Friday
Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office - New York Times: "Neither the House nor the Senate version contained such a termination clause before the conference, all involved agree."
Thursday
Democrats say hunger report stalled - Yahoo! News: "The report has shown steady increases in the number of people struggling with hunger, from 31 million in 1999 to 38 million in 2004."
Daytona Beach News-Journal Online The latest glitch is an example of the controversy associated with Diebold machines
Tuesday
U.S. Drops Bid Over Royalties From Chevron - New York Times: "The decision also sets a precedent that could make it easier for oil and gas companies to lower the value of what they pump each year from federal property and thus their payments to the government."
Monday
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Independent Online Edition > World Politics Governments, oil companies still receiving reparations for the first Gulf War, earmarked from current Iraq oil revenue.
Thursday
American evangelical group arrives in Ashdod on solidarity mission - Haaretz - Israel News: "'We had to be nice to these people,' port spokesman Yigal Ben-Zikry said, 'they're more Zionist than any Israelis I know.'"
Tuesday
CJR Daily: Changing Direction, or Changing the Rhetoric?: "Isn't it lovely when reality and the Onion melt into one?"
Monday
Sunday
Bush's family profits from 'No Child' act - Los Angeles Times But you read that on this blog what, three years ago?
Friday
OPEC Cuts Oil Production by 1.2M Barrels: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance Fuel prices will go up after the election? Who could have guessed.
Monday
GOP on a Mission to Save Santorum - Los Angeles Times: "Across Pennsylvania, pastors are preparing to stuff voter guides into their Sunday bulletins."
Sunday
Displease a Lobbyist, Get Fired - Los Angeles Times: "the ax fell after intervention by one of the highest officials at the White House: Ken Mehlman, on behalf of one of the most influential lobbyists in town, Jack Abramoff."
Friday
Thursday
Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Global Arms Exports Continued Upswing in 2005: "the 2005 weapons export total stands as the highest mark in five years"
Monday
U.S. Rules Allow the Sale of Products Others Ban - Los Angeles Times"One birch plank from China, bought at a Home Depot store in Portland, gave off 100 times more formaldehyde than legal in Japan and 30 times more than allowed in Europe and China, according to July tests ...'I'll guarantee you that no one tells a customer building a $75,000 kitchen that their cabinets contain plywood from China that will off-gas formaldehyde.'"
Thursday
International Crisis Group - The Arab-Israeli Conflict: To Reach a Lasting P: "Now is the time for an international push to launch a new peace initiative."
Tuesday
Foley Saga No Shock to Some - Los Angeles Times: "The current and former congressional staffers interviewed by The Times, who are from both parties, said it was well known within the Capitol's gay community that Foley was interested in young men."
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 10/02/2006 | Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11: "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "
Saturday
Foley resigns from Congress over e-mails - Yahoo! News: Republican leadership "learned of the e-mail exchanges 10 to 11 months ago" but did nothing.
Tuesday
Playing the patriot game: "For those unfamiliar with American politics, the Republican Party has become inextricably tied to the evangelical Christian movement, which can mobilise millions of votes through its churches to affect local, state and national elections."
Afghanistan and Iraq: $8 billion per month Everything you want to know from the Congressional Research Service PDF file.
Monday
MiamiHerald.com | 09/25/2006 | State's land deal seen as very unusual St. Joe has long-running ties with the governor's administration, and one of Bush's former top aides is a vice president of the company. At one point, St. Joe owned a 50 percent stake in the company run by Armando Codina, who was Bush's business partner before Bush became governor.
Friday
HUD Secretary urged favoritism in awarding of contracts - Dallas Business Journal:: "Top aides to Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson testified that they and other senior staff members were advised to take political leanings into consideration when awarding discretionary contracts, according to an internal report issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development's inspector general. "
Saturday
The Nation's Long Term Fiscal Outlook "The Bottom Line: Today’s Fiscal Policy Remains Unsustainable"
Thursday
- toledoblade.com -: Noe said he arranged the scheme because "in 2003 I was pressured by Bush-Cheney officials"
Tuesday
US 'allowed Zarqawi to escape' - World - theage.com.au: "Mr Bush had Zarqawi in his sights almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn't shoot"
Monday
- toledoblade.com -: "in March, 1998, several days before the bureau invested the first of two $25 million payments with Mr. Noe, his Vintage Coins account at National City Bank in Toledo was running a negative balance and had bounced 40 checks, a forensic accountant for the attorney general’s office wrote in a sworn affidavit.
Sunday
So, Osama walks into this bar, see? Greg Palast: "America is the only nation on the planet that kindly informs bombers, hijackers and berserkers the days on which they won’t be monitored. You’ve got to get up pretty early in the morning to get a jump on George Bush’s team.
There are three possible explanations for the Administration’s publishing a good-day-for-bombing color guidebook.
1. God is on Osama’s side.
2. George is on Osama’s side.
3. Fear sells better than sex.
A gold star if you picked #3."
There are three possible explanations for the Administration’s publishing a good-day-for-bombing color guidebook.
1. God is on Osama’s side.
2. George is on Osama’s side.
3. Fear sells better than sex.
A gold star if you picked #3."
Saturday
Noe didn't use public money for Bush gifts, feds say But the Feds don't say where Noe got the $45,400 he gave to the Bush campaign. Noe was broke when he began transferring millions from BWC accounts into his own.
Daily Press: Eustis chief: Iraq post-war plan muzzled: "The secretary of defense continued to push on us ... that everything we write in our plan has to be the idea that we are going to go in, we're going to take out the regime, and then we're going to leave,' Scheid said. 'We won't stay.'
Scheid said the planners continued to try 'to write what was called Phase 4,' or the piece of the plan that included post-invasion operations like occupation.
Even if the troops didn't stay, 'at least we have to plan for it,' Scheid said.
'I remember the secretary of defense saying that he would fire the next person that said that,' Scheid said. 'We would not do planning for Phase 4 operations, which would require all those additional troops that people talk about today."
Scheid said the planners continued to try 'to write what was called Phase 4,' or the piece of the plan that included post-invasion operations like occupation.
Even if the troops didn't stay, 'at least we have to plan for it,' Scheid said.
'I remember the secretary of defense saying that he would fire the next person that said that,' Scheid said. 'We would not do planning for Phase 4 operations, which would require all those additional troops that people talk about today."
Thursday
Male Bass Across Region Found to Be Bearing Eggs: "In 1996, Congress required the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ... identify which chemicals are endocrine disruptors. Ten years later, the agency hasn't tested a single chemical, officials said."
9/11 Miniseries Is Criticized as Inaccurate and Biased - New York Times The pre-election Rove-a-thon begins to help the Faith Based community back on track. Forget reality. Believe TV. It's all Clinton's fault. War is peace...
Wednesday
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall August 30, 2006 10:01 AM: "Iran has a defense budget of about $6 billion a year. The United States spends over 50 times more than that. But perhaps comparisons to the USA are misleading. Let's compare our would-be regional hegemon to its neighbors. Well, Israel spends $9.6 billion and Saudi Arabia spends $25.2 billion. Pakistan, immediately adjacent to Iran and nuclear armed, actually has engaged in a recent defense buildup. What kind of quest for hegemony is Iran supposed to be on?"
History Now
Worst Disaster to Hit the US
Sunday
ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: TCB on The Fleitz of Fancy: "The irony, therefore, is stunning when Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who heads the House Committee, explained the rush by commenting that “We want to avoid another ‘slam dunk.’” The famous “slam dunk” judgment on Iraq’s WMD was, of course, the result of selective reading of available intelligence (which some call cherry-picking), plus a willingness by some to subordinate the (often prosaic) facts to (sensational) ideological conviction.
That is exactly what has happened in this report. It is a sloppy attempt to lay the ground for another slam dunk judgment and a potential rush to war. It deserves to be recognized for what it is."
That is exactly what has happened in this report. It is a sloppy attempt to lay the ground for another slam dunk judgment and a potential rush to war. It deserves to be recognized for what it is."
Friday
- toledoblade.com -: "Not only was he a very effective fund-raiser, he was very generous with his own money as well. Oh, excuse me, that’s right ... it wasn’t his own money."
Thursday
In Defense of War Photographers: "What this is all about, is an attempt by right wing blogs to muddy the waters and somehow claim, like Michele Malkin and Rush Limbaugh have, that Qana and other civilians deaths in Lebanon are staged."
Wednesday
Attytood: "Rockey I": If it sounds too good to be true...: "Turns out that the earthy Vaccarella -- a highly successful businessman in the fast-food industry -- is indeed a Republican pol, having run unsuccessfully under the GOP banner for a seat on the St. Bernard Parish commission back in 1999. "
Israel Regroups on Approach to War Inquiry - Los Angeles Times: "After one day's work, the Israeli government suspended its review of the way it conducted the war in Lebanon, officials said Tuesday, as scores of reserve soldiers back from the fighting rallied here to press for the resignation of top political figures."
Marines Set to Call Up Thousands for Iraq, Afghan Duty - Los Angeles Times "the latest sign that American armed forces are under strain and a potential signal of the growing unpopularity of the Iraq war among young veterans."
Wednesday
Review of Diebold Devices: Voting Machines Risky: "comparison of the electronic results with the paper totals [for the May 2 primary election in Cuyahoga County] showed discrepancies of more than 25 votes in 36 percent to 46 percent of the precincts. Some varied by more than 200 votes."
Monday
Democracy Now! | Seymour Hersh: U.S. Helped Plan Israeli Attack, Cheney "Convinced" Assault on Lebanon Could Serve as Prelude to Preemptive Attack on Iran: "you have to talk about Dick Cheney. I can tell you pretty firmly that it's his office. I guess you could say it's sort of the home of the neoconservative thinking in Washington"
The New Yorker: Fact: "The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks"
Sunday
- toledoblade.com -: BWC tried to keep $215M loss under wraps prior to '04 vote
Documents reflect director's concern about possible 'leak'
Documents reflect director's concern about possible 'leak'
Saturday
NBC: Disagreement over timing of arrests - Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit - MSNBC.com: "an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports"
Friday
Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved - Yahoo! News: "the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology"
Pakistan arrested 2 Britons last week linked to plot - Yahoo! News If they made arrests 10 days ago, why wait until now to raise the warning level?
Bush seeks political gains from foiled plot - Yahoo! News: "Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big,' said another White House official, who also spoke on condition of not being named"
Wednesday
CNN.com - Transcripts: "One of the things that is going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon."
Tuesday
AP Wire | 08/08/2006 | Ohio law may complicate GOP plans in choosing Ney replacement: "One Republican strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity, said lawyers had concluded Padgett was likely covered by the so-called political sore loser's law and thus would not be eligible to run."
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American Prospect Online - It's the Stupidity, Stupid: "The president's ignorance would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous"
Monday
Alexander Cockburn: The Triumph of Crackpot Realism: "actual conditions in the outside world bounces off the impenetrable dome of imbecility sheltering America's political leadership"
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