World In Flux and Conflict: Pro-Choice Doctor Murdered, Suspect In Custody
May 31st, 2009 - by: danny
• MONDAY MORNING: Air France Plane From Brazil to Paris Missing
WP: PARIS (Reuters) – An Air France plane flying from Brazil to Paris has gone missing with 228 people on board, the airline said on Monday. Its last known location was unclear. The Brazilian air force said its planes had begun searching for the airliner off the northeast coast of Brazil.
• THIS JUST IN: US Attorney General Eric Holder is dispatching US Marshals to protect abortion clinic and doctors around the country.
Holder issued the following statement:
“The murder of Doctor George Tiller is an abhorrent act of violence…” Scroll down.
All Is FLUX…and Conflict
A New Way Forward is New and Important
Chicken Wings and A Media Schmooze In Buffalo
Conflict, conflict everywhere …
Iraq, Afghanistan, “Victory” promised in Pakistan’s Swat Valley (3.4 MILLION said to have been forced to flee, insurgents of course vanish/withdraw/fall back as Government claims big success), 20,000 said to have been killed in Sri Lanka, threats mounting against North Korea as they move newest missile to launch site and stand-off deepens…
May I go on?
• Iraqi former trade minister arrested on way out of country
• Homophobia Is Winning [see section two on Lt. Choi]
Here at home:
SHOCKING: HOW TV DEMONIZATION CAN LEAD TO MURDER
The Brad Blog reports:
Fox ‘News’ host Bill O’Reilly had long charged KS physician with ‘operating a death mill’, ‘executing babies’, carrying out ‘slaughter’…
A manhunt is underway at this hour for the murderer of Kansas physician GeorgeTiller who was shot and killed this morning when he entered his church in Wichita.
Tiller was better known to Fox “News” viewers as “Tiller the Baby Killer”, as he’s long been described by Bill O’Reilly who has spent years targeting Tiller on the most-watched show in cable news. O’Reilly has long demonized him with allegations of performing illegal late-term abortions, characterized as murder by O’Reilly and his guests.
In March of this year, after Tiller had been acquitted of charges alleging that he’d performed late-term abortions in violation of Kansas state law, O’Reilly continued his series of programs focusing on the Kansas physician, charging him with “operating a death mill”, and alleging that he was “executing babies”.
Pro-choice organizations and leaders have been condemning this act of terror. But not this website: Army of God
“ARMY OF GOD” SUPPORTS THE MURDER
A great day for the unborn children scheduled to be murdered by that Babykilling Abortionist George Tiller. Now those children are spared from being murdered by the Kansas BabyButcher, George Tiller. George Tiller reaped what he sowed and now has now been cast alive into everlasting torment and fire.
Psalm 55:15 – Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
Barf Bags anyone? AP Reports:
The gunman fled, but a 51-year-old suspect was arrested some 170 miles away in suburban Kansas City three hours after the shooting, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said….The suspect’s name was not released; police had been looking for a gunman who fled in a car registered in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam.
Suspect Named later in The Kansas City Star:
The suspect in custody for the slaying of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was a member of an anti-government group in the 1990s and a staunch opponent of abortion.
Scott P. Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kan., a Kansas City suburb, was arrested on Interstate 35 near Gardner in suburban Johnson County, Kan., about three hours after the shooting. Tiller was shot to death around 10 a.m. inside Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.
In the rear window of the 1993 blue Ford Taurus that he was driving was a red rose, a symbol often used by abortion opponents. On the rear of his car was a Christian fish symbol with the word “Jesus” inside. Those who know Roeder said he believed that killing abortion doctors was an act of justifiable homicide.”
• Governor Rendell Basically Warns Sestak To Stay Out Of The Senatorial Primary
• Repugs against Dems on SCOTUS nomination
• G. Gordon Liddy on Menstruation and Hispanics
• Racially Obsessed White Guys Accusing a Latina Judge of Racism
• Repugs versus Repugs on how strident to become
•George Lakoff, TruthOut: The Attack on Progressive Values
•”The Sotomayor nomination has given radical conservatives new life. They have launched an attack that is nominally aimed at Judge Sotomayor. But it is really a coordinated stealth attack – on President Obama’s central vision, on progressive thought itself, and on Republicans who might stray from the conservative hard line.”
but, maybe in the long term, more important is
• The impending bankruptcy of General Motors [the government expects to get $50 Billion back in 5 years];
• Chrysler’s fate unclear while Lee Iacocca loses his company provided car…
and the beat goes on — la-dee-da-dee-dee.
It’s A Mad World.
Other news: A Subject Not Discussed At Sunday’s Salute To Israel Parade in New York
NO HASTE TO PROSECUTE ISRAELI SPY
• BBC: US man fined in Israeli spy case
An 85-year-old former civilian employee of the US Army has been fined for passing classified documents to Israel in the 1980s. Ben-Ami Kadish was spared jail because of his age and health, but ordered to pay $50,000 ( £31,000) by a US court. The judge said the case was “shrouded in mystery” and he was surprised it took the FBI so long to charge Kadish. Kadish said: “I thought I was helping the state of Israel without harming the United States.” READ FULL STORY HERE
TUTU CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION ON MIDDLE EAST
guardian.co.uk
The Israel-Palestine crisis is the most urgent problem for the world to solve, according to Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town who said tonight that if it remains unresolved, no other issues — from the war on terror to nuclear disarmament — will ever be resolved.
The Nobel peace laureate, who said that in some ways the situation in Palestine was worse than it was in apartheid South Africa, told a packed audience of more than 1,000 — including Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury — that the west “feels a deep, deep shame for what it did — or didn’t do — during the Holocaust”. And that was right, he said.
“You jolly well ought to feel that shame, but then the penalty, the penance, has been paid, not by the west, but paid by the Palestinians.”
• Birds Of A Feather: Will the gloves ever come off?
TORONTO — Former President George W. Bush called former President Bill Clinton “his brother” and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage. The Republican and Democratic ex-presidents defended each other at a Toronto forum on Friday, disappointing some in the crowd of 6,000 who expected a more heated debate.
Bush said that he never liked it when previous administration officials criticized his government but said Clinton was respectful and never did. Bush declined to criticize the Obama administration, in contrast to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been a vocal critic of Obama. Bush, who wasn’t asked about Cheney, said there are “plenty of critics in America.” READ FULL STORY HERE
[Not everyone was glad Bush was there: The appearance prompted a protest outside Tornonto's Metro Convention center.]
MODERN DIPLOMACY: BUILDING A NEW BUNKER
• Saeed Shah, Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers: An Iraq-like Green Zone Embassy on Pakistan
[snippets]
“The U.S. is embarking on a $1 billion crash program to expand its diplomatic presence in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, another sign that the Obama administration is making a costly, long-term commitment to war-torn South Asia.”
“The scale of the projects rivals the giant U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which was completed last year after construction delays at a cost of $740 million.”
“In Kabul, the U.S. government is negotiating an $87 million purchase of a 30-to-40-acre parcel of land to expand the embassy…” READ FULL STORY HERE
Another nearly BILLION dollar compound? Could the trans-afghan pipeline be a contributing factor just like the hydrocarbon law in Iraq? Iraq Hydrocarbon Law: Sec. 1313, item (1) (iii) Enacting and implementing legislation to ensure the equitable distribution of hydrocarbon resources of the people of Iraq without regard to the sect or ethnicity of recipients, and enacting and implementing legislation to ensure that the energy resources of Iraq benefit Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs, Kurds, and other Iraqi citizens in an equitable manner. Interview: Part 1 & Part II.
Why do we always have money for war and death and killing, but not life?
While searching out video clips for Danny, I happened across this exquisite, visual gem of the human spirit demonstrating qualities of joy, gratitude, serenity, awe, inspiration and passion. Me thinkest ’tis a much better dance than the side step shuffle staged in Toronto by two benefactors to the banksters.
Click here to read this poignant and humbling story of the two artists, Ma Li and Zhai Xiaowei, dancing to music by San Bao. Originally, this music aired on a Chinese TV show named Qian Shou, “Hand In Hand.” — dissectrix.
• She Without Arm, He Without Leg
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Time For A New Way Forward: An Idea Too Big To Ignore; GM GOES INTO BANKRUPTCY
May 31st, 2009 - by: danny
NYT SUNDAY NIGHT: IT’S OFFICIAL- GM PRESSED INTO BANKRUPTCY COURTS
President Obama pushed General Motors into bankruptcy protection today, making a risky economic and political bet that by nationalizing for a period of years the onetime icon of American capitalism, he can save the company as a much smaller automaker that is competitive. Aides said that Mr. Obama plans to tell the nation on Monday that he believes G.M. can be brought back from the brink of insolvency, even if the company looks almost nothing like the titan of old.
ROBERT REICH BLASTS BANKRUPTCY (NakedCapitalism.com)
While “outsider” critics like former labor advocate Greg Palast are blasting the bankruptcy as a form of Grand Theft Auto orchestrated by Obama advisor and “liberal” Wall Street Banker turned “Car Czar” Steven Rattner, a former Clinton labor secretary and Harvard Professor, is also lambasting the deal (from NakedCapitalism.com)
“The last person one might expect to criticize the Obama Administration bailout of GM is a unapologetic liberal like Robert Reich, labor secretary under Clinton. Yet he does precisely that in today’s Financial Times.
And his logic is similar to the arguments made here and elsewhere against the bank rescue operations. Unlike some other commentators, who would be happy to Big Auto fail and devil take the hindmost, Reich believes the social cost would be so great (if nothing else, the whackage to GDP), that means to address the fallout are warranted, But he strongly disagrees with the bailout program, seeing it as wasteful and intellectually dishonest.
Bizarrely, the rescue, by throwing dollars at the problem, somehow looks more surgical and hands-off. Indeed, in the various announcements of the imminent GM bankruptcy filing, the powers that be have gone to some lengths to say they will be a hands off 60% owner. Yet the sort of active measures that Reich calls for, such as retraining programs, extended unemployment (and I would add relocation aid) weirdly raises the specter of “big government” in the public mind more than just writing very large checks. So we’ll go for costly and indirect rather than focused, cheaper, but more moving parts.”
I ALMOST GOT TO COMMENT
Last night, a network overseas calls me at 9 p.m, right after the Times sent out its “breaking news”on the bankruptcy of what many are now calling GOVERNMENT MOTORS (GM. Would I go on the air in an hour to comment? I am pre-interviewed. The focus: is this development a turning point, the beginning of the end of the clout of the American economy as a global force? I think their booker likes what I had say, agrees to have me, but, quickly calls back to say that they now have to do the interview out of their DC studio because New York is ‘too expensive.” Clearly, their “empire” is hurting too!
TIM IN CHINA:
In this week marking the 20th anniversary of the Tinananman Square uprising and massacre, a top American official arrives in the old Middle Kingdom. Money rights, not human rights is on his mind. FT reports: “Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, arrived in China on his maiden visit on Monday with calls for China to make its currency more flexible in return for fiscal reforms on the part of the US.” Last week, Russia dropped the dollar as its reserve currency. What will China do. These demands are unlikely to please the regime.
June 10, 2009 – A Day To Take Action: National Economic Crisis Video Screenings & Forums
The bailouts are widening the gap between the rich and poor. Our government has spent trillions of our dollars to prop up a banking system that has failed the country. Wall St. needs to be stopped. We demand that our government break up the insolvent banks and never again let them get so big that they distort our politics and corrupt the economy.
During the week of June 8th, Americans will host national video screenings and town hall forums to learn about the crisis and begin working on restoring our economy and democracy. Planned Events by State
Collateralized Debt Obligations?
Frozen Credit Markets?
Credit Default Swaps?
How did we get to this global financial FIA$CO? Watch this 30+ minute, informative video from A New Way Forward:
Obama’s election proved that the American people are “too big to fail.” Now, we need to work for the structural change that we can truly believe in – Download the ANWF exclusive, educational video on the economic crisis and get your event started.
RELATED:
PBS: Bill Moyers and William Greider discuss A New Way Forward
GREIDER: “Young people are part of my optimism. They smart kids, want to be engaged in their times, see the injustices of their society. And they don’t quite trust the great, big existing organizations. And with some good reason, as you know. And particularly, they’re not totally sold on the Democratic Party as the vessel of reform.
So they’re now engaged in putting together the 11, 12, I’m sure they’d like to have 50, little bonfires around the country. These demonstrations. There’s going be one in Washington and one in Wall Street, and a number of other cities. I think if people do those things with or without any help from big organizations, that collectively becomes the voice that tells Washington, we’re on to your silly ideas that Wall Street wants you to do about reform. We see through them. And we have some ideas of our own. And we’re going to come talk to you, and if you decline to talk to us, we’re going to come after you. That’s the voice of democracy speaking. When people say that.” READ FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE
• William K. Black | HuffPo: The Two Documents Everyone Should Read to Better Understand the Crisis
“As a white-collar criminologist and former financial regulator much of my research studies what causes financial markets to become profoundly dysfunctional. The FBI has been warning of an “epidemic” of mortgage fraud since September 2004. It also reports that lenders initiated 80% of these frauds.” READ FULL STORY HERE
PRAVDA: A RUSSIAN VIEW ON THE US ECONOMY
• American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper
Just as in the good old Cold War days, as seen through the editorialist at best, or more at propagandist’s eyes, “like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed…”
“The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.” READ FULL STORY HERE
• Some Saw Crash Coming – Bank Watchdogs At Northern Bank Role Played
Banking watchdogs played “war games” envisaging a crisis at Northern Rock and HBOS three years before the first signs of danger in the banking sector, it has emerged.
In 2004, regulators put the two lenders at the centre of a scenario focusing on a sudden crisis in the property market, according to the Financial Times. READ FULL STORY HERE
• WAPO: Giving The Fed Unchecked Power Was a “Congressional Afterthought” & Wall Street’s Trillion Dollars
On the day before Thanksgiving in 1991, the U.S. Senate voted to vastly expand the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve.
Almost no one noticed.
“There is also a question about the roots of the crisis: Did investment banks take greater risks in the past two decades because they knew the Fed could rescue them?
The 1991 legislation, authored by Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), was requested by Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms in the wake of the 1987 market crisis, and it would save some of them a generation later. READ FULL STORY HERE
• Guardian: It’s all about the money – Limiting its corrosive power throughout our democracy can start with state funding for parties
The last few weeks have been deeply uncomfortable for anyone who believes that politics is not a means for enriching yourself but a vehicle for us to change our society. All politicians are under scrutiny and will have to answer to their constituents. For two weeks we have looked inwards. But now, as the whole country starts to recover from the shock of moats and mystery mortgages, it is time every member of parliament starts to contribute to the debate of what comes next. READ FULL STORY HERE
• Bernanke Bid to Lift Housing Scuttled by Rising Rates
“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s efforts to bring down borrowing costs to revive the housing market and help the economy are stalling. Mortgage rates are almost back to where they were in March before the 30-year rate fell to a record and sparked a refinancing boom. Mortgage delinquencies rose to a record 9.12 percent of U.S. home loans and house prices dropped the most on record in the first quarter, industry reports show. READ FULL STORY HERE
“I still expect that economic growth in the U.S. is going to be negative through Q4, and that we’ll see positive growth in Q1,” Roubini told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the Seoul Digital Forum.”
Reuters: Lee Iacocca, the car executive credited with saving Chrysler from bankruptcy in the 1980s, is to lose a big chunk of his pension and a guaranteed life-long company car due to the U.S. automaker’s bankruptcy filing two decades later.” READ FULL STORY HERE
• Lt. Dan Choi: “The Boots That Marched In Iraq Will Be Marching For Equality”
Choi said that his goal was to “fight back” in the hopes that future soldiers won’t have to worry about “being discriminated against” in the military. I’m going to continue speaking out for all those soldiers that feel that they’re alone, that feel that they’re ashamed because of who they are. I say no, you are not alone. You’re honorable, you’re serving our country. And my message, my timeline is that when the repeal of this discriminatory law happens, I’ll be first one in that recruiting station raising my right hand one more time saying I will serve my country. READ FULL STORY & WATCH VIDEO HERE
• Business as usual: Shell trying to suppress the truth.
This 8 1/2-minute mini-documentary is an excellent introduction to what is at stake in the upcoming Wiwa v. Shell trial. It was produced by Rikshaw Films for EarthRights International (ERI) & the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the plaintiffs’ co-counsel in the case.The video was a highlight of the WiwavShell.org website run by ERI & CCR to educate the public about the trial but it was recently removed. Investigation of public legal documents reveal that the video was removed under order from the trial judge after legal motions by Shell. Read the story on Huffington Post.
RELATED: Prolonged Detention
Unhappiness with Mr. O mounting across the spectrum, as if we were all expecting the dawn of a new age:
• Ted Rall Rails: Time to Resign
[snips]
We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he’s dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now–before he drags us further into the abyss.
I refer here to Obama’s plan for “preventive detentions.” READ FULL STORY HERE
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Reporting From Buffalo: Speechifying, Chicken Wings And Media Debate
May 31st, 2009 - by: danny
Let us praise famous bars. Let us pay tribute, where tribute is due, in chicken wing city, to the bars of Buffalo.
And a toast to the city in which and for which they stand. Once home to more millionaires than any other American city, it is the town that witnessed the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt (TR) after witnessing the assassination of William McKinley, and once the home of never elected President Millard Fillmore [MF], a WHIG president lionized in a YouTube.com video called, “American Douchbag. He was a big supporter of sending slaves back to Africa and presided over a “compromise” in 1850 dividing the nation into slave and non-slave states, a precursor to the civil war.
Known for its chicken wings and the presence of singer Ani DeFranco and her Righteous Babe label, Buffalo has over the years, since the steel industry packed up and left, lost half its population and is now ranked 2 or 3 as the poorest city in America. In a sense, Detroit will be now be going through the final stages of the “de-industrialization” that devastated Buffalo in the l980′s when the steel plants were shuttered.
Giant windmills at a farm known as Steel Winds turn on an old slag pile at the Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna, N.Y., south of Buffalo. READ FULL STORY HERE
On the other hand, it is still a great place known for stunning architecture, great museums, stable and low cost neighborhoods and a youth culture partial to music and left-of-center politics. Thanks to Warren Buffet’s corporate patronage, the Buffalo News is still one of the country’s great newspapers so perhaps it is fitting that the Union of Democratic Communications held its annual conference at Buffalo State with your news dissector as its keynote speaker to assess the media culture.
I almost didn’t get to give my major policy address because, earlier in the day, the gods of nutrition assured that I would cut my finger while slicing a bagel for some cream cheese in violation of my new dietary regime. By the afternoon, with blood still dripping, this time on my keyboard, I was directed to the College Health Center. The people there were not exactly welcoming at first, classifying me a “bleeder.” Their liability concerns came before my finger. I had to put some antiseptic and a bandaid on myself, so by the time I spoke, my middle finger was encased in a way that allowed me to physically thank them for their help by flipping the bird as we use to say. (Actually the nursing team was apologetic, clearly victimized by deeply ingrained law suit fears and helpful to the extent they thought they could be. Happily, it wasn’t a more serious accident caused by my own inattention.)
Now, with all of these atmospherics taken care of, I can say my talk was well received even if many in the audience of media educators seemed more worried about the state of their jobs and falling incomes than my description of falling media. I was critical of Michael Niman’s provocative article in Buffalo’s alternative paper ART VOICE cheering the decline of newspapers — “Die Zombie News Papers Die” but there seemed to be a consensus that the media crisis is real and getting worse. The issues he raises must be discussed. Clearly, the web is the hope of the future, but is that misplaced? That debate will continue.
The next morning, Peter Phillips of Project Censored spoke, showing off their new web site MediaFreedom featuring a range of alternative media sources. Phillips indicted the continuing imperial nature of the military and collusion of the press, which barely touched on the vast scale of Iraqi casualties (over a million) and revealed the way military contractors are interlocked with the boards of media companies and at the same time draw investments from more than 150 members of Congress. He called for the abandonment of the mainstream media and the embrace of “verified” alternative media sources. I told him about the other impressive news site AMPEDSTATUS.com run by our own David Degraw.
There were many informed if obtuse academic presentations at the conference like Brian Brown | University of Western Ontario: “Reconsidering the Widget: the methodological implications of the transformation of a virtual game into a photo-sharing website” and David Gracon | University of Oregon: “No Culture Icons? — An Analysis of ‘The Thermal’s Rejection of Hummer, Punk Aesthetics and the Ambiguities of Subcultural Commodification within Television Advertising.” Karen Lerman, Robin Andersen and Cristina Colon offered thoughtful papers about ecotourism and animals in the wild. I was told it is not a good idea to kiss a dolphin! (Robin later qualified that!)
Speaking of animals in the wild, earlier, Lisa Vives of the Global Information Network analyzed (and criticized) why the Left press and bloggers are so unreceptive to information and news from third world – global south perspectives. “Our stories were either too short, or too long, too timely or not timely enough, “she said. “There is a myopia, an exclusion of the black press like the black press trade association with 220 newspapers. There is a wall of classism, racism, and white privelege that has excluded our views.?” She called the left media balkanized, running the same stories repeatedly,, clinging to, but never sharing their donor bases etc. etc. All true. She appealed for support and more pickup for her excellent news service.
She also said new perspectives have to be welcome and collaboration is essential. She showed newspapers from all around the country, black papers, progressive weeklies and third world media and then cited important stories not covered by the progressive press. She also said that Americans need to know more about great leaders in the South and global media issues. On African issues, she has also created participatory roundtables. Think about this: what should be done here to change this? How can this wall be dismantled? We all need to have more discussion of this gap in the independent media world. Free Press: Are you listening? Probably not!
I toured Buffalo with Mark Sommer of the Buffalo News, crisscrossing the town from the wild East — devastated poor boarded up neighborhoods — past the old mansions, the beautiful Elmwood neighborhood, and heard about The Frank Lloyd Wright Restoration Projects, I saw the old Amtrak station in renewal, the well preserved and diverse depression era architecture of an earlier era, some of the renovation in a empty downtown, Ani DeFranco’s church and cultural center, museums, parks, an old insane asylum from the 1890′s slated for rebuilding and heard about people trading old cars for small homes. There is a lot of pride alongside the pain.
At the Holiday Inn, they still have postcards from the closed steel mill. Parts of the city look like a movie set; parts like a community I could feel comfortable living in. We also remembered a key, early 70′s event in Western New York, not that far away —the Attica prison massacre, which, coincidentally, was one of the first stories I covered when I assumed the “Dissectorship” at WBCN.
Small world.
And speaking of which …
• Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals
The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty. During the 1990s the Netherlands faced a shortage of prison cells, but a decline in crime has since led to overcapacity in the prison system. The country now has capacity for 14,000 prisoners but only 12,000 detainees.
Deputy justice minister Nebahat Albayrak announced on Tuesday that eight prisons will be closed, resulting in the loss of 1,200 jobs. Natural redundancy and other measures should prevent any forced lay-offs, the minister said. (I was told that California is considering releasing 8000 prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes to reduce costs.)
And on the topic of criminals:
The GOP Campaign To Retain Gitmo
STRAIGHTEN OUT THAT BOW TIE BECAUSE BULL SH*T RISES: The New “Mr. Objectivity”
• Tucker Carlson to launch right-leaning HuffPo alternative [snippets from nicole belle at crooks & liars]
Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus on reporting on the Obama administration and “adding facts to the conversation.”
*snicker* Oh…facts. You know, I’ve watched Carlson for way more years than it should be healthy to do so and I’ve come across very few times where Carlson has had even a glancing grasp on facts.
“We are a general-interest newspaper-format style site,” Carlson told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “There just aren’t enough people covering this administration and telling the people what’s going on.”
Carlson, a former conservative and libertarian pundit (most notably on CNN), touted his site as a home for basic reporting.
“Tell the truth, and be accurate,” Carlson said of the venture’s goals. It’s very important to live up to the basic standards of journalism.”
OH, TUCKER, GAG ME WITH A SPOON! – News Dissector
• The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online By Kevin Kelly
Wikipedia, Flickr, and Twitter aren’t just revolutions in online social media. They’re the vanguard of a cultural movement.
Bill Gates once derided open source advocates with the worst epithet a capitalist can muster. These folks, he said, were a “new modern-day sort of communists,” a malevolent force bent on destroying the monopolistic incentive that helps support the American dream. Gates was wrong. READ FULL STORY HERE
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: Ani Difranco — Self Evident
Hendrix Murdered? Jimmy Hendrix ‘was murdered’ by his manager, claims roadie
Daily Mail (UK): Rock legend Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager as part of an insurance scam, a new book by one of his former aides claims.Hendrix choked to death on his own vomit when he was 27 — but the exact circumstances of his death have always been a mystery.
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