Ok, Bartcop, a friend recently turned me
on to this site and a few others (DU, Buzzflash, Hammerdown, Greg Palast).
I'm having a hard time believing all the
sh*t going on in America and abroad, and NOBODY IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT
IT!
( I apologize for the all caps, but this
is really starting to stress me). How is it possible that the American
public can be so much like
stupid sheep and continue grazing while
the wolves cull the fringes of the herd? As long as they are not directly
affected my the
wolves circling, they continue their mindless
munching.
The stories are reported and forgotten:
1. 16 Words : WTF? 2 days and its gone (except
for the 'net)
2. BushCo : How can our President
profit from war?
3. Bush Sr : Saudi Arabia is
immune to all things....why? Pappa is on the payroll.
4. Church and State: The Right Reverend
and Future King is starting to fund religious institutions with MY tax
dollars?
5. Uday and Qusay(sp?) : 3 men and a teenager
can hold off the 101st ? They needed TOW missles to subdue 4 people
barricaded in an apartment
with AK-47's? I thought having these guys alive was going to be a KEY to
locating the ever elusive WMD's?
6. Press : Continues to show "Killed in
Iraq" figures showing ONLY combat related deaths to the public? (Bartcop
is on top if it,
showing ALL deaths,
as it should be)
7. LIES : Everyone from Bush down is doing
it, and getting caught (Powell seems to be the only one covering his ass)
yes nothing is
being done about it.
Clinton got vilified and just short of crucified for his blowjob and subsequent
lying...........but as has been stated
here and other sites,
nobody
died from clinton's blowjob.
These are just a few that stick out in my
mind, and are not being followed up on in the "mainstream" press. I've
been non-political
my entire life and would laugh at the 2
party antics of our country. Now its not so funny; the Republicans have
turned us into the
next Nazi's to the worlds eyes, the Democrats
just sit there and take it, and America continues to graze.
This is what is confusing me, its almost
like living a dream/nightmare.
I see these things going on in the press,
but nobody seems concerned.
I'm seriously considering applying for Canadian citizenship...being American is becoming a bad thing.
Thanks for alllowing me to vent,
DWA
Subject: tax refund irony
yo bart,
writing to verify, for my own sanity, that
i'm not alone what i feel.
news reports are saying we'll all be getting
another tax refund/credit/payoff/bribe from our buddies in washington...
i hope i'm not the only one who sees the
disgusting irony in all this?!
my wife lost her job as a teacher this
year due to budget cuts, and we get a paltry check in return?!
i'm very interested in your opinion of
an organized demonstration involving these checks...
i'm picturing either a massive, peaceful
check-burning protest, or a large scale contribution to a charity
(one thouroughly detested by the GOP).
what'd'ya think?
landon in akron
Landon, as I said in BCR Show9B, I think Bush refunded all taxes
paid
by the biggest corporations going back to 1985.
That's what broke the Treasury and soured the stock market and our futures.
Dear Editors:
In the final paragraph of "Before and After Sept.
11" (7/25/03), you
stress the importance of "unfettered access"
to "relevant information."
This is a given. The world awaits
the Times' genuine investigation of
the many unanswered questions about 9/11 that
both Congress and the
Kean Commission will only pretend to get at.
Citing communication
failures between the FBI and CIA is the classic
limited hangout
technique used during Watergate to feign accountability
and distract
from the real issue. Now that it is again
patriotic to question the
words of Mr. Bush, I suggest you start with the
following two
transcripts from the White House website:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020105-3.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011204-17.html
In each, Mr. Bush claims he saw the first 9/11
plane crash on a TV
prior to his elementary school photo op.
No footage of this crash was
shown on TV until much later in the day.
What was he watching?
Dave Berman
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/opinion/25FRI1.html
July 25, 2003
Before and After Sept. 11
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks might have been
disrupted if America's
foreign and domestic intelligence agencies had
done a better job
sharing information they already possessed about
the activities of Al
Qaeda members. That is the most chilling finding
of an unflinching
Congressional inquiry into the performance of
the country's spy
agencies in the years leading up to the attacks.
It would be nice to
believe that all the problems had been fixed.
Unfortunately, much work
remains to be done, and it is not at all clear
in some important areas,
like reform of the F.B.I., that change is coming
fast enough to prevent
another terror strike.
The first step toward reform is understanding
the failures that
preceded Sept. 11. The Congressional inquiry
has produced a detailed
chronicle of inept work by a multitude of federal
agencies. A good deal
of fragmentary information about Al Qaeda's diabolic
plan was picked
up, but the pieces were never assembled in a
coherent way to see
whether a pattern or plot could be discerned.
Changes already initiated by the Bush administration
look promising on
paper, but it remains to be seen whether they
can be carried out
effectively. Robert Mueller III, the F.B.I. director,
has declared
counterterrorism the bureau's main priority and
doubled the number of
agents and analysts assigned to it. A joint counterterrorism
center has
been set up so F.B.I. and C.I.A. specialists
can work under one roof.
But transforming the bureau from a law enforcement
agency into a
terrorism-fighting organization just may not
be possible.
The C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, which
does electronic
eavesdropping, will also have to devote more
of their efforts to
analyzing international terrorist threats inside
the United States,
promptly sharing their findings with the F.B.I.
and other domestic
agencies. The panel concludes that not enough
has yet been done to
address problems in all of these areas.
The report recommends the creation of a cabinet-level
intelligence czar
responsible for coordinating the activities of
the entire intelligence community.
That may help, but only if the position does
not turn into a rival power center
competing with the office of the director of
central intelligence.
The next examination of the government's conduct
prior to Sept. 11 will
come from the commission headed by Thomas Kean,
the former governor of
New Jersey. The administration must give the
commission the information
it has requested on relevant White House and
National Security Council
discussions. The White House's refusal to give
Congress unfettered
access to information about Saudi Arabia's links
to terrorism was a
mistake that should not be repeated with the
Kean panel.
Subject: The White House, Joseph Wilson, the FBI & the media
Hi all -
Yesterday, Senator Charles Schumer called for
an FBI investigation into who illegally leaked information
to columnist Bob Novak that former Ambassador
Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. Newsday and
the Palm Beach Post ran their own stories on
the matter, the Washington Post buried it in a piece on the
former CIA director, and a few small newspapers
carried the AP story.
If Novak's reporting is correct, this is a blatant
attempt to smear a Gerald Ford appointed, career diplomat
and his wife. It's also a federal crime.
Joseph Wilson spoke truth to power in his New York Times op-ed
which rekindled interest in the Niger/uranium
lies, and now he is being punished by the White House in an
act to intimidate other people from speaking
up.
Please do not let this abuse of power go under-reported.
For background.....
David Corn's original report which pointed out
the illegal activity:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=823
Corn's follow-up:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=845
Schumer's press release calling for an investigation:
http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR01889.html
Wilson's New York Times op-ed:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0706-02.htm
Mike Webb
Nation Publicity & Syndication Director
Subject: response
Since I am cooled down since that missive I wrote
you bart.
Dan Abrams just HACKED me off on that particular
program on that day.
(See I could have used the P word and I will
not back off that Dan Abrams IS a oily used car salesman
and I always felt that way about him, even when
he was on Court TV)). I put that story of the white guy
in just to show that EVEN some white people ARE
skeptical of her claims.
Now in my rant, if the person that had the nerve
to criticize me, that in that rant was that if whoever that
WAS had taken the time to read it,a sentence
of 'if Kobe DID indeed rape the girl-he should go to jail
or something like that'. See? Even I do
reserve the possibility that Kobe DID in fact rape the woman.
Yes I give it to you that you seen it as I meant
it. Even Clarence Thomas knows what lynching is like for
Black people in this country's history (eventhough,
he really don't believe it). Also on that day you brought up
what happened in Tulsa in the 1920's-well done.
Same thing in Rosewood FL, Atlanta, East St Louis,
and other places and cities in history. Race
riots and in some or most cases were started based on
allegations of a Black man raping or attempting
to rape a white woman. Now, not to malign or impugn
the critic's intentions-but their criticism in
some cases do mirror one of my points, that Black people in
this country is SUPPOSED to forget their history
by whites and others(including some Black people).
PS, Forgot to include and I am assuming that my
critic was a woman and if not, I apologize and if the
person is not white, I apologize. Don't really
know. Anyhow on an athlete's size of his anatomy, she said
she was with one that was small-she doesn't say
he was a pro athlete or not or was Black or not. But her
personal experience just prove that men, not
matter what persuasion or occupation, size of the anatomy
go the spectrum of very small and large and in
between-even Masters and Johnson have said that and
any sex researcher. As far as Kobe's size however,
the victim herself confirmed what a lot of people
speculated, based on the 5 witnesses at the party
that heard her statements but differed on her demeanor.
That is, if all 5 can be believed, if the victim
actually said it. See bart?
Mike H
Bart,
You got it right about the BFEE spin. Clinton
correctly targets Bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan
and they use it against him. Bush misses Bin
Laden entirely and the GOPress praises him for
defeating a country armed with slingshots.
Clinton said most of the weapons were destroyed
by inspectors and that now seems true,
though the GOPress would never admit it. Shouldn't
it be obvious by now that the tax cuts
aren't magically creating jobs?
How come Bush doesn't have a reputation as a slick
liar?
Does stupidity make people inherently honest?
Frodo
My take on the apparent Clinton defense of Pres.
W on the intel deal. If I wasn't into conspiracies or
Machiavellian designs-I say Clinton's defense
is manifold and he (Clinton) is setting a trap like Dune's
Baron Harkonnen(sic) style-Sci-Fi Channel version.
On the surface, he is defending 'W', but deep
down, he is reminding the Republicans that was the same
type intel and the same CIA that he used in
Sudan when he bombed the 'aspirin' factory. Any conservative
that uses his defense in their 'talking points'
and enough of them hang themselves using it, BOOM! he springs the trap
on the same CIA and intel used in Sudan on the
'aspirin' factory and how much of 'hypocrites' that they are for using
the words of a 'prevaricator' anyway in
defending 'W'.
Mike