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Saturday~
***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’
July 19, 2008
Yes We Can
by BOB HERBERT
As I was listening to Al Gore on the telephone, I was thinking: “Uh-oh, the naysayers will have a field day with this one.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/opinion/19herbert.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Business bankruptcies soar, reflecting economic woe
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/economics/story/44717.html
Bill Moyer’s JOURNAL…
Last night…interviewed Bill Greider…
~~~~Watch and listen…
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07182008/watch2.html
or read the Transcript:
WILLIAM GREIDER: During the last generation, 25, 30 years ago, the Federal Reserve, the central bank that regulates money and credit, tipped hard in one direction.
BILL MOYERS: Toward?
WILLIAM GREIDER: Crudely put, toward capital, in favor of capital and against labor. It not only hardened the value of money by suppressing inflation, but it participated very aggressively in the role of stripping away regulatory breaks on financial system and banks. Declined to enforce many of its own regulatory powers that exist in law. And meanwhile, sort of kept a foot on the brake about economic growth and full employment and all those good things that might help working people by encouraging rising wages.
~~~~read more…you will need to scroll down…
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07182008/transcript4.html
for other parts of the show…also very interesting
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index
Mother's Milk of Politics Turns Sour
http://www.truthout.org/article/mothers-milk-politics-turns-sour
Eulogy For The "Ownership Society"
By Mike Whitney
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20305.htm
Why Karl Rove Should Go to Jail
Linda T. Sanchez
http://www.alternet.org/rights/91917/?ses=aecddc48484e89f03c9ef27ac92afd87
The ‘Send Karl Rove to Jail’ Campaign
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080718_send_karl_rove_to_jail/
Sorry if this is a ‘repeat’ for you…please consider signing the petition and
Forwarding to your lists…
From Robert Greenwald…..
This sounds like a dream, doesn't it? Well, it's not. We have a unique opportunity right now to send Karl Rove to jail, but only if we take immediate action.
All we have to do is pressure the 40 members of the House Judiciary Committee, make them hold Rove in contempt and send him to jail. We've never had such a direct opportunity to hold Rove accountable. No, this is not enough punishment for his years and years of crimes, but it's a huge start, and will send a very clear message to the entire Bush administration.
We put together this video to explain the issues surrounding Rove's failure to testify before Congress, and why Rove should be held in contempt and sent to jail. Check out Send Karl Rove to Jail, and sign our petition to ensure that the HJC holds Rove in contempt.
The Right-Wing Understanding of Government
Glenn Greenwald
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/18/10446/
from Veterans for Peace….
A CALL TO ACTION FOR IMPEACHMENT
An intense 7-day VFP campaign of calls to congress for impeachment. Get everyone you know to call Congress before July 25 demanding for impeachment now
Lobbying Day for Impeachment - July 24th Wash, DC
VFP attends Judiciary Committee Hearing - 10AM July 25th Wash, DC
VFP meets with Chairman of Judiciary Committee, Rep. Conyers - 12 Noon July 25th Wash, DC
FOR JUST NEXT 7 CRITICAL DAYS CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND DEMAND IMPEACHMENT. If they are for impeachment have them push the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Rep Conyers, to act now. We need as many calls, emails and letters as possible before July 25th. GET YOUR FRIENDS AND NEGHBORS TO CALL.
If you are able come to Washington, DC, July 24th will be an impeachment lobbying day where we will personally visit Congressmen demanding impeachment. On July 25th we will attend a Judiciary Committee Hearing, and then meet with Rep. Conyers.
CALL 202-224-3121 for the house switchboard and LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN TO IMPEACH.
Find your Congressman by ZIP Code
Call a member of the Judiciary Committee (202-225-3951) demand impeachment now. (List of Judiciary Committee members) Maybe your Congressman is on the Judiciary Committee call him again.
Pitfalls for Obama on world tour
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7512959.stm
Obama's foreign trip designed to highlight new approach
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/44726.html
TORTURE IN OUR MIDST? Heidi Boghosian, National Lawyers Guild
'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft was the latest torture apologist to waltz through a congressional hearing, according to former FBI agent Coleen Rowley and ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/071808e.html
from and about ‘over there’
The Dark Side with Jane Mayer and Michael Ratner
http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/18/the-dark-side-with-jane-mayer-and-michael-ratner/
Canada Should Uphold the Rule of Law, Even in Khadr Case
Vancouver Sun Editorial
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/18/10444/
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld will never be tried for war crimes in the US because the country lacks a consensus on torture
The US will not prosecute Bush
By John McQuaid, guardian.co.uk
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34906
Merkel and Karzai await Obama, but the real audience will be back home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/19/barackobama.uselections2008
Russia's energy drive leaves US reeling
By M K Bhadrakumar
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Conceivably, the danger of losing out on the last energy frontier to Russia (and China) could be a factor in Washington's policy shift on Iran talks.
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JG19Ag01.html
Quit operations, Taliban warlord warns Pakistan regional leaders
Saeed Shah in Peshawar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/19/pakistan.afghanistan
Iraq's Falling Fig Leaf
The Bush administration's cool reaction to Iraq's call for a U.S. withdrawal timetable has stripped away some of the nice-sounding rationales for the war, as former CIA analyst Peter W. Dickson notes.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/071708b.html
Bush agrees to principle of timeline to cut Iraq troops
http://iht.com/articles/2008/07/18/mideast/prexy.php
Juan Cole’s take on it…
Bush Accepts Time Horizon for US Troop withdrawal
U.S., Iran may be ready to end confrontation
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/44745.html
At $2 million each, subs become the drug transport of choice
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/44739.html
Colombia's Uribe calls off vote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7514877.stm
Colombia rebels seize 10 hostages
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7515153.stm
Peace and Solidarity
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people... |
ttp://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/91931/?ses=76d6bb80d48445df23142b70ce7855cf
The Obamaniacs will be on me like Old Navy on white trash for this.
In the asylum that is American politics, beware a candidate like Barack Obama when he is lauded for moving to "the center" -- because usually that means he is drifting away from it.
Over the last month, the Democratic presidential nominee has backed a measure to permit warrantless wiretapping and protect telecom companies when they violate customers' privacy; sent conflicting signals about whether he will reform the NAFTA trade model; and threatened to revise his timetable for ending the war in Iraq. Universally, reporters have billed this dance as a move to the middle.
Most politicians and journalists who set the parameters of our political debate live in Washington and make six-figure salaries. They are geographically, financially and socially isolated from the blood-and-guts consequences of today's two wars -- the one in Iraq and the one on the middle class. That insulation skews viewpoints.
When regular folks talk to friends and neighbors, we sure feel like our desire for privacy, disgust with NAFTA and opposition to the Iraq war are mainstream majority positions -- and they are. But then comes the barrage.
Day after day, smiling anchormen, blow-dried correspondents and silver-tongued congressmen follow the Big Lie theory of indoctrination, taking to our televisions, radios and newspapers insisting that crazy is normal, the majority is the minority and -- most importantly -- the fringe is the "center." This is no accident.
More Aldous Huxley than George Orwell, these are the methods of modern propaganda, with the celebration of Obama's "centrism" the latest doublespeak. In this brave new world, language is sculpted to skew the "center," intimidating the majority from demanding concrete change for fear of looking like lunatics. It is a slickly packaged process of marginalization and demoralization -- one with an underlying goal: keeping the real lunatics running the asylum.
Give the country a veto proof majority in both houses. I think it's clear that America is more engaged in the process than at any time before. Obama can only have the power we give him. I remember back when Carter was President, the Left was going crazy over the Trilateral Commision. New world order, same old sh!t.
I've been following Obama's campaign as much as anyone here. In my opinion, FISA was the only thing I had a problem with. I'm sorry if folks are upset about Faith Based Initiatives, but many churches have been participating Head Start for years. Churches also run Summer Camps that I think get Federal money.
Obama has Dean on the bus. I'm really impressed with that. The ACLU has taken FISA to Federal Court. Congress has taken a lot of heat on FISA, among other things, and I'm sure da critters know they defied the popular will, and that they will hounded from now on, or run out.
And as I've said, until we see actual video footage of a 757 hitting the Pentagon, Afghanispakistan is "It" in a global game of "Tag." Getting out of the main quagmire is a good start at this point.
You have to go with the candidate you have, not the candidate you might want or wish to have at some later date...or something.
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Gonna be hot here today. My love songs are gonna be steamy. Fortunately, it's not a weekday, so Ozone is not a problem. Oxygen is great thing to have when singing. :-D
L8r.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/senator-mccain-isnt-funny_b_113434.html
Undignified displays of grinning nonsense coinciding with times in which he ought to be acting like a president will hopefully be recorded as significant part of his [Bush's] legacy.
And now it's clear that the president's would-be Republican successor, Senator McJackie the McJokeman, will prove to be even less serious and dignified in the role of Smirker-in-Chief. If that were even possible.
Last week, in response to a serious question about Iran, the Republican presumptive nominee joked about killing Iranians with weaponized cancer. This week, it's news about a joke involving gorillas and rape.
"Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'"
Get it? Women like to be beaten and raped. Hoo-hoo! In days past, it's been jokes about wife-beating, bombing Iran, Chelsea Clinton's looks, and Alzheimer's Disease. Based on these precedents, I can only imagine Senator McCain's forthcoming zingers about still-births, burn victims and Thalidomide
Do y'all know we can watch NN streamed live? I didn't. Big Al is speaking now. http://www.netrootsnation.org/node/982
There is a new one
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