*From:* Roger Shuler
Alabama attorney and GOP whistleblower Jill Simpson presents compelling
evidence that Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig has significant
conflicts regarding the Bush administration and Karl Rove. Does Rove
have a friendly in the Obama White House, trying to protect him?
*From:* Jill Simpson:
Pam I would like to ask your readers a favor today if that is ok? I
would like for ya'll the citizens to do a little investigating for me.
Then maybe post what you find out. Iam a country lawyer from Rainsville
and need a little help looking at these Judges in Atlanta
From Andi Novick:
Dear friends,
Keep those resolutions in support of the levers coming! Yesterday
Schuyler County became the fourth county to pass a unanimous
resolution to save our levers. That's 4 counties plus the Association
of Towns resolution! Thanks to those of you who wrote or
And this refers only to those who encounted registration problems or
failed to receive
absentee ballots.
The former category would include, along with those sidelined by the
voter ID laws in
Indiana and Georgia, all those who were registered, but showed up at
the polls only to
find that they'd
No Reason to Demonize U.S. Single-Payer Health: John F. Wasik
Commentary by John F. Wasik
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchivesid=ao58otXrmrPMhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchivesid=ao58otXrmrPM
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- It's time to stop kicking sand in the face of
From Robert Parry, Editor of Consortiumnews.com Salsa HQ:
Less than two months into Barack Obama's presidency, it has become
clear that the top threat to his ability to accomplish his goals -
from reversing the recession to reforming health care to building a
greener economy - is not just an
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'
By Eric Black | Published Wed, Mar 11 2009 11:17 am
REUTERS/Fadi Al-AssaadJournalist Seymour Hersh speaking in Doha at an
Al Jazeera forum on the media in 2007.
At a Great Conversations event at the University of
Posted at 1:20 PM ET, 03/11/2009
A Departure That Leaves a Debate in Its Wake
Chas Freeman leads a panel discussion last year.
(http://www.mepc.org/forums_chcs/51.aspMiddle East Policy Council
photo)
As Max Blumenthal says below (quoted in the piece from Al Jazeera
English), Chas Freeman's
fate is a catastrophic defeat for the Obama administration. For, as
rikyrah puts it bluntly in
her blog (also below), Obama didn't move a muscle to defend his nominee.
Our president must come to
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2009/03/11/newspaper-cuts-cost-the-public/Newspaper
Cuts Cost the Public
Posted March 11th, 2009 by Jordan Berg
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/2009/03/11/newspaper-cuts-cost-the-public/
Dying newspapers are not the result of a failure of journalism or a
From Bob Parry:
A donor has offered to contribute $2,000 toward Consortiumnews.com's
spring fund drive if we can raise a matching amount in the next week.
So, please make a donation now so our journalistic operation can
benefit from this matching grant. It means each dollar you give will
that he won.
I didn't know about you or Bev [Harris, of
http://blackboxvoting.org/Black Box Voting ] or Nancy [Tobi, of
http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/Democracy for New Hampshire
and EDA] or Sally [Castleman of EDA] or Mark [Crispin Miller, author
of
http://www.amazon.com/Fooled
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hMT9GSjeFeuiRWPCUKflpfkvfw3QD96SN9S002charged
after search of DC tech office
By DEVLIN BARRETT and NEDRA PICKLER - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - A District of Columbia employee
and a technology consultant were charged with
corruption Thursday
. If you help spread the word, we can list your link(s) as
one of our Media Co-Sponsors (of which WBAI is one).
Thanks!
Rick Ulfik
Founder and Board Chair
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Mark Crispin Miller wrote:
Water, water everywhere (and US coverage
We may have to get progressive talk shows put on the Endangered Species List,
now that the president has reinstated it.
Otherwise there won't be any voices on the
air except the voices of the right, whether
centrist (corporate) or explicitly far-right
(corporate). As Brad Friedman notes in his
Stewart/Cramer Fallout: MSNBC Ordered to Keep Silent; Street.com CEO Quits
By Gregg Levine, Firedoglake
Posted on March 14, 2009, Printed on March 14, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.firedoglake.com//131573/http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.firedoglake.com//131573/
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Election Dirty Tricks Again in Washington and El Salvador
Robert Naiman
Posted March 12, 2009 | 06:45 PM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/election-dirty-tricks-aga_b_174486.html
Last week, more than 30 Members of Congress joined Rep. Raul Grijalva
in asking President Obama to
Freeman Affair Puts Israel Lobby in Spotlight
March 13, 2009 by http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46103Inter Press Service
by Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/13-8http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/13-8
WASHINGTON - Although the successful
From Jenny Huston, via Shelley Rogers:
NOTE: Monsanto has received millions from the US government for providing a
glyphosate formulation for the US spraying campaign in Colombia.
Not mentioned in this article is the evidence published in the journal
Genetics and Molecular Biology that aerial
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government
12 Mar 2009
http://www.legitgov.org/http://www.legitgov.org/
All items are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_newshttp://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/mar2009/watc-m12.shtmlFBI
terrorist
As Dale Axeldrod points out (below), Peter would
stay on the air if he can raise the funds--
so we should help him find a way, because he's
been one of the very few progressives who
have paid attention to the issue of election
fraud. He's often had Brad Friedman on to talk,
and Brad has
From Jeff:
http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/kamasutra/naked-and-guilty/Naked
and Guilty is a story about a hell house in Texas bound up in an
essay about sex and evangelicalism, published this winter in the
print-only edition of Lapham's Quarterly. It draws on
my last book, but most of it is
It's great to see that paper face the fact--based on a new study from
MIT, and reported last
week in the New York Times--that millions of Americans were
disenfranchised on Election
Day, and great that they're upset about it, and want Congress to
address the problem.
And yet this editorial
The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment
by Robert Freeman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/15
In early 1919, Germany put in place a new government to begin
rebuilding the country after its crushing defeat in World War I. But
the right-wing forces that had led the country into the War and lost
What the hell, it worked in 2000, right? And
desperate times call for desperate measures--
and things have actually been desperate for the
Party since the start of the millennium, as they
could never have prevailed without a lot of help
from their judicial members (among other
anti-democratic
Lawyers Group Urges Bush Be Arrested or Barred from Canada in First
Trip Abroad Since Leaving Office
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/17/lawyers_group_urges_bush_be_arrested
As former President George W. Bush heads to Canada today for his
first trip abroad since leaving the White House, a
http://www.truthout.org/
TUESDAY 17 MARCH 2009
http://www.truthout.org/031709JA.I.G. Using Suicide Strategy to
Push Bonuses
by: Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t | Report
Washington, DC - As nationwide populist anger boils after the
news that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars may be
They are beneath contempt. And that's exactly where they've been for
quite a while.
So let's be shocked, but not surprised, since this is how the
liberal media has been
performing since before the Gipper was in office.
MCM
Press Corps Defends Dick Cheney
From Robert Gibbs
by Jason Linkins
Senate quietly stripped measure restricting bonuses from bailout legislation
by John Byrne -- Wednesday March 18, 2009*
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Senate_quietly_stripped_measure_restricting_bonuses_0318.html
The measure, introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), was removed by
negotiators in a
Salsa HQ
Editor's Note: Because we've been publishing more stories, some
readers say they miss some that fly by. So, each month, we'll point
out some special stories from the previous month.
Salsa HQ
Salsa HQ
Here is a selection from February 2009, focusing on the challenges
and the battles
Burt's Bees, Tom's of Maine, Naked Juice: Your Favorite Brands?
Take Another Look -- They May Not Be What They Seem
By Andrea Whitfill, AlterNet
Posted on March 17, 2009, Printed on March 17, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/131910/http://www.alternet.org/story/131910/
My first introduction
THE BEST POLICY
The Real AIG Scandal
It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid
back in full.
By Eliot Spitzer
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at 10:41 AM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2213942/http://www.slate.com/id/2213942/
Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's
News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government
18 Mar 2009
http://www.legitgov.org/http://www.legitgov.org/
All items are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_newshttp://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Obusha quietly gave Blackwater (Xe) $70M in
February:
Extreme Motherhood
Understanding Quiverfull, the antifeminist,
conservative Christian movement that motivates
popular reality-TV families like the Duggars.
Kathryn Joyce
Newsweek Web Exclusive
http://www.newsweek.com/id/189763
If there is a wholesome counterpoint to the
gossip-rich travails
Crispin
Miller
mailto:mark.mil...@nyu.edumark.mil...@nyu.edu
wrote:
Extreme Motherhood
Understanding Quiverfull, the antifeminist,
conservative Christian movement that motivates
popular reality-TV families like the Duggars.
Kathryn Joyce
Newsweek Web Exclusive
http://www.newsweek.com/id
A natural catastrophe for the US--covered by French media.
MCM
Despair as California's
Central Valley dries up
by Tangi Quemener - Wed Mar 18, 5:06 am ET
AFP/Getty Images/File - A farm canal is seen at
sunrise near El Centro, California, March 12. The
Central Valley, a vast expanse Š
DIEBOLD ADMITS ALL SYSTEMS FAIL TO NOTE BALLOT DELETIONS ons of Their
Software Fail to Record Ballot Deletions
Startling admission made during public hearing in CA to consider
decertification of the company's voting and tabulation software...
Guest Blogged by Mitch Trachtenberg, with Brad
From Pam Miles:
Former Special Assistant to Bush, Felipe Sixto
stole almost 600k and received a 30-month
prison sentence.
In the Don Siegelman Case, neither Siegelman nor
his co-defendant was convicted of any
personal enrichment, yet Siegelman was sentenced
to 7 years. Likewise, in the Paul
From John Stauber:
Obama and HCAN Marginalize Single Payer Health Care Reform
(For internal links in this article click http://www.prwatch.org/node/8272
Most western democracies guarantee their citizens a right to medical
services through their own version of government managed single payer
Still Broken
The New York Times
March 18, 2009
Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/opinion/18wed1.html
In last year's presidential election, as many as three million
registered voters were not allowed to cast ballots and millions more
chose not to because of extremely long lines and
The following pieces were compiled by Ana Renee Jones:
Attorney general signals shift in marijuana policy
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
(03-18) 18:16 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=116sid=1627523
Attorney General Eric Holder signaled a change on medical
A general strike in France:
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/03/18/Walkers_World_Frances_general_strike/UPI-71361237385195/
A successful general strike in Martinique:
http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/bullet195.html
And a great grass-roots victory in the Czech Republic:
For
that if the Obama people know it won't pass
Congress, and it's
distracting from what they can do, then they want to focus on what
they can get done.
Laws and sausages, as they say.
Tracey
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Mark Crispin Miller
mailto:mark.mil...@nyu.edumark.mil...@nyu.edu wrote
Hey, we need Consortiumnews.com to keep on going. So please help
Robert Parry, if you can.
MCM
From Bob:
Thursday is the last day to qualify for a matching grant offered by a
donor to support the independent reporting at Consortiumnews.com.
So, please make a donation now so our journalistic
From Juan Cole's blog:
Cheney's Mission Accomplished!
http://www.juancole.com/2009/03/cheneys-mission-accomplished.html
Dick Cheney: I guess my general sense of where we are with respect
to Iraq and at the end of now, what, nearly six years, is that we've
accomplished nearly everything we
This is also covered extensively in today's New York Times.
MCM
Israel troops admit
Gaza abuses
Israel frequently claims to possess the most moral army in the world
An Israeli military college has printed damning
soldiers' accounts of the killing of civilians
and vandalism during recent
Below is a petition in support of Joel Kovel, whom Bard fired for his
critiques of Israel
and Zionism. As you may recall, I sent out the news of Kovel's firing
when it happened;
and then I sent out the response that Leon Botstein, Bard's
president, was sending those
who had contacted him
From Paul Lehto:
Coleman Lawyer Predicts Franken Win in Trial Court; Pushes
Constitutional Argument to Be Raised in State Supreme Court (and/or
beyond, of course--PL)
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/03/is_norm_coleman.php
A snippet:
Q. Well, when you say quick
It is remarkable to see the soldiers of the IDF themselves deploring
what their own
commanders urged and/or approved against civilians in Israel's attack
on Gaza. (These
guys are truly brave, recalling those of our troops--like Ron Ridenhour--who
have spoken out against such massacres in lands
Mark,
Could you maybe give this a shout-out? I'll be on
http://www.firedoglake.com, talking
about Geithner and Summers in light of Krugman's excellent,
devastating blog this a.m.
Thanks.
John
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I got to this, and it says
Compiled by magginkat:
Was Eliot Spitzer Taken Out Because He Was Going
to Bust AIG?
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/132547/was_eliot_spitzer_taken_out_because_he_was_going_to_bust_aig/
alternet.org Eliot Spitzer is back and he's
talking. The thought of this, no doubt, brings a
small
Another shocking case of persecution by Karl Rove's hitmen at the DoJ.
MCM
Free Paul Minor
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle
Posted March 19, 2009 | 03:04 AM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-brendan-demelle/free-paul-minor_b_176696.html
Paul Minor did his
U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
Wed Mar 18, 2009
By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef5OmZkzjDI
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H2CY20090318?sp=truehttp://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H2CY20090318?sp=true
The brave James Hansen, who blew the whistle on Bush/Cheney's efforts
to black out
the facts re: global warming, has told the Guardian that the
democratic process--
i.e., the electoral process--hasn't helped slow climate change. He's
therefore calling
for protest and other forms of direct
Specifically, the most expensive taxpayer-supported fiasco in history.
MCM
Obama's Wall Street bailout failure
Before it can clean up Wall Street or do much of anything else, the
administration has to clean up the way it's been trying to clean up
Wall Street.
By Robert Reich
Mar. 20,
Interview with Eugene Jarecki, about his new book The American Way of War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXwgrubzMqchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXwgrubzMqc
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It sure is horrifying--to use Paul Krugman's word--that Obama will not seize
those foundering banks, but is instead proposing to blow billions of
our money on their
toxic assets, far in excess of the latters' worth.
It's horrifying, but it shouldn't be surprising, considering Wall
Street's long
.
A month ago... when Geithner crossed swords with
Axelrod, winning the battle and losing the war.
On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Mark Crispin Miller wrote:
It sure is horrifying--to use Paul Krugman's word--that Obama will not seize
those foundering banks, but is instead proposing
to blow
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttnerRobert Kuttner
Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect
Posted March 22, 2009 | 09:31 PM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/geithners-last-stand_b_177850.htmlGeithner's
Last Stand
The political and pundit classes have
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
Are anyone's days entirely free of offenses that can get you arrested?
By Robert Neuwirth
http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=3718
I spent 24 hours in the slammer the other day. My crime? Well, the
police couldn't tell
me
.
MCM
I.
First Tuesdays Series: Jürgen Todenhöfer
Author of Why Do You Kill? (The Disinformation Company)
Tuesday, April 7 2009, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
This monthly series hosted by author and activist
Mark Crispin Miller features authors whose books
tackle political and public issues from a stance
Tempo of Audits Drops for Wealthy
By
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BROWNING
March 23, 2009
Here's a harrowing item I sent out today, but that may well have been
blocked by
your spam detector, because of certain phrases in it:
http://tinyurl.com/dbgzyrhttp://tinyurl.com/dbgzyr
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/22/us-afghan-plan-to-bypass-karzaihttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/22/us-afghan-plan-to-bypass-karzai
US will appoint Afghan 'prime minister' to bypass Hamid Karzai
White
ELECTIONS BILL A THREAT TO TRANSPARENT VOTING
Daytona Beach News-Journal Community Voices Column
By Susan Pynchon and Kitty Garber
March 24, 2009
BE workable. And that's bullshit.
They can not possibly be workable in a real democracy.
Paul Lehto, Juris Doctor
On 3/25/09, Mark Crispin Miller mark.mil...@nyu.edu wrote:
This is a bombshell--even though the argument is, in one important
sense, ridiculous.
According to this CIA cybersecurity
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2009/03/political-prosecutions-of-karl-rove.htmlThe
Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove: An Update
We posted yesterday about the Project Save Justice video,
And so George Washington is still the only US president to yield authority.
MCM
Handling Of 'State Secrets' At Issue
Like Predecessor, New Justice Dept. Claiming Privilege
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 25, 2009; A01
March 25
EXCLUSIVE: Why House Committee wanted Rove behind closed doors
Larisa Alexandrovna -- Wednesday March 25, 2009
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/House_Committee_wanted_Rove_behind_closed_0324.htmlhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/House_Committee_wanted_Rove_behind_closed_0324.html
The
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52N67F20090324U.S.
bill seeks to rescue faltering newspapers
Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:05pm EDT
By Thomas Ferraro
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52N67F20090324
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With many U.S. newspapers struggling to
survive, a
The following comes from Cliff Arnebeck, the lead attorney in the
King Lincoln suit
(a/k/a the Connell case).
Cliff wants it to be wholly clear that this correction is not meant
to question or impugn
Michael Collins's motives. He (Cliff) believes that what the latter
wrote was based on
Hart InterCivic is a big e-voting company: the third-largest in the
country, after Diebold/Premier
and ESS.
And, like those two, Hart InterCivic is a partisan concern. As this
piece from the Austin Chronicle makes clear, the company sits in the
pocket (or the holster) of the Texas GOP.
Now,
Although many of its members are opposed, PDA is planning to endorse
Rush Holt's new bill
(which I for one regard as unacceptable).
Rather than go on and on myself, I am sending you this email from
Paul Lehto, and a link
to various writings pro and con (including his, which is against the
From John Ennis:
I sat down to allow an ardent conservative the chance to make his
case about how the media is completely driven by a liberal bias, and
how Sarah Palin was robbed in the last election. I did
this with an open mind, hoping to find common ground on media failures.
I share this
The other day, I posted Michael Collins's piece opposing Jennifer
Brunner's Senate bid,
on the grounds that she's done nothing to combat the GOP's election
fraud throughout
Ohio in 2004.
Cliff Arnebeck, the lead attorney in the King Lincoln suit, then sent
an email protesting
Michael's piece,
Also see coverage by AP:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gw5KhIf6dRlptgQeY7ytP_39edTQD9779UM00
and by the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/guantanamo-bay-torture-inquiry
and by the Washington Monthly:
From John Stauber:
Here are some recent brief blog postings of mine. It is fascinating
to watch the Obama/Dem co-option of the peace movement, a process
that has been going on now for years through MoveOn and its assorted
liberal allies.
Democratic liberals have defined themselves as the
March 29, 2009
2009 Holt Bill. E-Voting: Making a bad system worse
By Nancy Tobi
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2009-Holt-Bill-E-Voting--by-Nancy-Tobi-090329-832.htmlhttp://www.opednews.com/articles/2009-Holt-Bill-E-Voting--by-Nancy-Tobi-090329-832.html
Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ) is
Promoted to Headline (H2) on 3/28/09:
Will Obama's Food Safety Team Finally Regulate the Biggest Food
Safety Hazard of Our Time
by Jeffrey M. Smith
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Will-Obama-s-Food-Safety-T-by-Jeffrey-M-Smith-090328-708.html
If President Obama's new Food Safety Working Group
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From Gianni Ortiz:
NAIS, as it is written, wouldn't improve this situation.
A couple of related links below.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/27/63221/5325Pork superbug documented
As evidence mounts of deadly bacteria from CAFO pigs, will the FDA
and the USDA act?
Posted by
From Gianni Ortiz:
Hi Gianni,
Just a reminder this is the very last day that
you can sign up to lobby your Senators and
Representatives while they're home on recess.
We've trained someone in your community to lead
this group and they'll need strong advocates to
back them up.
Help us get to
This is but of the part of the Republicans' not-so-stealthy drive in
preparation for the
next election. There are also the voter ID laws winning passage in
state after state.
Through such measures they will do much better than expected (and, in
fact, much
better than they really did).
The
From Mike Hoyt:
Dear reader,
The idea of tax subsidies to aid journalism is beginning to bubble
up, but it's controversial. Do the potential positives outweigh the
potential negatives? Join our conversation in this week's CJR News
Meeting.
Meanwhile, as chairman of the Senate Finance
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_alladdress=102x3809193Seymour
Hersh: Cheney 'Left A Stay Behind' In Obama's Government, Can 'Still
Control Policy Up To
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/31/hersh-cheney-behind/
In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday, host
Hersh elaborates.
MCM
Seymour Hersh: Secret U.S. Forces Carried Out
Assassinations in 'a Lot of' Countries, Including
in
Latin America
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Posted on March 31, 2009, Printed on April 1, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/134347/
Amy Goodman: Pulitzer Prize-winning
High Court to Weigh Relevance Of Voting Law in Obama Era
By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 1, 2009; A01
On April Fool's Day, NPR's Nine Totenberg
reported that AG Holder will drop all charges
against the felonious Sen. Ted Stevens.
Too bad this wasn't just a bit of April Fool's
hilarity on Holder's part; because, while letting
Stevens skate, Obama's AG hasn't moved a muscle
(publicly) about the
Judicial Nominees, the ABA and the Liberal Bias
Geoffrey R. Stone
The Huffington Post
APRIL 3, 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/judicial-nominees-the-aba_b_182621.html
In a piece in Tuesday's New York Times (March 31, 2009), Adam Liptak
addressed the alleged liberal bias of
My student, Shelley Rogers, has very nearly finished her terrific documentary,
What's Organic About Organic?--a work that everyone who cares about
the food supply should see, and spread the word.
Here she's reaching out for funds. (She doesn't need that much.)
So please do try to help, even if
We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Friday 27 March 2009
by: Heather K. Gerken | Visit article original @ The American Prospect
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We cannot achieve meaningful electoral reform
until we can quantify exactly what is wrong
Administration Seeks an Out On Bailout Rules
for Firms
Officials Worry Constraints Set by Congress Deter Participation
By
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/amit+r.+paley+and+david+cho/Amit
R. Paley and David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 4, 2009; Page A01
The
(UPDATED) Please be smarter than the Freepers.
by Geekesque
Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 08:23:24 AM PDT
[See end of diary for clarification of why Bank Holding Company status matters]
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/4/716470/-Please-be-smarter-than-the-Freepers.
PLEASE BE SMARTER THAN THE
Joseph Stiglitz:
It's going to be bad, very bad
In an interview, the Nobel Prize-winner and
former chief economist at the World Bank talks
about the Great Depression, Obama's stimulus
package and today's financial crisis.
By Spiegel staff
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Der
So why is it that America needs cable companies? No doubt for the
same good reason
that we need the oligopoly of healthcare companies, and other costly,
gouging, giant firms.
MCM
April 3, 2009, 5:01 PM
World's Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home
By
Author of Why Do You Kill? (The Disinformation Company)
Tuesday, April 7 2009, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
This monthly series hosted by author and activist
Mark Crispin Miller features authors whose books
tackle political and public issues from a stance
outside the mainstream. In his new book, author
because they use e-voting machines. And this two-stage
randomisation plan will not
make that machinery any more secure.
If any of you know who makes and maintains the machines in India,
please let me know.
MCM
EC to undertake EVM randomisation for the first time
Press Trust of India / New
See how this bit of propaganda tries to kill all thought of Palin's
actual toxic stance on the environment, by making it appear as if she
has herself sprung up out of Alaska's green and
pleasant land: a well-groomed, forward-looking, giant (Christian) wood nymph.
It's pretty good, as such
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