John Cusack Discusses "War Inc." On "Morning Joe," Knocks
Bill O'Reilly (Video)
John Cusack appeared on "Morning Joe" from London this morning to discuss his new film, "War Inc.," his new political ad (where he compares John McCain to George Bush), and the his views on England's enthusiasm over Barack Obama's candidacy.
Cusack also responded to Bill O'Reilly's claim that he was "peddling propaganda" by saying, "If the New York Times op-ed piece is running in their lead editorial that outsourcing interrogation should be banned, and they're coming after the private mercenaries, I don't think we should get any ethics lessons from Mr. O'Reilly."
CNN's Jack Cafferty: Why won't Congress consider impeachment? (Video)
CNN's Jack Cafferty wants to know why Congress will likely refuse to consider 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush presented this week by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Among the responses Cafferty received from the public were:
"Because Bush is a lame duck anyway. The damage is done, spending time discussing things in the past takes away time spent on the future."
"As long as Bush is in office, the Democrats have the presidential election locked up. It's kind of sad really. But it's the political reality.".............
Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas
You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.
The Hidden Story of the Americans that Finished the Vietnam War
Our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinous Conditions exist among American forces in Vietnam that have only been exceeded in this century by...the collapse of the Tsarist armies in 1916 and 1917. Armed Forces Journal, June 1971
The most neglected aspect of the Vietnam War is the soldiers' revolt--the mass upheaval from below that unraveled the American army. It is a great reality check in an era when the U.S. touts itself as an invincible nation. For this reason, the soldiers' revolt has been written out of official history.
The army revolt pitted enlisted soldiers against officers who viewed them as expendable. Liberal academics have reduced the radicalism of the 1960s to middle-class concerns and activities, while ignoring military rebellion. But the militancy of the 1960s began with the Black liberation struggle, and it reached its climax with the unity of White and Black soldiers.
Green City to Rise in the Desert
A new kind of oasis is forming in the middle of the desert. In one of the harshest environments imaginable, where temperatures regularly rise to 50C and sandstorms can limit visibility to a few metres, construction has begun on what will be the greenest city on Earth.
Abu Dhabi is developing the world's first solar-powered, car-free subdivision. Called Masdar City, the initiative is harnessing the region's enormous wealth, and zeal for glitzy construction, to build an eco-friendly community of 50,000 in the heart of the Persian Gulf.
Japan's Spectacular Floating Airports
world’s population increases at a more-than-healthy rate and the cost of travel decreases, the number of people looking to travel by air is understandably on the rise. With this growing demand comes the need for more airports as existing ones struggle to cope with the millions of passengers passing through on a daily basis. So what happens when there’s no suitable land to build a new major airport or locals protest the new construction without hesitation due to noise pollution or other environmental implications?
If you travel to Japan in the near future you may witness a solution to these problems, in the form of floating airports. At present there are four such constructions in Japan (there are also examples in Hong Kong and Macau), each built on its own artificial island offshore and each backed by the community it serves.
Elephants caught in Sri Lanka war
"Gunshot wound, this is a gunshot wound, and this one, there are so many gunshot wounds," said Sri Lankan government vet, Doctor Chandana Jayasinghe. He was standing next to the huge, slumbering bull elephant in a clearing in the jungle, hypodermic syringe in hand. "It is normal, they all have gunshot wounds."
The men of the Wildlife Conservation Department had ventured into the tangled scrub to find the wounded elephant.
'Dead' patient comes around as organs are about to be removed
France may have to reconsider its medical definition of death after a heart-attack victim came alive in the operating theatre as doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant.
The patient, whose identity has not been revealed, recovered after a long period in intensive care and is now able to walk and talk.
Ron Paul to end campaign outside Texas convention
Republican presidentical candidate Ron Paul will end his campaign Thursday night and announce a new effort to help elect libertarian-leaning Republican to public offices around the country. Campaign spokesman Jessee Benton said the announcement, expected during a speech outside the Texas Republican convention, was "not a disappointment at all. I think this is really exciting."
Ron Paul's Compelling Manifesto
n his historic campaign for president, Ron Paul again and again held up the Constitution as a benchmark to judge the policies of the American government. For this, some libertarians criticized him. Was Paul not guilty of "constitution worship"? What has a document that began as an effort to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more effective and powerful central government to do with libertarianism? Indeed, some of his most severe critics claimed, Ron Paul did not qualify as a libertarian at all.
In The Revolution: A Manifesto, Ron Paul responds magnificently to this false and irresponsible charge.
Scientology founder: "Christ was an alien mind control implant." Secret cult recording leaked
A "classified" Scientology cult recording of founder L. Ron Hubbard from Oct 3, 1968 has been leaked to Wikileaks. Contrary to public Scientology statements about the compatibility of Scientology and Christianity, the recording shows that Scientologists believe that, "There was no Christ" and that the stories of Christ are alien mind implants.
GRIDLOCKED CITIES, EMPTY SHELVES AND BLOODSHED AS FURY AT SOARING COSTS SPREADS AROUND THE WORLD
Worldwide protests over the rising price of fuel escalated today, with the Philippines presidential palace besieged by lorries, fishermen burning their boats in Thailand, and Spanish petrol stations running dry as hauliers blockade major roads. Violence has already claimed lives of lorry drivers on either side of the dispute, while one haulier was nearly burned to death in his cab by strikers. Hundreds of lorries and minibuses blocked roads in Manila leading to Malacanang Palace today to demand the lifting of a 12 per cent sales tax on fuel. Petrol prices there have risen about 24 per cent this year.
Factories close, supermarkets empty and jets run out of fuel as truckers' strike bites
Strike action by thousands of Spanish and Portuguese truckers produced ominous knock-on effects on food supplies, aviation and industry yesterday, as Lisbon airport ran out of fuel, car factories shut down and petrol stations and supermarkets reported shortages.
In a worrying sign for other European countries that face rising discontent at the spiralling cost of diesel, a third day of strikes generated widespread mayhem and the mood turned ugly after the first casualties of the standoff: two strikers died in clashes on picket lines.
How Iran Has Bush Over a Barrel
If wasn't clear before it should be now: the Bush Administration can't afford to attack Iran. With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel. As much as the Administration is tempted, it is not about to test Iran's promise to "explode" the Middle East if it is attacked.
The Iranians haven't been shy about making clear what's at stake. If the U.S. or Israel so much as drops a bomb on one of its reactors or its military training camps, Iran will shut down Gulf oil exports by launching a barrage of Chinese Silkworm missiles on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Arab oil facilities. In the worst case scenario, seventeen million barrels of oil would come off world markets.
Will the Iraqi Government Destroy Half of McCain's Campaign?
John McCain and George W. Bush argue that maintaining high levels of U.S. troops in Iraq is essential for the security of Iraq, the region, the world, and, of course, the Untied States. But that does not seem to be the position of Baghdad.
In recent days, there has been a spate of news reports on the troubled negotiations between the Bush administration and the Iraqi government concerning the under-construction agreement that will govern the presence of U.S. troops and military bases in Iraq. The Washington Post reports on the front page:
Top Iraqi officials are calling for a radical reduction of the U.S. military's role here after the U.N. mandate authorizing its presence expires at the end of this year. Encouraged by recent Iraqi military successes, government officials have said that the United States should agree to confine American troops to military bases unless the Iraqis ask for their assistance, with some saying Iraq might be better off without them......
General Colin Powell tells Canadian crowd he might vote for Obama
Colin Powell, the former Republican secretary of state, says he is not ruling out a vote for Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee for president. While Mr. Powell served in the administrations of two Republican presidents, he suggested yesterday his support for presumed Republican nominee John McCain is not a forgone conclusion.
He noted that although both he and Mr. Obama are black, he would not cast a vote for the Illinois senator on the basis of race. "I will vote for the individual I think that brings the best set of tools to the problems of 21st-century America and the 21st-century world regardless of party, regardless of anything else other than the most qualified candidate,"
Letterman to Scott McClellan: You told me backstage
Cheney was a goon (Video)
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan appeared Wednesday on Late Night with David Letterman to discuss his best-selling book about his White House years, What Happened.
McClellen said he thinks people are “starting to get … the larger message in the book, which is really about changing the way Washington governs.” He added, “I feel very good about what I wrote. … What happened, how things got off course, and what we can learn from that. … I hope it encourages more people to do the same.”
Secret Bilderberg Agenda To Microchip Americans
Sources from inside the 2008 Bilderberg meeting have leaked the details of what elitists were discussing in Chantilly Virginia last week and the talking points were ominous - a plan to microchip Americans under the pretext of fighting terrorist groups which will be identified as blonde haired, blue eyed westerners. Veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker......
Ominously, Tucker's source also told him that Bilderberg were discussing the microchipping of humans on a mass scale, which would be introduced under the pretext of fighting terrorism whereby the "good guys" would be allowed to travel freely from airports so long as their microchip could be scanned and the information stored in a databas.
Colbert Report: The elitist menace among us (Video)
In light of recent accusations of elitism being hurled against Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert decided it was time to examine "the elitist menace among us...... Recently, polls have Senator Obama slightly ahead of John McCain," Colbert began. "However, there's still a major obstacle standing in his way -- he thinks he's so smart. ... There is a word for people like Barack Obama -- and in this election, you're hearing it everywhere."
Colbert then played a montage of John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and various media pundits saying, "elitist ... elite opinion ... elite candidates ... Gucci-wearing, latte-drinking ... latte liberal ... elite, effete snobs."
McCain Admits He Doesn't Know How To Use A Computer (VIDEO)
This video appears to be from at least six weeks ago, but no one has really commented on it. Do we want a commander-in-chief who can't use a computer without assistance?
McCain belatedly scrubs mocking comments from Web store
John McCain has caught some flack over the last few weeks for his lack of technological savvy and penchant for golf memorabilia. Now those two attributes have combined for a new round of McCain mocking in the blogosphere. The expansive store of campaign memorabilia available on the Republican candidate’s Web site includes a $50 “golf pack,” which by the way is still prominently featured on the front page of McCain’s site.
In what now seems a misguided attempt to achieve some Web 2.0 street cred, the McCain campaign had encouraged users to post reviews of the memorabilia on the page. Problem was, apparently nobody thought to moderate the reviews that were posted, resulting in a slew of insults hurled at McCain from online pranksters.
" The McCain campaign has removed comments from there website. That is really smart considering some of the comments posted on the "Golf" portion of the site. Granted Golf Gear is still on the front page. However I managed to save the page with the comments, so below are some of the comments that were removed. Some are very funny, but not funny if you are a McCain supporter" Willy Bova
I've given up the game June 10, 2008
Reviewer: George W. Bush from Washington, DC United States
Senator McCain, as much as you and I agree on just about every policy and decison that I have made, I'm gonna have to leave out on the farm on this one, buddy.
I've given up golf to honor the sacrifice of our boys and girls in the sand trap, and I think it is poor taste for you to dishonor them by selling golf gear
fathers's day McCain golf pack June 10, 2008
Reviewer: john dominguez from new york, NY United States
I'm voting for the black guy.
Wonderful gift for loved ones in sand traps June 10, 2008
Reviewer: Bo Baffett from Arlington, VA United States
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Send one to every service member you know who will be stationed in Iraq over the next hundred or so years.
Not what I had expected June 10, 2008
Reviewer: rouftop from dk, DC United States
For the past five years I've been mired in sand traps. Golfing has been one long quagmire for me. I had hoped this golf pack would finally provide some needed relief, but alas I am still stuck where I was before, except now the hole is deeper. To make matters worse, my personal finances have been completely screwed up on this wasted purchase.
I thought I'd break out of my rut, but I'm still Bush league.
Golfing June 10, 2008
Reviewer: John McCain from Washington DC
I am a US Senator and I believe that this golf set has vastly improved my game. These balls were modeled after my own. They are hard enough to knock out a terrorist.
Exposing Pentagon and CIA Corruption
Information for this article comes from long-time business, finance and political writer and analyst Bob Chapman who publishes the bi-weekly International Forecaster. It's power-packed with key information and a valued source for this writer. He obtained voluminous material directly from its source. People need to know it. Read on.
SueAnn Arrigo is the source. She was a high-level CIA insider. Her title was Special Operations Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). She also established the Remote Viewing Defense protocols for the Pentagon in her capacity as Remote Viewing Advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). It earned her a two-star general rank in the military. She called it a "ploy" so the Pentagon could get more of her time and have her attend monthly Joint Chiefs of Staff meetings. Only high-level types are invited, and she was there from October 2003 to July 2004.
In Debate Over Permanent Bases In Iraq, U.S. Seeks Authorization
For War In Iran
The ongoing negotiations between Iraqi leaders and the Bush administration over the future role of the military occupation “have turned into an increasingly acrimonious public debate.”
The Bush administration’s demand for 58 permanent bases in Iraq — a near doubling of the current 30 bases — are causing Iraqis to warn that the status of forces agreement would be “more abominable than the occupation.” The administration is reportedly holding hostage “some $50bn of Iraq’s money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement.”
Bush slams anti-US 'propaganda'
US President George W Bush has denounced "misinformation and propaganda" which he says are sullying his country's image abroad. As Air Force One touched down, hundreds were gathering in the city centre in protest at the Bush administration and Italy's involvement in Afghanistan. Another group of demonstrators chanted "Bush, go home" outside the American Academy in Rome's Villa Aurelia while the president met young entrepreneurs inside.
Mr Bush urged them to ignore the "misinformation and propaganda" spread about his country and to learn the "first-hand truth about America" by visiting.
Supreme Court Rules Guantanamo Detainees Have Constitutional Right To Challenge Detention
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5-4, with the court's liberal justices in the majority.
Admiral Mullen: 'Stop-loss' to continue
Wednesday the unpopular “stop-loss” policy won’t end anytime soon, and he predicted a small rise in the number of troops forced to serve past their re-enlistment or retirement dates.
Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience of 600 soldiers at Fort Stewart he understands the strain the stop loss practice and multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan have placed on service members. “I would like to see an end to the stop-loss policy, but I don’t see it happening in the near future,” Mullen said during a question-and-answer session with the troops. “I see a slight growth in the next couple of years based on predictions right now.”
WHEN SOLDIERS RETURN
"Stop-Loss” is the story of a decorated young soldier who returns to Texas with members of his Army unit after fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, watches in anguish as his friends go to pieces, and then becomes disgusted and revolts. Stationed in Tikrit at the end of his second tour, Staff Sergeant Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe), perhaps twenty-five years old, lost some of his men in a combat operation that also killed a few civilians who inadvertently got in the way. He’s torn up inside, and by the time he gets home he’s had enough. Yet the Army invokes “stop-loss”—a loophole in his contract which can send him, at the command of the President, back to Iraq.
Comcast Censoring Political Ads Critical of Its Actions
Glenn Greenwald is reporting that Comcast is refusing to run an ad critical of Representative Chris Carney, an ad which features Comcast itself as a major donor to and beneficiary of Carney's policy choices. The network told him that they would "face potential liability for any defamation contained in the spot."
Comcast in this case concocted a factual inaccuracy and is refusing to run the ad. While there's no excuse for this blatant conflict of interest, the company created an artifice of legal barriers that most stations simply do not. Censoring advertisements from network and cable TV is a common practice in our political discourse, one that often goes unremarked. Here are some recent examples....
States Are Lobbied to Intervene in Cable Programming Decisions
Several state legislatures are being asked to consider adopting legislation proposed by the NFL Network that would compel vertically integrated cable operators to submit carriage disputes with independent programmers to commercial arbitration if the parties fail to agree on program carriage deals. The impetus for such legislation was a series of complaints from the NFL Network that vertically integrated cable operators who own competing programming are treating the network unfairly by seeking to place it on a sports programming tier instead of a widely distributed basic, digital programming tier. Subscribers have to pay extra for the sports tier.
Although characterized as "arbitration bills," the legislative proposals go well beyond private dispute resolution. Instead, they effectively require vertically integrated cable operators to carry every sports, news, or entertainment programming service at a price set by an arbitrator on terms and conditions of carriage proposed by the programmer.
Donation helps KVHC bring back programming
Thanks to a donation made by a Mountain Home woman, KVHC plans to bring back its local Saturday morning programming. Station manager Mary Silver said the programs initially were canceled because Time Warner Cable required the station to carry a$1 million broadcast liability insurance policy.
Since that announcement, Silver said the station has received a number of phone calls and e-mails from viewers who were disappointed with the changes.
Bush Impeachment to be Shelved
The Democratic House leadership is preparing to stick the articles of impeachment raised by Rep. Dennis Kucinich Monday night against President Bush on the same shelf that they stuck a similar effort the Ohio Democrat filed last year against Vice President Dick Cheney.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters today that the 35-count indictment of Bush, which took Kucinich more than four hours to read on the House floor, would be forwarded to the House Judiciary Committee. The Democratic leadership has opposed impeachment as an unhelpful distraction; the Judiciary Committee is unlikely to pursue further action.