Dick Cheney's Been Preparing for An Economic Collapse

"Wouldn’t you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then you’d know whether his “deficits don’t matter” claim is just baloney or not. Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine ran an article based on Cheney’s financial disclosure statement and, sure enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people."

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NYC Cops Beating Up Protesters in Front of U.N Headquarters

Video footage of New York cops clubbing and arresting peaceful Tibetan protesters who were merely walking down the street has gone relatively ignored beyond Youtube. While stories emerge out of China every day of police beating and killing Tibetan protestors in the streets, the same sort of behavior by cops in America tells its own story.

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Hey!......yeah!

FOund here

Clinton Says Sleep Deprivation Caused Her Bosnia Lie

Hillary Clinton today banked on the fact that she believes we voters are all complete idiots and gave an interview today with a Pennsylvania newspaper with this gem: "On saying last week that she landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996, when she was first lady: 'I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke". WTF?

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Hillary or Nobody?

"Some top Democrats are increasingly worried that the Clintons’ divide-and-conquer strategy is nihilistic: Hillary or no democrat. (Or, as one Democrat described it to ABC’s Jake Tapper: Hillary is going for “the Tonya Harding option” — if she can’t get the gold, kneecap her rival.)"

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Change is real

Reading this older article on WIRED, it again illustrates why Barack Obama is our man.

Change Congress

Aftr reading an article about this on BoingBoing and then WIRED on Larry Lessigs WIkipedia approach to changing congress, and the smart idea of using this big series of tubes your on now to actually ferment a change, I thought I would track as best as possible to follow, read, and participate in the Change Congress project, and hopefully report its uses and goings ons of the site.
One of the things that intrigued is finally a good wording on a problem that seemed to have so many angles and nothing to pin down, but as as Lessig said:
"The problem we face is ... the problem of crony capitalism using money to capture government," he said on Monday during the launch of his project in Washington, DC. "The challenge is whether in fact we can change this. The political experts tell you that it can't be done, that process always win over substance."

The premise is this: Members of Congress Have four things they must PLEDGE by: (1) a promise not to accept PAC or lobbyist contributions, (2) a commitment to abolish "earmarks" permanently, (3) a commitment to support public financing of public elections, and (4) a commitment to compel transparency in the functioning of Congress. Once a candidate or Member selects the planks he or she supports, the site will give the candidate code to embed that pledge on the campaign website.

SO maybe this can be a popularity totem pole for them to clamor for and hopefully clean DC up in the same faction but first lets see who pledges, no?
More to come

Back to it 3.2008

Back in action:
Did I miss anything? Oh wait:


But then out of the blue, like a shot that true:

Here I come to save the day!
I don;t know, I know Obamas right, but do people? The Media Machine if out there fucking shit up so bad, I wonder.

I am glad I had this as a tool, to convince my mother, brother and family to stay with Obama. Long time Republicans voting along with the rest of Cubans here in Miami, they never really saw too many side to the election and with the media pouring into this ridiculousness of this situation it gave me great pride that Mr. Obama came out and with a calm cool manner, to paraphrase Jon Stewart, speak to America like we were adults.
and with this video I help ebb some of the first struck anger, and justifiable outrage over Reverend Wright words, but I must tell you that it's not done:
The Spanish media, at least in Miami, if only seeing this one sided, and if the Obama campaign wants to make stride address them as the same as you addressed everyone in some way, We really need to. It's startling how little Latinos know about Mr. Obama, and how scary it is to see how this has been used in a very controlled and contrived Latin media market to make him look bad. I can hope you all do what you can to bring this message more so that we can understand as well as my family did of what happened.

How America's Banks Lost their Reputations

With the near collapse of Bear Stearns, some of America's biggest banks are tumbling helplessly into the void. Others have no idea how many billions they will have to write off. The markets are falling into a state of panic and elbow room for banks is shrinking when they most need it.

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The $2-3 Trillion Nightmare; A Cheney-Bush production

The Cheney-Bush "administration" has concealed the horrendous costs of the war ($2-3 Trillion or more). It has bypassed the normal budgetary process, financing the war almost entirely through “emergency” appropriations that get far less scrutiny. Bush lied to us about the reasons to go to war, and was a coward for evading service in Vietnam.

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9/11 protester arrested after yelling at Bill Clinton

A protester has been charged with disorderly conduct after yelling at former President Bill Clinton during a campaign stop...

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Bush spends 452 days at Crawford ranch.

Bush's stay there this past weekend with the the Danish prime minister marked Bush’s 70th visit as president. President Ronald Reagan, one of the modern presidency’s most “famous vacationer[s],” spent just 335 days at his ranch in Santa Barbara, CA.

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Marc Andreessen endorses Barack Obama

Netscape founder and well-known Sillicon Valley blogger, Marc Andreessen, spent an hour and half with Barack Obama back in early 2007. He tells us about that meeting and his reasons to endorse him.

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Clinton Campaign Threatens to Sue Texas Democratic Party

This is an outrage! "The Clinton campaign is threatening to sue the Texas Dem Party. "The Texas Democratic Party is warning that its March caucuses could be delayed or disrupted after aides to White House hopeful Hillary Clinton raised the specter of an imminent lawsuit over its complicated delegate selection process, officials said Thursday night"

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Pelosi calls for grand jury to investigate key Bush staffers

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Justice Department on Thursday to open a grand jury investigation into whether President Bush's chief of staff and former counsel should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.

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What's REALLY behind Hillary's "surge" of wins in TX OH RI?

Its republicans - DUH!John McCain already won the republican nomination for president, so what is a republican voter to do to help his party win the presidency?Register as a democrat and vote for the WEAKEST democratic nominee, somebody John McCain could beat.That would be YOU, Hillary...(don't know about you but this sounds like a bit of a stretch)

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Clinton Needs 60% in Every Remaining State

According to estimates cited in the Washington Post today, Clinton still needs 60% in every remaining primary state -- difficult math, even for a Clinton.Christ-spitting-fire this is getting ridiculous, you know?

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Indeed

No matter how it goes, this is something I hope does not happen:
"I don’t think anybody I have talked to, whether they are a Hillary supporter, agnostic or an Obama supporter, wants to see this go to the convention, given the opportunity we have to capture the White House."
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN B. LARSON, of Connecticut, a Barack Obama backer.

Hillary Clinton Officially Wins Ohio and Texas

RESPONSE:

Obama still leads overall, but Hillary has won Ohio and TexasFUCK! So it's come to this!Time to crank up the the Doom Mech I had going....

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Washington Politicians Are Gutting America Like A Fish

The American Presidency and our Democratic system of governance is sham, thanks to President Bush and supporters. He isn't solely responsible, however. In addition to the neo-conservative movement, we've seen the rise of cowardice in Congress. Democrats and moderate Conservatives have failed to stand up for justice and the Constitution.File under "No shit Sherlock"At least it has me good points

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Gary Gygax, creator of D&D has passed.away at age 69

(From WikiPedia) According to Steve from Troll Lord Games, Gary Gygax has passed on to the Great Gaming Table on March 4th 2008. This has not yet been verified independently, but is from a reliable source: http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4373&mforum=trolllordgamesOh man, this is heartbreaking

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Obama Now Leads in Texas AND Ohio According to Latest Polls

Obama has come back from large deficits in both states and now leads Hillary Clinton in the latest polls. According to the Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released Monday, Obama now leads 47-44 in Texas and 47-45 in Ohio.Meanwhile somewhere in Hialeah:"Bwahahahahahahaha!"

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Clinton PAYING black people to hold her signs in Texas

The Clinton campaign paid a group of people, all African-American, to hold her campaign signs on a Dallas street corner.WAIT! They're black people in Texas?

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Scientology taking hits online - Los Angeles Times

A growing number of critics and disgruntled ex-members are using the Web to attack the church's tightly controlled image.Good stuff! Fuck 'em in the ear, that what I say!

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For Obama, a Taste of What a Long Battle Holds

WASHINGTON — When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton goes after Senator Barack Obama these days, she presses him on the details of his health care plan, criticizes the wording of his campaign mailings and likens his promise of change to celestial choirs.

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Not lovin' it any more - McDonald's ad guru kills himself

Ad exec Paul Tilley apparently jumped from an upper floor of the Fairmont Chicago Hotel Friday, and his death was ruled a suicide by the Cook County medical examiner's office. In his career, he led creative teams that came up with Dell's "Dude, You're Gettin' a Dell" campaign and advertising in McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" effort. RIP

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Scare Tactics? FISA

An aggressive campaign by the White House and its allies to win approval of a new electronic spying bill is escalating partisan tensions on Capitol Hill. The contentious debate over the measure could spill over into this fall's election campaign. Contact House Representatives and tell them to stand strong against this nonsense. Spread the word.

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"Too Hot To Fly" Girls Actually Removed for Extreme Rudeness

Southwest Airlines spokesperson Beth Harbin says the police were called in to meet the flight in Los Angeles because “the girls were verbally abusive to another customer ... using profanities ... and getting in his face.

”I know, not political at all, but it goes to show that hopefully people will not put up with stupid cunty people thinking they can mouth off. I'm glad people are punishing someone who acts like an animal for no reason. Fuck them fuck their rights, and now please go die of AIDS.

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BLF does the AT&T billboard hack( video)

The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants.

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Why I Called Fox News "Propoganda" Live on Fox News

I ripped into Fox "News" while on a Fox "News" morning show last week. I thought I'd answer a bunch of questions people had about the incident. I blogged about this before, and how embarrasingly stupid some people were, giving shit to this guys for speaking his mind.

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How to turn white evangelicals into Democrats

Feb. 26, 2008 | Amy Sullivan is a senior editor at Time, a liberal Democrat, and an evangelical Christian. One of those things is not supposed to be like the others, but she argues in her new book that her fellow Democrats need to reach out to her fellow evangelicals if they hope to build an electoral majority. In "The Party Faithful: How and Why "(And here I thought it had something to do with a the Cross tied to a stick in front of them)

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McCain: "The War Will Be Over Soon"

"My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and purposes although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years. But it will be handled by the Iraqis, not by us, and then we decide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis."Haha, wait a minute.....he's serious? didn't he just criticize Obama for pretty much the same instance and thinking?

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Parts of 60 Minutes broadcast blocked in Alabama...

As 60 Minutes was putting its show together, the White House put pressure on CBS - the parent company - to kill the show. During the 60 Minutes broadcast and ONLY during the Don Siegelman portion - the screen went black for Huntsville residents and Mobile residents. Karl Rove may be gone from office, but he clearly is not gone from power. W...............T..............F?!?!?! What if Alabamans get the truth their heads explodes or something?

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Smoking Gun Video of Lobbyists Buying Govt. Contracts

This paying off of politicians is what the right wing proudly defends as free speech.

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EXCLUSIVE: 'Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?' Poster

Cinematical has just received this exclusive final poster (click on the image for a larger version) for Morgan Spurlock's new doc, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

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Follow the Bread Crumbs of a criminal

Lou Dobbs - NAFTA Superhighway 2/19/08

Look most of the time, I want to throw my own pooh at the TV when Lou Dobbs is on, but I have agree: what the fuck is this? How can it be that this can be laid on the citizens and thats it?

Time for Bill O'Racist to Resign in Disgrace

O'Reilly should be fired for using the word "lynching" in the context of a rant about Michelle Obama, despite his faux apology. ..Lynching: A variety of howling posses composed of fire-eyed redneck thugs -- terrorists, if you will -- skulking through the woods, hauling with them an African American to a cowardly, ritualistic, vigilante execution.So how much of a fucking scumbag sack of shit racist DO YOU HAVE TO BE, to get fired?Whats sad is that his popularity clearly tells how much stale white racist dumbshits still exist in this coutnry and how much they kill any progression out of the mud.

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CIA operation advocated by Obama successfully carried out

"In August, Sen. Barack Obama had made the argument that, as president, he would target Al Qaeda officials in Pakistan even without the country's acquiescence -- the type of attack that, six months later, proved to be successful." The White House had earlier criticized his position. Naive/inexperienced indeed...SO IF YOU STILL have a question about Obama having the stones for Commander-in-Chief READ

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Nader Announces Presidential Bid

Ralph Nader has announced plans to run again for the US presidency.STUPID SON OF A BITCH!I feel like the GOP hire him to just be a monkey wrench in the plans or what? Jesus. It's annoying really.Now as for his chances I think are worst. We learned after Gore got fucked, you think we'll let McCane in? HELLS NO!Hope he dies choking on his own vomit.

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The Burn Bag. When shredding evidence just isn't enough

A senior U.S. Secret Service inspector admitted today that she destroyed original evidence sought in a long-standing lawsuit alleging that the service routinely discriminates against African American agents. She placed the documents in a “burn bag” for destruction just two days before she was scheduled to testify in the case.

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Timeline Of Bush Admin's Politicization Of Terror, 2002-2008

Olbermann presents an impressively detailed timeline called "The Nexus of Politics and Terror," chronicling the Bush admin's exploitation of terror threats for political gain. "What we were told about terror, and not told, for security reasons, has overlapped considerably with what we were told about terror, and not told, for political reasons."

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OMG Finally

haha, it just gets to the point that anyone with any fucking sense will jus tblow up on the bullshit the FOX network tries to pull. I applaud the guy, I wish I caught a name. I'm gonna go look.

Comic
by luvnews

Wow, this is a nice huge mudball of fucktards in this little board here (read the comments). AMAZING!
First, If you fall into this Liberal vs Conservative thing, you are mentally deficient.
Second, if you think FOX news, CNN, or MSNBC is "fair and Balanced" you need to to be administered some shock treatment.
Third, all you saw was somebody coming to the clear understanding that many of these news show and news channel are horrifically commercialized and stupid and respond to no problem what so ever. The American Press is a failure and has been for the last 10 years. These morning shows are just god awful commercials and this guy found out in the middle of his psat on one. Thats all.

Now go about your business.

HILLARY CLINTON MOMENT TO SHINE: PRICELESS

CUNT

I found the BEEF - Obama's Senate Record

What is Obama's legislative record in the Senate? This might surprise you...Ok, so like can somebody over in the NY times, fucking put this on their front page so as to STFU with all this critique?

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Hillary channels Bill

At the Texas debate, Hillary Clinton uses some inspirational lines she heard during a previous election. If Obama's 'lifted' lines were plagiarism, then isn't this?

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Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Something is happening in the U.S: Anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way. Citizens are ignorant about essential knowledge and they don't care.

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How “Flat Earth” News is Killing Journalism

For hundreds of years everyone knew the Earth was flat. Indeed it was a heresy to challenge that statement. Eventually someone, Galileo or Copernicus, bothered to check and discovered they were wrong. But if you look at the way the mass media functions today you’ll see we are riddled with “flat earth” statements.

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Why America needs the protections of the Clean Water Act

A new report shows an alarmingly high percentage of southwest waters are at risk because they may no longer be protected by the Clean Water Act. “The government failure to protect these waters is akin to allowing poisoning of the roots while attempting to protect the tree. It just doesn’t make sense,” says Jeremy Vesbach.

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The Round Mound of Rebound, Charles Barkley: GOP full of “fake Christians”

Charles Barkley appeared on The Situation Room to promote Barack Obama’s candidacy. As you may remember, Barkley was a very vocal Republican not that many years ago. Well, no more. Barkley’s disgust with the Republican Party was so palpable that Wolf Blitzer could only flounder to try to make it a little less vitriolic.

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John Cleese's Letter to America

n view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy), as from Monday next.

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Possible Election Fraud in New York Primary

City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.

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Senate Approves Surveillance Bill, Preserves Telecom Immunit

(While http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifwe're eating shit with the Clemens/Mithcell bullshit) The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a government eavesdropping program, decisively rejecting an amendment that would have stripped the provision from a bill to modernize an electronic surveillance law.

Here, here, and here

So what does this mean?
Best said by Napoleaon16:They didn't just vote for immunity, they voted to allow WARRANT-LESS DOMESTIC SPYING. That's the bigger issue here.The Democrats did NOT have to even consider this bill. They had it within their power to table this unconstitutional legislation, yet they chose not to.Bush kidnapped and imprisoned American citizens and denied them both counsel and a day in court. Democrats legalized his actions with the Military Commissions Act; thus killing Habeas Corpus.Bush aimed America's spy satellites inward and gave access to regular law enforcement, all in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Democrats said "okay, just keep us informed about any future moves."Bush illegally spied on the electronic communications and financial transactions of tens of millions of Americans, without a warrant and without probable cause. Democrats legalized his actions.Bush and the Democrats are AGAINST us. Put your party politics aside for just one season and realize that. These people are colluding against our Constitutionally recognized rights. How many of you are going to continue apologizing for the president? How many are going to keep making excuses for the Democrats?These fuckers are in it together.

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Mexico's President with David Rockefeller & Fed's President

Why is the President of Mexico meeting with New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner? What's the relationship between the Fed and Mexico's government? And why is he also meeting with David Rockefeller? Don't get me wrong, I do not believe in conspiracy theories. But I am sure David Rockefeller does pull a lot of strings.

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Also if you read the story and see the comment you'll find some interesting thinking going on:

Wikipedia has a very detailed entry for David Rockefeller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller
Some interesting bits:
An early connection he developed in the 1950s was with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As well as knowing Allen Dulles and his brother John Foster Dulles — who was an in-law of the family - since his college years, it was in Room 3603 in Rockefeller Center that Allen Dulles had set up his WWII operational center after Pearl Harbor, liaising closely with MI6 which also had their principal U.S. operation in the Center. He also knew and associated with the former CIA director Richard Helms, as well as Archibald Roosevelt, Jr., a Chase Bank employee and former CIA agent, whose cousin was the CIA agent, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., involved in the Iran coup of 1953. Also, in 1953, he had befriended William Bundy, a pivotal CIA analyst for nine years in the 1950s, who became the Agency liaison to the National Security Council, and a subsequent lifelong friend. Moreover, in Cary Reich's biography of his brother Nelson, a former CIA agent states that David was extensively briefed on covert intelligence operations by himself and other Agency division chiefs, under the direction of David's "friend and confidant", CIA Director Allen Dulles.
In November 1979, while chairman of the Chase Bank, Rockefeller became embroiled in an international incident when he and Henry Kissinger, along with John J. McCloy and Rockefeller aides, persuaded President Jimmy Carter through the United States Department of State to admit the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, into the United States for hospital treatment for lymphoma. This action directly precipitated what is known as the Iran hostage crisis and placed Rockefeller under intense media scrutiny (particularly from The New York Times) for the first time in his public life.
In 1965, Rockefeller and other senior businessmen formed the Council of the Americas to stimulate and support economic integration in the Americas. The Council subsequently played a key role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In 1992, at a Council sponsored forum, Rockefeller proposed a "Western Hemisphere free trade area", which subsequently became the Free Trade Area of the Americas in a Miami summit in 1994.
Some positions held/institutions founded during his lifetime: Chairman/Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (Chairman: (1970-1985); Founder and Chairman/Honorary Chairman of the Council of the Americas (1963-); Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Bohemian Club, San Francisco — Rockefeller and his son, David Jr., are members of the Stowaway Camp in the Bohemian Grove.

Guantanamo Legal Adviser Refuses To Say Iranians Waterboardi

McCain Sponsored S. 1003, Removal of Navajo Lands - Genocide

"I believe that the forced relocation of Navajo and Hopi people that followed from the passage in 1974 of Public Law 93-531 is a major violation of these people's human rights. Indeed this forced relocation of over 12,000 Native Americans is one of the worst cases of involuntary community resettlement that I have studied throughout the world..."Anybody have research on this?

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Huge Scientology protest in Milwaukee WI (-40 temp)

MILWAUKEE-Protestors gathered outside the Church of Scientology in Milwaukee today, calling the religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard a cult.Find more here

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Obama slams Bush after misstates his foreign policy position

On FNS, George Bush, knowing full well that the conservative base is cracking apart over McCain—had this to say about Barack Obama:Bush: “I certainly don’t know what he believes in. The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he’s going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad.”

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The War on Pot: America's $42 Billion Annual Boondoggle

What might our government buy if it suddenly had the amount American taxpayers drop into its lap each year to enforce current marijuana laws.One American is arrested every 38 seconds on marijuana charges. The cost is staggering in law enforcement expenses and lost tax revenues, but staggeringly profitable for criminal gangs.

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• EXCLUSIVE! Pelosi & AIPAC put the Squeeze on KUCINICH!

(Had to sort of rip this from the origin since DIGG seems to be having a problem posting)

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Editor's note: 11 Feb. 2008 — Rep. Kucinich stated today that he denies the report here and that "The incident did not happen." We have contacted the source of the story and we're waiting for his response to this. When we get it, we'll post the source's answer here. As of 8pm Feb. 11th, we stand by the story.

— 3 February 2008 — Exclusive to New Jersey Impeach Groups - ImpeachThem.com — We received a phone call today from a source in the Kucinich for President campaign, telling us there’s more to the story of Rep. Kucinich’s withdrawal than is publicly known. The source gave us permission to publish this, but without attribution. We can say the source is high up in the campaign. Most progressives are aware there’s been a large flood of money feeding a campaign by Cleveland City Council democrat Joe Cimperman, who seeks to win the primary for Dennis Kucinich’s seat in Ohio’s 10th congressional district, where Dennis has served the interests of working people for 6 consecutive terms — since 1996. Here’s the rest of the story, untold ‘til now. — Click the KUCINICH BANNER to read the rest —

Before the Nevada primary, Dennis was visited by representatives of Nancy Pelosi and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — AIPAC. They told Dennis that if he would drop his campaigns to impeach Cheney and Bush, they would guarantee his re-election to the House of Representatives.



Kucinich threw them out of his office.



Dennis now faces the toughest election campaign of his entire tenure in congress, with huge amounts of money being spent to turn his constituents against him due to “his neglect of his district while he ran for president.” Citizens should legitimately ask where Cimperman’s immense media warchest comes from.

So yes, Virginia, it is exactly as you suspected. This man the mainstream media say is not relevant, poses such a threat to the powers that be that they are hellbent to destroy him, and remove that troublemaker from congress.

It’s up to us, all who understand the crucial voice of Dennis Kucinich speaking up for justice and working to stop our country’s fall into fascist barbarity, to come forward to help him continue the peoples’ work. There’s no better time than right now, so go to CONTRIBUTE TO DENNIS KUCINICH. Help Dennis now. Help him TODAY.

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Sex workers get ‘more business’ at GOP

This summer’s political conventions are expected to be “a boom in business” for “the sex and adult entertainment industries,” but according to one veteran sex worker who spoke to the Rocky Mountain News, the GOP conventions are “a lot better for the sex workers.” “We get a lot more business,” Carol Leigh told the paper.

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Why We Love the Sweet Life

I agree with nutritionists that breakfast is the most important meal, and my idea of the perfect breakfast is an ultra-sweet frappucchino and a brownie, a brownie with chocolate frosting, that is. A workshop on glycoscience organized recently by the European Science Foundation has underscored the vital role of complex sugars in biological systems.

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Hell yeah we're back...

Yeah been out for a bit, busy traveling but tell you what folks, we got plenty to post and plenty to say.

Noam Chomsky : Does public opinion count?

In fact, in our elections, the issues are unknown. There’s careful efforts to make sure that the issues are unknown to the public, for good reasons. There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. So you have to keep away from issues and concentrate on imagery and delusions and so on.

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Jon Stewart reacts to press coverage of Hillary crying

Jon Stewart reacted to the media circus surrounding Hillary's "emotional breakdown." "That's it? That's the emotional breakdown that blows the election for her? I'm glad no one here ever sees me get a flu shot,"

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US Medical System: The Worst in 19 Industrialized Nations

France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday. U.S sees 100,000 extra deaths per year. That's roughly one every five minutes, around the clock, 24/7/365 -- every year.

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Hillary did not win NH; Obama and Hillary tied for NH

Hillary may have had a 2% popular lead over Obama, but it's meaningless because both Obama and Hillary got 9 delegates creating a tie in NH.

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Fears of Obama Assassination Lead to Increased Security

Secret Service presence has increased for Sen. Barack Obama since his dramatic win in Iowa, amid fears over the safety of the man seeking to become America's first black president. The Internet is rife with theories that someone may try to assassinate the senator — typing into Google "assassinate Obama" brings up more than 2,000 hits.

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Paul Begala: Fox News: We Report Even if We Know It's False

Paul is shocked that Fox News doesn't tell the truth. After years of discredited stories, allegations and documented biases a professional pundit is shocked. This assumption that your colleagues are "trustworthy" and should not be questioned explains why the traditional media is held in such low regard. Guess what Paul CNN ain't a whole lot better

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O'Reilly's bulldog crap

Why do they even think he's a reporter of any sort? He's a thug and bully, and the worst low-life type.

Obama and O'Reilly in Nashua

FOX Stock at 52 Week Low Due to Electioneering Charges

NewsWire / New York / 1-5-08 // Fox News parent company NewsCorp (NWS/NYSE) has lost over $3 billion in market capitalization in less than a week as the stock plummeted to a 52 week low amid electioneering charges against Fox for excluding a major presidential candidate from a nationally televised forum. Many feel Fox is trying to rig the election.

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Obama staffer says O’Reilly confrontation got physical!

BillO freaks.

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McGovern’s Impeach Bush-Cheney Op-Ed in Washington Post

All the major newspapers refused to print Wexler, Gutierrez, and Tammy Baldwin’s impeachment op-ed recently so it’s surprising to see The Washington Post finally allow an argument to be made for just that on their sacred pages: “Why I Believe Bush Must Go: Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse.” The Village elders will be most upset.

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How to Rig an Election: Convicted GOP Phone Jammer tells all

The former consultant, who served three months in jail last year, tells his story and reveals secrets of the trade in his new book, Raymond blames the Republican Party for making him the fall guy and claims that his scheme was approved by a top state GOP official and the Republican National Committee

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Talk of Hillary exit engulfs campaign

Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!"She can't take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada," laments one top campaign insider.

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Liberals: This Is How You Roll When On FOXNews

By now many of you have heard about Bill O’Reilly’s meltdown at a Barack Obama event in New Hampshire Saturday and on Sunday, The Huffington Post’s Roy Sekoff went on FOXNews to discuss the blogs’ coverage of the primaries — as the topic turned to BillO, Sekoff gave a textbook example of how all liberals should act when on FOX.

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GOP Doubts, Fears 'Post-Partisan' Obama

Exploiting a deep well of voter revulsion over partisan gridlock in Washington, Sen. Barack Obama is promising to do something that has not been done in modern U.S. politics: unite a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and independents behind an agenda of sweeping change.

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Obama's Victory Speech

Giulanni and The Republicans: Warmongers of the Military Industrial COmplex

Huckabee on Gays and women’s rights: it's not pretty

Huck digs himself a hole and keeps on digging. It's pretty clear that he is a sincere evangelical. But that is not necessarily a recommendation. Here he disputes the notion that being gay is a pre-disposition and also supports the idea that abortion is wrong because all human life (apparently, from conception on) is equally valuable.

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Programmer was asked to help rig Florida election

Computer Programmer testifies that Tom Feeney (Speaker of the House of...(more) Florida at the time) tried to pay him to rig election vote counts.

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All the Evidence You Need to Impeach Bush and Cheney

The past year has seen the public exposure of enough evidence of old, ongoing, and new crimes, abuses of power, and impeachable offenses by George Bush and Dick Cheney that in any remotely representative democracy, these two thugs would be out of office and behind bars. Here's the evidence and why we should continue to push for impeachment.

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The Politico: Fred Thompson may drop out

GOP sources say a poor finish in Iowa may cause him to give up and endorse John McCain.

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