Um... surfdom? Serfs were the "slaves" of the days of yore... And you're right... we are on the road to serfdom for sure! Corporate serfdom... time for us little guys to get off our tushes and kick some rich wasp butt.

It's here already:
Lords - top one percent of Americans (multi millionaires)
Vassals - 15 or so percent who own properties to rent out for income.
Serfs eighty-four percent group, who work for either the vassal class or in direct servitude to the Lords.

Is anyone looking into the satellite shooting? I see that the BBC is reporting that Russia and China were pretty upset at an obvious attempt to militarize space and yet CNN and the AP are not talking about it at all.

I don't recall there being a lot of toxic concern when the space shuttle disintegrated on re-entry.

SparkieVT @ 6:

Is anyone looking into the satellite shooting? I see that the BBC is reporting that Russia and China were pretty upset at an obvious attempt to militarize space and yet CNN and the AP are not talking about it at all.

I don't recall there being a lot of toxic concern when the space shuttle disintegrated on re-entry.

Nothing to look into.It was all a bullshit lie to cover a test of the ABM/antisatellite systems. There was no threat from the hydrazine.

CBS 60 Minutes to run Siegelman story on Sunday.

On Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes will air its long-awaited report on Alabama’s incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, reportedly one of its “best pieces of domestic exposé journalism.”

Justice Department prosecutors opposed the Siegelman investigation, in which Bush administration political operatives — including Karl Rove — allegedly interfered.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/21/cbs-60-minutes-to-run-siegelman-stor...

Samson- @ 11:

Bangkok Bob @ 4:

It's here already:
Lords - top one percent of Americans (multi millionaires)
Vassals - 15 or so percent who own properties to rent out for income.
Serfs eighty-four percent group, who work for either the vassal class or in direct servitude to the Lords.

ah, yup

and it is the vassals that are the pantleg-pitbulls in the defense of the system. this is a wallersteinian type of relationship, in that the vassals (as you aptly call them) are the semi-periphery, given just enough tasty table scraps to defend the inherently unequal and dishnoest system.

not too sure what a "dishnoest system" is....

but i do know that we are IN a dishonest system

oy, sausage fingahs

Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade With Turkey

According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, there is a vast black market for nukes, and certain U.S. officials have been supplying sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and Israeli interests through its conduits. It’s a scathing allegation which was first published by the London Times two weeks ago, and Edmonds’ charge seems to be on the verge of vindication.

In likely reaction to the London Times report, the Bush Administration quietly announced on January 22 that the president would like Congress to approve the sale of nuclear secrets to Turkey. As with most stories of this magnitude, the U.S. media has put on blinders, opting to not report either Edmonds’ story or Bush’s recent announcement.
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It appears the White House has been spooked by Edmonds and hopes to absolve the U.S. officials allegedly involved in the illegal sale of nuclear technology to private Turkish “entities”. One of those officials is likely Marc Grossman, the former ambassador to Turkey during the Clinton Administration who also served in the State Department from 2001-2005. Grossman has been named by Edmonds who claims he was directly involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that she says has allowed the intelligence agencies of Pakistan, Israel and Turkey to operate in the U.S. with impunity. Totally complicit in the nuke trade, the U.S. government, according to Edmonds, has known of the vast criminal activities of these foreign nations’ presence in the States, which has included all sorts of illegal activities like drug trafficking, espionage and money laundering.

Edmonds says “several arms of the government were shielding what was going on” which included an entire national security apparatus associated with the neoconservaties who have profited by representing Turkish interests in Washington.
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Thanks for the link! The KSM "interrogation" reads like that old Python sketch, "Mary, Queen of Scots."

It was a bit crazy for the NYT to endorse both a Republican and a Democrat to begin with, but knowing this, man. I suppose they knew the rest of the GOP candidates were even worse.