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Friday, July 13, 2007 |
WashingtonPost: "Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.
For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a 'Churchillian' vision of 'victory' in Iraq and defend the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. 'A constitutional order is emerging,' he said.
Later that morning, around the same conference table, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden painted a starkly different picture for members of the study group. Hayden said 'the inability of the government to govern seems irreversible', adding that he could not 'point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around', according to written records of his briefing and the recollections of six participants."
Guardian: "Prime minister Nouri Maliki has told British MPs that Iraqi security forces would be ready to take over security in Basra from UK forces at the beginning of September."
Speaker: "The House Democratic leadership tonight announced that the House will vote later this week on a bill to change course in Iraq. The legislation, sponsored by Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, would begin the responsible redeployment of U.S. troops within 120 days and complete redeployment by April 1, 2008. The President would have to report to Congress why troops should remain in Iraq for limited purposes such as to fight terrorism or to train Iraqi forces."
Final vote results:
yeas 223
nays 201
AmericaBlog: "Bush officials are now warning that they think we're going to get hit again this summer. In the meantime, all of our intelligence assets - the folks meant to prevent the attack - are focused on Iraq. Most of our National Guard units - the folks meant to help us after an attack - are in Iraq. If we get hit again, it is going to be the fault of George Bush and everyone who continued to support this wasteful war while ignoring the Al Qaeda threat at home and abroad. Al Qaeda had nothing to do with Iraq before we invaded. George Bush chose to ignore Al Qaeda and go after Saddam. If Al Qaeda hits again, it's the fault of our idiot commander in chief and everyone who supported him.
America cannot afford to have a blithering idiot running our country in a time of war."
CommonDreams: "Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams came from Ireland to Texas to declare that President Bush should be impeached.
In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.
'Right now, I could kill George Bush,' she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference Center in Dallas. 'No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.'
About half the crowd gave her a standing ovation after she called for Mr. Bush's removal from power."
This is what is all about, this is why Bush is promoting war: naked greed, for which he is prepared to sacrifice millions of people.
MarketWatch: "Oil stocks roared into record territory Thursday, joining forces with a 283-point gain on the Dow amid expectations of fat second-quarter earnings."
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It takes some time, but the best way to destroy democracy is to destroy free speech. You do that by eliminating the people's radio and press.
FAIR: "A postal rate increase scheduled to take effect on July 15 will raise the postage rate for FAIR's magazine Extra! by a whopping 12%. This increase, designed by Time Warner and supported by postal regulators, will only slightly increase postal rates for the largest publishers - and in some cases may actually decrease their postage costs.
Next to printing, postage is already the most expensive item in Extra!'s budget, so this rate hike is a huge blow to FAIR and to the many other small, independent publications across the country. And since Extra! accepts no advertising we are dependent on you to help us offset this new cost."
"This Sunday, July 15 is the day that the new royalty rates become due retroactively and will drive most webcasters into bankruptcy.
Not only are the per-song per-listener rates themselves very high, on top of them are a $500 per channel 'administration' fee that will be ruinous for my service providers Live 365 which hosts around ten thousand channels and LoudCity which hosts around five hundred. All of these fees are retroactive to January 2006. In the case of Live 365, it means that on July 15 they will immediately be in the hole for about $5 million just for one year's 'administration fees' alone."
Save internet radio.
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