The Surge is Working!

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How's everything with you and the b-gurl?

digging our way out from that $4000 wage rip.

may get a camping trip in despite it.

trying to move three cars today.

Bgurl says "good morning"

Yours truly wrote this & it got published in opednews
Submitted by smcgee43 on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 9:53am.
Wolf Killings in Alaska

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Why do we live in such barbaric times?

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Cool..Good job.. :)

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

Toni save that jobless claims report for
when the Rethugs,in about 1 year,try to claim that the Recession didn't start until Obama got in office.. :)

You know those pants wetters will..

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

Hang in there you guys..

You better..

You do know that if McCrazy wins we are all coming up there for a long
house vist ! ;)

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

McCain Facing Touchy Job Loss Issue Today In Ohio
John McCain is visiting Lima, Ohio, where he has a town hall scheduled for 11:30 a.m. The Associated Press points out that McCain is being faced with an awkward issue as he visits: The closure of a DHL shipping site in southwest Ohio, which in turn is the result of a corporate merger that was lobbied for years ago by none other than Rick Davis, McCain's own campaign manager.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/08/mccain_to_discuss_potential_jo...

Seder in the house..

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

I'll save it for sure!

Jim, Good Morning back to b-gurl! Hope she's better too!

Sandy, send me an email about your house. If I can help in any way let me know.

Maybe it's the weather or some better news today, but I'm feeling a bit more confident.

Have you listened to yourinterview by Fernando on bluerootsradio yet?

EMILY's List Condemns Jew-Baiting Ad
Democratic House candidate Nikki Tinker's new ad bashing Jewish Dem Congressman Steve Cohen for visiting "our churches" has been condemned in a new statement from EMILY's List, which has been supporting her primary challenge to Cohen: "We were shocked to see the recent ads run by the Nikki Tinker for Congress campaign. We believe the ads are offensive and divisive. EMILY's List does not condone or support these types of attacks."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0808/Tinker_attacks_Cohen_over_r...

Randi Rhodes and Air America Win Big Court Victory Against Alleged "Torture" Contractor
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/449

i'm expecting to see quite a few blogatics next year.

i think everyone is forgetting "W"'s north american union plans...

personally i'd head for belize.

everyone got a good passport?

mac classes
Submitted by dan on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 10:25am.
i thought they were supposed to be pretty much intuitive.

They are which is the problem after you've been water-tortured in Windoze World for so long. There's a lot of anxiety after you switch. You keep waiting for the thing to freeze up or be trashed by some malicious bug but it doens't happen. It's the antithesis of water torture until you finally accept that you just turn it on and it works....all the time.

The problem PC users have is accepting that using a computer can be so easy. They are too used to fighting to get what they want.

I still have forehead slapping moments when I find newer easier ways to do old tasks.

Having said all that, please don't switch. My big fear is Mac's will become the standard and the bad geeks will finally get smart enough to code viruses in Unix.

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trying to move three cars today.

I am house sitting/cat herding/truck moving for vacationing friends and you made me think I have missed a street sweeping maneuver for a second.

I just learned how to use garage band in two minutes by viewing their vid tutorial...I just love my macs....

Happe Talk

normal desktop, last virus in the wild was in 1999, does'nt lose info ever.

system disk in the $6 range.

has several hundred proggies.

lots of browsers, a bulletproof email, good video and music players.

excellent image proggies.

way faster than XP or Vista.

Clinton Supporters Organizing Protest At Dem Convention
A group of Hillary Clinton supporters called "18 Million Voices" -- roughly the number of people who voted for her in the primaries and caucuses -- is planning to hold a march through Denver on August 26, the same day that Clinton is scheduled to address the convention. Expect them to advance the claim that Clinton won the popular vote when Michigan is factored in, and is thus the rightful nominee of the party.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/07/clinton-supporters-to-st...

entirely in Garageband. That's my big secret.

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Al Franken Stepping Up Attacks Against GOP Senator
By Eric Kleefeld - August 7, 2008, 10:55AM
Check out this new ad from Al Franken, going after incumbent GOP Sen. Norm Coleman: It's one of the first Dem ads of this whole cycle to go directly after a Republican incumbent over a story involving political muck. It's also a clear sign that Franken, who's trailing in most polls, knows he needs to really step up the attacks:

Video at link

"Coleman is being investigated for paying only $600 a month rent to live in a million-dollar D.C. home owned by a Washington insider connected to powerful lobbyists," the announcer says, before hinting at more attacks to come. "And it gets even worse. Stay tuned for more."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/al_franken_stepp...

I still can't download the New Vista SP1

On my laptop !

It tries for about 2 hrs
the says somethings couldn't download..
Then says it has to go back to Original
Vista..

What a Pain in The Ass !

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

Spread McCain's Talking Points On The Web -- And Earn Prizes!
By Greg Sargent - August 7, 2008, 11:24AM
This, no doubt, will send you all stampeding over to John McCain's campaign Web site:

Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web -- and you could win valuable prizes!
That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort...

People who sign up for McCain's program receive reward points each time they place a favorable comment on one of the listed Web sites (subject to verification by McCain's webmasters). The points can be traded for prizes, such as books autographed by McCain, preferred seating at campaign events, even a ride with the candidate on his bus, known as the Straight Talk Express, according to campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.

See? Who says McCain and the Republicans are trailing Obama and the Dems in online organizing?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/spread_mccains_t...

Tangled Web
It seems this story about McCain fundraiser Harry Sargeant III, that Greg and Eric were reporting on today, just keeps getting dicier. Now the New York Times has more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/us/politics/07mccain.html?_r=2&ref=pol...

Late Update: Even more interesting. Eric Kleefeld catches a further connection the Times appears to have missed.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mystery_deepens_...

--Josh Marshall

Franken has a sound campaign addstrategy imo.

1. Refute, in plain English, what you've been accused of doing.
2. Kick your opponent in the nuts with the Steel-Toed Boot of Truth!

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White House memo exposes Rove knew of problems with anthrax vaccine
Allen McDuffee

Rove said Gulf War Syndrome, vaccine political stumbling block

The Department of Defense continued its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program despite high ranking Bush administration officials acknowledging there were problems with the vaccine within months of the Bush administration taking office—well before the 9/11 attacks and the October 2001 anthrax letters.

A 2001 memorandum from former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz indicates that the White House knew of problems relating to the Gulf War Syndrome and the military's controversial anthrax vaccine.

Obtained by RAW STORY earlier this year from a senior military official and referenced in today's New York Daily News, "I do think we need to examine the issues of both Gulf War Syndrome and the Anthrax vaccine and how they can be dealt with," Rove wrote. "They are political problems for us."

RAW STORY had held off printing the memorandum (which appears below) in an effort to validate its authenticity. Along with the memo, Rove noted that he had attached "material on the Anthrax vaccine problem," which had been forwarded to him by H. Ross Perot. He titled it "GULF WAR SYNDROME AND ANTHRAX."

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the military official who leaked the memo said, "It didn't bother me that Rove referred to it as a political problem at the time because it meant that it would be properly dealt with, finally. The political problem became a problem to me when they dropped the ball and allowed the program to continue. It was politics that motivated them to investigate and it was politics that motivated them to allow the program to continue. Now the political nature bothers me."

The Apr. 25, 2001 memo indicates how long and how far up in the administration the anthrax vaccine—and Gulf War Syndrome—have been considered problematic.

The Pentagon's anthrax vaccine is manufactured by a single contractor, Emergent BioSolutions. It has been plagued with complaints from soldiers and soldiers' advocates, who assert that the vaccine caused myriad debilitating ailments.

The Defense Department was forced to halt mandatory injections in 2004 after a judge ruled that the FDA had not approved the vaccine for its intended use. In 2006, the military resumed mandatory vaccinations after FDA approval, citing letters laced with anthrax in late 2001 as a reason.

Questions about the mailings containing anthrax have re-emerged in the wake of a suicide by a biodefense researcher. Bruce Ivins, 62, was under federal investigation for the 2001 anthrax attacks that left five people dead and more than a dozen sickened, some with permanent damage. In a Wednesday joint FBI and Department of Justice press conference, while not officially closing the case, Assistant Director in Charge Joseph Persichini of the FBI Washington Field Office said, "Bruce Ivins was responsible for the death, sickness, and fear brought to our country by the 2001 anthrax mailings."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Memo_shows_White_House_knew_of_0807.html

Cleric may end cease fire if no US withdrawal timetable released Friday
Associated Press

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will call on his fighters to maintain a cease-fire against American troops but may lift the order if a planned Iraq-U.S. security agreement lacks a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces, a spokesman said Thursday.

The statement by Sheik Salah al-Obeidi comes as al-Sadr plans to reveal details of a formula to reorganize his Mahdi Army militia by separating it into an unarmed cultural organization and elite fighting cells.

The announcement is expected during weekly Islamic prayer services on Friday.

Several cease-fires by al-Sadr have been key to a sharp decline in violence over the past year, but American officials still consider his militiamen a threat and have backed the Iraqi military in operations to try to oust them from their power bases in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq.

Al-Sadr's move appears to be an extension of plans he announced in June aimed at asserting more control over the militia by dividing it into a group of experienced members who would be exclusively authorized to fight and others who would focus on social, religious and community work.

But the cleric also apparently has decided to link the reorganization to ongoing U.S.-Iraqi negotiations over a long-term agreement that would extend the American presence in Iraq after a U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year. The White House's original goal was to have it completed by the end of July.

"This move is meant to offer an incentive for the foreign forces to withdraw," al-Obeidi said. "The special cells of fighters will not strike against foreign forces until the situation becomes clear vis-a-vis the Iraq-U.S. agreement on the presence of American forces here."

The new cultural group will be called Momahidoun, or "those who pave the way" in Arabic, in reference to the Mahdi, or so-called Hidden Imam, who disappeared as a child in the ninth century. Shiites believe he will return one day to bring justice to Earth.

It will replace the Mahdi Army, but elite cells of fighters will be created that could resume targeting U.S.-led foreign forces under strict guidelines, such as not harming Iraqis or infrastructure, said al-Obeidi, the al-Sadr spokesman.

The U.S. military cautiously welcomed the reorganization plan, saying it appeared to be an effort to help the Iraqi people. Residents in some Baghdad neighborhoods, however, said American troops were removing neighborhood fliers from al-Sadr's offices saying "a new organization will be established soon."

"The proof is always in the actions and not just the words," military spokesman Col. Jerry O'Hara said in an e-mailed statement.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cleric_may_end_cease_fire_if_0807.html

Hidden, a 3.5 Million Trash Heap Lies in the Ocean
The Great Pacific Garbage Dump Stretches From California to China
By DARCY BONFILS and IMAEYEN IBANGA
Aug. 6, 2008 —

The world's largest trash dump doesn't sit on some barren field outside an urban center. It resides thousands of miles from any land  in the Pacific Ocean.

Bottle caps, soap bottles, laundry baskets and shards of plastic are just a few things that float in the ocean's vastness. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the "dump" is composed mainly of plastic, which isn't biodegradable.

Instead, the plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces in the patch that extends thousands of miles, from California's coast to China.

Charles Moore, who discovered the trash heap by accident in 1997 when he was sailing the Pacific, collects samples of the growing garbage bin. Some of his samples have contained six times more plastic than plankton.

"It is like a minestrone and ... a lot of the vegetables are plastic," said Moore, who stages regular trips to the garbage patch for research.

A series of currents in the Pacific Ocean create a circular effect that pulls debris from North America, Asia and the Hawaiian Islands into a toxic stew. Then it shoots it into a graveyard of 3.5 million tons of trash that's 80 percent plastic.

Moore said he has noticed an alarming trend. The quantities have increased dramatically  more than doubling in five years. And Moore said there is no reason to believe the trend will slow.

And the plastic isn't just floating around in the ocean; new evidence suggests it is making its way into wildlife.

"I found 26 pieces of plastic, all different colors inside one stomach," said marine researcher Christiana Boerger.

Birds also are making a meal of the plastic, and large quantities have been found in their stomachs.

But the biggest debate surrounding the patch isn't its existence or its environmental impact, but rather how to clean it up.

"The experts say there is no silver bullet. We are going to keep looking, but at the moment it is not clear what the best course of action would be to deal with the materials that are already there," said Steve Russell of the American Chemical Council.

Moore, the patch's discoverer, said it's virtually impossible to clean it up. He said that stopping it from growing may be the best approach, which also may prevent other ocean dumps from forming.

Beach cleanups and improved recycling could help.

"The planet is a closed system. So everything that happens on Earth stays on Earth," said Steve Fleischl, president of the Waterkeeper Alliance . "What we need to do is to accept responsibility at the local level and rescue the amount of plastic that comes down our waterways and into our ocean."

Check out the links below for more information on the garbage patch and ocean conservation.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5524886

New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports.

Tests for The Times exposed security flaws in the microchips introduced to protect against terrorism and organised crime. The flaws also undermine claims that 3,000 blank passports stolen last week were worthless because they could not be forged.

In the tests, a computer researcher cloned the chips on two British passports and implanted digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports.

The Home Office has always argued that faked chips would be spotted at border checkpoints because they would not match key codes when checked against an international data-base. But only ten of the forty-five countries with e-passports have signed up to the Public Key Directory (PKD) code system, and only five are using it. Britain is a member but will not use the directory before next year. Even then, the system will be fully secure only if every e-passport country has joined.

More here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4467106.ece

I read your Taser posts. The following is an ongoing local story. Not mentioned is that the cops are (days later) under investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol for the multiple Taser-ings (if not for being Barney Fife rubes who should trade in their weapons for paper hats).
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Police Taser boy with broken back 19 times
Authorities say they were trying to 'keep him from getting hurt'

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71096

like his autographed book? pleeez! the only thing that would make me go to his website just to check and consider maybe "spreading the word" would be if the prize is the one given out by his "bundler" the one givin out 28,000 (at least) ok yeah i promise i will donate it to the cause, i really do promise, can i have it Mr. bundler?

laughable mediocrity in every field: fakeproof e-passports, just another example

Congressman wants to bring up ‘Paris Hilton plan’
Posted: 12:29 PM ET
By CNN Radio’s Lisa Desjardins

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The lines between celebrity and politician blurred Thursday at a Republican news conference, as one congressman began pushing Paris Hilton’s “plan” on energy.

“Let’s bring up the Paris Hilton plan,” goaded Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas.

Burgess and his fellow Republicans are in the fifth day of energy speeches on the House floor, despite the fact that the chamber is closed for August recess. They’re trying to pressure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi into holding a vote on offshore oil drilling.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/07/congressman-wants-to-bring-up-pa...

yay. i guess its time to download last nights malloy.

Straight Talk Express PWNED with Obama decal as McCain loses lead

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/6/94845/57937/1003/563442

Free Democracy

Reminder of the junk in the Pacific Ocean!
Submitted by toniD on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 12:49pm.

Hidden, a 3.5 Million Trash Heap Lies in the Ocean
The Great Pacific Garbage Dump Stretches From California to China

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I saw that on PBS .... and it made me think .... that if it is like that in the Pacific Ocean .... I bet it is like that in the other Oceans too .... Wherever there are currents that circle they would probably find the same thing.

to be out of Iraq by 2010. I'm trying to find the written story on this to see the details.

I'll post when I find it.

it was either hartmann or top of the hour xm, its a trial balloon being floated by negotiators from iraq. way too soon to say its a done deal.

Iraqis: Deal close on plan for US troops to leave By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 2 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later.

A U.S. official in Washington acknowledges progress has been made on the timelines for a U.S. departure but offered no firm date. Another U.S. official strongly suggested the 2010 date may be too ambitious.

A timetable is part of a security agreement being negotiated by U.S. and Iraqi officials. Both sides stress the deal is not final and could fall apart over the issue of legal immunity for American troops.

One of the U.S. officials said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had a long and "very difficult" telephone conversation Wednesday in which she pressed the Iraqi leader for more flexibility, particularly on immunity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_bases_2

in Wall-e who are on the spaceship and think that everything is just fine and dandy...I am not happy and don't think so. And being around those people is starting to freak me out!

Don't worry, I am having lunch with a psychiatrist today...he will shape me right up. Thankfully he is liberal.

Happe Talk

smacks of the 1936 munich olympics?

http://www.wvmetronews.com/index.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=25695

Submitted by notmhappenow on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 1:25pm.
...I am not happy...

I have vista now, maybe I can help?

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http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/07/nader-says-fly-southwest/
Nader says: Fly Southwest!

Frugal Flying
by Ralph Nader
August 6, 2008

http://foxattacks.com/kids/?utm_source=rgemail
same vid at utube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv10ow6rLmU

from Robert Greenwald to me

It's back-to-school time! Parents are starting to shop for their children's school supplies: notebooks, pencils, crayons, and of course, Bill O'Reilly's book, "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids." Talk about one of these things being NOT like the others!

O'Reilly thinks he can teach our children proper behavior, and we can't think of a worse father figure than an angry, hate-filled shock jock notorious for telling guests to "Shut up!" We wondered what would happen if kids read O'Reilly's book and then saw the real O'Reilly for themselves. So we put together a video to illustrate O'Reilly's duplicity.

Watch the video.
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by me...
O'Reilly is a talking head. He performs day after day after day.
Any "talent," or professional talker, need to get their head in a place where they can perform their job.
"The No Spin Zone" O'Reilly refers to, is that personal place he needs to be in to do his job where his head does not spin off his body.
Being the emotional duplicitous person he is makes this difficult for him and the cracks often show.
His book is a useful tool for that most important of learned schooling skills, Critical Thinking.

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does anybody else think the beijing olympics
new
Submitted by dan on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 1:29pm.
smacks of the 1936 munich olympics?

I was thinking that the other day. Eerie!

http://rulesofthumb.org/

McCain Promises To Help Ohio Residents Who Lost Their Jobs Because Of His Campaign Manager
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is in Wilmington, OH and being forced to address DHL’s merger with Airborne-Express, which may cost roughly 8,000 jobs in the area. In a private meeting, “residents will ask McCain for help in stopping DHL’s proposal to quit using the airport as a hub,” which would put the air park out of business.

In a townhall on July 9, a resident asked McCain what he would do to mitigate the merger’s effects on the area. “I want to be able to keep our nonprofits alive,” she said, crying. McCain said the impact of the merger on area jobs is a “terrible blow”:

MCCAIN:This is a terrible blow. Um, if there’s an anti-trust implication that’s associated with this, I certainly would seek a thorough investigation … I’ve got to look you in the eye and give you some straight talk; I don’t know if I can stop it or not. Or if it will be stopped it. … In fact, some more straight talk: I doubt it. Ok?

“In the meantime, there are manufacturing jobs that have been lost all over the state of Ohio, and it’s been a terrible trauma,” he said. Watch it: At Link

Today, McCain is dealing with the fallout from the merger. But five years ago, McCain’s campaign manager lobbied heavily for the deal. The AP reports that Davis “lobbied the Senate to accept the proposal by DHL to buy Airborne Express for $1.05 billion.” Davis’s lobbying firm reaped the benefits:

Filings in the Senate show Davis’ lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, was hired to help both companies deal with Congress, where objections over DHL’s foreign ownership arose. Davis and a partner earned their firm $185,000 for the DHL-Airborne Express work that year, records show.

“McCain took steps that helped Davis’s clients” and thwarted Sen. Ted Stevens’s (R-AK) “effort to insert language into legislation that would prohibit foreign-controlled companies such as DHL from holding certain military contracts,” the Washington Post reported in June.

Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) called the situation “one of the worst job catastrophes that any community in this nation is facing.” Will McCain deliver straight talk about the role that he and his campaign manager had in helping shuttle through the DHL deal?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/07/mccain-ohio/

Israel building up strike capabilities against Iran.Filed Under: National Security
By Amanda at 12:32 pm Israel building up strike capabilities against Iran.
CBS News reports, “Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran’s atomic program, even if it can’t destroy it.” The country has also “purchased 90 F-16I fighter planes that can carry enough fuel to reach Iran, and will receive 11 more by the end of next year.” According to the Times of London, President Bush has given an “‘amber light‘ to an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/07/israel-building-up-strike-capabiliti...

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Super easy set up. Rock solid graphical interface. Hasn't changed much (stable) in the 7 or 8 years I've used it.

It' cheap, $36
http://www.ftpx.com/

La Femme D'Argent, mp3

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The Black Keys - Just Got To Be

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

http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1485308505

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

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=813

Fuck censorship!

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus

An Open Letter by Mike Whitney

8/6/08

My friend Tom Feeley is in Big trouble. He runs the web site informationclearinghouse.info which updates “news you won’t find in the corporate media” every day. The site is strongly anti-war.

Tom has gotten his share of death threats over the years, but what happened this week is a lot more serious.

Two days ago, Tom’s wife found three well dressed men in their kitchen. The man who did all the talking, told Tom’s wife (I won’t give her name) that Tom must “Stop what he is doing on the Internet, NOW!” As crazy as it sounds, he pulled back his lapel and showed her a gun of some kind which she could not identify. Like I said, Tom has been threatened before, but nothing like this. Four years ago, he was in a parking lot at Long’s Drug store in Southern California and when he tried to open his door to get out, a man in a car next to him opened his door at precisely the same time which prevented Tom from getting out. Then, a 40-ish year old man got out of the passenger side of the vehicle and approached Tom saying, “You need to stop what you are doing on the web”.

Tom said the man was overweight and had his shirt untucked. Tom was taken aback, but (after collecting himself said) “What the fuck? Who do you think you are telling me what I can do?”

The man answered, “Tom, I’m just giving you some good advice. You should take my advice, Tom.”

This is all I know about the incident. Since, then, there have been occassional death threats, but nothing like what happened on Sunday. Tom’s wife is hysterical and has not returned to the house since the incident. She contacted the FBI but the FBI said there was nothing they could do. Tom and his wife separated recently after a 30 year marriage, so he is publishing from a different location.

The well-dressed man told Tom’s wife that he knew where her son lived, what line of work he was in, and how many children he had.
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Manufactured Landscapes: A Portrait of Our March Toward Ecological Disaster (DVD)
A Film by Jennifer Baichwal
available at The BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace

At first, it may seem a little slow. There is no dramatic narrative here. But the power of the images and the interspersed narration, along with the actual documentary footage starts to swell up into a tidal wave of recognition: men and women have created an artificial construct in which to live, alienated from nature, with results that will come back to haunt us.

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Jamesbennett

FYI..
Did you see this at the bottom of the site ?

Free Licenses for Students and Teachers

That's right! If you are a student, teacher, or faculty member of an educational institution, you qualify for a free license. Just fill out this form to apply for a free license.

What's FTP ? File tranfering ?

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

Voter called in from Missouri arrested for voting legally, but not having a document with his signature on it (not even a requirement!) Photo id isn't even a requirement in Missouri and this guy got illegally arrested. Here in Michigan with our new photo id requirement is is going to a disaster. This election is going to be stolen, and the Dems don't even care.

You can't believe it's the 21st Century! This shouldn't be happening.

For the nation's migrant farmworkers, high temps creating a "Black Summer"
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It's being called the "Black Summer" in the San Joaquin Valley of California these days.

Why?

Because last Thursday yet another farm worker died of heat stroke.

Jorge Herrera, 37, of Delano, California died almost four weeks after collapsing at the Vignolo Vinyards loading table grapes. He leaves behind a wife, two children and colleagues who are fed up burying their friends for an illness that can easily be avoided — if the government cared to do something.

According to Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers, Herrera is the fifth farmworker to die in just under three months. He was originally from El Triunfo, Michoacan, Mexico.

His death follows the premature death of 17-year-old farmworker Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez. She died for two simple reasons: not enough water and no shade.

During a time when the legacy of Cesar Chavez is being celebrated across the nation with streets and schools named in his honor, a stamp issued in his likeness and talk of a nation-wide holiday in his memory, the deaths of Herrerra and Jimenez and the other farm workers underscore the fact that Chavez' work is far from completed. Farm workers are still being abused in the fields and the system is still ignoring them.

The sad part of each of these deaths is that they were preventable if only it was enforced that orchard owners and farmers had to make sure to supply enough water breaks, shade and rest to their workers without them fearing some sort of retaliatory penalty.

http://www.latinalista.net/palabrafinal/2008/08/for_the_nations_migrant_...

Perfect state for him. Plenty of a racist Hillbots.

isn't it a strange coincidence that its always the republicans turning people back and intimidating them to keep them from voting. seriously, when was the last time where you heard about a democratic poll worker trying to stop someone from voting?

i'm afraid the blog is right, there's going to be a full frontal assault on democratic voters this year.

Doubt cast on U.S. version of terror suspect's arrest

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/46535.html

[the official version. She's at the police station, in a room, behind a curtain.
USA guys come in, go into the room, don't know she's there, sit down, one of the guys lays his rifle down on the ground in front of the curtain, she grabs it and takes a couple of shots.]

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The complaint says that she got hold of an officer's M-4 rifle in an interrogation room and fired two shots, which missed. The officer used his pistol to fire back and hit her at least once in the torso, according to the charges.

Afghan police, however, said that U.S. soldiers demanded that local police hand over Siddiqui, but they refused, according to a report from Ghazni by the Reuters news agency. When the Americans disarmed the Afghan police at gunpoint, Siddiqui approached the Americans, complaining of mistreatment by the police, according to this account.
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Legal experts in the United States said the case against Siddiqui might reflect a new willingness by the Bush administration to prosecute some terror suspects in federal court rather than before military commissions at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Jamesbennett

Okay, here's some more on the ties between the McCain campaign and the Hess Corporation, the company whose senior executives all dumped $28,500 apiece into the RNC-McCain fundraising committee at around the same time as McCain reversed his previous opposition to offshore drilling.

It turns out that two high-ranking McCain campaign officials, one of whom is also one of McCain's more prolific bundlers, were both were paid lobbyists for Hess for roughly three years, according to disclosure forms.

The two lobbyists are Wayne Berman, McCain's national finance co-chairman, and John Green, who's been the McCain campaign's chief Congressional liaison since March. Both men worked for a firm called Ogilvy Government Relations. The firm has been paid $800,000 by Hess from 2005 up to the present, including $720,000 during the period that both of the two lobbied for the company, the forms say.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/mccain_advisers_...

but it's for me..and so...no I can't - but thanks for pointing that out..I forget about those discounts...So what error are you getting trying install the sp 1?

Thom finally got to it at the end. Bring a video or camera phone when voting. And, if possible vote in pairs or groups. I think though, that is behind the curve. We need to be forming legal militias.

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html
H.P. Lovecraft was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of Enlightenment, Romanticist, and Christian humanism. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.

Pakistan coalition to impeach Musharraf

Pakistan's fragile coalition government today announced plans to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, throwing the country into new political turmoil.

Musharraf was today plotting his response with advisers and finally cancelled an on-off trip to the opening ceremony of the Olympic games. Pakistan's top military commanders also reportedly met today and the reaction of the army - which was, until recently, led by Musharraf - will now be key.

The breakthrough for the coalition - which has been able to agree on little since coming to office four months ago - came after three days of talks between the parties that came to power after elections in February, led by Asif Zardari of the Pakistan People's party (PPP) and Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N).

"We want to make a new Pakistan," said Zardari, sitting with his coalition partners at a press conference in Islamabad. "We have the votes and the political will."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/07/pakistan1

they try to keep Ralph off of ballots and Kucinich out of debates...which is to me as bad as trying to stop a voter from voting...

Gun control lobby 'infiltrated by pro-rifle movement spy'

Campaigners for tougher controls on guns in the US are reeling from the allegation that a prominent member of the movement for more than a decade was a spy working for the powerful pro-gun lobby the National Rifle Association.

Mary Lou McFate sat on the board of two groups campaigning for greater controls, and tried to become a director of the national umbrella group of the movement, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. She was also linked with the circle of an international campaign on small arms trade based in London.

To the outrage of campaigners who worked with her, she has been outed by Mother Jones, the political magazine, as a paid plant for the NRA. An investigation by the magazine based on court documents suggests that she made contact with the NRA as early as 1999 and that the connection was sustained to this day.

Her alleged intelligence work for the gun lobby was partly organised through a defunct detective agency in Maryland. Beckett Brown International received $80,000 from the NRA in 1999 and 2000 for various services, court depositions show. The NRA failed to return calls yesterday and McFate, 62, was also unavailable

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/07/usa

Politics is ugly and it's about power. Both Ralph and even Dennis would do the same, if the tables were turned. Don't kid yourself. At least, Dennis, works full time to change a party that operates full time. Ralph pops up from the grave when it's convenient.

Associated Press

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will call on his fighters to maintain a cease-fire against American troops but may lift the order if a planned Iraq-U.S. security agreement lacks a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces, a spokesman said Thursday.

The statement by Sheik Salah al-Obeidi comes as al-Sadr plans to reveal details of a formula to reorganize his Mahdi Army militia by separating it into an unarmed cultural organization and elite fighting cells.

The announcement is expected during weekly Islamic prayer services on Friday.

I don't know about that...

But I do know that voters deserve better & more choices than the ones they are led to believe they have...Ralph is a good man. Ralph has done more in his life than any of those candidates and he does it for the people - not the corporations or Israel...I for one am very happy he makes himself known when it matters...

In Massechusettes. Sam's home town of Worcester!

http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/item/vote-cthulhu-2008-dark-tshirt/8681775...

Free Democracy

California officials reject emergency salmon protection petition

California forestry officials yesterday rejected an emergency petition to protect coho salmon in coastal streams, even though federal fisheries regulators said it would help the imperilled fish

The nine-member board, appointed by the governor, is weighted toward the logging industry. Most members said there wasn't enough evidence to support more regulation. "What we're asking of landowners is a huge financial hardship," said board member Doug Piirto, a forestry professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and former Forest Service timber management officer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/07/endangeredhabitats.end...

ubmitted by Alice on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 1:33pm.

I have vista now, maybe I can help?

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http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/07/nader-says-fly-southwest/
Nader says: Fly Southwest!

Frugal Flying
by Ralph Nader
August 6, 2008
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Why isn't he riding a bicycle ... 8-)

Conyers reiterates demand for RNC documents
Nick Juliano

Chairman says committee must cooperate with probe of Justice Dept. after judge's subpoena ruling
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers is reiterating his demand that the Republican National Committee hand over e-mails and other documents relating to its probe of the Bush administration's politicization of the Justice Department.

Conyers (D-MI) wrote to RNC lawyer Robert Kelner Thursday explaining that a judge's recent ruling upholding Congress's authority to subpoena two White House aides also complied to the political committee, which maintained separate e-mail address for some administration figures like former adviser Karl Rove.

The Judiciary Committee has spent more than a year trying to get its hands on the RNC documents in its probe that began with an inquiry into the firing of nine US Attorneys and has expanded to consider all aspects of the Justice Department, including the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Critics and whistleblowers say Rove helped orchestrate the Siegleman prosecution; at the time he was sent to jail on what many see as trumped-up charges, Siegelman was the only Democratic governor in the south.

In his letter (.pdf), Conyers noted the White House has not claimed executive privilege to scuttle its inquiry into Siegelman's case, as it has with other Congressional investigations. Therefore, the Michigan Democrat argues, there is no reason for the RNC not to cooperate.

In addition, I would also like to request that you identify and produce any emails transmitted to or from the White House staff through RNC computer servers that mention former Governor of Alabama Don Siegelman. Because there has been no White House claim of privilege regarding Siegelman documents -- to the contrary, the White House has permitted Karl Rove to provide written statements to the Committee's Ranking Member on this very subject -- I would assume that you will be able to produce these documents directly and that no listing or privilege log will be required. To the extent that your client does elect to withhold any of these documents from the Committee, I would appreciate a comparable listing so that the Committee can evaluate any claims of privilege that you believe apply.
US District Judge John Bates ruled last week that the White House's "claim of absolute immunity" to avoid handing over documents and prevent testimony from Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers "is without any support in case law."

That ruling went on to require the White House to produce subpoenaed documents or offer a detailed list of what it was withholding, outlining specific executive privilege claims in each case.

"[Y]our client has declined to produce or itemize the subpoenaed documents relying on the very Executive Privilege claim that was considered by Judge Bates, and you have previously indicated that the RNC would adhere to the terms of a court resolution of the dispute between the Committee and the Executive," Conyers wrote to Kelner. "Accordingly, I expect you will provide any non-privileged documents that your client possesses and an appropriate list and description of any subpoenaed documents that you continue to withhold."

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

;)...Kevin...

Worldwide protests on eve of China Olympics

Critics of China's human rights record made sure they were not forgotten on Thursday, a day before the grand opening of the Beijing Olympics, with protest actions the world over and in China itself.

A day after cheering crowds welcomed the Olympic torch to Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- scene of a 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters -- activists from Canada to Kathmandu sought to get their voices heard.

Already detained once for protesting on the square, three US Christians were forcefully dragged from the site as they prayed publicly, a statement on their behalf said.

"We were in Tiananmen Square publicly praying for the people of China when police forcefully dragged us across the street," Reverend Patrick J. Mahoney, one of the three, was quoted as saying while in custody.

Meanwhile two British and two US activists who staged a dramatic pro-Tibet protest on Wednesday near the stadium where the Olympics will open in Beijing have been deported from China, their campaign group said in a statement.

The two Britons, who helped unfurl giant "Free Tibet" banners, arrived back in London on Thursday and warned the protests would continue in China.

China has painted the Games as a celebration of three decades of economic reforms and hopes the event will showcase a rapidly modernising country.

But activists seeking to pressure China have vowed to use the Games to raise awareness of their causes, which include Beijing's rule of Tibet, arrests of dissidents, Internet censorship and gripes about Chinese foreign policy.

A total of 127 athletes have called on China's President Hu Jintao to seek a peaceful solution to the Tibet issue and improve the human rights situation, according to an open letter posted online.

The athletes, including more than 40 competing in the Games, urged Hu "to protect freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom of opinion in your country, including Tibet".

An estimated 1,500 Tibetans staged a protest in Nepal, with monks and nuns praying and chanting mantras gathered next to a popular Buddhist monastery.

More here:

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Worldwide_protests_on_eve_of_China__0807200...

I'm not..not one minute of it..

Scott Muschanny state Republican Representative of Missouri was a rising star in the "Family Values" community until he got indicted yesterday for raping his girlfriend's 14 yo daughter.

DWT

for the monks.

http://www.futureprimitive.org/mp3/Alli080801.mp3

hanging Free Tibet signs there..

What error message are you getting tring to install, MM?
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 1:33pm.
I have vista now, maybe I can help?

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http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/07/nader-says-fly-southwest/
Nader says: Fly Southwest!

Frugal Flying
by Ralph Nader
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I kid you not !
Error Code 800705B4..Get Help..
Then it doesn't show my error code in the list of error codes !
Typical windows BS !

I just figured out something..
Maybe it's because my System is only bit....
??
Man..I paid over $900 for this laptop..New..

Oh forgot..Thanks Ralph ! :)

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

Gov. Crist's College Picture Highlights

Well, we certainly aren't ever going to find out.
Nader is great man, but that doesn't come from his futile campaign efforts. He knows Barack is better than McShame, and he knows the country is worse off--exponentially-- than it was eight years ago. At the same time, he knows perfectly well he has no chance of winning. He'd have a better chance of getting his needed message out by moving somewhere where he could actually win a Rep seat somewhere and work from there to build a party.
I didn't care about Nader's candidacy until recently. People are tired of his show and he will get fewer votes now than he did in 2,000. However, I'm worried, and annoyed, by his campaign now. I underestimated the power of racism in this country. Barack will win this next election, but I'm afraid by a margin too small to overwhelm election theft.

You will not enjoy eight more years of this.

Someone wants him to “shut up”
Submitted by Alice on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 2:17pm.

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=813

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

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reposted everywhere I could think of

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Jamesbennett

John McCain just got his legs cut off by George Bush. because his plan is to withdraw from Iraq in 21 months now.

This would have been a lot easier if Obama was running George in 2000.

myspace pages w/ music
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...
Big Organ Trio
Funk / Jazz / Jam Band
"Organ, Bass,
and Drums"
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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...
Mike Mangan
Funk / Classical / Jazz

"Big Organ Trio: Guitorganist"

I liked them all - especialy
piano and strings - heard a "SPIRT" influence [ which I never hear ]

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Jamesbennett

Hush up ;)

I still have nothing..

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

In Campaign 2008, this thinking holds that Americans -- faced with severe economic troubles -- will throw the Republicans out of the White House and elect a Democrat.

However, this economic determinism may no longer hold sway in a nation that is as inundated with media as the United States is. The ability to float false "themes" against one candidate or another and have the major media constantly repeat the propaganda is an extraordinarily powerful force in deciding American elections.

As we describe in our book Neck Deep, millions of Americans went to the polls in November 2000 believing a number of false claims that had been circulated about Vice President Gore (including the bogus notion that he had been part of a plan to sell nuclear secrets to China, when those secrets actually had been compromised during the Reagan years.)
http://www.alternet.org/story/94030/why_obama_could_be_in_trouble/?page=...

Love the pervs but not the kiddos "Family Values"
Submitted by Fernando on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 3:25pm.
Scott Muschanny state Republican Representative of Missouri was a rising star in the "Family Values" community until he got indicted yesterday for raping his girlfriend's 14 yo daughter.

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

I didn't get an email today

Conyers has requested the RNC documents from the Justice dept as part of their attorney firings (including Don Siegelmans case)

It's not quite getting Riley and Canary on the record but it's a good step towards that process.