He writes so damn good you have to check out this excerpt:
It is going to be an ugly week in American politics, to be sure. The scum will rise and the stink will flood the airwaves, and pundits will shake their heads in mock dismay even as they revel in the chance to report on noise instead of news.
It will be bad, but it could be worse.
We could be in Baghdad, where dirty campaigns tend to involve bombs filled with nails and metal fragments, where torture and mutilation are the surest form of persuasion, where democracy means voting to stay inside so as to avoid being shot or abducted, where the failures of this administration and its rubber-stamp Congress are written in the blood flowing down the gutters.
Read the complete essay at: Blood in the Gutters
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
News from Oaxaco, Mexico: STORMING HEAVEN'S GATES
The Sixth Commission of the EZLN has issued a call to shut down Nov. 1st, General Strike Nov. 20th.
Read the complete story which has resulted in a "Red Alert" in Oaxaco, today:
A Call from the Zapatistas: Oaxaca Is Not Alone
Read the complete story which has resulted in a "Red Alert" in Oaxaco, today:
A Call from the Zapatistas: Oaxaca Is Not Alone
FT.com / WMD intercept exercise set to begin in the Gulf
Naval "interdiction" exercises start today in Persian Gulf.
Read the developing story at:
FT.com / In depth - WMD intercept exercise set to begin in the Gulf
Read the developing story at:
FT.com / In depth - WMD intercept exercise set to begin in the Gulf
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Congressman Jim Ryun plays the fear factor.
Congressman Jim Ryun running a record mile in "racist" campaign ads.
Tongue talking Kansas Christian – Zionist death cult leader Congressman Jim Ryun is scorching his opponent, penny poor Nancy Boyda with a single campaign ad airing repeatedly on local Kansas television claiming that Boyda will be somehow negligent controlling illegal immigration into the United States from the southern border.
The ad played on WIBW local channel 13 television over four times in one three hour period during a recent evening.
Boyda would be better to pull out the stops and let the public know more and more and more and hilariously more about old crooked Jim and his buddies; Jack Abramhoff, Ralph Reed and Lestor Norquist. Ryun has been part of the greedy pack of cult leaders for years, all deeply involved in twisted real estate deals, hoodwinking old folks in the churches out of their money and generally ripping off Indian tribes and their casinos.
Critics have called it “playing the racist fear card” in a state that has more than enough problems with companies that routinely hire undocumented illegal immigrants with a Republican dominated legislature that does little about it.
And why would the Big Business Republicans in Kansas care?
Companies that build big box chains, like the new Wal – mart Super Center, as recently was erected in North Topeka, have no interest in protecting hard won workers’ rights on the job sites. And, neither does Kansas elected politicians. This place was largely built with workers who could not speak English and faced horrible working conditions.
The city will make millions in local sheeple herding in on the High Cost of Low Price[s] at the place, enough as in the North Topeka Wal – Mart case, to widen and pave avenues, tax abatements to the business, and added sales tax revenues to the city, thus killing more local stores along it’s “eminent domain” “right – of – way” even blowing up bridges to better create a highway to hell and ruin for the dumber – downed bargain crazy voters.
FEAR, FEAR, and more FEAR dominates the campaign air waves today in Kansas and the Republican candidates throw it out like garbage to some poor people living in a landfill. Which Kansas will be if voters don’t get a clue and realize that more and more consumption of clutter and less and less conservation and environmental measures don’t happen and soon in this country.
The Kansas state Republican legislature is dominated by land speculators, large scale ranchers, agri-business and insurance company interests who see no gain in policing employers who hire below scale workers, who work literally at the mercy of employers seeking bigger and bigger profits at the expense of safety and public review.
Tongue talking Kansas Christian – Zionist death cult leader Congressman Jim Ryun is scorching his opponent, penny poor Nancy Boyda with a single campaign ad airing repeatedly on local Kansas television claiming that Boyda will be somehow negligent controlling illegal immigration into the United States from the southern border.
The ad played on WIBW local channel 13 television over four times in one three hour period during a recent evening.
Boyda would be better to pull out the stops and let the public know more and more and more and hilariously more about old crooked Jim and his buddies; Jack Abramhoff, Ralph Reed and Lestor Norquist. Ryun has been part of the greedy pack of cult leaders for years, all deeply involved in twisted real estate deals, hoodwinking old folks in the churches out of their money and generally ripping off Indian tribes and their casinos.
Critics have called it “playing the racist fear card” in a state that has more than enough problems with companies that routinely hire undocumented illegal immigrants with a Republican dominated legislature that does little about it.
And why would the Big Business Republicans in Kansas care?
Companies that build big box chains, like the new Wal – mart Super Center, as recently was erected in North Topeka, have no interest in protecting hard won workers’ rights on the job sites. And, neither does Kansas elected politicians. This place was largely built with workers who could not speak English and faced horrible working conditions.
The city will make millions in local sheeple herding in on the High Cost of Low Price[s] at the place, enough as in the North Topeka Wal – Mart case, to widen and pave avenues, tax abatements to the business, and added sales tax revenues to the city, thus killing more local stores along it’s “eminent domain” “right – of – way” even blowing up bridges to better create a highway to hell and ruin for the dumber – downed bargain crazy voters.
FEAR, FEAR, and more FEAR dominates the campaign air waves today in Kansas and the Republican candidates throw it out like garbage to some poor people living in a landfill. Which Kansas will be if voters don’t get a clue and realize that more and more consumption of clutter and less and less conservation and environmental measures don’t happen and soon in this country.
The Kansas state Republican legislature is dominated by land speculators, large scale ranchers, agri-business and insurance company interests who see no gain in policing employers who hire below scale workers, who work literally at the mercy of employers seeking bigger and bigger profits at the expense of safety and public review.
Kansas news media; forget the facts - smear the messenger.
Mechanisms of power: Repeated lies, massive propaganda, and a compliant media.
Again, “Keep the rich happy and all others in constant fear.”
Kansas women’s doctor demonized as a terrorist, again?
A scathing circular bulk mailed to FCF recently had some very important information concerning Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s lack of professional care in his office as the chief law enforcement officer in the state. This critical information was largely ignored by the Kansas news media reporting of the circular, which focused instead on further demonizing the authors and a doctor who may have provided some of the funds to print it.
The contemporary news media, soaked in contradictory paid campaign ads have little time to fact check what it is paid to present to the news consumers.
News messengers kill the message.
The doctor who performs abortions in Kansas should have known that after years of being harangued as a “demon” by the many leaders of the religious death cults in Kansas, a news media would sensationalize his efforts to the point that the devoutly irrational and vindictive have on occasion attempted to kill him several times in the past.
And who can blame the hysterical who fund the massive “manufacturers of consent” propagandizing the tightly centralized elite’s message from the village weekly newspaper to the transnational television news network, a widespread message of rampant consumerism and wage slavery to a corporate command economy.
Drilled into their heads [i.e. short term personal financial gain] since infancy in every institution they attend till their inevitable appointment to the funeral parlor, little is offered in place of terror, but bargain shopping and immodest religious belief.
Those who devoutly believe not only the lies of their fearsome preachers, but the oft – repeated lies of their fearsome warmongering national elites are reliably reported to in the compliant Kansas news media.
The factual information imparted about Attorney General Phill Kline’s job performance, or more accurately his lack thereof, is ignored, even discarded by the news messengers as bunk since it is printed on paper that may have been paid for by the “demon doctor.”
Should “news consumers” expect more?
Real advocate investigative journalism is not tolerated in Kansas, most local presses, editors and publishers, largely so conservative and fearful of losing adverts and their dwindling reading audiences that an argument can easily be made that in their pursuit of the “bottom line” the news manufacturers more emulate the ignorance and avarice of the limited intellect of its readers and the advertisers sole interest; i. e. selling services and goods.
This in itself is not pathological, but more a recipe for inevitable catastrophe.
Media in the United States is largely incapable of penetrating anything of much substance, after all, the dwindling reading audiences largely from the business classes seek ever more revenues, the news media at even the local level is largely devoted to advertisements and “know what side of the bread to butter.”
What the local news media did report about the doctor’s efforts on a much broader scale was perhaps more damaging. Damaging in that it was fairly easy to ascertain that the handout came from a Wichita office within the building of a prominent pro – choice organization in Kansas.
The information delivered, quite effectively, was lost in the news coverage about the purported authors.
Reporters, thoroughly university trained in the writing skills suitable for “communicating” to an audience of neurotic nine – year olds, succeeded in demonizing the source.
The source ProKanDo, a rather benign office funded by many well meaning donors and initiated years ago by Dr. George Tiller was reported in such a fashion as to portray it as a front organization for a mass terrorist.
In Kansas, if not most of the United States, among many active members of the Christian death cults terror is the way of the world and the tool of their preference when the world disagrees.
Carefully read the controversial circular below. Then re-read the next to last paragraph citing the sources.
The circular, professionally produced, depicts in large red letters, “WARNING: Your private medical records aren’t safe from the Snoop Dog.”
On the flip-side it poses, “Think law – abiding citizens have a right to privacy? Not while Snoop Dog Kline is in office.”
“The Attorney General has made it a priority to invade our privacy. Instead of going after real criminals, Phill Kline spent the last three years snooping through women’s private medical records on a personal crusade against abortion. [1.]
“He’s not the only one who’s been invading our privacy.
While Attorney General Kline was chasing women’s private medical records, the rate of identity theft increased by nearly 77% [2.] and robberies by more more than 138% [3.]
Snoop Dog Kline.
He’s sniffing out everything but crime.”
Cited in the handout: “Check the facts: [1.] Kansas Supreme Court Case #93-383; [2.] Federal Trade Commission, Identity Theft Complaint Data Figures and Trends in Kansas, 2005; [3.] 2005 Kansas Bureau of Investigation Reported Crime Index.
The circular was from Kansans for Consumer Privacy Protection, 6505 E. Central #106, Wichita, Ks. 67206.
Again, “Keep the rich happy and all others in constant fear.”
Kansas women’s doctor demonized as a terrorist, again?
A scathing circular bulk mailed to FCF recently had some very important information concerning Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s lack of professional care in his office as the chief law enforcement officer in the state. This critical information was largely ignored by the Kansas news media reporting of the circular, which focused instead on further demonizing the authors and a doctor who may have provided some of the funds to print it.
The contemporary news media, soaked in contradictory paid campaign ads have little time to fact check what it is paid to present to the news consumers.
News messengers kill the message.
The doctor who performs abortions in Kansas should have known that after years of being harangued as a “demon” by the many leaders of the religious death cults in Kansas, a news media would sensationalize his efforts to the point that the devoutly irrational and vindictive have on occasion attempted to kill him several times in the past.
And who can blame the hysterical who fund the massive “manufacturers of consent” propagandizing the tightly centralized elite’s message from the village weekly newspaper to the transnational television news network, a widespread message of rampant consumerism and wage slavery to a corporate command economy.
Drilled into their heads [i.e. short term personal financial gain] since infancy in every institution they attend till their inevitable appointment to the funeral parlor, little is offered in place of terror, but bargain shopping and immodest religious belief.
Those who devoutly believe not only the lies of their fearsome preachers, but the oft – repeated lies of their fearsome warmongering national elites are reliably reported to in the compliant Kansas news media.
The factual information imparted about Attorney General Phill Kline’s job performance, or more accurately his lack thereof, is ignored, even discarded by the news messengers as bunk since it is printed on paper that may have been paid for by the “demon doctor.”
Should “news consumers” expect more?
Real advocate investigative journalism is not tolerated in Kansas, most local presses, editors and publishers, largely so conservative and fearful of losing adverts and their dwindling reading audiences that an argument can easily be made that in their pursuit of the “bottom line” the news manufacturers more emulate the ignorance and avarice of the limited intellect of its readers and the advertisers sole interest; i. e. selling services and goods.
This in itself is not pathological, but more a recipe for inevitable catastrophe.
Media in the United States is largely incapable of penetrating anything of much substance, after all, the dwindling reading audiences largely from the business classes seek ever more revenues, the news media at even the local level is largely devoted to advertisements and “know what side of the bread to butter.”
What the local news media did report about the doctor’s efforts on a much broader scale was perhaps more damaging. Damaging in that it was fairly easy to ascertain that the handout came from a Wichita office within the building of a prominent pro – choice organization in Kansas.
The information delivered, quite effectively, was lost in the news coverage about the purported authors.
Reporters, thoroughly university trained in the writing skills suitable for “communicating” to an audience of neurotic nine – year olds, succeeded in demonizing the source.
The source ProKanDo, a rather benign office funded by many well meaning donors and initiated years ago by Dr. George Tiller was reported in such a fashion as to portray it as a front organization for a mass terrorist.
In Kansas, if not most of the United States, among many active members of the Christian death cults terror is the way of the world and the tool of their preference when the world disagrees.
Carefully read the controversial circular below. Then re-read the next to last paragraph citing the sources.
The circular, professionally produced, depicts in large red letters, “WARNING: Your private medical records aren’t safe from the Snoop Dog.”
On the flip-side it poses, “Think law – abiding citizens have a right to privacy? Not while Snoop Dog Kline is in office.”
“The Attorney General has made it a priority to invade our privacy. Instead of going after real criminals, Phill Kline spent the last three years snooping through women’s private medical records on a personal crusade against abortion. [1.]
“He’s not the only one who’s been invading our privacy.
While Attorney General Kline was chasing women’s private medical records, the rate of identity theft increased by nearly 77% [2.] and robberies by more more than 138% [3.]
Snoop Dog Kline.
He’s sniffing out everything but crime.”
Cited in the handout: “Check the facts: [1.] Kansas Supreme Court Case #93-383; [2.] Federal Trade Commission, Identity Theft Complaint Data Figures and Trends in Kansas, 2005; [3.] 2005 Kansas Bureau of Investigation Reported Crime Index.
The circular was from Kansans for Consumer Privacy Protection, 6505 E. Central #106, Wichita, Ks. 67206.
Drive the religious death cults out of government!
Finally, after all the mudslinging and ass – kicking there might be an organization coming up from the grassroots that can take the country in a better direction. More power to them which might help the gullible get away from the madness of death cults.
Dump'em All! Every single one of the war mongers.
Worst Congress Ever: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi on How Our National Legislature Has Become a "Stable of Thieves and Perverts"
FCF dares you to listen to the outrageous “Do – Nothing” Congress report from Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on Democracy Now! Or read the complete transcript “no open debates” or hearings, bills piled high with “earmarked” amendments.
“Everything is done behind the scenes” like in a totalitarian dictatorship, wise up voters, dump every last money soaked shithead. A kow – towed opposition “bureaucratically casterated” by new financing laws, allowing more lobbying money that has even the Democrat’s leaders (democraps) afraid of who will profit.
LISTEN OR READ THIS IMPORTANT REPORT LINKED ABOVE.
“A great example is that conference committees, where when you have the conference that hammers out the differences between the Senate and the House versions of bills, traditionally both parties work in that conference committee to create the final version of the bill. Well, this congress has sort of pioneered a new method of handling the conferences.
What they'll do is they'll have -- by law, they have to have one conference that includes Democrats. They'll have a five-minute meeting, where the Democrats are there.
They'll take a picture, and then they’ll kick the Democrats out, and they’ll hold the real meeting later, and they won't tell the Democrats where it is. And you get this situation that results -- it's really like, you know, an elementary school thing, where they won't tell the Democrats where it is, so the Democratic minority member will have to go around Congress literally searching for the conference, knocking on doors, saying, ‘Are you inside?’”
DUMP EVERY DUMB ASS THAT VOTED FOR THE WAR.
DUMP’EM ALL!
FCF dares you to listen to the outrageous “Do – Nothing” Congress report from Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi on Democracy Now! Or read the complete transcript “no open debates” or hearings, bills piled high with “earmarked” amendments.
“Everything is done behind the scenes” like in a totalitarian dictatorship, wise up voters, dump every last money soaked shithead. A kow – towed opposition “bureaucratically casterated” by new financing laws, allowing more lobbying money that has even the Democrat’s leaders (democraps) afraid of who will profit.
LISTEN OR READ THIS IMPORTANT REPORT LINKED ABOVE.
“A great example is that conference committees, where when you have the conference that hammers out the differences between the Senate and the House versions of bills, traditionally both parties work in that conference committee to create the final version of the bill. Well, this congress has sort of pioneered a new method of handling the conferences.
What they'll do is they'll have -- by law, they have to have one conference that includes Democrats. They'll have a five-minute meeting, where the Democrats are there.
They'll take a picture, and then they’ll kick the Democrats out, and they’ll hold the real meeting later, and they won't tell the Democrats where it is. And you get this situation that results -- it's really like, you know, an elementary school thing, where they won't tell the Democrats where it is, so the Democratic minority member will have to go around Congress literally searching for the conference, knocking on doors, saying, ‘Are you inside?’”
DUMP EVERY DUMB ASS THAT VOTED FOR THE WAR.
DUMP’EM ALL!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Democracy Now! | Breaking the Silence: Fmr. Israeli Soldier Tours U.S. to Expose Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Military
Audio video link available here Democracy Now!:
"A leading Israeli human rights organization accused Israel on Thursday of breaking international humanitarian law by holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
According to B'Tselem, international law prohibits the transfer of civilians, including prisoners, from the occupied territories to Israel.
On Thursday B'Tselem issued a 53-page report outlining how Israel's prison policies has made it nearly impossible for Palestinians to regularly visit relatives in jail.
Meanwhile, a former Israeli soldier named Yehuda Shaul has just begun a tour of the United States to give an inside look at how the Israeli military treats Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Shaul is a co-founder of Breaking the Silence - a group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human rights abuses by the Israeli military.
Last year the group revealed that Israel soldiers had been ordered to open fire on unarmed Palestinians. The group has also gathered photographic evidence that proved Israeli soldiers have abused Palestinian corpses. "
"A leading Israeli human rights organization accused Israel on Thursday of breaking international humanitarian law by holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
According to B'Tselem, international law prohibits the transfer of civilians, including prisoners, from the occupied territories to Israel.
On Thursday B'Tselem issued a 53-page report outlining how Israel's prison policies has made it nearly impossible for Palestinians to regularly visit relatives in jail.
Meanwhile, a former Israeli soldier named Yehuda Shaul has just begun a tour of the United States to give an inside look at how the Israeli military treats Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Shaul is a co-founder of Breaking the Silence - a group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human rights abuses by the Israeli military.
Last year the group revealed that Israel soldiers had been ordered to open fire on unarmed Palestinians. The group has also gathered photographic evidence that proved Israeli soldiers have abused Palestinian corpses. "
Democracy Now! October 24, 2006 - US meddling in Nicaraguan elections, again.
FROM: Democracy Now!:
"OAS to U.S.: Don’t Meddle in Nicaraguan Election
Election monitors from the Organization of American States have warned the Bush administration not to interfere in the upcoming presidential election in Nicaragua.
The Bush administration has openly opposed the current front-runner, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.
The Organization of American States singled out Paul Trivelli, the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez for meddling in the November 5th election.
Last week Gutierrez said an Ortega victory could scare off foreign investors and jeopardize Nicaragua's participation in the CAFTA free-trade accord with the United States. New opinion polls show Ortega has taken a strong lead and could win the election in one round.
Meanwhile a leading Nicaraguan human rights activist – Vilma Nunez -- is scheduled to testify this week about the U.S. interference before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington."
"OAS to U.S.: Don’t Meddle in Nicaraguan Election
Election monitors from the Organization of American States have warned the Bush administration not to interfere in the upcoming presidential election in Nicaragua.
The Bush administration has openly opposed the current front-runner, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.
The Organization of American States singled out Paul Trivelli, the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez for meddling in the November 5th election.
Last week Gutierrez said an Ortega victory could scare off foreign investors and jeopardize Nicaragua's participation in the CAFTA free-trade accord with the United States. New opinion polls show Ortega has taken a strong lead and could win the election in one round.
Meanwhile a leading Nicaraguan human rights activist – Vilma Nunez -- is scheduled to testify this week about the U.S. interference before the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington."
Reuters AlertNet - U.S. journalist killed in Mexico's Oaxaca conflict
INDEPENDENT CAMERAMAN,
JOURNALIST SHOT DEAD IN MEXICO
OAXACA, Mexico, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on protesters in Mexico's colonial city of Oaxaca on Friday, killing a U.S. journalist and wounding several people at road blocks set up by leftists pushing to topple a state governor.
Will Bradley Roland, a cameraman working with Indymedia New York, was shot in the chest and died before reaching the hospital, the independent news group said on its Web site.
Reuters AlertNet - U.S. journalist killed in Mexico's Oaxaca conflict
JOURNALIST SHOT DEAD IN MEXICO
OAXACA, Mexico, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on protesters in Mexico's colonial city of Oaxaca on Friday, killing a U.S. journalist and wounding several people at road blocks set up by leftists pushing to topple a state governor.
Will Bradley Roland, a cameraman working with Indymedia New York, was shot in the chest and died before reaching the hospital, the independent news group said on its Web site.
Reuters AlertNet - U.S. journalist killed in Mexico's Oaxaca conflict
The Johnson County Sun: former Republican Ks AG Bob Stephan
FAMOUS "BOB" STEPHAN, OLD TIME REPUBLICAN,
GOES PUBLIC AFTER LEAVING HIS JOB WITH KLINE'S OFFICE.
KLINE WANTED COMPLETE FILES, NAMES OF WOMEN AT CLINICS.
Stephan hammered Kline's decision to seek the private abortion records of Kansas females. Stephan said the effort made no sense from the start, but he decided only now to speak publicly because he disagreed with Kline's statements last week about the reason for seeking the records.
In a Kansas City Star article, Kline stated he had "never sought the names of adult women" to prosecute late-term abortions. Kline also has stated he wanted the records to investigate child rape cases.
"He said that he didn't want the names of adult women. You know, that's not true," Stephan said. "The truth is they subpoenaed the records of 90 females and nothing in that subpoena said 'minors only.' It was a request for the total records."
[Kline campaign spokesperson Sherriene] Jones disputed Stephan's recollection of the records request.
"A process had already been established by the district court and the Attorney General's Office to redact the personal information of the women's names," Jones said.
Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said he saw nothing about crossing out the names of females in Kline's original request.
"The subpoena that we received in September 2004 was a subpoena for the complete, original, entire, unredacted record - all names, all identifying information," Brownlie said. "What we were told to do, in fact, was to hand over the original record in its entirety."
Stephan said seeking the records without names made no sense.
Read complete article at: The Johnson County Sun
GOES PUBLIC AFTER LEAVING HIS JOB WITH KLINE'S OFFICE.
KLINE WANTED COMPLETE FILES, NAMES OF WOMEN AT CLINICS.
Stephan hammered Kline's decision to seek the private abortion records of Kansas females. Stephan said the effort made no sense from the start, but he decided only now to speak publicly because he disagreed with Kline's statements last week about the reason for seeking the records.
In a Kansas City Star article, Kline stated he had "never sought the names of adult women" to prosecute late-term abortions. Kline also has stated he wanted the records to investigate child rape cases.
"He said that he didn't want the names of adult women. You know, that's not true," Stephan said. "The truth is they subpoenaed the records of 90 females and nothing in that subpoena said 'minors only.' It was a request for the total records."
[Kline campaign spokesperson Sherriene] Jones disputed Stephan's recollection of the records request.
"A process had already been established by the district court and the Attorney General's Office to redact the personal information of the women's names," Jones said.
Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said he saw nothing about crossing out the names of females in Kline's original request.
"The subpoena that we received in September 2004 was a subpoena for the complete, original, entire, unredacted record - all names, all identifying information," Brownlie said. "What we were told to do, in fact, was to hand over the original record in its entirety."
Stephan said seeking the records without names made no sense.
Read complete article at: The Johnson County Sun
Former Ks AG Carla Stovall slams AG Kline
The Johnson County Sun:
"Carla Stovall Steckline, Republican attorney general from 1995 to 2003, endorsed Morrison emphatically last week while taking Kline to the woodshed.
'I have known Paul Morrison for 20 years and he is the kind of lawyer that even people who like to bash lawyers must admit to respecting,' Steckline said at a press conference on Friday. 'He's a career prosecutor with a stellar record of nearly 100 convictions in tough cases.'
Steckline's support for Morrison included bashing Kline:
* 'I am confident Paul will not knowingly and intentionally violate the privacy rights of Kansans in an attempt to push a narrow, personal agenda,' a slam at Kline over his decision to seek abortion records in what he calls an effort to combat child abuse;
* 'I am confident Paul will not hire an attorney with 12 arrests and $60,000 in outstanding court costs and fines as the deputy of an important division in the office,' a slam at Kline for hiring Bryan Brown, whose arrests relate to abortion protests; and
* 'I am confident Paul will not skirt the state nepotism law and hire his nephew, who has a suspended driver's license, to be his driver,' a slam at Kline for hiring his nephew as a chauffeur."
"Carla Stovall Steckline, Republican attorney general from 1995 to 2003, endorsed Morrison emphatically last week while taking Kline to the woodshed.
'I have known Paul Morrison for 20 years and he is the kind of lawyer that even people who like to bash lawyers must admit to respecting,' Steckline said at a press conference on Friday. 'He's a career prosecutor with a stellar record of nearly 100 convictions in tough cases.'
Steckline's support for Morrison included bashing Kline:
* 'I am confident Paul will not knowingly and intentionally violate the privacy rights of Kansans in an attempt to push a narrow, personal agenda,' a slam at Kline over his decision to seek abortion records in what he calls an effort to combat child abuse;
* 'I am confident Paul will not hire an attorney with 12 arrests and $60,000 in outstanding court costs and fines as the deputy of an important division in the office,' a slam at Kline for hiring Bryan Brown, whose arrests relate to abortion protests; and
* 'I am confident Paul will not skirt the state nepotism law and hire his nephew, who has a suspended driver's license, to be his driver,' a slam at Kline for hiring his nephew as a chauffeur."
Update and correction on USS Eisenhower Strike Group.
Global Research (Canada):
US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War?:
"Revised and updated Oct 25, 2006. Note: Since this report was first published, we have been advised that several press reports concerning USS Eisenhower are incorrect. US military sources have confirmed that USS Eisenhower was in Naples on Oct 23.
We have made appropriate corrections"
US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War?:
"Revised and updated Oct 25, 2006. Note: Since this report was first published, we have been advised that several press reports concerning USS Eisenhower are incorrect. US military sources have confirmed that USS Eisenhower was in Naples on Oct 23.
We have made appropriate corrections"
Friday, October 27, 2006
Weekend Special Feature - Discomfit Magazine
FCF WEEKEND INSIDERS:
WATCH IT NOW!
JOHN PILGER'S HARD HITTING VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
"BREAKING THE SILENCE"
5 PARTS, 51 MINUTES, 2003, CARLTON PRODUCTIONS, U.K.
NOW AVAILABLE!
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KICK - ASS KANSAS POLITICS!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Kansas needs CorpWatch
THIRD WORLD WORKERS,
CONDITIONS IN KANSAS, NOW!
Several skilled workers regularly visit with us at the FCF Blue Barn (yes readers, there really is a Blue Barn) where discussions go on on all manner of subjects; more than marriages, kids and gun violence, we also observe the ever increasing use of undocumented &/or illegal workers in Kansas and the unsafe and unethical exploitation of workers in Kansas.
It's a sensitive subject even among the Blue Barn crowd, some are non-union, middle management in huge telecommunications corporations, union and a few unskilled workers.
Yet, nearly everyone agrees the labor "pool" is fast changing around us and the companies seem to be the ones making the most of it.
An example exists locally, in the construction of the most recent Wal-Mart in North Topeka, Ks. the capital of the state government - there the construction site was flooded with workers, many who could not speak English, by a shadowy group who local skilled workers knew little about.
Apparently, Wal-Mart "jobs out" the construction to regional contract companies that travels the country building their Super Store Centers; excavation, foundation, concrete, electrical and plumbing. Many are workers who are in no position to dispute the owners decisions about the working conditions, pay or benefits.
In the North Topeka construction site several discrepancies were discovered when an inspecting engineer, unlicensed in Kansas, caused Wal-Mart to hire a local electrical company to comply with standard electrical codes.
Since that time, other unethical and questionable practises have been witnessed at this particular job.
Workers, both local and immigrant, had complained that unsafe portable toilets were commonplace, in some cases requiring them to use a stick to push the human waste away to use it. Heat exhaustion, especially among the immigrant workers, was commonly witnessed in one case requiring an ambulance to evacuate one worker.
Inside temperatures under the roof were rumored to approach over 130 degrees (f) this summer and cement block workers were not provided with legally required gear.
The construction jobs at this site are almost over, Wal-mart will make a fortune from the sheeple hunting like hounds for "bargains." While the workers, who built it, both foreign and domestic - gone and forgotten.
CONDITIONS IN KANSAS, NOW!
Several skilled workers regularly visit with us at the FCF Blue Barn (yes readers, there really is a Blue Barn) where discussions go on on all manner of subjects; more than marriages, kids and gun violence, we also observe the ever increasing use of undocumented &/or illegal workers in Kansas and the unsafe and unethical exploitation of workers in Kansas.
It's a sensitive subject even among the Blue Barn crowd, some are non-union, middle management in huge telecommunications corporations, union and a few unskilled workers.
Yet, nearly everyone agrees the labor "pool" is fast changing around us and the companies seem to be the ones making the most of it.
An example exists locally, in the construction of the most recent Wal-Mart in North Topeka, Ks. the capital of the state government - there the construction site was flooded with workers, many who could not speak English, by a shadowy group who local skilled workers knew little about.
Apparently, Wal-Mart "jobs out" the construction to regional contract companies that travels the country building their Super Store Centers; excavation, foundation, concrete, electrical and plumbing. Many are workers who are in no position to dispute the owners decisions about the working conditions, pay or benefits.
In the North Topeka construction site several discrepancies were discovered when an inspecting engineer, unlicensed in Kansas, caused Wal-Mart to hire a local electrical company to comply with standard electrical codes.
Since that time, other unethical and questionable practises have been witnessed at this particular job.
Workers, both local and immigrant, had complained that unsafe portable toilets were commonplace, in some cases requiring them to use a stick to push the human waste away to use it. Heat exhaustion, especially among the immigrant workers, was commonly witnessed in one case requiring an ambulance to evacuate one worker.
Inside temperatures under the roof were rumored to approach over 130 degrees (f) this summer and cement block workers were not provided with legally required gear.
The construction jobs at this site are almost over, Wal-mart will make a fortune from the sheeple hunting like hounds for "bargains." While the workers, who built it, both foreign and domestic - gone and forgotten.
CorpWatch : A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad: Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy
SPECIAL NOTICE TO FCF READERS
WORKING IN THE CONSTRUCTION TRADECRAFTS
CHECK OUT THE LINKED STORY BELOW
I find this recent article by David Phinney, an investigative reporter working for Inter Press Service, one of the most damning for the privatized U. S. government.
M. I. T. Professor Noam Chomsky recently commented that the overall economic strategy of the movers and shakers in this country was to "keep the rich happy" and all others "frightened" with job insecurity, wild price fluctuations in the prices of the basics and economic terror for those who can barely manage to make their mortgage payments. It's the stuff to keep us all in line; fear.
The article linked below describes the conditions "foreign" workers endure while building the largest U. S. embassy in the world, just outside of Baghdad. It's something of the world we are seeing more and more of even in Kansas.
The transnationals are doing this everywhere. Why would we think the United States, or for that matter, Kansas would be spared this sickness?
Union busting, unsafe working conditions and exploitation pitting worker against worker is now common place even in the "reddest of red states," Kansas.
CorpWatch : Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy
WORKING IN THE CONSTRUCTION TRADECRAFTS
CHECK OUT THE LINKED STORY BELOW
I find this recent article by David Phinney, an investigative reporter working for Inter Press Service, one of the most damning for the privatized U. S. government.
M. I. T. Professor Noam Chomsky recently commented that the overall economic strategy of the movers and shakers in this country was to "keep the rich happy" and all others "frightened" with job insecurity, wild price fluctuations in the prices of the basics and economic terror for those who can barely manage to make their mortgage payments. It's the stuff to keep us all in line; fear.
The article linked below describes the conditions "foreign" workers endure while building the largest U. S. embassy in the world, just outside of Baghdad. It's something of the world we are seeing more and more of even in Kansas.
The transnationals are doing this everywhere. Why would we think the United States, or for that matter, Kansas would be spared this sickness?
Union busting, unsafe working conditions and exploitation pitting worker against worker is now common place even in the "reddest of red states," Kansas.
CorpWatch : Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy
Bush Iran War Plans - 4 Strike Groups in the Persian Gulf
Bush and the Pentagon have put the US Navy on a hair trigger this week and next.
There are now four strike groups in the Persian Gulf and an "interdiction" exercise in the works for Oct. 31st.
Pay attention to the names cited in this report today at:
Bush Iran War Plans - 4 Strike Groups in the Persian Gulf
There are now four strike groups in the Persian Gulf and an "interdiction" exercise in the works for Oct. 31st.
Pay attention to the names cited in this report today at:
Bush Iran War Plans - 4 Strike Groups in the Persian Gulf
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Monday, October 23, 2006
Guardian - Sean Smith in Iraq
Must See!
8 minute short news video "exploding the myth" that Iraqis are ready to take over for US forces and instead of cooperating are subverting their training and weaponry provided.
Guardian Sean Smith Video in Iraq
8 minute short news video "exploding the myth" that Iraqis are ready to take over for US forces and instead of cooperating are subverting their training and weaponry provided.
Guardian Sean Smith Video in Iraq
The American Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group joins US build-up opposite Iran
From Global Research (Canada):
Tuesday, Oct. 17, the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group steamed into the Persian Gulf to join the US naval, air and marine concentration piling up opposite Iran’s shores. It consists of the amphibious transport dock USS Nashville, the guided-missile destroyers USS Cole and USS Bulkeley, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the attack submarine USS Albuquerque, and the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island.
The Iwo Jima group is now cruising 60 km from Kuwait off Iran’s coast. As DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported exclusively two weeks ago, three US naval task forces will be in place opposite Iran in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea by October 21. The other two are the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the USS Enterprise Strike Group.
The US build-up opposite Iran
Tuesday, Oct. 17, the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group steamed into the Persian Gulf to join the US naval, air and marine concentration piling up opposite Iran’s shores. It consists of the amphibious transport dock USS Nashville, the guided-missile destroyers USS Cole and USS Bulkeley, the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the attack submarine USS Albuquerque, and the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island.
The Iwo Jima group is now cruising 60 km from Kuwait off Iran’s coast. As DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported exclusively two weeks ago, three US naval task forces will be in place opposite Iran in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea by October 21. The other two are the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and the USS Enterprise Strike Group.
The US build-up opposite Iran
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Environmental Disaster: Ice shelf falls larger than Rhode Island.
Nothing else quite like it has happened at any time in the past 10,000 years. In just over a month an entire Antarctic ice shelf, bigger than a small country, disintegrated and disappeared, altering world atlases for ever.
A new study shows that the catastrophic collapse of the Larsen B shelf, four and a half years ago, was man-made, not an "act of God". It is thought to have been the first time that a major disaster has been proved to have been caused by global warming.
Independent Online Edition > Environment
A new study shows that the catastrophic collapse of the Larsen B shelf, four and a half years ago, was man-made, not an "act of God". It is thought to have been the first time that a major disaster has been proved to have been caused by global warming.
Independent Online Edition > Environment
Coverup of US military base disaster in Iraq?
"Another Disastrous Coverup: Forward Base Falcon Disaster"
Brian Harring writes from TBR News of a serious disaster and possible military cover-up of huge casualties from a rocket and mortar attack on a US military supply base this last mid-October.
The story cites several sources and writes in detail of the destruction of the base engulfed in explosions and foreign journalists counting the number of wounded being transported out to another base.
A complete list of casualty names, ranks and attachment (including some CIA officers) is listed on down the scroll after the initial article.
Read the complete article at: TBRNews.org
Bush blowback: How stupid are his supporters?
The New York Times Blowing in the Wind: "The way the Bush team is stage-managing the president's supposed change of heart about 'staying the course' is unfair to the Americans who have taken him at his word that real progress is being made in Iraq - a dwindling but still significant number of people, some of whom have sons and daughters serving in the conflict. It is a disservice to the troops, who were never sent to Iraq in sufficient numbers to protect themselves or the Iraqi people. And it is a disservice to all Americans, who have waited so long for Mr. Bush to act that all that is left are a series of unpleasant choices.
And it is happening in the midst of a particularly ugly, and especially vacuous, election season. There is probably no worse time to begin a serious discussion about Iraq policy than two weeks before a close, bitter election. But now that the discussion has begun, it must continue, as honestly and openly as possible. It is time for the American people to confront all the things that the president never had the guts to tell them about for three and a half years. "
And it is happening in the midst of a particularly ugly, and especially vacuous, election season. There is probably no worse time to begin a serious discussion about Iraq policy than two weeks before a close, bitter election. But now that the discussion has begun, it must continue, as honestly and openly as possible. It is time for the American people to confront all the things that the president never had the guts to tell them about for three and a half years. "
A CLINIC BOMBER DELIVERS KLINE CAMPAIGN SIGNS?
THE READERS MUST KNOW
A smart reader writes logic at LJWorld.com on Kline’s latest campaign point against Morrison:
“To believe Kline, you would have to accept that the entire legislature, and governor have all been guilty of all the malfeasance portrayed in Klines ads. Soft on crime? Hardly. By any and every measure..Klines political advertising is simply baseless and terribly corrupt, and plays to peoples fears of crime and criminals.
And it should be criminal to elect an Attorney General who resorts to these tactics.
But that level of intellectual honesty is what I and others have learned to expect as typical from Mr. Kline.
The whole topic of his taking advantage of good honest church going people is another topic, but related to his lack of intellectual honesty.”
Phil will dump that response in his cluttered backyard shed.
How many out there would have your wife take a hefty check from a local church to store your junk in your backyard shed?
There ought to be a law against it.
And there is, sort of, take a look at a Sept. 16 “update” on a Kline cockroach attack in Wichita, Ks.
It hasn’t made the news, but that doesn’t mean much in Kansas.
It’s interesting who are Kline’s most devout supporters and where they come from.
Watch Kansas television and one would walk away thinking it’s a bunch of nuns and grandmothers in sneakers.
BUT, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
“PRO-LIFE” CHRISTIAN GANGSTAS FER KLINE.
Take a look at this really cool video filmed down south where it’s always intense about sex.
The very independent news posse, Maggot Punks got some great shots of a campaign crew unloading Phill Kline campaign signs from a delivery truck in Wichita.
The intrepid cameraman wrote an update recently:
“The detective on duty at the Metroplex contacted me to finish up details on the incident where Troy Newman, careless of the concerns of his child, went on a Russell Crowe style rampage and attacked a cameraman. The episode was caught on videotape and eyewitnesses were present. The charge is currently one count of battery and possibly a charge of endangerment of a child. The report will go to district attorney Nola Fulston.”
Who are those people working for Kline?
The woman in the dress is none other than Cheryl Sullenger who lives as
a convicted conspirator in a clinic bomb plot.
The Maggot Punks news posse writes:
“Sullenger’s past is one of criminal acts and failed terrorist plots. She began her drive towards terrorism as a member of Dorman Owen’s Bible Missionary Fellowship (a hate group which advocates the execution of homosexuals) … Dorman Owens organized a series of clinic attacks. He, along with Sullenger and other members of that faith based terrorist organization were responsible for the 1987 clinic bombing of the Alvarado Medical Center in San Diego.
Owen’s was also responsible for the 1984 bombing of the Birth Control Clinic San Diego. In 1988 Sullenger plead guilty to conspiring to blow up the Alvarado Medical Center for which she received a prison sentence of 2.5 years. She supplied fellow terrorist Eric Svelmoe with gunpowder, gasoline, fuses and other chemical materials. Her husband, Randall, although active in her terrorist plot, was not charged with any crimes.”
Want more about this? Go to the source and click "Cheryl Sullenger - Fanatical Fundy Freak"
She’s now a regular Wichita clinic protester and anti-abortion leader in Wichita.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR KLINE’S RE-ELECTION.
Troy Newman is the guy who stiff arms the cameraman and from the look of the video damaged the camera in the process.
Remember the guy who worked in the Kansas Attorney General’s office that was arrested twelve times for clinic protests?
He wasn’t there this time.
Outstanding graphic from the Maggot Punks archives.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Black Agenda Report, Out Now!
BLACK AGENDA REPORT
BOOKMARK IT!
Bruce Dixon comments in an audio essay from the inaugural issue of Black Agenda Report click the following link to hear about War is the Health of the State .
BOOKMARK IT!
Bruce Dixon comments in an audio essay from the inaugural issue of Black Agenda Report click the following link to hear about War is the Health of the State .
Thursday, October 19, 2006
"It's all about the oil," soldier in Farenheit 9/11
Lengthy article detailing imperial geopolitical intrigue in Iraq's oil resources. A must study for those involved in "peak oil" awareness groups:
Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil
Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil
Stan Goff: Get Real on Iran
The Blog Stan Goff: Get Real on Iran The Huffington Post:
An excerpt:
"Think!
If they DID drop a nuke on Iran, and if we didn't immediately start an open revolt that shut the whole f**king country down, we would deserve everything we get right until the next Zhukov walked his artillery across our own Berlin. We need to be telling them that. Drop a nuke, and we break things. I'll go on the record right here and right now... modeling it for you... George W. Bush, if your administration drops a nuclear weapon on anyone anywhere, you need to lock me up before you do it. Because at that point, anything except open rebellion against you makes me no better than all the 'good Germans.' I will not be your good German.
Boo! yourself, Georgie.
Cripes, people! The only power these a**holes have is what we continue to collectively grant them.
Meanwhile.... BACK IN IRAQ, where there is an actual war... we need to keep throwing wave after wave of opposition over them. Build an impeachment movement in the streets. Keep educating people about what is really going on there." [FCF emphasis]
An excerpt:
"Think!
If they DID drop a nuke on Iran, and if we didn't immediately start an open revolt that shut the whole f**king country down, we would deserve everything we get right until the next Zhukov walked his artillery across our own Berlin. We need to be telling them that. Drop a nuke, and we break things. I'll go on the record right here and right now... modeling it for you... George W. Bush, if your administration drops a nuclear weapon on anyone anywhere, you need to lock me up before you do it. Because at that point, anything except open rebellion against you makes me no better than all the 'good Germans.' I will not be your good German.
Boo! yourself, Georgie.
Cripes, people! The only power these a**holes have is what we continue to collectively grant them.
Meanwhile.... BACK IN IRAQ, where there is an actual war... we need to keep throwing wave after wave of opposition over them. Build an impeachment movement in the streets. Keep educating people about what is really going on there." [FCF emphasis]
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Journal World Expose: Fundraising rift spills out public between Republicans
KABOOM!
KLINE
KLAN
CASH SOAKED.
CHURCH LAUNDERS MONEY THROUGH FAMILY SHED!
Now let's try to get this straight from an explosive news story by Scott Rothschild in the best daily newspaper in Kansas.
Are you ready for this Kansas Christian shit storm?
The campaigning incumbent, KS Attorney General Phill Kline, is having a Topeka church pay his wife's company to store his campaign materials in a shed behind their house.
And it was leaked by the long-time Republican and a former state Attorney General Bob Stephan?
WOW!
Read it all at:
Stephan questions Kline fundraising LJWorld.com
New York Sound Posse: Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter (10/16/06)
"PRE-CONDITIONED FOR WAR"
"NO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ON WAR WITH IRAN"
Listen or download the complete discussion with Scott Ritter, former Chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq before the occupation, and New Yorker correspondent Seymour Hersh at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
The discussion lasts approximately 1hr. 30mins and is about 16 megs in size.
Go to:
New York Sound Posse: Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter (10/16/06)
"NO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS ON WAR WITH IRAN"
Listen or download the complete discussion with Scott Ritter, former Chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq before the occupation, and New Yorker correspondent Seymour Hersh at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
The discussion lasts approximately 1hr. 30mins and is about 16 megs in size.
Go to:
New York Sound Posse: Seymour Hersh and Scott Ritter (10/16/06)
Democracy Now! | Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change”
Ritter has just returned from Iran last month and what he says about Iran in his new book maintains the "pre-emptive" strategy is in control.
Read, listen or watch his recent appearance on Democracy Now!:
Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change”
Read, listen or watch his recent appearance on Democracy Now!:
Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change”
Guardian Unlimited: The courts are starting to accept that the war against Iraq is a crime
Courts and juries in England, Ireland and Germany are allowing "direct action" protesters who damage military equipment to "walk away from dock" i. e. the American equivalent of jury nullification.
Several legal precedents may be in the making for establishing the invasion and occupation of Iraq as an international war crime.
George Monbiot writes at:
Guardian Unlimited: The courts are starting to accept that the war against Iraq is a crime
Several legal precedents may be in the making for establishing the invasion and occupation of Iraq as an international war crime.
George Monbiot writes at:
Guardian Unlimited: The courts are starting to accept that the war against Iraq is a crime
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Short scroll below for Kansas "local" news links and editorials, but here's the plan!
DNI John Negroponte Questioned
Camp Democracy on Book TV: Panel discussion takes on War coverage & the media!
Panel discussion on independent media and war coverage at Camp Democracy, Oct. 1, 2006.
C-span archives on Book TV for a limited time at this web page link, so watch it soon. Great media commentary by leaders in independent media.
Go to: BOOK TV.ORG
C-span archives on Book TV for a limited time at this web page link, so watch it soon. Great media commentary by leaders in independent media.
Go to: BOOK TV.ORG
Cheney- Ryun BUSHEVIK LOVE FEST $1000 PIX WITH MAD DICK
CONGRESSMAN JIM RYUN
A HEAD NODDING, GRINNING IDIOT
WATCHES G.O.P. TITANIC
SLIP BENEATH THE WAR WAVES.
Wallowing in the insane "glory" of being one of the most hated regimes worldwide in the history of the United States; leave it to the Kansas Busheviks to go one more step toward the cliff.
The "God Hates Fags" posse of the all time craziest of Christian death cults gathered in squealing delight at Topeka's Maner Conference Center to hear Vice President Mad Dick Cheney utter absolutely nothing new about anything.
“We have a great president living in the white house, and he deserves to have a congress that works for him, not against him,” says Cheney.
[ ... ]
“It's good to be able to hear the Vice President, and we think Jim Ryun is the greatest,” says Larry Meadows, Tonganoxie.
[ ... ]
“I thought it was a once in a life time opportunity to hear someone so powerful and supportive of Jim Ryun,” says Hanna Ribelin.
Another "card of thanks" to Amanda Kinseth, Channel 27, KSNT, Topeka, Ks. for at least trying to hold a job and her dignity together covering this war fest.
A HEAD NODDING, GRINNING IDIOT
WATCHES G.O.P. TITANIC
SLIP BENEATH THE WAR WAVES.
Wallowing in the insane "glory" of being one of the most hated regimes worldwide in the history of the United States; leave it to the Kansas Busheviks to go one more step toward the cliff.
The "God Hates Fags" posse of the all time craziest of Christian death cults gathered in squealing delight at Topeka's Maner Conference Center to hear Vice President Mad Dick Cheney utter absolutely nothing new about anything.
Can one imagine paying $1000 to have a picture of yourself with a war criminal?
One God, One Religion, One Party, One Great Big Bunch of whining Hypocrites!
The local Busheviks are quoted below:
“It just makes us feel that much more special to know he would do that for someone we love so much,” says Pat Timmons of Lawrence, a personal friend of Ryun.“We have a great president living in the white house, and he deserves to have a congress that works for him, not against him,” says Cheney.
[ ... ]
“It's good to be able to hear the Vice President, and we think Jim Ryun is the greatest,” says Larry Meadows, Tonganoxie.
[ ... ]
“I thought it was a once in a life time opportunity to hear someone so powerful and supportive of Jim Ryun,” says Hanna Ribelin.
Another "card of thanks" to Amanda Kinseth, Channel 27, KSNT, Topeka, Ks. for at least trying to hold a job and her dignity together covering this war fest.
Read it all at:
KSNT - Local News - Cheney Supporting Congressman RyunWIBW | Who Paid for It?
WIBW REPORTS "TENS OF THOUSANDS" IN FEES.
CONGRESSMAN RYUN RAKES THE $$$$$$ IN
ON MAD DICK'S CAMPAIGN JUNKET?
KANSANS WILL NEVER KNOW.
Channel 13, WIBW-TV, Topeka, Ks. is no longer the aggressive news station that it once was more than 30 years ago. The reporters hands are tied in tight budgets and the herd mentality of advertisement driven editorial 'guidelines.'
Owned by one of the most right wing Republican slanted corporations in the United States, far from Topeka, Ks. the staff of reporters must labor under some pretty tough rules. Like don't piss off anybody, especially Republicans buying campaign ads!
A "card of thanks" goes out to Lisa Boschert who tried to report on just how much money Congressman Ryun spent to get Vice President Mad Dick Cheney to Topeka last week, but she failed by news time last week.
It is hard to come up with any investigative reporting working under the "It's So Good" canned format of Happy Face Mindless Boosterism called television journalism in Kansas.
Here is an excerpt with something of a dollar figure mentioned:
"Ryun's campaign paid a certain amount of money in the tens of thousands of dollars to the RNC to pay for Cheney's visit. She says after the visit the White House gave a bill to the Republican National Committee and whatever money is left over goes back to Ryun.
Ryun spent somewhere in tens of thousands of dollars to bring the vice president here, but made more than $200,000 in fundraising."
FCF is sure that after two more years of the Bush Regime even the figures of how much collected will be classified under Department of Homeland Security news guidelines.
Read what's left of her story at:
WIBW Who Paid for It?
CONGRESSMAN RYUN RAKES THE $$$$$$ IN
ON MAD DICK'S CAMPAIGN JUNKET?
KANSANS WILL NEVER KNOW.
Channel 13, WIBW-TV, Topeka, Ks. is no longer the aggressive news station that it once was more than 30 years ago. The reporters hands are tied in tight budgets and the herd mentality of advertisement driven editorial 'guidelines.'
Owned by one of the most right wing Republican slanted corporations in the United States, far from Topeka, Ks. the staff of reporters must labor under some pretty tough rules. Like don't piss off anybody, especially Republicans buying campaign ads!
A "card of thanks" goes out to Lisa Boschert who tried to report on just how much money Congressman Ryun spent to get Vice President Mad Dick Cheney to Topeka last week, but she failed by news time last week.
It is hard to come up with any investigative reporting working under the "It's So Good" canned format of Happy Face Mindless Boosterism called television journalism in Kansas.
Here is an excerpt with something of a dollar figure mentioned:
"Ryun's campaign paid a certain amount of money in the tens of thousands of dollars to the RNC to pay for Cheney's visit. She says after the visit the White House gave a bill to the Republican National Committee and whatever money is left over goes back to Ryun.
Ryun spent somewhere in tens of thousands of dollars to bring the vice president here, but made more than $200,000 in fundraising."
FCF is sure that after two more years of the Bush Regime even the figures of how much collected will be classified under Department of Homeland Security news guidelines.
Read what's left of her story at:
WIBW Who Paid for It?
Kansas anti-abortion chief physically attacks an independent journalist - on videotape.
KLINE's REGIME:
"MAN JUSTICE UNDER 'GOD'S LAW'"
KS AG KLINE ROUTINELY PEEKS IN KS WOMEN'S MEDICAL FILES.
COCKROACH SUPPORTER TROY NEWMAN HAS PULL.
While a Democratic state legislator is being prosecuted on simple assault charges in Topeka; i. e. possibly interfering with an anti-abortion demonstrator disrupting a public campaign meeting.
An independent journalist is openly assaulted on videotape down south during a Kline - Morrison debate.
Some free - thinkers say, "Christian terrorists always get away from pro-life cops in Kansas."
Wonder why?
Read it all and follow the links to watch the video:
Christian leader Troy Newman physically attacks Independent journalist
"MAN JUSTICE UNDER 'GOD'S LAW'"
KS AG KLINE ROUTINELY PEEKS IN KS WOMEN'S MEDICAL FILES.
COCKROACH SUPPORTER TROY NEWMAN HAS PULL.
While a Democratic state legislator is being prosecuted on simple assault charges in Topeka; i. e. possibly interfering with an anti-abortion demonstrator disrupting a public campaign meeting.
An independent journalist is openly assaulted on videotape down south during a Kline - Morrison debate.
Some free - thinkers say, "Christian terrorists always get away from pro-life cops in Kansas."
Wonder why?
Read it all and follow the links to watch the video:
Christian leader Troy Newman physically attacks Independent journalist
A Kline Kansas Christian militia Fundraiser?
YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR IN KANSAS
Stuff 'carry and concealed' permitted firearms into the pants of the Christian militias patrolling around women's clinics. Hire serial arrested anti - abortion militant, place in chief law enforcement office, sneak through the campaign law for church campaign funding, wave flags, guns and Bibles at the grandmas and grandpas. Get re-elected. Reporter's reading this should follow the links.
Subject: Personal
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:24:31 -0500
From: M--- H----
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Saints, this is a personal e-mail from United States and Kansas Citizen M--- H------.
United States citizen M--- H----- would like to personally and cordially invite you to a coffee/tea fundraiser with Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline (in person) at my home at 5-- S. L----l Ct., Wichita, Kansas (just 1/4 mile SW of 119th & Maple) 7--.5353, next Saturday, October 14th in the late morning at 11:00 a.m. This invitation and all expenses are paid for by me. The deep pockets of abortionist George Tiller are funding Kline's opponent.
IMPORTANT, PLEASE RSVP BY calling me at 7--.5353 or e-mailing me at pastor@spiritonecc.org (this specific e-mail is being used for personal business only)
In Christ Jesus,
M--- E. H-----
Follow the link below for possible campaign election ethic violations in Kansas:
View topic - Kline Fundraiser
Stuff 'carry and concealed' permitted firearms into the pants of the Christian militias patrolling around women's clinics. Hire serial arrested anti - abortion militant, place in chief law enforcement office, sneak through the campaign law for church campaign funding, wave flags, guns and Bibles at the grandmas and grandpas. Get re-elected. Reporter's reading this should follow the links.
Subject: Personal
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:24:31 -0500
From: M--- H----
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Saints, this is a personal e-mail from United States and Kansas Citizen M--- H------.
United States citizen M--- H----- would like to personally and cordially invite you to a coffee/tea fundraiser with Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline (in person) at my home at 5-- S. L----l Ct., Wichita, Kansas (just 1/4 mile SW of 119th & Maple) 7--.5353, next Saturday, October 14th in the late morning at 11:00 a.m. This invitation and all expenses are paid for by me. The deep pockets of abortionist George Tiller are funding Kline's opponent.
IMPORTANT, PLEASE RSVP BY calling me at 7--.5353 or e-mailing me at pastor@spiritonecc.org (this specific e-mail is being used for personal business only)
In Christ Jesus,
M--- E. H-----
Follow the link below for possible campaign election ethic violations in Kansas:
View topic - Kline Fundraiser
Saturday, October 14, 2006
An American woman's startling tale of life in Iraq . NOW | PBS
PBS - NOW broadcasted an incredible story of an American independent filmaker's eight months with a family in Iraq.
Her work which later got her scored on a Department of Homeland Security with it's highest threat rating will air this coming October 25, 2006 on PBS show POV (Point of View).
Read show notes, listen or download the audio from the NOW portion at:
An American woman's startling tale of life in Iraq . NOW PBS
Her work which later got her scored on a Department of Homeland Security with it's highest threat rating will air this coming October 25, 2006 on PBS show POV (Point of View).
Read show notes, listen or download the audio from the NOW portion at:
An American woman's startling tale of life in Iraq . NOW PBS
Arianna Huffington on Woodward's State of Denial, Sarah Anderson on Wal-Mart's pundits
Listen online &/or download the mp3 file from Counterspin's broadcast on media analysis. Important links below:
FAIR:
Fairness &
Accuracy
In
Reporting
Arianna Huffington on Woodward's new book detailing the lies and incompetence in "State of Denial,"
Also, Sarah Anderson on Wal-Mart's pundits
Huffington on Woodward's State of Denial, Sarah Anderson on Wal-Mart's pundits
CorpWatch: Democracy Now!: Afghanistan Inc: New Report Says "Contractors Making Big Money for Bad Work"
The important watchdog web site, CorpWatch reports on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. You can either; watch, listen or read the rush transcription of their recent appearance on Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!: Afghanistan Inc: New Report Says "Contractors Making Big Money for Bad Work"by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
October 5th, 2006
Watch or listen to the interview.
As Afghanistan enters its fifth year under foreign occupation, we take a look at the state of the US-led reconstruction of the country. We speak with Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa, author of a new report from Corpwatch, "Afghanistan Inc." [includes rush transcript]
In Afghanistan, NATO has now taken command of most foreign troops across the country. The handover of power comes just days before the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan of 2001. The U.S. continues to have more troops than any other country in Afghanistan.
The U.S. will also retain full control of Bagram Air Force base where the Bush administration is holding hundreds of prisoners.
* Daan Everts, NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan.
Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist admitted that the war against the Taliban might never be won. He said there are now too many Taliban fighters and that they have too much popular support. Frist said backers of the Taliban should be brought into the Afghan government.
Jump to the complete article at their web site by clicking:
CorpWatch: Democracy Now!: Afghanistan Inc: New Report Says "Contractors Making Big Money for Bad Work"
Democracy Now!: Afghanistan Inc: New Report Says "Contractors Making Big Money for Bad Work"by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
October 5th, 2006
Watch or listen to the interview.
As Afghanistan enters its fifth year under foreign occupation, we take a look at the state of the US-led reconstruction of the country. We speak with Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa, author of a new report from Corpwatch, "Afghanistan Inc." [includes rush transcript]
In Afghanistan, NATO has now taken command of most foreign troops across the country. The handover of power comes just days before the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan of 2001. The U.S. continues to have more troops than any other country in Afghanistan.
The U.S. will also retain full control of Bagram Air Force base where the Bush administration is holding hundreds of prisoners.
* Daan Everts, NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan.
Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist admitted that the war against the Taliban might never be won. He said there are now too many Taliban fighters and that they have too much popular support. Frist said backers of the Taliban should be brought into the Afghan government.
Jump to the complete article at their web site by clicking:
CorpWatch: Democracy Now!: Afghanistan Inc: New Report Says "Contractors Making Big Money for Bad Work"
Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran, Counterpunch, 12 Oct 2006
Reporting from Nazareth, Israel another important "on the ground" article from Jonathan Cook analyzing BBC's recent documentary on the on-going preparations for military action in the Persian Gulf. Cook premises the credible threat the Zionists controlling Israel pose in escalating and influencing world opinion, particularly U. S. foreign policy.
Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran
The BBC and Israeli Propaganda
By JONATHAN COOK
Counterpunch
October 12, 2006
The Middle East, and possibly the world, stands on the brink of a terrible conflagration as Israel and the United States prepare to deal with Iran's alleged ambition to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel, it becomes clearer by the day, wants to use its air force to deliver a knock-out blow against Tehran. It is not known whether it will use conventional weapons or a nuclear warhead in such a strike.
At this potentially cataclysmic moment in global politics, it is good to see that one of the world's leading broadcasters, the BBC, decided this week that it should air a documentary entitled "Will Israel bomb Iran?". It is the question on everyone's lips and doubtless, with the imprimatur of the BBC, the programme will sell around the world.
The good news ends there, however. Because the programme addresses none of the important issues raised by Israel's increasingly belligerent posture towards Tehran.
Read the complete article below, or click the title headline above, and go immediately to Mr. Cook's web site managed from Nazareth, Israel:
Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran, Counterpunch, 12 Oct 2006
Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran
The BBC and Israeli Propaganda
By JONATHAN COOK
Counterpunch
October 12, 2006
The Middle East, and possibly the world, stands on the brink of a terrible conflagration as Israel and the United States prepare to deal with Iran's alleged ambition to acquire nuclear weapons. Israel, it becomes clearer by the day, wants to use its air force to deliver a knock-out blow against Tehran. It is not known whether it will use conventional weapons or a nuclear warhead in such a strike.
At this potentially cataclysmic moment in global politics, it is good to see that one of the world's leading broadcasters, the BBC, decided this week that it should air a documentary entitled "Will Israel bomb Iran?". It is the question on everyone's lips and doubtless, with the imprimatur of the BBC, the programme will sell around the world.
The good news ends there, however. Because the programme addresses none of the important issues raised by Israel's increasingly belligerent posture towards Tehran.
Read the complete article below, or click the title headline above, and go immediately to Mr. Cook's web site managed from Nazareth, Israel:
Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran, Counterpunch, 12 Oct 2006
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