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Greetings from "the angry left"

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:21:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great column...Read all for the full bene's.
Speaking about Bush's jingoistic label...
So then, trust me when I say, try as they might, "the angry left" won't stick. As anyone with the slightest sense of history and poetic justice knows, such a jab is merely the final, desperate wailings of the bankrupt, the shameful, and the doomed.

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

"Fellow citizens, if the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain's resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry left never will."
-- George W. Bush, RNC '08

What's wrong, buttercup? Right-wing politics got you down? RNC '08 making you gag? Toxic and inexcusable events of the past eight years make you deeply sick to your stomach, spleen, heart, mind, spirit and even your kneecaps? Or is it the wretched notion that the bizarro-world McCain-Palin agenda wants to continue more of the same?

Or maybe it's this: Maybe it's all this terrifying new evidence that there still seems to be this huge pile of Americans who aren't all that concerned with -- or even aware of -- just how violently the GOP continues to dump all over their very heads. Is that what's making your blood boil? Aww, there, there, now.

terrified throngs (aka "Bush's base"): You know who should be running this country if and when I don't make it through my first term? Hot chicks with guns!

Cheney/Bush are War Criminals and Pelosi Enables their crime to continue

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:51:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pelosi is contemptible--and oes to show how corrupt our leaders are...

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

By Amy Goodman

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour in which she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her declaration that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn’t want to see. Suskind has just published a book called “The Way of the World.” He makes an explosive charge: that the Bush administration instructed the CIA to forge a letter that would support its claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was linked to al-Qaida. He also charged that the person whose name is on the forged letter, the former head of Iraqi intelligence, the man who was the jack of diamonds in the U.S. military’s “most wanted” deck of cards, Tahir Jalil Habbush, was given $5 million in hush money.

it came from the vice president.

Bush Seeks New Congressional War on Terror Declaration

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:47:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another attempt by the Bushistas to keep us on a permanent war footing and economy. The War Profiteers no doubt will love this and may have even written it. (I expect Congress to kiss the Preznut's ass again on this) Corporate war crimes are the norm.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

The New York Times is reporting President Bush is seeking Congress to explicitly acknowledge that the nation remains engaged in an armed conflict with al-Qaeda, the Taliban and associated organizations. The measure carries significant legal and public policy implications for Bush, and potentially his successor. It would allow them to claim the approval of Congress to use the tools of war, including detention, interrogation and surveillance, against the enemy. Some lawmakers are concerned that the administration’s effort to declare anew a war footing is an eleventh-hour maneuver to reestablish its broad interpretation of the president’s wartime powers, even in the face of challenges from the Supreme Court and Congress. It is uncertain whether Congress will take the administration up on its request.

The Mafia, the CIA and Bush Sr.

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:17:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When you consider that Reagan was probably out of it from Day One of his term and that Bill Clinton is a close associate of George Bush Sr., the Bush crime syndicate has been influencing when not outright running the executive branch continuously since 1980, which, perhaps not so coincidentally, marks the earliest days of the credit bubble the economy is now having serious trouble digesting.

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

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Roots of the Savings & Loan Scandal

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Regular Brasscheck TV viewers know that throughout its second term, the Bush administration actively interfered with states that attempted to enforce their own state lending laws.

Bush & Co. used the Office of the Controller of the Currency to sue states like New York to stop them from going after predatory lenders.

Bush Jr. is not the first Bush to get "hands on" involved in shaping the lending industry to his will.

Many know that one of this brothers, Neil, was part of a spectacular Savings & Loan failure in the 1980s.

What far fewer people are aware of is how deeply the CIA, organized crime and, George Bush Sr. were involved in the Savings & Loan disaster which caused US taxpayers and estimated trillion dollars plus.

The Bush family and its associates in organized crime and the CIA have figured out how to run this scam on a multi-hundred billion dollar level using the entire US banking system as its playground.

No one in "murrika mourns for the "Collaterals"

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:40:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In the spirit of Dr. King, I too have a dream. I have a vision of a Truth Commission in the United States that will create a process of accountability for the war crimes and human rights violations committed by the Bush administration during these past eight years. I see a campaign that will enable our citizens to eventually cast a vote for the principles of the Hague and Geneva Conventions that protect the rights of prisoners of war and of civilian populations. I see a growing movement of citizens empowered to bring Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and others into a process of justice for their commissioning of illegal wiretapping, torturing prisoners, and killing innocent civilians.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

During this season of electoral politics in the United States, I find it very challenging to keep a focus on the critical task of healing the wounds of our nation. Barack Obama is certainly one of the best orators I've heard in a long time. For me, he is the hands down choice for president over McCain . However, amidst the fanfare and celebration of the Democratic Convention, my heart was deeply troubled and my soul was crying out on behalf of the civilian casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These innocent victims are deemed to be 'collateral damage.' Last week, newscasts reported that ninety civilians died in Afghanistan due to American bombings--sixty of them were children. We heard this information sandwiched in between the roar and celebration of the Convention without a moment to pause in mourning.

there was not one word by him that might have indicated the need of our nation to repent for the killing of hundred of thousands of innocent civilians

Smart quotes from the Democratic Convention

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:35:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: yuk, yuk

Clip Source: cathy-edgett.livejournal.com

Ted Strickland:

You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well, with the 22 million new jobs and the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind, George W. Bush came into office on third base-and then he stole second. And John McCain cheered him every step of the way.

Brian Schweitzer:

Even leaders in the oil industry know that Senator McCain has it wrong. We simply can't drill our way to energy independence, even if you drilled in all of John McCain's backyards, including the ones he can't even remember.

Joan Baez: ‘I Was Right 40 Years Ago and I Am Right Now!’

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:37:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great article on sister Joan!

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Age has not wearied Joan Baez, the queen of protest, but it’s calmed her down ... a bit

These days, the warbling falsetto that Baez brought to We Shall Overcome and Babe I'm Gonna Leave You in the Sixties has been deepened by age, but she's still using the songs to get across her core messages of pacifism, social responsibility and, for the first time, party allegiance, saying of her endorsement of Barack Obama: "For years I chose not to engage in party politics. At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do."

"Little by little it became clear that Bush was bizarre - and dangerous," she says. "I would do concerts where I would see people in the audience sitting with their arms crossed, looking angry as I said: ‘I was right 40 years ago and I am right now!' and throw my fist in the air. Now they're listening. Bush's great trick is to suggest that to go against him is to be unpatriotic. Slowly people realised that."

No consequences for Bush Criminal gang?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:31:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obama's advisors and other Dems have repeatedly stated that they will let The criminal o on his merry way. Obscene.

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

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No consequences for Bush Jr?

When Bill Clinton, "the man from Hope," took the White House one of the things he did not put on his agenda was a serious investigation into the vast criminal enterprise operated by George Bush, Sr. that went by the name Iran/Contra.

Bush Sr. who belonged in jail on many counts walked away scott free.

Since Clinton left the White House, it's obvious that he and Bush Sr. are the best of friends playing golf together and posing for numerous photo ops.

Is Obama going to go after the vast criminal enterprise Bush Jr. presided over.

The message is loud and clear. He will not.

What do you call the form of government where the chief executive can break serious laws repeatedly causing grave harm to the nation without consequences of any kind?

On the other hand, can Bush pardon himself in advance for murder? I don't think so.

Why a murder indictment against Bush is not only realistic, it's also advisable.

How to indict Bush for murder

The George Bush Tour Humor and a reality check

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:30:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We may never recover from Booosh, especially if McCain wins, a likely prospect with the way Obama rolls to the right. Disgusting, ain't it. 'Merika! Land of the consumer slaves and home of the political Sheep!

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

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It was if you're an American citizen.

On the other hand, if you're a member of the ever-burgeoning white collar criminal class, the Bush Administration ushered in a kind of new Golden Age.

Michael Parenti is barely able to scratch the surface as he lists the human vermin that triumphed on the Age of Bush, but he hit a lot of the highlights.

Was the administration a failure?

Not at all. It accomplished just about everything it set out to do.

Worst of all, or best of all depending on what side of the devastation you're on, there's no indication that anything substantial is going to change with the next president.

America in the World: Silenced by Bush

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:35:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Such Bushian doublespeak, expressed with total "sincerity," has regrettably defined America's relationship with our fellow human beings in this new century. As a result, even US critics of the administration's policies are reluctant to condemn aggression by other countries because they do not want to be accused of what the Bush regime, worldwide, will perhaps be most remembered for -- hypocrisy.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."

--André Gide

One of the legacies of Bush's tragically flawed foreign policy is that it has managed to silence Americans who believe that the United States -- for all its faults -- should condemn aggression in other parts of the world.

If one word describes how Bush has dealt with the rest of our small planet, it is hypocrisy. For the past eight years, the administration's deeds have seldom, if ever, matched its rhetoric. Operation Iraqi Freedom, it now seems clearer than ever, was in fact Operation Iraqi Oil. While the State Department issues human rights reports, the Bush/Cheney regime supports dictators who suppress the innocent. And in Eastern Europe, which the administration proclaims should be a region of peace and stability, it is heightening tensions by installing missile systems against "the Iranian threat."

Bush's weakened FDA has us all in Danger

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:54:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Across the board in every Federal agency, thew Bushistas have gone backwards.

Clip Source: www.ourfuture.org

The Bush administration has dramatically weakened the Food and Drug Administration and America’s food safety laws, leaving American families at risk. In fact, the Bush Administration allowed food-industry lobbyists and representatives to gut laws that would have improved food safety.

For example, when industry lobbyists objected, Bush officials torpedoed rules that would require companies to track food – particularly imported food. – through the food chain. This meant FDA was deprived of the capacity to track the source of poisoned food rapidly. [Center for Science in the Public Interest]

Remember the salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 1,200 people this summer? Well, the FDA didn’t have the records it needed to locate the source of the contamination. An understaffed and underfunded FDA spent months gouging American farmers with a cry of “tainted tomatoes,” before finally locating the likely source in hot peppers imported from Mexico.

"President Bush, Will You Please Shut Up Your Oily Mouth?"

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:41:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The neoconned Bush Regime and the Israeli-occupied American media are heading the innocent world toward nuclear war.

Back in the Reagan years the National Endowment for Democracy was created as a cold war tool. Today the NED is a neocon-controlled agent for US world hegemony. Its main function is to pour US money and election-rigging into former constituent parts of the Soviet Union in order to ring Russia with American puppet states.

The neoconservative Bush Regime used the NED to intervene in Ukrainian and Georgian internal affairs in keeping with the neoconservative plan to establish US-friendly and Russia-hostile political regimes in these two former constituent parts of Russia and the Soviet Union.

The NED was also used to dismember the former Yugoslavia with its interventions in Slovakia, Serbia, and Montenegro.

Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, told the Washington Post in 1991 that much of what the NED does “today was done covertly 2

Clip Source: magyarok-saman.livejournal.com

"Every country is tired of war except for the US. War, including nuclear war, is the neoconservative strategy for world hegemony.

The entire world, except for Americans, knows that the outbreak of armed conflict between Russian and Georgian forces in South Ossetia was entirely due to the US and its Georgia puppet, Saakashvili. (emphasis mine) Americans, alone in the world, are unaware that the hostilities were initiated by Saakashvili, because Bush, Cheney and the Israeli-occupied American media have again lied to them.

Everyone else in the world knows that the unstable and corrupt Saakashvili, who proclaims democracy and runs a police state, would not have taken on Russia by attacking South Ossetia unless given the go-ahead by Washington. "

"President Bush, Will You Please Shut Up?"

The neoconned Bush Regime and the Israeli-occupied American media are heading the innocent world toward nuclear war.

Bushistas Trashing Our Government On Their Way Out

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:53:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It'll take decades (if the Empire doesn't fall anyway) to fix the damage done by these pricks.

Clip Source: www.ourfuture.org

Yesterday, the Bush Justice Department announced there would be no prosecutions for the illegal political hiring that went on the Justice Department (link via Knitting Liberally). And, the Bush Interior Department announced new proposed rules that would eliminate independent scientific reviews of projects that could harm endangered species.

The two developments both speak to a disturbing but wholly predictable development. Conservatives want to finish the job of crippling the civil service and trashing our government on their way out the door.

The Bushies were busted in their politicization of the Justice Department, but Attorney General Michael Mukasey has now made it clear that accountability will be quite limited. Further, as noted here before, the politicization of the civil service is far from limited to the Justice Department.

To ensure the civil service stays crippled, conservatives want to "burrow" into the civil service, to hobble future White House administrations

Bush Plans to Make The Endangered Species Act Extinct

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:53:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pricks like Bush just don't care about environment if it screws with their cronies' profits

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Something tells me we're going to be seeing a lot more of this in his final months.

Yesterday, the AP reported on new draft rules being proposed by the Bush administration to gut the Endangered Species Act. These would be the biggest change to the groundbreaking legislation since 1988, and would not require the approval of Congress.

Currently, federal agencies are required to consult with an independent agency -- the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) or the National Marine Fisheries Service -- to determine whether a project would harm an endangered species. The AP reports that under the new rules, agencies would simply be able to "decide for themselves":

Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years

Big Oil and their GOP lapdogs

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:40:47 GMT

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Clip Source: jblaque.livejournal.com

Wait... what?

While Republicans, the U.S. oil industry and other assorted asshats piss and moan about more access to federal lands to (presumably) reduce reliance on foreign suppliers, American-based companies are shipping record amounts of gasoline and diesel fuel to other countries.

No, really.

A record 1.6 million barrels a day in U.S. refined petroleum products were exported during the first four months of this year, up 33% from 1.2 million barrels a day over the same period in 2007. Shipments this February topped 1.8 million barrels a day for the first time during any month, according to final numbers from the Energy Department.

The surge in exports appears to *ahem* contradict pleas from Big Oil and the Bush administration for Congress to open more offshore waters and Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.

can help alleviate shortages by drilling for oil and gas in our own country," Bush told reporters last month. "We have got the opportunity to find more crude oil