02-04-09
- Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World (theonion)
- Restore the Rule of Law - Accountability:
- First, Jail All Bush's Lawyers, by Robert Parry (consortiumnews)
- European Activists Call For Bush To Be Tried For Torture (huffingtonpost)
- More Pressure for Bush Torture Probe, by Jason Leopold (consortiumnews)
- Who's in Charge?
- Generals' Revolt Threatens Obama Presidency (buzzflash) - "There is only one answer to this challenge to presidential authority: President Obama must sack both Petraeus and Odierno, and any other general who tries -- openly or behind the scenes -- to move politically against his military strategy and orders." See also my 01-31-09 entry (U.S. Coup? Again?)
- Pentagon brass chafes at Obama's Iraq pullout plan (dailystar.com.lb)
- How It Works:
- Bob Dole's perfect description of how Washington works, by Glenn Greenwald (salon)
- Economic Shakedown:
- Let banks fail, says Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz (telegraph.co.uk)
- U.S. dollar devaluation on its way (network.nationalpost)
- Krugman: What’s going on? (democraticunderground) - Krugman: "Shock and Oy" (nytimes)
- Watching the Watchdogs:
- We can't check everything, admits atomic safety chief after 14-year nuke power plant leak (guardian.co.uk)
- How to steal a US passport (thanks to our own government) (americablog with video)
- Inside 'nasty' nut processor (chicagotribune) - A clear case of Reaganomics' deregulation and self-regulation policies brought to its natural feverish culmination. Republican point men and women for the elite conservative oligarchy have trashed this country beyond recognition. They never deserve elected office again--at any level- imho.
- Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos tears into SEC: Where were you 9 years ago?! (nydailynews)
- Obama's Bunch:
- Barack Obama’s strange new political bedfellows, Wayne Madsen (onlinejournal)
- Small Change -- Obama's Betrayal (buzzflash)
- Radical Free Trader Judd Gregg to Head Government's Trade Enforcement Apparatus, by David Sirota (openleft) "In a very real sense, the appointment of Gregg is the equivalent of the Bush administration hiring people to government offices they had previously worked to destroy."
- Liberal Media:
- Big surprise. The corporate media isn't reporting the facts about the Employee Free Choice Act, which is vehemently opposed by corporate America (americablog)
- What I Learned From NPR This Morning (digbysblog) "Clearly, the top of the" Democratic "party has learned zip in the past 8 to 10 years or so. I think it's time to work seriously to replace them. This isn't a progressive vs. centrist issue, this is a competence issue."
- A Dangerous Summer on HD 80606b (apod)
- Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet (ucsc.edu)
