.

Old American Century's headline:
There are cars for sale so green their exhaust is cleaner than the air you breath. But chances are it is against federal law for you to buy them

Article here: http://autos.msn.com/advice/article.aspx?contentid=4024974

Don't give up on me. It was entrapment.

Bush punishing Larry Craig for standing against warrentless wiretaps.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6970000/newsid_6979000/6979065.s...

Hillary rolls onto the nomination with no impediment
Submitted by Nicky Rose on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 1:55pm.

Are the Netroots a Paper Tiger?

Same guys as always, Nicky. Left, Far Left, and Looney Left (plus the Very Silly Party Looney Left who think Cindy Sheehan can beat Nancy Pelosi).

Truth is they (and some of the MSM) believed the hype. The hype that "the netroots will change everything, man...we'll, like, organize nation-wide where we had trouble doing that before!"

Instead you got a disorganized mess where by your author is even un-sure of his Move On guys (and he's probably fairly moderate compared to most of the Bloggers).

Half are in love with Dennis Kucinich, a cute little troll doll who has abso-freaking-lutely no chance of coming in 3rd in an OHIO primary on his best day....and they WILL NOT accept anything "less than Dennis" and even threaten NOT to vote if Hilly Goat Gruff is nominated.

The other more sane half is divided between goo-goo eyes over Barack Obama and thinking that John Edwards is "Bobby Kennedy reborn" (which is exactly what he WANTS them to think....right up to when he gets the nomination and becomes "Bill Clinton reborn").

So, like "the kids" in Chicago 1968 with Hubert Humphrey as presumptive nominee, about all they could do is have a riot at the Pepsi Center last week in August 2008 and blame it all on "that fascist Hickenlooper!"

------your ol' pal Gare, rainer on netroots parades---LOL!

do you think he licked condi with the lime that is why he is licking his upper lip.....thanks fernando...at least i will sleep tonight after this!

ask the iraqi's........shock and awe for yourll's ass coz you did not give me my oil.....told you about the blogger (on randi) this morning....he whipped hannity's ass last night.....

3:49pm posting...

never work.
Love these, NR... :)

Love ..., A! :D

Which one of those flowers has corrupted Alice the most?

Congress nears agreement on student loan bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress was close to agreeing on a bill to cut federal subsidies to student loan firms and raise federal grants for students, lawmakers said at a House-Senate conference meeting on Wednesday.

"We are hopeful that we can move this important piece of legislation forward without delay and take advantage of the window before both the House and Senate recess for the Jewish holidays next week," Sen. Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate education committee, said at the conference.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0523224220070905?feedTy...

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Olbermann_commentary_mocks_Bush_War_today...

A senior Saudi prince has said he plans to form a political party and has criticised other senior royals for monopolising power and blocking reform.
Talal Bin Abdul-Aziz, a half-brother of King Abdullah, also criticised the jailing of well-known reformists.
The prince is considered to be close to King Abdullah, who was seen as sympathetic to reform when he came to the throne two years ago.
Prince Talal said he wanted the party to challenge those who have been "holding executive power for some 70 years" - effectively attacking his own brothers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6980056.stm

The center loves Hillary and Bill and wants them back in power.

The left loves Hillary given the choice of Hillary or a neocon.

The right loves Hillary because they are sure she can be defeated.

The whole country is united in support of Hillary!

Which camp do you fall into?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGgiHyEGrV8

NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Breaking: Burn Bush Fundraiser Wins WA-08 Primary For Darcy Burner
by: Chris Bowers
Wed Sep 05, 2007 at 13:53:34 PM EDT

Matt just called to tell me that Rodney Tom has dropped out of the Democratic primary for WA-08 and endorsed Darcy Burner. Apparently, Thom was very gracious in his concession, and also citied the Burn Bush Fundraiser for Darcy as the main reason for why he dropped out.

So, the progressive blogosphere just played a huge role in winning a Democratic primary for US House. this is a major accomplishment. Well done and thank you to everyone who participated in the fundraiser!

http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1166

Mark your calendars for the September 17 Value Voters debate
Posted by Pam Spaulding September 5, 2007 in Republicans, Election, Bad Ideas, Fundies

A cornucopia of well-known wingers and bible beaters will be gathered in Fort Lauderdale (whose mayor is the homo-obsessed $250K robopotty mayor Jim Naugle) to hold a “Values Voter Presidential Debate,” moderated by WingNutDaily’s Joseph Farah.

The is the forum that the Base has been looking forward to because it will be the one debate where candidates will surely get pinned down by the luminaries of the fringe-right movement on the party’s hypocrisy and waffling on social issues.

http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/09/05/mark-your-calendars-for-the-sept...

uuuuuh, i don't know, how about a fish camp.

Emanuel: Bush shot at Congress 'false, gratuitous'

by Mark Silva

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, isn’t too pleased with President Bush’s comparison of Congress with the Iraqi parliament – “a false and gratuitious shot,’’ Emanuel calls it.

Emanuel

Bush, speaking of the relative progress in Iraq’s political reconciliation, or lack of progress, depending on who is evaluating it, said today in Australia that Iraqi lawmakers have a lot to show for their work – unlike the Congress back home in the United States.

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/emanuel_bus...

“Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Is there more work to be done? You bet there is.

The US Air Force has launched an investigation after a B-52 bomber flew across the US last week mistakenly loaded with nuclear-armed missiles.

there can only be one course of action...

BOMB IRAN!

vid ze Cindy und ze Bert, ya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCA8T9e2RY

we all know how much bush and his buddies lie about things. this b-52 mistake, if it was a mistake, makes you wonder how far the incompetence goes. you would think that a lot of people need to sign off on anything involved with nuclear weapons, but maybe thats not the case anymore.

in the house?

"yes he's down on his luck" -♪

bon appetit...

HYPOCRITE!

By: bluegal

I think we’ve reached a tipping point, Ladies and Gentlemen:

“The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for … high crimes and misdemeanors,” the group wrote in a letter written on behalf of its board members.

The letter says that impeachment is warranted for their “deceiving the public under the false pretense that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction” and “destroying” the reputation of the United States and the good will of other nations.

“The time for impeachment is now — before the example of George W. Bush’s regime is set in stone,” they wrote. “Future generations will thank you for preserving the freedom of our nation and its relation to the entire human community.”
Con't
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

thank you very much i am leaving now, my husband awaits me in the stall.....g'night all.....yes fernando i borrowed condi's boots....

when chubby rejoins the blog in the next couple of weeks

ask him if he got my letter

it contained $40.20 (50 dollars oz)

http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BBF57076...

With Shrub being in your neck of the woods,and all!
Missed ya! :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Our Clinic in Aurora, Illinois, Is Under Attack
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/5/153651/4082

get banned!Easy Tiger!
We miss ya!
Ono your a good guy and we miss ya here.
So,take er easy there!O Ta? :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Chubby predates me blogging the Sam Seder site. But I will refer him if I do see him.

Hope Ya Like Jail,Dude!
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Pres. Clinton calls for ’substantial drawdown’ this year. Tonight, President Clinton will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live. From his interview:

I don’t see any alternative, consistent with responsibilities for the national security, to a substantial withdrawal of troops this year. Because the military’s so overstretched. If we had a big national security emergency now, we’d be virtually compelled to meet it with Naval and Air Force forces because the Army, the Marine Corps, the National Guards and Reserves are all overstretched, all deeply stressed. … We’ll have to have a substantial drawdown of troops this year.

Watch it:

Clinton added a drawdown in Iraq would help focus efforts to defeat al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/president-clinton-calls-for-substant...

Stay awhile and tell us about Bush down under and how he is being recepted.

Ono,see your still spending way too much time in YouTubeville!! :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Judge ’scolds’ Bush administration on spying secrecy. Today, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. “scolded” the Bush administration “for responding with sometimes blanket secrecy to a request for documents on its warrantless wiretapping program.” While the judge agreed that the documents could not be released, he criticized the government’s reasons for holding them back:

“While the court is certainly sensitive to the government’s need to protect classified information and its deliberative processes, essentially declaring ‘because we say so’ is an inadequate” defense, Kennedy wrote. […]

Kennedy said the Justice Department must release a list of its documents and explain why each cannot be released. Kennedy had particularly strong words for the FBI, whose response he called “wholly inadequate.”

The FBI, Kennedy said, has not explained what type of documents were being withheld, how many records it had and why each document is exempt from public records laws.

“Instead, FBI relies on vague, broad, wholesale claims of exempt status,” Kennedy wrote.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/judge-scolds-bush-administration-on-...

Shays’ spectacular surge. Asked to assess the chances that escalation would succeed, Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) said last week, “[I]f you ask me now, I think it is one out of four.” But yesterday on the PBS Newshour, Shays underwent a major conversion. “The surge is working,” he said. “It’s a huge success!“

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/shays-spectacular-surge/

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all

Tuesday April 24, 2007
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html

Whenever I hear Randi I just get so frustrated. I just want to lick her. Like all over.

posts Guardian articles,alot? ;)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

btw...
Me Luv You Long Time

(watch out for gare, he'll steal your camera)

(doing our thing)

cause i like you...

♥

ciao

Alithia?

Check the link ono

really? What do you eat there? Are there tortillas or jalapeños anywhere?

Is it me?

http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/dec95barsamian.htm

by Meteor Blades:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/5/171151/7168

and hang out..It won't kill ya..
Maybe you Aussie's can give Bush some Bad clams,or something..
So he will puke like his old man did in Japan! ;)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

toniD et al,

I heard about this photograph site yesterday on NPR. It looks like an alternative to photobucket plus (maybe?) more.

http://flickr.com/

Bug boffing for entymologist air-ono:

http://flickr.com/search/?q=insect%20porn&w=all&s=int

MAKE SOME CALLS TOAY TO HELP BAN DRE TOUCHSCREENS!!!
HELP SPREAD THE WORD TO OTHERS

We have heard from VERY reliable sources that a DRE-ban amendment will be or has been presented to the Rules Committee, and that they may be reluctant to allow it.

TODAY, NOW call and/or fax the Rules Committee and/or members and urge them to allow it to go to the floor. If you know a House member who support the ban, contact them to pressure the Rules Committee also.

Names and numbers of the committee and members are below.

I encourage you to pass on this email!
Ellen Theisen
Co-Director
www.VotersUnite.Org
Committee on Rules
202-225-9091

LOUISE McINTOSH SLAUGHTER, NY - CHAIRWOMAN (D)
http://www.louise.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39...
Phone: (202) 225-3615
Fax: (202) 225-7822

JAMES P. McGOVERN, MA (D)
http://mcgovern.house.gov/?sectionid=2&sectiontree=2
Phone: (202) 225-6101
Fax: (202) 225-5759

ALCEE L. HASTINGS, FL (D)
http://www.alceehastings.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie...
Tel: (202) 225-1313
Fax: (202) 225-1171

DORIS O. MATSUI, CA (D)
Phone: (202) 225-7163
Fax: (202) 225-0566

DENNIS CARDOZA, CA (D)
http://www.house.gov/cardoza/biography.shtml
Phone: (202) 225-6131
Fax: 202-225-0819
800-356-6424

PETER WELCH, VT (D)
http://www.welch.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&...
Phone:(202) 225-4115

KATHY CASTOR, FL (D)
Phone: (202)225-3376
Fax: (202)225-5652

MICHAEL ARCURI, NY (D)
Phone: 202-225-3665
Fax: 202-225-1891

BETTY SUTTON, OH (D)
Phone: (202) 225-3401
Fax: (202) 225-2266

Republicans

DAVID DREIER, CA (R) Ranking Minority Member
Office (202) 225-2305
Fax (202) 225-7018

LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART, FL (R)
Phone: (202) 225-4211

DOC HASTINGS, WA (R)
Phone: (202) 225-5816
Fax: (202) 225-3251

PETE SESSIONS, TX (R)
(202) 225-2231
(202) 225-5878 fax

Many "pro-lifers" believe abortion should be outlawed with only four exceptions: endangerment of the life of the pregnant woman or girl, rape, incest, and "me."

Many others would omit the first three.

Our Clinic in Aurora, Illinois, Is Under Attack

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, Illinois, has become ground zero in the fight for women's access to reproductive health care. Aurora is a fast-growing city outside Chicago where Planned Parenthood just built a large clinic. And 10 days ago, the usual suspects in the anti-choice fringe showed up in droves — and by droves, I mean more people are protesting this clinic than we've seen for a long time.

ciao~ :)

One of my best friends just called. He's coming over with rib eye steaks for the two of us. Most of my friends are about half my age so they didn't know anything about how to grill when I first met them and are the reason I can't blog most evenings.

They all know what a raging Bush protester I am. I can't begin to describe the discourse that goes on in my back yard. Anyway, I started playing with ways to torture peaches when Alberto's Impeachment kept echoing in my head. So I'm getting fed purely because of my Tortured and Grilled Peaches Gonzales tonight. Neocon hating pays off every time.

The Dandy Warhols are pretty good.
I've heard the name but,don't remember hearing any of their songs.
I think I've heard 1 song but,don't remember it,is what I should have said.
Thanks Ono.. :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I should add my photo of insect sex that I took from my window.

Prophecies. Cthulu SRI

A/bc

Craig forces McConnell's hand. How did that happen?
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 9/05/2007 04:36:00 PM ET

UPDATE: Pam has one of the best headlines ever: "Craig has Mitch by the short ones"

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2882

Last week, Mitch McConnell was the aggressive defender of all that was right and good within the GOP when it came to Larry Craig:
The Senate's top Republican says many GOP senators believe Larry Craig should resign.

Mitch McConnell describes Craig's conduct as "unforgivable." And he says Senate Republican leaders have "acted promptly to begin the process of dealing with this conduct." McConnell adds, "We will see what happens in the coming days."
Mitch thought he got what he wanted when Craig announced his "intent" to resign.

Larry Craig is getting his revenge this week -- and today, McConnell had to admit that this issue isn't over:
“He said he is going to try and get the case in Minnesota dismissed,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, telling reporters he had heard from the Idaho lawmaker earlier in the day.

McConnell spoke several hours after Craig’s lawyers appealed to the ethics committee to dismiss the complaint against him, saying it stemmed merely from personal conduct, and did not relate to his official duties.

Josh Marshall asks the question that everyone is asking:
What's Sen. Craig got on Mitch McConnell?

http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/craig-forces-mcconnells-hand-how-did....

Craig forces McConnell to what? To do what?

Your Governor was just on Lou Dobbs re immigration.

He has a very odd way of speaking and an odd voice. How'd he ever get elected Governor?

National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway

From Jonah Goldberg to Rich Lowry, National Review has long been renowned for its roster of tough-guy commentators -- real salt-of-the-earth conservative men who love to let you know what tough warriors they are. The latest addition to this impressive roster of traditional manliness is new staff writer Mark Hemingway.

More about the manly manliness of manly men who love to write of manly Aqua Velva men:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

That post about Riverbend getting out of Iraq.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 5:51pm.

Breaking: GOP Senate Leader McConnell Says Craig Won't Resign If Cleared
By Greg Sargent - September 5, 2007, 3:30PM
Crazier and crazier. Now GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell has gone and said at a press conference and said that Larry Craig won't be resigning if he's ultimately exonerated of the charges against him.

As you know, in an abrupt turnaround, Craig has vowed to clear himself of the charges he pled guilty to, which could apparently entail trying to withdraw his guilty plea, then seeking to have the charges dismissed, or ultimately prevailing at trial.

Now McConnell has weighed in on the latest twist in the case, and surprisingly, he declined to be directly critical of Craig's decision to fight on. McConnell said the following, according to CNN's footage of the press conference:

MCCONNELL: I heard from Sen. Craig this morning. He called me to give me an update on where he is in order to dispel, as he put it, any confusion that might exist with regard to his intention.
So let me relate to you his comment -- he said that he is going to try to get the case in Minneapolis dismissed, that if he is unable to have that disposed of prior to Sept. 30, it is his intention to resign from the Senate as he expressed last Saturday. If he is able to get he case favorably disposed of in Minneapolis it would be his intention to come back to the Senate, to deal with the ethics committee case that he knows he will have, and to try to finish his term.

So whatever confusion may have been created in the last few days, as of this morning that is his view about where he is headed.

There's still a host of things that need to be unraveled here. What exactly would exoneration entail here? Is Craig hoping that if the plea is withdrawn that a judge will toss the case based on some legal argument? If Craig is forced to go to trial on the charges, will he resign before trial, since the case is unlikely to be resolved by the end of this month? If it does go to trial past Sept. 30 and things look positive for him, will Craig say that he's still not resigning?

And the most puzzling question of all, Why on earth is McConnell putting up with this? He seems to be stopping short of condeming this course of action here. But getting Craig out of the way and putting up a new candidate is far and away the best chance the GOP has to hold the seat -- whether or not Craig is exonerated in the end. And this course only keeps this sordid tale in the headlines in the weeks ahead.

Late Update: Here's video of McConnell's appearance:

Later Update Here's a transcript of McConnell's full press conference.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/breaking_gop_senate_leader_mcconne...

www.commongroundrelief.org

by him!

I saw that two. Every once in awhile I checked her blog. Riverbend did say that she was trying to get out of Iraq.

I'm glad she is okay.

Clinton.

He wants money for Hillary's campaign.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Leaving Home...
Two months ago, the suitcases were packed. My lone, large suitcase sat in my bedroom for nearly six weeks, so full of clothes and personal items, that it took me, E. and our six year old neighbor to zip it closed.

Packing that suitcase was one of the more difficult things I’ve had to do. It was Mission Impossible: Your mission, R., should you choose to accept it is to go through the items you’ve accumulated over nearly three decades and decide which ones you cannot do without. The difficulty of your mission, R., is that you must contain these items in a space totaling 1 m by 0.7 m by 0.4 m. This, of course, includes the clothes you will be wearing for the next months, as well as any personal memorabilia- photos, diaries, stuffed animals, CDs and the like.

I packed and unpacked it four times. Each time I unpacked it, I swore I’d eliminate some of the items that were not absolutely necessary. Each time I packed it again, I would add more ‘stuff’ than the time before. E. finally came in a month and a half later and insisted we zip up the bag so I wouldn’t be tempted to update its contents constantly.

The decision that we would each take one suitcase was made by my father. He took one look at the box of assorted memories we were beginning to prepare and it was final: Four large identical suitcases were purchased- one for each member of the family and a fifth smaller one was dug out of a closet for the documentation we’d collectively need- graduation certificates, personal identification papers, etc.

We waited… and waited… and waited. It was decided we would leave mid to late June- examinations would be over and as we were planning to leave with my aunt and her two children- that was the time considered most convenient for all involved. The day we finally appointed as THE DAY, we woke up to an explosion not 2 km away and a curfew. The trip was postponed a week. The night before we were scheduled to travel, the driver who owned the GMC that would take us to the border excused himself from the trip- his brother had been killed in a shooting. Once again, it was postponed.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

He doesn't know that I did not vote in '92, and voted for Nader in the next three elections. I do feel important, anyway.

Heart Image!

I just got a letter from Bill
Submitted by Nicky Rose on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 7:01pm.
Clinton.
He wants money for Hillary's campaign.
*

It does cost a lot of money to become the head thug of these United States

mentioned that Bush's supposed bailout of people with bad loans will do nothing to alleviate the real problem: over-priced real estate markets in california, Nevada, and other places.

Who decides on the jacked-up prices? Buy cheap to sell dear.

It does cost a lot of money to become the head thug of these United States

How much will my dollar help?

And I got several emails about Tim Johnson and to welcome him back from:

Ted Kennedy
Barbara Boxer
Chuck Schumer
Harry Reid

I am glad that he is back and okay now. Still has a problem walking and speaking.

And I got several emails about Tim Johnson and to welcome him back from:

Ted Kennedy
Barbara Boxer
Chuck Schumer
Harry Reid

I am glad that he is back and okay now. Still has a problem walking and speaking.

You are on a lot more Dem lists than I am.

My Friends include:
Wesley Clark
John Kerry
Dennis Kucinich
Al Franken
Truthout
MoveOn
Laura Flanders
and a few more...(That's just the political ones.)

Hmm....

Cheney wanted to expand his executive branch power -- despite claiming he's not part of the executive branch
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 9/05/2007 12:18:00 PM ET

For the past couple months, Dick Cheney has been claiming he's not part of the executive branch. It's a bizarre claim, but Cheney sticks with it. So, why, then, would Cheney's lawyer try to expand the power of the executive branch if Cheney isn't part of the executive branch? That would be expecting consistency when that mattered was power and abusing power:

Vice President Cheney's top lawyer pushed relentlessly to expand the powers of the executive branch and repeatedly derailed efforts to obtain congressional approval for aggressive anti-terrorism policies for fear that even a Republican majority might say no, according to a new book written by a former senior Justice Department official.

David S. Addington, who is now Cheney's chief of staff, viewed both U.S. lawmakers and overseas allies with "hostility" and repeatedly opposed efforts by other administration lawyers to soften counterterrorism policies or seek outside support, according to Jack L. Goldsmith, who frequently clashed with Addington while serving as head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2003 and 2004.

These are some evil people running our government

http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/cheney-wanted-to-expand-his-executive...

Those were just the welcome back Tim Johnson ones.

I got on some sort of list and I think everyone emails me.

I get about 100 emails a day and sometimes just delete them all because they all want money I don't have.

I should send them an email for a donation to me!!

Pavarotti is in serious condition and in the hospital. He's got pancreatic Cancer.

Recovering From Stroke, Senator Tim Johnson Returns to Hill
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090507S.shtml
Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press, reports: "South Dakota Senator Tim
Johnson returned to the Senate on Wednesday physically weaker but saying he
anticipates running for re-election next year."
Truthout

Tragic! Hope for a miracle.

Latin America's Surprising New Eco-Warriors
Marilyn Berlin Snell, Sierra Magazine
Environment: As North American companies raze the forests and mountains in Latin America, defense for the land is coming from an unlikely place.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/61019/

Dollar to the Rescue!

Environment: As North American companies raze the forests and mountains in Latin America, defense for the land is coming from an unlikely place.......

I knew a little bit about this movement. I was about to draw a few lines from the article, and type "Liberation Ecology" in the subject line. Well, I am the slow one. Because that is the name they use for the movement.

the genius, Giuseppi Verdi that has ever lived. His death whill be a

mortal blow to the world of opera. Opera is struggling everywhere.

Young people don't dig it or care about it and it may go the way of

the dinosaurs. How fortunate we have been to be around during the

time fo the GREAT Luciano Pavarotti...one of my biggest hero's.

Remember Who We're Dealing With
Does that story of those five nukes on that B-52 have something to do with Iran? Larry Johnson thinks it might.

--Josh Marshall

http://tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/sep/05/staging_nuke_for_iran

The Jena 6
In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree.
Con't
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Sickening..
The ACLU or someone should go in there and,sue the hell out of that school.
The Federal government ought to step in too and,bring them up on Discrimination charges!
Oh,I forgot we still have Bush,and political flunkies from Bob Roberts U.running the Justice
Department!
People!It's 2007!For God sakes wake up!
Does the South just want to stay backwards?Still be noted as a old Neil Young song?
Doesn't the Bible tell you to Love your Neighbor like yourself?
You can't all be self-hating bigots!
Why are these Afro-american kids in jail?
Because they are Afro-americans!
This is Sickening,and so wrong!
What will it take for some people to learn that you can't and,don't pick what color you are,when you are born..
I pray that justice,real justice will be served and,this kids in jail will get to go home soon!

MMRules.
.
"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

More on Craig of course.

Robert Drapper and his book

Carl Bernstein on his Hillary book

Search for Steve Fossett

And the Million dollar dog Trouble!

Crank
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 6:50pm.
Your Governor was just on Lou Dobbs re immigration.
He has a very odd way of speaking and an odd voice. How'd he ever get elected Governor?
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This should answer your question. Note the mention of Karl Rove and daddy Blunt. This is an excerpt from:

http://www.answers.com/Matt%20Blunt

Political career
In 1998, Blunt was elected as a Republican to the Missouri House of Representatives to represent the 139th legislative district for a two-year term. In 2000, he was elected Missouri Secretary of State; although only a first-term state representative, Blunt defeated the Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. Blunt was the only Republican elected to statewide office in Missouri in 2000. On November 2, 2004, he defeated State Auditor (and current U.S. Senator) Claire McCaskill 50.8%-47.9% and was elected Governor of Missouri.

Election as Secretary of State
Blunt received considerable fundraising support from his father's supporters and from out-of-state Republicans in his 2000 Secretary of State bid. Senior political strategist Karl Rove appeared at an April 21, 2000 fundraiser in Springfield.[2] The state Republican Party contributed $160,000 to Blunt's campaign, having received $100,000 in donations from Rep. Roy Blunt's PAC[3], and the 7th District Congressional Republican Committee - a fundraising group affiliated with the senior Blunt - donated $40,000.[4]. Contributions from 84 of Rep. Blunt's colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives totalled over $65,000.[5][6] Matt Blunt defeated his Democrat opponent Steve Gaw with 51.4% of the vote, to Gaw's 45.1%.

He stutters and mumbles!!!

toniD,
Yep. He reminds me of the (apocryphal) kid at school who had his lunch money stolen every other day.

toniD,

Need I remind you that our President isn't the finest orator on the planet? Who the fuck elected him?

toniD,

Don't answer that. I remember now. The Supreme Court elected him.

Keith has the Author of the book "Dead Certain" The Preidency of GW Bush.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaRFPPRleY8

Videos Later

(Are you getting an eerie feeling here? Warheads to Louisiana and Plutonium to South Carolina?)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department plans to send plutonium in Washington state and at research laboratories in New Mexico and California to the Savannah River nuclear complex in South Carolina to improve security and reduce storage costs.
The department said Wednesday that the plutonium shipments, involving 3,000 coffee can-size canisters, could begin as early as next month and last three years.

The consolidation "is a key part of the department's efforts to properly manage surplus plutonium," said James Rispoli, assistant energy secretary for environmental management. He said it will allow for greater security at much less cost.

The consolidation involves plutonium — some mixed with highly enriched uranium — that was produced decades ago for use in nuclear weapons, but is no longer needed, as well as a small amount of plutonium in fuel rods from a closed government reactor.

The transfer does not involve plutonium that is being taken out of dismantled nuclear warheads or plutonium that will continue to be needed for weapons-related research and production of warhead triggers called pits.

FIND MORE STORIES IN: South Carolina | New Mexico | Washington state | Savannah | Department of Energy
The department said the amount of plutonium that will be shipped is classified. Rispoli said each canister has a maximum capacity of 9.7 pounds, but that the amount is significantly less than that since the canisters are not full.

About 2,300 canisters are kept at the department's Hanford complex in Washington state and another 700 canisters are at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Officials didn't provide a breakdown of amounts kept at each of the labs. But the plutonium at Lawrence Livermore has been a focus of controversy for years as local activists have maintained its presence poses a danger to nearby residential communities and represents a potential terrorist target.

Aware that officials in South Carolina have expressed concerns that their state not become a permanent dump for the country's unneeded plutonium, Rispoli emphasized at a news conference that the DOE plans include getting the material out of the state.

"The intent is not only to bring the plutonium there, but dispose of it at the (Savannah) site and then have pathways for all of this material to leave the state," Rispoli said. He said a facility to store the plutonium at Savannah River is being prepared with increased security.

Department officials acknowledged that it will likely take more than a decade — and possibly much longer — before much of the plutonium will be processed and moved elsewhere.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-09-05-plutonium_N.htm?csp=3...

Ah Yes, Bushisms
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 8:19pm.
Keith has the Author of the book "Dead Certain" The Preidency of GW Bush.
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When you throw "Bushisms" and typos into the same post, it confuses me.

Either the army has become as screwed up as everything else under Bush and they mistakenly load nukes and fly around with them (air-ono's link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6980204.stm),
or Bush is simply going to do something incredibly stupid again
(toniD's link http://tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/sep/05/staging_nuke_for_iran).

Sorry for the confusion!

No joke, or maybe the joke was on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GA8JLW9qI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ177tyFiNc

Debordesque Update!

Judge Reduces Charges in Jena 6 Case But Refuses to Overturn Mychal Bell Conviction

Amy did an interview from Jena today with

* Theo Shaw, one the Jena 6.
* Robert Bailey, one of the Jena 6.

Listen to segment

they're busy trying to make the government responsible for the brutal killings of civilians...

BRUTAL..I mean...BRUTAL

The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror: ACLU Head Anthony Romero on Civilian Killings in Iraq, Domestic Spying, Torture, John Walker Lindh and More

Listen to segment

Thompson Officially Announces Candidacy
Former Sen. Fred Thompson went on Leno to make the official announcement, which will air tonight.

--David Kurtz

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/us/politics/06cnd-thompson.html?hp

MM
new
Submitted by Alice on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 9:08pm.
Judge Reduces Charges in Jena 6 Case But Refuses to Overturn Mychal Bell Conviction

Amy did an interview from Jena today with

* Theo Shaw, one the Jena 6.
* Robert Bailey, one of the Jena 6.

Listen to segment
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Thank goodness something positive happened!
I'm going to listen to it right now.
Malloy is killing me..He's going off on the B-52 Nuke story..
Nukes,Discrimination what a crazy world.Sometimes I think I'll start smoking The Weed again!
It's only been about 25,30 years since I did the Blunt!
Wait,that's what anti-depressants are for!Sorry Mota..No Mas! :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

in Iraq WHILE THEY SLEPT -the soldiers also took it upon themselves to kill an entire herd of sheep in the yard of the family's home.

Approaching Parody
They say you can judge how a candidate might run the country by how well he's able to run his presidential campaign.

What if he can't even manage an exploratory committee?

Two more high level staffers have just bailed on Fred Thompson's campaign.

--Josh Marshall

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/the_thompson_campaign_one_shakeup_...

Alice..
They are about the only ones,besides Waxman doing anything!!
I'm sure they are getting overwhelmed by all the cases they are trying to solve!
I don't have alot of money I can get to.But,I think I'm going to donate something to the ACLU!
Everybody,if you can,I hope you will too!I'm sure they need the help Big Time! :)
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Conservative SCHIP Plan Going Ka-Bluey
by Bill Scher
Remember when conservatives wanted to empower the states? That was before states wanted to give kids health insurance.

http://ga3.org/ct/31w_p561WzZP/

Sept. 5, 2007 -- Senator Craig's office asked if Craig will ask for McConnell to release his army discharge papers

WMR has asked Senator Larry Craig's Washington office if the embattled Idaho Republican will ask Kentucky GOP Senator and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to release his DD-214 military discharge papers from August 1967, complete with the SPN of "SPIN" separation code or codes.

McConnell called Craig's June 2007 arrest for lewd conduct in a men's room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport "unforgivable." There is informed speculation that McConnell was drummed out of the Army Reserve for homosexual behavior while undergoing training at Fort Knox, Kentucky and then had Kentucky's then Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, for whom he once interned, to "fix things" so McConnell could leave the Army under honorable conditions.

UPDATE: Although we have not yet heard back from Sen. Craig's office, it is quite possible that Craig has assured McConnell of "mutually assured destruction." McConnell made the following statement on CNN today:

"MCCONNELL: I heard from Sen. Craig this morning. He called me to give me an update on where he is in order to dispel, as he put it, any confusion that might exist with regard to his intention.

So let me relate to you his comment -- he said that he is going to try to get the case in Minneapolis dismissed, that if he is unable to have that disposed of prior to Sept. 30, it is his intention to resign from the Senate as he expressed last Saturday. If he is able to get he case favorably disposed of in Minneapolis it would be his intention to come back to the Senate, to deal with the ethics committee case that he knows he will have, and to try to finish his term."

Story developing . . .

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070905_1

goddessdelirious.com

Sept. 5, 2007 -- The CIA's early dissing of the neocons.

Released CIA documents from the 1970s indicate the intelligence agency, under Admiral Stansfield Turner, rebuffed attempts by neocons to gain favor with the agency. It is likely that a major part of the reason the neocons were intent on destroying the CIA under George W. Bush was the back of the hand they were shown by Langley in the 1970s.

WMR has obtained a copy of a letter from the CIA's Cord Meyer, Jr., on behalf of Admiral Turner, dated August 31, 1977, to Walter Laqueur of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, established largely with the support of Henry Kissinger. The letter thanked Laqueur for sending Turner an advance copy of his book on terrorism and said the CIA director looked forward to reading it "when his busy schedule permits."

Meyer also writes: "I much enjoyed the lunch on Monday and the chance to meet Michael Ledeen." In a reference to the new magazine, Washington Quarterly, a joint operation of Laqueur and Ledeen and for which Ledeen was editor-in-chief, Meyer writes, "Between the two of you, it's bound to be a lively magazine."

Although Meyer writes he looks forward to seeing Laqueur again "soon," the CIA was aware of the political intentions of these war hawks who came knocking at Langley.

The niceties between the CIA's high command and these proto-neocons soon ended. After the launch of the Washington Quarterly, a CIA "For Official Use Only" document refers to criticisms of Turner by the hawkish right-wing journal. Turner is criticized for turning away from human intelligence sources in Iran and to electronic intelligence means. Not only was President Carter's first choice as CIA director, President John F. Kennedy's special adviser "Ted Chaikin Sorensen," debased for "active leftism," but Turner is criticized for dismissing for incompetence "one of the most competent case officers of the CIA -- having direct contacts with a good number of chiefs of state and of government."

The same FOUO document reveals that the proto-neocons were trying to push the idea that the Shah of Iran was overthrown because of the CIA's over-reliance on ELINT. The document cites neocon rhetoric that the Farsi-speaking Israeli "diplomats" assigned to the Jewish Agency in Tehran, Israel's de facto embassy, knew more about the situation on Iran than the CIA. The document contends these diplomats knew the Iranian army would not fight for the Shah and that "cassettes recorded by an old ayatollah had already sealed the fate of the empire."

Today...

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070904_3

goddessdelirious.com

Today, the neocons are trying to seal the fate of Iran.

The CIA soon became wary of the Cold War hawks who were increasingly making their voices heard in both political parties. The CIA files included a June 7, 1979, op-ed by New York Times columnist William Safire that recommended a laundry list of neocon-lites and right-wing neocons for a future Ted Kennedy or Pat Moynihan Democratic administration or a George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John Connally, or Howard Baker Republican administration.

Safire's piece reads like a "Who's Who" of latter-day neocons, many of whom either conjured up the war in Iraq or initially supported it. It is also noteworthy that Jimmy Carter is not mentioned once in Safire's article.

For the Democrats, Safire recommended: David Aaron, Tony Lake, Richard Holbrooke, Richard Moose, James Woolsey, and Philip Odeen. Many of these individuals would end up in the Clinton administration.

Safire is much more enthusiastic about a Republican administration and here we see many of the neocons who steered the United States on a dangerous and, perhaps, irreparable course: For National Security Adviser, Safire pushed for Richard Pipes; for Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci; for Navy Secretary John Lehman [Reagan would appoint Lehman Navy Secretary]; Edward Luttwak for National Security Council staff; and Richard Allen for National Security Council staff for intelligence "revamping" to be assisted on African policies by Chester Crocker. [Allen would end up as Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser but would later resign in a scandal involving a suspected bribe from a Japanese journalist and Crocker became Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under Reagan].

For Deputy National Security Adviser, Safire touted Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's aide, Richard Perle. Perle would be assisted in Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviets by William Schneider Jr. (later of Project for the New American Century infamy and not to be confused with the CNN pundit with the same name) and William Van Cleave, later a Reagan administration defense adviser and an official of the Jerusalem-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), which is linked to the Likud Party.

Other NSC staffers recommended by Safire were Ken Adelman and Michael Ledeen, two arch-neocons. Safire recommends for a Republican Cabinet people like Donald Rumsfeld and Laurence Silberman. As CIA Director, Safire picks William J. Casey (who got the job under Reagan) and Al Haig (who got the Secretary of State job under Reagan instead).

Safire did not seem to a centrist GOP administration under Bush or Howard Baker would be a disaster since it would open itself up to a "Kissingerian network" of Hal Sonnenfeldt, Winston Lord, Brent Scowcroft, and William Hyland.

The Safire piece and the CIA documents indicate that the CIA was wary of the motives of the proto-neocons. The agency turned out to be right on the money.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070904_3

goddessdelirious.com

Giuliani: Corruption-Laden Haley Barbour ‘On The Top Of Everybody’s List’ For VP
The AP reports that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani stood with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (R) yesterday, calling Barbour an ideal running mate:

Responding to the question about a possible running mate, Giuliani said: “Gov. Barbour will be on the top of everybody’s list.”

Selecting Barbour as a running mate would instantly bring the stain of corruption to any presidential ticket. A former chair of the Republican National Committee and a longtime uber-lobbyist, the Mississippi Governor has a record rife with corruption and cronyism that includes exploiting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to profit his allies. Here are some lowlights:

Family members and lobbyists profited from Katrina tragedy: “Among the beneficiaries are Barbour’s own family and friends, who have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from hurricane-related business. A nephew, one of two who are lobbyists, saw his fees more than double in the year after his uncle appointed him to a special reconstruction panel.”

Owned controlling interest in 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming company: For nearly two hours on election day 2002, subcontractors for the telemarketing firm GOP Marketplace tied-up Democratic and union phone banks with repeated hang up calls. Multiple GOP officials eventually either pled guilty to or were convicted of criminally violating federal communications law. Barbour’s investment group, Helm Partners, was not only a major investor in GOP Marketplace, but it also held a controlling interest in the firm.

As a lobbyist, he represented firm indicted in Tom DeLay’s money laundering scandal: As a lobbyist for Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Barbour represented The Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care Inc., “a corporate coalition of 14 of the country’s largest for-profit nursing home companies.” The Alliance wrote a check for $100,000 “ended up illegally funding Republican candidates for the Texas statehouse” in 2002. The check was eventually used as evidence in the case that led to indictments for money laundering against former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX).

A former tobacco lobbyist, he killed Mississippi’s successful anti-smoking program: From 1998 to 2002, Barbour’s lobbying firm “was paid a total of $3.8 million by the tobacco companies.” As governor of Mississippi, he led an effort to defund and ultimately kill the state’s anti-smoking program, considered to be “the nation’s most successful anti-smoking programs.”

Directed large amounts of reconstruction funds to wealthy homeowners: Barbour and Mississippi’s two Republican Senators steered an “unprecedented” $23.5 billion in federal reconstruction aid, but by waiving a HUD requirement that “70 percent of the funds are supposed to be allocated to low- and moderate-income people.” Barbour “badly skewed” the funds towards “wealthy homeowners,” with only 25 percent reaching “the poorer segments of the population.”

Today, reconstruction efforts in Mississippi are still moving painfully slow. In May, Salon reported that Barbour was heralded by conservatives as “to Katrina what Rudy Giuliani was to 9/11.” Indeed, with Giuliani’s profit-centered and selfish management of 9/11, this may be the most fitting description yet.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/giuliani-barbour/

The Power of Nonviolent Persistent People

by Eileen Fleming / September 5th, 2007

In a verdict released on Sept 4, 2007, justice ruled in the Holy Land!

In the petition of the village of Bil’in against The Wall (HCJ 8414/05), which in that area of the occupied territory of the West Bank, is mostly an electrified fence with miles of rolled barbwire that prevents the indigenous landowners access to their olive groves, Judges Beinish, Prokachya and Rivlin, of the Supreme Court ruled against the current route of The Wall/separation barrier and ordered the State to prepare a proposal for an alternative route.

Due to the power of nonviolent persistent people the empire and military occupation of Israel has now been justly ordered to leave the agricultural lands of Bil’in on the legally owned Palestinian side of the apartheid-separation barrier!
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Group sues White House over missing e-mails. The National Security Archive today filed a lawsuit charging that the White House “abandoned an automatic archiving system for its e-mail in 2002 and did not replace it,” resulting in the loss of approximately five million e-mails between March 2003 and Oct. 2005. In May, the watchdog group CREW also filed a lawsuit seeking information about the “missing” e-mails.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/group-sues-white-house-over-missing-...

Upset Over GAO’s Findings On Iraq, Lawmaker Attacks Agencies’ Qualifications To Issue Report
Now that the GAO has reported that there is little to no progress in Iraq and that the administration may be cooking the books on levels of violence, conservatives are desperately trying to attack the agency’s credibility.

Today at a House International Relations Committee hearing, ranking member Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) attempted to claim that the GAO was unqualified to even render a judgment on the situation in Iraq. Describing the process of accountability as “unsettling,” Ros-Lehtinen complained, “I just feel uncomfortable listening to a report by the Government Accountability Office about a war effort.”

GAO Comptroller General David Walker responded by defending the agency’s experience in such matters. He explained the work the GAO does is based on “looking at hard data, interviewing qualified individuals, and appropriate parties have an opportunity to review and comment on our work.” Walker added that military experience is not a necessary requirement to offer a qualified opinion:

The President and the Vice President have no military or foreign policy experience. Does that mean I don’t respect their opinion? I do. They’ve got a lot of people who work for them that do. So I think it’s a false claim to say you know we’re not qualified to do this work. We’re eminently qualified to do this work.

Later, Walker added, “For the record, It’s my understanding that Secretary of Defense Gates does not have any military experience either. So frankly, I think we need to stick with the facts.” Watch it:

Ros-Lehtinen has had no problem citing the work of the GAO in a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff or enlisting the GAO’s resources to pursue her agenda. It’s only when she doesn’t like the agencies’ conclusions that she finds fault with the work of the office.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/ros-lehtinen-walker/

Audience boos Brownback’s proposal to ban gay marriage. » At the Fox News GOP presidential debate tonight, correspondent Carl Cameron asked a New Hampshire woman whether she wanted gay marriage banned. Her answer — “Absolutely not” — received cheers from the audience. When Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) then said he believes the nation should have a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, the audience loudly booed. Watch it:

A recent CNN poll found that 57 percent of the American public believe gay marriages should have the “same rights as traditional marriages.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/05/audience-boos-brownbacks-proposal-to...

Congress Considers Major Health Care Reform Bill
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Humana’s stock shot up 1000 points on news of the proposed legislation.

The Bush Administration is pushing hard for Congress to pass the bill. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said, “Look, we’ve got tens of thousands of Iraqi veterans coming home with various physical, and especially mental, ailments. This legislation could be exactly what the doctor ordered to save the country from bankruptcy.”
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First. - That the below signed renounce their homes, work, family and studies and all the comforts which have been accumulated in the hands of the few upon the misery of the many.

Second. - That the below signed renounce a future, paid on time, of individual enjoyment.

Third. - That the below signed also renounce the shield of indifference in the face of the suffering of others and the vainglory of a place among the powerful.

Fourth. - That the below signed are prepared for all the sacrifices necessary in order to fight silently and without rest in order to make me, the patria, free and true.

Fifth. - That the below signed are prepared to suffer persecution, calumny and torture, and even to die if it is necessary, in order to achieve what was noted in the Fourth point.

Sixth. - That I, the patria, will know to keep your place in history and to watch over your memory as they watch over my life.

Seventh. - That the below signed will leave enough space under their names so that all honest men and women may sign this document, and, when the moment comes, the entire people shall sign it.

There being nothing left to be said, and very much to do, the below signed leave their blood as example and their steps as guide.
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Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Mexico, July of 2002.

Takes one to know one...

Submitted by toniD on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 10:11pm.

Giuliani: Corruption-Laden Haley Barbour ‘On The Top Of Everybody’s List’ For VP
The AP reports that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani stood with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (R) yesterday, calling Barbour an ideal running mate:

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I mean do people see how crazy this guy is?

He stands up there and has absolutely no sense that people will have a problem with corruption. In fact, when he is asked questions about his own 'issues' he actually answers back with what seems to be no sense of how bad it looks; and then he carries on as if "well there, I answered that, and now it's over. moving on..." He is a true fascist. And a true psychotic.

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Fred Thompson is the new Ronald Reagan

Audience boos Brownback’s

Submitted by toniD on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 10:25pm.

Audience boos Brownback’s proposal to ban gay marriage.

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"Misión Música"

Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez has announced the creation of "Mision Musica", a scheme aimed at bringing tuition and musical instruments to a million of Venezuela’s poorest children .

So far thousands of children with full support of their parents have signed up for the scheme which is seen by many as a way out of poverty and crime .

The announcement comes following the success of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra project which received rapturous acclaim in the UK and has led to a system which is now being copied around the world.

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm John Bruhns and I served in Baghdad as an army sergeant for the first year of the war. Within my first days there, I realized that so much of what I had been told—about weapons of mass destruction, connections to 9/11—was just White House spin to sell the war.

I'm seeing the same thing all over again now. Even with this being the bloodiest summer for US troops in Iraq, even with Iraqi casualties running at twice the pace of last year, and even with 15 of 18 of President Bush's own benchmarks unmet, the White House is at it again. They're telling us that black is white, up is down, and things in Iraq are going just great thanks to the troop "surge."

This month Congress is going to vote on war policy for the next year—and Bush is hoping all this "progress" talk will scare Congress away from voting for withdrawal. We can't let that happen. Almost 4,000 US troops have died. We've spent half a trillion dollars in Iraq. Every day you turn on the news and more people are killed. We need Congress to stand up and fight to bring our troops home this fall.

I need your help to make sure that happens. Can you sign this petition demanding that Congress begin a fully funded redeployment and start bringing our troops home from Iraq immediately? I'll deliver your comments to Congress myself next week. Clicking below will add your name:

http://pol.moveon.org/troopshome/?r_by=11171-5102328-URah5R&rc=comment_p...

I left Iraq on February 27, 2004 and from what I hear from my friends who are still there—many on their third or fourth deployments—it's worse now than ever before. The "surge" was a failure and it's time to draw down our troops.

This president can't be trusted, his policy is reckless and it's more and more dangerous every day.

Here's what's happened in Iraq since the escalation went into effect.

Violence has gone up in Iraq. This summer is on track to be one of the bloodiest summers for Iraqis and U.S. troops, with nearly twice as many U.S. troops killed this July than the previous July. 1
The surge has not created political stability. The central premise of the surge was that it would increase political stability. Two years after Sunnis were brought into the political transition, a Sunni bloc withdrew from the government. 2 This week's original Government Accountability Office report showed that 15 out of 18 of Bush's own political benchmarks remain unmet. 3
We've poured weapons into Iraq's civil war. Another Government Accountability Office report earlier this summer showed that the Pentagon lost track of nearly 200,000 weapons given to Iraqis. We distribute weapons and then they disappear and we don't know what happens to them. What we do know is that violence increases—both among Iraqi sectarian groups and against American troops. 4
Ethnic cleansing is happening in Baghdad. The once Sunni dominated city is now dominated by Shiites. Here is a quote from the most recent Newsweek: "When Gen. David Petraeus goes before Congress next week to report on the progress of the surge, he may cite a decline in insurgent attacks in Baghdad as one marker of success. In fact, part of the reason behind the decline is how far the Shiite militias' cleansing of Baghdad has progressed: they've essentially won." 5
As an Iraq war veteran I felt so much relief after the November of 2006 election—I felt like we would finally end this mess and start bringing our troops home from Iraq. I've been let down a lot over this last year and I want to do everything I can to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Congress has the power to force redeployment and they have to use that power this fall. Nothing is more important to me than making sure we start bringing all our troops home—and I need your help to make sure that's what happens.

Please sign the petition today.

Thanks for all you do.

–John Bruhns, former US Army Infantry Sergeant.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

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QUESTION: Another subject. The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is acting as a mediator in the hostages' situation with Colombia and Peru. Do you think it can be helpful, especially since there are some American citizens among the hostages?

MR. CASEY: I'm not aware of what role he or anyone else might or might not be playing in this. We continue to be concerned certainly about the three Americans who remain captive by the FARC.

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I'm not aware, again, whether President Chavez has or has not any role in those discussions. But certainly we will be looking to the Colombian Government to ensure that we are continuing to work together to be able to resolve this case.

QUESTION: Well, he has and the French Government, since there is a French citizen, so the French Government has been approving this action by Chavez, so I was wondering if -- for U.S. it would be -- if Chavez allowed the release of one U.S. citizen it would be a good thing.

MR. CASEY: I will be delighted to comment on any involvement by President Chavez in actions that see the release of these three individuals who never should have been taken hostage in the first place. When that happens, let's talk about it.

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France's Sarkozy hopeful on possible hostage-for-rebel deal by Venezuela's Chavez in Colombia

LA Times reported Bush's Iraq trip was "to see" progress with "own eyes," but didn't note he never left base

http://mediamatters.org/items/200709050011

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Fox is questioning the Repubs in New Hampshire.

A room full of repubs were unhappy with the debate.

Guess who won? McCain.

They thought the rest didn't know what they were talking about. And they don't like Giulianni!

Hannity has Giulianni on now. If you can stand it, take a look at him. He's looking odd. Something about him tonight.

Havana, Sept 5 Iran has requested becoming an observer member of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), in a meeting with the foreign ministers of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, who were present at the Non-Aligned Movement meeting recently held in Teheran.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2163007,00.html

As many as six nuclear warheads, each with a destructive potential almost 10 times that of the Hiroshima bomb, were mistakenly flown across the US, Pentagon officials conceded yesterday.

The US air combat command has suspended all similar operations until September 14, pending a review.

it's funny, but it's the one channel that always goes out [until I call them and they reset my cable box]. Someone at Time Warner Cable must know I won't watch it, anyway.

goddessdelirious.com

were totally unimpressed with this debate.

Glad I didn't watch it. I wonder what their ratings were for tonight. I can't imagine it was too high.

was how McCain said he is keeping the same position he's always had on immigration..you know how those people like it when one of their boys sticks it in and won't remove it...no matter who dies...So I'm not surprised they believe he won...

he must have really enticed the masses with that reference...

Book Review

posted by birdie

Want to know what goes on inside the mind of our President?

Through a series of interviews with President Bush, author Robert Draper tries to paint "a portrait of the commander in chief as a willful optimist, proud of his self-confidence and convinced that any expressions of doubt would make him less of a leader: a man addicted to "Big Ideas and small comforts" (like riding his bike), a stubborn, even obstinate politician loath to change course or second-guess himself, and given to valuing loyalty above almost everything else." Michiko Kakutani review in the NYT.

Getting sleepy.

Later

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wow... the arrogance.

Yes, Thank you toniD.

I was wondering if you know if it should take me right to the place or to the last place I was there? Because everytime I went there, I was under water..is your place underwater?

A.

Were you trapped?

This is the surl for the skybox:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bundaberg/50/140/71

But there is an underwater part too.

I might be that way too...

fly out of there...but then when I tried to follow the red arrow to your place I just had my directionals all goofed up...I don't remember having to turn the opposite way of the way I think I want to go...I never got there anyway...I'll try again tomorrow...

that should fix it..

White Vigilante Justice: An Estimated 200 Blacks were Killed by Roving White Mobs During Katrina

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Michael Savage has his own "Finklestein" to blab about .....he has a doctor on who was fired from being a County doctor for trying to stop """""illegal aliens" from getting better healthcare than your grandma"""""

I'm reading his novel now...He takes every opportunity to inject a point into his writing...They even bring up Bush in the book...

Wednesday, September 05 2007 @ 09:34 AM PDT
Contributed by: Anonymous

Tree-sitters in the Nanning Creek tree village sent a text message today saying that Pacific Lumber climbers were raiding the tree-sits. Also two forest defenders were arrested on the ground for trespassing. Activists are heading to the gate to protest against Palco's actions. Some activists have raised concerns that the company is violating the law by cutting branches during Marbled Murrelet nesting season, which ends on September 15. Much of the tree-sitter's gear has been taken or destroyed. Spooner is a huge, ancient redwood tree that is almost 300 feet tall and is estimated to be as much as 2,000 years old. Marked to be cut down by Pacific Lumber Company, Spooner is located in the Nanning Creek watershed, near Scotia, Ca. Activists began sitting in Spooner two summers ago and have set traverse lines to protect the surrounding grove of trees. A direct action forest defense base camp will be taking place September 6th-10th.

For more information please call 707-834-3100 or 949-274-0998 or 707-845-9046

http://forestdefender.blogspot.com

that's actually what I think...he is blatent and not subtle...

I want to respond but we cover so many topics here that I've lost track of what interpretations are out there.

If we are on the same thought then how can anyone look at it any other way but arrogant?
renounce the shield of indifference in the face of the suffering of others and the vainglory of a place among the powerful.

for the Jena 6 and ACLU stories from Amy.
Very sad,and disturbing stories..
Amy is great!
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

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renounce the shield of indifference in the face of the suffering of others and the vainglory of a place among the powerful.

I'm not seeing what is arrogant about acting in solidarity with others to displace that which thinks it is POWER...and in defense of the SUFFERING...

That's how it reads to me anyway...

But if you think he's arrogant, that's cool too...

and she loves Majority Report Radio Bloggers... :)

by CHRISTOPHER HAYES

When completed, the highway will run from Mexico City to Toronto, slicing through the heartland like a dagger sunk into a heifer at the loins and pulled clean to the throat. It will be four football fields wide, an expansive gully of concrete, noise and exhaust, swelled with cars, trucks, trains and pipelines carrying water, wires and God knows what else. Through towns large and small it will run, plowing under family farms, subdevelopments, acres of wilderness. Equipped with high-tech electronic customs monitors, freight from China, offloaded into nonunionized Mexican ports, will travel north, crossing the border with nary a speed bump, bound for Kansas City, where the cheap goods manufactured in booming Far East factories will embark on the final leg of their journey into the nation's Wal-Marts.

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Take, for instance, North America's SuperCorridor Organization (NASCO), a trinational coalition of businesses and state and local transportation agencies that, in its own words, focuses "on maximizing the efficiency of our existing transportation infrastructure to support international trade." Headquartered in borrowed office space in a Dallas law firm, the organization, which has a full-time staff of three, advocates for increased public expenditure along the main north-south Interstate routes, including new high-tech freight-tracking technology and expedited border crossings. It has had some success, landing federal money to pilot cargo management technologies and winning praise from the Bush Administration. Speaking at a NASCO conference in Texas in 2004, then-Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta congratulated the organization for its efforts. "The people in this room have vision," Mineta said. "Thinking ahead, thinking long term, you began to make aggressive plans to develop...this vital artery in our national transportation system through which so much of the NAFTA traffic flows. It flows across our nation's busiest southern border crossing in Laredo; over North America's busiest commercial crossing, the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit; and through Duluth and Pembina, North Dakota, and all the places in between."

A few years ago NASCO put on its home page a map of the United States that more or less traced the flow that Mineta describes: Drawn in bright blue, the trade route begins in Monterrey, Mexico, runs up I-35 and branches out after Kansas City, along I-29 toward Winnipeg and I-94 toward Detroit and Toronto. The colorful, cartoonlike image seemed to show right out in the open just where NASCO and its confederates planned to build the NAFTA Superhighway. It began zipping around the Internet.

The organization soon found itself besieged with angry phone calls and letters. "I think the rumor going around was that this map was a blueprint and it was drawn to scale," says NASCO executive director Tiffany Melvin. (Given the size of the route markings, that would have heralded highways fifty miles wide.) Ever since the map went live, NASCO has spent a considerable amount of time attempting to refute charges like those made by right-wing nationalist Jerome Corsi, whose recent book The Late Great USA devotes several pages to excoriating NASCO for being part of the vanguard of the highway and the coming North American Union. Until recently, NASCO's website contained the following FAQs:

Is NASCO a part of a secret conspiracy?

Absolutely not... We welcome the opportunity to share information about our organization....

Will the NAFTA Superhighway be four football fields wide?

There is no new, proposed NAFTA Superhighway....

Is the map on the website an approved plan for the proposed NAFTA Superhighway?

There is no proposed NAFTA Superhighway.... The map is not a plan or blueprint of any kind.... They are EXISTING highways.

The Trans Texas Corridor is the first section of the proposed, new NAFTA Superhighway....

There is no proposed, new NAFTA Superhighway.

But NASCO is just one part of what Corsi and his ilk view as a grand conspiracy. There's also a federal initiative called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which they portray as a Trojan horse packed with globalists scheming to form a European Union-style governing body to manage the entire continent. The reactions of those in SPP to this characterization seem to range from bemusement to alarm. "There is no NAFTA Superhighway," Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance David Bohigian told me emphatically over the phone. Initiated in 2005, the SPP is a relatively mundane formal bureaucratic dialogue, he says. Working groups, staffed by midlevel officials from all three countries, figure out how to better synchronize customs enforcement, security protocols and regulatory frameworks among the countries. "Simple stuff like, for instance, in the US we sell baby food in several different sizes; in Canada, it's just two different sizes."
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

George Monbiot, the green activist and writer, has never let his ignorance of anarchism stop him from commenting on it. It takes a wilfully ignorant person to write the nonsense about anarchism contained in his self-contradictory book, "The Age of Consent." Sadly, many of those reading and reviewing that book were equally ignorant (Johann Harri, please take a bow) and so he had little to worry about.

One thing seems sure, like many a liberal and Marxist he dislikes our ideas and seeks to smear us by means of "guilt by association." This he did recently in The Guardian when discussing neo-liberalism. As he put it, the neo-liberal "project was assisted by ideas which arose in a very different quarter. The revolutionary movements of 1968 also sought greater individual liberties, and many of the soixante-huitards saw the state as their oppressor . . . the neoliberals coopted their language and ideas. Some of the anarchists I know still voice notions almost identical to those of the neoliberals: the intent is different, but the consequences very similar." ("How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves", August 28, 2007)

Yes, indeed, how could those in the Parisian streets fighting the riot cops who had attacked their protests possibly consider the state as oppressive? How could they fail to see how wrong they were to consider the state as the defender of social hierarchy as well as the capitalist class and its power and property? How did we anarchists fail to note how neoliberalism was, in fact, really fighting against wage labour and factory fascism? How could we fail to note Milton Friedman?s and Frederick von Hayek?s outspoken opposition to profits, rent, interest, wage labour, hierarchical authority and patriarchal family structure? How could we fail to see the neoliberals proclaim with Proudhon that property is both theft and despotism and urge its abolition?

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For other articles by Anarcho, visit: http://anarchism.ws/writers/anarcho.html

Hope NC stops by. I want to thank him for the music he posted after I left last night.

McCoy Tyner Quartet

http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities07/ARmttokyo.html

Tell Congress If They Fund It They Own It!
CodePink Video Animation
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

by Robert Parry

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090507H.shtml

Robert Parry writes for Consortium News, "having been on several of these war-zone congressional trips (as a pool reporter for the Associated Press in the 1980s), I can vouch for how effective the propaganda exercises can be."

sent to you, Alice

all I can muster, anyway

(with maximum gratitude)

you are an icon

:)

Study: Without more government help ethanol plants could go bust

By 2012, a large plant could expect net profits of about $6 million -- compared with about $2.2 million under the current consumption standard.

Ethanol study: http://tinyurl.com/3yj5e4

you're making me think of the first time I saw Microsoft Windows... :)(TY!)

I'm sorry Peter Dragon...I was actually just reading your post about your hero a couple minutes ago... sorry.. :(

It's rare that I can beat my friend and office-neighbor Steve Clemons at his own game, and so to divert the wrath of his commentors, I too will “come out”: not only do I know people at the American Enterprise Institute, but I worked there myself. In fact, I worked for Norman Ornstein, whose New Republic diary about being falsely held responsible for the AEI neoconservatives prompted Steve’s post. In my first job in Washington, I was his research assistant in 1988-89.

Tempting as it is to play the conversion card, I was no kind of conservative, then or now (although I move a bit to the left with each passing year, as I think anyone with either a heart or a brain should do.) But I totally enjoyed working at AEI, at that time, and I've never had a moment's regret about that year and a half.

More here

Leave ethanol off trade deal, PM urged

The New South Wales Government says Australia cannot afford to open up its ethanol market to increased competition from the US through a trade deal.

The Regional Development Minister, Tony Kelly, says it has been suggested that the issue would be on the agenda for talks between the Prime Minister and the US President during this week's APEC summit.

But Mr Kelly says the biofuel industry provides too many jobs in NSW to allow it to be jeopardised by increased exports from overseas.

"That helps sustain employees that are involved at plants at Gunnedah, Narrandera and the township of Manildra itself, as well as Nowra," he said.

"That just shows you how the ethanol industry can create an enormous number of jobs in rural and regional NSW, and how that can come under threat if we do some deal with America."

He says a deal would reduce the environmental benefits provided by locally-produced ethanol.

"The ethanol that's produced by the Manildra Group at Nowra is much better for the environment than biofuels or ethanol that's produced by corn in the US because what the Manildra Group use is the wheat starch waste and that leads to some 37 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions," he said.

and to keep things on the down low
I won't mention it in such a way again
in a public forum

as for... " :)(TY!) "

I don't know what that means.

love

it means I was too cool to write Thank You...

Thank You. xox

"...refugees all look the same- there’s a unique expression you’ll find on their faces- relief, mixed with sorrow, tinged with apprehension. The faces almost all look the same."

I have a similar expression, Alice.

It's my internal voice saying, "This is it bitch.
Don't fuck it up." Sometimes it says, "Okay, dumb shit, you're on."

Regardless. Age 14 mighta been a bit late for pot to have saved me from some hassles. And, shit,...my fucking love munch of kid turned 14 yesterday. "It's a boy," they told me 14 years ago yesterday, apparently. Pardon the ramble.

It's like how SUCCESS is supposedly where
OPPORTUNITY and PREPARATION meet.

I woulda had them meet at Hooters, for what it's worth.

Accidental crossed path or nepotism. Divine blessing.
Home field advantage. Luck of the draw.

It's like a Bukowski view on an important horse race.

With the word, "bitch," being non-gender specific,
most effectiviely described in the old 2Pac/Outlawz song, "RU Still Down"
song,
"You Ain't Got To Lie To Kick It."

Man, that was a stoned ramble.
I think I just got more stoned trying to read what I just typed.
And probably got closer to a headache.

Anyway.

Love.

love again, Alice.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7M6xjTX0hNs

I don't normally do this, but I wanted to cross post a thought I left at the kollective.

"J.R.R. Tolkien wrote of a creation myth I enjoy. In it, the Ainur, the heavenly powers, joined together in Eru's mighty themes of life and creation. So great were the voices of the Ainur that, through their music, Eru's vision of all of the heavens and earth to be was revealed.

In later ages, some of these Ainur, these Holy Ones with angelic voices, came to live among the lesser denizens of creation.

It's pleasant to imagine that he has not died, he has merely been called back to the great choir from whence he came.

Rest well.

(I promise never to geek out this much on Tolkien, or use the word "whence" again)"

h/t x for the vid

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

And that strong beautiful voice.

Italian tenor Pavarotti dies at age 71 By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer
44 minutes ago

ROME - Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar, died Thursday. He was 71.

His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an e-mailed statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August.

"The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterised his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness," the statement said.

Speaking from inside Pavarotti's home, which was guarded by police, Pavarotti's assistant Edwin Tinoco told Sky TG 24 television that Pavarotti's final days had been calm and spent at home.

For serious fans, the unforced beauty and thrilling urgency of Pavarotti's voice made him the ideal interpreter of the Italian lyric repertory, especially in the 1960s and '70s when he first achieved stardom. For millions more, his charismatic performances of standards like "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot" came to represent what opera is all about.

In fact, "Nessun Dorma" was Pavarotti's last performance, sung at at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, in February 2006. His last full-scale concert was at Taipei in December 2005, and his farewell to opera was in Puccini's "Tosca" at New York's Metropolitan in March 2004.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_en_mu/pavarotti_41

OECD cuts US growth rate, warns of possible recession
by Chris in Paris · 9/06/2007 04:36:00 AM ET

GOP economics are coming together to build the perfect storm. Not so surprisingly the easy credit system that the financial market wanted and the GOP delivered has turned out to be a major problem and is dragging down the economy. Add to that the brilliant GOP plan to cut taxes during a war plus the black hole of spending in Iraq (including heavy payouts to GOP-friendly businesses) and you have just about all you need for a soft economy. While Greenspan never saw this coming, plenty of others did but were swept aside because everyone had houses and money was falling from the sky.

The OECD is suggesting bank rate cuts though any action today is likely much too late. We needed leadership a few years ago when common sense should have prevailed over the hysteria of a growing real estate market, but since when have we seen common sense from either Greenspan or the GOP Congress who helped build this financial mess? If the economy does go into recession, wait until we hear the excuses and the blame game from the GOP who will refuse, again, to accept any responsibility for their failed economic policies.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/oecd-cuts-us-growth-rate-warns-of.htm...

Carmakers switching to electric motors By TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer
1 hour, 11 minutes ago

DETROIT - Beneath your car's hood, there are belts hooked to the engine, running the power steering, air conditioning and other items that drag on the engine and cut gas mileage. But as fuel efficiency becomes paramount with high gas prices and pending government regulations, automakers across the world are trying to get rid of as many belts as they can, switching them to electric motors.

The power steering pump is likely to be the first casualty. Toyota Motor Corp., General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. already have electric power steering on some models, with more in the works, and they report fuel efficiency gains of up to 8 percent.

Other manufacturers and parts suppliers also are using or developing the motors, which could spread to air conditioning and power brake assist devices run by belts that suck power from the engine.

"It's one of the top technologies on percent of fuel returned for the dollar that you put in," said Ali Jammoul, Ford's chief engineer for chassis in North America. "All that parasitic drag is gone when you remove the pump off the engine."

Ford, which launched electric power steering in January on gasoline versions of the Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner small sport utility vehicles, reports an 8 percent fuel economy increase. The electric motors already were in use on hybrid models.

But fuel economy isn't the only benefit. Electric power steering has been linked to sensors so a car parallel parks itself, such as the system used on some Lexus models. The Ford system compensates for the crown in a road, eliminating drift. And the motors can be tied to sensors that stop a car from leaving its lane unless the driver wants it to.

Because there is no power steering fluid to monitor, no belt to check and far fewer moving parts, maintenance costs are lower, manufacturers say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_bi_ge/autos_electric_motors_5

Military Accused Of 'Cherry-Picking' Data To Claim Drop In Iraq Violence »

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WP | Karen DeYoung | September 5, 2007 11:14 PM

The U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends.

Reductions in violence form the centerpiece of the Bush administration's claim that its war strategy is working. In congressional testimony Monday, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is expected to cite a 75 percent decrease...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR200709...

from tpm:

Staging Nuke for Iran?
By Larry Johnson

Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That’s like getting excited if you see a postal worker in uniform walking out of a post office. And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense.

So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.

Then he told me something I had not heard before.

Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?
His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.

Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride. We need some tough questions and clear answers. What the hell is going on? Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I don’t know, but it is a question worth asking.

Yes that "Jumping off point" and the shipping of uranium from Washington State, New Mexico, etc, being shipped to South Carolina. Canisters of weapons grade uranium along with Uranium waste products.

The Government said it's for safety reasons. Yeah right!

And it is Plutonium not Uranium...

U.S. plutonium to be transferred to S.C.
Submitted by toniD on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 8:25pm.
(Are you getting an eerie feeling here? Warheads to Louisiana and Plutonium to South Carolina?)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department plans to send plutonium in Washington state and at research laboratories in New Mexico and California to the Savannah River nuclear complex in South Carolina to improve security and reduce storage costs.
The department said Wednesday that the plutonium shipments, involving 3,000 coffee can-size canisters, could begin as early as next month and last three years.

The consolidation "is a key part of the department's efforts to properly manage surplus plutonium," said James Rispoli, assistant energy secretary for environmental management. He said it will allow for greater security at much less cost.

The consolidation involves plutonium — some mixed with highly enriched uranium — that was produced decades ago for use in nuclear weapons, but is no longer needed, as well as a small amount of plutonium in fuel rods from a closed government reactor.

The transfer does not involve plutonium that is being taken out of dismantled nuclear warheads or plutonium that will continue to be needed for weapons-related research and production of warhead triggers called pits.

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The department said the amount of plutonium that will be shipped is classified. Rispoli said each canister has a maximum capacity of 9.7 pounds, but that the amount is significantly less than that since the canisters are not full.

About 2,300 canisters are kept at the department's Hanford complex in Washington state and another 700 canisters are at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Officials didn't provide a breakdown of amounts kept at each of the labs. But the plutonium at Lawrence Livermore has been a focus of controversy for years as local activists have maintained its presence poses a danger to nearby residential communities and represents a potential terrorist target.

Aware that officials in South Carolina have expressed concerns that their state not become a permanent dump for the country's unneeded plutonium, Rispoli emphasized at a news conference that the DOE plans include getting the material out of the state.

"The intent is not only to bring the plutonium there, but dispose of it at the (Savannah) site and then have pathways for all of this material to leave the state," Rispoli said. He said a facility to store the plutonium at Savannah River is being prepared with increased security.

Department officials acknowledged that it will likely take more than a decade — and possibly much longer — before much of the plutonium will be processed and moved elsewhere.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-09-05-plutonium_N.htm?csp=3...

agreed. i really don't believe the "oops" explanation. something to factor in though is that i would expect that barksdale or any active air base would already have weapons stored there.

commonsense conservative

Bush, China's Hu Tackle Thorny Issues
Bush, Chinese President Hu Tackle Thorny Issues Including Tainted China Products, Religion
By TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia

President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao tackled contentious issues on Thursday, from climate change and Iran and North Korea to recalls of tainted Chinese food and individual freedoms in China.

"He's an easy man to talk to. I'm very comfortable in my discussions with President Hu," Bush said after a face-to-face meeting that lasted about 90 minutes on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific economic summit.

Hu called the discussion "candid and friendly," even though it touched on deep U.S.-Chinese differences.

Bush said he shared with Hu the U.S. concerns about religious freedom and individual liberties in China, and about the recent rash of defective China-made products and tainted food subject to recalls. Hu "was quite articulate about product safety and I appreciated his comments," Bush said. He did not elaborate.

The two did not take questions after their session, but both spoke briefly with reporters.

Bush said he was "anxious to accept" Hu's invitation to attend the 2008 Olympics in China.

Hu said their talks took place in a "friendly atmosphere."

"We both expressed a desire to work toward further development and growth of the business and commercial ties to our two countries," said the Chinese leader.

"We also talked about climate change. We believe that the issue of climate change bears on the welfare of the whole humanity and sustainable development of the whole world. And this issue should be ... tackled through a stronger international cooperation," Hu said.

The Chinese leader did not go further than that, but seeking to reach agreement on ways to control global warming was made a top priority of this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum by Australian President John Howard, the host.

Earlier, Bush conferred with an Australian opposition candidate who is anti-war and could soon be in a position to challenge Bush's Iraq policies.

Bush met with Labor Party candidate Kevin Rudd, who has vowed to bring Australian troops home from Iraq if elected. That's in sharp contrast to the strong support for the war and Bush's recent military buildup from Howard.

Rudd leads Howard by a wide margin in polls for elections expected to be held within the next three months. The White House kept the session with Rudd, held in Bush's hotel, as low key as possible.

Before meeting with Hu, Bush and his aides said he was eager to talk about increasing trade and climate controls and to express satisfaction with Beijing's role in pressing North Korea to agree to disavow nuclear weapons. But he was also ready to discuss product-safety issues following a rash of recalls in the United States, and to register his worries about China's exchange rate policies.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3565057

can you believe this f*tard:

"He's an easy man to talk to. I'm very comfortable in my discussions with President Hu," Bush said after a face-to-face meeting that lasted about 90 minutes on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific economic summit.

Thoughts on the GOP Debate
by BooMan
Wed Sep 5th, 2007 at 11:12:23 PM EST

I couldn't watch the whole Republican debate tonight. I tuned in for the last twenty minutes. I'll have a couple observations below. After the debate, Frank Luntz interviewed 29 Republican primary voters to get their take on how it went, who won, who lost...the whole drill.
The first thing Luntz did was to ask for a show of hands of how many of the 29 were satisfied with the candidates' performances. No one raised their hands. Then he asked them how many were disappointed and almost all of them raised their hands. So, it doesn't look like any of them really won the debate. Their messages are not resonating with the their base.

Luntz then asked how many of them were planning on supporting Sen. McCain. Three of them raised their hands. He followed up by asking how many of them thought McCain won the debate. A majority raised their hands. He went around soliciting explanations and they generally felt that he had a better grasp of the issues and seemed more 'presidential'. He is definitely suffering heavily for his position on immigration.

In the twenty minutes of debate time I saw, I did take note of a couple of things. Mike Huckabee was explaining why his 23% sales tax (to replace the income tax) is a good idea. And he said that most Americans are more worried about getting audited by the IRS than they are about getting mugged. It was a real moment of clarity. I worry about getting mugged every time I leave my house, but I've never cheated on my taxes. For me, it gets to the core criminality of the Republican mindset. They see themselves as criminals and worry about getting called to account for it, while I consider myself law-abiding and worry about being a victim of crime.

Now, I realize that most Americans live in neighborhoods where mugging just doesn't occur. And maybe Huckabee's comment makes sense to them. But that kind of rhetoric just falls completely flat to anyone that lives with high crime.

Ron Paul had a vocal fan club that cheered him wildly. He was asked about prior comments that he would like to eliminate the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security. And he responded by calling his opponents a bunch of big spending bedwetters that would sacrifice their liberty to gain security...and wind up losing both. He also told them, in a separate answer, that we stood down the Soviets and we shouldn't wet our pants over Iran. His opponents giggled nervously. I don't think we need to dismantle our national security apparatus, but we ought to take a fresh look at it. It hasn't served us well.

More here:

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2007/9/5/231223/5121

I turned Fox on last night and I caught the segment about the repubs in NH not raising their hands. And most still like McCain. I wonder how many will switch to Thompson.

He does nothing for me, even as an actor. But then again, I felt the same way about Reagan.

'Canadian' Motorcade Carrying Osama Bin Laden Enters Sydney's Ultra Security Zone, Stops Near Bush Hotel

Stars, Crew Members Of Comedy Show Detained By Police

Fake Beard Confiscated

The stars of the satirical sketch comedy show The Chaser promised they would deliver something "extreme" during the week long Sydney lockdown for the APEC summit of world leaders.

And they've pulled off a stunning breach of security, driving a three car, fake Canadian motorcade close within 30 feet of President Bush's hotel before being pulled over police.

When the motorcade stopped, a cast member jumped out, dressed as Osama Bin Laden. His beard was confiscated by police. Detectives and police were seen chatting and laughing with members of The Chaser after the arrests.

11 crew members and two stars of The Chaser are now being held by police.

If police are prepared to use the full force of the law against the comedy team for purposely breaching the ultra-security zone, inside the now notorious Sydney Cage, they could find themselves in some very deep, very serious shit.

Expect fuming outrage from the prime minister, the shock jocks and the eternally outraged columnists of the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun. Piers Akerman, Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt will be frothing and livid at such mockery of authority.

Most of the rest of Sydney will bust a gut and give a cheer for The Chaser for bringing some comedy relief and a good laugh to the miserable, repressive atmosphere forced on us by the blocked roads, blocked footpaths, snipers leaning out of hovering helicopters and the endless violations of privacy thousands of workers in the city are being subjected to on a daily basis, with demands to see ID, physical searches in city streets and briefcases and handbags opened and emptied.

While the police are hassling people trying to get to work, or to lunch, or get back to the office, a motorcade cruises by carrying 'Osama Bin Laden'.

What else can you say but "Brilliant!":

http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20070906/46df7b40_3ca6_15526...

i do think they are working hard i too will donate to them, someone or something has to do something...

like maybe to texas or something?

Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq
Military Statistics Called Into Question

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 6, 2007; Page A16

The U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends.

Reductions in violence form the centerpiece of the Bush administration's claim that its war strategy is working. In congressional testimony Monday, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is expected to cite a 75 percent decrease in sectarian attacks. According to senior U.S. military officials in Baghdad, overall attacks in Iraq were down to 960 a week in August, compared with 1,700 a week in June, and civilian casualties had fallen 17 percent between December 2006 and last month. Unofficial Iraqi figures show a similar decrease.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR200709...

Twenty-fifth anniversary of Johnny Gosch's kidnapping. Case tied to massive child trafficking linked directly to George H. W. Bush White House through Omaha, Nebraska and other locations.

http://www.kcci.com/news/14045261/detail.html

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Widow of the late Senator Paul Tsongas wins Democratic primary in Massachusetts Fifth. Niki Tsongas favored in strong Democratic district. Faces off against GOP candidate who is brother of pilot of American Airlines Flight 11. More capitalizing on 9/11 by GOP.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070905/NEWS03...

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Bush to Australia's John Howard: "I'm looking forward to you buying me lunch today. I'm a meat guy." Hey, Bush, try that line on Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham. You may get a free meat dinner at the Capitol Grille along with some great after dinner entertainment.

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Sri Lanka. Military seizes weapons from captured Tamil territory. Sri Lanka awash in smuggled weapons from South East Asia and Middle East.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/04/asia/AS-GEN-Sri-Lanka-Civil-Wa...

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/06/2007 - 3:00am.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7M6xjTX0hNs

YEAH
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i support the aclu, i think they serve a very important role in reminding our society about whats important. you will find that they are in perpetual fund raising mode.

pussy guy, who gives a shit...yeah lindsey loves him anyway..

Condi Rice is Bush's "date" at Australia state dinner. WMR previously reported relationship between Bush and Rice. Laura Bush was a half of world away in Washington DC when Bush announced his date was Rice.

http://salon.com/wires/ap/2007/09/05/D8RFCBTG1_bush_s_date/index.html

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Book burning: Arab-style. Billionaire Arabs push censorship to democracies that permit press freedom. This is another plank on the ship of globalization.

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Details of contract fraud and bribes arise in Iraq. Investigation could lead to General David Petraeus. Col. Ted Westhusing was investigating this fraud in Iraq when he was said to have committed "suicide." His superior officer at the time was Petraeus. The "Surge" may be a bunch of senior Army officers being locked up at the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/washington/31contract.html?ei=5090&en=...

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1976 Air France hijacking to Uganda staged by Israel as a "false flag" operation. Binyamin Netyanyahu's brother, Yoni, and a British grandmother, Dora Bloch, died in the operation.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/865937.html

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Petraeus will say violence is down in Iraq because he's not counting the violence in Iraq

Read the article about the "Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq: Military Statistics Called Into Question" in today's Washington Post, which confirms a very important point: General Petraeus and his toadies are lying about the level of violence in Iraq. It's incredibly craven, but that's what is happening.

Blackwater involved in rendition of prisoners. Company headed by right-wing Christian lunatic supports Bush administration's torture program. Very Christian. It's what "Jaysus" would do.

http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/the-picture-that-proves-to...

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I love how you get right to the 'meat' of the matter!

goddessdelirious.com

consider the following:

One of the officers, Maj. Gloria D. Davis, a contracting official in Kuwait, shot and killed herself in Baghdad in December 2006. Government officials say the suicide occurred a day after she admitted to an Army investigator that she had accepted at least $225,000 in bribes from the company. The United States has begun proceedings to seize Major Davis’s assets, a move her heirs are contesting.

now, does anybody remember what happened to ken lay and his estate?

(hint: because he died before the legal proceedings finished he was declared innocent and his assets went to his heirs)

(who would jaysus torture)

(hint: because he died before the legal proceedings finished he was declared innocent and his assets went to his heirs)

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More importantly, though, many people believe that the gov't offed Kenny boy because he knew too much. Of course, that could have been a factor here as well, I suppose.

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is getting me hungry for real...going out for breakfast...

heard what the Turd Blossom dingle berry is up to? Is he all up his son's ass now? Are we rid of him?

somebody has hacked the web site and cspan-3 is a video of somebody sleeping in a room

rearranging my whole life.....i dont know where i am going but i am going on....

this song from the album Euphrates river by the main ingredient 1974 is playing on my mind for about 2 weeks now i dont know why?

Al Gore is working on a new environmental book entitled The Path to Survival, a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth that offers a blueprint on what can be done to fight global warming. The book will be released on Earth Day, April 22, 2008.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gJA-7UhDZulNnzLLjesrSf-UoWMg

Global warming “is already affecting the nation’s parks, forests, marine sanctuaries and monuments” and the federal government needs to do a “better job” addressing the issue, according to a new Government Accountability Office report to be released today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR200709...

“[T]he program devised to rebuild Iraq at the provincial level has gone through three directors in the past four months, and much of the staff hired to organize the effort in Baghdad has left.” Just “29 of the 610 people the provincial reconstruction program have extensive knowledge of Arabic culture, history and language.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/washington/06reconstruct.html?ref=toda...

“One day after Rep. John Doolittle’s (R-Calif.) top two aides revealed that they had been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury” in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe, “Alisha Perkins, Doolittle’s office manager, told the chamber Wednesday that she too had been called by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to give testimony.”

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_22/morning/19854-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

Responding to Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) hold on “a measure mandating the screening of all veterans for suicide risk,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) promised yesterday that he would bring the bill, known as the Joshua Omvig Suicide Prevention Act, to the Senate floor for a vote.

http://democrats.senate.gov/journal/entry.cfm?id=281846&

Identifying 171 “performance expectations,” a new report from the Government Accountability Office concludes that the “Homeland Security Department has failed to meet even half its performance expectations in the four years it has been in existence.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/us/06homeland.html

dan. I've heard of a heavy sleeper, but to knock over the furniture?

Report: Massive U.S. ‘Footprint’ In Iraq Conveys ‘Permanence,’ ‘Opposite Impression Is Needed’
A report released yesterday by a 20-member commission, headed by retired Marine Gen. James Jones, reported it will be at least 12 to 18 months before Iraq’s army and police can take charge.

The New York Times reports that “allies of the White House are likely to point to the report as evidence of the dangers inherent in any rapid withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, and a Pentagon spokesman said today that the administration remained committed ‘to stay as long as it takes to get the Iraqi Army back on its feet.’”

But a closer inspection of the report reveals that the Jones commission is hardly in favor of maintaining the escalation in Iraq. On page 128, the report explicitly warns that the “massive” U.S. military occupation of Iraq is conveying the impression of “permanence.” The report goes on to recommend “significant reductions” in the “size of our national footprint in Iraq”:

Perceptions and reality are frequently at odds with each other when trying to understand Iraq’s problems and progress. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the impressions drawn from seeing our massive logistics “footprint,” our many installations, and the number of personnel (military and civilian), especially in and around the Baghdad region. The unintended message conveyed is one of “permanence”, an occupying force, as it were.

What is needed is the opposite impression, one that is lighter, less massive, and more expeditionary. The decision to occupy Saddam Hussein’s former palace complex with our military headquarters, while expedient in 2003, has most likely given the wrong impression to the Iraqi population. We recommend that careful consideration of the size of our national footprint in Iraq be reconsidered with regard to its efficiency, necessity, and its cost. Significant reductions, consolidations, and realignments would appear to be possible and prudent. [p. 128]

The recommendations of Gen. Jones echo the comments made by White House “war czar” Gen. Doug Lute prior to his appointment, when he said: “You have to undercut the perception of occupation in Iraq. It’s very difficult to do that when you have 150,000-plus, largely western, foreign troops occupying the country.”

Disregarding the advice and concerns of these generals, Bush has said he plans to largely maintain troop levels, and the White House has aggressively pursued the construction of an “embassy-fortress” in Baghdad. Constructed with slave labor, it is of the “largest and costliest” embassies in the world. “The 65-acre compound will be largely a world unto itself, insulated as much as possible from problems that plague the rest of Baghdad.” Photos of the $592 million embassy below:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/jones-report/

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan3_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

Have they moved?

I can't tell...

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In front of the Ernst & Young building (Los Angeles)

http://www.oddee.com/item_89236.aspx

boss is back from vacation....boohoohoo...i dont wanna be alone where is my baby.....boohoohoo

rib steaks work out for you last night? did the sausages bring the steaks over?

26,000 U.S., Iraqi troops go on offensive

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- About 26,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces are taking part in an offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

The operation, Lightning Hammer II, is an extension of an earlier operation in Diyala province.

About 14,000 Iraqi security forces stationed throughout Nineveh province and 12,000 U.S. soldiers are conducting the operation, which started Wednesday evening.

The military said the operation "follows Lightning Hammer I ... to deny al Qaeda safe haven in the provinces" of Salaheddin, Nineveh, Diyala, and Kirkuk.

The military said the original Operation Lightning Hammer -- August 13 to September 1 -- ousted militants from the Diyala River valley, northeast of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province.

"Al Qaeda cells were driven from Baquba in Diyala due to Operation Arrowhead Ripper in June and July and then pursued in the Diyala River valley during Operation Lighting Hammer in August," Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of Task Force Lightning and Multinational Division-North.

Also, a U.S. airstrike on the Washash neighborhood in west Baghdad killed at least 14 Iraqis, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Thursday.

The Washash section of the capital is a stronghold of the Mehdi Army militia, which is loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The U.S. airstrike comes at the time al-Sadr has ordered the militants to suspend operations for six months.

The U.S. military confirmed U.S. and Iraqi forces fought militants on the ground and struck targets with what it termed "aerial fire," but made no mention of casualties.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/06/iraq.main/index.html?eref=rss_...

GOP senators hold 'spirited' discussion on Craig

GOP senators held a closed-door discussion on Sen. Craig Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican senators held what one participant called a "passionate" and "spirited" closed-door discussion Wednesday afternoon about how their leaders responded to the sex scandal involving their colleague Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, CNN has learned.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/06/gop-senators-hold-spirit...

Sheesh!

Will this ever turn in to a real blog.

British jets intercept
eight Russian bombers

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Britain's air force scrambled four Tornado warplanes on Thursday to intercept eight Russian long-range bombers, the Ministry of Defence said. The ministry said the Russian aircraft had not entered British air space.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/wl_nm/britain_russia_bombers_dc;_ylt...

how about you start posting shorter posts with LINKS?

Do you take up this much room in RL?

Wow--I've been away for a while and forgot how great this blog is. Thanks for all of the links! I may not get any work done today, with all of that reading ;)

Thanks for posting that link to The Current, Alice! Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of Klein's new book!

I figured I should also let you know that Naomi Klein will be releasing a 6 min short film at the Toronto International Film Festival, tonight. This is to mark the release of her book, The Shock Doctrine. Several Canuck bloggers, like moi, will be posting a Youtube of the film on our sites tonight, simultaneously. I'm very excited!

More Naomi Klein links:
1. "Is another world possible?" speech at the American Sociological Assoc. Klein was supposed to debate Jeffrey Sachs, but he bailed and Klein went ahead without him :)
2. Interview with Maclean's magazine (their Sept 10, 2007 issue).
3. If you haven't seen it yet, please treat yourself to "The Take," a movie by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (Sam & Janeane interviewed Klein when this film was released, a few years ago).
4. Ok, not Klein but her husband Avi Lewis' CBC show "On the Map": all episodes are available in full!

Cheers!
GDK
Hope & Onions

Cincinnatian taking
over Karl Rove's job

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As the national writer said, Cincinnati is the strangest city in America. It is the third poorest city in the country yet Southwest Ohio voted so overwhelmingly Republican take it alone tilted Ohio for Bush. Maybe it's because of the manipulation abilities of the GOP in Cincinnati that a man from that area has been named to replace Karl Rove.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6a2f57f8-e26c-4c5c-...

This is to mark the release of her book, The Shock Doctrine. Several Canuck bloggers, like moi, will be posting a Youtube of the film on our sites tonight, simultaneously. I'm very excited!

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Only a few more days. I anything happens it will be the end for the Democrat party. You can't trust surrender monkeys with national defense!

This Labor Day, the AFL-CIO launched a nationwide campaign to win secure, high-quality health care for all U.S. residents by 2009.

The first battle is to insure the 9 million children without health care. Because in America no one--especially our children and grandchildren--should go without health care.

Sen. Chuck Schumer made the right choice last month by voting for the expansion of children's health care.

As the fight for children's health care continues, Sen. Schumer may have the opportunity to eliminate billions in private insurance subsidies--the savings will help strengthen health coverage for both low-income children and seniors.

Click here to tell Sen. Schumer to support kids, not the big insurance companies.

President Bush has threatened over and over again to veto any bill that expands health care for children.

We can't let him get away with this.

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) works. Since it began in 1997, SCHIP has reduced the number of uninsured children by one-third, but those gains are being erased by the decline in private, employer-sponsored benefits. (In 2006, the number of children without insurance rose for the second consecutive year--this time by 7.6 percent.)

It's cruel to consider going backward when the facts are telling us we should be working harder to insure children.

Congress has a rare opportunity to protect both seniors and children. The House of Representatives voted to eliminate billions of dollars in wasteful private insurance subsidies. But Bush would rather pad insurance company profits than fully fund children's health care.

We have to get our priorities straight. Congress should wipe out the private insurance subsidies, stop the privatization of Medicare and use the savings to help strengthen health coverage for low-income children and seniors.

Tell Sen. Schumer today: Choose children's health over subsidies for insurance companies.

In solidarity,

Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO

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Per Cnn

you got that one right. how could you ever vote for them again, knowing that they failed to keep the country safe in the days since 9-11.

oh, wait, the dems haven't been in charge. they didn't start a bloody useless war. they didn't give tax cuts to the ultra rich while the national debt reached record levels. they didn't fail to implement the recomend.ations of the 9-11 commission.

hmmm. who's the monkey here?

didn't know that sheep farming was such a big industry in ohio did you? you can hear the sheep bleating for miles around. don't forget the wonderful job kenny boy blackwell did in tilting the election.

recall just a few days ago when gonzo bailed that it was at 666. its up over 701 today.

was great Lucille.

Yes I am dan.

11 arrested in N.J. corruption probe By TOM HESTER Jr., Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 18 minutes ago

The FBI arrested 11 public officials, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, Thursday in a federal corruption probe that spread across the state, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

The arrests were related to insurance contracts for local governments, a law enforcement officials said on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement was pending.

Democratic state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Alfred E. Steele were both arrested, along with Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera, the law enforcement official said. Also arrested were the chief of staff to Newark's City Council president, Passaic Councilmen Jonathan Soto and Marcellus Jackson, and five Pleasantville school board members.

Initial court appearances were scheduled Thursday afternoon in Trenton.

The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Christopher J. Christie, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Weysan Dun scheduled an afternoon news conference to discuss the case.

Hackett, 65, is also the mayor of Orange, a city of about 33,000 residents 15 miles west of New York City. A phone message left at his office wasn't immediately returned Thursday.

Steele, an assemblyman since 1996 and deputy speaker since 2002, works as a Baptist minister in Paterson and is a Passaic County undersheriff. Jenna Pollard, who answered the phone at Steele's office and identified herself as his chief of staff, said she had no comment and didn't know if Steele had a lawyer.

More than 100 public officials in the state have been convicted on federal corruption charges in the last five years.

Thursday's arrests were the latest in an anti-corruption campaign waged by Christie's office. Two other Democratic state senators, Wayne Bryant of Lawnside and Sharpe James of Newark, are among others facing pending corruption charges.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070906/ap_on_re_us/corruption_arrests&print...

Right-wing Club for
Growth to pay fine

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A conservative, free market group that worked on behalf of Republican candidates in the 2000 and 2004 elections has agreed to pay $350,000 in civil penalties for failing to register as a political committee.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070905/ap_on_el_ge/political_group_fine;_yl...

Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act. Today, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero struck down part of the revised Patriot Act, ruling that investigators must obtain a court’s approval before the order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers. Marrero said the “recently rewritten Patriot Act ‘offends the fundamental constitutional principles of checks and balances and separation of powers.’”

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/06/ap4089011.html

2007 monthly U.S. fatalities in Iraq surpass 2006 levels. Frank de Libero posts a chart showing that monthly GI deaths in 2007 are higher than in 2006. As Matthew Yglesias points out, “the ’surge’ strategy specifically contemplated risking higher American death rates…in order to accomplish some larger political goals. Unfortunately, those goals weren’t achieved so we just have more dead people.”

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/gi_fatalities_in...