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December 9 - December
15, 2007
Repetition does not transform
a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth
is that Bush just likes to blow things up
-- in Iraq, in the United States and in Congress.
-- U.S. Representative Pete Stark
18 October 2007
Saturday
15 December 2007
Deep End News
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dlindorff, dailykos
"I didn't know if I was going to be gunned down as I came out of the building or put in a black car or, you know, or lauded or whatever."
Bill Moyers talks with Countdown host Keith Olbermann
transcript
The Dub Club . . .Congress, Bush in clash over CIA interrogation tapes
AFP
One weird watchdog: Inspector General Howard J. "Cookie" Krongard"Our office was just wallpapered with pornography. There was not one space of wall at all."
More on
Inspector General Howard J. "Cookie" Krongard:
. . . allegations of contract fraud and mismanagement in the construction of the $736 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, as well as alleged arms smuggling by Blackwater Worldwide
More weird watchdogs:
Among the lesser, but weirder charges:
Inspector General Stuart Bowen's deputy, Ginger Cruz, a self-described wiccan, threatened to put hexes on employees and made inappropriate sexual remarks.
Iraq watchdog agency under investigation
Reuters
Caucus Day Info here
Elizabeth Edwards: "If you stand up for John on caucus night, and every day between now and then, he will stand up for all of us as President."
John Edwards for President:
Support the Troops. End the War.
sign up: johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards here
Friday
14 December 2007
Slow Locals . . .Allman likes it; Pinches, Delbar don't
The Dub Club . . .
MoveOn.org Political Action:[Negroponte] memo is so far the only known documentation that a senior intel official warned that the tapes should not be destroyed.
The majority of the water in Iraq is distributed with tankers which depart in the morning from the potholes and distribute water for the remainder of the day . . . Iraq is devastated, impoverished not only of energy resources but also of water resources.
Thursday
13 December 2007
Huhh?? . . .
Dana Michael Parker, 33, of Ukiah:
"UPD Capt. Trent Taylor said Parker admitted some of the allegations when he was arrested."
Note: Headline in print edition (page 2):
"Ukiah man
suspected in molesting
boy, 12"
[Parents of] children who were at [Jackie's] daycare facility or who believe they may have been directly exposed to the infected child should
contact Public Health at 472-2600
The Dub Club . . .Requires intelligence agents to comply with the Army Field Manual, which bans torture in compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed changes to media ownership rules that would relax the FCC's long-standing cross-ownership ban in the 20 biggest U.S. cities . . .
The FCC should move forward to help bolster the struggling newspaper industry, he said.
Senators grill FCC chief on media ownership vote
Peter Kaplan, Reuters
"They like this war. They want this war to continue," Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters.
Liberty City 7: A Miami Herald editorialist recently called the case "a bittersweet farce" that offered the illusion authorities were making progress in the "war on terror."
1. justanothercoverup.com
2. CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS:
"The Mainstream News Media appears to be in a total news blackout in regard S 1959." (1st District Rep. Mike Thompson voted "Yea" on the House version -- see H.R. 1955 official links: 1, 2)Mistrial in Miami homegrown 'terrorists' case; one cleared
AFP, BBC
The statement was an unusual departure from its normally non-political stance. The ICRC said the measures imposed by Israel have denied the Palestinian population the right to live a normal and dignified life.Red Cross demands Mid-East action
BBC
"Bush declined to answer questions about the Castro posting."" . . . perfect storm" for consumers . . .
the latest report is written in tones that may rattle the fast-diminishing band of optimists."
"Torturers and bystanders resent the tortured because the tortured make the perpetrators and bystanders who collude with the torture feel guilty and ashamed for having tortured and/or for having done nothing to prevent the atrocity." Psychology of Torture wikipedia
Iowa's oldest newspaper . . .Edwards supporter makes daily 6.1-mile trek to rally voters
Kiley Miller, thehawkeye
Tuesday 11 December 2007
Agenda here . . .
Mendocino County
Board of Supervisorsonline stream:
Creepy California coach
du jour . . .
The Dub Club . . .“This was a policy made at the White House, with concurrence from the National Security Council and the Justice Department.”
White House authorised torture, CIA agent claims
Tim Reid, timesonline
Sunday
9 December 2007
Slow Locals . . ."This document is a pig," said Johnson, "and Jeanine put lipstick on it."
UDJ print edition title: "Green Party leader challenges county counsel" -- go figure ...
Green Party leader sues county over pot measure
Ukiah Daily Journal
Slow Loc@l
The Ukiah Daily Journal for today --
the Sunday paper for the county seat of paradisal Jonestown County, remember --
finally has foregone the front-page reposting of editor K.C. Meadows' online "blog". The blog's also newly missing, it turns out, from the
website of MediaNews' nominal "newspaper".
A box in the corner
of the print publication credits "technical difficulties" -- which have arisen just in time to prevent the posting of any more unfavorable public comments on the
sophomoric editorial-page filler from mini-misanthrope Tom Hine, who's unaccountably attracted Meadows' editorial favors.
(Hine's dreadful writing apparently appeals only to
Meadows -- with whom Hine claims, according to one of his elfin
expositions on the UDJ
editorial page, a drinking-buddy relationship at some Hopland watering hole
-- and to the sado-literary lust of what's-his-name in Boonville, whose
partner Mark Scaramella's Meadows' other editorial-page enthusiasm.)
Last Sunday, literate readers of the corporate clone will recall
that both Meadows and Hine, in presumably-separate editorial efforts, managed to
misuse "flaunt" for "flout" on the very same editorial page . . . so maybe Meadows excluded Gabrielle Welford's Sunday Letter-to-the-Editor from the online edition because
Meadows is just. jealous? In any case, Welford's "George Will wrong on Hawaii" (which, fortunately, is online, despite the UDJ) is among the few pieces of good writing which have appeared in the Ukiah Daily Journal since the days of Peter Page and Randy Foster.
The Dub Club . . .Washington Post: "Waterboarding as an interrogation technique has its roots in some of history's worst totalitarian nations, from Nazi Germany and the Spanish Inquisition to North Korea and Iraq. In the United States, the technique was first used five decades ago as a training tool to give U.S. troops a realistic sense of what they could expect if captured by the Soviet Union or the armies of Southeast Asia. The U.S. military has officially regarded the tactic as torture since the Spanish-American War."
"Rodriguez felt he had good reasons to deep-six the tapes. They had people's faces on them. It's not like a name getting out."Bush "has no recollection" of hearing about either the tapes' existence or their destruction before being briefed about it Thursday morning, White House press secretary Perino said.
Source Tells CBS News CIA Tapes Were Destroyed To Avoid Prosecution
cbsnews
. . . group which included future-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make prisoners talk.Some in Congress learned of waterboarding in '02
Jo Warrick, Dan Eggen, washpost
Secretly briefed, Pelosi did not object to waterboarding in 2002
John Byrne, rawstory
(Take Pelosi "off the table" now? Turn the table over?
What do you really think, dear reader?)BTC news: "Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi will have to corral nearly the entire Republican side to pass whatever Vichy-like measure they ultimately devise."
Israeli Researchers Link Cell Phones, Cancer
AFP, fox
