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POPS It's The Stupid, Stupid--The Media gets a FAIL
Nevertheless, we get nonstop coverage of this man for two solid weeks from major television, radio, and newspapers. And yet the worst of the lot, television, when confronted with the fact that they were complicit in disseminating Pentagon propaganda by using retired generals as paid shills for the Iraq war effort, has less to say about it than Bill O'Reilly on the difference between a loofah and a falafel. Part of the problem is that modern news editors hate "policy," because "policy isn't news." But in times like these, it isn't hard to make a case that, yes, policy is news--but today's media is too vapid and too hard up for rapidly vanishing eyeballs to care. Four months in a row of job losses on the edge of recession calls for some sort of policy change (and the president is doing the Charleston trying to avoid saying the R-word). Gas prices are skyrocketing toward the $4/gallon mark, and two of the three presidential candidates are saying that cutting the gas tax--in effect, giv
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POPSWinter Soldier to be re-Broadcast If you missed this compelling program, listen in sometime. Very moving testimony from the soldiers who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by the Bush/Cheney criminals.
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POPS White House Announces Contest to Find More Specific Text For "Mission Accomplished" Banner Some of the early entries includes... "Huge Defense Contracts and Profits For Halliburton, Blackwater, other friends of Bush/Cheney Built On The Graves of Innocents Accomplished" "Generating a Smokescreen to Cover up the Disembowelment of Federal Departments and Their Conversion to Partisan Operations - i.e. EPA, Justice, Housing - Accomplished" "Protection of Osama Bin Laden by Diverting Resources from Finding Him and Those Who Were Actually Behind 9-11 Accomplished" "Increasing Foreign Tourism by Weakening the Dollar to the Point That it Is Cheaper for the French, English and Germans to Fly Here to Do Their Christmas Shopping Than to Go to Their Local Mall Accomplished." "Going to War With The President You Have, Not The President You'd Like Accomplished" "Bringing Together Families in Unanticipated Ways With Widows (And Widowers) and Their Children Get to Move in with Their Own Parents in Order to Survive Life as Single-parents as Well as Families Getting to Spend
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POPSCan Americans Stop Bush/Cheney From Attacking Iran? The Answer is Yes! An interestingg idea--a national strike...read the whole article to understand my comment: I think Mad Jayhawk, who is aptly self-named, not so subtly tells us why a strike in "Murrika might not be possible. "murrikans are addicted to war as well as oil. We are too diverse, apathetic and delusional as a populace to pull together in "solidarity". I doubt that haf the people know what solidaroity means or could fathom the idea of a national strike. We're too selfish and still haven't reached the crisis level needed. Unfortunate and a bit sad, neh? Sorry to sound so negative about a strike I would join in a heartbeat but that's the way I see this benighted nation. Sick, ain't it?
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POPSUS Police Crack Down on Iraq Rallies It should be 200,000 or 2 million---Where the hell are the people who claim to be against the war? Oh, yeah...too busy to notice there is still a war on. Shame on you who sit by and do nothing. I was out there and I'm half crippled with arthritis and a back that is in constant pain.
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POPS War Mongering Imbecilic Murdering Liar Plans Library > The Blackwater/Halliburton room where you are armed to the teeth and allowed to go berserker and shoot anything that moves, friendly or not. Then you charge the Gov't. a ton of cash$$$ for the privilege. > The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, > complete with > shooting gallery. > > Plans also include: The K-Street Project Gift Shop - Where > you can buy > (or just steal) an election. > > The Men's Room, where you can meet some of your > favorite Republican > Senators. > > Last, but not least, there will be an entire floor devoted > to a 7/8 > scale model of the President's ego. > > To highlight the President's accomplishments, the > museum will have an > electron microscope to help you locate them. > > When asked, President Bush said that he didn't care so > much about the > individual exhibits as long as his museum > was better than his father's. Current Location: Corvallis, Oregon Current Mood: angry
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POPSWill Americans Do To Bush What Italians Did to Mussolini? Do you know how easy it is to rout the criminals out of the White House? Sign on to WWW.WEXLERWANTSHEARINGS.COM Get active and get everyone you know and everyone you don't know to sign on. SUCCESS COMES WHEN PREPARATION MEETS OPPORTUNITY!!! We are close to the opportunity. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ http://www.justacitizen.com/ p.s. Mussolini was an idiot too. p.p.s. Did you see McCain acknowledge what we all know and have always known...water boarding is torture... go down to McCain's mug on this page and click on to hear video acknowledging America conducts torture http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080314/wl_afp/ecuadorusspaincolombiadiplomacy
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POPSI MADE IT! OREGON AT LAST! and on the plane down (I HATE FLYIN'--COULD THEY CRAM SOME MORE NERVOUS MONKEYS INTO SMALLER SEATS IN A TIN CAN?) ---it was uber-weird, me with my "Impeach Cheney" cap and Nixon button that Joe gave me and a whale pin....anyhow a lot of soldier/business/patriot type jazzbo's were givin' me "stinkeye" bigtime...it was freakin' creepy...Then the Stewardess gave a little "let's all hear it for the troops" speech with me the only visible person not applauding...tough shit...I ain't clapping for people who go 6,000 miles to steal oil and kill innocent people....fuck 'em! I'll have applause and compassion for 'em when they find some semblance of conscience. How I feel, can't help it. I'm fed up with the war and all the lies... Anyway.... rant over and I hope I never see another freaky bald Gordon Liddy lookalike starin' at ME like I was fresh meat for a Gitmo cell and a little water-boarding. Jeebus and Ramona! People cain't take a little political protest without the hatred just flowing out
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POPSSupport the Truth, Not the Troops excellent article and comments..it goes on -- “I wouldn’t have it any other way,” Long said. “I made the best decision, I know that. And regardless of what hardships I go through, I could have easily put a family or someone else in that country into way more hardship.” (Hear Robin Long’s interview here: www.couragetoresist.org) Is this the first time you are hearing the story of Robin Long? If so, why do you suppose that is? “Support the troops, not the war.” By now, this phrase has been repeated so often inside the anti-war movement that it is the stuff of cliché. There are many reasons this slogan is misguided, and worse. One of the most immediately obvious of these reasons is that this position—regardless of the intent of the person advocating it—ultimately takes the suffering of the Iraqi and Afghani people out of the equation. A recent article in Revolution newspaper —“The
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POPSWexler Pushing for Impeachment While Praising Pelosi see site for video When? Millions of Americans have been calling for impeachment for a long time, Rep. Wexler and I admire you for pushing the issue in the HR....BUT-- I wonder why you praise Speaker Pelosi so highly since she is the person who took impeachment off the table from the start of the movement to take these criminals in the WH down to where they belong--under oath and before a jury of their peers. Get going! Ms. Pelosi shouldn't have to get her butt kissed to do her job defending the Constitution!
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POPSDemocrats: Impeach, or Face Humiliation in November Aside from maintaining the sanctity of the Constitution—and holding accountable a criminal Administration—three immediate benefits will accrue: • Exposing and proving the truth will lift the veil of fear the Bush Administration has imposed. • The proven fraudulence of the war will mandate its immediate termination. • John McCain’s candidacy will be destroyed. No one has been a more enthusiastic champion for George Bush’s ”war on terror” than Senator McCain. When it is displayed as appalling deceit, Mr. McCain will be shown a willing accomplice—or a tragic fool—and wholly unfit to be president. But time is short, and the Democratic party is engaged in a civil war. With their demonstrated genius for losing elections, Mr. McCain might well stroll to the presidency. Unless he is proven to be unfit. Democrats, impeach. Or expect to be humiliated.
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POPSUS Plotted To Overthrow Hamas After Election Victory According to the magazine, Rice played a main role in trying to persuade Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to offer training and funding to the Fatah fighters. Israeli officials admitted in December 2006 that Egypt had sent weapons to the Fatah faction in Gaza. The US effort did not end with the establishment of a Palestinian national unity government. Vanity Fair describes the administration’s plan B, which called for adding 4,700 new Fatah troops with additional training in Jordan and Egypt. A state department memo put the cost for salaries, training and weapons at $1.27bn (£640m) over five years
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POPSmessage: We can't save them from themselves. The U.S. is currently spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pay the monthly salaries of some 600,000 armed fighters in the three rival ethnic camps in Iraq. These fighters -- Shiite, Kurd and Sunni Arab -- are not only antagonistic but deeply unreliable allies. The Sunni Arab militias have replaced central government officials, including police, and taken over local administration and security in the pockets of Iraq under their control. They have no loyalty outside of their own ethnic community. Once the money runs out, or once they feel strong enough to make a thrust for power, the civil war in Iraq will accelerate with deadly speed. The tactic of money-for-peace failed in Afghanistan. The U.S. doled out funds and weapons to tribal groups in Afghanistan to buy their loyalty, but when the payments and weapons shipments ceased, the tribal groups headed back into the embrace of the Taliban.
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POPSTaxi to the Dark Side
by Amy Goodman The Oscar ceremony was bereft of serious mention of the war, until Gibney rose to accept his award. He said: “Thank you very much, Academy. Here’s to all doc filmmakers. And, truth is, I think my dear wife Anne was kind of hoping I’d make a romantic comedy, but honestly, after Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, that simply wasn’t possible. This is dedicated to two people who are no longer with us: Dilawar, the young Afghan taxi driver, and my father, a Navy interrogator who urged me to make this film because of his fury about what was being done to the rule of law. Let’s hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and back to the light. Thank you very much.” “Taxi to the Dark Side” can be seen in movie theaters, and the Oscar will surely help open it up to more audiences. Gibney got a surprise, though, from the Discovery Channel, the television network that had bought the TV rights to the film. He told me: “Well, it turns out that the Discovery C
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POPSHow Sick Of It Are You? Sick enough? Then sign up here: www.sickofitday.org. And when you call in sick on March 19, before going back to bed or out to protest, check out this link to the document that started a revolution against another King George. Note where it says "Governments are instituted among Men (sic), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." We no longer consent. We are sick of it.
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POPS"Shallow Throat" Sizes Up the Dem/GOP Candidates Shallow Throat laughed. "Well, of course Obama or Clinton would be better than who my party is likely to put up. But we're talking about the need for a MASSIVE overhaul in all areas of post-Cheney/Bush politics, and re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic that is Iraq is not my idea of anything major happening. The mindset that allows for war in that region of the world will not alter all that much. But, you're right, the Dems would change the tone and priorities a bit and maybe that's all we can hope for at this stage." "That's what I'm saying!"I nearly shouted. "Maybe these are not the candidates you or I would have chosen as the Democratic Party's nominee, but they are infinitely better than the rabid warhawk McCain, who knows honor and duty and 'patriotic' warfare and stay-the-course but not much about diplomacy and peace and when enough is enough. He's still fighting the Vietnam War in his head and the 'Islamofascist extremists' are, to him, the 'gooks' (his terms) of the 2
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POPSWe have nothing to fear...but these bozos Taken as a whole, these stories nicely define the current state of Republicans when it comes to popularity. Having kowtowed to the Neocon brand of fascism for over two decades, they are finally being seen as the belching bozos they are. The majority of Americans are clearly suffering not only from "coulrophobia," but from "scatophobia," the fear of fecal matter, as well. This explains the low turnout in the Republican primaries.
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