Mike's Blog Round Up
Dick Cheney doesn't recall what Alberto Gonzales doesn't recall about the Ashcroft hospital visit in 2004. Arlen Specter isn't saying yet whether Gonzales lied about NSA domestic surveillance last week. And the NSA's data miners aren't saying what they did with your calls and emails yesterday.
California Republicans are pushing a ballot measure to divvy up the state's electoral votes by Congressional district in 2008. That could put the equivalent of Ohio back in play for the GOP, just in case one Ohio debacle wasn't enough.
First, Rudy Giuliani lied about his record on taxes. Then, Rudy lied again about Democrats' tax plans. And now he's relying on the same Bush tax cut for his recycled health care plan.
Democrats win House passage of ethics reform by 411-8. English speaker and ethically-challenged Alaska Senator Ted Stevens vows to block it.
Rupert Murdoch convinces the Wall Street Journal's Bancroft family that resistance is futile. If only it weren't so.
A Republican unburdens his soul. Meanwhile, President Bush looks into Gordon Brown's soul and concludes that he's not a "dour Scotsman."
Guest blogging the Round Up this week is Jon Perr from Perrspectives. Send your links, recommendations, comments and angst to mbr AT perrs.ectives DOT com.
Democrats win House passage of ethics reform by 411-8
--> Thank you. Now on to the Senate.
In other news..
In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing
http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alternet.org...
--> The root of our problem since 2000.
The other reason for the U.S. invasion of Iraq: rebuilding the old Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=332835&contrassID=...
--> Israel will become part of the oil infrastructure in the Middle East.
Rupert Murdoch expands neocon media empire with purchase of Wall Street Journal.
http://www.thebusinessonline.com/68546/rupert-murdochs-grand-plan-for-th...
--> Murdoch is now one of the greatest threats to democracy and human rights in the world today.
As propaganda machine in Washington touts "success" of the Iraq "surge," Iraqi Sunnis quit Maliki government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6820093,00.html
--> Brookings' Saban Center, an Israeli front operation, is pushing phony report that surge is successful.
U.S. seeks extradition of former Comverse CEO Jacob "Kobi" Alexander from Namibia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSL2552900020070625
--> The Israeli-born Alexander's company Comverse was cited in Justice Department memos as being possibly being involved in wiretapping of Justice Department, including FBI, surveillance systems.
Censured general
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Censured_general_evades_subpoena_to_appear...
evades subpoena to appear before Tillman hearing
Wal-Mart
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2007/08/appearing-now-in-neighb...
--> makes a killing putting people out of work, depressing local economies, and lowering wages but it is globalization --an unholy alliance with GOP "trickle down" policies --that spawned Wal-Mart and sounded a death knell for the futures of American workers. Most recently, Wal-Mart's Chinese imports have displaced nearly 200,000 US jobs
Third Bear Stearns hedge fund on brink of collapse.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/31/news/companies/bear_stearns/index.htm?po...
--> The hedge fund Ponzi schemes are beginning to show their real purpose: fraud on a massive scale.
Corporations reading all of our emails because the intell community contracted them to? Sure, why not? Let's sink the country further into the toilet.
Assholes, every one of them.
This is, of course, the biggest story of the day. Rupert Murdoch's successful takeover of The Wall Street Journal. Here are different news outlets covering this story:
Bloomberg
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=2a255b07-1a8c-4661-...
CNBC
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=2602f8e4-3c75-42d7-...
CNN
http://beta.redlasso.com/Community/ClipPlayer.aspx?i=1b530e09-8ef1-44a0-...
www.policestateplanning.com
Go there and read "The Police State Road Map" and weep.
Cheney. Since I have to be in the whimpy VP slot, I'm going to wreck havoc with the Constotution and pretend I'm all-powerful.
What a turd.
Arlen, Arlen. The paper tiger roars again. Or maybe that was a yawn.
Giuliani. If Hillary fucks it up like Kerry and Gore and loses to that dipshit, I'm leaving the party.
Murdoch. How low can our media go? Obviously, we haven't yet scraped the bottom of the barrel. Stay tuned.
Ted Stevens vows to block ethics reform?
Nothing to see here folks.....move along.......move along......
Do you mean WREAK havoc on the CONSTITUTION? Man, there are a bunch of idiots in this country.
[A lot of pedants on the internets as well, whose only contribution to the conversation seems to be spelling and grammar lessons. Wouldn't you agree, Pedro? Sitemonitor]
They Want Obedient Workers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccYoVnBc_fk
Rupert Morlock:
"Now I have the Eloi completely under my control bwaaaahahaha"
Voice of Democracy to Newt Gingrich:
"Thanks for nothing...pig shit"
There's a good reason why only Comey remembers what happened in Ashcroft's hospital room. Cheney, Ashcroft and Gone-Zo were all accidentally sedated.
L.A. Confidential -
That's exactly the reason the Elite brought the Prussian education to our land back in the mid-1800s. To intentionally dumb-down the masses so the Ruling Elite can keep the power and money they have and acquire even more.
This bares repeating.
You really have to sit back and wonder in amazement
at the overwhelming volume of corruption.
I find it captivating, almost mesmerizing.
kind of like corn in your poop.
NC--a pretty solid R state-- was about to get proportional electoral voting, but Howard Dean stopped it in its tracks.
Clinton should have said "I don't recall" everytime he was asked about Lewinsky. Had he done that he would never have been impeached. You can't prove or disprove someone's recollection. The criminal Bush regime has figured this one out and boy have the run up the odometer on this one!
'w''s dour scotsman is in kahootz with them as well. Everyone is all excited about the new 'hybrid' 26,000 strong UN force going into Darfur....I fear this is just another 'contract gone awry.
Late in the night, the UN Security Council along with the UK, co-sponsored a resolution to create a 'hybrid' UN force. Comprised of roughly 20,000 'soldiers' and 6 ,ooo 'civilian police'. Are these police Blackwater USA?
Blackwater USA's previous acknowledgment of wanting to pursue doing 'business' with the UN in the Sudan leads to an eerie suspicion that they are part of this new 'hybrid' force. Although billed by the UN and British officials, the new hybrid force will have a 'predominantly African character'. What does that mean? Are they going to hire the rebels for cheap...Peruvians, Chileans, Fijians...Malyasians...Who? Triple Canopy Inc. has done the same in Iraq and worse.....they've had the contract to guard the Green Zone since 2005, not the U.S. or British military. Here is my article http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/08/has-blackwater-usa-entered-...
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lucid fiction @ 12:
Uh.....Oh never mind.
If the phrase "I do not recall" did not exist, would reich-wingers be able to exist?
lucid fiction @ 12:
Thanks for getting my day off to a vexing AND humorous start! :-)
That corn in your poop could have been used to fuel cars.
Dr. Matt @ 17:
If Cheney shot a helpless child in the woods, and no one else was around to hear it, would the shotgun make a sound?
What the hell does Bush know about Scotland or the Scottish people? He's the kind a guy who would wear the kilt backwards and fancy himself as William Wallace. (note: William Wallace never wore a kilt). At least the Scots have a sense of humor (and oil), he's such a sassonach.
Murdock: A snake unhinging it's jaws, eyes in a peristaltic trance as it heaves the final few remaining feet of the rabbit of our freedoms, the last free breaths it will take as all goes dark.
Bancrofts: Cheap traitors, common whores.
Orwell's Illegitimate Son @ 11:
They got em where they want em now.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/en/102601potter/im:/070730/ids_ph...
Re, the California Republican move to extract electoral college votes out of California: I thought the only way to alter the curent electoral college system was by amending the US Constitution.
Paul @ 25:
Nope. Each state has its own system. In fact, some states even allow the reps sending in the votes to vote for whoever the fuck they want, regardless of what the state's election results were... this actually happened in 1950's. A couple of states split their votes into districts, but they're states with very few votes anyway (I think Maine is one such state).
Really, there needs to be one system under Federal law. After all, we are talking about Federal elections here. Personally, I favor having every state split their votes by districts because it would be a closer representation of the popular vote... for example, if the 2000 election were held this way, Gore would've won. Also, it would make it harder to win an entire state's worth of votes by rigging one or two districts (ie: FL in 2000, OH in 2004).
I wonder what Brown's nickname will be? Let's see..."Brownie" is already taken...
Will we see something as creative as Pooty-Poot? Turd-blossom? Ellis? (For Charles Schumer. Get it? *jabs elbow in ribs* Har-har) How about Altoid Boy or High Prophet? The world awaits.
Orwell's Illegitimate Son @ 4:
Ah. A global warming denial site. No thanks. Your credibility is nil.
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Somebody stop them!!!!! ARRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!
The NSA is becoming so powerful it's almost a parody of itself in the movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/
Mike @ 30:
Sorry here is a better link right to the plot details.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/plotsummary
Where is a giant asteroid when we need one?
Mike @ 30:
When I worked in military intelligence, we laughed our asses off at that movie. The technology is way over the top: it not only breaks current technological limitations, but physics as well. Don't get too dazzled by Hollywood bullshit.
Blue Buddha @ 33:
Well of course :), I guess what I'm saying is when you have information it tends to get used. They had the tech in the movie and they used it without much constraint, in real life they will use the tech they have and we can only hope they are constrained by the rule of law. Data mining and monitoring cell phones without warrants is troublesome because of the vast net they are casting. In the world of data, people don't like to throw the peripheral data away, they like to save it. It may be useless now, but in the furure who knows what it could or would be used for. If you wanted the dirt on a prominent congressman and you've got all this data just lying about who's to say some political hack doesn't go trolling through the data and see what they get? It's like google earth they take all these satellite pictures and it's amazing what's contained in them. It takes huge pictures of the earth containing everything on the surface and it is only limited by the resolution of the camera, then we can go back and say, hey there's my house on the day this picture was taken. Well the NSA doesn't just take snapshots, it basically continuously sucks up vast amounts of information, now imagine that google earth was real time, ultra high resolution, and stored for playback later and it could see not only your house but what's going on inside.
Thanks for the mention, Jon!
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