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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Ay, there's the rub.
The phone use to ring. I was invited to meet someone (female) on the streets. I refused. It was around the same time a Baltimore Lawyer was lured into Pa.. near Harrisburg. He was stabbed in a parking lot 30-some times. I was happy I refused those nighttime invites. I live in the shadow of the upraised sword?
I'll keep my head? I'll not comment anymore. I'll do what I love. Garden
The lawyer was from Baltimore @ Thanksgiving time he was killed by who?
Thanks. Serious. Honest. I'l retrain myself. out/over. I get the hint. Again.
I have a hard time parsing this news. What's the good news? Where's the upside that makes a complete overthrow of our civic institutions seem crazy (as opposed to merely unjustifiably wasteful and inhumane)?
I feel like I'm witnessing a moment future generations will point to and say "after that, why didn't those fools see what was coming?"
This passage raises some very interesting questions. Given the parallels in the warnings from PBS and CNN, it appears that somehow, these producers are basically censoring the news. On what authority are they doing this? Is corporate management of both organizations requiring it, or is the government forcing these organizations to censor?
Is it really so hard to draw a conclusion? Didn't the CIA boast, way back in the 1970s, that they had successfully infiltrated every major media organisation in the USA? Do you really think they wouldn't have infiltrated the FCC as well?
And twenty, thirty, forty years later, after Reagan, after ex-CIA head Bush 41, and after 8 years of his idiot son, after FAUX News and all the rest, do you really think they haven't fully infiltrated US media everywhere?
You want the truth in today's USA? Tune in to Good Celery FM!
The phone use to ring. I was invited to meet someone (female) on the streets. I refused. It was around the same time a Baltimore Lawyer was lured into Pa.. near Harrisburg. He was stabbed in a parking lot 30-some times. I was happy I refused those nighttime invites. I live in the shadow of the upraised sword?
I'll keep my head? I'll not comment anymore. I'll do what I love. Garden
The lawyer was from Baltimore @ Thanksgiving time he was killed by who?
Thanks. Serious. Honest. I'l retrain myself. out/over. I get the hint. Again.
As Obama surrounds himself with Clintonites and neo-cons all the left has done is talk, talk, and more talk. Politico reports Obama raised $500 million from the Internet, most of which must be from the left. The time to act is now, when the policy makers are being put into places of power. If we wait, it will be easier for Obama to ignore us even more. Is there no leader on the left to organize a demonstration or rally or something???
Truly turning a page on the grotesque abuses of the last eight years requires both symbolism (closing Guantanamo) and substantive policy changes (compelling adherence to the Army Field Manual, ensuring due process rights for all detainees, ending rendition, restoring safeguards on surveillance powers).
This sentence from Glenn's last paragraph neatly summarizes something I've been struggling to articulate to pro-Obama friends and family these past few weeks, and especially since the 60 Minutes interview--in which, you may recall, Obama forcefully stated that he will follow through on his promise to close Gauntanamo, and then just let that statement hang in the air and reverberate and sound impressively resolute.
I thought to myself, "But...but...but...." and yet, at that moment, I couldn't quite get to the next thought, which was "That's only the beginning..." There's the danger of having a coolly charismatic leader who says all the right things. I'm with Glenn on the notion that we have to wait and see what actually transpires after Obama takes office. But these same-old-insider appointments, especially Brennan, are extremely worrying.
That said, I am amazed at how many well-meaning and apparently engaged people are basically finished right now with anything election- or politics-related, and ready to move on with their lives, secure simply in the knowledge that "their guy" will soon take office (although maybe my amazement reveals nothing more than my own continued naivete and idealistic temperament). Apparently Evil Daddy is on his way out and Good Daddy is going to fix all the boo-boos.
Has the government of Qatar (as just one example), where Al Jazeera is headquartered, made any attempts to bring charges against the United States for their crimes? Or do any of the foreign governments whose people are being illegally detained and murdered by the Bush regime make any attempts to prosecute the US?
Thomas Mann- Hold every moment scared.
Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight
of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
...that the news wings of the major US TV networks are nothing but propaganda machines for the US administration and for big business?
Surely that should be taken as a given?
Right after the election I called my sister in DC asking if I could come down for inauguration, I just wasn’t sure on which side of the barricades I would be. I think I know now. Maybe we could hit the Foggy Bottom farmers’ market and have an Aflingem or Duvel (it’s award-winning.)
I’ve had this recurrent waking nightmare where if I wanted a permanent authoritarian shift Barack Obama would be the perfect vessel for my program.
Torture is my most important issue, more than the economy, because of torture's cancerous effect on democracy, even though I work in manufacturing and my job is directly in the line of fire. US torture occurs in many other places than Guantanamo, in addition to outsourced torture.
I fear johntfrazer has it right, uh, I mean correct.
Didn't the CIA boast, way back in the 1970s, that they had successfully infiltrated every major media organisation in the USA?
My working assumption on that sort of infiltration is that it would have been geared toward the planting of (mis)information. What we are seeing here is unapologetic censoring, before the fact, by describing what a guest on a news program cannot say. Aside from the "be very careful what you say" admonitions just after 9/11, I don't recall that happening so blatantly. How on earth could they have thought that word would not eventually filter out about what they are doing?
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
