Monday, January 31, 2011

Big Dan's Big News Jan 31, 2011 - Smedley Butler Redux

UNITED STATES OF KOCH


What does this tell you about rightwingers? I think it's safe to say that these billionaire Koch brothers meetings with rightwingers now rank with Bildeberg, CFR, Trilateral, and all the other secret wealthy cabals. BILLIONAIRES & RIGHTWINGERS meet to discuss how they will influence elections, run the country, and how to sell it to the American people via rightwing media. The (not)"liberal" mainstream media, of course, will not cover what they are doing. They run the mainstream media (while telling you it's "liberal"), the Supreme Court, and the government, and they want to take down social security by telling you it's a "Ponzi scheme" and it's in financial trouble. This is exactly like what Smedley Butler exposed during FDR's presidency: a coup of the U.S. government by wealthy businessmen:

Smedley Butler

Wealthy businessmen's attempted coup of the U.S. government during FDR's presidency.

JFK Secret Societies speech:



Billionaire Koch brothers have twice a year meeting with rightwingers:


The billionaires are coming: Obama's richest enemies to hold summit. Koch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders at California resort to discuss how to influence politics

25 people were arrested for trespassing Sunday as hundreds protested outside a strategy session of conservative political donors at a resort near Palm Springs, authorities said.

As wealthy, conservative business people met Sunday inside a Coachella Valley resort, members of a liberal political action and open access group rallied to complain that corporations were being given unfettered control of the nation.

Nearly 1,000 People Protest SECRET Republican Meeting in Rancho Mirage

Ed Schultz Shining a light on Koch brothers' secret meeting



Watch from 5:30 forward about the Koch family aspiration to control the courts and the media:



The Koch Brothers and the Tea Party



Greenpeace blimp buzzes Koch brothers’ strategy meeting


Wall Street Titan Ken Langone, GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain At Koch Brothers Meeting

Rallying Against The Koch Agenda, Van Jones Warns Of ‘Excessive Concentrations Of Economic Power’


Van Jones: "We Will Not Live On A National Plantation Run By The Koch Brothers"



Rightwing Supreme Court involved with billionaire Koch brothers:

Group Requests DOJ To Investigate Scalia and Thomas Involvement With Koch Corporate Fundraisers

Memo reveals 2010 election secret planning meeting:

MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election

Rogue's Gallery of Koch brothers' secret meetings with rightwingers:

Koch Network Participants, Aspen 2010

NYTimes: A secretive network of Republican donors is heading to the Palm Springs area for a long weekend in January, but it will not be to relax after a hard-fought election — it will be to plan for the next one.

Right-Wing ‘Journalists’ At Secret Koch Meeting Make A Living Defending Unlimited Corporate Political Money

THE BILLIONAIRE KOCH BROTHERS:


Charles And David Koch Exposed For Insidious Role In Crafting The Modern Right

Uncloaking The Kochs: A Common Cause Event in Rancho Mirage

Common Cause Event: UNCLOAKING THE KOCH'S

Secret memo displays corporate and media tentacles of the Kochtopus. Fresh evidence of the New York billionaires' midterm campaign implicates journalists as well as fat cats

New Yorker: Covert Operations - The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.



CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH = CONCENTRATION OF POLITICAL POWER = NO MORE DEMOCRACY

Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

Income Inequality In The U.S. Is Worse Than In Egypt

How the Supreme Corporate figures into all of this with the Citizens United decision:

Guess who also controls the (not) "liberal activist" Supreme Court? The SAME GUYS who control the (not) "liberal" mainstream media:


On the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, which overturned nearly a century of restrictions on campaign spending, a progressive group has asked the Department of Justice to look into "conflicts of interest" two justices may have had when issuing the ruling.

In a petition to be sent to the department this week, Common Cause will argue that Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas should have recused themselves from the campaign finance decision because of their involvement with Koch Industries, a corporation run by two conservative activists who many say directly benefited from Citizens United.

“It appears both justices have participated in political strategy sessions, perhaps while the case was pending, with corporate leaders whose political aims were advanced by the decision,” the letter alleges, as quoted at Politico.

Group: Supreme Court justices ‘participated in political strategy sessions’ before Citizens United

Common Cause hereby formally requests that the Justice Department promptly investigate whether Justices Thomas and Scalia should have recused themselves from the Citizens United case under 28 U.S.C. § 455. If the Department finds sufficient grounds for disqualification of either Justice, we request that the Solicitor General file a Rule 60(b) motion with the full Supreme Court seeking to vacate the judgment.

Reform group: Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas had Citizens United conflicts of interest

Fair & Balanced: FOX "news" gave $55 MILLION FREE advertising to Republican presidential candidates.


Virginia Thomas earned over $680,000 from conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation over five years, a group says. But Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not include it on financial disclosure forms.


Tea Partiers: He married a WHITE WOMAN...LET'S GET HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...and here's the guy even the Koch brothers ultimately report to: David Rockefeller:













Saturday, January 29, 2011

Big Dan's Big News Jan 29, 2011

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know...



Don't you know that you can count me out?



......... IN !!!!!!!!!!!!!



Egyptian woman protester kisses an Egyptian riot policeman:


Egyptian, Tunisian and Yemeni protesters all say that inequality is one of the main reasons they're protesting. However, the U.S. actually has much greater inequality than in any of those countries.

Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen

Do you think the Egyptian people will go for this: they're protesting Mubarak...and he says he's firing his cabinet but he himself stays (the person they're protesting)...and he gets to pick new cronies. Good deal?

Unrest in Egypt: President Mubarak dissolves Cabinet after night of protests

Egypt Protests: LIVE Updates As Opposition Fills The Streets

Al Jazeera English: Live Stream

Graphic videos show protesters clashing with Egyptian police

If it comes to massacres by the Mubarak regime, the US would firmly support him

Hands Off Egypt!

CIA, MOSSAD & SOROS VERSUS MUBARAK

When so many diverse forces converge and conflict, a tipping point of global awareness to the human condition is reached. The momentum must spill over into a time of sweeping change.

The Awakening

The Tipping Point Has Passed: Sweeping Change is at Hand

Middle East: the Undoing of America’s Mendacious Foreign Policy


ARABS, OH ARABS, REVOLT AGAINST AMERICA’S TYRANTS

If Western leaders, who have backed the dictator Mubarak for 30 years, cannot stand before the Egyptian people today and say unequivocally, "we support your right of national self-determination," when can they do it?

That's the question that Egyptian democracy leader and Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei has put before Western leaders today.

Mohamed ElBaradei: "If Not Now, When?"

Exclusive: Mohamed ElBaradei says he is sending a message 'to the Guardian and to the world'

Cairo In Complete Lockdown! No Internet! No Texting! No Twitting!



The revolutionary wave now sweeping the world will not exempt America, in spite of the myth of “American exceptionalism.”

Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen – is the West next?

Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?

Ken O’Keefe: Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution is Upon Us!



Brzezinski’s Feared “Global Awakening” Has Arrived



Rand Paul: Time to end foreign aid to Israel: ‘We just can’t do it anymore,’ Sen. Paul warns

Anthony Weiner: Should The U.S. Stop Sending Money To Israel?



Israel did 9/11 - ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD

Evidence for Informed Trading on the Attacks of September 11

Big Dan's Big 9/11 LINKS: Do your OWN research, because the mainstream media was in on it, you won't find help there!

Israel: War by Deception -



Haskell Blows Whistle on Underwear Bomber, Government Op





Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Big Dan's Big News Jan 26, 2011

EGYPT on brink of revolution:


Al Jazeera English: Live Stream

Egypt protest video collection (raw story)





Cairo erupts as Egyptian protesters demand Mubarak resign

Egypt President Mubarek's family flees country.

Democracy protesters in Egypt took to the streets in Cairo and at least six other cities, calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt protests: Eyewitness accounts

America's Middle Eastern Puppet Regimes Are Falling Like Dominoes









THE most feared thing about to happen to the corporatists running the United States: an alliance between REAL liberals and REAL conservatives! Not the FAKE "liberal" Democrats and the FAKE "conservative" Republicans who are bi-partisan CORPORATISTS & WARMONGERS:

RALPH & RON


Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on ‘progressive-libertarian alliance’

Ralph Nader & Ron Paul interviewed together:





Fair & Balanced: FOX "news" gave $55 MILLION FREE advertising to Republican presidential candidates.


Virginia Thomas earned over $680,000 from conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation over five years, a group says. But Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not include it on financial disclosure forms.


He married a WHITE WOMAN...LET'S GET HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



HOW TO ANALYZE A TV SETUP ON A 9/11 TRUTHER:

Watch the CIA agent in the audience (@ 6:16) bring up "anti-Semetism", and notice both the agent in the audience who asks the question (what is his name? who does he work for? he doesn't seem like an average normal guest the way he's talking!) and the other guest do the "EVEN WE" strategy: you build up your own credentials and butter up the guy you're going to discredit by saying you're a fan, you love him, he's right on so many things, but even we, who like and respect him and are fans of him, have to say he's wrong about this and he's "LETTING US DOWN". He's "LETTING DOWN" his fans and the people who otherwise love and respect him...DON'T LET US DOWN LIKE THIS!!!


YOU'VE BEEN PUNKED ON TV by those who really did 9/11!!!!!!!!!

Go right to 11:00 of the video to see the "EVEN WE" strategy (and disregard that the guest sitting besides Corr looks like an POMPOUS EFFEMINATE FROG, don't let that distract you):



9/11 Eyewitness - As The Bombs Were Going....I Sat And Watched A Few Of Them Explode



You don't think TV/media is on discrediting 9/11 truth? Remember "the Harley Guy" on 9/11? FAKE witness planted for TV:



Dick Cheney 9/11 bunker timeline:



Israel did 9/11 - ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD

Big Dan's Big 9/11 LINKS: Do your OWN research, because the mainstream media was in on it, you won't find help there!

Jesse Ventura's amazing speech:



Friendly Fire: The American Empire, Before the Fall (Featuring Bruce Fein) — Part Two



Justice Department seeks to have all web surfing tracked

Welcome to Nazi Germany WEST:












Sunday, January 23, 2011

Big Dan's Big News Jan 23, 2011

I want to move to Vermont, home of Bernie Sanders, if they get single payer:


Vermont Lawmakers Lay Groundwork For Single Payer System In Place Of Obamacare

Vermont Is Gearing Up to Strike a Major Blow to Corporate Personhood. On the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, Vermont politicians are moving to deny corporations the rights that humans enjoy.

Notice NO MAJOR NETWORKS OR MEDIA covering these two HUGE stories in Vermont: look for ANBCBSNNX/NYTimes, etc...

Google "vermont single payer".

Google "vermont corporate personhood".

I just provided you MORE PROOF of a corrupted mainstream media, which is OWNED by and WORKS FOR: the wealthiest few, corporations, & the military.

The MYTH of the "liberal media":



Chomsky: Republicans’ 2010 election triumph will fuel civilization’s demise, Chomsky says

Only Democrats get "death threats" and shot at: Jerry Brown doesn't even get his stuff moved in yet and.......think about it, how can someone who didn't even do anything yet get a "death threat"??? Gray Davis (Democrat) gets railroaded out of Ca. gov with FAKE Enron "energy crisis" for Republican Schwarzenegger (who gets no threats) and then Democrat Jerry Brown immediately gets "death threats":

Police alarmed over graffiti claiming Calif. Gov. Brown to be killed on Valentine’s Day

The life of a 78-year-old New York professor may be in danger after she was made a target by Fox News' Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck's Rhetoric Inspires More Death Threats

Apparently, this is not a news story:


  • Keith Olbermann is suspended by MSNBC for donating to Gabrielle Giffords' campaign
  • Gabrielle Giffords gets shot
  • Keith Olbermann is fired

FLASHBACK: Olbermann suspended from MSNBC for donating to Gabrielle Giffords.



And here's more: COMCAST buys out NBC and they immediately get rid of the #1 most popular LIBERAL news icon Keith Olbermann, and right after Keith slams Israeli Zionist senator Joe LIEberman -

Take this to the bank:

The ultra-right ownership at Comcast made it a pre-condition of their acquisition of NBC that Keith Olbermann be terminated.

Maddow, Schultz and the rest are served notice...the right wing lunatics will silence any and every voice they choose - whenever they choose.

Whoever control access to the airwaves (which we the people used to own until they were stolen from us) controls America.

The FACT that Keith was canned right after his special commentary on Joe LIEbermanis highly relevent. BLACKMAIL BY LIKUD - WHO ARE INSTALLING LIEBERMAN AS THEIR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.

This sends the message to the rest of the media's talking heads...

"We gave you all your marching orders to repeat McCain's plea to Obama to replace the outgoing Gates with Lieberman. Keith's attack on Lieberman damages our agenda. Each of you are on notice...support our agenda, or you will be disappeared."

Good night, and good luck, Keith.

Keith Olbermann's final sign off:



Keith Olbermann out at MSNBC

MSNBC has a habit for firing their #1 rated liberal talk show hosts:


Phil Donahue–one of the best-known talk show hosts in the history of television in the United States–joins us in our firehouse studio to discuss the state of the media in this country. Donahue’s show was on the air for more than 29 years. In 2003, he was fired by MSNBC because he was allowing antiwar voices on the air.

Phil Donahue: "We Have an Emergency in the Media and We Have to Fix It"

MSNBC fires their #1 rated show: Phil Donahue

What does all of this tell you about the mainstream "liberal" media and rightwing media and Republicans, Democrats, & liberals? Only Democrats get death threats & shot at and only top liberal hosts get fired & liberals like Ralph Nader are totally ignored, why the Tea Party got election coverage like rock stars, why has-been Republicans from yesteryear like Newt Gingrich are always on TV. It's NOT because liberal media isn't as profitable (that's a wives' tale, a FAKE reason to prevent liberals from being in the mainstream media). Who does the mainstream media that's NOT liberal speak for? They speak for: the wealthiest, corporations, and the military industrial complex. That's why they never get death threats, shot at, or fired. The mainstream media IS rightwing media, and there is no such thing as the mainstream liberal media. And they will never get death threats or shot at or fired because of whom they represent: the wealthy, corporations, & the military industrial complex:


Olbermann was fired after daring to slam the Israeli senator plant Joe LIEberman, who I've pointed out is constantly on TV for his opinion on everything, proving the mainstream media is Israeli-occupied:



Google "olbermann LIEberman"

And what are the odds of this? A few months back, MSNBC suspended Olbermann for donating to 3 Democratic campaigns. Guess who one of them was? Gabrielle Giffords!!! The woman rep from Arizona who was shot!

FLASHBACK: Olbermann suspended from MSNBC for donating to 3 Democratic candidates, Gabrielle Giffords being one of them.

Israeli-occupied mainstream media "prepping" us for Joe LIEberman to be Secretary of Defense by carrying out marching orders to mention that LIEberman should be Secretary of Defense in all stories about LIEberman retiring:

Google "LIEberman retire secretary of defense"


"John McCain said that Obama should appoint Lieberman as Secretary of Defense"

THAT is the news. THAT is the sound bite the media is instructed to squeeze into every story as an apparent aside at the end.

THAT is Israel @ work with its complicit media.

Every step of this charade is choreographed - from the Zionists - telling both McCain and Lieberman when and what to do and say. The media is given its instructions to be certain to include the quote from McCain in every Lieberman resignation story, then Joe sheepishly declines - while leaving open the option if called upon to do so - then the media dutifully beats the drum for it and starts taking FAKE POLLS on the topic and interviewing all of the usual suspects for their opinions, then an apparent groundswell of support is TOTALLY FUCKING MANUFACTURED clearing the decks for Obama to make the apparently then-palatable choice of Lieberman as Defense Secretary of the United States Of Israel.

Google "LIEberman McCain defense"

I pulled the below from previous posts here about Joe LIEberman (& John McCain):

Terrorists John McCain And Joe Lieberman Push For Constitutional Change Based Upon 9/11 Commission Lie

It was called Domestic Security before these terrorists created a new government that does not believe your innocent until proven guilty, everybody is suspect in the new socialist Lieberman-Bush-Clinton-McCain-Obama DHS America. Naked body scanners. Freedom of travel? The Constitution Joe and John swore to uphold was the system they swore to protect. America is attacked and these criminals traitors use it as an excuse to adopt Chinese socialist policies that violate the Constitution. The reason our country is in this position is because we have strayed from the country our grandfathers fought to protect. The way outlined in the US Constitution is the finesty way in the world, why do John and Joe believe ANOTHER way is the best way to keep safe? Was Washington, Jefferson, and Adams wrong and Joe and John are right? These are criminals guilty of fraud and treason, passing laws that contradict the document that gives them power to pass laws. The people are now suspect and spyed upon by the state, your rights null and void for state security, but it is all a secret. John McCain went on to almost be president ...... he who benefits the most did it. Lieberman is the "chairman" of the secret police state and the agenda the public does not know about. A secret government, un-American. Several US lawmakers used Congress's first day back from the summer recess to push for the adoption of all the September 11 commission's recommendations for revamping the intelligence community as a means to deter terrorist attacks.

Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, introduced the 280-page legislation along with Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

Senator Lieberman acknowledged that the bill was broad and historic, saying that the status quo in intelligence and diplomacy had failed the United States.

Representatives Chris Shays, a Republican from Connecticut, and Democrat Carolyn Maloney from New York, will introduce a House of Representatives version.

Commission chairman Thomas Kean said he suspects that this was the "one in a generation" chance to pursue real reform.



Joe LIEberman: an integral part of the Israeli takeover of the U.S. government via 9/11 and the subsequent "blame the Muslims" media/political meme. Notice they had all their bases covered: even if Al Gore was president, guess who his vice president was? You're right: Joe LIEberman!!!

9/11 Joe Lieberman - WTC 7 Did Not Occur .... I Do Not Support A New Investigation



Above, Joe Lieberman said WTC7 didn't fall...but yet here's WTC7 falling in seconds into dust, NOT hit by a plane (controlled demolition, 47 story building):





CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, 3 TIMES IN 1 DAY, 2 PLANES:





Big Dan's Big 9/11 LINKS: Do your OWN research, because the mainstream media was in on it, you won't find help there!

During Reagan's tenure, the Democratic-controlled Congress enacted a series of legislative amendments between 1982 to 1984, which came to known as the Boland Amendments, prohibiting the Defense Department, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or any other government agency from providing military aid to the right wing contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. The Contras were armed opponents of Nicaragua's then leftist ruling party Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction. The Reagan administration was a supporter of the Contra cause and used the National Security Council (NSC) to covertly provide military aid and funds to the contras. NSC staffers Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter played crucial roles in raising private and foreign funds for the contras.

From 1982, Americans were being systematically kidnapped and taken hostage by the Lebanese Shia Islamist group, Hezbollah, who were terrorists, loyal to Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini. An Israeli official suggested to the Reagan administration that a transfer of arms as a means to secure the release of the hostages could be looked into. It was believed that Reagan secretly gave presidential authorization, for an arms-for-hostages deal with Iran which was locked in a war with Iraq.

The plan was simple, Israel would sell the weapons to Iran and get reimbursed by the United States, as the US was the major weapon supplier for Israel. The millions of dollars earned from these weapons sales were routed to the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua by the Reagan administration. From July 1985, the United States started transferring arms from Israel to Iran for the safe exchange of hostages. Emboldened by these transfers, Hezbollah kidnapped more hostages and received a steady supply of arms for their safe exchange.

The Exposé
In November 1986, Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa exposed this deal over a series of articles. An investigation was ordered by the American assembly under Attorney General Edwin Meese and an independent special prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh. They verified these allegations and President Ronald Reagan had no choice but to authorize a review board, under former Republican Senator John Tower, on 25th November, 1986. This board came to be known as the Tower Commission.

The Tower Commission had to weave itself through a web of deception and mismanagement. Despite allegations from Lt. Col. Oliver North and John Poindexter implicating President Reagan, Vice President Bush and former director of the CIA William J. Casey, no evidence was found to link them to any illegalities. However, the Congress was not convinced and issued its own report on 18th November, 1987, stating that the President bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides, and his administration exhibited "secrecy, deception and disdain for the law." It also questioned the role played by the President in the Iran-contra affair, in light of the destruction of documents by Poindexter, North and others.

The hearings were televised publicly from May to August 1987. Almost all those implicated were convicted, including North, McFarlane (who died on 6th May, 1987, before the deal was exposed), Poindexter, defense secretary Caspar Weinberger and many former State Department and CIA officials. However, their convictions were all overturned by President George H. W. Bush, who was the Vice-president at the time of the Iran Contra scandal.

The Aftermath
On 4th March, 1987, President Reagan addressed the American public in a nationally televised program from the White House (Oval Office) expressing regret and took full responsibility for the Iran Contra arms-for-hostage deal. Internationally the exposure of this deal undermined any credibility the U.S. had in its dealing with other countries.

The thirteen week Congressional hearings proved inadequate, leaving some questions unanswered till date. The Iran Contra deal was not an accident nor the result of negligence on the part of the Reagan administration, but sheer disregard to a nation's policy and ethos.



Confronting David Rockefeller - Sunday Update





Thursday, January 20, 2011

Big Dan's Big News Jan 20, 2011

Tea Party has served its purpose getting the Republicans back in power, so now they are being discredited and discarded and the mainstream media is complicit (the "liberal" media helping the GOP once again) just like they're complicit in everything including 9/11.


Don't you think it's odd that a bunch of "polls" are all issued at the same time saying no one likes the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, several other Tea Partiers, etc...??? The mainstream media covered them like ROCK STARS leading up to the "elections" and now continuously batter them AFTER the "elections". As if some switch were flipped? And I'm saying this NOT as a fan of the Tea Party.

Did you notice Karl Rove on TV all the time leading up to the "elections"? And now he's disappeared? And he will reappear again right before the 2012 "elections"? Are you STOOOOOOPID???

The "polls" are specifically designed to discard the Tea Party - having served its purpose as a trojan horse to enable the Republicans to retake control. It was nothing other than a Karl Rove rebranding st...rategy and trojan horse. These poor suckers will be left to wonder how they got so used. The Kochs and Rockefellers want nothing to do with what they perceive to be "these stupid, gullible bastards." The reality creations architects have struck again, and will destroy these people that helped them accomplish their goal without so much as a second thought. They are useful idiots - lambs for the slaughter. The media is OBVIOUSLY COMPLICIT!

But don't worry, now that the Tea Party has served it's purpose for Karl Rove and the billionaire Koch brothers, Rove will rev up the (not) "liberal" mainstream media right before the next "elections" in 2012 with some other fabrication or co-opted dupes like the Tea Party!

The PECULIAR "polls" that are all being issued at the same time, discarding and discrediting the Tea Party rock stars:

Tea party unpopularity at an all-time high: poll

Sarah Palin's Poll Numbers Hit New Low

Trust in Fox News plummets: poll

If the Tea Party is so unpopular now, how did they win so many "elections"? The "elections" just occurred and the Tea Party was extremely popular. How can this happen in so short a period of time? Answer: because people like Karl Rove & the billionaire Koch brothers control the (not) "liberal" mainstream media.

Guess who also controls the (not) "liberal activist" Supreme Court? The SAME GUYS who control the (not) "liberal" mainstream media:


On the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, which overturned nearly a century of restrictions on campaign spending, a progressive group has asked the Department of Justice to look into "conflicts of interest" two justices may have had when issuing the ruling.

In a petition to be sent to the department this week, Common Cause will argue that Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas should have recused themselves from the campaign finance decision because of their involvement with Koch Industries, a corporation run by two conservative activists who many say directly benefited from Citizens United.

“It appears both justices have participated in political strategy sessions, perhaps while the case was pending, with corporate leaders whose political aims were advanced by the decision,” the letter alleges, as quoted at Politico.

Group: Supreme Court justices ‘participated in political strategy sessions’ before Citizens United

Common Cause hereby formally requests that the Justice Department promptly investigate whether Justices Thomas and Scalia should have recused themselves from the Citizens United case under 28 U.S.C. § 455. If the Department finds sufficient grounds for disqualification of either Justice, we request that the Solicitor General file a Rule 60(b) motion with the full Supreme Court seeking to vacate the judgment.

Reform group: Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas had Citizens United conflicts of interest

Memo reveals 2010 election secret planning meeting:


MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election

NYTimes: A secretive network of Republican donors is heading to the Palm Springs area for a long weekend in January, but it will not be to relax after a hard-fought election — it will be to plan for the next one.

Right-Wing ‘Journalists’ At Secret Koch Meeting Make A Living Defending Unlimited Corporate Political Money

THE BILLIONAIRE KOCH BROTHERS:


Charles And David Koch Exposed For Insidious Role In Crafting The Modern Right

Uncloaking The Kochs: A Common Cause Event in Rancho Mirage

Common Cause Event: UNCLOAKING THE KOCH'S

Secret memo displays corporate and media tentacles of the Kochtopus. Fresh evidence of the New York billionaires' midterm campaign implicates journalists as well as fat cats

New Yorker: Covert Operations - The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.




Project Censored Top 25 CENSORED 2011 Mainstream Media Stories.

The mission of Project Censored is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why


Several contentious issues still plague the US government and their version of the events of September 11, 2001. Those in political power along with media elites would like to see the ongoing grassroots debates surrounding unanswered 9/11 questions and discrepancies disappear, despite the mountains of evidence that suggest that American citizens were told little about the truth of the biggest single-day attack on their homeland in history. Nearly ten years after the events, many unanswered questions still exist: How did Building 7 fall? What caused the destruction of the twin towers? Where is Osama bin Laden? Are people that question the official story of 9/11 dangerous conspiracy theorists?
Student Researchers:

* Mike Smith, Nolan Higdon, and Sy Cowie (Diablo Valley College)
* Mikey Hemkens, Ryan Huffman, and Colin Doran (DePauw University)
* Greg Bernardi (Sonoma State University)

Faculty Evaluators:

* Mickey Huff (Diablo Valley College)
* Andrea Sununu and Kevin Howley (DePauw University)
* Rick Luttmann and Peter Phillips (Sonoma State University)

14. Increased Tensions with Unresolved 9/11 Issues

Big Dan's Big 9/11 LINKS: Do your OWN research, because the mainstream media was in on it, you won't find help there!

The Republican Noise Machine

David Brock, the reformed conservative noise-maker, on how the Right has sabotaged journalism, democracy, and truth.

As a young journalist in the 1990s, David Brock was a key cog the Republican noise machine. Writing for the American Spectator, a conservative magazine funded by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, Brock gained fame for his attack pieces on Anita Hill and President Bill Clinton. Then, in 2002, Brock came clean. In his memoir, Blinded by the Right, Brock admitted that his work was based on lies and distortion, and part of a coordinated smear campaign funded by wealthy right wing groups to discredit Clinton and confuse the public.

Since then, Brock has continued to expose the conservative media onslaught. In his newest book, The Republican Noise Machine, Brock documents how right-wing groups pressure the media and spread misinformation to the public. It's easy to see how this is done.

Fringe conspiracies and stories will be kept alive by outlets like Rush Limbaugh, the Washington Times, and the Drudge Report, until they finally break into the mainstream media.

Media groups like Brent Bozell's Media Research Center have spent 30 years convincing the public that the media is, in fact, liberal. As Brock says, it's all a sham: "I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth."

The Republican Noise Machine

Noam Chomsky: The MYTH of the "liberal media" & Manufacturing Consent -



So-called "liberal media" (Rush Limbaugh calls it "liberal") covered rightwing candidates far more than non-rightwing candidates.

Conservative candidates received more news coverage during 2010 elections, surveys find

Conservative Media Bias Exposed?

Pew research study on conservative media bias during 2010 elections.

Bush administration orders media ownership study destroyed.

Who OWNS the U.S. mainstream media & politicians? U.S. media is only releasing selective Wikileaks cables vs European mainstream media:



Weapons of MASS DECEPTION: how the mainstream media was in bed with the Pentagon to sell us the Iraq & Afghanistan wars -



"Dick Cheney Is An Unindicted War Criminal" Ron Reagan Jr