Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Paranoia Strikes Deep, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on May 15th, 2008
AT&T and Verizon win Homeland Security contracts! (Oddly, nothing for Qwest.)
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on May 15th, 2008
How can you start your day without Avedon?
Possibly the most astonishing fact of the last five years is that there are that many people to whom it is impossible to explain that if someone invades your country, tries to steal your resources, maintains a brutal occupation, and announces publicly that one of their goals is […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on May 13th, 2008
Who turned out to be not quite so dangerous or guilty:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.
Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes, War Stories on Apr 15th, 2008
Meanwhile, back in Iraq:
(CBS/AP) More than 50 people were killed in Iraq Tuesday after a pair of car bombs rattled two cities outside Baghdad, police said.
At least 38 people have been killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb exploded in Baqouba, Iraqi police said.
A second car bomb exploded near a restaurant in Ramadi, killing […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Apr 11th, 2008
How BushCo coerced the New York Times out of running their wiretap story before the election.
From dday:
That issue looks to be in a stalemate for now. What is far more revealing in this story is how utterly shameless this crew, which should have a restraining order barring them from coming within 100 yards of Washington, […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Stories on Apr 9th, 2008
Via Cookie Jill at Skippy’s:
A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country.
The draft strategic framework agreement between the US and Iraqi governments, dated March 7 and marked “secret” and “sensitive”, is intended to […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Impeach This, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Apr 3rd, 2008
Should have been impeached long ago. Thanks, Nancy and Harry!
Posted in Oddball, Terra Terra Terra! on Mar 25th, 2008
Geeze, I think I would have had a heart attack:
DENVER (AP) — A gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane went off as the aircraft was on approach to land in North Carolina over the weekend, the first time a weapon issued under a federal program to arm pilots was fired, authorities […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Mar 11th, 2008
This would be great. Better late than never….
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Mar 10th, 2008
Not that we didn’t suspect this all along, but it’s nice to be right.
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Mar 6th, 2008
Boy, just when you think there’s nothing left for Bush to wreck… another October surprise! Bubble Boy is determined to have his Iran war.
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Mar 6th, 2008
And because Congress has refused to stand up to this president in any meaningful, consistent way, we have situations like this:
The Bush administration yesterday advanced a new argument for why it does not require congressional approval to strike a long-term security agreement with Iraq, stating that Congress had already endorsed such an initiative through its […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra! on Feb 20th, 2008
See, it’s different when a Democrat says we should bomb Pakistan.
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 20th, 2008
I’m sure this Supreme Court is above the political considerations:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to the Bush administration’s domestic spying program.
The justices’ decision Tuesday includes no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU wanted the court to allow a lawsuit by the group […]
Posted in Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 17th, 2008
The CIA is not doing so well at the war on terror.
Posted in Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 16th, 2008
Imagine that:
WASHINGTON — A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 15th, 2008
Our president’s good friend, the man called “Bandar Bush”:
Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.
Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced “another 7/7″ and the loss of “British lives on British […]
Posted in Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 13th, 2008
Big torture roundup over at Digby’s, but this one stuck out in my mind:
It would be very helpful if someone in the press would ask McCain is he will rescind Bush’s signing statements pertaining to the president’s alleged “unitary” constitutional right to break the law and order torture. He said today that he personally believes […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 13th, 2008
The King of Zembla on the FISA vote.
Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Feb 13th, 2008
I tried to write about this yesterday, but it just made me too depressed.
This is the country we live in now, folks.
Posted in Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 12th, 2008
We have so many people exercising so much power with so little supervision or accountability:
A 14-day-old infant traveling here for heart surgery died at Honolulu International Airport on Friday after he, his mother and a nurse were detained by immigration officials in a locked room, a lawyer for the boy’s family said.
The Honolulu medical examiner’s […]
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Media, Terra Terra Terra!, Theocracy on Feb 12th, 2008
Link:
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, ”to prevent a terror-related murder,” […]
Posted in Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 12th, 2008
Link:
The European Commission will propose tomorrow that all foreign travelers entering and leaving Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted. If approved by the European Parliament, the measure would mean that precisely identifying information on tens of millions of citizens will be added in coming years to databases that could be shared by friendly governments […]
Posted in Blind Justice, Politics As Usual, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime on Feb 12th, 2008
No matter what the outcome, will any of us really feel that justice was done? When you have a trial based on torture and withholding evidence from the defense, is that anything remotely like justice - or is it a dog-and-pony show?
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Terra Terra Terra!, The Regime, War Crimes on Feb 7th, 2008
You’ll notice it took a foreign paper to break this story:
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Somewhere
amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base,
separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of
links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for
years, is a place even more closely guarded - a jailhouse
so […]
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