Trent Reznors Warning!

post from Crooks and Liars on 19 November 2007 04:00:58 PM. © Crooks and Liars

DownWithTyranny!:David from the Art of Mental Warfare teamed up with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails to present “Warning.” The project takes on the covert interests behind the war and our media saturated society. You have to cry when you think of three words: In. Our. Names. Anyone still feeling apathetic?

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FBI sought Lewis and Calvert’s records in
July.

post from Think Progress on 19 November 2007 03:55:00 PM. © Think Progress

Over the summer, FBI investigators “examined the personal financial records” of two members of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), as part of “ongoing probes into their earmarking activities.” Both inquiries were made on “July 24 by two agents” in a California field office. For Calvert, it “is the first signal in months that he is still under scrutiny.” (HT: TPMmuckraker.)

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Fresh Thread

post from Eschaton on 19 November 2007 03:46:00 PM. © Eschaton

I got nothing. Was considering trolling my own blog for fun, but didn't even have that in me.

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Press Watchdog Criticizes Kurdistan Government

post from IraqSlogger.com on 19 November 2007 03:36:38 PM. © IraqSlogger.com

As the cross-border standoff escalates in northern Iraq, an Iraqi media watchdog has criticized the Kurdistan Regional Government for restricting journalists' access to the border regions.

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Mike Tyson Sentenced to One Day on Coke, DUI
Charge

post from TalkLeft on 19 November 2007 03:29:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Las Vegas criminal defense lawyer David Chesnoff is everywhere these days.

Two weeks ago, he got a good result for Darren Mack, charged with killing his wife and shooting a judge (life with parole after 20 years rather than life without parole which is what he would have gotten if the jury didn't buy Mack's insanity defense.)

He's representing David Copperfield in the alleged sex assault investigation stemming from an incident in the Bahamas, which he calls a "smear campaign." Last week he got deportation proceedings halted against an Iranian World Poker player.

And now, he's gotten boxer Mike Tyson a sentence of 24 hours in jail on a felony cocaine possession and DUI charge even though the prosecutor asked for a year in jail. Tyson's success in rehab convinced the judge not to hammer him. Nice job, David.

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Dana Andrews: Barry Bonds and W

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 19 November 2007 03:18:36 PM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Dana Andrews

W picks up his cell phone. Barry's on the other line.

W: Yeah, homerun guy. Nice to hear from you.

Barry: Ummm...thanks for taking my call.

W: Something important? You know, I'm a important guy. The importanter. You've called three times.

Barry: I've called fifteen times. But three...fifteen...what's the difference?

W: Ummm...nine? This a trick question?

(long pause)

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Barry Bonds and W

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W picks up his cell phone. Barry's on the other line.

W: Yeah, homerun guy. Nice to hear from you.

Barry: Ummm...thanks for taking my call.

W: Something important? You know, I'm a important guy. The importanter. You've called three times.

Barry: I've called fifteen times. But three...fifteen...what's the difference?

W: Ummm...nine? This a trick question?

(long pause)

Barry: I was hoping you could help me out. You know, since you pardoned that Libby guy.

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Watching Keith Olbermann

…on NBC’s Football Night in America on Sunday and during half time must be driving the wingers that also host the show crazy.

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Depleted uranium IS a health hazard is its
military use a war crime

An upstate New York town that was the location of an old uranium plant demonstrates just how hazardous it is.

The US federal government and the firm that ran the factory, National Lead (NL) Industries, have been assuring former workers and residents around the 18-acre site for decades that, although it is true that the plant used to produce unacceptable levels of radioactive pollution, it was not a serious health hazard.

Now, in a development with potentially devastating implications not only for Colonie but also for the future use of some of the West's most powerful weapon systems, that claim is being challenged. In a paper to be published in the next issue of the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment, a team led by Professor Randall Parrish of Leicester University reports the results of a three-year study of Colonie, funded by Britain's Ministry of Defence.

Parrish's team has found that DU contamination, which remains radioactive for millions of years, is in effect impossible to eradicate, not only from the environment but also from the bodies of humans. Twenty-three years after production ceased they tested the urine of five former workers. All are still contaminated with DU. So were 20 per cent of people tested who had spent at least 10 years living near the factory when it was still working.

Of course, the U.S. and U.K. defense establishments have denied repeatedly that DU-enhanced tank shells and other ordinance fired during the Gulf War was the cause of soaring Iraqi cancer rates, or Gulf War Syndrome among their own troops.

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This is an obvious military problem:

When DU ?penetrators? ? armour-piercing shells that form the standard armament of some of Britain's and America's most commonly deployed military aircraft and vehicles ? strike their targets, 10 per cent or more of the heavy DU metal burns at high temperatures, producing oxide particles very similar to those at Colonie.

TV footage shot in Baghdad in 2003 shows children playing in the remains of tanks coated with thick, black DU oxide, while there have long been claims that the DU shells that destroyed Saddam Hussein's tanks in the 1991 Gulf war were responsible for high rates of cancer in places such as Basra.

Parrish's team includes David Carpenter, an environmental health expert from Albany University. ?DU burns, it releases particulates that can be breathed in, and it doesn't go away,? he says. ?The issue does not concern military personnel as much as civilian populations in theatres where they are used. Now we know that we can still find measurable levels of DU among the people of Colonie, we need a much bigger study to establish whether they have suffered disproportionate ill-effects such as cancers as a consequence. If they have, it would raise a serious ethical challenge to the use of these weapons. Arguably it could constitute a war crime.?

Nice lie by the governments. Would they like to try again? Or just add one more war crime to the list of W and his British lapdog?

Depleted uranium (DU) is the residue left in massive quantities when bomb-grade uranium is refined to make reactor fuel and nuclear weapons.

The densest naturally occurring metal, it is used to make armour-penetrating shells, standard armament for some of the West?s most widely deployed military aircraft and vehicles, such as Bradley armoured cars, Abrams tanks, and Jaguar A10 fighter planes.

Less intensely radioactive than bomb-grade uranium, DU emits alpha particles, known to cause cancers.

DU weapons that strike their targets produce clouds of tiny uranium oxide particles, which lodge in the lungs and other soft tissues such as the brain and bone marrow.

DU shells were widely used in the 1991 Gulf war; in Bosnia and Kosovo; and are being used now in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Assuming we can get an international convention to ban DU, this then affects the nuclear power industry. Without being able to dump off DU remains from U-235 production onto the military, that?s more toxic waste the nuclear industry has to get rid of.

And, with the Iraq War lasting a lot longer than the original Gulf War, and the Afghanistan operation, how long before this becomes yet more Al Qaeda propaganda?

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AK-AL: Young's Numbers Continue to Lag

It's not so good when an incumbent's negative rating grows by 10 points from the spring to the fall, or when that incumbent's negative numbers are higher than his positive numbers, or when that incumbent's strong negative numbers are nearly as high as[...]

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