| Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/8/08 OBAMA TO IRAN: DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS "THE HARD WAY OR THE EASY WAY?" In a Meet the Press interview described as the President-elect having delivered "mixed signals" to Iran, he holds out the possibility of diplomatic talks (the easy way) or tighter sanctions (the hard way) that might be used by the U.S. in regard to Iran's alleged threat to develop nuclear weapons. http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/07/obama-attempts-to-clarify-iran-position/ WHEN SHOCK THERAPY BECOMES SHOCK RESISTANCE. Naomi Klein, who "wrote the book" on world-wide imposition of regressive social measures by neo-liberalism in response to "national crises" notes with some excitement the possibility that people in Canada (her own country) have become immunized from shock effects by observing its failures elsewhere. The electoral failure of the Harper (Liberal) goverment is a sign of a new "resistive" political force in Canada that promises the growing influence of a coalition of more progressive political forces. http://www.alternet.org/democracy/110809/?page=1 MURDER IN JUAREZ; WHAT'S GOING ON? According to a prevailing "media narrative," the escalation of murders in Juarez and other border Mexican towns is the product of a "turf war" between rival drug distribution gangs. Bill Conroy for the Narco News uncovers a very different interpretation: that the violence may well be part of the very Mexican government "crackdown" against the drug trade, abetted by a U.S. "Plan Mexico" project similar to the "Plan Colombia" to combat drug operations in that country. In this interpretation, it is the emerging "military cartel" associated with a corrupt Mexican government that is putting critics in jail (if they are lucky, killed if they are not). Conroy notes the rumor that U.S. "Iraqi veterans" are involved in this cartel, an idea somewhat supported by the prevalence of domestic U.S. gang members on military installations, and the access of many of them to weapons in the government's military arsenal. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2008/12/juarez-murders-shine-light-emerging-%E2%80%98military-cartel%E2%80%99 "JOHN ('NUKE BAILOUT') BRYSON MUST NOT BE NEW SECRETARY OF ENERGY" Harvey Wasserman joins the parade of un-solicited advisers to Barack Obama on the make-up of his cabinet, hoping to shoot down one trial balloon which would make the former head of the California Public Utilities Commission the energy secretary. Wasserman notes how, before he "greenwashed" his views by promoting wind energy, Bryson played a key role both in the de-regulation of electric rates that lead to Enron's boom and bust, and in a bailout of the ailing nuclear power industry. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/07-2 REMEMBERING MANNY DIAZ IN MIAMI AS HIS FUTURE ON THE NATIONAL POLITICAL STAGE IS PONDERED. Mention of the Miami Mayor as possible Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration moves Alan Farago to an article "remembering" Diaz in a light not favorable to that future. He is remembered (and resented by labor forces) primarily as the architect of a disastrously failed police response to protests associated with FTAA meetings in Miami. But more to Farago's interest, he is remembered as well as the co-architect (with former Govenor Jeb Bush) of promotion of south Florida as a caution-free zone for free-wheeling "redevelopment" of downtown Miami, among other areas, which sparked both the national housing boom and the current disaster of the collapse of a securitized mortgage industry. http://www.counterpunch.org/farago12052008.html These headlines and following additional stories posted on website today. To read them, click http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ scroll below headlines and click on any article you want to read. ooo Thinking globally, acting locally in happening in Latin America. ooo This little (dioxin-laced) Irish pig went to market. ooo College endowment funds shrink along with the stock market. ooo FL officials go on European tour, taxpayers pick up bill, $430k. ooo And more. Check out my article on Thomas Friedman's "hypocrisy" about the collective guilt of Pakistanis for Mumbai on: http://sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/?p=109 Quote of the day: "The issue of public financing for political parties in elections is key to protecting and deepening democracy in Canada, and for keeping it out of corporate control. It is not for nothing that the Tories are attacking that. They see attacking public financing of political parties as a way to entrench their power." Naomi Klein, in an article noting that Canada is not as subject as U.S. to shock doctrine economic action, because its political process is less in control of the country's corporations. http://www.alternet.org/democracy/110809/?page=2 |
2008/12/08
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Will Jeb Bush run for Mel Martiz Senate seat?
Dear friends,For some reason The Gainseville Sun continues to print my letters to the editor, including the one below about electing Jeb Bush as a Senator from Florida, which appeared in the Sunday newspaper on December 7 The Gainesville SunLetters to the Editor - Dec. 7 Jeb Bush's return is a very bad idea Now that Mel Martinez, a decent man and politician, has announced that he will retire in 2010, many are already anointing Jeb Bush as his successor. Although the chubby-faced politico labeled himself an agent of the future when in office, let's examine his record. He hired a private firm to glean the 2000 election results to hand the state to his brother, George. He privatized Florida agencies back to the Victorian era for his cronies. He did a poor job equipping the state to handle matters over the Internet (we are still living with that legacy). He promised to save the Wekiva River and held it in limbo for eight years, letting it get worse and worse. Worst of all, he initiated a constitutional amendment to eliminate the bullet train that could by now be running from Miami to Tampa, at a huge savings of energy, time, trouble, gas and carbon emissions; perhaps the most ignorant public policy choice in recent history. Please, please do not let this man become a U.S. Senator, no doubt part of his plan to be the third Bush to arise to the presidency. Let's kill this scheme before it gets started. David J. Russ, Gainesville Sincerely yours, David J.Russ |
2008/12/07
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In Spain 500 Ant-iWar and 9/11 Truth Activists March Together
Last week there was an anti war rally with about 500 people, our 911
truth group was present with megaphone and lots of signs.
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| Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/7/08 WILL NEXT STATE DEPARTMENT BE A "TEAM OF RIVALS" OR "HILLARY LAND?" Apparently it will be the latter as Clinton accepted the nomination on condition of being able to select her own staff and advisers. So far she has tapped personal loyalists for her "kitchen cabinet" and officials from the Bill Clinton adminstration for under-Secretary positions. (For an old H. Clinton imagery, she may be baking cookies with friends in Foggy Bottom.) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5299035.ece "I'M THE SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS, NOT THE SENATOR FROM KOGELO. Barack Obama's statement during a 2006 visit to Africa. It symbolizes the dilemma of Africans who believe and/or hope that the presence in the White House of a man with immediate African roots will promote African interests in U.S. foreign policy. The problem, says Kenyan poet Mukama Wa Ngugi, is that Obama will have to be responsive to U.S. political pressures, and may disappoint Africans on such matters as support of AIDS eradication, U.S. imperialism in Somalia and the development of an African military command. It comes down, he says, to whether Africans will be able to pressure Obama to be responsive to their expectations. (Again, the idea of power from the grassroots; or should we say veldt-roots?) http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/19869 BREAKING U.S. SANCTION AGAINST TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS TO IRAN WITHOUT BREAKING U.S. LAWS. A number of multi-national corporations like the oil tool manufacturer Schlumberger are able to carry on operations in Iran which critics say involve risk in technology transfers that could be used by Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Lawyers for these firms say, apparently correctly, that they are operating in conformity with."all applicable (U.S.) laws and regulations." A Boston Globe special report. http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/12/07/oil_firm_sidesteps_sanctions_on_iran/? page=1 "THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN MACON COUNTY SUCKS." So says the mother of the 1994 victim of a brutal murder, referring to the judicial system that convicted a possibly innocent man and then kept him in an Illinois prison suffering from multiple sclerosis and medical neglect, after previous Governor George Ryan commuted death sentences for all Illinois prisoners before he left office. Having been extradited from California with a promise to execute him if found guilty, there is now pressure to return the near-comatose man to CA to face another capital charge. http://www.alternet.org/rights/110045/should_a_terminally_ill_prisoner_have_to_die_behind_bars/?page "FLORIDA IS A SUPER-PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS STATE. WE'RE VERY CONSERVATIVE THAT WAY" (ORLANDO CITY LAWYER). Indeed! Her statement is proven in the saga of a "rabble-rousing" preservationist in a long-running campaign to stop a Lake Leola Park development project that threatens to demolish a neighborhood of 1920s-built homes. She is allowed by city officials to "jump through the hoops" of a protest that she is not legally allowed (under "conservative" property rights laws) to make because she is not a resident of the neighborhood. As City Council takes action on the matter, city lawyers tell the Council it must affirm the developer's building contract or be sued for breach of contract. http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/story.asp?id=12796 These headlines and following additional stories posted on website today. To read them, click http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ scroll below headlines and click on any article you want to read. ooo La Scala Opera opens, expecting a season of miseries. ooo Hollywood lights come down (the sea turtles you know.) ooo Why do "Hispanic-themed" speciality license plates in Florida? ooo Parts of Gainesville FL become mosh pit after Gator win. ooo And more. Quote of the day: "''At some point in our lifetime', said George Clooney, 'gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.' To the opponents of Proposition 8, this kind of analogy is a rallying cry; but as white Hollywood has recently discovered, to the blacks who voted for the measure, it's galling. Comparing the infringement on civil rights that gays are experiencing to that suffered by black Americans is to begin a game of 'top my oppression' that you're not going to win." New York Times op-ed columnists, commenting on the overwhelming support of Proposition 8, banning gay marriage, in California. The columnists see this situation is representing a serious tear in the "big tent" under which different liberal constituencies are attempting to co-exist. |
2008/12/06
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| Progressive breakfast club headlines 12/6/08 WITH NO SOFA TO LIE ON IN IRAQ, ALL REMAINING MEMBERS OF COALITION OF WILLING EXCEPT U.S. AND U.K. WILL LEAVE IRAQ BY END OF THIS MONTH. The U.S. has already negotiated, as the U.K. expects to do, a Status of Forces Agreement allowing U.S. military presence in Iraq after end of this year. Others, if they haven't already given up their Iraqi adventures, must do so now. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/world/middleeast/06iraq.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all STARVATION ON THE ISLE OF CRETE. 15 Arab migrants, part of the large pool of undocumented immigrants attracted by the unofficial economy of the island, are on hunger strike to protest the lack of realistic opportunity for migrants to obtain Greek citizenship status, with high fees and long waiting periods for naturalization proceedings (Is this a harbinger for "immigration reform" in the U.S. with a supposedly enlightened "path to citizenship" offered to the undocumented?) http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45006 A BAILOUT FOR CHRYSLER? IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN THIS WAY. Unlike Ford and GM which are publicly traded corporations, Chrysler is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Cerebrus Corporation, a huge conglomerate of corporate holdings in the auto industy and elsewhere. With Cerebrus supposedly having profits from its other holdings to subsidize any losses in Chrysler, it was assumed that Chrysler had its own "private equity" solution to its problems. Still, using its substantial government "connections" such employment of former VP Dan Quayle and former Treasury Secretary John Snow, Chrysler shows up along with "other two" in pleas for a government bailout. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/business/06chrysler.html?th&emc=th POST-PARTUM DEPRESSION IN WOMEN: DRUG INDUSTRY CREATES THE NEED AND FILLS THE DEMAND. Evelyn Pringle describes efforts such as the current "Mothers Act" proposed in Congress to enhance greatly the country's system of pre-partum "screening" of pregnant women to identify those at risk of post-partum depression. Much like the industry pushed psycho-tropic drugs with harmful side-effects for "at risk" children, it now promotes a medical program for pregnant women that may result in larger profits for the industry and greater risks for women. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/mothers-act-promotes-pregnancy-as-new-cottage-industry/ A LITMUS TEST FOR PROGRESSIVISM IN OBAMA'S CABINET? LOOK FOR HIS APPOINTMENT OF SECRETARY OF INTERIOR. With the Bush administration's wilderness policy going out in a flame of ignonimy, Robert Lovata says Obama needs a true progressive in this position to balance the otherwise-centrist cabinet. Lovata finds such a person in Congressman Raul Grijalva from Arizona, now being "considered" for the post; he has a sterling record of opposition to the environmental atrocities of the Bush years. It's time for progressive to "hope" again; it still may be that Obama will appoint a "blue dog Democrat" like Mike Thompson of California. http://www.alternet.org/environment/110530/?page=1 FOR ANOTHER VIEW ON THOMPSON, SEE: http://www.willitsnews.com/ci_11049849?source=most_viewed NON-PROFIT SOCIAL SERVICES GROUPS IN TAMPA MAY BE "TOO SMALL TO SUCCEED." As Congress prepares to bailout "too big to fail" corporations with mega-billion dollar bailouts, non-profits in Tampa go begging before Hillsborough County officials and learn that in the poor economy, there is no money available to help them to, for example, create even modest increases in numbers of beds available for the mentally ill. http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/04/era-bailouts-local-nonprofit-groups-are-denied-fun/ These headlines and following additional stories posted on website today. To read them, click http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ scroll below headlines and click on any article you want to read. ooo Vancouver winter Olympic Games in financial stress. ooo Kid shoots bear (er woman), WA considering minimum hunting age. ooo Getting harder for sterling high school students to get into UF. ooo No "abatement" of eyesores in Tampa. ooo And more. Quote of the day: "Some Obama supporters are wringing their hands over the selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Hillary was, after all, a consistent supporter of the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and much more. But Barack Obama's selection of Reaganite and Bush family operative Robert Gates to continue as Secretary of War speaks volumes about the new administration's willingness to continue pulling the same wool over the public eyes as Democratic and Republican administrations past have done. Is this the "change" tens of millions voted for?" Bruce Dixon, in Black Agenda Report on Gates' record. http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=911&Itemid=1 |
Fw: [9-11-NeXuS-2] Vans packed with explosives were confirmed at the World Trade Center
  Reports of vans packed with explosives were confirmed at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 as well as sub level explosions, among many other explosions. Vans were also discovered around the area, one had been exploded, one had been stopped for having a picture on the side of it with a plane flying into the World Trade Center, one had been stopped and found with explosives in it, and many others. The FBI actually had confirmed that a device was found in the complex and the building had begun to evacuate. It was this evidence that made the Federal Agency to speculate that a van packed with explosives was parked in the garage which was detonated to help weaken the structure. To Read More and see videos CLICK HERE Audio Transmissions of Police Radios Now Made Public From September 11th Listen to audio below At 5 min and 17 sec listen to the recording as a traffic stop is initiated on a van with a mural of planes crashing into and exploding in the World Trade Center.This traffic stop was on Sept. 11 the morning of 9-11 |
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No Terror Attacks Since When?
No Attacks Since When?
In her column for the Wall Street Journal, the insufferably pompous Charles Emerson Winchester of the D.C. punditocracy, Peggy Noonan contributed to a massive hoax which I've nicknamed the 'No Attacks' Mythology:
This is an argument that's been around for a while but is newly re-emerging as the final argument for Mr. Bush: the one big thing he had to do after 9/11, the single thing he absolutely had to do, was keep it from happening again. And so far he has.
Now, of course she's right. "It" hasn't happened again. Fact: no additional hijacked airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center towers since September 11. Why? Because those buildings were already attacked and destroyed, killing thousands of Americans after President Bush and his staff repeatedly ignored warnings from a variety of counter-terrorism and national security experts.
Noonan continued:
We have not been attacked since 9/11. Someone -- someones -- did something right.
Someones?
This is all part of a huge lie, and the lie is rapidly becoming reality thanks to various Bush apologists and dead-enders.
Perhaps it's been reignited in conjunction with the Bush "legacy project" -- an effort organized by Karl Rove to somehow fabricate a positive legacy for this awful president. If there remains any justice in this nation, let history show that the only thing this administration was actually good at was fabricating its own version of reality. They've failed at everything else and then made up stuff to obfuscate those failures. So here. I'll be magnanimous and make Rove's gig really easy by offering a suggestion: the "legacy project" is the Bush legacy. In other words, it's very likely that President Bush will be remembered for things like, you know, the "legacy project."
Nevertheless, yes, Ms. Noonan, we have been attacked on American soil since September 11 despite the Bush administration's invasions, its torturing, its illegal wiretapping and its crimes against the Constitution.
The anthrax attacks and the DC Snipers to name two. But since we don't yet know the identity of the anthrax attacker(s) -- they haven't, after all, been captured and brought to justice by the mighty Bush administration -- let's focus exclusively on terrorists John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo. More Americans were, in fact, killed by the DC Snipers (16 killed) than were killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (6 killed). Additionally, there were nearly as many people killed by the DC Snipers as were killed in the al-Qaeda bombing of the USS Cole (17 killed).
Are the DC Sniper shootings somehow less dazzling and, therefore, do they not count as actual terrorist attacks on American soil? If that's the case then there were, in fact, zero attacks during the Clinton administration. Wow, President Clinton was really excellent at keeping us safe. So much for Democrats being weak on national security, eh?
Elsewhere, during the Bush years, there have been literally tens of thousands of terrorist attacks involving American casualties and deaths. In the 'No Attacks' Mythology chapter of my book, I debunked similar Noonanish claims, including one by Lynne Cheney who appeared on The Daily Show in October, 2007 and similarly suggested that there weren't any attacks since September 11.
You know I think when the history books are written, we will look back on this period of time, and we will say on 9/11 we really thought within six months we would be attacked again. Even six weeks. It's been more than six years and that is not an accident.
When Jon Stewart challenged Mrs. Cheney by mentioning the bombings in Madrid and London, Cheney replied by suggesting that those attacks weren't against "American interests." Okay, then, let's ignore the fact that Spain and Great Britain are allies of the United States and talk about actual American interests. Specifically, Iraq and Afghanistan. In my book, I wrote:
A non-profit think tank called the Memorial Institute for Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) has been maintaining an online Terrorism Knowledge Base since the middle 1990s. In it, they report that between September 11, 2001 and March 2008, there have been 9,675 terrorist attacks in Iraq, accumulating 46,271 injuries and 26,161 deaths. In Afghanistan--that other American interest--there have been 1,069 terrorist attacks in which 2,323 people were injured and 1,809 people were killed.
No attacks, Ms. Noonan? I only wish that were true.
Order my new book: One Nation Under Fear, with a foreword by Arianna Huffington. Also available in stores.
2008/12/05
Do Chemtrails make Sheeple out of People?
Do Chemtrails Make Sheeple out of People?
Are the neurological effects of Chemtrails central to the frustration of Anti-war and 9/11 Truth groups when they meet the vast abyss of public apathy?
This remarkable German/EU production easily distinguishes "contrails" from CHEMTRAILS for those who are not quite convinced.
Simply take note of the man-made ports and hardware on the aircraft from which the Barium enriched CHEMTRAILS are spewed into the skies.
VIDEO - 2 Mins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjactUsMxM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjactUsMxM
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