Thursday, April 12, 2007
Thursday: Hi, Senator
We welcome a real, genuine U.S. Senator to the show today, in the form of the great Russ Feingold, Democrat from Wisconsin. We'll ask him if he's bummed that he's not the father of Anna Nicole's baby. But we're not stopping with Senator Feingold, we've got an action packed show for you today. We'll have blogger Atrios, John Amato from Crooks and Liars, Katrina vanden Heuvel from The Nation, and "Senator" Katherine Harris. What a freakin' show! Get down on your hands and knees and thank the heavens for this one. And the next one. Cause that's all there is left.
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Two Mournful Goodbyes; One Joyful
This week, two tragedies have struck my world of intellectual stimulation.
Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday of complications related to a head injury after a fall in his home. He will be missed. I'm sorry you weren't able to drink and smoke yourself to death, Kurt. I'm guessing you felt slipping in the bathtub was a little undignified for a doctor of anthropology. In any case, we were all blessed to have you in this world as long as we did. A message to the gang on Tralfamadore from all of us you left behind: "."
Also this week, Sam Seder announced the death of his weekday show on Air America Radio. AAR is emerging from a highly publicized bankruptcy and sale to SLG Radio, and Seder's program was an anchor-point through the transition. There is no clear reason for this managerial decision, which was made public on the air on April 6th by Seder himself. I'm troubled and puzzled by this development, as Sam Seder was the best thing AAR had going (besides Randi Rhodes at 3:00pm).
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move the cam so we can see ja neaneee
Oh jeez.
Don't tell me Janeane just found out?!?
Please no more Katherine Harris?
Pretty please?
M.K from Mich.You are so Right!!
too cute, good to see that lady again.
Lost sound!
Where did the SOUND GO on the Sammy Cam??
sound off for you folks?
sound off for you folks?
no sound
You lost audio on the Cam. Turn it on!
lost the audio
Yes, I IM'd them about it
Yeah, lost sound.
Though Janeane in a tank top is alluring...
Hahahahahahaha. Just like old times. FUBAR
where's the sound!!!
Thanks waitingfor....
no sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why am i gettig the sammy blog in german all of a sudden, and why isn't it asking me for my TypeKey login but for some kind of Google login (which I don't have)??? And Why does the Sammy Cam keep telling me to "tune in during broadcast hours"???
Tanya.P.Henauer
For every Flanders, you have a Seder or Maddow who offer nothing but party line points. I think those people do damage by denying the very real problems as they cheerlead a party. I think we saw that would be the way it was for Sam Seder without Janeane Garofalo by his side when Slimey Simon Rosenberg was interviewed (Garofalo wasn't on that broadcast) and Seder refused to question him. Callers and the show's blog were screaming about the pass Seder gave Rosenberg. That is who Seder really is. That's not news today, now most see it. He's a Party boy who won't call out. Rosenberg was a "player" (supposedly a shoe in -- to hear Seder and his blog buddies tell it -- for DNC chair), so Seder gave him a pass. It was as bad as anything the New York Times could have done and Seder could try to defend all he wanted but he blew that interview and did so on purpose.
CAM IS COMPLETELY OFF. SAYING PLEASE TUNE BACK DURING BROADCAST HOURS!
no sound!!!!
accckkkkkk!!!!
ROLLINS!
w00t!
OMFG
Meow! HR! i am listening live with the Sammy cam on.
Here's my problem with these "protests" against Imus. Don't get me wrong, what he said was wrong and I don't like him, but that is besides the point.
Whats my problem? Why the NAACP and their hypocrisy. If I am not mistaken, they "wanted Imus' head". What is their hypocrisy? Why honoring that Washington dude I believe from "Srubs" or "Greys Anatomy"? Not sure. However, he said awful things about homosexuals. The NAACP was asked not to do this due to the statements this clown said about one of his own colleages. Yet, those who protested this were ignored. How can the black community raise such cane about Imus and in the same breath, support homophobic comments? Apparently outrage is only reserved when it is them that gets attacked.
I just switched to iTunes as a backup
finally back
reload.....
no sound on the cam... it'll be back... hopefully!
Audio's up on Cam
'Little House' child star will speak up for abused children
You guys should get a video producer, too.
Different camera angles would be cool.
reload worked, thanks!
Brilliant radio
Katherine Harris, Sam Seder and Henry Rollins walk into bar...
Go Sammy Go!!Too funny!!
Chiapas: campesinos protest illegal land sales
Representantives of dozens of ejidos (agricultural collectives) in the northern zone of Mexico's Chiapas state issued a statement denouncing the approval of illegal sales of collective lands. The protesters, mostly Chol Maya from the municipalities of Tila and Salto de Agua, acused the federal Certification Program for Eijdo Rights and Land Titles (PROCEDE) of skirting regulations by approving sales which had not been agreed upon by all collective members, as required by law. The statement said the illegal sales have "left entire families without their patrimony."
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That's it I am done with Air America
I Carefully worked my schedule so I'd be at a computer to listen to Sam's last week in the morning. Halfway through Thursday's show the stream I've had bookmarked since the day Air America went on the air went out and I was told I had to go to their web page, which insisted I fill out a survey form before I could listen. Then it told me to tune back during broadcast hours. (Isn't NOW broadcast hours?) Then it crashed. This happened 8 times. That's it that's the last straw. I am done with Air America.
As soon as I get home tonite I'm subscribing to Nova M premium. Sam, I hope you'll consider joining Mike over there. They're already vacuuming the red carpet for you. I'm not giving up sunday sports to sit at a computer and listen. I do that enough during the week. And I refuse to give Air America one more dime after what they did to Mark, Mike and now you. Sorry.
Joe Conason, David Sirota and Christy Harvey, if you're reading this please consider calling the Stephanie Miller show. That's where I'll be. Hope you will too.
Sam thanks so much for all your great information and insight. Al should have said you are the future of progressive talk radio.
Ask Katherine where the emails went.She still has connections!
"the spirit of the emails"
hahahahahaha!
Mexican army harasses Zapatista peace camps
Hmmmm.... Sam and Imus lose their jobs in the same week. Coincidence? I think not!
It's a conspiracy!
I'll have to call in to Lionel about it - he loves that kind of thing.
What's with the towels for Henry?
it's raining cats and dogs in nyc today. he's probably wet and cold...
Janeane!
No more Katherine Harris
I bet Katherine Harris would love a soaking wet Henry Rollins.
"We'd better get you out of those wet clothes!" she'd say.
Can't see 'Senator Harris' and Henry Rollins... camera server overload. PLEASE POST THIS FOOTAGE ON YOUTUBE.
Sam- You are too cool... Henry Freakin' Rollins? Imus never landed him!!!! (I don't think?)
it seems a bit hypocritical to hate imus and not howard stern. howard stern is a sexist slob who treats women like crap. -who cares if there are women dumb enough to put up with that kind of treatment--that doesn't make it okay.
not only is howard stern sexist who has no place talking about how women SHOULD look (being that he's a hideous beast), but he was a Bush supporter as well-only changing his mind about GW Bush once the FCC started coming down on him. he's a hypocrite and a sexist and i've lost a bit of respect for sam knowing that he likes stern.
The SammyCam missed the 'sound package'
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Can't get Sammy Cam. Due to popularity of this event it is not available at this time. Please check back later.
YAY!
Janeane's back!
Lost my cam but can listen live.
Janeane was great in Portland!
The show tonight with Maron and Rollins would be amazing!
I'm so bummed that I can't stream to Samcam = (
I think the bandwidth has been exceeded....
P.S.IM is 'samsedershow', email is samsedershow@gmail.com
P.P.S.Mark Green's 'announcement' @ the top of AAR's homepage, has many negative reactions to this latest executive move - I added mine....
We like you on the SammyCam, Janeane.
juliepollack said...
I don't see where to comment on the AAR home page. Where please?
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Sam's sammy cam announcement box is taking up the shortcut to the "From Mark Green's Desk". When Sam's show is over you'll see what I mean.
Who's #47?
Click on Mark green's letter on home page.Then click on comments!
Meghan O'Sullivan
Was she forced out? Congress should convene a hearing and get her on c-span
People don't forget to go to "From Mark Green's Desk" after Sam's show and post your disapproval of Sam's demotion. I've been checking it everyday and there were still less than 200 comments last night. WTF?
Janeane is The Greatest!!:)
They have been archiving or deleting comments. A kos diary mentioned it a few days ago.
Anonymous said...
People don't forget to go to "From Mark Green's Desk" after Sam's show and post your disapproval of Sam's demotion.
You can also go to the "About Us" button and click "Press"
On the Press page is a post about Lionel where so far, 222 people have expressed their discontent there too.
I posted in both places.
Dang it, Janeane.
Why'd you cover up?
Can you see us staring through the SammyCam?
L@L sez:
Hiya, gang!
Well, all the online access points to the streams have taken a dump...audio, video, thru the AAR homepage, even thru other feeds.
Feh!
You're makin' a big fuckin' mistake, Mr. Green...takin' our Sammy from us. You think any other AAR hosts can crash the servers & stream feeds due to demand?
Feh^2 on you!
Hey, L@L.
Good to read you. Try the iTunes stream.
eya LaL,
seize the day! eh?
My posted comment:
What does Air America 2.0 mean?
Software crashes? Overheating? Better graphics? (On the radio?!)
No! You drop one of your most popular hosts.
Sam Seder will be missed, immensely.
He is by far the best host AAR has ever had. I cannot justify renewing my subscription to AAR premium without a daily dose of Sam Seder. Hundreds of my friends on the internet feel the same way. I'm certain there will be at least an unofficial boycott of the new Lionel (who?) show by most of the listeners of Sam's show. We cannot help but feel the cutbacks to Sam Seder's schedule will result in huge losses to Air America, both in respect and profits. Our local affiliate KPOJ, recently played Sam's show regularly twice a day! You folks really need to think this move through. Seder was the only reason AAR was still here for you to rescue. Ask Mike Malloy. There are other venues for Sam's show to be heard. These kind of actions only result in the trash talking of Air America by its competitors and former employees, usually on its own airwaves! (Ed Shultz is a regular, Janeane Garofalo and Marc Maron have chimed in many times, too.)
Sam Seder's professionalism on the subject only proves what an enormous loss to the liberal radio world Sam's move will be.
"Sam Seder is the future of Air America" -(future) Senator Al Franken
(No one thought Franken was gonna 'be somebody' during his first couple years at SNL, either, remember?)
-Harold Jennings
Hillsboro, Oregon
Go Harold!
FYI, here's what the AAR homepage looks like to me (on Firefox, MacOS10.x):
Next to SamCam link, on right, is a box saying 'What's New - From the Desk of Mark Green' & just underneath it is a small link that sez 'read more', which takes me to a page w/ a link that sez '51 comments'.Once I click on that, then I get the comments - hafta log in to post 1.
HTH
"Where'd you get the beads from?"
That's a silly question.
Harold said...
"Get Olbermann to get you a job!"
Ha! I actually emailed Olbermann and told him the same thing.
I also told him to hurry it up so he could call in to Sam on his last day to tell him he's hired.
You are so right Harold!!
KOlbermann@msnbc.com
Holy shit!
Great show! Tim Robbins?!
Remind me why they're canceling this?
"I also told him to hurry it up so he could call in to Sam on his last day to tell him he's hired."
That would be SO cool!
Why not? It could be a Olbermann styled show, but more liberal.
MSNBC still needs to make up for Donahue!
Tim Robbins!
let's see if tim says "in terms of". I'm sick of that phrase.
They hanging out after the show?
Aw CRAP!
I missed the last half hour... couldn't log into the Sammy cam... then I finally got it and I had to take a call ... and it was over!
CRAP!
How come Sam never looks at this blog anymore?
Just wonderin'.
Sam, please please please go to NovaM and show these bastards what they will be missing. You have a huge fanbase and we need your voice out there. Please do not leave radio.
Syatika(sp?)-Back problem.
Yes,he should look at this Blog every once and awhile??IM this!
Peaches, folks.
Many blessings
Economic Hitman is a great book!
someone get janeane a mirror
Sam and Janeane,
miss you guys.
KevinK
Looks like that bombing in the Parliament building in Iraq today is worse. There are 8 total dead now.
They are now looking into how the suicide bomber got in.
It's on CNN now.
Yoga hasn't helped Janeane's back?
KevinK
Now chimpy is on talking about it.
8 dead, 20 wounded.
cinema verite
cinema verite
If I had the time I'd send you another Gunny Sack of Goodies.
KevinK
G-man I know said you can get a forensic computer reading of "erased" emails.
Shh..The sammy cam picture is still up.
Unemployment jumped to 324,000 last month. Per msnbc
Canceling Seder is a crime.
What's going to distract me from work now?
What the hell is Air America thinking?
Bring back Seder and Maron!
Aww. They're gone.
That doesn't count peeps like me who gave up years ago, ToniD
Sciatica is usually a hip problem
the sciatic nerve is a huge bundle of nerves on both sides of your backbone.
bad disks:
the disk poofs out of the vertebrae and rubs a spot on the nerve bundle triggering muscle spasms. extreme cases like mine lock up all your muscles from your head to your toes at the same time and trigger all the pain nerve endings as well.
you learn to relax during what amounts to an entire body migraine headache...
not pleasant.
Yep!!See you all.Take care!!See ya tomorrow!!
Both sides of your backbone,is your back:)
yup.
sometimes it's biased on one side or another.
really bad when it's both.
Neurontin!!And Anti-depress.help my Chronic Pain sometimes.
And the Old Vicadin for break-thru Pain.
I must have gone over to the Mayo Clinic web page by mistake??See ya.
What about Glenn Beck? What about asking CNN and ABC to fire him?
That doesn't count peeps like me who gave up years ago, ToniD
April 12, 2007 12:10 PM
I know Harold. But it's been the biggest jump in about 2 months. Since the Xmas season layoffs.
These aren't true figures anyway and never have been.
Hey, I'm so sad about Sam leaving. As I stated on the air a couple of weeks ago, when Sam made negative but honest statements about APEC he began he slow but inevitable demise. So very sad.
Janet in Bowie Maryland
HI SUNSIHINE JIM! Don't forget to call me back.
ya
drug treatments vary.
most important is to get off it.
anti inflamatories to ease the pressure,
and something to kill the pain so you can rest without moving and heal.
traction helps too. not that hard to rig at home.
excercises work to and a few stretches will ease the pain immediately, wish i could show em to J, but if you put the stress on it again you're right back to the spasms.
Roscoe Lee Brown has died also. He was 81. He had cancer.
ROSCOE LEE BROWNE. Deep-voiced actor of stage, screen fame dies at 81.
What about Rush? I think he is now in a death spiral, but how about Clear Channel canceling his contract?
Unfortunately, it takes the advertisers getting enough calls to get them to threaten Clear Channel or those affiliates who run Rush's shows to get it pulled.
Janeane said sam "should take it personally" that he's the only one that got fired. He wasn't pleased.
Well, one show left to go...
Too bad Janeane wouldn't leave Sam alone..
Sam might just have made it on his own..
Janeane is the kiss of death..
Another lesson learned the hard way...
Kurt Vonnegut:
His political side:
With his columns for In These Times, he began a blistering attack on the administration of President George W. Bush and the Iraq war. "By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East?" he wrote. "Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas in December." [17]
In A Man Without a Country, he wrote that "George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography." He did not regard the 2004 election with much optimism; speaking of Bush and John Kerry, he said that "no matter which one wins, we will have a Skull and Bones President at a time when entire vertebrate species, because of how we have poisoned the topsoil, the waters and the atmosphere, are becoming, hey presto, nothing but skulls and bones."[18]
In 2005 Vonnegut was interviewed by David Neson for The Australian.[19] During the course of the interview Vonnegut was asked his opinion of modern terrorists, to which he replied "I regard them as very brave people." When pressed further Vonnegut also said that "They [suicide bombers] are dying for their own self-respect. It's a terrible thing to deprive someone of their self-respect. It's [like] your culture is nothing, your race is nothing, you're nothing ... It is sweet and noble - sweet and honourable I guess it is - to die for what you believe in." (This last statement is a reference to the line "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" ["it is sweet and appropriate to die for your country"] from Horace's Odes, or possibly from Wilfred Owen's ironic use of the line in his Dulce Et Decorum Est.) David Neson took offense to Vonnegut's comments and characterized him as an old man who "doesn't want to live any more ... and because he can't find anything worthwhile to keep him alive, he finds defending terrorists somehow amusing." Vonnegut's son, Dr. Mark Vonnegut responded to the article by writing an editorial to the Boston Globe in which he explained the reasons behind his father's "provocative posturing" and stated that "If these commentators can so badly misunderstand and underestimate an utterly unguarded English-speaking 83-year-old man with an extensive public record of exactly what he thinks, maybe we should worry about how well they understand an enemy they can't figure out what to call."[20]
A 2006 interview with Rolling Stone magazine stated, " ... it's not surprising that he disdains everything about the Iraq War. The very notion that more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers have been killed in what he sees as an unnecessary conflict makes him groan. 'Honestly, I wish Nixon were president,' Vonnegut laments. 'Bush is so ignorant.' "[5]
Ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Rush's show...???
That is the Gold Standard for radio advertising..
So silly..!!!
World War II and the firebombing of Dresden
Vonnegut's experience as a soldier and prisoner of war had a profound influence on his later work. As an advance scout with the U.S. 106th Infantry Division during the Battle of the Bulge, Vonnegut was cut off from his battalion and wandered alone behind enemy lines for several days until captured by German troops on December 14, 1944.[4] While a prisoner of war, Vonnegut witnessed the aftermath of the February 13, 1945 - February 15, 1945 bombing of Dresden, Germany, which destroyed much of the city. Vonnegut was one of just seven American prisoners of war in Dresden to survive, in an underground meatpacking cellar known as Slaughterhouse Five. "Utter destruction," he recalled. "Carnage unfathomable." The Nazis put him to work gathering bodies for mass burial ... Vonnegut explains. "But there were too many corpses to bury. So instead the Nazis sent in guys with flamethrowers. All these civilians' remains were burned to ashes." [5] This experience formed the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five and is a theme in at least six other books.[5]
Vonnegut was freed by Soviet troops in May 1945. Upon returning to America, Vonnegut was awarded a Purple Heart for what he called a "ludicrously negligible wound." [6]
I guess they will have a few weeks of slop fill-in tell Lionel gets here...
That will work out fine...
I go on vacation tomorrow...
By the time I get here..
Lionel will be in charge..
That will be fun....
hey war dog have you really been rooting against Sam?
They told Sam it wasn't about rating...
They told him they could not sell ads...
The same thing I told Sam 2 years ago...
Sometimes you must wait for the Outcome..
But there will always be an Outcome..
April 12, 2007 -- Guest Column:
“S” is for Surge and Synergy!
Between Democrats, Republicans, and Israel…
By Maher Osseiran
Surge as a word has become synonymous with Bush and Baghdad but that does not mean the Democrats are against it.
If we follow the logic of the Bush surge, the milestones, the benchmarks, etc… it all results in a timeline that indicates that Bush would have withdrawn or redeployed the troops from Iraq sometime in 2008, and in order to protect his legacy, he would have achieved or is hoping to achieve something positive and lasting; could it be the single item left from his Iraq agenda, federalism?
If we now look at the war-funding bill passed by the Democrats, Senator Russ Feingold’s latest maneuver excluded, we see a similar timeline; a total redeployment by early 2008.
Could both visions be the same with minor differences in execution?
The answer is yes, since all administrations that preceded George W. Bush were active contributors to the goal of “regime change in Iraq”; all administration since the end of the First Gulf War.
At the end of that war, Bush Sr. decided not to go after Saddam because of one simple reason; there was no substitute for Saddam that would maintain intact the critical balance in that part of the world. This fact should be clear to most who have followed four years of news from Iraq.
If there were a substitute, Bush Sr. would have been in Baghdad in two weeks; he certainly had the manpower in place.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
There is nothing wrong with Sam except that he would not listen to me..
I told him not to piss folks off..
I told him NO CRAZY TALK..
I told Sam to court his Advertisers..
Instead Janeane made fun of the Commercials and said there were too many...!!
Good Lord..!!!
But there will always be an Outcome..
April 12, 2007 12:33 PM
Like Imus getting fired.
There were two possible but not viable substitutes at the time, the Kurds and the Shiites. The Kurds were fragmented and plagued with infighting. The Shiites in the south got their signals crossed, rushed to stage an uprising, only to be abandoned to die by the tens of thousands by an American administration fearing at the last minute that those Shiites would become an extension of Iran. That occurred right after the First Gulf War.
Bush Sr. decided to keep Saddam on a short leash through the UN sanctions, later zealously enforced by Clinton and Blair, while cultivating a substitute. Clinton contributed, through the efforts of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, by bringing the Kurds together through power sharing and co-operation agreements. Clinton nurtured the Kurds as the substitute and the new ally.
By the time Bush Jr. got in the White House, all was in place for “regime change in Iraq”; Iraq was actually his first choice in retaliation for 9/11. An invasion of Iraq could not be justified at the time, but the minute Saddam attempted to remove the sanctions, he sealed his fate. Regardless of who was in the White House, an invasion of Iraq would have become inevitable, i.e. a war of aggression.
That explains why we do not see much discernable difference between the positions of the leaderships of the Democrats and Republicans. The strategic goal is the same and both sides are in agreement to buy time until early 2008.
What is so magical about early 2008? Because in late 2007, the issue of federalism in Iraq will be back on the table and it is important till then that a semblance of a functioning democracy in Iraq be preserved; that is why the surge is focused on the seat of government, Baghdad.
Without a functioning democracy, the United States cannot wrestle the legal cover the Kurds need. Federalism would legitimize an independent or semi-independent status worthy of direct U.S. protection and military involvement.
The Kurdish territory would become the American permanent base in the Middle East and would replace or augment Israel.
Like Imus getting fired.
April 12, 2007 12:36 PM
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Exactly..
Sam thing is happening to Sam..
Once the Advertisers give up on you....
You're toast..!!!
War puppy,get a Life!
War dog you're right about Janeane doing that, but Sam never did. She wasn't very kind to the advertisers. But did I hear you say you like Sam?
Here's the kicker!!!!
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Israel has been overused by the U.S. and has lost its luster as the most important destabilizing and anti-democracy factor in that region; democracy was never important to the U.S., instability was key. Not that Israel is an innocent by-stander, over the years, a synergy developed and Israel is just as guilty; we should keep in mind that Israel has a significant presence in the Kurdish region and actively involved in training Kurdish forces while AIPAC, Israel’s arm in Washington, is successfully lobbying for more wars.
The Kurdish territory will have the same narrative as Israel. This narrative would be spoon-fed to a naïve American electorate; it will be called Kurdistan, described as a nation that has been wronged throughout history and most recently subjected to the genocidal policies of Saddam, a nation liberated by a benevolent U.S., and endowed with the aura of a constitutional democracy.
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Listen up all you Zionists who have poured millions into this disgusting Bush regime assuming your quid pro quo!
You've been screwed.
Half of any business's customers are Conservatives...
If you go on-air insulting conservatives as Janeane did..
You piss off half the Sponsors Customers...
Do you think the Sponsor wants to explain to their customers why they are associated with Crazy Talk...???
Not on your life.!!!
I just hate to say ...
"I told ya so..."
But what else is there to say..???
the advertisers didn't give up on Sam, actually.
So sorry to blow yet another gaping hole in your bloviating nonsense.
There, that was my second bone I threw you today. Aren't you lucky?
And of course, the Dems (or at least certain ones) are no better.
Such a utopian vision by both the leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties totally ignores that the Iraqis have a vote in this matter.
It is the ability of the Iraqis to read this plan to the most minute of details since the early days of the occupation that helped them undermine it. As of today, Bush Jr. was only supposed to have 5,000 troops left in Iraq; instead, the Iraqis forced him to maintain unsustainable troop levels for four years and forced the recent surge.
The leader of this Iraqi vote is Moqtada Al-Sadr who, after a few missteps early on, has not made a single mistake and was always two steps ahead of Jr.
Jr. tried to force Moqtada’s hand and failed. Moqtada was taunted many times within Iraq in attempts to draw him into a confrontation; he did not bite. Israel attacked Hizballah in Lebanon, with the public blessing and support of the U.S., in order to force Moqtada to come to their aid; Hizballah stood their ground and undermined Jr.’s wishes.
Even an attack on Iran, which most experts agree is dangerous and would not contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions; such an attack would take place only to force a confrontation within Iraq.
Moqtada’s recent call to the Iraqi army to stop helping the U.S. and for the Iraqi people to work together in opposing the occupation, even if heard by a small percentage of Iraqi troops, would be enough to negate the surge.
It is amazing that those who oppose U.S. policy in the Middle East can effectively undermine it with words and demonstrations, both tools of democracy, while the U.S. can only push its policy through the muzzle of a gun.
When Jr. first uttered the word democracy as the main theme of his Iraq policy, I said: “the Iraq war would not be hailed as the war that brought democracy to Iraq; it would be hailed as the war that brought democracy back to the US via Iraq”.
As a longtime supporter of Kurdish rights, I am appalled at how their leadership accepted the role of the new pariah in the Middle East; the new Israel, and an uncertain future for their people.
The only way the Kurds and the rest of Iraqis can avoid future bloodshed and change their path toward prosperity is by scrapping all what the U.S. has done to them and to espouse a reconciliation effort modeled after that of South Africa.
But what else is there to say..???
April 12, 2007 12:43 PM
There's nothing left to say Woofie.
This is all you got since your boy *flip* McCain had his "Mission Accomplished" moment in a Baghdad marketplace and your girl *flop* Hillary lost her spotlight and her juice.
Good luck with that.
White House Falsely Claimed RNC Emails Were Archived, Only ‘Handful’ Of Staffers Had Accounts »
On March 27, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that the RNC had been archiving all emails being sent through their accounts. Perino underscored that the archiving had not begun in response to Chairman Henry Waxman’s request to the RNC to preserve all emails, but rather “this has been something that was in place long before that.” She added, “The archiving that would have been for any of these — over the past few years, of emails that had been going back and forth between people that would have these accounts to the outside.”
When pressed on how many White House staffers use political email accounts, Perino claimed, “I think it’s a handful, I don’t think it’s a lot.” Watch it:
Yesterday, the White House acknowledged both those claims were false:
1) The White House also admitted yesterday that “archiving” was not taking place. “The White House has not done a good enough job overseeing staff using political e-mail accounts to assure compliance with the Presidential Records Act,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said in an unusual late-afternoon teleconference with reporters.
2) The White House acknowledged yesterday that far more than a “handful” of staffers used the political email accounts. The White House said 22 staffers have e-mail accounts issued by the Republican National Committee. “Since 2001, about 50 staffers e-mailed using the system.”
In reaction to the White House’s new admissions, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said, “This sounds like the administration’s version of the dog ate my homework. … I am deeply disturbed that just when this administration is finally subjected to meaningful oversight it cannot produce the necessary information.”
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Nova M has Thom on, so you can listen to Thom on AirAmerica or NovaM on your stream.
Your choice.
And don't forget to sign Drobny's petition on NovaM.
While you're there, maybe become a premium member...
Video: Leahy says White House is lying about lost emails.In an impassioned speech this morning on the Senate floor, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said the White House is lying when it claims that emails sent via RNC accounts were lost.
“They say they have not been preserved. I don’t believe that!” Leahy shouted from the Senate floor. “You can’t erase e-mails, not today. They’ve gone through too many servers. Those e-mails are there, they just don’t want to produce them. We’ll subpoena them if necessary.”
“Like the famous 18-minute gap in the Nixon White House tapes, it appears likely that key documentation has been erased or misplaced. This sounds like the Administration’s version of ‘the dog ate my homework.’”
Watch the speech:
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Catharine said...
the advertisers didn't give up on Sam, actually.
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Had you listened to the show today...
You would know Sam said exactly that...
Sam was told the problem with his show was not ratings...
It was that that his show could not be capitalized...
That means no advertising..
My exact warning.!!!
NovaM
man, I'm really gonna miss you Sam!
...soooo sad...I'm off to write more emails telling your aar higher ups that WE NEED MORE SAMMY, NOT LESS!!!
Nova M = 12 stations..
Sam had 16...
Lionel has 92...
Bill O'Reilly has 400
Rush has 600..
No you tell me where the Ad money is flowing like water..
Cnn is showing tape of the explosion in the Parliament bldg in Iraq.
Now they are trying to determine how these explosive got into the most heavily guarded building in the Green Zone.
Unbelieveable footage.
Do you listen to Rush, War Dog? Who advertises there?
Time to go make some money...
Make sure all my customers are happy before I go on vacation...
Take care of your customers and they will take care of you..
The first rule..!!!
I think the only mistake Sammy's made at AAR is to let WARPUPPY continue to spew here on this blog.
How are you going Sunshine if you're still on the blog. That was you who called in to Malloy the other night, wasn't it?
I'm wondering if the Greens may be representing the more conservative globalist wing of the democratic party. Maybe all this is about whos voices get heard and who wins the primary. Just wonderin'.
From PDA:
In 2000, Team Bush took over the Republican Party and laid out its promises to the American people. The following pledges and claims are taken directly from the 2000 GOP Platform. Should we laugh or cry at promises made by an administration that has ruled through deception, endless war, politicization of intelligence and the Justice Dept., outing CIA officers, and the like?
Honest Government
“Trust, pride, and respect: we pledge to restore these qualities to the way Americans view their government.”
Keeping Intelligence Free of Politics
"Nor should the intelligence community be made the scapegoat for political misjudgments. A Republican administration working with the Congress will respect the needs and quiet sacrifices of these public servants as it strengthens America's intelligence and counter-intelligence capabilities…”
Diplomacy and Maintaining Allies
“The arrogance, inconsistency, and unreliability of the [Clinton] administration's diplomacy have undermined American alliances, alienated friends, and emboldened our adversaries."
Endless Military Missions, Exit Strategies and Troop Readiness
"The current administration has casually sent American armed forces on dozens of missions without clear goals, realizable objectives, favorable rules of engagement, or defined exit strategies.” [Emphasis added.]
"Sending our military on vague, aimless, and endless missions rapidly saps morale. Even the highest morale is eventually undermined by back-to-back deployments, poor pay, shortages of spare parts and equipment, inadequate training, and rapidly declining readiness. When it comes to military health, the administration is not providing an adequate military health care system…"
Restoring the Rule of Law and the Justice Department
"The rule of law, the very foundation for a free society, has been under assault, not only by criminals from the ground up, but also from the top down. An administration that lives by evasion, coverup, stonewalling, and duplicity has given us a totally discredited Department of Justice. The credibility of those who now manage the nation’s top law enforcement agency is tragically eroded. We are fortunate to have its dedicated career workforce, especially its criminal prosecutors, who have faced the unprecedented politicization of decisions regarding both personnel and investigations.”
Gas Prices (then $1.55 per gallon)
“Today, gas prices have skyrocketed, and oil imports are at all-time highs....By any reasonable standard, the Department of Energy has utterly failed in its mission to safeguard America’s energy security. “
Read whole GOP 2000 platform here:
KINK
Korean Cab Driver Self Immolates to Protest Free Trade Agreement
In early April, A South Korean cab driver set himself on fire in protest of the new free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea. The trade agreement, opposed by most Koreans according to a recent poll, would have a negative impact on working class Americans as well argues Christine Ahn, a policy analyst with the Korea Policy Institute and the national coordinator of Korean Americans for Fair Trade.
Refugees Speak of Escape from Hell, by Dahr Jamail
Refugees from Iraq scattered around Damascus describe hellish conditions in the country they managed to leave behind.
"I used to work with the Americans near Kut (in the south)," Sa'ad Hussein, a 34-year-old electrical engineer told IPS. "I worked for Kellogg, Brown & Root in construction of an Iraqi base there, until I returned to Baghdad and found a death threat written on a paper which was slipped under my door. I had to flee."
Hussein, who left three months back, described Baghdad as a "city of ghosts" where black banners of death announcements can be seen hanging on most streets. The city, he said, lives on an hour of electricity a day, and there are no jobs to be had.
"I was an ex-captain in the Iraqi Army, and I think that's why I was threatened," he said. Asked how many of his former army colleagues had also received death threats, he replied, "All of them." He said it was not safe for him to go back to the Iraqi Army because it was likely he would be killed.
"Most of the deaths are due to the Iraqi politicians and their militias," he added.
Security, electricity and potable water supply, healthcare and unemployment are all much worse than during the reign of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, refugees say.
"The Americans are detaining so many people," Ali Hassan, a 41-year-old man from the Hay Jihad area of Baghdad told IPS. "My brother was killed by Shia militiamen after he refused to give them the keys to empty Sunni houses we were looking after."
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Ken Wells said...
I'm wondering if the Greens may be representing the more conservative globalist wing of the democratic party. Maybe all this is about whos voices get heard and who wins the primary. Just wonderin'.
April 12, 2007 1:30 PM
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That's what people have been speculating.
It's hard to know for sure where the Greens really want to take it.
I respect, to some degree, that it is important to make the station viable financially, but if they think that they must get some corporate shill broadcasters in order to do that then they are wrong, wrong, wrong.
There are already plenty of those out there, the competition is strong, and the brand that AirAmerica originally had was 'truth-telling, non-biased, anti-mainstream-media' media.
So... they're gonna be in a pickle if they want to change the brand. They will lose their core listeners, not attract anymore liberals... and meanwhile they have already alienated what few right-wingers there are out there, so they're not going to attract those.
That being said, I wouldn't exactly call Randi Rhodes or Thom Hartmann centrists.
We'll see...
Meanwhile, though ... NovaM needs supporting.
The Drobnys were onto something when they founded AirAmerica. I am sure they are capable of doing it again.
April 12, 2007 -- More false flag terror attacks prior to French presidential elections? Just days prior to the French presidential election which pits anti-North African Muslim conservative Nicolas Sarkozy, supported by the international neo-con clique, against a Socialist and centrist candidate, bombs have gone off in Algeria and Morocco. The attacks have been blamed on "Al Qaeda," the neo-cons' favorite (and likely controlled) bogeyman.
Three car bomb attacks killed 33 people in Algiers. A group claiming to be the Al Qaeda franchise in North Africa said it carried out the bombings. Three would-be suicide bombers blew themselves up in Casablanca while being pursued by police. Tunisia is on alert for possible terrorist attacks by "Al Qaeda."
French Interior Minister Francois Baroin, Sarkozy's replacement, immediately used the bombings in North Africa to claim that France was under threat of terrorism -- conveniently just prior to the election in which Sarkozy has made the threat of North African Muslim immigrants and terrorism a key issue. Neo-con outlets like the Times of London and Time magazine are now reporting that the North African bombings are a warning to France.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Liberal Una: Thanks for the compliments on the ALL IN CAPS SCOTT impersonation. Glad it amused you. I've worked as a psychiatric nurse, so I can recognise a person with problems when I see one. That said, it's mean of me to mock him, so I won't do it again. That's like something Druggie Limbaugh would do, if he had the wit.
And Sunshine: way cool to hear a voice on the radio after reading the comments on a blog. I'm sitting down here in Australia (political refugee from Bush fascism) listening to a radio show that originates in Atlanta, and I hear a person from B.C. This is such a weird interconnected world...
How are you going Sunshine if you're still on the blog. That was you who called in to Malloy the other night, wasn't it?""
yup, wanted to cheer up mike,
earlier in the show i figgered his blood pressure was in the red.
So people who have different ideas than you & use caps, have problems that you can diagnose online?
ya anon,
caught yer posts yesterday about moving down under.
I liked what you said about how no one expected the two-way nature of blogs linked to broadcast radio, Sunshine. And how it's creating these communities. Opens my mind to a whole new set of futuristic paradign-shift thinking. That's one of the many reasons I like left-wing discourse. It gives one a glimpse of new possibilities, the way the world will become. As opposed to reich-wing discourse, which is all about trying to drag the world back to the way it was. Which is ultimately about living naked in cold caves and eating uncooked things that you beat to death with sticks.
So how long did you have to wait on hold for Mike?
P.S. When I first saw your screen name, I thought you must be female. "Little Miss Sunshine" and all that.
BTW, I USED to have a Blogger sign-on of "Bukko in Australia" but for some reason, it won't let me log in anymore. Did Blogger change in the past two weeks? I'd register a new one, but as Aussies say, "I can't be bothered." They have a load of slang phrases here about being lazy...
i have one distinction here on Sams blog (our blog).
i've read 99% of what people wrote here.
somewhere between 250,000 and a million posts?
Sunshine Jim nic is a good story.
short version:
My dotter is named Sunshine,
i named the 32 foot troller fishing boat i built after her.
there were so many jims in the pacific fleet that we used our boat names to differentiate between us all.
Anyway, I MUST go back to bed. It's shortly after 4 a.m. here and I can't sleep. My time schedule is scrambled after working three midnight shifts in a row at the hospital. Like jet-lag from work. Nice to have a voice to associate with the screen ID. People here say that Canadians are the world's second-best Australians (although you doon't soond Canuck, eh?) Good onya, mate!
April 12, 2007 -- Our April 10 story on prosecutorial misconduct in Chicago came on the same day that one of the targets of the political trials had his conviction upheld by a federal appellate court. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision affirming the conviction of Peter Palivos, a developer who has opposed Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and who has given campaign contributions to Democrats and Republicans. The case involved US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's vendetta against former Governor George Ryan who pointed to misconduct involving prosecutors and cops in Chicago and Springfield. Pavilos once rented office space to Ryan when he served as Illinois Secretary of State.
We received the following from our sources in Chicago: The Appeals Court decision ignored the FBI '302' report in which the witness complained about being tricked by the government. Records about the Palivos case held by relevant federal agencies could not be found, including documents held by the Small Business Administration. Democratic Representatives Danny Davis and Bobby Rush have raised questions about Justice Department conduct in the Pavilos indictment and conviction.
Good nic. I go with Bukko because I used to live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on the shore of Lake Superior, in an area that was thick with people whose families came from Finland. I like Finns. Not as sour as Swedes and Norskies. "Bukkonen" is what my last name would be if I Finland-ized it.
Gotta stop this crap! The wife will be angry if she wakes up and realises I'm wanking at the 'puter.
wait?
bout an hour and a half,
Mikes staff always treats me nice.
sometimes i get to talk with cathy while i wait.
she herself is a brilliantly witty lady.
"futuristic paradign-shift thinking."
yup what i try for. occasionally i fall flat on my face. on the other hand sometimes it makes a difference.
like now eh? was just talking to an old blog friend on the phone giving me kudos for speaking out.
makes it all worthwhile when you get some encouragement, affection and consideration eh?
i'd do it anyway but this is all about sharing ideas and experiences.
eya Bukko!
i live up here with my wife who is canuckistani but i'm from Oregon.
remind me to tell ya the story about finns and norsky's in Ballard during the fourth of July sometime!
Leahy: Bush aides lying about e-mails
Panel approves new subpoenas in probe of U.S. attorney firings
WASHINGTON - President Bush's aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy suggested Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.
"They say they have not been preserved. I don't believe that!" Leahy shouted from the Senate floor.
"You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers," said Leahy, D-Vt. "Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them. We'll subpoena them if necessary."
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eya GBC
leahy pretty hip for an ol fart like us.
sure he has many willing hands to consult too.
eya Catharina, thanks for the article post!
"When Jr. first uttered the word democracy as the main theme of his Iraq policy, I said: “the Iraq war would not be hailed as the war that brought democracy to Iraq; it would be hailed as the war that brought democracy back to the US via Iraq”."
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/I/U/antiwar_nomorebush.jpg
Hey Jim!!!
So much news so little time ...
eya A.!
Snicker! good pic!
(how ya feeling today?)
cute A!
Bush and the Truckers are on a collision course!
by Bill Adams
I once had a friend with a top floor apartment and a little patio outside near the corner of the roof.
One summer we were out there hoisting a few, and having a barbecue, and during the afternoon I was standing at the corner looking down. As I watched, I saw two cars coming, headed for the intersection and neither one was slowing down. One blew the stop sign and it got messy.
King George 'The Decider's' upcoming plans to visit Yuma Arizona to address 'border concerns' at the very time when Truckers all over this country are preparing to implement a NATIONAL TRUCKER'S BOYCOTT on April 23rd, 24th, and 25th to protest President Bush and our elected officials plans, to allow tens of thousands of Mexican truckers onto America's highways in the next 45 days seems a little 'curios' to me .
According to the truckers announcement at SAVE AMERICA.ORG the 'National Capital U-Circled; Bumper-to-Bumper, Three-Trucks Wide' plan will shut down every State Capitol as well as Washington while they pull up and shut 'em down for an hour and walk away from them.
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good luck.Sam
Sheehan holds right to give her campus lecture, By Editorial Board
Today, utilize our nation's first amendment and attend Cindy Sheehan's lecture.
Or protest it.
But have an opinion, and respect other people's rights to have theirs.
The most important aspect of Sheehan's visit should be the debate that precedes and ensues her speech. In this case, failure is quantified as indifference regarding our country's occupation of Iraq.
Sheehan thinks the United States has no business occupying the country. After her son, who was in the service, was killed in Iraq, Sheehan has been extremely critical of President Bush and his policy regarding the war. She has outraged many with comments likening Bush to a terrorist.
There are many on this campus who disagree with her views on Bush's policies.
But there are also those who think Sheehan should not even be allowed to speak here (Exhibit A: the Facebook group "Stop Cindy Sheehan from coming to Purdue").
Sheehan has every right as an American to speak her mind. And this is a public University, where the nation's laws regarding citizens' rights are enforced.
So, to the many of you who think Sheehan should be prohibited from lecturing, (Exhibit B: 60 percent of April 4's opinions poll respondents who said she shouldn't be allowed to speak on campus), consider re-defining yourselves as anti-Sheehan rather than anti-free speech.
Not everyone has to agree with Sheehan's views, but everyone should recognize an individual's right to her opinion. This is a basic tenet of our country.
This evening, listen to Sheehan's speech. Or protest her views regarding our administration's policies in Iraq. Or counter-protest.
If all goes well, the speech will serve to start debate among students about the war, if only for one night.
Just remember to recognize the existence and validity of opinions different than your own.
So make up your mind, should we stay or should we go?
Oh yeah Cath! in a big way.
i feel the changing of the tides this week. hoping like hell that this is the ebb and the flood is next.
i'm ready for high tide slack now but theres a lot of water moving ahead before we get there.
i owe, i owe,
it's off to work i go!
love ya all!
April 11, 2007 -- Washington Post goes from elitist paper to neo-con propaganda rag. Two editorials in yesterday's Washington Post point to the slide of that paper into the realm of neo-con propaganda spinning. Although this web site has studiously avoided commenting on the Don Imus matter, the Post equated the radio host's disparaging racist remarks about the Rutgers University Women's Basketball team to his previous calling of Vice President Dick Cheney a "war criminal." Message to the Post: using racist and chauvinistic language in one case is not the same as referring to Cheney for what he and his ilk are -- war criminals. This editor has called Cheney and Bush war criminals. To suggest that such a reference is the same as using racist comments is pure and utter nonsense, which is now the order of the day from the Post.
Nevertheless, Imus's career and relevance has been over for some time. It should be remembered that the 66 year old deejay started out on radio in 1968. To put things in perspective, Imus's radio contemporaries at that time included Arthur Godfrey, Wolfman Jack, Joe Pyne, Howard W. Morgan, Long John Nebel, Gene Burns, Jean Shepherd, Bill Ballance, Barry Farber, Barry Gray, and Morton Downey, Jr. Imus's radio colleague at WNBC in New York was Soupy Sales. In other words, Imus should be stuffed and put into a radio museum.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
The Post also lashes out at Eritrea for supporting Islamist "terrorists" in Somalia and lauds the efforts of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer in threatening Eritrea with sanctions. What the Post will not tell its readers is that Frazer is a known supporter of American dictator clients from Rwanda's Paul Kagame, to Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, and Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi. The Post will not report that Frazer's close colleague in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, is U.S. Army Col. Richard Orth, the U.S. Defense Attache, whose resume includes logistics support for Kagame in the shoot down of the Rwandan presidential aircraft in 1994 (which has now earned top Rwandan government officials a criminal indictment from France) and subsequent U.S. military aid for his multiple invasions of Zaire/Congo. Genocide resulted from these covert operations. Orth was the Defense Attache in Rwanda during the onset of the Kagame regime and then he moved to Kampala, Uganda where he provided similar services for Museveni, including the destabilization of Sudan through support for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which is now part of the coalition government in Khartoum under attack by U.S.-supported guerrillas operating from Ethiopia and Chad. This is largely Orth's and Frazer's handiwork. Although Frazer was officially with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard during most of the Clinton administration, she worked closely with Orth and the Pentagon's and Defense Intelligence Agency's Africa bureaus.
GBC said...
Leahy: Bush aides lying about e-mails
Panel approves new subpoenas in probe of U.S. attorney firings
GBC, More on my blog about this. A Froomkin article on what the WH said in a confreence call with reporters.
http://abramoffjournal.blogspot.com/
Hi SJ...great, thanks...spent 800 for a new steering-column-type-thing, yesterday...twice now that we've paid more to repair the car than it cost us originally...
The Post's deputy foreign editor Peter Eisner has just co-written a book, "The Italian Letter," about the forged Niger documents that were used to lead the U.S. to war in Iraq. In the book, Eisner gives a virtual free pass to arch-neocon Michael Ledeen and his dealings with Iranian con man Manucher Ghorbanifar in helping to cook up the scheme. Eisner also suggests that the U.S. ambassador to Italy at the time, Mel Sembler, was out of the loop on the Ledeen-Ghorbanifar meetings. In fact, Sembler, as much a neocon as Ledeen, was not only aware of the meetings, according to our sources, but helped set them up. Eisner quotes an unnamed U.S. embassy source in Rome as stating that Sembler "blew a gasket" when he found out about Ledeen's meetings in Rome. Sembler more likely blew a gasket when the details of the Niger forgeries and the role played by the neocon cabal in the Bush administration, a grouping that includes Ledeen, the Pentagon's Harold Rhode, and Sembler as charter members, became public.
Catharine said...
cute A!
April 12, 2007 2:34 PM
Itchy too, I'd imagine..... :)
;)
sigh, only one more day. Sam I love your show and I'm gonna miss it like crazy. How are we gonna last five weeks without you? How are we gonna make it on only one day of Sammy a week?
(cough cough) Nova M Nova M Nova M
Tiffany
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
11 Brooklyn Prison Officers Accused Of Beating Inmates
Hey, Sam, here's how I see a show for you on MSNBC working. You already have regular guests lined up from the radio show. And since you're the blogosphere guy on AAR, you can move that to MSNBC, where they really don't do blog coverage. So why not do a morning blog-oriented show on "What the blogs are talking about today" -- sort of a "Not the mainstream media" show. I think it would be dynamite, and I am going to e-mail Steve Kappos (sp?) and Dan Abrams and suggest it.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
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Bush’s Sudan Ambassador: There Is No Genocide in Darfur »
Last month, Bush’s Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan Andrew Natsios told a group of Georgetown students that the “term genocide is counter to the facts of what is really occurring in Darfur.”
In a testy exchange with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday, Natsios defiantly refused to characterize the ongoing violence in Darfur as a genocide.
MENENDEZ: Do you consider the ongoing situation in Darfur a genocide, yes or no? […]
NATSIOS: There is very little violence in Darfur right now.
MENENDEZ: I asked you to answer my question.
NATSIOS: I just answered your question.
MENENDEZ: Is the circumstances in Darfur today a continuing genocide? Yes or no?
NATSIOS: There is very little fighting between rebels and the government and very few civilian casualties going on in Darfur right now.
Watch it:
A recent Oxfam report on Sudan stated that “today the situation is as desperate as ever,” as “in the first two months of 2007, more than 80,000 more people fled the ongoing violence.” “The ongoing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region continued to rise” as peacekeepers were fatally attacked in North Darfur just this week.
Furthermore, the violence is increasingly dispersing. The U.N. reported yesterday that “in latest sign that violence plaguing Darfur is spilling into neighboring Chad,” between 200 and 400 Chadians were feared dead in an “unusally brutal attack” last month. “What is happening in Chad has Darfur as its epicenter,” said a U.N. spokesman. “We’ve been warning this for months.”
Natsios’s comments are part of a sad effort by the Bush administration to declare victory in the midst of an ongoing slaughter.
To learn what can you do about the situation in Darfur, visit the Enough Project.
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Wolfowicz is in trouble right now. He may be asked to step down from the head of the world bank.
Let's hope for another one biting the dust.
Cnn doing a good job today bringing up some of this stuff.
They just covered the WH/RNC missing emails and showed Leahy's rant.
U.S. more focused on Sanjaya than depleted National Guard. In testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday, head of the National Guard Lt. Gen. Steven Blum said, “It bothers me that the Army and Air Force and Marine Corps and the Navy are at war and the nation’s watching ‘American Idol‘ and ‘Dancing with the Stars.’” Watch it:
Blum also noted that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are have left the National Guard “woefully underequipped” to meet the challenges here at home. He “said 88 percent of the Army National Guard in the United States is not ready due to lack of equipment and training, and that $40 billion was urgently needed to provide guard troops at home with ‘meat and potatoes stuff,’ such as radios, trucks, humvees, night vision gears and medical supplies.”
LINK
Updated my blog today. If you have a chance, take a look:
http://abramoffjournal.blogspot.com/
Later, work calls.
If anyone is here, have a great day.
One more. Interesting. From the Moveon.org poll:
Clinton suffers virtual defeat in MoveOn vote on Iraq
By Klaus Marre
April 12, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, lagged behind her main competitors, as well as some lower-tier candidates, in a straw poll taken after a virtual town hall meeting on Iraq.
Seven Democratic White House hopefuls participated in the April 10 event, sponsored by the influential MoveOn.org Political Action PAC, and MoveOn members picked Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) as the candidate who “would be best able to lead the country out of Iraq.”
Obama received 27.87 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards with 24.84 percent. A total of 42,882 MoveOn members participated in the vote.
Clinton finished a distant fifth with 10.7 percent, also trailing Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) with 17.18 percent and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson with 12.26 percent.
The vote could indicate trouble for Clinton, who is criticized by liberals for not having been more outspoken about the war when Congress authorized it.
LINK
Thanks Tonid,
You don't know me. But I appreciate all the information you post. I added your blog to favorites.
The vote could indicate trouble for Clinton, who is criticized by liberals for not having been more outspoken about the war when Congress authorized it.
LINK
April 12, 2007 3:29 PM
I got this too. I didn't vote, but it was interesting to see the results.
CBS to launch online TV network
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6550285.stm
US TV network CBS is to launch a video sharing internet channel after agreeing deals with 10 online distributors.
Among the companies signed up to deliver content are newcomer Joost, Microsoft, ComCast and Time Warner.
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