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  • "Why Net Neutrality is Hollywood’s Secret Enemy"
    11 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.chycho.com/?q=neutrality
    On February 8th, the independent movie known as “The Secret” was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. What was of significance about this event was not the information that this movie shared, but about this movie becoming a member of an elite and very significant group of films to have had a successful transition from the Internet to the mainstream media.
    The first major movie to have successfully used the Net to propel itself to the spotlight was the (…)

  • WHEY THEY FIGHT: US troop makeup
    10 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (No ethnic slurs are intended here, only phrases used by actual soldiers are revealed for the sake of honesty)
    Most people can’t understand WHY U.S.soldiers would go to Iraq and risk their very lives or at very least their limbs or their sanity. Here is a rough breakdown which explains it all.
    39% Go because they come from impoverished and undereducated backgrounds. They seek good pay, education and a possible pension (if they live that long!)
    18% go because they come from (…)

  • Ex CIA Spook alleges Kennedy’s Assassin was the US Government
    9 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "LBJ took a walk one day down Main Street USA, When he got there what did he see? The youth of America on LSD! LBJ ... USA ... CIA ..." (Lyrics from original HAIR Musical)
    For a moment, forty years ago, it looked like the radicalising political effect of the Vietnam War together with the US Civil Rights movement would synthesise with the upcoming ’drop out’, psychedelic culture that swept over the youth of North America.
    John and Yoko Lennon, part of that drop-out anti-war culture (…)

  • Talk to Your Congress Member and Senators While They’re Home
    9 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Swanson
    Senators are in their states until April 9, and Congress Members in their districts until April 15. Now’s an ideal time, by yourself or as a small group, to go and meet with your representatives....
    You may want to lobby for:
    1. Impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Here are resources. You should not allow your congress member or senators to maintain the pretense that any investigation is needed prior to beginning an impeachment hearing. Tell them that the FISA violations (…)

  • Rewrite
    8 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eschaton catches the Washington Post in blatant media manipulation of the war in Iraq, manipulation so bad it can be called lying. The original Reuters story contains the following paragraph concerning an American attack on the Iraqi city of Diwaniya, quoting American military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Bleichwehl:
    “Bleichwehl said troops, facing scattered resistance, discovered a factory that produced ‘explosively formed penetrators’ (EFPs), a particularly deadly type of (…)

  • American Mugabe
    8 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Most Americans really don’t understand their president.
    And, no, I’m not even talking about the thirty percent or so who still give him a positive approval rating. I’m not sure those folks understand anything.
    Among the remaining seventy percent, however, I would estimate that the vast bulk still have not fully apprehended what we’re dealing with here. Because what we’re dealing with is nothing short of an American Mugabe.
    Even among the vast majority who disapprove of Bush’s (…)

  • Send Sen. Mikulski to Iraq, Not the MD National Guard!
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    About 20 percent of the Maryland National Guardsmen are being called up for service in Iraq. They will be part of the Bush-Cheney’s Gang’s insane “Surge” strategy in that over-four-year old, no-win, no-end conflict. We’re talking about 1,300 Army and Air National Guard from the state, whose lives will be put at risk in a war based on serial lies and which can not be won militarily. (1) The mobilization order means deployment by this summer. (2) Some of these soldiers have been there before. (…)

  • Can you say "VICTORY"? Bush can’t define it.
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The "Bushie" hardliners make no bones about it; "Victory" is what they’re after in Iraq, and be hanged with any dissention from the peanut gallery (read: U.S.Democratic Congress). Of course, the Neoconers have never even vaguely attempted to qualify or quantify what is meant by victory. Is it a strong, honest, representative government,dedicated to equanimity? Fat chance. The Maliki government is corrupt,biased toward the Shia (and their militias),and in all respects greedy.
    Perhaps (…)

  • Voice of the White House April 6, 2007
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    TBR News.org – April 6, 2007
    ”The pot is beginning to boil over the food, human and pet, poisonings. I am digging up more data of Mad Cow in the U.S. and the Chinese have denied the wildl US claims that wheat glutin is poisoned. Their glutin is almost all used inside China and the main company has not shipped any glutin to pet food plants.
    Of more immediate interest is the mobbing of Fat Karl Rove on Wednesday. Although the media closely confined the story and limited its distribution, (…)

  • Who will bite first, the U.S. or Iran?
    6 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov) - The world is waiting for April 6, when the United States supposedly plans to launch Operation Bite against Iran.
    Washington has accumulated the required forces in the region: two task groups in the Persian Gulf, including the aircraft carriers USS Dwight Eisenhower and USS John Stennis, four nuclear submarines, two dozen cruisers, and more than 400 sea- and ground-based aircraft, including Stealth planes that will allegedly (…)