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Saturday, October 31, 2009
CBS, NYT: Karzai's Brother on CIA Payroll, Tied to Drug Lords
What is the Afghanistan War really about? 911? Al Qaeda? The Taliban? Pakistan? Could it be it's all really about heroin? A leak published in the Times reports President Karzai's brother Ahmed Wali has ties to powerful drug lords and has been receiving funding from the CIA. With Afghan heroin crops booming under US occupation, this begs the question - was this "war" another government endorsed Iran Contra-style drug operation?

Saturday, October 17, 2009
More Details About "ACORN Pimp": Past Entrapment Stunts
(2 comments) The "Undercover Pimp" videographer James O'Keefe who made headlines tricking low-level ACORN employees has a history of making vids which have been secretly funded by wealthy conservative backers. In one hoax call to Planned Parenthood, he offers to pay for abortions to rid the world of black babies in the name of his white newborn - using creative editing to convolute his racism with their open-to-all donation policies.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Kucinich Secures Funds To Track Organic Farming
(2 comments) Decades overdue, funds were finally allocated to compile reliable economic data in the organic farming industry. Included by Rep. Kucinich in the $82 million Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA & Related Agencies Appropriation Act, a mere $.5 million will be allocated to study market trends, consumer preferences and contracting practices in the fast-growing organic sector. Did this grow out of Michelle Obama's little garden?

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Whistleblower to get $4.5M for exposing Defense Contractor Fraud
Why do we need oversight? Because the American taxpayer was ripped off systematically for 13 years by MPC Products, inflating their costs for Defense Dept. contracts between 1993 and 2005. A revived Truman Commission to oversee and regulate defense industry profit margins would have protected Americans from this con job in the first place.

Saturday, September 19, 2009
Limbaugh: Obama To Pardon Blacks Who Attack Whites?
(2 comments) Abandoning subtlety, #1 propagandist Rush Limbaugh describes re-segregated buses after whites are targeted on school buses in "Obama's America". He goes on to crudely imitate violent blacks cheering "raht own, raht own!" as white riders are beaten. Also claiming whites alone created free markets, he claims "we just are racists. We are born that way. We don't choose it. So shouldn't it be acceptable"? Wow! Full context here...

Friday, September 4, 2009
Agitators Disrupt Obama Healthcare Meeting in NY
(1 comments) [[maryjo]]Angry hecklers showed up at a meeting held by Obama's Organizing For America committee in Pearl River, NY on Tuesday night, brandishing signs and shouting out of turn. Equipped with instructions supplied by lobbying group National Center for Policy Analysis and Rev. Falwell's Liberty Counsel, these activists proved again that they favor shouting and outrageous insults over peaceful democratic debate.

Friday, June 19, 2009
"O-Rahm-Ba" Strongarms Progressive Dems
(3 comments) Obama and Rahm Emmanuel have been making ominous threats to freshman Dems in Congress to whip up votes for the newest war appropriation. Though we might understand Obama's desire for war funding, we cannot stand for the tactic of quid-pro-quo blackmail to withhold re-election "support" (DNC funding?) in exchange for specific votes. This is not change, nor representative democracy, this is Rahm channelling Nixon.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
You Can Help Halliburton Rape Victim Fight Lopsided Arbitration Law
After being drugged and gang-raped by KBR employees in Iraq, Jamie Leigh Jones has become the leading voice against private contractors writing themselves preemptive "get out of jail free" clauses in employment contracts. With your support, Sen. Feingold's Arbitration Fairness bill has a great chance of passing to turn the tide against contractor lawlessness.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Rare Iraqi Photos Shows Conflict, Humanity
The true face of the Iraq war is kept hidden from the American people, but this rare online gallery shows the fear, sorrow, bravery, courage, confusion and perseverance of a country in conflict. Photos date from 2003-2009.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Republican Blame, Anger at Cheney for False Claims
(1 comments) Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson follows up a scorching Maddow appearance with "The Truth About Cheney", calling Cheney's failure to prevent 9/11 and lies about WMD shameful, but disproves Cheney's recent claims that torture kept us safe.

Friday, May 1, 2009
Mike Connell's Sisters Call For "The Truth To Come Out"
Michael Connell's family members have broken their silence surrounding the IT guru's controversial death. Sisters Shannon and Mary Jo tell a Madison, WI reporter Connell was exhibiting strange behavior before he was killed and they want to know what happened. But with the major media blackout continuing, the sisters fear any probe into foul play is unlikely, leaving Ohio 2004 vote tampering questions unanswered.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Reagan's Definition, Moral and Legal Stance on Torture: It's Illegal and Un-American
(6 comments) In August, 1988, President Reagan championed US ratification of an international ban on torture, defined as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted". Reagan left no doubt he felt torture was not an American value: he added a signing statement and prosecuted waterboarding domestically. But would the Gipper have abandoned his moral principles after 9/11?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
TownHall Email Offers Guns and Training to Anti-Obama "Patriots"
(4 comments) The message coming from the right lately: stand up against "tyranny". You may have heard Rove-bot Michelle Bachmann's call to arms against Obama's socialism, and FOX-TV describing an uprising of "bubba militias", but TownHall's latest email blast offers you weapons and training from a controversial Scientologist gun dealer with a history of lawsuits and alleged scams.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Reagan's 'Stovepipe' Socialism More Extreme Than Obama's
(2 comments) Today's youth may forget how extreme Reagan's economic theories were, showering tax breaks on the wealthy while raising taxes on the middle class. Reagan increased jobs by reducing pay and benefits and increased taxes on small business owners by 66%. But worst of all were the huge deficits he signed off on, leaving this generation to pay back long after Reagan's death.

Monday, March 16, 2009
New Transparency Measure for Government Contracts Gutted
The proposal to put all government contracts online for full and open scrutiny by Americans was severely "altered" last week. The compromise instead includes only "summary" listings of what taxpayer dollars are buying, and even then, they will only bother including projects worth over $500,000.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Obama on Day One: Let's Not Search For Missing Bush E-mails
Literally on his first day as President, Obama had the DOJ try to dismiss the White House "missing email" lawsuit, brought by both the National Archives and CREW. Why? Bush said he found all the emails after spending millions on data recovery. But the fact is they haven't all been recovered yet and Obama has bought Bush's line that "its all there" instead of seizing the computers for forensic examination. Is this transparency?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Bush Shrugged As FBI Warned Of Economic Meltdown in 2004
(2 comments) The good news: we did have some controls in place to predict and prevent this economic crisis. The bad news: the Bush administration let it happen anyway. The ugly news: major US bond rating agencies never checked any of the mortgage backed securities they certified as "AAA" because they knew they were toxic. This suggests many were complicit in willful fraud with a years long advantage over the public in "getting out" first.

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Pentagon's PR Spending Increased To Combat Rising Anti-War Sentiment
(1 comments) Is your news fake? I just found my local papers were listed as clients of the military's secret press operation, Joint Hometown News Service, planting print, video and radio releases in all 50 states to talk up the war. 27,000 employees are currently cranking out stories that have often been found to violate domestic propaganda statutes. The price tag? $4.7 billion per year, up 63 percent since 2004. Not mad yet? Read on...

Sunday, February 1, 2009
Spending, Skimming & Debt: 30 Years of GOP Economics - Thom Hartmann
(1 comments) The numbers don't lie. For three decades, Republicans have blasphemously used the word "Conservative" as they plunged generations of Americans into crushing debt, outspending even the Dems while sharply cutting taxes for the wealthy. Will the flimsy economic theory underlying the Reagan/Greenspan legacy finally be exposed in light of the massive downturn in the U.S. economy? It will if you actually run the numbers!

Friday, January 23, 2009
Accused Election Fixer Mike Connell: Angel or Demon?
(2 comments) A new article ponders the tragic Mike Connell story, including some new information and an interview with Connell's widow who reveals Connell's body parts were not even examined by police or the coroner, rather left for her to collect them from the accident site herself.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Rove: Bush Was Right When It Mattered Most
(2 comments) While America waits to see if Karl Rove's Congressional subpoenas will be enforced, the WSJ offers Rove a free hand to write that al Qaeda is in defeat, the world is safer, student test scores are up and that Bush strengthened our economy while championing AIDS relief in Africa. Readers may add comments, but be forewarned, "Journal editors will be making a selection of entries for posting".

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Documentary: Rampant DOJ Misconduct Under Rove
(2 comments) A new documentary details strategies used by the Dept. of Justice to target 1,000 Democratic candidates, officials and fundraisers. Under the direction of Karl Rove, the film alleges the DOJ and FBI were turned into a partisan hit squad for the RNC who used threats and intimidation to go after Democrats almost exclusively in battleground states, with Bush-friendly judges running show trials using trumped-up evidence.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Mike Connell's Death: Convenient Coincidence or Cover-Up?
The man who knew whether the 2004 Ohio election was rigged is dead, but former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is still the main focus of the Ohio fraud case. Read this well-done primer on how the official vote count was less secure then a two-dollar credit card transaction after the webmaster for the Bush and SwiftBoat campaigns was left alone in charge of the official reporting.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Spoonamore Explains How (and Why) He Believes Connell Rigged Ohio 2004
(2 comments) Internet security expert Stephen Spoonamore's deposition in the Ohio vote fraud case lays out how he believes the vote totals were rigged and what Mike Connell's involvement was, from his questions on destroying evidence to his comments on protecting the unborn, see why US elections are less secure then a $5 online credit card transaction.

Monday, December 22, 2008
Report: Rove's IT Plumbers Also Suppressed Edwards, Kucinich Votes in '04 Primary
Wayne Madsen adds new details to the RICO case in Ohio State court accusing Karl Rove, Ken Blackwell and others of rigging the 2004 vote count. Specific threats were made against now-deceased IT guru Mike Connell, plus we find Conyers Judiciary Committee network may have been bugged so the White House could snoop on emails concerning the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Cheney: VP Above Presidential Records Law
(2 comments) Cheney decrees he alone will decide what records shall be turned over at the end of his term. Ironically, this comes in a brief responding to accusations he already violated the President Records Act, burying evidence of numerous crimes. Cheney's recent confirmation he ordered unconstitutional torture flies in the face of a disapproving public and a petrified Congress.

Monday, December 15, 2008
NSA Warrantless Wiretap Whistlebower Speaks
(2 comments) After years in anonymity, the source for the original NY Times exposé tells his story with details about why NSA agents bypassed FISA judges and how the Feds believed John Ashcroft would be indicted if the story got out. After trying to alert his superiors, he only stopped Bush from spying by telling the press, but was met with persecution and threats by the FBI.

Friday, November 21, 2008
Dedicated Iraq War Protesters in NY Hit Amazing 6 Year Milestone
For 311 weeks, a Peace Vigil has been held at the corner of Rt. 59 and Middletown Rd. in Nanuet, NY. This Saturday Nov. 22 at noon marks the SIXTH year anniversary of the Iraq War - all are welcome to join in, bring signs, wave at honking cars, play drums and speak to reporters. These heroic vigilers have stood in the cold, heat, rain and snow, standing up against the war every week to support the safe return of U.S. troops.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Zogby Found Push-Polling for Hannity Chum
(1 comments) John Zogby hired out his polling services and good name to provide "statistical" data for a documentary called "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected" using the textbook definition of "push-polling", a covert slime tactic. Efforts are underway to boycott Zogby Intl., including contacting his "mainstream" clients such as C-SPAN and Reuters.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Christian Group Rejects Sean Hannity's "Shattered Moral Compass"
The founder of pro-life Operation Rescue denounced Sean Hannity as a dangerous, shallow, partisan, treacherous enemy of real Conservatism who puts money first and trains his millions of listeners to do the same.

Saturday, November 1, 2008
Governor Palin's Crank Yanked - Suckered By Radio Stunt
After malicious hackers breached the Governor's private email account, Sarah Palin now falls victim to a wacky prank call. She believed it to be from French President Nicolas Sarkozy but it was in fact zany Canadian radio duo "The Masked Avengers" pulling Palin's leg for six minutes till they finally fessed up - the Governor never caught on.

Friday, October 24, 2008
Blog: Obama is a Gay Pedophile, Terrorist Bomber
(5 comments) This righty blog conservative claims Obama engaged in domestic terrorism while at Columbia, forged his birth certificate, had drug-fueled sex with men and he cheated on his wife, who is a racist! Perhaps we could help self-proclaimed "reasonable conservative" Jon Swift vet his information and sources? Flame on!

Friday, October 17, 2008
James Taylor To Tour Net Week in North Carolina For Obama
Sweet Baby James returns to his native NC for pre-election concerts Oct 19 in Charlotte and Asheville, Oct 20 in Chapel Hill, and Oct 21 in Raleigh and Wilmington. More dates to be added soon...

Monday, September 29, 2008
David Sirota: Top 5 Reasons to Vote Against Paulson's $700 Billion Bailout
(2 comments) Excellent analysis: The Bailout in a nutshell. A must-read summary of why and how your elected officials are choosing their donors over you, the hapless citizen. We're borrowing on the debt to help rich businesses that screwed up! Bush's last poke-in-the-eye to America!

Saturday, September 20, 2008
YOU Can Help Put Karl Rove Behind Bars
Smoking gun evidence of illegal vote caging by Karl Rove's office is the basis for a planned prime-time, major network TV special. But the network is holding up Greg Palast & Robert Kennedy Jr. for production fees. The evidence already aired on BBC, outraging the world, but not in the U.S. They now ask for your help in proving race was a factor in making the lists, which would mean thousands of felony counts.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Photo: Are These Palin Supporters Racist?
Decide for yourself - are these women cheering Palin or mocking African Americans? I think these obviously enthusiastic ladies need to concentrate more on issues and less on theatrical props. Let's elevate the discussion lest things get misconstrued.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Palin's "Jesus Camp" Church: Must-See Video
Eye-opening footage of Gov. Palin and her charismatic church minister pals doing faith healings, speaking in tongues, practicing magic, prophesizing end-times, linking war to God, seeing visions, dancing, singing, pogoing up and down, and getting really, really "blitzed" on God's fiery touch.

Monday, September 1, 2008
Evangelicals Just Say No To Sarah Palin
(1 comments) Several influential Evangelical ministries have denounced McCain's choice of Governor Palin as VP -- not because of her trooper investigation or her flip-flop on the "bridge to nowhere". Rather, the complaint was that her large family will suffer from neglect.

Friday, July 25, 2008
Ford Finally Sees Sense in Smaller, More Efficient Cars
After several solid years of losses, Ford has finally decided to do what industry leaders Toyota and Honda have done for decades - make sensible cars that don't compensate for personal "shortcomings".

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Bush: Defense Contractors to Oversee Themselves (Not Satire)
(2 comments) The DoD under the Bush Administration believes the Global War on Terror is such a high priority that we aren't even bothering to oversee what our contractors are doing, amazingly outsourcing the job to a firm based outside the U.S.!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Details of Iraqi "Security Agreement" Leaked
(1 comments) ...and it ain't pretty. Now we know why Bush and Ambassador Crocker have been trying to ram the "Status of Forces" deal through by July, bypassing Congress and an Iraqi referendum. The lopsided agreement includes perpetual immunity for US troops and contractors, control of air space and 50 military bases, undermining Iraqi sovereignity and giving US troops a permanent "free hand" in Iraq.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Bush to America: The Dog Ate My Homework (Again)
The White House quietly filed documents Monday night claiming the crucial records showing whether or not the Bush administration fudged pre-Iraq war intel are lost and cannot be recovered, a similar fate to records considered the crucial evidence in the Plamegate affair. Violations of the Presidential Records Act are being investigated by Congress, but will this make the major news media?

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Obama Considers Impeachment vs. Inevitable "Witch Hunt" Spin
Barack answers a tough question in Philly: Would he impeach in light of recent torture revelations? Obama's tightrope answer shows measured concern for his "Unifier" perception, but would "immediately review" the information alredy available to determine if crimes had been committed. Obama stops short of promising a fresh DOJ probe, but certainly puts Impeachment back on the table.

Saturday, March 1, 2008
Zbig News: Israel, Iran, America Comprise New Axis of Evil?
Last March, Zbigniew Brzezinski's WaPo-OpEd recharacterized the war on terror as a war on Americans, citing an international study of 28,000 across the globe who feel Israel, Iran and the U.S. are the countries most responsible for international problems.

Saturday, February 16, 2008
Reality Check: Single-Payer Healthcare Working Quite Well
(4 comments) Contrary to the myths fed us by our runaway government, corporate profiteers and a bought-off media, Single Payer Health Care plans are working just fine, covering entire nations with far fewer problems then we're told. A realistic, warts-and-all view of Canada's system shows how and why America's system fails so many and is worsening every day.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Glenn Beck Lambasted Live Over Corporate Non-Disclosure
See what will undoubtedly be Norm Solomon's last ever appearance on CNN, handing Glenn Beck his head on a short but to-the-point list of corporate media conflicts-of-interest and the lack of disclosure in network "news" reporting. Beck shows in a rare unscripted "cringe" moment how clumsily he reacts to the unexpurgated truth as Solomon is hurried off the air!

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Kids who watch TV more at risk for ADD, smoking, weight gain
New study released followed kids through early childhood through their tens and saw a strong link between attention disorders and watching 2 or more hours of TV regularly. Quick-cut editing in particular breeds brain activity very likely to leave kids bored or unhappy with "the real world".

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Mexico intends to plant GMO corn
Caving to financial pressure exerted by US corn subsidies, Mexico plans to plant GMO corn to stay competitive. Some farmers are being lured into it by Monsanto, the titan of GMO foods with pesticide spliced into the genes of corn, soy and other frankenfoods. Mexico tried to resist, but will have to "license" Monsanto's patented seeds.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
How Bush stole $2000 from every student loan recipient
Loopholes in non-profit status result in decadent wealth for student loan industry execs. On Dec 21, 2005 Cheney's tiebreaking vote cost student borrowers an average $2000 in extra debt by allowing Bush to make the largest ever cut in student aid while continuing to guarantee loans for billionaire lenders. Read how Educap's founder made $150 million in profit from a 'non-profit' but is still nowhere near the CEO of Sallie Mae.

Monday, July 2, 2007
Break-in in offices of peace advocacy group in Bogotá, Colombia
(2 comments) Computers containing names of perpetrators of violent attacks were seized, highlighting collusion between Colombian military, high-level civilian officials and paramilitary factions. FOR (Fellowship Of Reconciliation) has stood against US aid to the corrupted Columbian government, compiling records while offering protection to threatened nationals.

Friday, June 29, 2007
Rumsfeld on Aspartame: Drink The Kool-Aid!
(1 comments) Another European study raises doubts about the safety of aspartame, but many don't realize it was Donald Rumsfeld who got "fast track" approval of the artificial sweetener as then-CEO of Searle (now part of Monsanto). The approval was one of Reagan's first acts in office, thanks to a FDA commisssioner who rewrote the rules for approval and would later do PR work for Monsanto/Searle! Not so sweet?

Friday, June 29, 2007
Is The World Overpopulation Problem Getting Proper Attention?
(1 comments) Is OVERPOPULATION the 6.5 billion pound gorilla no one wants to talk about? Worldwide, the birth rate is about six per second, and the death rate stands at three per second.This suggests it's only a matter of time before we'll be forced to discuss this oft-avoided issue.

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Ired Over Iraq Vote, Blogosphere Looks at Dem Defense Ties, DCCC Spinjob
(3 comments) Lefty netizens were incensed enough about the Democratic cave-in on the vote to continue the occupation, but the DCCC mail blast was pure condescension, painting the outcome as something it was not. Scrutiny is now turning to the reasons Democrats voted Aye, as in "I'm supporting the troops" but it smells more like ties to oil/defense pork as they selectively attack "liberal activists" rather then the 60-70% anti-war majority!

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Amazing new details on pre-war intelligence by stellar panel
Leading U.S. intelligence and military veterans in a forum at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) provide dramatic new evidence as to why Vice President Dick Cheney should be impeached. A long read but worth it: Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Libby, Wolfowitz, Plame, Wilson, and much about the real inner workings of our government.

Sunday, May 13, 2007
Suzie Flynn's patriotic crusade to insure all children
This 9-year old is no novelty act. Schooling Americans on how elementary it is to see that for every $1 spent on preventive healthcare for children, we save $16 on future costs. Suzie's simple message gets an A+ and shame on anyone still not thinking about the economy this generation will hand to the next. Suzie's my hero today for showing the government how bad they are at social studies and math!

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Iraqi Parliament Votes for U.S. Pullout: Not News?
(2 comments) A published report reveals that the Iraq Parliament voted Tuesday in favor of a US pullout with a timetable. But it's a media whitewash, coordinated with Cheney's hopeful assessment after his Iraq visit yesterday, along with persuasive claims made in DC yesterday by Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie. Write your media! Why cover two talking heads, stalling and spinning instead of the Iraqi Parliament's vote?

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Breaking: Chevron dirty in oil-for-food scam, Condi implicated
Perhaps the real reason Bush chose Condoleeza Rice to be his National Security Advisor was because she led Chevron's public policy committee, overseeing "political concerns". Just revealed today: during Rice's tenure, Chevron was paying out kickbacks for the millions profiteered through the Iraq Oil For Food program coming clean today to settle the probe.

Thursday, April 5, 2007
Bush: Money Trumps the Environment
(3 comments) After stacking the Supreme Court, Bush minimized the impact of their ruling which allows the EPA to curb pollution spewing from American vehicles. Bush warned that EPA regulations must not interfere with economic growth, blatantly prioritizing profits over your grandchildrens' health. Blaming China for following our lead, Bush resists the world's choice between money or the Earth, voicing the concerns of oil execs everywhere.

Tuesday, April 3, 2007
New Yellowcake timeline shows White House duplicity, not stupidity
(4 comments) The Post unravels the origin of the forged letter prompting Bush's "sixteen words", with specifics on what Bush was saying on his pre-war propaganada tour and what was concretely known at the time by intelligence agencies. This leaves a gaping hole in the White House's excuse that "mistakes were made". Essential reading for the CRUCIAL debate on whether Bush lied or bungled us into war. This is a job for WAXMAN!

Monday, April 2, 2007
No Conflict of Interest Left Behind
(1 comments) Bush's education policy, hinging on the No Child Left Behind Act, continues the trend toward privatization, central control and failing grades. Parents, educators should take note as NCLB approaches reauthorization this year.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Bush on Iran IEDs: Who said what to who?
(1 comments) True to his nickname as "the worst communicator", Bush shows how he can translate his handlers' "words that work" into vague non-answers to specific questions asked by concerned reporters on crucial issues. Meant to reassure his easily hypnotized 20% base, the mantra "we're doing this to protect our troops" rams a tough-on-Iran stance right past a logical expectation of evidence that Iran is behind attacks on those troops.

Thursday, February 8, 2007
Blumenthal: Pentagon preparing for failure in Iraq
(1 comments) Publicly mum about the prospects for "success" in Iraq, Bush's top military planners are already preparing for failure, reports Sidney Blumenthal. Related: Senator Warner's vote against his own anti-surge bill suggests Bush is stifling debate while Secretary Gates, flying in Bush's face, says media savvy US troops know such debate is a normal part of a healthy democracy. Will Rove ask for Gates' "red file"? Stay tuned...!

Monday, February 5, 2007
Study: Exxon and Big Oil manipulated election-time gas prices
(1 comments) The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights shows how Big Oil dropped profits to lull voters during the run up to the midterm election, then lying about the cause. The kicker? They've been gouging us all along, most notably last summer when prices hit $3 per gallon. Moreover, Bush's increase of the Strategic Reserve was a direct payback, causing a price spike greater then Katrina. Are you boycotting ExxonMobil & Shell yet?

Friday, February 2, 2007
Big Oil offers cash to scientists who discredit Warming study
(1 comments) Waving cash towards any scientist willing to put their name on the line, the American Enterprise Institute and it's generous donor ExxonMobil have put out a call for scientists willing to emphasize doubts and question the largest ever, most thorough and comprehensive international study attributing climate change to mankind's actions with a 90% certainty. And we should buy ExxonMobil gasoline WHY?

Thursday, February 1, 2007
The Road to Imperial Bankruptcy: Empire Vs. Democracy
(1 comments) Former CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson contrasts the walk versus the talk. Is America truly a social democracy or am imperialist tyrant? Looking at the history of Empires from Rome to the UK, it is clear the U.S. is on a crash course for failure, but perhaps not a military come-uppance so much as a financial belly-up: our large Asian debtholders can devalue the dollar at a moment's notice.

Monday, January 22, 2007
Hillary Head-to-Head Versus Obama --- Who Gets Your Vote?
(6 comments) Fiercely loyal former Clinton cabinet member Rahm Emanuel is also tight friends with Barack Obama. As he must choose who to support, so might all of us. If the two shared a ticket, it could be a 12 year plan. But could Hillary stand such a dynamic #2?

Monday, January 15, 2007
Exxon Mobil flip-flops, curtails propaganda funding
(2 comments) The most profitable corporation in the history of civilization just shifted gears, announcing it would no longer contribute to public opinion campaigns that deny the link between auto emissions and global warming. You may remember the "CO2 is your friend" commercial showing the little girl picking daisies. This about face signals the "inconvenient truth" may have finally sunk in. Too late Exxon, you already lost my business...

Thursday, January 11, 2007
Surge plan actually 2 years old, devised by American Enterprise Institute
(2 comments) Bush and Cheney aren't just flip-flopping they're flopping. Or maybe it should be called "flail and fail". After replacing Rumsfeld and top generals, they now want to try suggestions in the AEI's report "Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq". The idea one can "Choose Victory" in war shows how haughty Bush's fantasy world is, although Cheney, who hand picked the AEI "sell-job", just has a soft spot for war profiteers.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Israel denies plan to nuke Iran - was it a leak, a plant or a hoax?
(3 comments) The UK's Sunday Times report of an Israeli plan to nuke Iranian targets was flatly denied by Israel. This leaves the question of whether the "Israeli sources" who leaked the story had designs to paint Israel badly, intimidate Iran or spur debate. It is plausible the leak was meant to instigate tensions between Iran and Israel as Bush continues to push for US military intervention in Iran, against the wishes of US citizens.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Rehnquist Files Reveal Drug -- and Executive-Power -- Abuse
(3 comments) FBI files released following the death of the late Chief Justice Rehnquist reveal FBI resources were used for political purposes such as digging for dirt to discredit witnesses in Rehnquist confirmation hearings. Nixon and Reagan administrations both used taxpayer money to suppress Rehnquist's possible racist past. Also exposed was Rehnquist's 10-year addiction to Placidyl, a hallucingenic painkiller.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Bush requests records of every web site you visit
(3 comments) Though never a prominent part of his policy priorities or stated agenda, the Bush administration supposedly is looking so doggedly for child pornographers they will require each website you visit to be recorded for reporting. Alberto Gonzales and the DOJ have been applying great pressure to ISPs to quickly comply. As with proposals allowing Bush to open your mail, civil liberties defenders cry foul on another obvious ruse...