Get your Rapture hats ready, kiddies! The sky is falling, and our wise gift of nuclear winter will propel us all into the loving arms of the all-knowing and all-everywhere G-d.

2006-09-01

Friends, Brothers, and Morons of the Vegetative States of America,
please genuflect for your Corporatist Overlords, the hoaxmeisters which have
effortlessly tele-opiated you at least since the 'magic bullet'.      Moo! 

We RESIDE in  ABOMI-Nation, ruled by the APO-STATE  [my coins/js]
Sorry that I've lived under-a-rock,for half of the last decade...
but the song below still has the most profound political lyrics
that I know of! .... it was played a few times on NY radio in 1992.
I have the record, soundtrack, and soda-pop... ENJOY!

Television, Drug of the Free
by Disposable Heroes of Hipocrisy (Michael Franti, 1991)

One nation under god has turned into
one nation under the influence of one drug

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., it satellite links
our united states of unconsciousness
apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive

the methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching

T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent
of our nation reads books daily  [um, sorta, maybe]
why most people think Central America means Kansas
socialism means unamerican

and apartheid is a new headache remedy

absorbed in its world it's so hard to find us
it shapes our mind the most
maybe the mother of our nation
should remind us that we're sitting too close to…

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is the stomping ground
for political candidates
where bears in the woods
are chased by grecian formula'd bald eagles

T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses

co-sponsored by enironmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special
it's the perpetuation of the two-party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom

where sound bite politics are served
to the fastfood culture
where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it

race baiting is the way to get elected
Willie Horton or will he not get elected on…

(chorus)
Televison, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., is it the reflector or the director
does it imitate us or do we imitate it

because a child watches 1500 murders
before he's twelve years old
and we wonder how we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh
rather than abhor the horror

T.V. is the place where armchair generals
and quarterbacks can experience first hand
the excitement of video warfare
as the themesong is sung in the background

sugar sweet sitcoms that leave us with
a bad actor taste while pop stars metamorphosize
into soda pop stars you saw the video
you heard the soundtrack
well now go buy the soft drink
well, the only cola that I support
is a union C.O.L.A. (cost of living allowance) on…

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

Back again, "new and improved"
we return to our irregularly programmed schedule

hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commmercials
CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.
where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless" "fresh frozen" light yet filling" and
"military intelligence" have become standard

T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own army
is now called "friendly fire"

T.V. is the place where the pursuit of
happiness has become the pursuit of trivia

where toothpaste and cars
have become sex objects
where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple

on…

(chorus)
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

BingoTheClowno @ 02/09/06 08:54:36
http://shogo.gnn.tv/blogs/12425/Zappa_s_Prescience<Subject: The American people are incredibly poorly equiiped!

I agree with you that Mr. Marolis does not [fathom?] understand the true meaning of fascism,  but I also doubt that you go far enough in your attempt to understand the fascism of the U. S. society and state [No Jerome! You said you read all John's emails! ==> FASCISM is the chewy core theme to John's teleological construct of political expediency... / spoken by a fan not a foe! thanks guys; apparently a dozen people here are not comatose and 100% cornpone toob-fed by the FAUX News] .  The best "simple'' definition of fascism I have read is that provided by George Jackson in Blood in My Eye.  I have not read that great book in a couple of decades, but, as I recall, he defined fascism as the unity of the bourgeoisie and the government.  While not an academic definition, it is short, sweet and to the point.
Mr. Margolis does demolish the simulations of "objectivity" by the very fascists, themselves,  but, because he does not understand the true meaning of fascism, he is no help to those who want to understand the world as it is.  I had not heard of him before reading your message, but I gather ...

P. S.:  I believe in Santa Claus.  I believe in the Tooth Fairy.  I believe in the Easter Bunny.  I believe, with the poor GI, who has been overseas for almost a year, that his wife was pregnant for ten months before she gave birth to his child, last month.  I also believe that 19 Muslim Extremists hijacked four airliners and flew three of them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.  Finally, I believe that the fourth plane did not attack another U. S. target, only because passengers prevented this dastardly act, while making wireless telephone calls to loved ones all over the country from altitudes of more than [five] 30,000 feet.  I believe.  I believe!  I believe!  [WHEE!]  [Jesus and 'Elmbrook Church' LOVE  'the downtrodden!'   ha3!]

"NOTICE:  Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President and his Cabinet.

This article is similar to many others that are critical of the fascist Bush administration.  They make many good points, but completely miss the connection between our very mature American capitalist economic system, with its concentration of enormous amounts of capital into the hands of a small group of capitalists, and how the American capitalist class uses its economic power to literally purchase the political power required to create a fascist state.  In other words, they completely miss the very important point that fascism is the natural outcome of a mature capitalist economic system in which the vast bulk of the capital is controlled by a very small group of people.

The Big Lie About 'Islamic Fascism'

By Eric Margolis
08/29/06 "
Lew Rockwell" -- -- The latest big lie unveiled by Washington's neoconservatives are the poisonous terms, "Islamo-Fascists" and "Islamic Fascists." They are the new, hot buzzwords among America's far right and Christian fundamentalists.
President George W. Bush made a point last week of using "Islamofacists" when recently speaking of Hezbullah and Hamas – both, by the way, democratically elected parties. A Canadian government minister from the Conservative Party compared Lebanon's Hezbullah to Nazi Germany.
The term "Islamofascist" is utterly without meaning, but packed with emotional explosives. It is a propaganda creation worthy Dr. Goebbles,  [ correct name is GOEBBELS] and the latest expression of the big lie technique being used by neocons in Washington's propaganda war against its enemies in the Muslim World.
This ugly term was probably first coined in Israel – as was the other hugely successful propaganda term, "terrorism" – to dehumanize and demonize opponents and deny them any rational political motivation, hence removing any need to deal with their grievances and demands.
As the brilliant humanist Sir Peter Ustinov so succinctly put it, "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich."

Both the terms "terrorism" and "fascist" have been so abused and overused that they have lost any original meaning. The best modern definition I've read of fascism comes in former Colombia University Professor Robert Paxton's superb 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism.
Paxton defines fascism's essence, which he aptly terms its "emotional lava" as: 1. a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond reach of traditional solutions; 2. belief one's group is the victim, justifying any action without legal or moral limits; 3. need for authority by a natural leader above the law, relying on the superiority of his instincts; 4. right of the chosen people to dominate others without legal or moral restraint; 5. fear of foreign "contamination."
Fascism demands a succession of wars, foreign conquests, and national threats to keep the nation in a state of fear, anxiety and patriotic hypertension. Those who disagree are branded ideological traitors. All successful fascists regimes, Paxton points out, allied themselves to traditional conservative parties, and to the military-industrial complex.
Highly conservative and militaristic regimes are not necessarily fascist, says Paxton. True fascism requires relentless aggression abroad and a semi-religious adoration of the regime at home.

None of the many Muslim groups opposing US-British control of the Mideast fit Paxton's definitive analysis. The only truly fascist group ever to emerge in the Mideast was Lebanon's Maronite Christian Phalange Party in the 1930's which, ironically, became an ally of Israel's rightwing in the 1980's.
It is grotesque watching the Bush Administration and Tony Blair maintain the ludicrous pretense they are re-fighting World War II. The only similarity between that era and today is the cultivation of fear, war fever and racist-religious hate by US neoconservatives and America's religious far right, which is now boiling with hatred for anything Muslim.
Under the guise of fighting a "third world war" against "Islamic fascism," America's far right is infecting its own nation with the harbingers of WWII totalitarianism.

In the western world, hatred of Muslims has become a key ideological hallmark of rightwing parties. We see this overtly in the United States, France, Italy, Holland, Denmark, Poland, and, most lately, Canada, and more subtly expressed in Britain and Belgium. The huge uproar over blatantly anti-Muslim cartoons published in Denmark laid bare the seething Islamophobia spreading through western society.
There is nothing in any part of the Muslim World that resembles the corporate fascist states of western history. In fact, clan and tribal-based traditional Islamic society, with its fragmented power structures, local loyalties, and consensus decision-making, is about as far as possible from western industrial state fascism.

The Muslim World is replete with brutal dictatorships, feudal monarchies, and corrupt military-run states, but none of these regimes, however deplorable, fits the standard definition of fascism. Most, in fact, are America's allies.
Nor do underground Islamic militant groups ("terrorists" in western terminology). They are either focused on liberating land from foreign occupation, overthrowing "un-Islamic" regimes, driving western influence from their region, or imposing theocracy based on early Islamic democracy.
Claims by fevered neoconservatives that Muslim radicals plan to somehow impose a worldwide Islamic caliphate are lurid fantasies worthy of Dr. Fu Manchu and yet another example of the big lie technique that worked so well over Iraq.
As Prof. Andrew Bosworth notes in an incisive essay on so-called Islamic fascism, "Islamic fundamentalism is a transnational movement inherently opposed to the pseudo-nationalism necessary for fascism."

However, there are plenty of modern fascists. But to find them, you have to go to North America and Europe. These neo-fascists advocate "preemptive attacks against all potential enemies," grabbing other nation's resources, overthrowing uncooperative governments, military dominance of the world, hatred of Semites (Muslims in this case [albeit temporarily, until the hoax of Christian Zionism becomes EXPOSED some fing day by a responsible [sic] Christian authoritative body ] ), adherence to [absurdity buffet, the  best  appetizer served to whet appetites for atrocities! WHEE!] biblical prophecies, hatred of all who fail to agree, intensified police controls, and curtailment of "liberal" political rights.
They revel in flag-waving, patriotic melodrama, demonstrations of military power, and use the mantle of patriotism to feather the nests of the military-industrial complex, colluding legislators and lobbyists. They urge war to the death, fought, of course, by other people's children. They have turned important sectors of the media into propaganda organs and brought the Pentagon largely under their control.
Now, the neoconservatives are busy whipping up war against Syria and Iran to keep themselves in power and maintain the political dynamics of this 21st century revival of fascism.
The real modern fascists are not in the Muslim World, but Washington. The neocons screaming fascist the loudest, are the true fascists themselves. It's a pity that communist and leftist propaganda so debased the term "neo-fascist" that it has become almost meaningless. Because that is what we should be calling the so-called neocons, for that is what they really are.

August 29, 2006
Eric Margolis, contributing foreign editor for Sun National Media Canada, is the author of War at the Top of the World. See his website. http://www.ericmargolis.com/
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Corporate Globalization and Middle East Terrorism

By Charles Sullivan

08/29/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- By now the whole world knows that America is none of the things that she purports to be; that is, everyone except the Americans. It is said that America has fifty states but in fact she has fifty-one, Israel being the fifty-first. Perhaps Great Britain could be counted as the fifty-second.

It is ironic that the people who think they are the freest are the most controlled people on earth. It is equally odd that those who think they are part of the greatest democracy the world has ever known do not participate in a democracy at all; nor do they recognize one when they see it. These facts attest to how thoroughly the American people have been propagandized by the corporate media.

A controlled people have no will of their own. They believe what they are told, and they do what their government tells them to do. They have little intellectual curiosity about the world and rarely, if ever, question authority, much less challenge it. They have little or no knowledge of their nation’s history, and are a frightened and timid people that have no conception of reality. None are more effectively enslaved than those who think they are free. Americans are slaves to a corrupt system that preys upon them and tells them how well they are treated.

As America’s fifty-first state—Zionist Israel influences American foreign policy nearly as much as the corporations that run the government. On Capital Hill the Zionist lobby rivals the power of even the wealthiest corporations. The Pentagon, in particular, is heavily influenced by Zionists, and chief among them are Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle and Michael Rubin. The combination of Zionism and corporate Plutocracy is a particularly deadly and violent one; a perfect storm that has gathered over the Middle East and rained corpses upon the land in a cyclone of savage violence without end.

The evidence visibly demonstrates that both the American and Israeli governments are savage terrorist states. I make a clear distinction between the people and their respective governments; although the people must bear some of the responsibility for what their governments do. Recent reports from Amnesty International make clear that both nations deliberately target civilians and civilian infrastructure—including roads and bridges, water sanitation facilities, electrical generating stations, ambulances transporting the wounded to hospitals, rescue workers recovering the dead, and even women and children seeking refuge in bomb shelters. Other humanitarian NGOs have uncovered similar findings.

Not only are such events an abomination, they are acts of extreme cowardice; the work of madmen intoxicated by transitory power in pursuit of private wealth.

The Israeli and American governments have little regard for life, or human freedoms. Both thoroughly propagandize their own people and call themselves democracies. They are known to kidnap, imprison, torture, and assassinate their foes without due process. Both possess nuclear arsenals capable of destroying the world many times over. The world surely remembers that America is the only nation to hold human life in such low regard as to actually deploy the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even with Japan’s eminent surrender at hand.

These governments are guilty of the same war crimes that the Nazi leadership was executed for after World War Two. They have histories of ethnic cleansing and genocide. The blood of innocent people runs warm on their hands, and they continually thirst for more.

It is clear that neither America nor Israel is interested in a negotiated peace in the Middle East. Both governments intend to force capitalism upon the region by systematically invading and occupying the Arab states. Their stated intent is to denationalize the immense natural wealth of the region, and turn it over to private corporations; to force the Islamic Arab states to join the World Trade Organization, and to accept capitalism as the new religious order. Some kind of Middle East Free Trade Agreement will likely be brokered at gun point, and the corporate fire sale will commence. Similar plans exist for other parts of the world.

Forget what the talking heads on the television tell you, and ignore the idiocy spewed forth by conservative talk show hosts; America’s Middle East policy has nothing to do with threats stemming from the development of nuclear arsenals, or imaginary terrorist plots to maim and kill, as reported in the corporate media. Such claims are useful propaganda, shameless promotions created to deceive a gullible people into believing there is an eminent threat to their freedoms that must be dealt with militarily. None of it is true.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq was foretold in a document titled, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century.” This paper was authored some six years ago by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and a host of neocon luminaries who are always clamoring for war. It provides the blue print for what is to come, but it is conveniently ignored by the corporate media.

If the neocons and their Zionist allies succeed, Iran will also be invaded and occupied, followed by Lebanon and Syria. Other states will follow, insuring that America and Israel remain in a state of perpetual war for the next hundred years. Preemptive strikes are the modus operandi. The plan calls for permanent military bases throughout the region, and the U.S. is already constructing fourteen permanent bases in Iraq. America has no intentions of leaving until the last drop of oil runs dry, and Iraq’s natural wealth has been privatized.

The larger purpose of the American-Israeli Middle East policy is to force capitalism onto the region. If they are successful, the occupied territories will fall under virtual martial law, and virtual U.S-Israeli rule. The dollar will become the currency, and every Arab state will be forced to join the WTO, and to comply with its laws. Membership in the WTO effectively renders a nation’s Constitution and its laws null and void. WTO membership is a key element in the new world order envisioned by the world’s wealthiest people.

The independent Arab states will be coerced into accepting loans from the IMF and the World Bank. A key feature of these loans is that they require the state to open its borders to private ownership and foreign investors (privatization). That is what occurred in Iraq when the Bremer orders were issued. A puppet government is installed to lend the appearance of legitimacy to the process. Some kind of Middle East Free Trade Agreement will likely be brokered at gun point; the inhabitants will eventually lose their cultural identity and become westernized. Imagine downtown Baghdad with a McDonald's at every corner, and Wal-Mart Super Centers all around.

This is the New World Order envisioned by George Herbert Walker Bush—corporate governance by the world’s wealthiest individuals. For everyone else it will be a world-sized gulag with all the accoutrements of a concentration camp.

Western capitalists break into a cold sweat when they think about the money to be made. They see private wealth in the form of the Middle East’s immense oil reserves, cheap exploitable labor, and the millions of new consumers that capitalism demands.

Any nation that resists corporate globalization will be labeled ‘terrorist states,’ and subjected to military invasion. The imperial invaders will declare that these states are developing nuclear weapons and present an eminent threat to the U.S and its allies. The corporate media will report that we are bringing democracy to the Middle East. All of this should sound hauntingly familiar.

Once the groundwork is laid, the invasion of Dick Cheney’s Halliburton, Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, and all of the corporations that are plundering Iraq can begin in earnest. Some 150 American corporations are already reaping billions in stolen Iraqi wealth. That is just the beginning.

The masters of war are promoting their agenda of corporate globalization by equating the resistance to free trade with terrorism. As all things Bush, this is just marketing hype and brazen lies—pure propaganda. By linking resistance to free trade to terrorism in the public mind, the perpetrators expect to market future wars and more occupations to the people who will be required to carry them out.

Speaking truth in America is becoming tantamount to an act of sedition, or terror. We already know what happens to terrorists in Bush World.

Acting as America’s fifty-first state, Israel’s elite will also reap the economic spoils of war, and expand its power throughout the region. She will then be in position to police the territory, and to put down insurrections with weapons made in the USA.

Much of the world already knows that democracy and capitalism are an oxymoron. As we can see (if we are willing to look), capitalism and free trade oppresses human freedoms, rather than foster them. Do the people of Iraq feel liberated? Their country is being divvied out to corporate predators, while America holds a gun to their heads. When will we remove our blinders and see with clear eyes? Every atrocity that America and her allies accuse their enemies of committing, they have themselves committed. Will we ever remove our blinders and see with clear eyes?

There will never be peace as long as capitalism thrives and men without souls occupy human flesh. Nations will be carpet bombed, and millions of innocent people will suffer and die horribly. The corporate CEOs and their share holders view this as a small price for others to pay, so long as they profit.

In an article published in The New Yorker this week, Seymour Hersch exposed the Pentagon’s covert plot to invade Iran. The corporatocracy considers Iran as the crown jewel of the Middle East. What the Plutocrats did not count on, however, was the fierce resistance the occupying forces have encountered in Iraq, where nothing has gone according to plan. Beyond the green zone there is no part of the country that is safe. The world’s most powerful military cannot defeat the building guerrilla resistance that continues to grow and intensify. In Lebanon, the world’s second strongest military was unable to defeat Hezbollah and its antiquated weaponry.

While these are viewed as ominous signs for the New World Order, they are an indication that there may be justice in this world after all. The fierce resistance to occupation by the Palestinians on the West and Bank and the Gaza Strip, the spirited defiance to occupation in Iraq, and the repulsion of the Israeli military from Lebanon are cause for hope. They are victories for the people against their oppressors. Apart from the aggressors, the world recognizes the right of all peoples to resist foreign occupation and to determine their own fate. It is a moral duty. There is hope in resistance. Someone once said, “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

In their unfathomable hubris, both the Israeli and the American governments have seriously underestimated the spiritual strength and determination of the freedom fighters resisting corporate globalization. They will never stop fighting until the occupiers have been driven out, as occupying armies always are. The invaders can kill the majority of the population with their sophisticated weaponry, but those who remain will expel them, as the Vietnamese expelled the U.S. from Viet Nam. History has taught us these lessons again and again, but we Americans do not know history; nor do we want to know it.

Sources:

The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time, Antonia Juhasz, May 2006

Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, Dick Cheney and others.

National Security Strategy of the USA, Dick Cheney and others, September, 2002.

Dick Cheney’s Song of America, David Armstrong

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, Richard Perle and others, 1996

Watching Lebanon, Seymour Hersch, New Yorker, August 21, 2006

Mad Dog on a Leash, Sheila Samples, Dissident Voice, August 15, 2006

Democracy Now!, Pacifica Radio Network, various dates

Charles Sullivan is a photographer and free lance writer residing in the hinterland of West Virginia. He welcomes civil comments at csullivan@phreego.com.

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2006-08-31

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Joe Scarborough: Republicans want him to "SHUT UP"

On Joe's show tonight, he went off on Republicans that do not like him speaking out against this administration's handling of Katrina.

Joe: "I'm getting lectured from Republicans in Oregon, California, upstate New York, Arizona telling me I need to back off the President, I need to back off of #, I need to back off these state leaders. You and I are on the Gulf Coast- we know how these things are supposed to be run. This has nothing to do with politics..."

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The Republicans are obviously worried that this Republican talk show host's point of view isn't following their talking points and is a real problem because he's not a Democrat saying them. Joe has been honest before (Schiavo not included) and is simply exposing their ineptitude that so many people are feeling right now.



Thursday, September 08, 2005

A picture named fema_brown_bush0908.jpgCronyism: Brown is a Fraud

Brown's resume is a sham: "Now, an investigation by TIME has found discrepancies in his online legal profile and official bio, including a description of Brown released by the White House at the time of his nomination in 2001 to the job as deputy chief of FEMA. (Brown became Director of FEMA, succeeding Allbaugh, in 2003.)...read on"

The problem with this type of cronyism is that many human lives have been lost at the cost of his appointment. Brown should be arrested on the spot for fraud. Allbaugh can pass him shanks from the adjoining cell.

(Update): Kevin Drum has much more on Brown and the rest of his cronies."The story also notes a "brain drain" of experienced disaster professionals at FEMA's lower levels, "hastened in part by the appointment of leaders without backgrounds in emergency management." Wonderful....read on"

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A picture named BushVaca.jpgPlaying the Blame Game

Max Blumenthal has this: Here's what Perkins had to say about FEMA in his daily newsletter, Washington Update:

"There was a television show in the 1960's called F-Troop about an incompetent band of post-Civil War troops stationed at Fort Courage, somewhere west of the Missouri. Having been forced to deal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government bureaus these last few days, I am reminded of this sitcom, except this is no comedy. While the hurricane was an "act of God" the government response and relief effort on the local, state and national levels were failures of man....read on"

As you know I'm no fan of Tony Perkins, but what happened this past week cuts beyond political lines and this picture is more evidence that Bush's priorities are out of whack.


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A picture named TDS-F--kers.jpgMeet the F--kers

TDS-oh so subtle, oh so sweet-and oh so visciously takes apart the idiots who are supposed to protect us during a time of crisis.

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Is Judy going to Sing?

Arianna has the latest on the girl in a cage.

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A picture named Blame-Game-Gregory1 copy.jpgA picture named Blame-Game-Gregory.jpgDavid Gregory calls out Scotty

On Imus in the Morning today, Imus played a sparring match between David and Scotty. Scotty kept to the Ken "talking points action figure" Mehlman's repetitive "Blame Game" meme, while David tried to get him to answer a single question.

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Imus and his boys unloaded on Scotty.


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Keith Olbermann Time Line

Here are some Bittorent Files from 9/7:

Keith put together a video time line that jumps back and forth between different days and shows the spin by Chertoff and others coupled with the reality on the ground.

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A picture named cnn_lt_pelosi_kyra_defends_bush_0509081.jpgNancy Pelosi Slaps down Kyra Phillips

On CNN today, from the Daily Kos diary:

Nancy Pelosi just absolutely laid out a CNN commentator (Myra something-or-other) after the commentator's incredibly aggressive, adversarial line of questioning and b.s. rationalizations for why others are really to blame for New Orleans...

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Nancy:"Myra...Myra....Myra, Kyra, if you want to make a case for the White House you should go on their payroll.
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Remember when Clinton's high-priced haircut allegedly...

As Ezra Klein remembers, choked up traffic at LAX? He takes a look at what Bush did to those people in need of chemo....


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Nancy Pelosi

I heard told Kyra Phillips on CNN to "go work for the white house if you want to push their agenda." ( roughly) I got it and will post it shortly.


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It would be Nice

...if the compassionate conservatives at least knew the name of the Hurricane.


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Shame on Rick Perry

Gov. Rick Perry, in hurricane relief tours around the state, in news releases and on his official state Web site, has urged Texans to contribute to three groups: the Red Cross, Salvation Army and the OneStar Foundation.The last of those is a volunteer-coordinating effort founded by Mr. Perry. "One thing about politicians, you can never overestimate their shamelessness," said Fred Lewis, director of Campaigns for People, a group that favors greater disclosure of political donations and limits on the influence of large donors....read on


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Dick Cheney: "Go F--k Yourself"

Vice President Dick Cheney, in Gulfport, Mississippi on a tour of the Katrina hurricane zone was cursed out as he answered questions from reporters...

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Tian has it mirrored also.

Raw Story has the transcript:  Off camera, a protester shouts, "Go f--k yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go f--k yourself."  The camera remains on Cheney while we hear scuffling in the background.

CNN's reporter asks Cheney, "Are you getting a lot of that Mr. Vice President?"

Cheney replies, "First time I've heard it., Must be a friend of John..., er, ah - never mind."

Cheney laughs it off, but there are many people dead that aren't laughing right now.


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Floor Debate going on

If anybody catches something clip worthy please let me know.

Also, AmericaBlog has the latest Zogby Poll on Bush. It ain't lookin' too good.


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Rudy

Talking Points Memo: Giuliani endorses Charlie Winburn, Cincinnati mayoral candidate who says only born-again Christians should be elected to public office..."

It's nice to see your "suck-up" attitude includes the Roy Moore school of politics.


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Way to help Tancredo

"U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., asked House Speaker Dennis Hastert not to send federal disaster aid to officials in Louisiana, calling state and local government there incompetent and corrupt. In a letter to Hastert on Wednesday, Tancredo urged the speaker to create a "bipartisan select committee" of members of Congress to oversee federal disaster spending in Louisiana....read on "

Where's that bi-partisan committee looking into the handling of Katrina? Thanks for trying to slow down the recovery effort even further Tom.


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Mike's Blog Round Up

12thharmonic Blog: America’s Battered Wife Syndrome

Petrelis Files...MS. ALA. evacuation plans: Poor? Car-less? Tough Luck.

Big Brass Blog:
  Leave it to the Heritage Foundation define "common decency"

Leonce Gaiter:
Katrina's Full Deck of Race Cards

A security professional surveys the wreck:
Truths Salvaged from Post-Katrina Debacle




NBC censors Kanye West

The corporate big wigs didn't take too kindly to West's tirade against President Bush earlier today on the  Concert for Hurricane Relief, so they edited his remarks on the West Coast feed. (hat tip Digby)


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Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera were livid about the situation in NOLA as they appeared on H&C. When Hannity tried his usual spin job and said "let's get this in perspective," Smith chopped him off at the knees and started yelling at him saying, "This is perspective!" It was shocking.

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Geraldo who I'm no fan of was crying, holding a little child up to demonstrate the extremely inhumane conditions these people are forced to live under. Forced is the right word because they are locked in the dome by our government and can't leave. Troops are guarding the bridge.

This goes beyond political lines and it's as sad a situation as I've seen. Let's see all the happy politicians slap themselves on their backs after viewing this segment.

Digby has more:  This was some amazing TV. Kudos to Shep Smith and Geraldo for not letting O'Reilly and Hannity spin their GOP "resolve" apologia bullshit. I'm fairly shocked....read on

Talk Left I've never seen anything as harrowing as Fox News' Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith on Hannity and Colmes. While Aaron Brown on CNN said we have "turned the corner" on CNN, it's clearly not the truth....read on

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Breaking News: Kanye West: George Bush doesn't care about black people" 

During the Concert for Hurricane Relief, Kanye West and Mike Meyers were celebrity narrators during the segment, West said: (rush transcript)

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 "I hate the way they portray us in the media.  "If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food. 

"We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us."

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Mike Meyers was floored...

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FOX News Sill Covering for Pat Robertson's Assassination Statement

During a news update during H&C on 8/30, Steve Centanni repeated the lie that Robertson tried to first skate with over his " hit man" remarks about Hugo Chavez.

Centanni: " ...the U.S. should take him out. He later explained he meant a regime change and not an assassination."

Steve neglected to read Robertson's whole statement which is here.

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Anyone saying that Fox has kicked Pat Robertson to the curb is sadly mistaken. This report proves that. Robertson had already apologized for his calling for the murder of Chavez by the time this report aired.


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Reid

Check out his response to the Republican's obsession with the estate tax. Seems to me we have a few more important issues on our plate right now.


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Newt Blasts Bush

 "I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?" said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich....read on 

Ezra Klein: He's neither able to effectively deploy government or call on his friends outside of it. He's just incompetent, as I said before, a small man in a big office. He speaks the language of small government conservatism because it gets him elected, pushes big government solutions because they prove easiest, but is so separated and uninterested in the whole enterprise that the result is a wreck of incoherence and unexpected outcomes....read on

Even La Shawn Barber isn't thrilled: "I’m ashamed of this country and its bumbling leadership today... Billions we spend, and all we have to show for it are four-day-old corpses on the side of the road, starving and injured people, and women and children being raped by animals who shouldn’t even be alive.


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A picture named Jack-Caff.jpgJack Cafferty: The Photo-Ops

Jack's "tell it like he sees it" syle is fun to watch.

Cafferty: Do you suppose, Wolf, that the arrival of the relief convoys and the political photo ops on the Gulf Coast happening at the same time were a coincidence today?

Atrios has more of the transcript.

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Wolf:  Jack a final thought before I let you go.

Cafferty : It's embarrassing [followed by dead silence]


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A picture named Bush-Katrina-Lott-house.jpgBush Speech: "Please save Trent Lott's House."

He didn't really say that, but it was a bad analogy to make.

Seems this Press Conference should have been held a few days ago.

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Atrios :We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch. (Laughter.)...read on

My father told me today that he hasn't been able to contact any of his friends down in Biloxi.

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More on Mr. Bill and the Levees

Craig Crawford :Before we buy the claims of politicians that there was no way to predict or prevent the sinking of New Orleans, it's worth asking how Mr. Bill knew?...read on 

And this Mr. Bill Tapped to Help Save La. Swamps (hat tip Booman Tribune)


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Wexler urged Bush to fire Michael Brown as FEMA head in January

U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla) has urged President Bush to fire Michael Brown as undersecretary of the Homeland Security Department in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Wexler cited reports in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that FEMA under Brown's management inappropriately gave away $30 million in disaster relief funds to people in the Miami, Florida, area even though they were not affected by Hurricane Frances, which made landfall more than 100 miles away...
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Foreshadowing!


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Mayor Nagin speaks out

Listen here....


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Mike's Blog Round up

Steve  has the flipping and flopping of Speaker Hastert.

That Colored Fella has some thoughts on New Orleans, Wall St., and gas prices.

Katrina Home Sharing Registry is
a registry for people who have available space in private homes to accommodate Katrina victims. It provides info to refugees on available space in other cities.

Laura, over at War and Piece says: "My lord, the guy heading FEMA has no qualifications
What was he doing before getting pulled into FEMA by the Bush administration in 2003? He was an estate planning lawyer in Colorado and of counsel for the International Arabian Horse Association Legal Department. And yes, it is the same Michael D. Brown."

BlondsenseWe had no idea.... NOT! Jerry Springer just asked: If there were young, white women holed up in the Superdome, do you think they would be starving, thirsty and dying?


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AmericaBlog provides this info: 

Paula Zahn: How can it be that hundreds and hundreds of thousands of victims have not received any food and water more than 100 hours after Katrina hit

 I will tell you this though, every person in that convention center, we just learned about that today. And so I had directed that we have all available resources to get to that convention center to make certain that they have the food and water, the medical care they need...

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A clearly pissed Paula Zahn: Sir, you're not telling me, you're not telling me you just learned that the folks at the convention center didn't have food and water until today did you? You had no idea they were completely cut off?

FEMA's Brown: Paula, the federal government did not even know about the convention center people until today.


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NPR interviews  Michael Chertoff

EmailerJenny: "NPR's  Robert Siegel interviews Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about Katrina. It was pretty incredible, with Chertoff avoiding the questions and Siegel really going after him. questions Chertoff about the lack of effort."

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Listen to the whole interview here


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A picture named Kopple.jpgTed Koppel and Michael Brown

Ted Koppel interviewed Michael Brown, head of FEMA on Nightline. He had no interest in the spin, and began at least five questions with "With all due respect Mr Brown, but..." Koppel is leading the growing chorus of speaking truth to power. (At last.)

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TedWe've been reporting on the crisis at the Convention Center for alot longer than just today, but you say that you only heard about it today?"

AmericaBlog has more on the interview and some transcripts...

(Hat Tip Chris from Daily Kos for the video)

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Bill Maher: George Must Go

Bill used his "New Rules" segment to blast President Bush and told him it's time to go.

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It's so easy to parody his screw ups and Maher does it easily. Bill promotes the idea of a California recall election. He likes Gary Coleman.  I'm leaning towards Mary Carey myself.


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Anyone Can Whistle(blow)

David's got the goods:  "A staff attorney with the Texas secretary of state said yesterday that she was fired this week for violating press protocols when she spoke to a Washington Post reporter who was working on a story about presidential adviser Karl Rove." Land sakes! Do we have a "whistleblower"?...read on


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A picture named Colin-Powell.jpgColin Powell on 20/20

Barbara Walters interviewed Powell on Friday night. He talked about his role in the run-up to the war in Iraq. 

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Powell:  There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn't be relied upon, and they didn't speak up. That devastated me."

Powell blamed his speech to the U.N. on intelligence that people in the Intel community withheld from him. Give me a break.  FAIR  has some analysis disputing that. Powell did offer up an intersting tidbit about loyalty. This administration values loyalty over leadership to such a fault that lives are held in the balance...


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Gonzales on the court?

John says: "And the best part, White House allies are calling the religious right "misguided and ill-informed."

That's what I've been saying all along. That's scary.


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CNN Wins Case

Judge supports CNN's request to cover Katrina's toll  (hat tip dsurface)

Hopefully that toll won't be as high as we feared.


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To Fire Brown or not to fire Brown

DC Media Girl has the showdown between Power Line and Malkin.


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James Wolcott

From Blame Game to Numbers Game


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Mike's Blog Round Up

IntoxiNation: NewsMax spins and gets busted.

Attytood: How do you know that the Bushistas are finally taking the situation in New Orleans seriously? They're sending in the private mercenaries -- the very same folks they've called on to do the dirty work in Iraq.

Fo'shizzle G.Wizzle. Booman Tribune
has some excellent rappin' up

Over at DAYS , Jed reads the NY Daily News "letters" section and scratches his head.

Crimes of the State:
BushCo. Nukes New Orleans

MoxieGrrrl.com: This is Why I Love Al Gore





aturday, September 10, 2005
Sunday Morning Talk

Let me know if there's anything clip worthy please.

You'll notice the "Blue" headlines now. I fixed the RSS feed and that's how the headline looks. I'm hoping to be able to change it...


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Crescent Connection Bridge
Digby has more on the barricading of the bridge: "They imprisoned those poor people in a catastrophic disaster area with no food and water because they were afraid of them. What a bunch of chickenshits....read on"
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Chief Justice Rehnquist

Talk Left has some interesting news about Chief Justice Rehnquist.


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Tancredo was on to Something

A Pentagon planning document being updated to reflect the doctrine of pre-emption declared by
President Bush in 2002 envisions the use of nuclear weapons to deter terrorists from using weapons of mass destruction against the United States or its allies....
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When you are fighting religious fanatics, how will threatening them with nukes help the situation? Do they really think pulling out bigger guns is going to accomplish anything other than to create a new strain of extremism ten times worse than it is now.


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Gretna's Choice
Gretna's Bridge

Shepard Smith reported this last week I believe in his spot on H&C. He kept saying that the police were blocking people from crossing the bridge while Geraldo told us that the people were locked in the Center. Talk about a horror show.
Atrios posted this NY Times story: "Police agencies to the south of New Orleans were so fearful of the crowds trying to leave the city after Hurricane Katrina that they sealed a crucial bridge over the Mississippi River and turned back hundreds of desperate evacuees, two paramedics who were in the crowd said...."
TpmCafe: "My advice for the Congressional commission which will investigate into how the Hurricane Katrina disaster was handled in New Orleans: don’t forget to pay a visit to the Chief of the Police of the city of Gretna, across the Mississippi river bridge....read on"
Property over life?

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You Think It's Getting Better?
You Think It's Getting Better?

Emailer Susan: I live in Lafayette, LA and FEMA has just opened up an office 11 days after the storm. They have no computers with Internet access and no money for the thousands of evacuees here. Here is today’s story in our local paper. “FEMA arrives empty-handed

Our evacuees have been neglected. The first night the Cajundome Convention Center was opened for the homeless, they had no cots, bedding, or clothes for the people. Days later, a Red Cross trailer was found on the site that contained cots. Red Cross had dropped it off and not notified anyone. Here is the link to that story “'Dome director: Residents were failed

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Bush's Poll Number sink again

Bush's Poll Number sink again

I don't think playing guitar went over too well. 38% approval rating, but who looks at poll numbers anyway...


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Islamo-Symbolism

When Charles Johnson sleeps at night, what does he see? JC has the answer. It's something about a giant Islamic red crescent. This wingnut, the Therapist has his own weird take.

The Liberal Avenger has a cool round-up and discovers that South Carolina might actually be an Islamic nation under wraps. 
What will the Chrisitan Exodus group do now that we've uncovered this Islamic state in hiding? Will they still want to make that
pilgrimage to South Carolina and turn it into a Christian theme park?


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A picture named Real-TIme-George.jpgBill Maher: George Must Go

Bill used his "New Rules" segment to blast President Bush and told him it's time to go.

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It's so easy to parody his screw ups and Maher does it easily. Bill promotes the idea of a California recall election. He likes Gary Coleman.  I'm leaning towards Mary Carey myself.


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Anyone Can Whistle(blow)

David's got the goods:  "A staff attorney with the Texas secretary of state said yesterday that she was fired this week for violating press protocols when she spoke to a Washington Post reporter who was working on a story about presidential adviser Karl Rove." Land sakes! Do we have a "whistleblower"?...read on


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A picture named Colin-Powell.jpgColin Powell on 20/20

Barbara Walters interviewed Powell on Friday night. He talked about his role in the run-up to the war in Iraq. 

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Powell:  There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn't be relied upon, and they didn't speak up. That devastated me."

Powell blamed his speech to the U.N. on intelligence that people in the Intel community withheld from him. Give me a break.  FAIR  has some analysis disputing that. Powell did offer up an intersting tidbit about loyalty. This administration values loyalty over leadership to such a fault that lives are held in the balance...


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Gonzales on the court?

John says: "And the best part, White House allies are calling the religious right "misguided and ill-informed."

That's what I've been saying all along. That's scary.


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CNN Wins Case

Judge supports CNN's request to cover Katrina's toll  (hat tip dsurface)

Hopefully that toll won't be as high as we feared.


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To Fire Brown or not to fire Brown

DC Media Girl has the showdown between Power Line and Malkin.


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James Wolcott

From Blame Game to Numbers Game


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Mike's Blog Round Up

IntoxiNation: NewsMax spins and gets busted.

Attytood: How do you know that the Bushistas are finally taking the situation in New Orleans seriously? They're sending in the private mercenaries -- the very same folks they've called on to do the dirty work in Iraq.

Fo'shizzle G.Wizzle. Booman Tribune
has some excellent rappin' up

Over at DAYS , Jed reads the NY Daily News "letters" section and scratches his head.

Crimes of the State:
BushCo. Nukes New Orleans

MoxieGrrrl.com: This is Why I Love Al Gore






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