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From Time:
Top members of President Bush's national security team are leaving in one of the earliest waves of departures from a second-term Administration — nearly two years before Bush's time ends.
As rancor in the nation rises over handling of the war in Iraq, at least 20 senior...
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From ABC:
President Bush's approval rating has dropped to 28 percent in a Newsweek poll released this weekend, the lowest of any president in a generation. Bush's low is now tied with Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis. Only two modern presidents have fared worse -- Richard Nixon,...
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From CBSNews:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a U.S. congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order.
Rice said she would respond by mail to questions from...
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From MSNBC:
WASHINGTON - A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.
The 51-46 vote was largely along party lines,...
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From TO:
The unfolding civil war and inter-sectarian violence in Iraq is deepening a humanitarian crisis of refugees, a Congressional Research Service Report has found. The report, entitled "Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Deepening Humanitarian Crisis?"...
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From the LAT:
WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for...
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Some friends of mine just posted this video on YouTube. Its a good rendition of Lennon's "War is Over-if you want it"
From their website:
It's Springtime, a new birth. Music video presented by JTMP.ORG and performed by Op-Critical featuring the Harmonic Angels. Imagine Peace!...
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The day a suicide bomber struck at the heart of Iraq's democracy
By Patrick Cockburn
Published: 13 April 2007
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Last summer, it was determined that SCOTUS would hear a case entitled Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 05-1120. The ruling was handed down this morning. Its not good for BushCo, but it IS good for the environment and individual states rights.
The lawsuit was filed by 12 states...
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From Waxman's Oversight Committee website:
The Committee has formally requested Secretary Rice to testify before the Oversight Committee on April 18th regarding the Administration’s claims that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, White House treatment of classified information, the...
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From the folks at TPM and ThinkProgress:
Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) issued letters to the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney ‘04 Campaign directing them to preserve all emails by and for White House officials, and...
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does anyone understand why george w. bush was voted worst president of the last 50 years in the californian's reader poll, yet they pictured (hugely) jimmy carter???? maybe a californian editor can explain that one... i must've missed the "standing president exclusion clause" in...
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I took part in an online conference call Tuesday with the progressivestates.org committee and Senator Ted Kennedy. There were also several state legislators on the call as well. CA has two bills working their way through the State legislature, one in the assembly and one in the Senate.
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Yesterday, our current occupant of the oval office held a Press Conference. The entire transcript can be read here as the government is very good about providing us with Bush's immortal words.
This part of the transcript caught my eye:
Q Thank you, sir. General Pace says that these...
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The federal government has outsourced more and more of its duties within the last 6 years. By doing this, they can claim they have lowered their workforce, thus saving us millions of bucks in benefits that would have to be paid to these employees if they were on the federal government payroll,...
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Polls..Have you ever seen one? I don't mean the results, I mean the poll itself? I have. They go something like this..
Do you approve of the war in Iraq? Y or N
Do you approve of the way the president is handling the war in Iraq? Y or N
Do you think we should committ more troops to the war...
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Jason Leopold has followed PlameGate since its inception. He has gotten burned a couple of times with leading stories that were discounted..but in a trial, the info is out there and its part of the court record..today we get this writeup from him:
But Cheney's notes, which were...
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Salon.com has a good writeup about the "March on DC" here. It points out many of the groups that engaged in the march Saturday were not the usual left "wingnuts" and hippies:
"Regardless of size, the protest felt different. The demographics of the crowd had changed....
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this is certainly interesting...
Which U.S. presidents of the past 50 years will be remembered as best and worst? Two opinions are presented below.
Ratings: 4= A; 3=B; C=2; D=1; 0=F
Abbreviations: JFK= kennedy; LBJ= johnson; RN=nixon; GF=ford; JC=carter; RR=reagan; GB=bush the elder;...
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As this exclusive article in the Independant states, the Iraqi government, along with their "friends" in the Bush administration, are planning on allowing Oil companies to profit from their oil reserves: "Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be...
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It looks like the President has already begun to implement his New Way Forward, which looks remarkably like the old way. Since we've had a surge in troop levels 5 times already, I'm not sure what this one hopes to accomplish. But the more important aspect was that everyone had decided...
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On the heels of the newest signing statement by our President that allows him to read our mail, comes the news that the White House has declared the Visitors List as closed to the public.
The article states that the reason for this decision came on the heels of a federal judge ordering our...
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Here is the text from the letter sent to Bush this morning, the letter culled from RawStory.
President George W. Bush The White House Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
The start of the new Congress brings us opportunities to work together on the critical issues confronting our...
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On Dec 20th Bush signed a postal reform bill into law. He then issued a signing statement which basically says, according to this article up on NY Daily News:
"declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions."
That claim is contrary to existing law and...
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Another republican takes issue with Bush's occupation of Iraq. This WaPo article has this as the opening paragraph:
"Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said...
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The war in Iraq, which is costing roughly $8 Billion bucks a month, has largely been funded by emergency funding bills. This has removed the oversight function which should be carried out by the legislative branches on all spending bills.
Three elected members of the legislature have written a...
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The numbers, although not final, are thus:
"With 78% of voting stations reporting, Chavez had 61% to 38% for challenger [Manuel] Rosales," the Associated Press says. "Chavez had nearly 6 million votes versus 3.7 million for Rosales, according to the partial tally."
How...
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They both agreed to appear in public this morning and put on a united front. Whether these two heads of state really saw eye to eye on anything is another story and one they wouldn’t tell us publicly if their miserable lives depended on it.
They agreed that partioning is not an option....
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WaPo had a good article up Sunday. Its about the now infamous "Iraq Study Group. Those 10 humans, of dubious ancestry, have been formulating a plan for pulling our collective ass out of the fire that is the Iraq War.
I have blogged, ad nauseum, about this group. It is headed by two men on...
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Word on the news now is that Donald Rumsfeld is going to resign. Speculation is that Joe Lieberman will be chosen to replace him. If this occurs, the Senate will at most be 50-50 which would turn control back to the Republicans because Dick Cheney will choose who leads the Senate.
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My blog buddy Peter lives in NYC. He recently lost his uncle, Marine Captain Robert Secher in Iraq. It has hit him very hard. If you would like to read what Peter has written about his uncle,here is the link to his latest post about him. Newsweek has written an article about Robert, and I want to...
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Bush has named another Oil Industy exec to a post in his administration, and its an enviornment position no less. Lee Raymond is the guy that some folks love to hate.When Lee retired from Exxon, his golden parachute was worth $400 Million big ones..not bad, right? Some Exxon shareholders are now...
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This comment didn't sit too well with conservative Andrew Sullivan. From an Editor&Publisher article: " Andrew Sullivan, the conservative writer who was once a key media supporter for the Iraq war, denounced the latest Bush statement on CNN on Wednesday night, stating that the president...
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It kept me thinking about it for hours. Keith has been enboldened lately and he evidently was very upset that people would take Kerry's comment as directed to the soldiers. The rightwing has had a field day with his "bad joke". To see the video of KO's "special comment" aimed...
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So we've all heard Kerry's rant. "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." But what many progressives will say to defend Kerry was that he was talking...
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Many extreme liberals love to equate the war in Iraq to the war in Vietnam. When they do ask them if they support the troops. Most of them (unless they have a death wish by the rest of America) will say they do. A common mistake among conservatives is to ask how they support...
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"The Donald" got a little heated yesterday in his press conference. I did watch some of it. Here is a writeup about his little temper tantrum regarding the timetables set for Iraq to take over the security of their own country. Did He miss the part where the Pres. said there were...
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After Pat's Birthday
By Kevin Tillman
Posted on Oct 19, 2006
Editor's note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005,...
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Good ol’ Susan Dudley..you arent familiar with her name? Neither was I until an email this morning from OMB Watch.
A Senate committee hearing on Dudley’s nomination to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is scheduling for Nov. 13, the first day the Senate...
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this is terrifying stuff. definite material for contemplation and discussion. descriptions are not mine, but from the persons who posted the material on www.youtube.com
1. http://www.youtube.com/watc... : Rigged U.S. Election. Description: Computer Programmer...
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Today's rally and protest here in Bakersfield:
10am @ Jastro Park. Come help put the signs together, listen to speeches and talk to people that believe the Bush Administration does not have our best interests in mind.
4pm Gathering at Jastro will start the March to Chester and Truxtan...
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THE 14 CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
PART 9
CORPORATE POWER IS PROTECTED
By BRIAN AND KELLI
"Looking at the present I see a more probable future: a new despotism creeping slowly across America. Faceless oligarchs sit at command posts of a corporate government complex that has...
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On July 22nd, 2004, almost 3 years after the attack on the twin towers..the 9/11 Commission released its report. How has our President complied with the recommendations of the panel, which was half republican and half democrat?
He hasn't.
And evidently he thinks no one will pay attention to...
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The entire series can be found here at the Coalition for a Republican-Free America
THE 14 CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
PART 8:
RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT ARE INTERTWINED
(THE LONG AND REPRESSIVE RECORD OF CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA)
By Trevor, Brandon, and Jeffrey
“Congress...
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This is part 7 in a series being reprinted from a group blog, which you can view here. They are being posted to encourage dialogue regarding how our current administration makes use of these characteristics. You might not agree with the authors and if you don’t, feel free to say what you...
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This is part 6 in a series being reprinted from a group blog, which you can view in its entire form here. They are being posted to encourage dialogue regarding how our current administration makes use of these characteristics. You might not agree with the authors and if you don’t, feel...
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This is part 5 in a series being reprinted from a group blog, which you can view here. They are being posted to encourage dialogue regarding how our current administration makes use of these characteristics. You might not agree with the authors and if you don't, feel free to say what you don't...
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This post can be read by going here. I tried to fix it three times and it comes out a mess each time. Sorry. I have no idea why it won't post correctly on this site.
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The original can be read here.
THE FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
PART 3
IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES/SCAPEGOATS AS A UNIFYING CAUSE
ESSAY I
When in Doubt, Blame Gays and Lesbians
By
Daniel
With Assistance from
Brian
A defining characteristic of...
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The original appears here. This is reprinted with permission from the authors.
THE FOURTEEN CHARACTERITSICS OF FASCISM
PART 2
DISDAIN FOR THE RECOGNITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
By BRANDON
Will someone please explain how George W. Bush can call himself a Christian and still endorse...
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