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Day: May 13, 2008
John Conyers: From Cowardice to Complicity (video)
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Some people say showing anger to Congress is the wrong approach. They say it’s out of line and too easily dismissed by those who are supposed to be representing us.
Let me tell those people what’s out of line:
Lying to Congress (a felony) and the American people to launch the illegal invasion and occupation of a country that posed no threat to us whatsoever.
And subsequent results including (but not limited to):
More than one million dead innocent civilians.
More than four thousand dead American soldiers.
Almost five million Iraqi refugees. The fastest growing such crisis on the planet.
The entire Iraqi landscape, millions of people, and our soldiers permanently poisoned by the depleted uranium fallout from our illegal weapons.
Twelve billion dollars per month being wasted on this disaster, so a few war profiteers and their Beltway cronies can have money coming out of every orifice while our country rockets toward total financial meltdown.
Torture.
In addition:
Illegal detention of prisoners without charges, trial or access to a lawyer.
Illegal warrantless spying on innocent American citizens.
Illegal signing statements with which the president claims the non-existent authority to ignore laws passed by Congress as he sees fit.
AND A 110TH CONGRESS THAT HAS NOT TAKEN A SINGLE STEP TOWARD IMPEACHMENT OF THE SINGLE MOST CORRUPT AND IMPEACHABLE ADMINISTRATION THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN.
Forgive me if I no longer feel like being nice to these people. They are sitting on their blood-covered hands while our republic burns.
WV Primary Results 05.13.08
West Virginia Democratic Primary Results
Democrats
28 pledged delegates, 11 unpledged
| Candidate | Vote | % | Delegates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | 234,813 | 67.0% | To be determined | |
| Barack Obama | 90,258 | 25.7 | ||
| John Edwards | 25,462 | 7.3 | ||
West Virginia Republican Primary Results
Republicans
9 pledged delegates, 3 unpledged
| Candidate | Vote | % | Delegates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John McCain | 87,786 | 76.0% | To be determined | |
| Mike Huckabee | 11,896 | 10.3 | ||
| Ron Paul | 5,812 | 5.0 | ||
| Mitt Romney | 5,062 | 4.4 | ||
| Rudolph W. Giuliani | 2,777 | 2.4 | ||
| Alan Keyes | 1,389 | 1.2 | ||
| Others | 714 | 0.6 | ||
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Taking a Stand Against War By Scott Ritter
By Scott Ritter
05/13/08 “Truthdig”
As someone who has been urging focused citizen activism for some time now, I find it heartening that there are those in the United States who put action to words and seek to lead by example. This is the case with Chicago Alderman Joe Moore, who, together with seven of his 49 colleagues (Toni Preckwinkle, Sandi Jackson, Eugene Schulter, Robert Fioretti, Freddrenna Lyle, Ricardo Munoz and Mary Ann Smith), has prepared a resolution for the Chicago City Council opposing war on Iran. By itself, this resolution most probably will not serve to alter the policies currently being pursued by the Bush administration. But when a great American city such as Chicago takes the lead in expressing its rejection of irresponsible national policy, other cities should, and will, take notice.
I have been asked to be a witness, together with other experts on Iran and U.S. Middle East policy, before the City Council as it considers this resolution. I think it is of great importance that the representatives of the people of Chicago vote to adopt it in its entirety. I would also encourage other municipalities to consider similar resolutions opposing war on Iran, and to express their concern through the adoption of resolutions which, collectively, might serve as a notice to the United States Congress, as well as the administration of President Bush, that a war with Iran would not be supported by the citizens of this land.
In preparing for my role as witness, I carefully considered the Chicago resolution in its entirety, and offer my analysis of its content as a primer for interested parties. I sincerely hope that the leadership and courage exhibited by the Chicago council members can be replicated across America in a timely fashion, and that the resultant will of the people is recognized by the Congress in time for effective legislation to be drafted and passed which reduces the threat of U.S.-Iranian conflict.
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New America Foundation: Foreign Policy Follies (video)
While one political party offers a bold, coherent, and failed vision for foreign policy, the other has proffered an inchoate and incoherent response that falls far short of a strategy. Matthew Yglesias — a known “ringleader-of-sorts for the D.C. blogging community” — suggests looking past both parties to offer a set of tried-and-true approaches for renewed internationalism and U.S. engagement with the world.
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Mosaic News – 5/12/08: World News from the Middle East
Warning
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This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
For more: http://linktv.org/originalseries
“Sudan Arrests Al Turabi,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Kuwait Dissolves Parliament, Sets May 17 Election Date,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Israel Supplies Limited Fuel to Gaza,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Egypt to Broker Deal Between Hamas & Israel,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Hamas Must Stop Rocket Attacks,” IBA TV, Israel
“Palestinians Caution About Civil War in Lebanon,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
“Fighting in Lebanon Shifts to Tripoli ,” Al Jazeera English, Qatar
“Syria Criticizes Saudi Bias in Lebanon,” Press TV, Iran
“National Unity Government Might Be Formed in Iraq,” Al-Alam TV, Iran
“Mauritania Replaces PM,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.
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Dennis Kucinich on Iraq and the Economy (videos)
5-13-08
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Dennis Kucinich at North Coast Training
Congressman Dennis Kucinich talks to political training attendees about the presidential election.
Anglo-American Ascendancy Lost in Unnecessary Wars By Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts
05/13/08 “ICH”
In a new book that will infuriate the fake conservatives who inhabit the Republican Party, Patrick J. Buchanan documents how British self-righteousness, delusion, and hubris destroyed both the British Empire and Western ascendancy in two unnecessary wars launched by a small cabal of morons that ruled Britain Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War shows that the two world wars that destroyed European civilization began when England declared war on Germany, thus dragging in the Empire, Commonwealth, and United States. This was a strategic blunder unparalleled in history. Mighty Britain emerged from World War II as an American dependency.
Buchanan cites such British notables as F.J.P. Veale, B.H. Liddell Hart, and C.P. Snow to document that it was Winston Churchill who committed, in Veale’s words, “the first deliberate breach of the fundamental rule of civilized warfare that hostilities must only be waged against the enemy combatant forces.” It was Churchill, not Hitler, who first targeted civilian populations in World War II and caused the structure of civilized warfare to collapse in ruins.
The Americans quickly adopted Churchill’s criminal policy of attacking civilians, culminating in the outrageous use of nuclear weapons against two Japanese cities, the slaughter of Vietnamese civilians, and the ongoing slaughter of Afghan and Iraqi civilians.
A popular American myth is that “the greatest generation” saved the world from Nazi tyranny. As Buchanan points out, the fact of the matter is that the Normandy invasion in June 1944 played little, if any, role in Germany’s defeat. By the end of 1942 Hitler had lost World War II at Stalingrad, long before any American troops appeared on the scene. What the Normandy invasion achieved 18 months later was to keep the Red Army from over-running all of Europe.
Although Buchanan’s book is about how the British destroyed themselves, Buchanan is clearly thinking about America. In the closing pages Buchanan shows how the Bush Regime has broken from the sound policy of President Reagan and is replicating the British folly of self-destruction. “There is hardly a blunder of the British Empire we have not replicated,” laments Buchanan.
The distinct American hubris that we are “the indispensable nation” and the braggadocio that we are an “omnipower” has us overcommitted in alliances that we cannot fulfill. Despite 25 percent of the Iraqi population killed, injured or displaced, the “world’s only superpower” cannot even control Baghdad. To deal with the pointless war we started in Afghanistan, we have had to sucker our NATO allies into a conflict that is no concern of theirs. Militarily overextended and with a faltering economy and collapsing currency, the cabal of morons that rules America still hopes to attack Iran, Syria, and to drive Hezbollah from Lebanon. American idiots in think tanks are busy at work drawing up plans about how the US is going to check China and prevent her emergence as a power beyond US control. The Republican presidential candidate has boasted that he will challenge Russia and bring Putin to heel.
Amazing. The world’s greatest debtor is going to take on the two powerful countries with the largest trade surpluses. According to the World Factbook, an annual publication of the CIA, Russia’s 2007 current account surplus is $465 billion and China’s is $363 billion. In contrast, the US current account deficit is $987 billion–an amount larger that the total deficits of all other countries in the world combined. The out-of-pocket and already incurred future cost of Bush’s wars of aggression is between $3 and $5 trillion, every dollar of which must be borrowed. That comes on top of the unfunded liabilities of the US government totaling $53 trillion. By any account the US is the world’s worst credit risk. The “mighty” US relies on foreigners to finance its consumption, its wars, and the daily operations of its government.
When Buchanan looks at the collection of idiots that comprise America’s ruling class, he despairs.
In truth, American power is already broken, and the country is already lost.
The country is lost, because the brownshirt Bush Regime has destroyed the US Constitution with the complicity of the opposition party and the federal courts. There is no organized power that can restore the Constitution or even much concern that it has been overthrown.
The country is broken, because American capitalists have moved offshore so many US manufacturing, engineering, and research jobs that US imports now exceed US industrial production. American dependency on imported manufactured goods, advanced technology goods, and energy is astounding.
Moreover, the dependency is escalating dramatically. In March 2002, prior to Bush’s decision to impose Israel’s will on the Middle East, oil was $25 a barrel. Today oil is $125 a barrel, a five-fold increase that has seen our oil import bill rise from $145 billion in 2006 to $456 billion presently, a $300 billion addition to a trade deficit that was already running $700-$800 billion annually.
There is no possibility of the US closing its trade deficit. The US is able to survive such enormous deficits only because the US dollar is the world reserve currency. This role for the dollar is nearing an end as the world looks for more stable stores of value. Although oil is still nominally priced in dollars, in reality it is being priced in euros as oil producers raise the dollar price with a view to keeping their oil revenues at a constant purchasing power in euros.
When the dollar loses its reserve currency role, foreign financing for US trade and budget deficits will evaporate. US living standards will collapse, and the indispensable omnipower will be just another washed up country.
For a world weary of “American exceptionalism,” this can’t happen too soon.
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The Party of Brownshirts by Paul Craig Roberts
US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all
Disturbing Stirrings – Ratcheting Up For War on Iran by Stephen Lendman
The Road To World War III: Bush’s Legacy, Part III
War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think By Philip Giraldi
New America Foundation: Briefing on Beirut (video)
Is Lebanon on the brink of civil war? What are the implications for the region? What is America’s role in the current crisis?
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May 13, 2008
Featured Speakers
- Rami Khouri (by phone)
Editor-at-Large
The Daily Star
- Hisham Melhem
Bureau Chief
Al Arabiyah
- Nir Rosen (by phone)
Former Fellow, New America Foundation
Fellow, NYU Center on Law and Security
- Daniel Levy
Director, Middle East Policy Initiative, New America Foundation/The Century Foundation
Publisher, www.ProspectsforPeace.com
- Steven Clemons
Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com
- Flynt Leverett
Director, Geopolitics of Energy Initiative
New America Foundation
New America® is a registered trademark of the New America Foundation.
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Lebanon does not want another war. Does it? By Robert Fisk
Disturbing Stirrings – Ratcheting Up For War on Iran by Stephen Lendman
Are the Clashes in Beirut a Signal of the inception of a new War for the “New Middle East”?
McCain Madness
Sent to me by a friend.
McCain in the Mud
By Richard Cohen
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, May 13, 2008; Page A15
In 2000, I boarded John McCain’s campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, and, in a metaphorical sense, never got off. Here, truly, was something new under the political sun — a politician who bristled with integrity and seemed to have nothing to hide. I continue to admire McCain for those and other reasons, but the bus I once rode has gone wobbly. Recently, it veered into the mud.
I have in mind McCain’s charge that Barack Obama is the favored presidential candidate of Hamas. The citation for this remark is the statement of Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas political adviser, who said, “We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the election.” Yousef likened Obama to John F. Kennedy and said that Obama “has a vision to change America” and with it the world. Yousef apparently got so carried away that he forgot that Obama has repeatedly called Hamas a “terrorist organization.”
McCain seems to have forgotten that, too. His campaign has sent out an e-mail showing how guilt by association really works. “Barack Obama’s foreign policy plans have even won him praise from Hamas leaders,” it said. The message went on to claim that Obama’s foreign policy positions have earned him “kind words” from Hamas.
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McCain’s Corporate Tax Cut Would Save Energy & Utility Companies Over $2.8 Billion
thinkprogress.org
May 13, 2008
A global warming plan that weans America off dirty energy requires taking a stand against the huge utility & energy companies. But John McCain’s tax plan seems slightly more interested in lining their pockets.
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TPMtv: McCain’s Lobbying Pals: Vol. 57 + More Hagee
McCain and the ‘Unitary Executive’ By Robert Parry
Obama agrees with McCain on Palestine-Israel, so neither of them are all that Maverick…
McCain’s Ethics by Josh Sidman
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TPMtv: McCain’s Lobbying Pals: Vol. 57 + More Hagee
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: John McCain’s got so much experience in dealing with rogue regimes that he’s got the rogue regimes’ lobbyists running his campaign.
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Hagee: God Will Unleash Terrorists on U.S. for Israel Policy
John McCain supporter John Hagee
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Countdown: Bill O Blows A Gasket
O’Reilly goes crazy back in the 90’s. Keith has the video.
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The YouTube Interview: Ralph Nader
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader talked with YouTube’s Olivia Ma. Nader answered questions from YouTube users about his candidacy, the environment, and corporate corruption.
We also conducted a quick “Wordless Interview,” in which Nader gave a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on a rapid-fire list of questions.
Many thanks to all who submitted questions, especially sweetnirvana42, britethorn, Peacelf, and PassionateJulien.
To learn more about Ralph Nader, check out his YouTube channel here: http://youtube.com/votenader08.
Rush Limbaugh: Everything That’s Wrong With America Personified
by Josh Sidman
Dandelion Salad
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Josh’s Blog Post
May 13, 2008
I feel dirty for even stooping to write about this guy (since I know that’s exactly what he wants), but since his latest political stunt is making a mockery of our political system, I feel compelled to speak up and propose an idea to counter his self-aggrandizing, destructive tactics.
For anyone who hasn’t already heard about it, Limbaugh has been making headlines recently with his “Operation Chaos”. The idea is to encourage Republican voters to vote for Hillary Clinton in the primaries in order to extend and deepen the divisions within the Democratic Party and weaken the eventual nominee. Limbaugh is showing his true colors by deliberately undermining the integrity of our system of government in order to boost his own ratings and promote his own political agenda. What could be more anti-American than that?
Not only is it the height of cynicism and anti-democratic sentiment to encourage people to use their votes to support a candidate who they hate, but this self-described “patriot” actually went so far as to state that his goal is to see violence and “blood in the streets” at the Democratic Convention. How can anyone support such a disgusting sentiment? How can anyone consider themselves patriotic when they want to see their fellow Americans suffer physical harm?
So, I am proposing the following plan of counter-attack. Today I listened to Limbaugh’s entire show (I may have to seek psychiatric counseling to help me recover from the adverse effects) and made a list of every company that advertised on the show (see below). I personally vow that I will not do business with any of these companies for a period of at least one year from today.
I ask anyone who feels the way I do to send an e-mail to operationantichaos@yahoo.com letting me know that you’re joining me. (I will contact all of the advertisers and let them know how many people have taken the pledge. Also, I will be making convenient wallet-sized cards listing all of the below-listed companies in order to facilitate the keeping of the pledge. Anyone who would like such a card can simply e-mail their mailing address to the above address, and I will send them one free-of-charge.) I furthermore encourage anyone who wants to join me in “Operation Anti-Chaos” to forward this posting to everyone they know and suggest that they do likewise.
If Limbaugh is willing to compromise the basis of our whole system of government in order to promote his own selfish agenda, the most patriotic thing we can do is to make sure that those who support his efforts suffer the consequences where it really matters – in their wallets.
Advertisers (national):
Netflix
Geico
General Motors/Chevrolet
Wells Fargo
Hardee’s
AT&T Wireless
Kubota
John Deere
CSX
Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Lendingtree.com
The Mutual Fund Store
Blue Bell Ice Cream
Credit Answers
Legalzoom.com
Lennox Financial (mortgage broker)
Allen Brothers (mail-order meat company)
Goldfellow.com (online gold buyer)
Nomask.com (sleep apnea treatment)
The Scooter Store (senior mobility products)
Audibel (hearing aids)
Super-C (vitamin supplement)
Ameal BP (blood pressure supplement)
Lifelock (identity theft protection)
Lear Financial (gold investments)
TV Ears (hearing aids)
Securemeal.com (diet plan website)
Laser Shield (home security systems)
Carbonite.com (PC data recovery)
Advertisers (local to Tennessee area):
Outdoor Lighting Perspectives
Northern Tool & Equipment
East Tennessee Equipment Co.
Knoxvillehelpwanted.com
Farm Bureau Insurance
Hair Restoration Center of Knoxville
Nama
General Steel
Lifetime Kia of Morristown
Firehouse Subs
Johnson Bible College
Sea Ray of Knoxville
Newport Tire & Service Center
Huntington Learning Center
The Tennessee Lottery
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Limbaugh named Satan’s employee of the month for 207th time (satire)
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Lebanon does not want another war. Does it? By Robert Fisk
By Robert Fisk in Beirut
http://www.independent.co.uk
Sunday, 11 May 2008
I went to cover a demonstration in West Beirut yesterday morning – yes, please note the capital W on “West” – and then I get a text from a Lebanese woman on my mobile phone, asking if she will have to wear a veil when she returns to Lebanon. How do I reply? That the restaurants are still open? That you can still drink wine with your dinner?
That is the problem. For the war in West Beirut is not about religion. It is about the political legitimacy of the Lebanese government and its “pro-American” support (the latter an essential adjective to any US news agency report), which Iran understandably challenges.
A few days ago, I went to view an exhibition – here, in Beirut – of posters of the terrible 15-year civil war which cost the Lebanese and Palestinians 150,000 lives. It was called “Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon’s Civil War, 1975-1990”, and I came to the conclusion that there would never be a civil war in Lebanon again. How could a people who were prepared to show such outrageous placards re-fight this hopeless conflict? But, am I not seeing almost identical posters in the streets of West Beirut?
h/t: ICH
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Disturbing Stirrings – Ratcheting Up For War on Iran by Stephen Lendman
Are the Clashes in Beirut a Signal of the inception of a new War for the “New Middle East”?
Dandelion Salad 