Uzbeks Order U.S. From Base in Refugee Rift

Via NY-Times Uzbeks Order U.S. From Base in Refugee Rift

Because the US flew to Romania, people fleeing the horrible oppression of the Uzbek government, they have asked us to abandon our air-base in their country. I am glad we ferried these people to Romania, but it is not news that the people of Uzbek are oppressed, will we do anything to support Democracy there?

The article ends by saying some in the US government argue for managed engagement, even with dictatorial governments, because without any Western influence in places like Uzbekistan, there would be influence from countries like Russia and China.

But if Uzbekistan was an autonomous democracy, as the US espouses, and not under any one countries thumb maybe Uzbekistan would not have to be under the infuence of anyone but it's own people.

It's not like Bush wants to put much effort into the Afghanistan Pakistan Region that this base was supporting. Bush and his administration can't or won't catch Osama Bin Laden, nor the one eyed Mullah Omar, nor the still unidentified domestic biological terrorist that released military grade Anthrax throughout the United States.

G.W. Bush = Complete Failure
(when I say complete I am also thinking about jobs, education, healthcare, the deficit and foreign debt)

My Blogging Trinity

I set out, when starting this Blog, to keep an eye on and comment on my three political priorities:

• Media Reform


• Election Reform


• Transperency and Simplicty

These three issues are key to save OUR government and culture from the all to human tendencies of nepotism, bureaucratic obfuscation, selfishness and eventual oligarchy that like entropy needs to be worked against day by day. These Three ideas are meant to save us from ourselves and keep all decisions and control clear for all to understand and constantly under public scrutiny.

More and more decisions are happening behind closed doors and more issues are being misrepresented. Do we think only African or Central American governments and people are effected by graft and corruption. In the US it has merely become more complex and insidious.

I plan to expand upon this idea when I have a little time.

Bolton Lied To Congress

Title 18, Section 1621 of the US Code states, anyone who “in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under section 1746 of title 28, United States Code, willfully subscribes as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true” has committed perjury.

Bolton was interviewed by the State Department as part of a joint investigation with the CIA into prewar Iraqi attempts to buy nuclear materials from Niger. A U.S. State Department spokesman revealed that John Bolton, President Bush's nominee for UN ambassador, lied to Congress when he said that he had not been interviewed or testified in any investigation over the past five years.

G.W. Bush is threatening to use a recess appointment early next week to install Bolton.

Even though the G.W. Bush administration does NOT NOT EVER directly meet the public, nor answer from anyone other than the most complacent in the media, never ever admit their faults or mistakes and would never testify under oath. Even though they goto outrageous lengths, it is obvious that they LIE more than tell the truth.

Federalists

The Federalists were originally those in favor of the ratification of the Constitution and continue to desire a strong central government and weaker state governments. Originally Anti-Federalists opposed ratification of the Constitution and continue to desire a a weak central government and stronger state governments.

From what I understand the Federalist society, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. sat on the steering committee, was originally going to call themselves the Anti-Federalist society. Odd, perhaps they are merely self serving oligarchs. They also try to keep their membership secret, hardly men you want leading the country, to ashamed of themselves to stand in the light of day.

So not only did John G. Roberts Jr. deny his involvement in the group but so did the White house. I guess always being up to the exact opposite of what they say is to be expected from this administration. They are also only releasing choice documents on Roberts their nominee.

Hidden Agendas are the specialty of this White House under Bush, or is it under Cheney, or Rove? Who would ever know with the lies, smoke and mirrors?

The Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters to leave the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

The Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters to leave the A.F.L.-C.I.O. because of lack of leadership and unwillingness to address the falling membership roles. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. looks to lose 1/3 of it's membership as other groups jump ship.
The two unions are forming a competing labor coalition called the Change to Win coalition.

This is all very exciting, it's time to rebuild from the roots, who can deny the lack of labor's influence? I hope to see them unionize some of the newer labor driven companies. Maybe even pursue Wal Mart.

And the A.F.L.-C.I.O. response was to immediately vilify the dissenters rather than engage in a debate on the topics of contention. It is that unwillingness to engage in debate with it's own membership that has led to the current split.

Unite to Win.

Labor stand up, you don't need the bureaucrats!

I did not commit a crime with that reporter

Bush is a wiener. This issue is taking up all my post time, there is nothing bigger than this right now though.

He couldn't fire Rove or Cheney and this shows he is NOT a leader. If he was a moral upright American he would fire them without hesitation, if he was a conniving corrupt elitist he would say "Dick, Karl you guys need to take one for the team". But he's NOT a leader, not a good one or a bad one. He's frozen in inaction, and the RNC is in a panic.

So Bush backpedals NYTimes
"If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," Mr. Bush said in response to a question, after declaring, "I don't know all the facts; I want to know all the facts."

So again I pose two scenarios; Bush doesn't know what in the hell is going on nor directing anything or he is as guilty as all the other rats at this point and is incapable of going it alone.

Karl, Dick, George ? Does it matter.

They all are lying, and according to the RNC this all just blown out of proportion.

So it wasn't Karl, he just confirmed the identity of the CIA agent, Dick's secratary was the one who told. So I guess the Whitehouse is just full to the brim with liars.

Reporter Says Cheney Aide Was a Source
@www.washingtonpost.com

Karl Rove, storyteller

Karl Rove has such nice skin, that sweet little baby face could not tell a lie.



Well read about it wherever you like, the White house leaked their version of the truth.

It's still funny.

Now Karl Rove did not leak the name to the press, the press leaked the name to him!!
Maybe people will not only chant "Karl Rove is a a traitor!" but "Coverup!" as well

Chickens coming home to roost!

WH press briefing

Even Scott McClellan is smiling. This is pretty funny. Start at the top and search your way down the page for "Rove":
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050712-4.html

I'm smiling, is it becouse I smell justice?

Chickens coming home to roost!

Karl Rove student and master of plausible deniability

Well they named the name and no one is surprised that it was Karl Rove. And what else do you think he has he been doing, besides Jeff Gannon.

I did enjoy this article at editorandpublisher.com by an associate of Karl Rove. My Favorites from the article:
..."journalists as a community have been played for patsies by the president’s chief strategist, Karl Rove, and are enabling him to abuse the First Amendment, by their invoking it."

"The problem, as always, in dealing with Rove, is establishing a clear chain of culpability. Rove once described himself as a die-hard Nixonite; he is, like the former president, both student and master of plausible deniability."

"Reporters with a gut fear of breaching confidential sources must fight like tigers to protect them. But neither reporters Cooper nor Miller, nor their publications, nor anyone in journalism should protect the behavior of Rove (or anyone else) through an undiscerning, blanket use of the First Amendment that weakens its protections by its gross misuse."

Chickens coming home to roost!

Valerie Plume

Well much ado about Times Inc. turning over the notes of thier reporters in the Valerie Plume leak.
Heres one: guardian.co.uk

Coopers and Miller may be accomplices to a Federal Crime by leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plume. And hiding behind "protecting the sources" is not getting much play, and it shouldnt, seeing as this is an clandestine abuse of power from the highest office in the land.

All of this is very exciting, I am very interested to see who the leak was.

And at the Whitehouse!
Chickens coming home to roost!

Supreme Court Backs Cable in Key Broadband Case

Via: Cable Digital News

"Brand X Ruling Will Likely Aid Telcos Too But Hurt ISPs, VoIP Players."

"In a resounding legal victory for the U.S. cable industry and the FCC late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that could have forced cable operators to open up their fat broadband pipes to rival service providers."

No mention about the public right of way in this article, but mention that the Republican controlled FCC is unlikely to pursue changing course in this matter. I guess the kicker is to call it a data service and that this shouldn't be over regulated. Or in this case there should not be competition

Broadcast is the new Printing Press!!

Video news releases= VNR

I just started this BLOG and already I tire of the FCC.

via: Webindia citing the Washington Times. "Video news releases, or VNRs, look like real news stories but are designed to promote a government or corporate agenda", in other words VNR (our new acronym) is undoubutdly propaganda and rather than do something about it, or at least shame it into a dark corner, the FCC will now regulate the labelling of VNR "news" items.

Broadcast is the new printing press!