Even though 76% of Americans want a public health care option, spineless Democrats (or corporate slaves?) keep telling those same Americans that the public option is "off the table".
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the guy we're saying should've won Iran's election, was a 1980's "terrorist"? And we want him to be Iran's president? What's going on here? And aren't the same guys back urging us to meddle in another country's government? Even though they're out of office? Paul Wolfowitz gets a column in the "liberal" Washington Post urging Obama to be harder on Iran, Charles Krauthammer is doing the same thing in the "liberal" media, the Republicans are urging Obama to be tougher on Iran even though they're in the extreme minority, Dick Cheney is all over the "liberal" TV...the same fucking discredited criminals are given a forum to do the same goddamn thing in the "liberal" media that they did with the Iraq War! Gee! This sounds like them backing Sadaam Hussein all over again, like they did before we bombed Iraq. They did it in the Nixon administration, the Reagan administration, the Bush I administration, the Bush II administration...now they don't even have to be in office to do it! How many times are these same guys going to disapper/reappear and do this before you WAKE THE FUCK UP??? Why aren't these guys in JAIL, instead of on TV and writing for the Washington Post? How on EARTH can Paul Wolfowitz get a column in the Washington Post? Instead of reporting on these guys as if they're war criminals, they give them columns and put them on TV! What the...???
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the guy the U.S. government and media says had the election "stolen" from him in Iran by Ahmadinijhad (where's the proof of this?), was a "terrorist" in the 1980's. Why are we so vehemently backing this guy and why isn't the media telling us this? Why isn't Mousavi's background being covered by the media? I'll bet you didn't even know the name of this guy!
(bd: this is a re-post, cleaned up a bit, with some things changed/added)
So, you thought I was crazy when I said in my "must read" post here that members of the U.S. government are being blackmailed via the domestic wiretaps by Israel and others. Ironically, this story just came out:
Congressional Quarterly: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC
Congressional Quarterly is reporting Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman of California was overheard in 2005 on an NSA wiretap speaking with a suspected Israeli agent. During the call, Harman reportedly said she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. In exchange for Harman’s help, the suspected Israeli agent reportedly pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections. The conversation is said to have been picked up on a court-approved NSA wiretap directed at alleged Israel covert action operations in Washington. Congressional Quarterly reports then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales decided to stop a probe of Harman, because he wanted Harman to be able to help defend the administration’s secret domestic spy program that the New York Times was about to expose.
According to a little-noticed passage in the Starr Report (Ken Starr's report when he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton), during March 1997, President Clinton told Monica Lewinsky that he suspected a foreign embassy was tapping his telephone conversations.
Nothing more is said in the report about the incident, but according to information received by this news service, that reference could provide the key to the entire Lewinsky scandal and to the setting-up and entrapment of the President. Reportedly, the embassy involved was that of Israel, under the control of the right-wing Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
I have some good advice for you: bookmark my post and go through it thoroughly! Then it will make sense to you, when you see in the news all the time, the U.S. government's never-ending bias towards Israel.
AT&T whistleblower: AT&T serves Mossad to blackmail U.S. government; our phone calls go to two Israeli companies!
Air Force Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski
Few could help notice last week that the "Bird" omitted an opinion piece distributed by the Knight-Ridder news agency by a senior Pentagon Middle East specialist, Air Force Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski, who worked in the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith until her retirement in April.
"What I saw was aberrant, pervasive and contrary to good order and discipline," Kwiatkowski wrote. "If one is seeking the answers to why peculiar bits of 'intelligence' found sanctity in a presidential speech, or why the post-Saddam [Hussein] occupation [of Iraq] has been distinguished by confusion and false steps, one need look no further than the process inside the Office of the Secretary of Defense [OSD]."
Kwiatkowski went on to charge that the operations she witnessed during her tenure in Feith's office, and particularly those of an ad hoc group known as the Office of Special Plans (OSP), constituted "a subversion of constitutional limits on executive power and a co-option through deceit of a large segment of the Congress".
Bill Maher nailing things left & right on June 12 & 19th: nailing the Democrats, Republicans, & the AMA...and many more...
Video 1 - Bill Maher's AMA commercial Video 1 - New rules June 12 - Obama is a slave to corporations, just like Bush Video 2 - New rules June 19 - Democrats are the "new Republicans"
Any intervention by the U.S. government on behalf of the Iranian opposition is destined to backfire given the role it played in overthrowing Iran’s last truly democratically elected prime minister and its subsequent support for the brutal dictatorial reign of the shah, a reality President Obama appears to be mercifully aware of in rejecting self-righteous calls from the likes of John McCain for him to show greater "solidarity" with the Twitter-savvy protesters.
Special commentary by Big Dan: "What if a foreign country had so much influence over the United States, they had many people in the U.S. government and U.S. media who seemed to be genuine Americans, but their sentiments were really for this foreign country. And they were so good at it, you wouldn't know this unless you put in a lot of effort. You could tell this is going on by their actions, if you look closely. They would be in congress, they would be all over everyone's cabinet, they would be all over the media promoting the U.S. to go to war against THEIR enemies and OUR soldiers would be dying for them. But our soldiers would be told they're dying for our freedoms. Why else would we be at constant war with someone else's enemies for $3 billion dollars a day during a depression? Why else would our media be making it the #1 story, that we should be meddling in the elections of another one of their enemies, with all the problems WE are having right now - like double-digit unemployment, health care, low wages, banks going under, assassinations, unaffordable college, and more? Elections in another foreign country are the #1 story in the U.S. media? If the people I'm saying are controlling the U.S. media, then it would be, and that country happens to be an enemy of the people I'm talking about. Another coincidence. They would have strategies to deflect attention from what they're really doing. They would seem like patriotic Americans, or it wouldn't work. They would falsely accuse truthtellers who point this out, of being 'prejudice' against them, as one of their most important strategies. If this foreign country had undo influence, then all major presidential candidates would go out of their way to make it a plank in their campaign that they would stand side by side with this foreign country...but never say this about any other foreign country. Another strategy would be to blackmail the people exposing them, or to make it worth their while monetarily to go along with them. And it's working. They could get people in the media who expose them fired and replaced with 'their guys'. And people would be scared SHITLESS to out these traitors. Even the best writers and reporters won't do it. For example, they might expose someone being unjustly fired, but are not saying WHY they were fired. They know why. They'll say 'we can't figure out why this guy was fired.' BULLSHIT! They'll write how all U.S. citizens are being wiretapped, but won't say the foreign country the data is going to. They'll get the U.S. citizens to hate THEIR enemies via controlling the U.S. media. They'll make sure that none of the people of the race of THEIR enemies get into the U.S. government and the U.S. media, only them, or they will be smeared by people in the U.S. government and media....and the politicians and media that go along with them are WORSE traitors. If American Arabs were in the U.S. media saying we should attack Israel, there would be an outcry against it. But, if you're an American Jew like Paul Wolfowitz and others beating the drum in the media to attack Iran and Arab countries, you get a column in the Washington Post or a recurring spot on FOX 'news' like William Kristol."
...another war coming up for them, with the Republicans more concerned about an enemy of Israel, than domestic issues:
As U.S. President Barack Obama attempts to navigate the treacherous currents of the ongoing political crisis in Iran, he faces a heated attack on his right flank from neoconservatives and other right-wing hawks, who are urging him both to offer unequivocal support to the protesters supporting moderate presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and to scuttle his planned diplomatic engagement with Tehran.
There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an ‘electoral success’ in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote.
Almost the entire spectrum of Western opinion makers, including all the major electronic and print media, the major liberal, radical, libertarian and conservative web-sites, echoed the opposition’s claim of rampant election fraud. Neo-conservatives, libertarian conservatives and Trotskyites joined the Zionists in hailing the opposition protestors as the advance guard of a democratic revolution. Democrats and Republicans condemned the incumbent regime, refused to recognize the result of the vote and praised the demonstrators’ efforts to overturn the electoral outcome. The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, the Israeli Foreign Office and the entire leadership of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations called for harsher sanctions against Iran and announced Obama’s proposed dialogue with Iran as ‘dead in the water’.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the guy the U.S. government and media says had the election "stolen" from him in Iran by Ahmadinijhad (where's the proof of this?), was a "terrorist" in the 1980's. Why are we so vehemently backing this guy and why isn't the media telling us this? Why isn't Mousavi's background being covered by the media? I'll bet you didn't even know the name of this guy!
