Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case

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By David Kravets
Wired.com
January 22, 2009 | 4:32:47 PM

Spy The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.

In a filing in San Francisco federal court, President Barack Obama adopted the same position as his predecessor. With just hours left in office, President George W. Bush late Monday asked U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to stay enforcement of an important Jan. 5 ruling admitting key evidence into the case.

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via Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case | Threat Level from Wired.com

Kucinich: Save America’s Homes

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Bill Moyers Journal: Sirota, Frank, Williams & Harris-Lacewell

Open Letter to President Obama on Consumer Protection, by Ralph Nader

Kucinich Challenges Banks on Hoarding Bailout Funds

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy, By Ramzy Baroud

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Crossposted at Thomas Paine’s Corner thanks, Jason.

By Ramzy Baroud
January 24, 2009

My three-year-old son Sammy walked into my room uninvited as I sorted through another batch of fresh photos from Gaza.

I was looking for a specific image, one that would humanise Palestinians as living, breathing human beings, neither masked nor mutilated. But to no avail.

All the photos I received spoke of the reality that is Gaza today – homes, schools and civilian infrastructure bombed beyond description. All the faces were either of dead or dying people.

I paused as I reached a horrifying photo in the slideshow of a young boy and his sister huddled on a single hospital trolley waiting to be identified and buried. Their faces were darkened as if they were charcoal and their lifeless eyes were still widened with the horror that they experienced as they were burned slowly by a white phosphorus shell.

It was just then that Sammy walked into my room snooping around for a missing toy. “What is this, daddy?” he inquired.

Unseen Gaza (must-see)

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[Replaced the videos May 14, 2013]

Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Channel 4 Video Report – Broadcast – January 22, 2009

Bill Moyers Journal: Sirota, Frank, Williams & Harris-Lacewell

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Bill Moyers Journal
1.23.09

Political columnist and blogger David Sirota and WALL STREET JOURNAL columnist Thomas Frank talk with Bill Moyers about their hopes and expectations of this administration.

via Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS.

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Williams and Harris-Lacewell

Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics and African American studies professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell about the significance of this milestone and what it means for the future.

via Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS.

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Bill Moyers on The Forgotten

PBS

http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers Bill Moyers reflects on the new administration and the forgotten Americans. Bill Moyers Journal airs Fridays at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). For more: http://www.pbs.org/billmoyers

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Bill Moyers talks with Thomas Frank: Web Exclusive

Thomas Frank’s THE WRECKING CREW, examines corruption in Washington, puts the Abramoff scandal into context. Bill Moyers and Thomas Frank discuss the scandal and Frank’s new book in a Web-exclusive interview.

About 1000 Call For Immigration Reform in DC

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Report on a protest outside ICE headquarters in Washington, DC calling for immigration reform.

The coordinating organization was http://www.fairimmigration.org

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Jewish Voice for Peace: An open letter to President Obama

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Jewish Voice for Peace

1.24.09

Please add your name to our letter, and then ask your like-minded friends to do the same. Jewish Voice for Peace and Just Foreign Policy are aiming to deliver this letter on February 23.

Official: UN May Prosecute Bush Administration, Regardless Of US action + Michael Ratner: Prosecute Bush & Cheney

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By David Edwards
ICH
January 23, 2009 “Rawstory” Jan 22, 2009

The UN’s special torture rapporteur called on the US Tuesday to pursue former president George W. Bush and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners.

“Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation” to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said, in remarks to be broadcast on Germany’s ZDF television Tuesday evening.

He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required “all means, particularly penal law” to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it.

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via Official: UN May Prosecute Bush Administration, Regardless Of US action- ICH

Gaza: The Facts Are Insufficiently Impartial + Tony Benn DEC appeal on News 24

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Updated: 1.26.09 added another story and link to video

Climate and Capitalism
January 23, 2009

The Stimulator: Ohhhhh Bama!

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http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/01…

This Week:

The Chomskulator
Ohhhhhhhhh Bama
Clean Coal 2 for 2
Duke Nuke ‘Em
Somali Ocean Defenders
Syncrude’s bad karma
Smash EDO
Paris
Jeff Munson

Open Letter to President Obama on Consumer Protection, by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Jan. 23, 2009

Dear President Obama:

Underneath many of our country’s economic problems is the thirty-year collapse of consumer protection—both of the regulatory kind and of the self-help kind known as proper access to justice.

Last month major consumer groups sent you a letter proposing action to rein in exploitation of consumers as debtors, as buyers of oil, gas and electricity, as patients needing health insurance and as eaters wanting safe goods.

Under the Bush regime, the words “consumer protection” were rarely uttered and the Bush administration almost never initiated any pro-consumer efforts, even with massive evidence before it, such as predatory lending and credit card abuses.

You need to recognize and elevate the GDP significance of fair consumer policies along with their moral and just attributes at a time of worsening recession.

I suggest you focus on the state of the poorest consumers in the urban and rural ghettos. As you know from your days with the New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG) and as a community organizer in Chicago, the consumers in these areas are the most gouged and least protected. That the “poor pay more” has been extensively documented by civic, official and academic studies, and numerous local newspaper and television news reports.

Obama Allows Air Strikes In Pakistan! 17 Killed + Obama ordered Waziristan airstrikes

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Obama The Warmonger-17 Bombed In Pakistan…Some “Change” huh?

DontBeObamaZombies on Jan 23, 2009

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Countdown: What Did Congress Know About Domestic Spying

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Keith talks to Rep. Stephen Cohen about what members of Congress knew about domestic spying and what they plan to do about it.