Major Political Changes in the USA

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Kevin Sites: 'Show the shooting in the Mosque'

'The NBC cameraman who shot the controversial video in Fallujah that showed a Marine involved in killing an unarmed, wounded insurgent, wants Americans (like those abroad) to see the actual shooting. "You can not bury the truth," he says. The Marine has been cleared by the military.

'NEW YORK (May 23, 2005) -- Kevin Sites has the scene embedded in his psyche. Once again he sees a Marine corporal cursing, "He's f------ faking he's dead," just before shooting an unarmed Iraqi insurgent slumped against a wall in a Fallujah mosque. Another Marine, standing nearby, says, quietly, "Well, he's dead now." One more body in the bloodiest battle of the war in Iraq -- the American-led assault on Fallujah.

'Sites, a 43-year-old freelance television correspondent for NBC, captured the entire episode with his camera. The U.S. networks, including NBC, broadcast the story of the mosque but blacked out the actual shooting. But the Arab world saw everything -- and reacted with revulsion.

'American conservatives attacked Sites for shooting an incident that they claim unfairly undermined the morale of the Marines, while antiwar activists used it to attack the war itself. Still, in this country, it became the shooting few people saw.' more here

we saw this on TV a few months ago, totally disgusting and even more so that the marine got off.

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'...In interviews, influential tribal leaders and many residents of the remote border towns said the 1,000 U.S. troops who swept into their territories in the weeklong campaign that ended over the weekend didn't distinguish between the Iraqis who supported the United States and the fighters battling it. 'The Americans were bombing whole villages and saying they were only after the foreigners,' said Fasal al Goud, a former governor of Anbar province who said he asked U.S. forces for help on behalf of the tribes. 'An AK-47 can't distinguish between a terrorist and a tribesman, so how could a missile or tank?' fr the implementation of operation matador

[DudeAsInCool]

FBI Records Suggest Newsweek Was Right

http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/052505/

[DudeAsInCool]

Helen Thomas takes on the White House!

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

[DudeAsInCool]

The head of the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel has come under fire again from lawmakers and gay groups for his refusal to enforce a policy that protects federal workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/po/usofficia...ongaybiaspolicy

[DudeAsInCool]

President Participates in Social Security Conversation in New York

Greece Athena Middle and High School

Athena Performing Arts Center

Greece, New York

GWB: See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20050524-3.html

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FBI Records Suggest Newsweek Was Right

newsweek /was/ right--they've been flushing Korans for years now according to the red cross and others.

there's a pattern here: whenever truth threatens to rear its head (e.g., Dan Rather and the AWOL thing), they all chime in to find a tiny flaw in the source (whether true or not) and then shout their heads off, totally missing the point.

and the TV droolers are drowned beneath the ensuing bullshit and believe the bullshit cause it's louder than the truth. fuck 'em all.

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GWB: See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)

no, in your line of work you just keep on lying and your noise machine picks up the slack over and over and over all over and all the other idiot assholes believe your bullshit.

[DudeAsInCool]

and the TV droolers are drowned beneath the ensuing bullshit and believe the bullshit cause it's louder than the truth.

More than likely they just dont care

[slum_goddess]

that's even worse especially if they're feeling the fucked economy badly.

[DudeAsInCool]

House prices seem high in much of the United States and price growth is likely to slow, Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Roger Ferguson said on Friday in the latest indication of policy-makers' concern about the issue.

"Right now, housing prices in many markets in the United States are relatively high when judged by conventional valuation measures," Ferguson said in prepared remarks to a conference sponsored by the Bundesbank in Berlin.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/economy_fed_fer...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

This is the understatement of the year. Housing prices, particularly on the West Coast and NY City, are insane...and they are going to tumble...

[DudeAsInCool]

33 percent of conservatives say they will vote for Hillary!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050527/...ovoteforclinton

[Kooperman]

33 percent of conservatives say they will vote for Hillary!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050527/...ovoteforclinton

1/3 of Redneck in Texas is waiting in line right now!

[DudeAsInCool]

House prices seem high in much of the United States and price growth is likely to slow, Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Roger Ferguson said on Friday in the latest indication of policy-makers' concern about the issue.

"Right now, housing prices in many markets in the United States are relatively high when judged by conventional valuation measures," Ferguson said in prepared remarks to a conference sponsored by the Bundesbank in Berlin.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/economy_fed_fer...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

This is the understatement of the year. Housing prices, particularly on the West Coast and NY City, are insane...and they are going to tumble...

Read on...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/itsnotab...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[DudeAsInCool]

Bush Calls Human Rights Report 'Absurd'

President Bush called a human rights report "absurd" for criticizing the United States' detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said Tuesday the allegations were made by "people who hate America."

"It's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world," Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.

Read more here:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050531/D8AE81UO0.html

Slate asks 'What is Torture?"

http://www.slate.com/id/2119122/

[DudeAsInCool]

The 'I' word

THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.

Minutes from a summer 2002 meeting involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal that the Bush administration was ''fixing" the intelligence to justify invading Iraq. US intelligence used to justify the war demonstrates repeatedly the truth of the meeting minutes -- evidence was thin and needed fixing.

Read more:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial..._i_word?mode=PF

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after downing street says: ' If you think President Bush should be impeached, it’s time to get serious...' i've signed their (and everyone else's) petition and i'm so naive that i'm still hoping.

[DudeAsInCool]

June 6, 2005

Senator Clinton Assails Bush and G.O.P. at Campaign Fund-Raiser

Senator Hillary Clinton castigated President Bush and Washington Republicans today as mad with power and bent on marginalizing Democrats during a speech to 1,000 supporters at her first major re-election fund-raiser, which netted about $250,000.

Mrs. Clinton, who is running for a second term in 2006 and is widely described as a possible Democratic nominee for the presidency in 2008, said that her party is hamstrung because Republicans dissemble and smear without shame and the news media has lost its investigatory zeal for exposing misdeeds.

Read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/nyregion...agewanted=print

[DudeAsInCool]

Post-ABC Poll: Americans Say War in Iraq Has Not Made U.S. Safer

For the first time since the war in Iraq began, over half of the American public believes the fight there has not made the United States safer, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5060700296.html

[DudeAsInCool]

In S.F., Dean calls GOP 'a white Christian party'

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, unapologetic in the face of recent criticism that he has been too tough on his political opposition, said in San Francisco this week that Republicans are "a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...07/MNdean07.TMP

[DudeAsInCool]

Texas governor suggests gay veterans should leave state

Gay groups demand Perry apologize

Texas Gov. Rick Perry suggested that gay veterans unhappy with the proposed anti-gay constitutional amendment should move elsewhere.

"I'm going to say Texas has made a decision on marriage and if there's a state with more lenient views than Texas, then maybe that's where they should live," the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Perry said Sunday.

http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelate...fm?blog_id=1006

I have a better idea - Texas can secede from the Union

[DudeAsInCool]

Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming

A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics...serland&emc=rss

[DudeAsInCool]

Supreme Court reverses death penalty conviction

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a black death row inmate who said Texas prosecutors unfairly stacked his jury with whites, issuing a harsh rebuke to the state that executes more people than any other state.

Read more:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/13/scotus.d...y.ap/index.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Despite public polls at an alltime low for Bush, the conservatives are still wreathing havoc - they just prepared bills to lower the US contribution to the UN, as well as another bill to cut back funding for PBS and NPR. These guys are clearly the worst administration in American history...

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THEY'RE DOING IT ON PURPOSE, it's not like they have no idea of the consequences of their actions, they just don't give a fuck.