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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Thank you so much for your contributions to the fact and truth. I have a problem with Blue Dogs who won't stand up. Indeed, they have a problem with their constituents. Any suggestions?
Soderberg lies:
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the White House directed telecommunications carriers to cooperate with its efforts to bolster intelligence gathering and surveillance...
BushCheney demanded this "cooperation" in February 2001, a full six months before 9/11. (sources: whistleblower Klein at AT+T; Qwest Communications)
I have held this same unpopular opinion of Tim Russert all along...he was a tool - a well-informed tool - who was at least well-prepared to skewer the very meme out of every person who he interviewed...but he never, ever, ever went that far, except once. On that one occasion alone can I remember that Tim was a journalist. You memorialized it very well, here:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/01/using-christian-conservatives-for-fun.html
Monday, January 09, 2006Using Christian conservatives for fun and profit
Jane Hamsher zeros right in on an exchange of monumental importance which took place on Meet the Press yesterday, involving accusations of wrongdoing exchanged between close Bush ally Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, and top Bush campaign official Ralph Reed. In addition to sweeping some of the most prominent pro-Bush faces into the center of the Abramoff corruption net, this episode powerfully illustrates how the Republican Party has long exploited, with total cynicism and dishonesty, the Christian conservatives who constitutes [sic] such a critical and loyal part of its base. The significance of this part of the Abramoff scandal could be huge if used properly. For that reason, it’s worthwhile to review the basic facts.
As part of the federal investigation into Jack Abramoff, e-mails from 2001 surfaced which were written to Abramoff by Ralph Reed, longtime Republican operative and the Bush ‘04 campaign’s Southeast Regional Director. Abramoff at the time was working on behalf of casinos owned by Louisiana Indian tribes, which were concerned that Texas tribes were beginning to open casinos which would compete with them and drain away their gamblers. They wanted government action taken against the Texas casinos -- in sum, they wanted the Texas Government to shut down their competition -- and so they hired Abramoff to use his unparalleled influence with Republicans, especially Texas Republicans, in order to engineer the State Government action that they wanted.
In thinking about how to induce the Texas government to act against the Texas casinos, Abramoff realized that he could cynically exploit Christian conservatives in Texas -- who strongly oppose gambling on religious and moral grounds -- and use that religious opposition to gambling in order to help the Louisiana casinos who were paying him. The Christian conservatives both in Texas and nationally would be the dupes. They would think that they were crusading against gambling by demanding that the Texas casinos be shut down. In reality, the entire spectacle was a grand deceit which was about nothing other than working to serve the interests of the Louisiana casinos by attacking their competitors.
This is McCain's Achilles heel: McCain's 'judgment' as chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee's Abramoff Investigation in which he sequestered over 90 per cent of the incriminating documents.
Today, most people are completely confused about McCain's position on any issue, and this is simply because McCain drapes both sides of every issue on each side of his toothsome grin, every-ready to confuse any argument against him. He lies about Obama's tax plan with just as much brio. It is outrageous, and I can only hope that you continue to tell truth to power in your very incisive way, Glenn.
But Jack Cafferty said it best: "...a cold chill..."
Thank you so much for your work!
...watch for a false flag op to criminalize the proceedings. They are not done yet. I cannot rant enough about how these idiots have misspent our treasure, our military might and our political capital. Oh, how I cry for what might have been had they not been given carte blanche to decimate our American live with stupid cries of "War on Terror." What a bunch of idiots!
These tactics will be repudiated as just plain dumb & unnecessary contraventions of First Amendment rights of speech & assembly and nothing more. They have already been proven to be patently illegal in N.Y.C. $ Millions were paid for false arrest.
When we hold the politicians personally & legally responsible and accountable for these obscene activities we will have our republic back - but not before.
...and you are doing that here, sir, and thank you for this very persuasive argument for telling truth to power.
I am old enough to remember my joy at the release by The New York Times of The Pentagon Papers. I have celebrated June 13th every year since 1971, and I will continue to do so until another Guy Fawkes rises. Hail Ellsberg!
I do not bother reading fictive news prose and utter editorial nonsense from our establishment idiots, those with and without Pulitzer Prizes. (SCREW magazine was more honest overall.) But I do get a lot of truth from esoteric online international sources. They reveal we are living in a fable, reading fiction in our newspapers and listening to outright lies scripted by establishment public servants. Not spin, mind you: outright lies!
Guns and Big Oil have called all the shots since the 'fifties. It's long past time for change. Most people are so easily fooled.
Maybe Paulson will just sell off a state or two to pay for this latest scam, preferably something with coastal development rights...like Alaska and Florida.
Come to think of it, couldn't Paulson sell off the assets if this bill passes as it is currently written? A couple of oil sheiks could take care of this little problem by tomorrow night (actually by tomorrow morning - it's nighttime there now!!) if Congress would only stop talking about it and just give CheneyBush what they want.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
