[MCM] AT&T blocking dissidents?

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
From Robert Glenn Plotner: In 2004/2005 while auditing election results, I suddenly found my access blocked to government websites containing election returns as well as election reform websites. No other sites were affected. I documented the problems. Different browsers. Different computers.

[MCM] Obama IS leading--in the wrong direction

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
Obama IS Leading, But in the Wrong Direction By David Swanson http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/45342 "If you would lead, maybe we would follow," David Michael Green

[MCM] Doctor gets the axe for knocking doughnuts

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
Doctor Forced Out for Disparaging Doughnuts By TARA PARKER-POPE http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/doctor-forced-out-for-disparaging-donuts/ A Florida doctor was forced out of his job running a local heal

[MCM] Comments re: Army officer's protest of religious persecution

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2009/08/army-officer-speaks-out-against-religious-persecution-mrff/#comments: Comment by Carolyn on August 20, 2009 @ 8:16 am I grew up in the old Army (pre WW11), and I find it horrifying that this is happening. It sounds like the followers of the C-street crowd hav

[MCM] Most Americans oppose Obama's war

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
Public Opinion in U.S. Turns Against the War By Jennifer Agiesta and Jon Cohen Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 20, 2009

[MCM] New info on Rove's "mystery McDonald"

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
From Roger Shuler: An update about Karl Rove's "mystery McDonald," mentioned in his Congressional testimony. Looks like we were off base in our earlier post, and we apologize for the confusion. Roger New information indicates that Karl Rove probably was referring in his Congressional testim

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2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
From Robert Glenn Plotner: Just to note within an hour of sending that last reply to you, my access is no longer blocked. Strange that. I don't know whether someone read those emails and made a decision, or whether complaints to Facebook that AT&T may be blocking access caused something to s

[MCM] Two more comments on the Army captain's protest

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2009/08/army-officer-speaks-out-against-religious-persecution-mrff/#comments Comment by EyeSpy on August 20, 2009 @ 11:28 am All this proselytizing has got to stop. This and the highly christianized Blackwater now accused of murdering government witnesses, the "Fait

[MCM] Ridge was pressured to raise "terror alert" to help Bush "win"

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner First Posted: 08-20-09 11:20 AM | Updated: 08-20-09 11:54 AM In a new book, former Secretary of Homelan

[MCM] Rove steps in it

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
First, read throughKarl Rove's stunningly cocky op-ed in the Wall Street Journal-- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574360500363745662.html --then read this important xposé by Larisa Alexandrovna. It's important to all those of us who care about, like, justice, and the trut

[MCM] Why Rahm and Baucus dumped the public option (MUST-READ)

2009-08-20 Thread Mark Crispin Miller
The Baucus Caucus: PhRMA, Insurance, Hospitals and Rahm By: Jane Hamsher http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/19/the-baucus-caucus-phrma-insurance-hospitals-and-rahm/ We started this whip count effort on June 23 because it became clear that in the course of making their deals with