Growing list of Ex CIA disagree on War

George Tenet

Ray McGovern

Paul R. Pillar

Michael Scheuer

DAVID MacMICHAEL

David Ray Griffin

Robert Steele

Melvin Goodman

Robert Baer

Will General Petraeus be thrown under the bus?

General Patraeus last night on the Charlie Rose Show said that "it is time to take the mirrows off of the bus". Well, he's the one in the drivers seat, and he seems to be saying that whatever is behind him doesn't matter and it's peddle to the metal into the surge. It has been said that he is a brilliant general, but this seems like a pretty cavalier statement to me.

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Why "We The People" are glad that Bill Moyers is back on PBS

In December 2003 George W Bush appointed Gay Hart Gaines as the head of Corporate Public Broadcasting, which controls government funding for PBS. She was a Bush Ranger in 2004 (re: contributed $100,000 to canpaign). Mainstream media wasn't enough for Bush & Co. they had to control PBS too, and Bill Moyers was at the top of their hit list.

For reasons unbeknownst to me Bill Moyers is back, and from what is being said he will be on every week with Bill Moyers Journal. It is easy to see why he has chosen Media Wars as his subject. Not many people knew about this program, but it's a normal day. It was only advertised on PBS and the internet.

Here is some history from when Bill Moyers NOW left PBS


Bill Moyers Leaves PBS in the Middle of a Rebalancing Act

By Joy Press
The Village Voice

24-30 November 2004 Issue

A few weeks ago, Bill Moyers, the venerable face of progressive current-affairs analysis on television, warned that the next four years were set to be a golden age for Watergate-style sleuth reporters. "I just think every time you wed the state and business together like this, you get corruption flowing like the Mississippi River," he announced on his PBS series, Now. Ironically, Moyers himself isn't sticking around to partake in the coming "bonanza for investigative journalism" he predicts. Although he's one of the few living media commentators whose folksy manner and heady background (he served as both a Baptist minister and a press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson) could conceivably bridge the gap between red state and blue state, secular and religious, Moyers is planning to retire from Now on December 17.

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Now has been a focus for right-wing ire from the start. Moyers infuriated the right after the 2002 congressional elections with his take on the Republican mandate: "If you liked the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming. And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture." Using the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a body that provides funding to certain PBS shows, the right seems to be enforcing "balance" by financially supporting a raft of new public-affairs programming. Along with Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered and The Journal Editorial Report, there's a series co-hosted by "family values"-defending culture critic Michael Medved in the works for late 2005.

The CPB was originally created to buffer PBS from political pressure, but some of the recent appointees appear blatantly partisan, such as Gay Hart Gaines, who chaired Newt Gingrich's political action committee, and Cheryl Halpern, clearly introduced to be some kind of watchdog. During the November 2003 Senate Commerce Committee's confirmation hearings for Halpern, Senator Trent Lott blasted Moyers's post-election commentary as "the most blatantly partisan, irresponsible thing I've ever heard in my life, and yet [the CPB] has not seemed to be willing to deal with Bill Moyers and that type of programming." Halpern responded: "The fact of the matter is, I agree." For his part, Moyers didn't hide his feelings about the new blood at the CPB, dubbing the new appointees "ideological warriors" and telling writer Ken Auletta, "This is the first time in my thirty-two years in public broadcasting that C.P.B. has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons."

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CPB Board of Directors
Cheryl Halpern
Chair

From Wikipedia

Cheryl Feldman Halpern is the chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). She was appointed in 2005. An active Republican, she was chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition for eight years. In this capacity, she has been a critic of National Public Radio, accusing the public network of anti-Israeli bias. She has extensive experience with overseeing pro-American media campaigns abroad. In 1990, she was confirmed as a member of the Board for International Broadcasting and as a director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). From 1995 through 2002, she served as a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees non-military overseas broadcasts by the US Government such as Radio Martí, the Voice of America, and Radio Free Iraq.

Mrs. Halpern has been nominated to the boards of national or international public broadcasting organizations by Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Gay Hart Gaines
Vice Chair

Gay Hart Gaines
From SourceWatch
Gay Hart Gaines is the vice chair for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She was appointed to the board by George W. Bush in December 2003 for a term ending in 2010. She was elected as vice chair in September 2005 along with CPB chair Cheryl Halpern.

She is a long-time Republican Party fundraiser. The Nation's David Corn writes that Gaines and her husband Stanley Gaines "have contributed at least half a million dollars to GOP causes since 1998."[1] In 2004, she was a Bush Pioneer, bundling over $100,000 for Bush's reelection campaign.[2] Other Republican Party involvement includes being a charter member of GOPAC, which she chaired from 1993-1997.

Gaines came to the CPB with no previous experience in broadcasting. Common Causes' Cynthia Wexler pointed out that Gaines was "ardent fundraiser for Newt Gingrich in the days when Gingrich was really all about zeroing out the funds for Public Broadcasting."[3] According to her CPB biography, she is "an interior designer by training."

Gaines is affiliated with several right-wing organizations. Her CPB biography states that she is a current member of the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. She has also served as a board member of the Hudson Institute and was a chairman of the National Review Institute from 1991-1993.[4]

Bill Moyers returns to PBS: Buying The War

Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War

Explore the role the press played in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq

Bill Moyers Journal

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran

Depleted Uranium Warheads

A special feature by the Lone Star Iconoclast, a little newspaper in Crawford Texas, George W Bush's home town.

February 28, 2006 7:19 PM

HAVE DU WILL TRAVEL

By W. Leon Smith
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

When The Iconoclast learned of a study conducted by Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan that suggests that depleted uranium radiation had traveled from Iraq to Great Britain during “shock and awe,” we knew it was time to more fully explore the implications.

We decided to “lay it all on the table,” as best we could by interviewing noted scientists and people in the know about radiation, those who have become medical casualties, those who have gone through the military system, and those who possess an upper tier knowledge of radiation in general.

"broadcast flag"

Hello Fellow Oregonians

Just to let you know...I have called for the resignation of Aberto Gonzo, and voted against the war in Iraq. I can't talk about the details because if I did I might fall off of the fence. It isn't easy to do this balancing act and as you know I do my best to please everybody. Please accept my apologies for introducing the Digital Content Protection Act of 2006.

The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the FCC had exceeded its authority in creating this rule. The court stated that the commission could not prohibit the manufacture of computer or video hardware without copy protection technology because the FCC only has authority to regulate communications, not devices that receive communications. It is possible that a higher court may overturn this ruling, or the United States Congress may grant such authority to the FCC. Some of the major U.S. television networks have stated in the past that they will stop broadcasting high-definition content if the rule does not go into effect.
As of June 21, 2005, there are rumors Hollywood is attempting to sneak the Broadcast Flag back as a rider on the Senate Appropriation bill.

On May 1, 2006, Sen. Ted Stevens inserted a version of the Broadcast Flag into the Communications, Consumer’s Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006. The draft section can be seen here , and the full text of the bill here . On June 22, 2006 Sen. John E. Sununu offered an amendment to strike the broadcast and radio flag[4], but this failed and the broadcast-flag amendment was approved by the Commerce committee, who at the same time voted down the network neutrality provisions . Nonetheless, the overall bill was never passed, and thus died upon adjournment of the 109th Congress in December 2006.

I know there are many more issues that you are concerned about, like the proposed liquid natural gas ports on the Columbia River, the recent abuses by the timber industry, and the proliferation of the grass seed industry. Please contact me with your concerns and with any ideas on how to restore Democracy to "We The People".

I remain your liberal Repulican senator.

Ranger Gordon Smith

Congresspedia: Gordon Smith

Dick Cheney wanted to serve in Viet Nam

CHENEY: This is the uniform I always wanted to wear but those damn student and family deferments kept getting in the way of my going to Vietnam and sharing in the joy of killing gooks for my country. I know it's politically incorrect to refer to those chinks as gooks, but I really feel that I missed out on some real fun in the jungle.

I continue to disagree with war in Iraq

Video: GOP Sen. Gordon Smith opposes surge

RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday January 10, 2007

In an interview with CNN in the 5am hour this morning, Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) hit Bush's new surge plan and said that Iraq was no longer a US fight. He also said he supported Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) proposal to have Congress to vote on any increase in troops.

Smith recently attracted media attention when he changed his position on the Iraq war.

I'm for "We The People" & The Constitution

I just want to tell everybody that when I speak from the left of center, that I mean that I will work for "We The People".

So..Starting on Jan. 1

I promise to do my best to:


Create a task force on global warming.

Create a government funded program to employ people who are out of work on alternative energy and conservation projects

To never lie.

Create a commitee to oversee lobbying activity, and make it a no money involved activity. Thats right...lobbying will basicly be handled like a charity. RE: Work toward making this an ownership society of small farms with water rights for organic crops and other such useful projects.
Reform the media. There is afterall a lot of information that could be on regular tv and radio.
Return free enterprise to the people. RE: if you would like to build an automobile that runs on hydrolics from a pollution free heat source without a transmission, differential, catylitic convertor, or air bags, that would be ok, even if it gets 200 mpg. And if you catch fish...You can sell them. Believe me, if we can be responsible for carrying our own health insurence, we can also be responsible for what we eat.

And...Many things that I'll be adding later.You tell me...I am afterall your representative in government.

Smaller federal and larger state government?

SPAM ON THE INTERNET

~SPAM~

This is what I'm talking about. I get a lot of this as well as a lot of phone solicitations. The absolute worst, is when you get a phone solicitation, and it is a recorded message!

George Bush signs order for control of space

Bush Asserts U.S. Rights In Space

New Policy Says U.S. Has Right To Deny Adversaries Use Of Space For Hostile Purposes

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2006

AP) President Bush has signed an order asserting the United States' right to deny adversaries access to space for hostile purposes.

Mr. Bush also said the United States would oppose the development of treaties or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit U.S. access to or use of space.

The provisions were contained in the first revision of U.S. space policy in nearly 10 years. Mr. Bush's order, signed more than a month ago, was not publicly announced, although unclassified details of his decision were posted on the Web site of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The Military's Pandora's Box

by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning

This article was prepared to provide a summary of the contents of a book written in 1995 which describes an entirely new class of weapons. The weapons and their effects are described in the following pages. The United States Navy and Air Force have joined with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, to build a prototype for a ground based "Star Wars" weapon system located in the remote bush country of Alaska.

The individuals who are demanding answers about HAARP are scattered around the planet. As well as bush dwellers in Alaska, they include: a physician in Finland; a scientist in Holland; an anti-nuclear protester in Australia; independent physicists in the United States; a grandmother in Canada, and countless others.

Unlike the protests of the 1960s the objections to HAARP have been registered using the tools of the 1990s. From the Internet, fax machines, syndicated talk radio and a number of alternative print mediums the word is getting out and people are waking up to this new intrusion by an over zealous United States government.

HIGH FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM

Statement of

Dr. George W. Ullrich
Deputy Director
Defense Special Weapons Agency

INTRODUCTION

Mr. Chairman, I am Dr. George Ullrich, the Deputy Director at the Defense Special Weapons Agency in the Department of Defense. I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss this important issue.

It is interesting to note that exactly 52 years ago to the day, the world's first nuclear device was exploded at Trinity site, located on an isolated stretch of New Mexico desert in what is now the White Sands Missile Range. Among the team who witnessed that momentous event was Enrico Fermi, nobel laureate and perhaps the most brilliant of the Manhattan Project physicists. It was said that he was probably the last man of the twentieth century who actually knew all of the physics of his day. I mention it because it was Enrico Fermi who, prior to the Trinity Event, first predicted that nuclear explosions were capable of generating strong electromagnetic fields. Since then we have learned a great deal more about nuclear-induced electromagnetic phenomena and, in particular, about the phenomenon of high altitude Electro-Magnetic Pulse, commonly called "EMP."

Broadband For America

Senator Gordon Smith Presents his Broadband for America Act of 2006

Senator Gordon Smith Presents his Broadband for America Act of 2006
Bill Aspires to Clear the Path for More Affordable Broadband Networks

Joscelin Cooper on April 27th, 2006

Senator Gordon H. Smith (R-OR) addressed the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association’s Legislative and Policy Conference earlier this week, and took the opportunity to present his Broadband for America Act of 2006. The Act is a streamlined piece of legislation that seeks to overhaul the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and offer a targeted address of four critical issues.

Senator Smith hopes that the brief and focused nature of the bill will allow it to pass quickly through the Senate in order “to promote the construction of new broadband networks in rural America.”

Senator Smith remarks on the objectives of the proposed act: “Leaving outdated laws on the books stalls job creation and inhibits the introduction of wireless technology that can be utilized in parts of America today’s technology will never reach. Today’s laws choke job creation with regulation and hold back innovation that proves time and time again to improve consumer’s options.”

The bill includes legislation that will affect wireline video regulations and ease provider's entrance to the market. This point is intended to relieve wireline video providers of having to negotiate franchise agreements with cities and towns. It also introduces new legislation for municipal broadband that will allow “municipalities to band together and offer affordable broadband service in areas where private companies cannot or will not provide service.

Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, And Why Corporate News Censored the Story

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.

The days are now numbered for surfing an uncensored, open-access Internet, using your favorite search engine to search a bottomless cyber-sea of information in the grandest democratic forum ever conceived by humankind. Instead you can look forward to Googling about on a walled-off, carefully selected corpus of government propaganda and sanitized information "safe" for public consumption. Indoctrinated and sealed off from the outer world, you will inhabit a matrix where every ounce of creative, independent thinking that challenges government policies and values will be squelched. Just a wild conspiracy theory, you say? No longer can this be rationally maintained.

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~Vote for the man~Not for the party~

My Fellow Oregonians

I am a bit worried about the upcoming elections. Please consider that we need honest and responsible people in the US Senate. It is indeed terrible that my friend Joe Lieberman lost in the Connecticut primary election and is running as an Independent. Of course...It is about the man and not the party, and I ask as your senator that you keep this in mind in the upcoming elections...

Lieberman-Lamont battle goes to D.C.
By David Cook

WASHINGTON – Ned Lamont, the wealthy businessman who last month defeated incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary, came to Washington Wednesday to line up support for the general election. But he began the day at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast with reporters taking verbal shots at his opponent.

Reporters asked Mr. Lamont to weigh in on Senate Democrats' plan to call for a no-confidence vote on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. One journalist posed a hypothetical question: What if Senator Lieberman were asked to fill the post - would a future Senator Lamont vote to confirm him?




September 12, 2006
Bush Job Approval at 39%
Congressional job approval, national satisfaction still low

by Joseph Carroll

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup poll finds little change in the public's approval ratings of President George W. Bush and Congress, along with Americans' overall satisfaction with the course of the nation. About 4 in 10 Americans currently approve of the job Bush is doing, 29% of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job, and 32% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country at the present time.

VOTE REPUBLICAN

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DO YOU BELIEVE IN ANY 911 CONSPIRACY THEORIES

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~Wiretapping unconstitutional~Federal judge favors liberal terrorists~

The lilly livered terrorist liberal Democrats are at it again. Now they are taking away Georges god given powers to make America safe. They have no respect for the "War President". Oceans no longer protect us, and its hard work to insure that no terrorists are in the US.Whats next...more accusations of foul play by the 911 commision. These Democraterrorists have no agenda for winning the war in Iraq, but want to cut and run. Well you can bet your sweet estate tax that George will not cut and run. He'll still be there when you're dead and gone.

August 17, 2006

Federal Judge Rules In Favor of Terrorists

The war on terror may be fought on many fronts... but it's being lost here in the courts...

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.

Here's the kind of junk mail that I get, instead of the important mail that I should
be recieving. This disgusting speech is typical of the liberals posing as
progressives here in Oregon.






A friend thought you'd like this streaming media. Play it now with your RealPlayer:

Bill Clinton defines the difference between the philsophy of "We The People" and the ideology of "Corporate Government". Thom Hartman, a regular on KPOJ Radio was at the event. He reflected that Clinton gave this speech off the top of his head, and pointed out the profound differences between Dubya and Bubba.

Clinton-Seattle speech 7-31-06

Former President Bill Clinton speech in Seattle at fundraiser for Washington Congressman Jim McDermott.

30% OF AMERICANS FORGET DATE 911 HAPPENED

If you are worried about the upcomiing election...you should be!
This doesn't fare well with the concept of "know your candidate".

Some Americans Forget What Year 9/11 Happened
(KUTV) WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to a recent telephone survey, roughly 30 percent of Americans can't remember what year the September 11th attacks happened