06-22-09
- Bush's Nutjob Supreme Court:
- Supreme Court will not revive Valerie Plame's lawsuit over leaked identity (newsday)
- Justices Allow Dumping of Gold-Mine Waste in Lake (courthousenews)
- Will Obama Fall Over As He Leans More And More to the Right?
- US: Obama’s Right Turn (ips)
- Obama Closes Doors on Openness (newsweek) "Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a 'new era' of openness, 'nothing has changed,' says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. 'For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies.'"
- When Will the U.S. Do the Honorable Thing and Compensate Bush's So-Called 'Enemy Combatants' That Are Adjudged Innocent? As I've said before, I believe that George W. Bush should be held personally accountable for such compensation and that a fair and punitive compensation would be about $2 million for each year each innocent prisoner was illegally imprisoned and tortured under his orders. Obama shares some responsibility as well, as some innocent prisoners are STILL being physically and mentally abused in what are how HIS prisons.
- Uruguay compensates ex-political prisoners (cnn)
- 911 Coup d'Etat:
- David Ray Griffin, the nemesis of the collection of disinformation known as the 9/11 Commission Report, has taken up the question of Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive? (onlinejournal) "He has been kept alive in the media by US government PSYOPS as a useful bogyman to justify America’s illegal wars of aggression. The messages received from bin Laden since his death appear to be conveniently timed fabrications designed to advance US government purposes."
- MIC - Obama's War Profiteers:
- Scahill: Obama's Undeclared War Against Pakistan Continues, Despite His Attempt to Downplay It (rebelreports)
- CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution (pakalert)
- Dems' Gay ATM Is Threatened in Boston Too - Time for Long Overdue Grassroots Actions to Spread Throughout the Country - Basta!
- Protest at second DNC fundraiser, this time in Boston (americablog)
- Join the Impact Massachusetts to protest June 23 DNC fundraiser at Fenway Park (pamshouseblend - jointheimpactma) "More has been accomplished for LGBT civil rights in the past 6 days than in the past 6 months due to public pressure. This is a way to keep that public pressure on."
- SLDN to join protesters outside DNC gay fundraiser Thursday (americablog) SLDN is "the lead gay rights group in charge of taking on the military's anti-gay ban"
- US Interests Ahead of Every Other Country's - And Look at All the Trouble It Has Caused:
- Chris Hedges: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away (truthdig) "We are the biggest problem in the Middle East. We have through our cruelty and violence created and legitimized the Mahmoud Ahmadinejads and the Osama bin Ladens."
- Health Care Reform? Not if Corporatist Democrats Like Feinstein Have Their Way:
- The Risk of Reform (washingtonmonthly)
- Krugman to Senate's "centrist" Dems.: This isn't 1993 and you're not the center. You're "way out in right field" (americablog)
- Obama's Health Reform Waterloo (commondreams) "The Obama administration and the Congressional Democrats are finally hitting the inevitable wall that was bound to confront them because of the president's congenital inability to be a bold leader, and because of the party's toxic decades-old decision to betray its working class New Deal base in favor of wholesale corporate whoredom."
- RW Continually Cry About ACORN's Non-Existent Voter Fraud, While Their Own Operatives Are Guilty As Sin:
- Justice Delayed? Why the Hold-Up in Connecticut's Investigation into Ann Coulter's 'Voter Fraud'? (bradblog)
- The Biggest Theft of All Time:
- Matt Taibbi: "Suck on Our Yachts": Goldman Sachs Issues Non-Apology for Destroying the World Economy (alternet)
- No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
- Atlas 5 Rocket Launches to the Moon (apod)
