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Rove is subpoenaed by House; Justice Dept says it's investigating political prosecutions| |
Excerpt: At the same time that the House Judiciary Committee voted to issue a subpoena to former presidential adviser Karl Rove today, it released a May 5 letter from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility to committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) disclosing that the OPR is investigating "allegations of selective prosecution relating to the prosecutions of Don Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, and Oliver Diaz and Paul Minor."
... and it really means nothing
Excerpt: In case you've forgotten, Karl Rove's already been subpoenaed. A year ago. By the Senate Judiciary Committee. Never testified. Never held in contempt. So how scared do you think he is this time?
It was also about a year ago that the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten. Their testimony was demanded and refused over a series of sliding deadlines over July of last year. A year later, neither one has testified, or even shown up at a hearing in person to say why they refuse to testify.
Comment: John Conyers knows, of course, that this subpoena will be ignored like the last one. He also knows that it is fully within his power to have the House Sergeant at Arms enforce a subpoena by having Rove literally arrested and jailed, in the jail in the House building, constructed for that very purpose. Of course, he will do nothing more than issue another easily-ignored subpoena, because with Conyers, any opposition to Bush is entirely for show. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
White House denies story about attacking Iran| |
Excerpt: The White House on Tuesday denied a published report in Israel that said President Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term in January.
A story in the Jerusalem Post quoted a "senior official" there as saying that Bush plans to attack Iran in the coming months. The story says the unidentified official claimed that a "senior member" of Bush's traveling entourage made the statement about attacking Iran in a closed meeting. Bush was in Israel last week. ...
Comment: American media covered this exactly the way it usually covers any especially startling or unpleasant news -- by not covering it at all until there's a denial, and then giving the denial wall-to-wall coverage. And really, is there any better way to get back in control of breaking news, than by preventing it from breaking at all until you've got the proper spin? Of course, it goes without saying that the same White House officials also denied reports that they were planning to attack Iraq, before attacking Iraq. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Israel and Syria
confirm peace talks| |
Excerpt: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said both sides were talking "in good faith and openly".
The Syrian foreign ministry also confirmed the Turkish-mediated talks, the first since 2000.
The last round of negotiations broke down because of disagreement over the extent of Israel's possible withdrawal from the Golan Heights.
Comment: Sounds like both sides are rotten appeasers, just a couple of Neville Chamberlains. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
Burger King agrees to better wages, conditions for tomato workers| |
Excerpt: Florida farm workers who harvest tomatoes for the Burger King system will see improved wages and working conditions following an historic agreement announced yesterday between the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and the fast food giant. The agreement follows a more than year-long drive that mobilized union members, students, religious and community activists and lawmakers in marches, rallies, congressional hearings and petition drives demanding justice for the workers. |
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mainstream media
Reviewing Recount, the New York Times lies about its own report on Florida vote in 2000| |
Excerpt: "In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by the New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied. But both studies also issued caveats about the varying standards used in different counties to count and reject ballots, including late-arriving votes from abroad, noting that had they been included and counted accurately and by the same standard, they probably would have given Mr. Gore the edge."
That’s a lie. The New York Times found that if all the votes had been counted, Gore would have won. The only caveat was that the judge in charge would have had to order a re-examination of the overvotes. |
Dobbs crumbles when pressed on his ‘NAFTA Super Highway’ myth: ‘I reject you!’
Former RIAA CEO is Huffington Post's new political director
Fox News' Liz Trotta suggests killing Osama and Obama
Why did CNN hire Alex Castellanos, who has a history of using "racially charged" tactics? And why won't CNN note that he's also advising McCain?
Washington Post finally calls out McCain on the ‘voodoo economics’ of his ‘fantasy war on earmarks’
Washington Post, L.A. Times uncritically quote ridonculous White House assertion that it opposes war funding bill because it includes domestic spending
Russert says "the story about Senator McCain and lobbyists and ethics and money -- that continues" (but not on Meet the Press)
L.A. Times ignores McCain flip-flop on charlatans
In reporting McCain's repudiation of Hagee, Fox News ignores Hagee's Hitler comments, McCain's courting of his endorsement
Ignoring Tennessee GOP and McCain staffers, Politico lies that smears against Obama "have not been traced back to GOP sources"
CNN airs unidentified woman's assertion that Wright's "avowed interest was the elimination of the Jewish race", without mentioning that this is bullsh*t
Comcast fires reporter who bristled at Bill O'Reilly's Emmy
Fox News has never disclosed that pundit Rove works for McCain, but Hannity jokingly asks if he works for Clinton
Lieberman pens delusional op-ed for Wall Street Journal
CNN's Beck lies about Bill Clinton
Limbaugh: If "feminazis" had remembered to oppose "affirmative action for black guys ... they wouldn't face the situation they face today"
New York Times and ABC News report on McCain's loan, but not that its terms may mean McCain is breaking campaign finance laws
Disney's hatemonger Savage plays Dead Kennedys song "in some respect for" Sen. Kennedy
Study shows cable news channels fuel anti-immigrant fervor
Los Angeles Times' Goldberg lies about Gore
NPR and Fox News assert that McCain went again Republican line on immigration, without mention his later flip-flop alignment with Republican line
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SLM, other lenders win 'favorable' terms from US, expert says| |
Excerpt: SLM Corp. and other educational lenders in the US will receive "very favorable" terms from the Education Department for disposing of loans they can't sell to investors, one specialist on the market said.
Department officials met with lenders in Washington to provide details about a program to buy loans, Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, a Web site about student loans, said yesterday in an interview on Bloomberg Television. The department will offer to buy the loans from the lenders at par value plus a rebate of 100 basis points and $75, or take over loans for a year before they revert to the lender, he said from Pittsburgh. ...
Comment: Recall that these loans are guaranteed by the Federal Government, so there was zero risk to the lenders making these loans. It should have been a slam dunk for them.
Except for their greed.
They stopped being in the business of holding the loans and based their growth plans on securitizing the loans and selling them to investors. So when the market for funny paper disappeared, these companies were forced to hang onto the loans they had made and just collect interest.
Hence, bail out time! Help the wealthy. Lynch the poor. Money is free, so don't worry, just print up as much as we need! Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein PERMANENT LINK |
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"Sleeper cell" case questions Bush authority to detain US residents indefinitely without trial| |
Excerpt: If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the US says the Constitution does not apply.
But Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is a US resident being held in a South Carolina military brig; he is the only enemy combatant held on US soil. That makes his case very different. |
Election 2008
McCain targets Obama on military service| |
Excerpt: There’s been a casual agreement in recent campaign cycles that presidential candidates with military backgrounds tout their service, but they don’t necessarily denigrate their rivals for not wearing a uniform. In each of the last five races, one presidential hopeful had considerably more military experience than his rival, and in each instance, the one who served resisted the temptation to attack the other for not having served.
This year, that’s apparently off the table.
Republican John McCain launched a harsh attack on Democrat Barack Obama’s lack of military credentials Thursday, charging that the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination has “zero understanding” of veteran’s issues. |
McCain is in good health, Associated Press says| |
Excerpt: The details of McCain's health are contained in 1,173 pages of medical documents spanning 2000 to 2008 that his campaign made available to the AP to make the case that he's healthy enough to serve as president, as well as to counter the notion that he's too old...
Comment: And way down in the seventh paragraph, we learn that McCain had cancer surgery just three months ago, and kept it secret from the press and public: "He frequently has pre-cancerous skin lesions removed, and in February had an early stage squamous cell carcinoma, an easily cured skin cancer, removed." Uh, I'm not a doctor, but if you had cancer surgery three months ago, is it honest to claim (or have AP claim) you're in good health and cancer-free? Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK
Comment: I have three observations. First, from the curious wording of that first sentence (above H&HH's comment) it sounds like AP got these 1,173 pages of medical records from someone in McCain's campaign... not straight from McCain's doctors. Which would mean that a few or a few hundred pages could have easily been removed, and might explain the absence of any records relating to his mental health.
Second, there's not a word about that baseball-sized lump on the side of McCain's face. What's up with that?
But most eye-catching to me is the number 1,173 -- we're told that at least one thousand, one hundred and seventy-three pages of medical records for John McCain have been generated since 2000. I haven't seen a doctor since I lost my insurance in 2004, and when I did have coverage I spent maybe fifteen minutes a year with a doctor, so my medical records are a lot thinner than 1,173 over the last eight years. I went to the emergency room in 2006, waited for two hours and saw a doctor for literally seven minutes, and it cost me $7,600 and my marriage. But hey, John McCain is perfectly happy with the American health care system and doesn't want to change anything substantial about it, because he's had full medical coverage pretty much every day of his life...
So do I have a point here? Well, yes, my point is that John McCain can kiss my ass... 1,173 times. Disco Stu PERMANENT LINK
Or was it just 400 pages? And why the long delay?
Excerpt: As Americans kick off Memorial Day weekend, Sen. John McCain today will release 400 pages of his medical records to a handpicked group of reporters who can neither walk out with the documents nor photocopy them, illustrating the campaign’s sensitivity about the 71-year-old candidate’s age and health. |
Obama visits Miami, takes Cuban issues head-on| |
Excerpt: His speech -- delivered to a cross-section of the supportive, the skeptical and the plain curious -- broke the pattern of condescension that has defined so many of these events in the past.
For once, a politician came to Miami and spoke to and about Cuban Americans as if they comprised a diverse community of thinking adults, instead of a single-celled organism.
The crowd rewarded him with several standing ovations, the longest of which came after Obama promised to lift the 2004 Bush travel restrictions. |
Clinton explains why she can't quit in May:
"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June"| |
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton was forced on the defensive today after citing the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as a justification to keep campaigning for president against Barack Obama. ...
"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?" Clinton said. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it."
Comment: She later semi-apologized ... not to America, not to Obama and his family, but to the Kennedys.
Hillary Clinton can't win the nomination, mathematically, and now she's admitted what's been speculated for a long time: She's staying in the race in hopes that Barack Obama will be assassinated. Takes the breath away, doesn't it? At this point I'd say she's topped Joe Lieberman's 2004 run as the most despicable Presidential candidate the Democrats have had in my memory. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK
Mentioning RFK's assassination is Clinton's recurring answer
when asked whether she should exit the race
Excerpt: Her excuse now is that the Kennedys have been "much on my mind these days" with the illness of Senator Edward Kennedy, but that doesn't explain what brought it to mind more than two months ago. |
Hillary Clinton compares her stand on Florida delegates to opposition to slavery| |
Excerpt: Instead of trying to help bring the party together -- Election Day is 24 weeks away -- Clinton went to Florida to argue that if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, his nomination will be illegitimate. And if the DNC plays by the rules Clinton used to support, it’s guilty of vote-suppression -- comparable to slavery, Jim Crow, and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe.
Comment: This whole topic is just plain tedious, but if you don't know the backstory of Clinton's hypocrisy on this matter, please click the link below. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK
Clinton operatives OK'd stripping Florida of all delegates
Excerpt: Hillary has known all along what the rules were and her campaign strategist, Harold Ickes, and her operatives on the DNC rules committee, were directly involved in the stripping of Michigan and Florida's delegates. |
McCain doesn't understand who's in charge in Iran
IRS clears Obama’s Christian denomination
McCain rejects Hagee’s endorsement (and makes it all about Obama and Wright)| |
Comment: Years after it became obvious that Hagee is certifiably insane, months after McCain sought and got Hagee's endorsement, he finally rejects it ... but what do you want to bet he'll flip-flop back and be seen hugging Hagee within a few weeks? Angry Annie PERMANENT LINK
McCain rejects Parsley’s endorsement
Comment: OK, that should quiet the (already very quiet) murmur about McCain's two nutty preachers -- he's rebuked both Hagee and Paisley. If America's mainstream media was a fraction as impartial and fair as it pretends to be, this would be the end of it, and for the McCain campaign this will be the end of it. You'll hear very little in the future about Hagee and Paisley.
Just remember how many times over how many weeks Obama needed to rebuke and re-rebuke Jeremiah Wright ... and you know we haven't heard the last of Jeremiah Wright. And it still isn't enough (stating the obvious here), you know that we'll still be hearing about Jeremiah Wright until election day, because American mainstream media is owned and operated for right-wing big-corporate interests. Grandpa PERMANENT LINK
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Bill Clinton reportedly pushing for Hillary as Obama's VP| |
Comment: I certainly hope Obama is smart enough to say the word NO. I can't think of a worse VP possibility, or a more instantaneous way to poof all the wind from Obama's sails and hand McCain the keys to the White House. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
McCain willing to grant telecoms immunity after they say they’re sorry| |
Comment: Criminy, talk about being soft on crime -- breaking the law, and breaking it thousands of times, is AOK with McCain if you just say you're sorry. Bleeding Heart Liberal PERMANENT LINK |
McCain campaign lies about the polls
McCains release "summary" of Cindy McCain's tax returns
that she vowed we would ‘never’ see
McCain spins like a top on immigration flip-flop
Obama puts veterans’ benefits on the front-burner
McCain aide’s lobbying firm still being paid by foreign governments
In 2000, McCain admitted he'd be too old to run in 2008
McCain reverses course on immigration reform (again)
McCain lies that he "received the highest award from
literally every veterans organization in America’| |
Comment: George W Bush was just stupid, but John McCain is downright delusional daily. Rebecca PERMANENT LINK |
McCain tells Ellen DeGeneres: You shouldn’t have the right to get married
McCain says Obama's ‘judgment on Iraq’ has been ‘consistently wrong’
After promising clean campaign, McCain hires Rove protege for opposition research
McCain quietly reassures lobbyists that his public anti-
lobbyist rhetoric is just posturing for the rubes
McCain adviser says sometimes it’s ‘accurate’ to describe a woman as a ‘bitch’
McCain’s lobbying mess starts to look even worse
Top McCain aide steps aside, won't participate in smears on Obama
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Utah Phillips has left the stage| |
Excerpt: "I spent a long time finding my way -- couches, floors, big towns, small towns, marginal pay (folk wages). But I found that people seemed to like what I was doing. The folk music family took me in, carried me along, and taught me the value of song far beyond making a living. It taught me that I don’t need wealth, I don’t need power, and I don’t need fame. What I need is friends, and that’s what I found -- everywhere -- and not just among those on the stage, but among those in front of the stage as well."
Comment: I am so saddened to hear this... and so gladdened by the memory of hearing Utah Phillips in life and song. Rest in peace forever ... Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
White House launches baseless feud with NBC News| |
Excerpt: The Bush gang, apparently, is all worked up over the “editing” of an interview between the president and NBC’s Richard Engel. The far-right blogs are equally incensed, but after looking at the controversy, I’m not sure what all the fuss is about. It seems like a manufactured outrage -- as if the powers that be decided the GOP base needed a pick me up, so the White House is picking a fight with a media outlet.
Irony alert: Fox News accuses rival of blurring the line ‘between news and commentary’ |
TJX employee fired for exposing startlingly lax security practices| |
Comment: Security is like a chain -- only as strong as the weakest link. Apparently, the weakest link is, in many cases made of tissue.
Every time you pay electronically or give out bits of your personal information you are adding to your chain of security risks. This wouldn't be so bad except that the problems go far beyond computer security: each individual person, each piece of paper, each office, each Thing is potentially exploitable. Lucy Lindblad PERMANENT LINK |
Family seed business takes on Goliath of genetic modification| |
Excerpt: Since the dawn of civilization, farmers have saved seeds from the harvest and replanted them the following year.
But makers of genetically modified (GM) seeds -- introduced in 1996 and now grown by some 70,000 Canadian farmers, according to Monsanto, the world's largest seed company -- have been putting a stop to that practice.
The 12 million farmers worldwide who will plant GM seeds this year sign contracts agreeing not to save or replant seeds. That means they must buy new seeds every year. |
Senate holds pro forma session to block recess appointments| |
Comment: How sad that this is necessary, but thank you, Sen. Reid and Sen. Brown, thank you very much. Helen & Harry PERMANENT LINK |
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America's decent into chaos
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Regardless of whether the criminal cabal which has seized the Government of the United States proceeds with their intention to expand the war in the Mideast with an attack upon Iran, it is only a matter of time before the Country goes into a full blown depression. |
Monopoly money
by Pavel C., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: I never had a clue what US "money" really was when I was younger, and it is only now after years of study and gameplay that I begin to see the nature of the US money fraud (I am a slow learner but a pit bull once I grasp a concept!). |
A campaign based on playing the victim
by Mel S., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton is just remarkably comfortable and at ease with habitually claiming victimhood. The press treated her unfairly, she complains (and her supporters echo). Obama hasn't treated her fairly, she complains (and her supporters echo). Everyone's trying to "push me aside", she complains (and her supporters echo). I'm not sure I know anyone as quick to play the victim, except for some Hillary Clinton supporters. |
How dare you criticize General Petraeus
by Tom D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: When a military commander lies to the public, and those lies imperil the lives of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, that is a high crime indeed. That is the daily work of Gen David Petraeus. |
America has run out of ideas
by Chris M., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: It's not that there is no-one out there coming up with good ideas for energy or what not. It's that nobody really cares. The ideas get mentioned in some science publication and then disappear along with the discoverer. Why?? Because whoever he/she is, they still need to put a roof over their heads and food in their mouths and reality sets in and no-one is willing to back them. |
Worries about an Obama assassination
by Sherri B., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: She just told me that if Obama was assassinated the world would watch Black people stop killing themselves in the ghettos long enough to cause major havoc and destruction. She also said America would deserve every dead body that was the result of the riots that would ensue from Obama's murder. |
Your lyin' eyes
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: They can cover up a tremendous amount of sh*t, but they have gone too far this time. Even people who don't have internet are starting to figure out they're being shafted. Even people who get all their news from Fox are figuring it out. Even people who don't read, watch, or listen to news are figuring it out! |
The revenge of Hegemony-Man!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Previous commentary
The obvious answer
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: If we succeed in finding justice from a court system that has been systematically corrupted over many years by criminal elements pursuing illegal gain from drugs, stock swindles, embezzlement and misuse of public funds, war profiteering and a host of other crimes, some known, many unknown, then we may be able to avoid a civil war and win back our freedom from this criminally inspired police state non-violently.
If, as seems likely, the criminals are so deeply entrenched in power that they can not be removed by peaceful means then the weight of their crimes will inexorably mount until spontaneous concerted action by the vast majority of the robbed and dispossessed population is turned against them, and they are swept into the sewer of history along with the likes of Marcos, Pinochet, Bautista, The Shah of Iran, and the rest of their slimy friends. |
Nationalism today; and
Bush lectures the Arab world
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: In my view, what the corporate elites disillusioned with Bush really want is a “multilateral system” that is really US unilateralism “cleverly packaged to grant other nations just enough slack to prevent them from fighting it [said of the neo-cons in the article].“ To me, what Bush and the neo-cons did was remove the clever packaging which revealed the basic unilateralism at play that other nations DID begin fighting against. |
Building the Pyramids of Gaza
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Unlimited Presidential powers
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Whoever the next President is (if a change from Bush-Cheney-McCain and their ilk actually occurs) they will be sorely tempted NOT to roll back the expansion of powers Bush has claimed, and the lapdog Republicans in the House and Senate helped push as far as they possibly could. |
2009 and beyond
by Siegfried Lemelson, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The overall situation is nearly irreversible because the world already has more than enough US government and agency bonds -- and it is obvious to even the most casual observer that, thanks to the magic of compounding interest, US government and agency debt may never be fully repaid. |
Their technique is simple: Keep us hating each other
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: They hate us all and they would love to see us separated and killing each other. That would make it a lot easier for them, because that would be less of us to feed and deal with... but God help them if we woke up and realized that it was really ALL OF US against ALL OF THEM! They are not counting on that! |
Bovine Psychosis, or
cow pee in the Potomac!
by Don Nash, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Toss the entire sorry lot out the front door of America’s Capitol and be done with their ‘bovine psychotic’ posteriors and start over. |
Heroin economics
by Marshall S., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Illegal drugs are a $500 billion per year business. That's a big chunk of change, in fact more than most corporations gross per year. I don't believe those in charge are weird but colorful, isolated nutcases, like one sees in movies. I think they're very well connected businessmen. ... If the illegal drug business stopped completely, I think the world economy would collapse. |
As soon as you are ready, stop obsessing about politics and all the rest of the hoopla
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: What goes around, comes around. We have cause immense suffering in the world during the brief time that we have existed as a society. Now will come the time of our discontent, and out of that suffering there may yet emerge a society that we can be sincerely proud of participating in. |
Burma disaster vs. Katrina
by Amber Perez, Unknown News| |
Excerpt: The Katrina "response" was pure evil. The evil was not "incompetence" but the deliberate actions taken to magnify the disaster. It was Disaster Capitalism taken to an extreme. |
Syria & Lebanon -- writing about them is NOT easy
by Marie K., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: Today Syria’s interest in Lebanon requires that it stay stable so that the many Syrians working there can continue to do so. The Syrian business community also relies on Lebanese banks. For the Lebanese, 35% of their exports go overland through Syria and an important amount to Syria. Both Syria and Lebanon’s biggest trading partner is the EU. |
Mercenaries looking for a few bad men
by Chris D., Unknown News| |
Excerpt: There's a fairly obvious downside to letting potentially unbalanced and ethically challenged hired guns who owe allegiance to their company before their country reside above the law. If there's an upside to giving these companies free reign to regulate themselves and letting them act as a military despite hiring madmen and perverts, I'm just not seeing it. |
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