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Symbolic measure calls for arrest of president,
VP, if they visit towns
March 6, 2008
FROM MSNBC.com:
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Voters
in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the
indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what
they consider violations of the Constitution.
More symbolic than anything, the items sought to
have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or
nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere — if
they're not impeached first.
Here is what conservative commentator Rush
Limbaugh said about the prospect of a continuing contest for the
Democratic presidential nomination on the eve of the Ohio primary and
the Texas primacaucuses that have – with "good enough" finishes for
Hillary Clinton -- assured the race will go on:
"We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically."
Limbaugh explained to fellow right-wing gabber
Laura Ingraham – yes, they are now interviewing each other -- that
Obama has gotten this far in his race for the presidency with most of
his popular appeal intact. As such, he would be hard to beat as the
Democratic nominee in a race with Republican John McCain.
"I want our party to win. I want the Democrats to
lose. They're in the midst of tearing themselves apart right now. It's
fascinating to watch, and it's all going to stop if Hillary loses,"
Limbaugh argued, as he suggested that Republicans in primary states
should cross party lines to vote for Clinton.
Only by keeping Clinton in the race, Limbaugh
explained, will it be possible to "sustain the soap opera" that might
ultimately diminish Obama sufficiently to secure an undeserved
Republican win in November. Well, the soap opera has been sustained.
Intended as both an introduction to the subject
and a call to action, "Electronic Elections: Vote Fraud in the 21st
Century" is a short-format viral video designed to draw attention to
one of the many urgent problems surrounding our modern voting system -
the clear and present danger of electronic vote fraud.
"Electronic Elections" contains clips* from the
following documentaries:
*All footage contained in this film
constitutes 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for in
section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C.
Section 107, the material is distributed without profit for research
and educational purposes.
With more than 2.3 million people behind bars, the
United States leads the world in both the number and percentage of
residents it incarcerates, leaving far-more-populous China a distant
second, according to a study by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the
States.
The growth in prison population is largely because
of tougher state and federal sentencing imposed since the mid-1980s.
Minorities have been particularly affected: One in nine black men ages
20 to 34 is behind bars. For black women ages 35 to 39, the figure is
one in 100, compared with one in 355 for white women in the same age
group.
To Torture or Not To Torture, That Is The
Question?
February 26, 2008
Former FBI Interrogator Jack Cloonan talks about
the techniques he used while working in the elite Bin Laden unit.
He continues explains that regular interrogation
tactics work well on even the worst terrorists, that there's no such
thing as a "ticking timebomb" scenario, and that waterboarding has done
much more harm than good.
You can also see interviews with Jack Cloonan in
the Oscar award-winning documentary, "Taxi to the Darkside." For more,
visit www.foreignpolicy.com
Ralph Nader Running for President?
February 25, 2008
Ralph Nader was blamed for pulling votes away from
Gore in 2000. What are people's thoughts about his running in 2008?
MERLE HAGGARD: AMERICA FIRST
February 25, 2008
Can McCain Win the South When a Western Star of
Haggard's stature tilts left?
(We're not saying Bill O'Reilly ever had sex with
his mother. We're using the term "Motherfucker" to denote our total and
complete contempt for the FOX radio and TV personality. However, we are
not aware of any evidence indicating O'Reilly hasn't had sex with his
mother either.)
Paying Insurgents Not to Fight By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
February 19, 2008
It is impossible to keep up with all the Bush
regime's lies. There are simply too many. Among the recent crop, one of
the biggest is that the "surge" is working. Launched last year, the
"surge" was the extra 20,000 - 30,000 US troops sent to Iraq. These few
extra troops, Americans were told, would finally supply the necessary
forces to pacify Iraq.
This claim never made any sense. The extra troops
didn't raise the total number of US soldiers to more than one-third the
number every expert has said is necessary in order to successfully
occupy Iraq.
The real purpose of the "surge" was to hide
another deception. The Bush regime is paying Sunni insurgents $800,000
a day not to attack US forces. That's right, 80,000 members of an
"Awakening group," the "Sons of Iraq," a newly formed "US-allied
security force" consisting of Sunni insurgents, are being paid $10 a
day each not to attack US troops. Allegedly, the Sons of Iraq are now
at work fighting al Qaeda.
This is a much cheaper way to fight a war. We can
only wonder why Bush didn't figure it out sooner.
The "surge" was also timed to take account of the
near completion of neighborhood cleansing. Most of the violence in Iraq
during the past five years has resulted from Sunnis and Shi'ites
driving each other out of mixed neighborhoods. Had the two groups been
capable of uniting against the US troops, the US would have been driven
out of Iraq long ago. Instead, the Iraqis slaughtered each other and
fought the Americans in their spare time.
In other words, the "surge" has had nothing to do
with any decline in violence. With the Sunni insurgents now on Uncle
Sam's payroll, with neighborhoods segregated, and...
One of the presidential candidates gets
assassinated sometime between now and January 2009. Bush uses the May
9, 2007 Presidential Directive to invoke martial law and suspend the
constitution. While he's at it he cancels the presidential election or
the result of the election. If it's Obama who gets shot this will be
especially easy because black population centers will be burning.
Terrified Americans do not protest. They will know that one of two
things has just happened: (1) The terrorists have struck at the heart
of America or (2) our own government has struck at the heart of our
democracy. Either way, they will cower, hoping no one will notice them
as they try to pretend that everything is okay.
(A Parody of the Barack Obama "Yes You Can" video)
TRAITORS TO AMERICA!
February 13, 2008
Yesterday, February 12, 2008, the Senate rejected
the Dodd/Feingold amendment to the surveillance bill which would have
prevented the telecommunications companies from getting retroactive
immunity for their illegal spying on the American people. Unless the
House pf Representatives can undo this decision, this means that both
the government officials and the corporations involved will not be
prosecuted for their crime.
Additionally, on a "go forward" basis, it suggests
the illegal spying, a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution, will continue.
The following list of Senators voted to give the
telecoms retroactive immunity. In doing so they have spit in the face
of the American people.
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Wayne Allard (R-CO)
John Barrasso (R-WY)
Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Christopher S. Bond (R-MO)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Bob Corker (R-TN)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Larry Craig (R-ID)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
John Ensign (R-NV)
Michael B. Enzi (R-WY)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Herb Kohl (D-WI)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Dick Lugar (R-IN)
Mel Martinez (R-FL)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Ken Salazar (D-CO)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
Gordon Smith (R-OR)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Arlen Specter (R-PA)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
John Sununu (R-NH)
John Thune (R-SD)
David Vitter (R-LA)
George Voinovich (R-OH)
John Warner (R-VA)
Jim Webb (D-VA)
Roger Wicker (R-MS)
We believe Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) should
be added to this list because, although she was in Washington D.C. when
the vote took place, she elected not to show up in the Senate. Guess
she had more important things to do.
OBAMA vs. McCAIN
February 13, 2008
HERE'S OBAMA:
HERE'S McCAIN:
OBAMA GET $227,000 FROM NUKE INDUSTRY/WATERS
DOWN BILL TO REGULATE TRITIUM LEAKS
From the New York Times:
Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested
Obama in Senate
By MIKE McINTIRE
Published: February 3, 2008
When residents in Illinois voiced outrage two
years ago upon learning that the Exelon Corporation had not disclosed
radioactive leaks at one of its nuclear plants, the state's freshman
senator, Barack Obama, took up their cause.
Mr. Obama scolded Exelon and federal regulators
for inaction and introduced a bill to require all plant owners to
notify state and local authorities immediately of even small leaks. He
has boasted of it on the campaign trail, telling a crowd in Iowa in
December that it was "the only nuclear legislation that I’ve passed."
"I just did that last year," he said, to murmurs
of approval.
A close look at the path his legislation took
tells a very different story. While he initially fought to advance his
bill, even holding up a presidential nomination to try to force a
hearing on it, Mr. Obama eventually rewrote it to reflect changes
sought by Senate Republicans, Exelon and nuclear regulators. The new
bill removed language mandating prompt reporting and simply offered
guidance to regulators, whom it charged with addressing the issue of
unreported leaks.
Those revisions propelled the bill through a
crucial committee. But, contrary to Mr. Obama's comments in Iowa, it
ultimately died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate.
"Senator Obama’s staff was sending us copies of
the bill to review, and we could see it weakening with each successive
draft," said Joe Cosgrove, a park district director in Will County,
Ill., where low-level radioactive runoff had turned up in groundwater.
"The teeth were just taken out of it."
The history of the bill shows Mr. Obama navigating
a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies
against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter. On
one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level
radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was
Exelon, the country's largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr.
Obama’s largest sources of campaign money.
Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
told a crowd of supporters this past Sunday, "It's a tough war we're
in. It's not going to be over right away. There's going to be other
wars...I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will
never surrender but there will be other wars." This from the man who
sang "Bomb Bomb Iran" and who told a town meeting in Derry New
Hampshire that it "would be fine with" him if the U.S. military stayed
in Iraq for "a hundred years." Later, when challenged on this statement
by David Corn of Mother Jones magazine McCain said that U.S. troops
could be in Iraq for "a thousand years" or "a million years" for all he
cared.
McCain's bellicose, pro war posturing is all the
more unnerving when you consider that he frequently doesn't know where
he is and who he is talking to. For example, he seems to think that
President Putin is the leader of Germany, not Russia:
Given the foregoing, we dedicate the following
song to Senator John McCain:
MAKE MINE FREEDOM
January 28, 2008
Here's a 1948 political cartoon by Disney animator
John Sutherland, circa 1948. There may be a lesson in this:
The idea behind having debates for presidential
candidates is so the American people can see how Knowledgeable they are
and how they think and react under pressure. Apparently, Mitt Romney
won't have any of that: during the January 24, 2008 Republican debate
in Florida, NBC reporter Tim Russert asks Romney if he would do what
Ronald Reagan did in 1982 to protect Social Security. Before Romney
responds, a voice is heard whispering "raise taxes" just before the
candidate says "I won’t raise taxes." Check out the video and you will
see that someone off camera was apparently alerting the duplicitous
Mormon to the fact that President Ronald Reagan had raised taxes.
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
January, 18 2008
AP reporter Glen Johnson challenged presidential
candidate Mitt Romney at a Staples store in Columbia, South Carolina,
yesterday. It's a pleasure to see someone from the media who doesn't
approach America's political class on bended knee. Too bad all
reporters don't act that way.
RACHEL SKLAR IS EXACTLY WHAT'S
WRONG WITH TODAY’S REPORTERS
January, 18 2008
Yesterday, on MSNBC's Live With Dan Abrams,
HuffingtomPost reporter Rachel Sklar accused Glen Johnson, the AP
reporter who challenged Mitt Romney's misstatement about his
involvement with lobbyists, of being rude and aggressive.
We assume that’s because Rachel -- having come of
age in the era of George W. Bush -- has never seen a real reporter in
action. Thank God MSNBC's David Shuster was on hand to straighten her
out. Shame on you, Rachel. And shame on the HuffintonPost for
tolerating you.
Note to Dan Abrams: It seemed
to us that it was Romney and his people who were angry, not Glen. Maybe
you should watch Keith Olberman occasionally; now there's anger for
you. And God bless Olbermann for it. Sometimes anger is the only
appropriate response.
MIKE HUCKABEE: RELIGIOUS NUT CASE!
January, 16 2008
As it turns out, Republican presidential candidate
Huckabee would like to trash the Constitution of the United States and
turn what’s left of our democracy into a theocracy. Hear him in his own
words:
Hustler to Huckabee: Go fuck yourself!
MAHER VIDEO: 'Private Company (Diebold)
Only Ones Who Know What Went on in NH'
BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 1/11/2008
From tonight's Real Time with Bill Maher, with
guests Catherine Crier of CourtTV, Mark Cuban of HDNet, and Tony Snow
of Fox "News"/White House. On the topic of concerns about the New
Hampshire primary results, and Diebold's sole-control over 80% of the
ballots in the state...
Some key quotes from the video...
MAHER: I'm
not saying something went wrong, but it does bother me that a private
company runs the polling machines and that only they certainly, seem to
know what went on in that [New Hampshire election].
CRIER: What
I'm glad about is that whole controversy's come up and that they're
going to go back and take a look. It's going to elevate the whole
voting machine issue in the minds of the American people before the
elections.
[APPLAUSE]
MAHER: We
have so much debate, and there's so much interest in this election…but
it all comes to naught if we can't trust what the result is.
Tony Snow then immediately brings up Photo ID,
completely and entirely out of context, and suggests, incorrectly, that
the issue is "voter fraud." It's not. It's election fraud. The voters
are doing fine. Leave them alone.
Thankfully, Maher quickly destroys Snow in return.
As does Crier.
Cuban raises key points about the stunning Dan
Rather investigative report, (complete video here) on "The Trouble with
Touchscreens," which ran on Cuban's HDNet network last year (and which
the entirety of the corporate mainstream media subsequently ignored.)
From a Kucinich for President press release just
out...
Kucinich asks for New Hampshire
recount in the interest of election integrity
DETROIT, MI – Democratic Presidential candidate
Dennis Kucinich, the most outspoken advocate in the Presidential field
and in Congress for election integrity, paper-ballot elections, and
campaign finance reform, has sent a letter to the New Hampshire
Secretary of State asking for a recount of Tuesday's election because
of "unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and
machine-counted ballots."...
Kucinich, who drew about 1.4% of the New
Hampshire Democratic primary vote, wrote, "This is not about my
candidacy or any other individual candidacy. It is about the integrity
of the election process." No other Democratic candidate, he noted, has
stepped forward to question or pursue the claims being made.
"New Hampshire is in the unique position to
address – and, if so determined, rectify – these issues before they
escalate into a massive, nationwide suspicion of the process by which
Americans elect their President. Based on the controversies surrounding
the Presidential elections in 2004 and 2000, New Hampshire is in a
prime position to investigate possible irregularities and to issue
findings for the benefit of the entire nation," Kucinich wrote in his
letter.
"Without an official recount, the voters of New
Hampshire and the rest of the nation will never know whether there are
flaws in our electoral system that need to be identified and addressed
at this relatively early point in the Presidential nominating process,"
said Kucinich...
That, even while there are reasons to be concerned
about how the paper ballots used in the New Hampshire Primary will
actually be counted by the hackable Diebold optical-scan systems used
in the state, as controlled and programmed by an outrageously bad
private contractor there...
NH PRIMARY DISINFO ALERT: 'Problems'
with Paper Ballots in State Inaccurately Reported by National
Mainstream Media! Reports of 'Voter Fraud' in Dixville Notch, Dem
Ballots Unavailable to Voters, Both Debunked by The BRAD BLOG Though
Reasons Remain for Concern About Tabulation on Diebold Machines...
-- Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG
Our Spidey-sense started tingling before going to
bed last night and hearing reports, on MSNBC, that there were 17 paper
ballots cast in Dixville Notch, NH, in its midnight,
first-in-the-country voting. The report said that there were only 16
registered voters in the tiny voting precinct, yet 17 votes had been
cast --- suggesting that somehow, paper ballot "voter fraud"
skullduggery was afoot.
Following on that, reports throughout the day
appeared that NH precincts were out of paper ballots, and voters were
unable to vote.
Trouble is, both reports are either completely
untrue, or wholly misleading, or both, as The BRAD BLOG was able to
confirm with two simple phone calls.
Each of those reports, however, would seem to go a
long way towards giving the impression that paper ballots are a bad
idea, and that "voter fraud" is easy to commit when using them. Given
that one of those reports seems to have begun on The DRUDGE REPORT
earlier today, we're not particularly surprised that the MSM kept
repeating the easily-debunked stories running all day.
That, even while there are reasons to be concerned
about how the paper ballots used in the New Hampshire Primary will
actually be counted by the hackable Diebold optical-scan systems used
in the state, as controlled and programmed by an outrageously bad
private contractor there...
By Christine Escobar, HuffingtonPost.com
Posted December 31, 2007
Obama, all-too-cozy with corporate lobbyists, is
wading into dangerous territory.
While John Edwards announced this weekend that he
will ban corporate lobbyists and foreign government lobbyists from his
White House, Barack Obama has stepped up criticism of Edwards on
everything from his populist views to Iowa ads about Edwards by an
independent organization backed by union members.
With these latest remarks, however, Obama is
wading into treacherous territory if he thinks no one will notice his
close ties to big business lobbyists and their money, all while he
attempts to play connect-the-dots on Edwards.
There is very strong evidence that George W.
Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, along with the Du Ponts, Singer
sewing machine heir Robert Sterling Clark, and other Wall Street
interests conspired to install a fascist government in this country
during the Great Depression. The plot was exposed by Marine Major
General Smedley Butler when he was approached to lead an army of World
War I veterans against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Here’s what
BBC Radio has to say about this forgotten moment in U.S. history:
Not only can it happen here, it almost did in
1933. And they’re trying to do the same thing again, this time by
stealth.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Voters
in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the
indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what
they consider violations of the Constitution.
