Political Briefs
July 26, 2010
- Fox broadcasts
incitements to illegal armed violence in the United States.
Fox broadcasts facilitate wire fraud in the United States. Also here
Fox has broadcast licenses for 27 television stations which it owns and operates in the United States (and on which it broadcasts its incitements to armed violence and facilitates wire fraud).
Why is it in the public interest, convenience, and necessity for the public to continue the broadcast licenses for the 27 Fox network owned and operated U.S. television stations? - Objective Assessment At Almost Half Way Point
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Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on the Right-Wing’s Assault on Shirley Sherrod
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In the past there were laws against the government (e.g., USIA) directing its operations at a domestic audience. Propaganda At Home
- Actually making America safer: Tom Englehardt of TomDispatch
- Drone Watching
- Dodd-Frank Banking act must be enforced.
- Will The Politicians And Bureaucracy Lie Again To Support A War? (free registration may be required).How many troops will their lies kill this time? How many civilians will their lies kill this time?How much public money will it cost this time?
- Ed Schultz About Obama and Fox (partial clip at Netroots Nation) "Fox is not a news organization, it is a propaganda organization."
- The Washington
Post is going to win a Pulitzer for its Secret
America project, for which they owe (but failed to give)
credit to Jeremy Scahill and
Tim Shorrock who were reporting on this story a long time ago.
by Tim Shorrock, Aug. 9, 2007: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/09/domestic_surveillance/index.html
by Tim Shorrock, May 19, 2008: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/19/al_haramain/index.html
by Tim Shorrock, July 23, 2008: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/index.html
by Tim Shorrock, September, 2009: http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/out-service
by Jeremy Scahill, Aug. 20, 2009: http://www.thenation.com/article/blackwater-cia-assassins
by Jeremy Scahill, November 23, 2009: http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-us-war-pakistan
by Jeremy Scahill, May 14, 2010: http://www.thenation.com/blog/bipartisan-mercs-blackwater-hires-powerful-democratic-lobbyist
Commentary on the series here by an intelligence expert
- The main number for your employees in the Congress is 202-224-3121.
- New
Deal Replaced By Half A Donkey
Deal
Shockingly, in adopting woefully inadequate financial legislation in July, 2010, the Congress and the President chose to ignore PSACOT's editorial of February 2009 which set forth a comprehensive plan which would actually have protected the economy, the country, and its citizens. - Governmental Design Problem
- Is Mukasey Unfit For Public Service?
- From 2004: Where
Your Dollars Are Still Going
This is what one extraordinarily popular Republican with military experience said about military spending:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Daniel Schorr, A Real Journalist
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An A.I.G. Failure Would Have Cost Goldman Sachs, Documents Show
“It’s as if the New York Fed used A.I.G. as a front man to bail out big banks all over the world,” Mr. Grassley said in a statement. “It took nearly two years for the public to learn these details, and they only were revealed because Congress wouldn’t take no for an answer. Taxpayers deserve to know what happened with their money.” - Why
Conservatives Hate Keynes
Does this ring any bells:
"Keynes observes that the total amount of employment is dependent on net income, which is equal to the sum of consumption and net investment. Net investment equals the difference between total investment and costs of and reserves for repairs and replacements, which amounts to total depreciation. If businesses increase their reserves for depreciation, total income goes down. As total income drops, so does aggregate employment. Keynes provides a concrete example:
'In the United States, for example, by 1929, the rapid capital expansion of the previous five years had led cumulatively to the setting up of sinking funds and depreciation allowances, in respect of plant which did not need replacement, on so huge a scale that an enormous volume of entirely new investment was required merely to absorb these financial provisions, and it became almost hopeless to find still more new investment on a sufficient scale to provide for such new saving as a wealthy community in full employment would be disposed to set aside.'" - Secret Afghan war archives here
and
here
About the leaks matter, those involved should be thanked for bringing this flaw to the attention of those who were derelict in their duty by allowing someone to carry blank media in and out of a secured space. What was operational need for music while at work? In how many other allegedly secured locations are similarly lax procedures in place? What check has the person in charge (and there is only one person in charge) made, or ordered made, of each such location? When was the check made? What were the results? If there were no check, why not? - As you suspected: 2004 election was stolen too
- Liberal Pelosi constituent unhappy with her term as speaker
- Repeal the estate tax!