NETROOTS UPDATE w/pics

Thanks for the report and new (to me) links. Loved your line, "if Al says so, I don't ask questions."

Your voice is always welcome.

photos and commentary, Nando! Feels like I am there with you!

do you feel my presence over your left shoulder?

Tell Sam so far so good. And I send much luv and luck his way!

Don't think Nancy and her kind of Dem aren't afraid! They are. And it is specifically because of net roots and how fast it has taken off that scares them. We all need to push harder.

Ford heckled for supporting FOX at Netroots gathering

The ideological divide within the Democratic Party was alive and well during a keynote session at this year's Netroots Nation convention between DailyKos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the Democratic Leadership Council’s Harold Ford Jr.

The meeting between two men at opposite ends of the Democratic spectrum was meant to address party unity, but the attitude of the crowd was less than welcoming to political centrist Harold Ford.

Although both men agreed on the necessity of Democratic unity to elect Senator Barack Obama, the crowd showed that it was farther to the left than Ford after he praised FOX News.

During a question and answer with the audience, one man asked Ford why he was on television "smearing Democrats" if he sought party unity.

"I no longer work for FOX News, I did for about a year," Ford said, which brought clapping from those in the audience who didn't wait for Ford to finish his sentence.

"And I have great respect and admiration for my former colleagues there," Ford said, drawing immediate jeers and shouts of "Why?"

Ford added that he now works for the NBC and MSNBC news networks.

The split between Ford and Moulitsas continued with a discussion of the 2010 Democratic primaries, The Wall Street Journal reported.

"Harold will not applaud this, but in 2010 we’re going to have some Democrats we mean business to in some primaries," Moulitsas said, referring to Netroots activists who attempt to oust Democrats they dislike.

Ford countered this view by adding that some Democrats can't always be liberal in more conservative districts.

http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Ford_heckled_for_supporting_FOX_at_0718.h...

"Don't think Nancy and her kind of Dem aren't afraid! They are. And it is specifically because of net roots and how fast it has taken off that scares them. We all need to push harder."

...your knee might be hurtin', but your spirit is as strong as ever.

Thanks for the photos and news, Fernando. Something is up with Nancy. In all seriousness, she's not looking good.

Wow, I thought she looked better and more relaxed than I had seen her in a long time.

We are all very worried about you. I know you can handle any pain but I'm really squeamish so I can't even imagine it.

Any you are right. Ford is a tool. I left before the jeering started because that piece of work was more than I could stand.

CeeCee & Zeek, Nancy treated us like cattle regardless of her appearance imho. Zeek, maybe you can point me to a redeeming fight she has won or even started. If it's not safe, I don't think she's in to play. We need leaders not cowardly paper tigers.

Lessig's opening line was "With all due respect Madam Speaker" ... Then he tore into her lame appearance too. It was like a cool glass of water after coming out of a desert.

I saw her on some other thing recently and she did not look as good.

The right wing jerks like Melanie Morgan have always made fun of her looks with taunts about bug eyes and plastic surgery and botox, a saw that many on her other flank seem to have gleefully picked up on.

There really isn't much to say about her achievements except to refer you to her website. Anything she has done or might have would fall short for you anyway, especially when she can't control the Senate. I am just thankful for the little things like some change in direction and no Hassert and Boehner in charge.

But that's just me. Now I will be willing to settle for some bigger majorities in both houses and an O'Bama presidency. Then maybe we can see what can really be done.You know, if we don't get another Roberts or Alito or Scalia in the SCOTUS, I may just be satisfied with that, too.

BTW, was it really hot in there? Gore was shvitzing like crazy it seemed. Will we see more pictures?

The ideological divide within the Democratic Party was alive and well during a keynote session at this year's Netroots Nation convention between DailyKos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the Democratic Leadership Council’s Harold Ford Jr.

The meeting between two men at opposite ends of the Democratic spectrum was meant to address party unity, but the attitude of the crowd was less than welcoming to political centrist Harold Ford.

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If these two are at the "opposite ends of the Democratic [Party?] spectrum..." then this just goes to show how narrow the spectrum is. Both are into rule by the few. There are important differences, but neither advocate for real democracy. Both want to elect candidates, and leave it there.

Hey Fernando,
Your code of "nuisance from his contract" is lost on me. I must be way out of the loop here.

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I appreciate the info from netroots... I watched Pelosi's comments online and spent most of my time giving her the finger...I lost the feed before Al came on the stage to rescue her...I was disappointed in the moderator for her segment, any feedback on that?...without talking money, how much of the nuisance's contract is left? thanks again

I saw this infuriating video last night, Conyers really needs to leave Congress...

on the lessig podcast, thanks for reminding me, Fernando, and all the pictures, that was the greatest presentation I have seen from anyone anywhere, inspiring and funny and full of useful ideas

i am so sorry i could not be there in person, I almost had a last minute notion to go, but by then it would have been too late anyway, and when i looked at my work schedule, it was just not doable for me at that time. A pity, because Austin is actually not too distant or hard to get to from New Orleans

i wonder when was that meeting with the veterans taking place, before or after it was decided to hold these "bandaid" moot hearings on kucinich's bill this week

it's possible that this is what made conyers go to pelosi and beg for some gesture that would serve to calm the burning rage he felt expressed there

here's a link to the video with a little more info....

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34942

gotta get some work done

but just so you know i wanna let you know, how they're covering the US presidential race in the mainstream media overseas, in Italy to be precise - i had to laugh as i was watching the "news" - I subscribe to an italian channel which is pretty mainstream , kind of like cnn

so they were talking about barak obama trip in the ME and were showing him shaking hands and chatting with the soldiers, then they moved to mcain and mentioned how he's accusing obama of not enough international experience and blah blah and then - and this cracked me up, that they would say it in that context and the way they said it - mentioned mcain speech about a border of iraq with pakistan, and that he had also made a reference previously to the country of checoslovakia even though there's no such country since 1992!

this makes me think that maybe this italian channel gets its information not from fox news or even cnn but from utube and the blogs

later

Dr. Bob Fitrakis is a College Professor/Lawyer/ Journalist that is the courageous activist that exposed the election fraud of 2000 and 2004. As a matter of fact, the former Attorney General of Ohio tried to sanction Dr. Fitrakis and his law partner Cliff Arnebeck. He has appeared on Sam's show, Hartmann, Miller and Malloy.

On Saturday Dr. Bob was on a radio talk show in Columbus Ohio. He dropped the name Mike Connell. Who is this man, you might ask? Well! He is certainly someone we should all be aware of. God help us!

MIKE CONNELL:

Michael (Mike) L. Connell is President, Chief Political Strategist and CEO of New Media Communications, Inc., a Republican website development and internet services firm based in Richfield, OH. New Media's GOP clients are a "'Who's Who' of Republican politics", having provided campaign web services and Internet strategy for Bush-Cheney 2000/2004, as well as Dick Armey, Spencer Abraham for Senate 2000, Heather Wilson for Congress 2000/2002/2004, Rick Santorum for Senate 2000/2006, and John Thune for Senate 2002/2004 to name just a few.

New Media also designed GOP.com for the Republican National Committee, RGA.org for the Republican Governors Association, and between two and three dozen state GOP sites. In April 2001, Connell spun-off GovTech Solutions from New Media to handle its growing list of federal government clients, such as MajorityWhip.gov for Tom DeLay and Johnny Isakson. Business filings in the state of Ohio show that Govtech's founding members were Connell's wife Heather, and the well-known GOP operative and Chairman of the DCI Group, Thomas J. Synhorst. By 2004, Govtech's clients would grow to include more than 20 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, GOP.gov, the web site of the House Republican Conference, and the House Intelligence, Judiciary, Financial Services, Way and Means, and Administration committees. The latter was acquired while House Administration was chaired by former-U.S. Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, who was convicted in 2006 of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS SCARY!

Basically Connell had access to sensitive data regarding the House of Representatives that include:

· House Intelligence
· Ways & Means
· Judiciary
· Financial
· Administration

THE CONCLUSION:

Now you know why the Democrats are silent. No impeachment! No contempt of congress for Rove! None for Mukasey! Connell knows everything. He knows where all the bodies are buried. Furthermore, he was fired from the in 1990 Mark Pence campaign for election fraud.

NOW YOU KNOW!

Dr Bob Fitrakis is the author of several books on election fraud. He can be reached at:

http://www.fitrakis.org/

http://www.freepress.org/index2.php

FOR MORE ON CONNELL:

http://www.connelldonatelli.com/Mike.aspx

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_Connell

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State police spying decried
O'Malley pledges not to infringe on citizens' free speech

By Jonathan Bor and Gus G. Sentementes | Sun Reporters

July 19, 2008

A day after the American Civil Liberties Union released documents showing that the Maryland State Police spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups, Gov. Martin O'Malley vowed yesterday not to allow state law enforcement agencies to monitor people exercising their right to free speech.

In a prepared statement, O'Malley, a Democrat, noted that the spying occurred under the previous administration, that of Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. And while he said the state would "take seriously" possible threats to public safety, O'Malley vowed not to allow police to monitor groups when there is no evidence of wrongdoing.

The governor said his administration "does not and will not use public resources to target or monitor peaceful activities where Maryland citizens are exercising their First Amendment rights."

The police measures, which involved the infiltration of activist groups by covert agents, also drew an expression of concern by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin and a sharp rebuke by Maryland Common Cause, a government watchdog group. Cardin called for a "full accounting" of the police surveillance.

-more-

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.spy19jul19%2C0%2C424606...

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Can the devil get kids to believe being homosexual is normal?
Not with Brent around he won't!!

...nice 'stashe!

nuisance as in starts with an L, rhymes with HELL and think of your childhood train set in O scale. Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me and O. How about an N? End it with HELL and what do you get! NUISANCE.

This is certainly a surprise to wake up to. Thank you Sam! I was finally catching the Ashcroft hearings in its entirety. If you haven't seen it, they say it is 3 hours but it's really 4 hours long. It's incredible testimony, I recommend you catch it at C-Span Archives I passed out at the end while I was recording it. Then my computer automatically upgraded windows software and rebooted so I didn't get a chance to save it. In the end, I went to bed real late.

My daughter woke me up after several phone calls. I was already late for work. I was about to panic when she gave me the bad news that one of our best friends lost his house to fire and she was there helping out.

http://www.aclu-md.org/aPress/Attachments/MSP_Documents.pdf

Submitted by edna ellen poe on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 8:19am.
I was listening to regular radio. During the CNN News break, it was said that the group The B52's were in a plane crash. However, I do not see it on CNN"s website.

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Normally I don't post a quote without a link.

But!

I swear thats what I heard.

Go ahead laugh!

Roll on the floor.

Okay that's enough.

...sorry to hear about the loss.

where did you find that?

No CeeCee. My friend Justin was at the house late last night and the house had just caught fire when he got there so he helped get his mom and little brother and dog out.

this guy's level of cartooning is right about the same as those old matchbooks that promised you could have a career in art...

whats wrong with the people of oklahoma that they would tolerate this crap?

July 18, 2008 at 22:41:54

by Ray Louis Page 1 of 1 page(s)

Excerpt

Let me begin by saying that I am not a Batman fan. I think he is corporate criminal who focuses on street crime while Bruce Wayne's "Wayne Enterprises" acts as an international hi-tech arms dealer. As presented In various forms of the media (comic books, cartoons, and movies), Wayne's conglomerate is involved in many questionable industrial enterprises -- from petroleum extraction and chemical processing to bio-tech and corporate control of the media (through his ownership of the Daily Planet from Superman fame). So while I am in awe of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the same way that I am in awe of Rupert Murdoch or Dick Cheney, I am not a fan of the character and do not see him as a hero.

This current movie goes to new lows for Batman, but before we get to the current movie... first let's look at some of his more well known foes from previous movies. The Poison Ivy character, best known from the 1997 movie Batman & Robin, is an overt environmentalist (albeit a misanthropic one) who overtly and directly accuses Wayne Enterprises of environmental crimes as the motivation for her hostilities. Bruce Wayne quickly produces some greenwashing to his millionaire friends as a response to show her up. In the more recent Batman Begins (2005) the chief protagonist is a militant environmentalist (albeit a misanthropic one) in Ra's al Ghul. Both times, the environmentalist villains are handily dispatched by the billionaire corporatist Bruce Wayne in the form of his technologically enabled alter ego. I could go on with other villains created or motivated by Wayne Industry's indiscretions, but you get the idea.

con't

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Spoiler-Alert---The-Dark-K-by-Ray-Louis...

A pedophile for sure.

Hide those little boys from Brent Rinehart and Troy King!

waiting for the machine shop to open up, making an expresso, and playing with the puppers.

nice riff on netroots but i think it's important to mention what Kos said before she spoke... "no heckling allowed"

and the gang sat still for that? Nancy should be exposed for the flag sucking fraud she is!

ah! coffees done! i'm going outside to yell at the morning glories.

I thought you meant our Brett.... I need to go back to sleep.

Elect Brent!
Submitted by dan on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 10:50am.
this guy's level of cartooning is right about the same as those old matchbooks that promised you could have a career in art...
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Aaarrrr! Can ye be drawin' this pirate? If so, ye might be havin' a career in th' excitin' field o' swish bucklin'.

Did anyone catch the comment I left at the blog for the CEO of Whole Earth Markets?

I was in Austin last week for Netroots. I was surprised to not see your presence. In fact, Dallas just had progressive radio return to our market. Why is it we have to come to your blog to hear about all the great progressive things you do?

Please go to http://rationalradio.org/ and make an inquiry.

Well, it still shows awaiting moderation but now also has a note saying the comment was forwarded within the company.

We need progressive companies to support progressive media. Please consider letting your dollars work for you to shore up our progressive radio stations. Tell them you want them to sell where you listen. Or send a similar message to the Whole Earth CEO at:

http://wholefoodsmarket.com/socialmedia/jmackey/2008/06/05/invitation-to...

the Brent not Brett story.

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Ahh the B 52's! Saw them at gay pride in Piedmont park back when I lived in a real civilization. This is a shot of the midtown Atlanta skyline from lake Clara Meer in Piedmont park.

I left this neighborhood to live in Crowley, LA. huh.
Excuse me while I go hang myself!

Just kidding on the self-offing, but ya know sometimes....

I thought this presentation he made at the National Conference for Media Reform was the best thing I've seen all year.
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Save it for later, it runs about 28 mins.

did you get any idea of how long Lionel's contract lasts?

that's beautiful. Hopefully the people of Crowley appreciate you.

no but it's a whopper of a contract from what I understand.

We need to insist on real progressives for our progressive media outlets. We don't need to be known as weak sauce. We need our champions on the air.

unfortunately Lessig is a fan of democracy.

Democracy means something completely different from what we think it is.

too bad, he's a good guy i think.

Mucho Lame-o...

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Tolerate it?!?!?!? You are too kind dan..."perpetrate it" is closer to the mark.

They are still in the 19th century.

Blasphemy is still a criminal misdemeanor in OK, and Sodomy is a felony (10 years), as a "crime against nature", for gay sex only, of course.....

I agree completely...the idea of an ad group to sponsor Sam on Nova M is great...got any ideas on who might do it?

Promotes:

1. No more PAC money
2. Public finance of public elections
3. Reform earmarks
4. Total transparency

With the above Congress can be changed which can create legislation that will take the media back from the corps, level the playing field and give us all a voice.

The whole Creative Commons concept is compelling imo.

I haven't heard or read any better alternatives for we the peeps.

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Mostly, they don't. It's just the nature of the culture here. They go to churches that worship "supply-side Jesus".
That "Jesus" teaches folks to defacate upon the souls of those with less money and material objects than themselves.
Such a fuckin' joy to be around these people. Typical rural Republican voters.

Someone remind me later to send royalty payments to Al Franken.

Mainstream movie

http://www.archive.org/details/Dementia_13.avi

A good find by the folks at BoingBoing: Dementia 13, Francis Ford Coppola’s slasher/thriller from 1963, can be downloaded for free over at Archive.org (which is where you can also download a nice version of Orwell’s 1984).You can watch an embedded version below, or download an AVI file here.

Here’s the gist of the plot: “An old Irish family is haunted by dark secrets around the death of a little girl seven years earlier. Two women, one married into the family and one soon to be, start unraveling the secrets at a price that couldn’t have imagined.”

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gulfstreamtoo on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 11:45am.

We are their target audience. Why do they advertise elsewhere when we listen to AAR and Novam. They need to fund the local radio station ads to sell to us. I'm just going to find companies that attempt to answer progressive issues about the environment, health care, renewable energy and just write them until someone notices.

It sure would be nice if others did that too. I think bloggers could really make a difference to let them know they aren't really progressive if they are supporting corporate main stream media.

I hear you and will do what I can as well...Thanks

Report: Russia mulls sending bombers to Cuba

Agence France-Presse
Published: Tuesday July 22, 2008

Russia may start regular flights by long-range bombers to Cuba in response to US plans to build missile defence sites in Eastern Europe, the newspaper Izvestia reported Monday, quoting an official.

"Such discussions exist," the unidentified senior Russian air force official was quoted as saying, adding that the measure would be a response to the United States "deploying missile defence systems in Poland and the Czech Republic."

Con't

http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Report_Russia_mulls_sending_bombers_to_07...

This library blocks pscelebrities.com,
but allows usuallydonewhilenaked.blogspot.com

Crazy stuff.

Anyway, I gotta go, later Sederistas!

:-)

blog the call to get others involved if you can too. Lets make some waves.

Elect me, not Brent!

bye again ; )

I've never heard it put like that. My mom once asked my why I get so angry and combative with others who bring up Christianity (such as my 72yo nun aunt). I told her that the Bible just teaches people to hate and embeds bigotry into their belief systems.

She was shocked to hear me say that but now fully understands how it works. Nothing like a few dead babies from an illegal war sold as a crusade to shake reality into some people.

Religion ain't the solution, it's the problem.

My God's better than your God
My God's better than yours
Disagree and I'm gonna kill ya
My God's better than yours.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

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Should be a personal thing..in a perfect world.

maggiesboy,

My god can make a rock so big that your god can't lift it.

his butt off today after I take my bud shopping for clothes and a toothbrush and then go see Dark Knight in IMAX.

some of us have tried for years to talk about what the real shituation is here and globally.

what we're up against is people dedicated to believing in the "myth" of democracy instead of the reality.

we repeat, strike a few sparks and for the most part watch the fire die out in the soggy wood we're working with.

on the bright side, occasionally we get a nice little fire going in an individuals heart that stays lit from then on.

blows me away when i type for hours to enlighten an individual about political realities only to have them forget the whole thing a day later.

short term memory problems? addiction to the security of propaganda myth? inability to read? fear of going against the herd? i've encountered all the above here.

still we persist. i am hoping like hell eventually we'll collectively realise we've had enough of the lies and decide we're not taking anymore of it.

i reccomend listening to Naomi Wolf, "The End of America" for a 'read' on what USA democracy is really about for us and the rest of the world and what we're going to have to do change this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0LvtQAQ6sc&feature=related

we REALLY ought to incorporate as a group and challenge the real assholes on a somewhat level playing field.

We have sex with Barack Obama. We make love to you. - FDL

Sick, twisted writing at the house of Jane....

Great comment from you SJ...

I wonder why...?

After that psycho anonymous (local) was following me around the internet I blocked the IP range of the County so no one on the network can see the psceleb site...I was sure that was someone on the "inside" harrassing me...

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This is the second post in two days where someone is talking God/Jesus/Anarchy..that's odd...

http://dalsol.org/?p=399
"Personally, I loved Joker’s anarchist views. I’ve always known that if I weren’t a Christian I would be an anarchist. You can blame one of my college professors for that. He made us read the Unabomber’s Manifesto and… I’m gonna shut up. I still love Jesus."

Here's the one from yesterday:

http://inhabitatiodei.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/the-anarchic-kingdom-of-g...

The Anarchic Kingdom of God
Posted on July 21, 2008 by Halden

“Anarchism as a principle stands in line with God’s kingdom because the theocracy of God’s kingdom means none other than an anarchist order. The anarchism of God’s kingdom does not mean disorder or chaos but quite the reverse. Here every human being stands in a direct relation to God and in freely ordered and equally based community to each other. The kingdom of God does not run counter to anarchism, but anarchism comes out of the kingdom of God. Where anarchism stands under the rule of God, there is no master-slave relation in the interpersonal realm. The primary rule of God does not tolerate a secondary dominating form of human over human. Where there is the Spirit of the living God, there occurs a voluntary and dominion-free personal community.”

–Paul S. Chung, Karl Barth: God’s Word in Action (Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, Forthcoming)

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And for fun...Chomsky on Anarcho-Syndicalism

http://codesmithy.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/chomsky-on-anarcho-sydicalism...

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Hello Sederistas

I am not a frequent blogger on Sam's blog but after Netroots I certainly feel like I now know many of you more intimately (and that is not always a positive thing- kidding!) I really wanted to thank Fernando for all his help with the SS Meetup -Sam gave me lots of credit for that and Fernando was a BIG, BIG help.

We have tons of photos up if any of you guys are interested -there are some good ones of the Sammy events. http://picasaweb.google.com/dallasairamerica You are also welcome to subscribe to our weekly newsletter too if anyone is interested.

Thanks,

Nancy Cunningham
dallasairamerica@gmail.com
Dallas Air America
http://www.dallasairamerica.org/

Nancy @ Dallas Air America puts Sam to work in the booth

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has called for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect his country from the United States.

"That way we can guarantee Venezuela's sovereignty, which is now threatened by the US," Chavez said shortly after his arrival in Moscow on Tuesday.

Chavez has repeatedly accused Washington of plotting an invasion of Venezuela to destabilise his government, despite US denials.

The president is in Russia to broker a number of deals involving weapons purchases, oil exploration and possibly the creation of a joint financial institution.

It is his first meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, who took office in May.

Welcoming Chavez at his castle resort near Moscow, the capital, Medvedev said Russian-Venezuelan relations "are one of the key factors of security in the (South American) region".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/07/2008722121720488481.htm...

Bulldozer attack hits Jerusalem
A driver of a construction vehicle has wounded 20 people after going on a rampage in west Jerusalem, before he was shot dead.

'Copycat incident'

"This attack was very similar to the one carried out three weeks ago, and has stirred debate as to how the authorities here should respond to such incidents. There have been calls to demolish this man's house, but people are asking whether it is right to punish the family of this 22-year-old man," he said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/07/2008722113412174993...

Building the Infrastructure for High-Tech War Crimes

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With a unified organizational structure and a $2 billion budget for the first year of operations, Cyber Command is touted as the next “big thing.”
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With a mission to “deceive, deny, disrupt, degrade, and destroy” an enemy’s information infrastructure, the potential for mischief on the part of American “warfighters” and “public diplomacy” black propaganda specialists shouldn’t be underestimated.
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dot com

it sounds like what you're trying to do with advertising requires some coordinated effort, a movement almost, gotta be a large number to make some waves. I am with you guys and count me in, but....(I don't have the time right now, but...), but it would seem to me the first thing to do would be some minimal research (google or whatever) to see if it already exists a similar effort initiated by somebody else, just maybe, so we can join forces if something already exists (basically making progressive corps and businesses aware of their progressive target audience and tell them what we want, in the general and in the specific) - i remember a "buy blue" campaign at one point which had a list of "good" companies, don't even know if it still exists nor whether it produced any results - it might be useful to at least check that list to get some ideas of whom to address - we are more focused their campaign was more generalized and consume oriented, but to identify the good companies, that would save us some work right there

there may also be something already directed at media out there on similar lines, it's hard to think there wouldn't be, so to avoid duplicating efforts and wasting time/resources we should do some research i think, but as i said, sorry, right now i do not have the time

I will look for it too.

the party and I was left behind. Great pics Nando thanks for all the work you did.

my show is tonight. I will be talking about attachment....6pm pacific.

Happe Talk

Trader Joe's

More nice pix from Nancy @ Dallas AAR

does Radio supposedly:
http://www.traderjoes.com/radio_flyer.html

We don't have that here in Texas so I don't know where they advertise. Does anyone else know what stations they support? Is it a Novam or AAR station? If not someone who lives near one of these stores should tell them to redirect their ad's to their target audience.

http://www.traderjoes.com/locations.asp

I don't know about Whole Foods politics but I do seem to recall they are pretty anti-union but try to be fair to their employees.

nice eto see the blog keeps rolling!

I just looked them up the other day. They are in a state of "transition" right now.

http://buyblue.org

I remember going there a lot back in '04. They had a lot of ratings for companies as to how "blue" they advertised. I don't recall ever hearing any of them advertise on AAR. The big ones, like OP Gallo, prolly were effected buy the ABC blackout drive.

While I see this as a good thing to do, my gut tells me there's another way and my brain isn't releasing the information right now.
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Obama calls anew for more U.S. troops in Afghanistan
By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers

AMMAN, Jordan — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that his visit to Iraq and Afghanistan only underscored his desire to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq over a 16-month period and to add more forces in Afghanistan.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/45104.html

* Who's Paying for the Conventions? Corporate Sponsors Pour Millions into Party Coffers *

Less than two weeks after Congress granted retroactive immunity to telecoms involved in the Bush spy program, it's been learned

AT&T will be emblazoned on every delegate's bag at the Democratic National Convention.

Like Comcast, Motorola, Coca-Cola, Google and a host of other corporate sponsors, the telecom giant has donated over a million dollars to the DNC in return for prominent display space and access to elected officials. But none of these companies have fully disclosed their projected contributions to the convention, according to a new report from the Campaign Finance Institute.
We speak with the group's associate director for policy, Steve Weissman.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/22/whos_paying_for_the_conventions

* Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald on FISA Vote, Executive Power and Prosecuting White House Officials for War Crimes *

We host a discussion with Cass Sunstein, an informal adviser to Barack Obama and an outgoing University of Chicago Law School professor who has been described as "the nation's most-cited legal scholar," and Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional law attorney and political and legal blogger for Salon.com. The two debate issues ranging from the FISA bill to Obama's refusal to support calls for the prosecution of President Bush and top White House officials for war crimes and other abuses of power.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/22/obama_adviser_cass_sunstein_debate...

ees hokay

AT&T is traditionally up the R's ass...I I saw that first hand working at the Pebble Beach AT&T golf thing, in the VIP tent)....Nice to see they're spreading their crap and corruption to the D's too...

HA!

I know the EU is tired of it....I don't understand why the US is there....and i am windering if we doo draw down troops in Iraq - -would that give personnel for another war, i.e. Iran, not just Afghanistan?
I think the "war on terror" cannot be fought militarily, if there indeed is a "war on terror..." never heard a definition, really.

I'm for you too {{{{fiona}}}}!

disclaimer: "Supply Side Jesus" is from Al Franken's book[s]. The rest of that post, including the analysis of conservative "Christians" is from my experience.

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Texas is a right to work state.

Good idea happe. Maybe you can help us all to figure out just how we can successfully end this dysfunctional and self destructive relationship we have with the Democratic Party.

They are all (with very few exceptions) still jerking us off, they are just switching hands from right to left and changing rhythm a little to give us a different sensation.

Sorry...that Conyers/VFP clip has me really pissed. That smug assed lyin mutha fucka. "You don't know what my plans are."...Like he really intends to actually do something besides dick us around...and Pelosi at Netroots...pfft. christ. MAN I am so done with these assholes.

Yes We Can. The old Alcoa slogan, back when I was kid working for Jag-In-A-Bag.

Would you like a Fanta, with your Super Taco sir?
Fuck you, Jack.
Thank you, sir. That will $3.24.

Hope on a rope....

Its all the same.

Afghanistan equals Pakistan. A country nine thousand miles away with 175 million people. We lose. Beyond, Kucinich, hardly anyone gets the lesson of 911. Most of the world is sick of our empire and energy needs. Most of our confused and ignorant population is even sick of our empire. When Barack said:"... but more than that,we have to change the mindset that led to Iraq in the first place..," I thought he got it. I'm not sure now. I expecting another pathetic pander speech to AIPAC from Barack tomorrow while his visits the land of the "chosen."

it is way relevant..

Happe Talk

Netroots Nation or Nation of Sheep?

By RONNIE CUMMINS

Saturday morning, July 19. Sitting here at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas with several thousand other online activists. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party Speaker of the House, the third most powerful politician in the United States, is up on the podium, doing her best to damp down the mounting criticism of the Democratic Party's shameful collaboration in funding the war and aiding and abetting the Bush administration's shredding of the Constitution.

Before Pelosi speaks, an announcement is made from the podium that disruptions will not be tolerated--if any of us express our frustrations too passionately with Pelosi and the sell-out Democratic Party leadership we will be arrested. The first question the Netroots moderator poses to Pelosi is about impeachment. This generates considerable applause and cheers from the crowd. Pelosi, notorious for proclaiming that "impeachment is off the table," artfully dodges the question and evasively talks about censuring the Bush administration and getting tough on Karl Rove. This generates polite clapping from the front of the room, where all the tables have apparently been "reserved" for Pelosi fans. In contrast I can see groans, grimaces, and shaking of heads from many of us, the netroots rabble, sitting at the back of the hall.

I resist a strong urge to get up and leave. How long will the centrist bureaucrats of Netroots Nation and groups like MoveOn roll-over for lowest common denominator Democrats and Barack Obama? After an hour of rather boring rhetoric by Pelosi, Al Gore makes a surprise appearance on the stage, letting Nancy off the hook.

After a standing ovation, Gore reminds us that the polar icecaps are melting even faster than scientists had expected. The global climate crisis, he goes on, is about to turn into a climate catastrophe. Gore then points out that global warming is of course connected to the energy crisis, reliance on foreign oil, and the economic crisis, as well as the lack of political leadership in the country. Finally, to cheers from the crowd, Gore calls on the assembled netroots to educate the public and get behind his campaign http://www.wecansolveit.org to generate 100% of the nation's electricity from renewable sources of energy within 10 years.

Pelosi once again joins Gore on the stage and rather unconvincingly tries to present herself and the Democratic majority in the Congress as "revolutionary" on energy matters. This is too much for a number of us in the audience, and finally a man yells out at the top of his lungs, "What about the goddamn impeachment resolution?" The security guards at side of the hall look nervously around, but no one makes a move to arrest the man.

After unconvincingly claiming that she is trying to be "bi-partisan" today, and dodging a question about whether or not she will get behind Gore's campaign for 100% renewable electricity by 2018, Pelosi rather anti-climatically reminds us that nothing will change unless we "get out there and elect Obama and a Democratic majority in November..."

Whether or not you decide to vote for Democrat Barack Obama, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney, or Independent Ralph Nader in November, please go to http://www.GrassrootsNetroots.org and join a growing radical populist army who believe we need an alternative to MoveOn and Democratic Party centrists. The doomsday clock is ticking. Let's fight like hell to make sure that 2008 is not the year where we tried to change drivers, but still went over the cliff.

So?

Whole Foods is almost everywhere.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/mar/27/supermarkets.usnews

Mackey, 54, runs the empire partly from his 720-acre ranch outside Austin, where he tends chickens (and eats their eggs), venturing out in person and by blog to conduct arguments with people in the organics movement who believe that Whole Foods has betrayed most of its principles. He is an intriguing combination of the patriarchal idealist and a hard-headed, growth-pursuing businessman, with strong libertarian views. Deeply anti-union (he is widely quoted as likening unions to "having herpes"), he is criticised for refusing to back what might seem obvious causes, for instance over the rights and pay rates of migrant labour on American farms. But he still has a quest, according to his blog, to reform industrial agriculture, and indeed "to make the world a better place".

Thanks I'm glad someone actually thinks this is news. Hopefully, 13 years from now, or less, our King George will be headed to The Hague.

In Belgrade, a bizarre picture emerged of how Karadzic, who masterminded the 42-month siege of Sarajevo and is held politically responsible for the massacre of almost 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in July 1995, reinvented himself as a bearded New Age guru and devotee of alternative medicine living modestly in a Belgrade suburb and touring the country to deliver homilies on a better life.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/22/radovankaradzic.mladic

it would make no sense to impeach two presidents in a row. What the fuck is he saying here. The first impeachment was a total sham and this one has merits beyond the pale. This indicates to me that the Washington establishment has no judgement on what the constitution even means. That it is so political that it has lost its conscience. In essence it is a sociopath that is very charming but out to fuck us up the butt.

Situational ethics at its worse. Greenwald nails him good. Principles in Washington have been euthenized.

So do you think I am attached?

Happe Talk

if not your unfortunate choice of terms (sheeple? Blow me.)

But, despite your failures in social skills, I happen to agree with the gist of your post.

So, I joined. See you on the firing lines...who ever you are.

Is mankind killing penguins washing ashore on Brazil's coast?
By Jack Chang | McClatchy Newspapers

Jack Chang / MCT

Hundreds of Patagonian penguins have washed up since late-June on the Brazilian coast. Many of them are baby penguins and arrived suffering from hypothermia, malnutrition and other ailments. | View larger image

NITEROI, Brazil — The discovery of hundreds of young penguins washing up along the Brazilian shoreline over the past month has sparked a scientific mystery over what may have led the birds thousands of miles astray.

"The penguin population is intimately linked to their supplies of food, so this suggests something is happening to the population of fish they eat," said biologist Marcelo Bertellotti at the National Patagonic Center in Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

"It appears the penguins are not finding fish where they normally do, and one reason could be that warming waters and climate change have impacted the fish population."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/45131.html

centrist NetRoots Nation:
http://www.GrassrootsNetroots.org/

July 22, 2008

Conservative Lawyers Urge Bush To Issue ˜Pre-Emptive Pardons' To Officials Involved In Illegal Programs Submitted by Amanda Lang

Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance. A BEFORE YOU GO TO JAIL, GET-OUT-OF-INDICTMENT AND-PROSECUTION' CARD?

Con't

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=64516

Antiwar activists split over Obama's troop plans
By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's plan to build up U.S. forces in Afghanistan while keeping perhaps 50,000 troops in Iraq has triggered a deep rift among antiwar activists, a reminder of the difficult tasking facing the presumptive Democratic nominee as he tries to broaden his appeal.

Barbra Bearden, spokeswoman for Peace Action, called Obama's comments about Afghanistan "a bit disheartening."

Ian Thompson, lead organizer in Los Angeles for Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, an antiwar group, found Obama's Afghanistan position similar to that of President Bush and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

"What this shows is that Barack Obama does not really represent any policy shift," he said

But Obama's views troubled many peace activists.

Bearden of Peace Action said that "we've seen the results of these military actions. We create a power vacuum and try to create a government. We did that in Iraq, and now we're talking about using the same failed strategy again in Afghanistan."

Judith LeBlanc, organizing coordinator for United for Peace & Justice, said that "dealing with the threat of terrorism cannot be done on a military basis." She and other activists wanted to hear more from Obama about a strategy for dealing with terrorism around the globe, including more use of diplomacy and economic aid.

The activists agreed on this much: They're not going to vote for McCain

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/45161.html

Your timing is impeccable Anon...
Submitted by cent on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 5:02pm.
if not your unfortunate choice of terms (sheeple? Blow me.)

You don't have a sense of humor? You must not listen to such commentators as Marc Maron, who uses the term "sheeple" both as a mild criticism and as a term of endearment? Listen to him next time he guest hosts on AAR.

Savage Weiner 10 or 15 years ago.