What do YOU feel are the most significant aspects of this case? Are you burying the lede a bit? It seems as if you're alluding to things here

Yet here is the first fatal biological terror attack on the U.S. in history -- one which, by our Government's own reckoning, came from a U.S. Government facility itself. Those attacks had an incalculable impact on our political climate. The list of possible suspects, with overwhelming motives to perpetrate the attack and ample opportunity to have done so, is long and high-powered. Both the public and private bio-research industry in the U.S., which was already quite substantial before 9/11 and exploded afterwards, is shrouded in almost total secrecy and operates with virtually no oversight, despite experimenting with the world's most dangerous pathogens and bioweapons, including anthrax. And much (though not all) of the establishment media is playing its now standard role of uncritically ingesting and trumpeting Government claims (even when -- especially when -- made in secret) and investigating nothing.

I know media malfeasance is one of your pressure points, but don't you feel THIS "Yet here is the first fatal biological terror attack on the U.S. in history -- one which, by our Government's own reckoning, came from a U.S. Government facility itself. Those attacks had an incalculable" [effect on feeding the wartime frenzied bloodlust] is the real crux of the biscuit?

Yes, you are appropriately hammering the FBI/media. I wonder, though, what you really think is going on, or what you're driving at. Am I asking for too much speculation?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax19-2008aug19,0,7852992.story

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Other than our media elite, is there anyone who doesn't recognize how absurd it is for Rice to be issuing a sermon like that?

Youe are kidding, right? You mean other than the ~90% of the U.S. population that would accept as an article of Faith that the U.S. is All Good, and Right, and Just? And the "rules" don't apply equally to the U.S.?

Recommended reading: "Hegemony Or Survival". (Norman Chomsky)

Respek.

Is this you?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/18/2337/96853

If so, helluva read, thank you very much.

If not, you should get a new handle. Impersonating an "incomparable" is a crime, innit?

I'm thinking it was perhaps some breach of protocol to point like that. Puts the 4:14 poster in a bit of an untenable position either way.

Anyway, this really ought to be required reading for everybody

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/18/2337/96853

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I'm presuming you mean political/historical from the Russian/Georgian perspective? I believe billmon pretty well-covered it from our (U.S) perspective. Pretty enlightening, huh? I'm w/ you on the Nat. Res. angle, I'd like to see more.

Gotta run. Dinner.

...if you intended to have any Corporate Media people (like KO, or David Gregory) on Salon Radio in order to rake them over the coals a bit on this and similar issues. Rache Maddow will probably happily speak w/ you, right?, but I would imagine you and her are a bit too simpatico for any real fireworks.

Instead, let me ask you this. Some time, when you're not doing anything else, will you pen a preemptive malogy for Robert Novak? Man, I'd love to read that one.

I believe you are correct.

So, to the extent that Clinton's overtly militaristic or "centrist" (read pro-business policies) matched that agenda, the Media was less than adversarial. It will be the same way w/ McCain, I propose.

http://www.pic-upload.de/14.08.08/m8qelu.jpg

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KBCS was playing [folk?] something I couldn't quite characterize. Had to resort to my old stand-by.

KNTU Univ. of North TX has one of the premier jazz instruction programs in the nation. Give a listen. News is on now, though.

http://www.kntu.com/universal/playlists/kntulive.asx

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I never would've picked this post for one in which the comments section would literally make my jaw drop.

Nick, right on! JKP1000, your note to self makea me laugh!

But, seriously? If I view McCain as a bellicose, economically illiterate, full-blown Alzheimer's waitin' to happen panderer to the most wretched excesses of the Right Wing, it's because I'm a Hillary hater? Really?

And Rachel Maddow and KO share matching haircuts (is that code for "teh GAY"?) that cause a visceral distaste in readers of this blog?

Color me dumbfounded.

You probably know (or know of) WilliamOckham. Have you read his latest on The Strange Case of Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul (Part 2)?

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/08/21/the-strange-case-of-hiwa-abdul-rahman-rashul-part-2/#more-2595

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I'm NOT wishing, I believe he's demonstrating repeated moments of incoherence that I (using a truly Fristian skill set)would attribute to the onset of Alzheimer's.

I'm sorry to hear about your Mom. Apologies that I come across as so insensitive.

Glenn, how'd you get them to Brazil? Does Brazil not have the draconian quarantine rules I thought were pretty standard?

I more or less declined a position in (at the time) W. Germany because my Golden would've had to endure something on the order of 6 months quarantine.

Via TPM, Gov. Tim Kaine, on CNN this morning, said Sen. McCain couldn't answer the question about how many houses he (McCain) owns, because "he (McCain) can't count that high!" Priceless.

Sorry for the interruption.

You can assuredly use this

http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/

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