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I went to go hit a bucket of golf balls today. (Beautiful day, 85 and sunny). The place I go to is inhabited by crusty old men who scratch a lot and talk shit all day long. This is their retirement. I know this place to be pretty conservative so I just go to hit a bucket and not chew the fat.
Today I’m walking in to get my bucket and I hear one dude telling another in his heavy southern drawl "did you see the thing on C-SPAN with this COnyers feller?" That’s all I needed. I spent the next (…)

By PETE YOST, Associated Press
Congress should conduct an official inquiry to determine whether President Bush intentionally misled the nation about the reasons for toppling Saddam Hussein, a senior House Democrat suggested Thursday.
New York Rep. Charles Rangel was among Democratic House members who participated in a forum to air demands that the White House provide more information about what led to the decision to go to war in Iraq.
"Quite frankly, evidence that appears to be (…)

Deadly Immunity When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data — and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for their role in the epidemic. by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the (…)

IS IT VAST OR HALF-VAST?
By Peter Fredson
June 17, 2005
What shall I call it? Is it Vast? Is it Right Wing? Is it a Conspiracy?
In a previous blog, my assertion that there was a Vast Right Wing conspiracy was indignantly denied by several True Believers. No Conspiracy, they said.
After sorting out thousands of pages of material dating from the Reagan administration to the present time I have found more than enough information to determine several facts.
First: Is it vast? Well, (…)

Yesterday’s phenomenal testimony at the John Conyers’ Hearing on the Downing Street Memo left many jaws gaping. All news organizations are now faced with a choice, are they going to continue to cover for the Bush Administration, or are they going to cover The Downing Street Memo story like it ought to be covered?
For a taste of the hearing, download this audio clip- Ray McGovern’s opening statement. McGovern 6.5 min, 3mb mp3 (right-click > save as)
Testimony was given by former (…)

American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.
Yesterday’s disclosure led to calls by MPs for a full statement to the Commons and opened ministers to allegations that they held back the facts until after the general election.
Despite persistent rumours of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm, Adam Ingram, the Defence minister, assured Labour MPs in January that US forces (…)

US military generals have admitted that 99% of insurgents are Iraqis fighting to defend their country...why does Fox News and our government continue lie to us? The growing disconnect between the Corporate News/govt and reality is starting to show them as being completely insane! And their assumption that we will believe anything they say...ludicrous! BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military launched a major combat operation Friday, sending 1,000 Marines and Iraqi soldiers to hunt for (…)

It started at a military funeral about two years ago, this heartache that Republican Walter B. Jones says has gripped him and won’t let go.
It’s the kind of pain that gnaws and prods. So much so that it pushed the North Carolina congressman to begin writing to other families of dead servicemen and women. (He’s up to at least 1,300.) Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.) with one of the posters of troops killed in Iraq on the wall outside his office.
And to collect pictures of the fallen. (…)

VDH says:
"The more left-wing the Westerner, the more tolerant he is of right-wing Islamic extremism; the more liberal the Arab, the more likely he is to agree with conservative Westerners about the real source of Middle Eastern pathology."
Any comment?

One of the most senior advisers to the radical President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, will be a keynote speaker at the G8 Alternatives Summit in Edinburgh on Sunday, July 3rd.
Maximilien Arvelaiz, Director of International Relations, is one of President Chavez’s principal advisers in the area of foreign relations and is the main coordinator of his international agenda. He played a key role in coordinating President Chavez’s recent state visit to India and his trips to the last two Porto (…)