Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World, The Body Electric on Jul 1st, 2008
I think there’s a logical place for psychedelics both in mental health treatment and spiritual practices, but hysteria has shut down open debate on the subject:
NEW YORK — In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. She felt like [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Politics As Usual, Theocracy on Jul 1st, 2008
Any minute now, I’ll figure out what makes us so different from Republicans:
CHICAGO (AP) — Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush’s program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and - in a move sure to cause controversy - support their ability [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, War Stories on Jul 1st, 2008
I do love Wes Clark:
“There are many important issues in this Presidential election, clearly one of the most important issues is national security and keeping the American people safe. In my opinion, protecting the American people is the most important duty of our next President. I have made comments in the past about John McCain’s [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 30th, 2008
More war, more unemployment payments:
WASHINGTON — President Bush today signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan cooperation.
“This bill shows the American people that even in an election year, Republicans and Democrats [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 30th, 2008
Laura Rozen has some interesting thoughts on the Sy Hersh New Yorker piece on the impending Iran attacks.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 30th, 2008
To keep from crying.
Posted in General, Impeach This, Just Plain Crazy, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Jun 30th, 2008
I am so thoroughly disgusted with the Democrats on this:
When the United States invaded Iraq in order to destroy a nonexistent nuclear threat there were national and world protests. Opposition to that war was loudly voiced by American politicians and world leaders, as well as in mass demonstrations across the globe. Despite the protests, the [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Jun 30th, 2008
This isn’t like the communists, not at all. In fact, give me a minute and I’ll tell you all the ways it’s different. Any minute now, it’ll come to me:
Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as “Terrorism Liaison Officers” in Colorado and a handful of other [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual on Jun 30th, 2008
Glenn Greenwald:
As the 2008 election approaches, the Democrats’ position has strengthened further still. In fact, in attempting to determine the best targets for the $325,000 we have raised so far to target Bush-enabling Democrats in Congress, the most difficult obstacle by far has been to find even a single Democratic incumbent who is vulnerable. Not [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Disastrous, Politics As Usual on Jun 30th, 2008
Is it just me, or do we have multiple systems failure right now?
BANGKOK — At least 29 countries have sharply curbed food exports in recent months, to ensure that their own people have enough to eat, at affordable prices.
Rice is prepared for export in Bangkok, above, and processed at a Thai mill. Thailand, Brazil, Canada [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual on Jun 29th, 2008
Very interesting:
Newsweek is set to publish a highly embarrassing report on Sen. John McCain, revealing that the McCains have failed to pay taxes on their beach-front home in La Jolla, California, for the last four years and are currently in default, The Huffington Post has learned.
Under California law, once a residential property is in default [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 29th, 2008
Remember when they told us the grownups were in charge again? Wish some grownups were in charge right now:
Iran has moved ballistic missiles into launch positions, with Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant among the possible targets, defence sources said last week.
The movement of Shahab-3B missiles, which have an estimated range of more than 1,250 miles, followed [...]
Posted in Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Jun 29th, 2008
Mark Klein, the AT&T engineer who blew the whistle on the illegal wiretaps, on the FISA “compromise”:
Congress has made the FISA law a dead letter–such a law is useless if the president can break it with impunity. Thus the Democrats have surreptitiously repudiated the main reform of the post-Watergate era and adopted Nixon’s line: “When [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 29th, 2008
And the Democrats will own this next war as a result:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
[...] [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 29th, 2008
Probably the best - and saddest - description of the horrors happening now in the African country:
JOHANNESBURG — Zimbabwe’s shattered opposition released its roll call of dead last week.
The list, e-mailed to the international media, was clearly prepared in haste. It contains the kind of typographical errors that arise, one imagines, from taking fast dictation. [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual on Jun 28th, 2008
Avedon:
I think I have to disagree with Digby here when she assures me that Obama is lots better than McCain. I mean, yes, I think Obama is lots better than McCain, if only because it’s hard to imagine he’d be worse, but: I’m tired of having to make that assumption. I’m tired of just hearing [...]
Posted in Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Jun 28th, 2008
Wow. Europeans actually have elected officials who look out for their privacy interests!
WASHINGTON — The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information — like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits — about people on the other side [...]
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 27th, 2008
Why didn’t these people take personal responsibility for their finances and learn to read minds? It’s not the broker’s fault if the clients actually believed them!
June 26 (Bloomberg) — Yanping Cui, 57, says she invested in auction-rate bonds last December at the urging of a broker at UBS AG in Long Beach, California. The [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Our Booming Economy, Politics As Usual on Jun 27th, 2008
This will probably be used against Obama. How effectively, I don’t know.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on Jun 27th, 2008
Oh goody, I can’t wait!
(CBS) A new energy report predicts $200-a-barrel oil in as short a time as two years. If that happens, gas would likely go up to $7 a gallon - and that would have an enormous impact on the way Americans live.
Mitchell Igelko in Miami complains rising gas prices are threatening his [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, The Shadow Knows on Jun 27th, 2008
David Addington, Cheney’s legendarily nasty chief of staff, testifies under congressional subpoena. Go read it all for an enlightening look at the man’s character:
But Yoo was not about to win a nastiness contest with Addington. As Wasserman Schultz questioned him, he put his chin in his hand, stroked his beard and cut off the congresswoman [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 26th, 2008
I’m sure this will be prominently discussed in the corporate media:
BAGHDAD: Six members of a family were killed yesterday when a US jet destroyed their house in Iraq. Four children, aged between four and 11, were among the dead in the attack near the northern town of Tikrit, Iraqi police said. However, the US military [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, The Shadow Knows, War Crimes on Jun 26th, 2008
I can’t argue with him. Arthur’s right:
Still, the fact remains that only protest on a massive scale — protest that would be impossible to ignore, despite the efforts of the ruling class and our deeply corrupt media to erase all inconvenient facts and all crucial moral considerations from our national discussion — has even the [...]
Posted in Media, Politics As Usual on Jun 26th, 2008
Too bad:
There may be some Democrats talking about reimposing the Fairness Doctrine, but one very important one does not: presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama.
The Illinois senator’s top aide said the issue continues to be used as a distraction from more pressing media business.
“Sen. Obama does not support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters,” press secretary [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 25th, 2008
And we all know how well it turned out the last time:
(CBS) Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen leaves Tuesday night on an overseas trip that will take him to Israel, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin. The trip has been scheduled for some time but U.S. officials say it comes just as [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Jun 25th, 2008
And maybe one day we’ll stop spreading these “blessings” to everyone else:
Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to habeas corpus and can thus challenge their detention in civilian courts, a U.S. Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the Bush administration’s detention policy.
The [...]
Posted in Blind Justice, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual on Jun 25th, 2008
Glenn on Chris Dodd’s FISA speech. Go read it. (Transcript and video here.)
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Jun 25th, 2008
If Charlie Crist does what he promised to do, this is a very good thing:
In an ambitious maneuver to help restore the Everglades, the state of Florida has struck a tentative deal to buy U.S. Sugar Corp. for $1.75 billion and turn many of its 187,000 acres of farmland into reservoirs.
The plan, described by Gov. [...]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Imaginary Global Warming, Politics As Usual on Jun 25th, 2008
The thing that baffles me is, don’t these people live in the same world we do? Won’t their children and grandchildren have to live in the world they leave behind? Very strange:
The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency [...]
Posted in Our Booming Economy, Politics As Usual, Republicans Are Good With Money on Jun 24th, 2008
It’s about bloody time:
Next to Jim Cade’s auto body shop in West Philadelphia, an Amtrak retaining wall is crumbling into his parking lot.
Eight feet away, Amtrak and SEPTA trains rush past on the busy line that runs through the Main Line toward Paoli and Harrisburg.
“People ride by every day and have no idea this is [...]
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