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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Today on Air America Radio | The Randi Rhodes Show
Air America Radio | America's Progressive Talk Radio Network
DOWNING STREET MEMO
Letter from Conyers to Pres Bush Concerning "Downing Street Memo
Downing Street Memo web site
Congressman Jim McDermott comments at the media bias forum.
Media Black Out Downing Street Minutes
By David Swanson, www.afterdowningstreet.org
Aggressive followers and participants in U.S. politics often have strong opinions about the Downing Street Minutes. Most other Americans have not heard of or are not clear about what the Downing Street Minutes are.
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Monday, May 30, 2005
The Best Ribbon to display on your bumper is :http://www.troopsribbon.com/
heck out the March '05 Peace Ribbon picture at www.soggybootgang.com !
A few sites which are speaking out for peace and trying to bring our troops home:
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Friday, May 27, 2005
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Bush Declares Self “Propaganda Catapult”
from Bamboozlepalooza Tour '05:
“If you've retired, you don't have anything to worry about — third time I've said that. (Laughter.) I'll probably say it three more times. 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.)”
Audio of George Bush admitting to spreading propaganda
Audio-MP
Right-Wing Activist and Corporation Lapdog Priscilla Owen Confirmed As Federal Judge. Welcome to the Continuing Decline of Democracy.! 5/26
John Nichols
Bill Moyers' principled journalism is a threat to the White House and the conservative movement. Time to stand firm.
ADMINISTRATION – POLL FINDS MOST AMERICANS THINK BUSH DOESN'T SHARE THEIR PRIORITIES: A CBS poll reveals, "Six in 10 Americans don't think the President shares their priorities for the country." After a few months of Terri Schiavo grandstanding, proposing Social Security benefit cuts for most Americans, pushing for the end of the Senate's check over judicial nominations, nominating a U.N. ambassador who doesn't believe there is such a thing as the United Nations, opposing embryonic stem cell research, and standing in strong support of Tom DeLay, more Americans now recognize that Bush is not speaking to the issues they care about.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
the stolen 2004 presidential election.
And newly released documents confirming a pre-election threat by
Secretary
of State J. Kenneth Blackwell against election board officials has
added to the
mix, as has the dismissal of Blackwell's highly publicized sanction
attempt
against attorneys who challenged the election outcome.
Read more:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1284
Fired Ohio Election Board staffer defiant over "retribution"
by Bob Fitrakis
Sherole Eaton is as defiant as ever and determined to stand up for democracy. Despite recovering from recent carotic artery surgery and scheduled for brain surgery on June 6 for a brain aneurysm, Eaton, perhaps Ohio’s most well-known whistleblower, refuses to resign as Deputy Director of the Hocking County Board of Elections.
READ THE ARTICLE
Registering Dissent
by Steve Carbo, TomPaine.com
An opportunity to fix America's broken voter registries may be lost if citizens don't speak up today.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050524/registering_dissent.php
WHAT SMOKING GUN? WHERE?
Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com
Why have the media virtually ignored a credible memo
indicating that the administration lied about its plans to
wage war on Iraq and that it fixed the intelligence to do so?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/22068/
* More MediaCulture: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/
The Downing Street Memo
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Monday, May 23, 2005
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We have less than 72 hours to stop the radical Republicans from seizing absolute control to stack the courts – including the Supreme Court. We've launched an emergency petition we'll be delivering to congress every three hours until the final vote. Our allies will read your comments on the Senate floor, and every senator will know the American people are standing ready to hold them accountable. Please sign today:
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This is it — they've pulled the trigger.
On Tuesday May 24th, the Senate will vote on a motion to end debate on judicial nominations, and when that motion fails Senator Bill Frist will launch the "nuclear option" — an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to break the rules of the Senate and seize absolute control over lifetime appointments to the highest courts in the land. The vote is going to be incredibly close, and there are as many as 6 votes still up in the air — more than enough to win. We must act now.
We've launched an emergency petition and, starting Monday, we'll deliver your signatures and comments to the Senate floor every three hours until the vote is complete. As the debate rages on, Senators fighting to preserve our independent courts will read your statements from the floor of congress. And every senator, every 3 hours, will receive thousands of pages from their constituents demanding that they stand up and do the right thing.
We have less than 72 hours to win this vote and save our courts. Please sign today.
http://www.moveonpac.org/nuclear?id=5554-3635413-G5WW_idD6B4_hY_60brEpg&t=3
If you care about the minimum wage — and you don't want judges ruling it unconstitutional — now's the time to act.
If you care about environmental laws — and you don't want judges striking them down — now's the time to act.
If you care about your right to privacy — and you don't want the government telling your family how to live, worship, or even how to die — now's the time to act.
As the fight escalates in Congress, thousands of MoveOn members will gather outside of Senate offices and courthouses in every state in the country, staging round the clock "Citizens' Filibusters to Stop the Right Wing Power Grab." We'll also deliver your comments to all the gatherings in your state, so your words will combine with thousands of others to show the public, the media, and our representatives in Washington that we will not give up the fight for our democracy.
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Friday, May 20, 2005
BUSH: WORST PRESIDENT EVER?
Stephen Pizzo, News for Real
Herbert Hoover may have triggered the Great Depression, but
he didn't invade another nation on false pretenses,
authorize torture of prisoners, or try to stack the courts.
http://www.alternet.org/story/22057/
Here come the judges, again
Miss them the first time around? Meet the seven antiabortion, anti-gay, pro-industry Bush nominees who could rise from the ashes of the filibuster.
By Dan Noyes and Andy Isaacson
 Defusing Frist
While Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist took the stage with a preacher who equated liberal judges with the Ku Klux Klan, moderate senators worked around the clock to avert the nuclear option.
By Tim Grieve
JUDICIARY
The Radical, Activist Owen
The right wing likes to raise the roof whenever they suspect any judicial activism on the nation's benches. Interesting, then, that they've stayed silent on President Bush's nominee Judge Priscilla Owen. Owen has a long record of radical judicial activism and overreach. She has unfailingly voted to throw out jury verdicts against corporations and denied workers recompense for job-related injuries and unfair employment practices.
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Did George W. Bush Steal America’s 2004 Election?
ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS
Edited by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
“In contrast to the deadly silence of the media is the silent scream of
the
numbers. The more you ponder these numbers, and all the accompanying
data, the louder that scream grows.”
—Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services
Did George W. Bush steal the 2004 election?
These documents provide readers with the evidence
needed to make up their own minds. Few debates
have aroused more polarized ire, and the bitterly
contested 2004 vote resulted in unprecedented
action by Congress. But too often the debate has
proceeded without documentation. This volume of
crucial source materials, commentary and
investigative reports—including the complete text
of the Conyers report, prepared by the U.S. House
of Representatives Judiciary Committee Democratic
Staff—is meant to correct that problem.
Pre-order your copy today at $5 off the cover price -- $25!
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
White House is Now Dictating Terms to the American Press, Just Like Joe Stalin. The Busheviks Damaged Our Relations with the Islamic World, Not Newsweek. This is an Administration, Like the Third Reich, That Seeks Scapegoats for Its Own Incompetence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/international/middleeast/17cnd-koran.html
Under Cover of Filibuster Battle and Scapegoating Newsweek, Busheviks Proceed on Putting Next Brick Into Building a Police State: Fascist (UnPatriot Act Extension) Would Expand Power of Federal Government to Invade Your Life and Allow the FBI to Subpoena Records Without Permission from a Judge or Grand Jury.
Exit polls, working moms and sleeping watchdogs. Readers react in this week's installment of letters.
May 13, 2005 08:42 AM
We know the 2004 election was riddled with problems. The long lines, outdated equipment, intimidation of voters and partisan election officials all merit outrage. But let's direct our ire to Capitol Hill for making no progress in fixing a broken system.
May 6, 2005 10:47 AM
Two new studies look at why the exit poll results were wrong for the 2004 presidential election.
StolenElection.net - Stolen Election by Mark R. Elsis
May 5, 2005 12:55 PM
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
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Yesterday, we asked you to listen to Bill Moyers' historic speech at the close of the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis. Many of you did. So many, in fact, that our Web server slowed to a crawl. Our apologies to those of you who couldn't download the speech.
The full transcript is available now at www.freepress.net/news/8120.
Take a few moments to read Bill Moyers' speech and then take action to save public broadcasting. More than 60,000 Free Press activists have already joined a call for the resignation of Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson and the creation of town hall meetings nationwide to put the public back into public broadcasting.
Before we deliver their signed petitions to Tomlinson's desk, we need 60,000 more Americans to join the call. If you haven't taken action on this already, sign the petition at: www.freepress.net/action/pbs
Then ask more people to join the call for Tomlinson's resignation. Forward this e-mail to all your friends and colleagues and help protect our public broadcasting from partisan tampering.
With your help, we can turn the tide against corporate and government efforts to muzzle the quality journalism, independent viewpoints, and dissenting voices that sustain our democracy.
Act now!
Timothy Karr and the Free Press team
www.freepress.net
P.S. To learn more about building a public broadcasting system that deserves public support, read "A New Standard," the recent report from Free Press, Common Cause, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, and Media Access Project at www.freepress.net/docs/pbs_report.pdf.
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Monday, May 16, 2005
"I'm as mad as hell,
and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
The Media Reform Conference, New Media and What You Can Do to Help BuzzFlash Make It Happen
Right Wing Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chariman Now is Taking Steps to Make NPR a Subsidiary of the Bush Propaganda Machine. And Who Says the Comparisons to the Busheviks, Rove and Goebbels Were Over the Top? At Media Reform Conference, Bill Moyers Revealed Tomlinson Paid a Consultant $10,000 to Watch "Now" and Report Anything Considered Liberal Bias Back to Tomlinson. That's Our Money He's Wasting in His Totalitarian Efforts. Now Ombudsman, Like Soviet Minders, Will Watch Over NPR. Fascism Creeps Up on You, Doesn't It? Until One Day You Realize the Line Has Been Crossed and Democracy is Dead. We Are All Frogs Just Slowly Being Boiled Into a One-Party Franco/Stalin Style State.
Bill Moyers Stands Up for a Press That Enriches Democracy, Not Weakens It, at Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis. He Blasts CPB Chairman Tomlinson for Trying to Turn PBS Into Taxpayer Funded FOX News.
St. Louis: Author Bill Moyers served notice today that, six months after his retirement from the "NOW with Bill Moyers" program, conservative attacks on the Public Broadcasting Service "might compel me back out of the rocking chair and back into the anchor chair." BuzzFlash was there and Moyers Spoke to the Good, Heartland Soul of America, Just Opposite of the Busheviks Who Speak to Its Worst Instincts: a Culture of Death, Torture, Lies and Greed. Moyers Was Magnigicent, a Man Who Chooses His Words Carefully and Wisely. He Brings You to Your Feet and to Tears for the Gap Between the Promise of America and the Bushevik Cult of Evil. 5/15
Bill_Moyers
Bill Moyers Fights Back 5/16!
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Friday, May 13, 2005
We have only days left until Senator Frist and GOP leadership trigger their plan to pack our courts with their unqualified, right-wing nominees.
Over the past week, thousands of people have made our case against the GOP abuse of power -- and it is impressive.
So yesterday, Senator Kennedy took our case against Senator Frist's nuclear option to the Senate floor.
The Senator answered their baseless attacks with the truth.
Please take a moment to read Senator Kennedy's speech and selections of your comments:
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
BLACK AND WHITE AND FULL OF CRAP Ted Rall - Tue May 10, 9:37 PM ET
Lies Run Big, Facts Small in U.S. Media
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Report:
Scientology Losing Ground
To New Fictionology
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 LOS ANGELES—According to a report released Monday by the American Institute of Religions, the Church of Scientology, once one of the fastest-growing religious organizations in the U.S., is steadily losing members to the much newer religion Fictionology.
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The Onion | America's Finest News Source
Latest news on the overreaching Religious Right:
RELIGION AND POLITICS CLASH
PASTOR KICKS OUT PARISHIONERS FOR POLITICAL BELIEFS
DEMOCRATS CONTINUED TO BE LABELED SINNERS
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Monday, May 09, 2005
"Show Me Your Papers"
by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com
REAL ID is a step toward a chilling, privacy-violating national ID card system that could one day have Americans being asked, Nazi-style, to “show us your papers” wherever they go
The GOP's effort to pass national ID card legislation begs the question: Who really hates our freedoms?
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/show_me_your_papers.php
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Thursday, May 05, 2005
Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed." -- A BuzzFlash Guest News Analysis from Greg Palast
Politicization is far too mild a word. The intelligence on Iraq was not mistaken, it was manufactured. This was mass deception. And we have the smoking memo.
May 4, 2005 11:16 AM
Two new studies cast further doubt on the theories alleging fraud in the exit poll results for the 2004 presidential election.
May 5, 2005 10:05 AM
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Watch:Democracy Now!: radio and TV news
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The Bush Family Fortunes, recent showing of '
Orwell Rolls In His Grave
find out more about Democracy Now!
This is real news , you won't get this
on the Corporate_Media.~ Hello In There
check out: Who Owns What
PBS is no longer a Public_Radio
RIGHTWING COUP AT PBS?
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet
The new Public Broadcasting boss either has an inappropriate
sense of humor or he's the latest participant in what the
FCC called a 'right-wing coup' of PBS.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21914/
PROPAGANDA – FAUX NEWS BANNED, FOR NOW: Score one for Orwell. One of the Bush administration's favorite public manipulation tools – prepackaged, government-produced video segments disguised as "news reports" – is now officially off-limits. "Congressional negotiators have agreed to bar government agencies for one year from issuing video news releases that do not clearly identify themselves as the source," Reuters reports. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), was included in the emergency supplemental spending bill now being negotiated in Congress. Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and John Kerry (D-MA) have introduced a bill – the Truth in Broadcasting Act – that would make this rule change permanent.
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Monday, May 02, 2005
..many people resist believing in evolution. Where does the resistance come from?
It comes, I'm sorry to say, from religion. And from bad religion. You won't find any opposition to the idea of evolution among sophisticated, educated theologians. It comes from an exceedingly retarded, primitive version of religion, which unfortunately is at present undergoing an epidemic in the United States. Not in Europe, not in Britain, but in the United States.
My American friends tell me that you are slipping towards a theocratic Dark Age. Which is very disagreeable for the very large number of educated, intelligent and right-thinking people in America. Unfortunately, at present, it's slightly outnumbered by the ignorant, uneducated people who voted Bush in.
READ : The atheist
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages.
By Gordy Slack
Group Trying to Conduct "America is a Christian State" Coup to Begin Ad Campaign Under Cynical Name, "Progress for America." How About Calling It, "Back to the Age Before Reason."
Is Pat Robertson nuts? A video case study suggests the affirmative. 5/2
STATE WATCH – THE 2005 SCOPES TRIAL: The Kansas Board of Education has set aside "six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin on Thursday in the capitol Topeka." Though the issue of teaching evolution has been debated for decades, the situation has finally come to a head since recent school board elections gave religious conservatives majority control of the board.
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