I'll start out right now by saying Brad's site is *really* slow yesterday and today. Hope we can keep this thread going!

we'll do our best, Peg!

Phone# is 323-650-1286 if you wanna call in!

Should be a huge show! If the Radio Gods are with us!

rock on, radio gods!

Wow!!! I can actually hear Brad clearly in the first few minutes. I keed! I keed!

Loud and clear!!!

Brad, can I suggest calling it Traitorgate?

Wow! Loud and clear from minute one from lovely Sun Valley Idaho.

coming through so loud and clear ... it's almost enough to turn you into a believer, no???

Fingers crossed, everyone!

WP-

Greetings! Just wanted to whisper some congratulations on your recognition for one of the many excellent things you are doing to get the word out and be the true patriot you are!

Brad welcomes Paul Rieckhoff ... an incredible American Patriot with an incredible story ... actually I'm exaggerating a bit: he's VERY CREDIBLE and that's one of the things that makes it so easy --- and so important --- to listen to him.

We're really supporting the troops by listening to them and we're also reading some of them ... you will certainly enjoy this link to Paul's blog at Huffington Post.

Hi. I'm the guy who just called in. Sent the e-mail to The Brad Blog mailbox. Thanks for talking to me.

J.J.

Hey all! Over on the wrong thread!! I need to figure out my way around here.

Brad sounding great --- miss you too!

Hi Winter!

Dropping out a bit --- which I believe is a software problem. Will talk with you about that issue post-show!

Hey Brad,

If you get a chance ask Paul what he thinks of Iraqi vets running for congressional office as Democrats. i.e. Paul Hackett in Ohio.

please kick this thread at DU

Peace,
UL

Hey All! I tuned in a few minues ago --- show sounds great for me. No drop-outs yet.

I got home from a vacation to find that the infamous duhbya made a trip to my hometown while I was gone. You know I was totally disturbed I missed taking my sign downtown to greet him.

Paul --- you just keep on talking! so you won't get talked over!

Haha! That WAS funny, WP.

WP, I'll bet that's why Hannity won't have Paul on Faux News anymore.

Follow this link for the story about Leonard Clark on DKos.

That tool Lyndsey Graham's a JAG. He'd never see combat.

I can't believe it - I haven't missed a word yet!

I think it's the windows media player! Switched over to winamp --- there's a bit of delay here ??

Hi Kira!!

Paul is right on! Yes.

As much as I support Leonard and all our troops there, he has to protect himself and others.

Hi Kat! It's a great show - perfect in every way so far.

Gee - I kinda miss the chimpermunks. (just kidding!)

Paul keeps going and going and going.....

GO SUPER VETERANS GO! Thank you Paul for all you do.

Kira, we've got that chipmunk thing resolved so you might not ever hear that again. lol. Live and learn 'round here.

No more chipmunks? That means I'll have to go back to inhaling helium again. *shrugs*

Kat -

I'm using the slow windows media player link, and it's been perfect, a first. The only problem is a long delay.

Paul is right to say the Dems aren't doing much for the troops, but realistically they can't do that much they're out of power.

Even Republicans are fair game. The last Republican chairman of the Armed Forces committee called out the administration for not supporting the troops and he lost his chairmanship. Now we've got Duncan "rice pilaf" Hunter.

Thanks Peg C. Now that I've switched over to winamp, no drop outs at all! Maybe it's my system? All the feedback really helps.

Isn't Paul Rieckhoff wonderful? What important information he is sharing with us.

Nonbeliever, I dare you to inhale helium and call in one of these shows, huh? ))

I'm using Windows Media Broadband & everything's perfect (so far!)

Nailing those outs, Brad! Nice work.

Paul's is a wonderfully informative, intelligent interview. "Screw-up" is right! Thank you, Paul!!

Maybe it's because I wasted my wonder years watching too much sports on TV, but I always think I can spot the good guys ... because when they do an interview and the interviewer says "thanks for being with us", the good guys say "thanks for having me on" ... I haven't heard anybody say that in a long time but it was one of the first things Paul said to Brad tonight.

Thanks again to Paul Rieckhoff ... a really good guy!

I don't know jack about how to prosecute a war, devise and exit strategy, but the first couple of things I'd do...

1) Secure the borders, no more foreign fighters getting in
2) Train the troops and military outside Iraq.
3) Get middle eastern troops to help secure the country. I think Egypt offered help in the past.
4) Give people basic utilities like electricity and clean water.

I could go on and on. But to me all the violence going on in Iraq is planned chaos so companies like Halliburton can steal Iraq's resources.

Thank you Paul & Brad for the great interview.

Excellent point, WP.

Kat #80,

I can't inhale helium anymore. I'm trying to beat my habit, I'm on my tenth step.

Brad now welcomes DAVID DIXON of Handicapped Adults of Volusia County, FL, who is engaged in a big fight --- against National Federation of the Blind's suit against paper ballots in Volusia!

You are echoing (I'm on WinAmp).

Diebold makes ATM machines. There's NO reason they can't produce a paper ballot. This is bullshit. WTF is this barcode crap? Throw Diebold OUT!!!

I wonder how much $ Diebold is slipping the NFB under the table?

All right Nonbeliever! You're off the helium and the hook!

Hummmm is coming from the phone line gang --- some phone lines are a bit cleaner than others...

I'm getting a roar; can still hear well, but it's getting louder.

Nice work Brad --- very important questions!

David Dixon is a very kind soul ---

Down with Diebold! I agree. Crooks and Liars!

Diebold gave how much to NFB? That tears it, I can't imagine a fair statewide election in Florida now. I need a drink.

Aha! I knew it!!

You called it Peg. Republicans are acting so high and mighty because they don't plan on losing their majorities or the White House if they can keep rigging elections.

In May 2000, Diebold, a maker of automated teller machines, agreed to pay the National Federation of the Blind $1 million to help build a new research and training institute. The money was offered in exchange for the NFB agreeing to drop a lawsuit it filed against Diebold for installing ATMs inaccessible to blind customers, when technology for making the machines accessible was available. The NFB also formed a partnership with Diebold to help the company develop and market accessible ATM machines --- an agreement that later extended to the company's touch-screen voting systems.

The NFB, which calls itself "the voice of the nation's blind," then used the Americans with Disabilities Act to file lawsuits against banks not using accessible ATMs. It later sued two states to force them to upgrade or obtain e-voting machines --- while a debate about the security and reliability of such systems was growing nationwide.

The NFB and its state affiliates have also advised states and the federal government on accessible voting issues and pushed for legislation regarding such systems without disclosing the group's relationship to Diebold. James Gashel, the NFB's lobbyist who testified on e-voting in congressional hearings in 2001, said most of the testimony and advising were done in 2000 and 2001, before Diebold entered the domestic voting business in 2002.

http://www.wired.com/new...ote/0,2645,65292,00.html

Diebold Elections Systems is currently run by Bob Urosevich who has worked in the election systems industry since 1976. In 1979, Mr. Urosevich founded American Information Systems. He served as the President of AIS from 1979 through 1992, and that company, now known as Election Systems & Software, Inc., counted over 100 million ballots in the U.S. 2000 General Election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/...Diebold_Election_Systems

Thanks again to David Dixon ... we need to hear more voices like his. [hint! hint!]

What about braille ballots?

Yup...$1 Million to NFB...We'll make a believer of you yet, Nonbeliever

Are there any electronic voting machine companies that can be trusted?

1) Diebold's CEO pledged to deliver Ohio to idiot boy
2) Chuck Hagel got elected on voting machines from ES&S, a company that he ran.
3) Triad support techs took apart vote tabulating machines during the Ohio recount like it wasn't a big deal.

Who else is out there? Which technology can we trust?

LOL, Blunt's a tool. He has nothing there. Someone buy that moron a clue.

Brad now welcomes the lovely and talented Larisa Alexandrovna, of The Raw Story.

If it works into the interview (I'll get my question in early) does Larissa think that London bombings were terrorist attacks, or an inside job, or?

Peg C. --- WHY NOT Braille ballots? Total Privacy for the blind.

SCREW Diebold. I had followed the Diebold money to NFB. Dirty, dirty, dirty --- just like the entire 'CON bunch.

Kudos to David Dixon.

Hello lovely Larisa!

Kira -

I'm certain I've read about Braille ballots before - I'd always assumed they were used routinely.

Yes, that was Sy Hersh's appearance on DemocracyNow! awhile back.

Here's the joke: they were taught to "disassemble." Sorry...

Why not audio ballots? Or why not braille ballots with audio feedback? These are not wild ideas. They could be implemented fairly easily... I mean, if we can do this, we should be able to make it easy for blind people to vote. for crying out loud!

Let's face it - nothing is really done that benefits the VOTERS. We don't really matter. What matters is that the THUGS stay in power. Braille ballots won't help in that endeavor.

I stay so ANGRY!!! On my vacation I got to watch Free Speech TV (satellite.) It's unbelievable how much news is kept from We The People.

speaking of torturing children, and also of news being kept from the people, take a look at this from Watching The Watchers.

Kira, you're like me. I have absolutely NO faith in our electoral system anymore. I think alot of young people feel the same way. There's no reason in 2004 we should've had the littany of problems we did. This isn't the ideal of America I grew up learning about in Social Studies.

Kira and WP -

I walk around in a stunned red haze most of the time. It's like Kafka, only more overtly brutal.

Remember to support heretikinc.com one of our sponsors tonight!

I LOVE my BradBlog T-Shirt made by Heretik Inc. Wore it on my vacation.

Thanks guys (Kira, Muah):

Tell Heretikinc to make a Larisa T-shirt damn it. Why do the boys get their own shirts? Night:)

Thanks again to Larisa Alexandrovna ... time really files when she's around, doesn't it?

Brad is very lucky --- hey we are all very lucky --- to welcome our next guest, JIM MARCINKOWSKI Former CIA Case Officer fresh from Congressional Hearings on the outing of Valerie Plame and damage to our National Security

There's a BAD buzz in the audio again!

Nonbeliever #67 - I know. But now that I've studied way back in history, I see that propaganda & theo-fascism has been brainwashing us all along. I never was totally brainwashed, but I admit I bought into some of it.

After 9/11 --- NO MORE DUMMIE here.

Anybody else hearing the background noise here? Trying to get to the bottom of it now. Seems to have worsened in the last hour.

Thanks Larisa for being on the show! Nice work.

Jim Marcenkowski was on C-Span again this afternoon. He was GREAT!

I hear the background noise here too.

Larisa totally ROCKS - what a great reporter.

I just wrote something that evaporated. I said Heyyyy Valley Girl! I didn't see your comment (because I was outside with wireless headphones trimming bushes) but --- I heard it on air. Hope you had a fun vacation!

I've read here and there that some several hundred individuals associated with her front company were executed. Anyone know anything about that?

Working on the noise --- let's see if we notice a difference coming up out of the break!

NICE WORK BRAD!!

big buzz now, Kat

Seems the buzz follows immediately after a break when there has been music played.

Truly outrageous! There are people working for this government today who were convicted of criminal offenses years ago! How recent does your conviction need to be before you get fired?

What a terrific guest! Mr. Jim Marcinkowski! We are fortunate here at The BRAD SHOW to get such incredible guests. WOW.

No worries, Brad. We'll get it worked out! Again, feedback helps and is greatly appreciated.

not ALL feedback helps, Kat. Unless you're Jimi! ;-0

in a nutshell, NOC means no diplomatic immunity, yes?

Yay - buzz gone finally.

Correct WP.

Non official cover. You can go overseas, but won't get a diplomatic passport. You're not protected by the Geneva convention if you're busted. If you get caught in a foreign country, you get disappeared.

Ooops, yes you are correct, Winter.

And this nasty noise is horrible feedback!

Seems to have dropped off there a bit, now it's less severe. Anybody notice?

Jim Marcinkowski is a wonderful "witness" to the horror of this "administration!" Wonderful interview...

It did drop off, but Kira jinxed it

Kira is an angel!! No jinx there.

I think we're planning to jiggle connections around and continue our dialogue with the radio Gods and Goddesses!

Let's see how that changes things a bit coming back from the break.

It's not clear to me Peg whether the retribution you mentioned in #79 was fact or speculation ... but it does seem clear that whenever an undercover agent is outed, everyone who has ever worked with [or even near] said agent would be in grave danger.

Yes. It sounds as if it is "turned off." I could hear it again as this break came on.

Here's an article I just found BuzzFlash The Real Problems with Plamegate that I'll be reading tonight.

I heard Jim Marcinkowski say that the Vermont Republicans are becoming very disenchanted with this administration. I just hope this is a trend that will be like a snowball.

An elected republican with conviction. Now that's comedy...

Thanks, Kira, for the link.

Thanks Kira, you ARE an angel

Sounds much better Brad!! Doing a great job. Love your choice of music btw!

Jim and his other colleagues (Larry Johnson) have been working this issue passionately since 2003. If you've not read the Democratic Senate report from October 2003, please take time to do so.

DEMOCRATIC POLICY COMMITTEE HOLDS A HEARING ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF DISCLOSING THE IDENTITY OF AN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE

http://talkleft.com/plamehearing1.pdf

I see more "Bush is a Liar" bumper stickers every day...at least here in Maine, people are catching on.

What Jim means when he says "loss of intelligence" is quite a bit different from the usual meaning, but if you think our country is getting more and more stupid you are also on the right track.

Kira #78

Talk about multi-tasking!!! I'll have to check out wireless headphones, not that I'm going to use them while exposed to mossies in the semi-dark, as you seem to have been doing!!!!

Maine was my 2 weeks of paradise. Hope you had a good vacation too.

Yes, Larisa is so great. I was interested to hear her opinion on London bombings, bec. she has a lot of Brit. insight based on DSM work and Mick Smith connections. Her answer flew by too fast so I'll have to listen again. I think she indicated that the American press "knew" some details about the attacks before the Brits (although the details weren't correct). I don't know if you remember, but one of our exchanges on a Brad thread was at the point where I became convinced about 9-11 being an inside job. Twilight Zone-- remember? Just recently read some very convincing reports about the physical impossibility of all of those cell phone calls having been placed from the flight that crashed in PA. Didn't need to be a structural engineer to understand that!!!!

Notice this. Every Republican interviewed on Traitorgate uses it as a chance to bash Amb. Wilson and confuse the issue.

Brad and Jim are doing a great job focusing on the actual impact of outing a CIA agent. Joe Wilson is not under investigation here. The idiot boy's administration is.

Spectacular interview with JIM MARCINKOWSKI. Why has he not been invited on programs like Meet The Press or Hard Ball. Never mind Fox news.

Awww :blush: you're sweet, Unbeliever.

Excellent interview, Jim & Brad.

Kat's link #99
TalkLeft.com pdf

You answered your own question, Slicer.

Hey, where are the Freepers? I thought they'd be trolling the thread calling Rove a hero for endangering our national security.

9/11. Come on. Brad's talking about Rove, and soem guy calls in about how the building fell at 5pm?

And of course, the agent didn't answer the question, so who knows.

running out the clock.......

~A!

Just got here about a half hour ago. Terrific interview with Mr. Marcinkowski. You've got the touch, Brad; and thanks Jim Marcinkowski for being so up front, informative, and inspiring.

Slam the hell out of Ann Coulter Jim! Awesome.

~A!

Many thanks to Jim Marcinkowski for an excellent interview ... I'm with Brad on the idea of having him on again soon.

Thanks Kira!!!

All about consolidating power with this sorry administration. Jim touches on a very important issue --- who's overseeing who these days in our intelligence agencies?

NICE WORK BRAD --- FANTASTIC INTERVIEW!

"Ann Coulter can't even recognize the precursors of treason!" Brilliant!

Brad conducts the best interviews I've heard in a LONG time. MSM "heads" are too full of themselves and can't help intruding and breaking up their "interviews."

GREAT stuff!!

And now ... It's the DSM HOUR on The BRAD SHOW ...

we join Brad in welcoming Rep. MAXINE WATERS (D-CA), who joins him to speak about her 7/23 'Downing Street' Day Town Forum in L.A.

Haha VG! It was still light out when I was out gardening, although I have been known to keep it up until the last minute of visibility!

Yes, I remember the Twilight Zone comments. I'm glad that happened. Looks like the facts have been fixed around 9/11, too.

Welcome Congresswoman Waters! I'm looking forward to this interview.

Yeah Congresswoman Waters!! She is wonderful. She's made a special stop in between events to find a landline to be with us tonight! She's awesome with a great staff!

We do NOT trust this pResident --- hey, in fact he's NOT my pResident!

#114 Peg C

Absolutely agree about Brad's interviews. He has such intelligence, background knowledge, and sense of timing, not to mention respect for his guests, which the "heads" def. lack.

Have you seen the BH Iraqi memorial across from the American Legion Bldg?

Has the Congresswoman (or anyone else) noted that it's not Al Qaeda that's having the recruiting problems?

~A!

So, 6 or 7 picked up their cell phones & made calls to the media? LOL.

Yeah! Turn up the heat!!

Is the information she's talking about available on her website? How do we get the info she's describing?

~A!

Brad, speaking of September 24th are you coming to DC on that date?

Yup I have been here listening all night.

Write to Maxine Waters

Lying a nation into war hurts everyone. I can't understand why Republicans stand behind this administration.

My god, she's good. I love you Maxine Waters!!!

~A!

VG #119 -

Ayuh. This is a pretty sane area.

Heyyyy JPentz! Glad you asked that question.

Speaking of te Patriot Act, what's going on with the new one? More provisions, less civil liberties?

~A!

Maxine Waters is GRRRREAT! Talk about fire...

I missed all but the first 20 minutes. I was also on wrong thread. I wondered why only 3 comments on the live blog. Duh.

Hey! I thought you promised. Not a word about John Roberts.

The August issue of Harpers has a great article on the vote fraud, "None dare call it stolen" by Mark Crispin Miller. It actually has some information I was not aware of. Sadly, I cannot find it on line. If anybody does PLEASE post it.

One passage that caught my eye:

"Concerning the decisive contest in Ohio, the evidence is lucidly compiled in a single congressional report, which for the last half-year, has been available to anyone inclined to read it. It is a veritable arsenal of "smoking guns" --- and yet its findings may be less extraordinary than the fact that no one in the country seems to care about them."

Thanks to Rep. Waters for joining Brad tonight and for an excellent interview ... She can come back anytime as far as this WP is concerned!

The most memorable quote of her segment, for me, was: "The only way we're gonna get change is with street heat!"

First runner-up: "We didn't fight hard enough, the Democratic strategy wasn't good enough, and we goofed!"

Many thanks to Brad for having Rep. Waters on the show ... and thanks to C-SPAN for covering her forum ... we will be watching the listings to see when it will be broadcast ... somebody will post a link, won't they?

"Goofed?" Lay down and played dead, more like.

Yeah Brad!!! You were superb! She loves you, as we all do!

Not all members of the Congressional Black Caucus are as wonderful as Representative Waters, but for the most part these members are WINNERS!

Thank you so much Congresswoman Waters!

Another awesome interview, Brad. It's like you were born for this.

~A!

Question: What will happen if Fitzgerald finds the Administration guilty of treason, obstruction of justice, etc., and the administration ignores that and keeps marching on lockstep, ignoring it? Who is going to lock them up?

3 links regarding Congresswoman Waters and the Out of Iraq Caucus....

PDA Announces Support of Newly Established "Out of Iraq Caucus" at PDA Downing Street Memo Rally

Maxine Waters

World Prout Assembly

We love you too, Maxine Waters!!!

Heheh I am going to ask the question again too and include everyone.

WHO is coming to DC on Sept 24th?

Brad, you coming?

Who else is coming to DC? Brad? Whooo hoooo

I know Kira is gonna make it . . even if i drive to where she lives and get her.

Brad you gonna be in DC for the big event? You need to blog there!

Bite me, Slicer

Brad-

You should mention on air to Daniella that she can get concise, downloadable info about the Downing Street Memo/Minutes and so many other things at Winter Patriots "Whispering Campaign" (http://psstpsstpsst.blogspot.com)

Visit OpTruth.org tonight! A very important sponsor for Brad Blog.

Brad's guest in the last half-hour [sob!] of tonight's show will be TONY TRUPIANO who has been covering John Conyers' 7/23 'Downing Street' Day Town Forum in Detroit

Dude, I would kill to get Tony to guest blog for me one time in my whole life.

The Tony Show rocks.

~A!

Here's an EXCELLENT site:

Ohio Honest Elections .org

The Chairman of the Ohio Honest Elections Campaign is Clifford O. Arnebeck. Cliff is also the Co-Chair of the Alliance for Democracy as well as the Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee for Common Cause-Ohio. Cliff is also counsel for the NAACP Voter Education Fund in a state RICO case.

Peg C #127

I thought that the BH memorial was very moving. Not quite as in your face as Freeway Blogger, but then he's in So.Cal. I think it deserves some press-- maybe a story on your Blog? I took some pix-- I wish more people would see the images-- (not necessarily mine) and hear the story, as another grassroots approach.

VG

Child sex abuse at Abu Ghraib:

http://watchingthewatche...ory/2005/7/23/121327/078

VG #148 -

Unfortunately, I don't have a digital camera OR a cell phone [imagine that!]. I'll see what I can do, though.

Many thanks to Tony Trupiano for joining Brad here ... and thanks to Brad for having him on ...

Wow! What a great group of guests tonight! Thanks to Brad and the whole Brad Crew ...

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re #149 ~A! good one! Unfortunately I've beaten you to the punch! see #66

Oh, and VG #148 -

WP has my e-address. I'll ask him to forward it to you.

Thanks for blogging about the child abuse at Abu Ghraib, ~A! and for providing the link.

It's so sickening I can hardly stand it.

Brad - the music is so great! The interviews were so powerful [sob!] I can't believe the show's over already. Thank you soooo much once again!

What a nice group tonight here on the Blog. Liberal Hugs all around!

Very proud of you Brad. You did it! Amazing work.

Thanks everybody for all your support!

I can't stand it any more!!!!!!!!!!! Brad is so lazy!!!!!!!! ;>)

Kira -

Consider yourself hugged back!

THANK YOU, Brad! Perfect; a tremendous show!

Wow...That was fun! Thanks guys! You all rock!

No Brad News Bears this week?!

We're gonna get a reputation...

WOW!! Great show, great thread.

Thanks to everybody who contributed in one way or another!

Let's do it again next week, shall we?

Damn, Patriot, you... scooped me on my own blog!

Sorry to fling it into the open thread like that, but I'm sick to my stomach over it.

Brad, kickass show, man! This is the first one I've caught all the way through, but I am hooked. Thanks for doing way more than your part, all of you!

~A!

Thanks Peg C.!

Oh...and thank you for spending your Saturday Night with me, guys.

Now go out and have some fun. Or, just go to sleep. Gonna be a big week I have a feeling

'Night all!

Wow...Good story, ~A! --- I'm sorry I was able to get to it sooner and plug it

Need more hands and more eyeballs...

Super show, Brad! (Roaring applause from everyone!)

Peg C #150 and #153. Thanks. WP also has my email address too, so I hope we will connect. My pix are digital, and I'd be glad to send them to you to use as you wish.

Oh, yes!!! I winced at the "goofed" comment too. You are right about playing dead.

VG

Dude, no worries. Raw plugged it, but it's up your alley too, so I figgered you'd want in. With your gift for research, you can probably do a lot better than I did with it.

~A!

re #160 ~A! no apology needed ... you can't be OT on an open thread ... and especially since we were talking about THAT VERY POST earlier in the night!

But seriously, that's a very powerful post ... I wouldn't be surprised if certain people started whispering about it some day in the near future ...

Hey, Sorry I couldn't listen to the last hour with you all but I had to step out. I'll have to catch the replay tomorrow.

Great show Brad and crew!!!

Charles in Vermont mentioned the Harper's article mentioned in #133. "None Dare Call it Stolen" COVER STORY!
We should all BUY copies of the rag. I just bought mine. We should have this cover story copy around our houses! We should have the Harpers people saying "Damn, that's the most magazines we've sold in years!" We should also link to it and copy it, but be sure to support journalists who are making the connection! Pass this idea around, y'all. And another pat on the bag to Bernie and my guys here in Music City. Some of the folks that testified at the Nashional Election Reform Conference were quoted, and the author, Mark Crispin Miller, was listening as the guests spoke in Nashville back in April.
Keep focused on the election theft y'all. We gotta bust the guys who did it and insure they can't do it again. Work both sides of the fence, y'all.
ahhhh... I feel better...

My son-in-law gave me a copy. Mark Crispin Miller's article argues for a stolen election, but it could have been even stronger than it was.

He just scratches the surface when it comes to the exit poll/tabulated vote discrepancies, and doesn't have a lot to say about the voting machine companies and their links to Republican politics. He never mentions Ukraine, and the hypocrisy of American statesmen lecturing to Russians about their election problems.

But he's tough on the mainstream media for ridiculing objections to the election. It's a valuable article, even if nobody in the red states will ever read it.

Hey Mills #171,
I'm in a Red state, and there are a lot of us down here in TN reading and working. Ohio is (at least on the record) a Red state. Lots of folks are working there, too...

And let's not forget that the Harpers story at least puts us on the cover of a mainstream recognized magazine, which is a first since the election, and that all of us should make sure that America is aware of this. If Americans become aware of it, they can then look more at the exit polls, vote machine companies, etc...
Keep punchin' away folks.

Didn't mean to insult anyone. Sorry.

I'm posting these links here because this is an open thread & I'm not sure where I should....

LINK

That is from United for Peace & Justice about the planned & HOPEFULLY HUGE anti-war, anti-all-the-other-bullshit-going-on event in DC in September. Only two months from now & two months go by really fast. GOD I hope people go.

http://www.alternet.org/story/23600/

That is about Charles Evers, brother of Medger Evers. Please check that out. Wow do I like this guy.

One final thought:
I thank the gods for Brad, for Winter Patriot, for all the good people who are busting their butts trying to get the truth out there as I sit on my ass & type. Are you sitting on your ass too? But you thank the gods for them too?
THEN BUY SOMETHING FROM THE BRAD STORE!! RIGHT NOW! BUY A SHIRT! BUY A MUG! BUY A BUMPER STICKER!
BUY THE CONYERS' REPORT 'What Went Wrong in Ohio' WHICH IS A MEASLY $10!

Please?

Joan #175 You need to post long links as follows:

[a href="Your_Long_Link_Here.html" target="_blank"]Your statement here[/a]

Replace each "[" and "]" with a "" accordingly and it will be there.

Otherwise it changes the width of the column for all posts in a thread ...

Yeah, Mills, try to behave yourself!

Big Brother

This link, focused on by Raw Story, indicates that there is a call for cameras to be used more and more.

The ones that need to be watched are the criminals in government, so they should first be installed in the WH and the congress.

That is one thing that would defuse the temptation.

Good morning you guys! Here comes my rant for the day.

RLM --- don't we all live in PURPLE states? Don't we really believe that if the votes were counted accurately Kerry would be president now?

I live in a BLUE county in a (publicized) red state. I don't believe it is really red, although there are an AWFUL lot of dumbass republicans here. But, hey --- they listen to the regular news stations without option to get the Free Speech channel so they don't even know what is being kept from them. They've been brainwashed just like the people of 1930s Germany. That's what is so scary to me.

This admin. is using the same tactic of fear to get people behind their flag-waving fascist/theocratic movement and unless they can hear the truth (which is being kept out of the news) they won't know what happened until it's too late. Just like 1930s Germany. The average citizen of this country is being brainwashed.

This administration tells us it is protecting us from terrorists by taking away our personal freedom & rights (biometric ID cards number each one of us & we are searched by the policia if we try to travel --- think about it --- ) however, our borders are not being protected at all --- there's a flood of illegals coming across daily. There has been no effort to increase employment at national parks which are bordered by the ocean. In at least one case 80 miles for a solitary park ranger to patrol each day. Haha. Our personal freedom is vanishing and WE are being policed. If there is a real terror threat WHY are our borders unprotected? Think about it.

Follow the history of this country - go back and study Manifest Destiny, the Roosevelt Corrolary to the Monroe Doctrine, Operation Northwoods (J.F.K.'s term) and The New Pearl Harbor (PNAC) and now 9/11. Everything falls into place and anybody who can read between the lines will understand.

Many thanks to RLM for pointing out the Monroe Doctrine several weeks ago which helped me to understand the current administration's plans for agression and march toward US Imperialism. I was amazed at how many catch-words & phrases were lifted from these old documents and are now used to pepper the admin's daily propaganda.

Here are some links for anyone reading this thread who might want more information:

Wikipedia - Monroe Doctrine

Manifest Destiny - An Introduction / PBS

OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR

Operation Northwoods And The Reichstag Fire

Anyway - thanks to all of you for keeping the fire ablaze and the information coming.

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Hi Dredd! Wow --- you've been away for too long, it's great to see you posting again! Missed You --- ((((LIBERAL HUGS)))))

Kira #181

Hi Kira. Missed you too.

Love,
Dredd

Okay, maybe someone already posted this and I missed it:

Gonzales may have let evidence be destroyed in Plame investigation - the 12 hour gap

Interesting column by Thom Hartmann.
What did the President know and when did he know it?

Again, I'm sorry. What I meant was, "Nobody in the red states will read the Harper's article because Harper's Magazine isn't found in the red states."

But it came out as, "Nobody in the red states would care enough to read it." I'm usually better with words than that...but in this instance I screwed up.

Listening to the rebroadcast, great show!

Don't worry RLM, I'm in a red state and I was not offended.

I wasn't offended either, RLM! Sorry if it came off that way and I'm really sorry I made you think I was offended with you. ((please forgive!))

My rant was inspired by all the studying I've been doing (and RLM started me off into the direction of the Monroe Doctrine.) AND because it's hard for us to continually remember (myself included) that the RED states we saw on sElection night were media creations --- we've got lots and lots of people (more than what the skewed polls & propagandized media consistently show to Americans) who are against this regime & on our side. Now, I believe, even more than before. Therefore, the states must be getting even more purple. I've got faith - just hope it's not too late for us to stop the next planned "terrorist" attack.

For the record, RLM - The Harper's article by Mark Crispin Miller was excerpted from his full book to be published in October (if I remember correctly).

So whatever wasn't covered adequately in the article was probably due to the fact that is was just an excerpt from the full book.

It is with deep demureness, that I resubmit my question from last evening in its completed form. I realize it is too little, too late for the guest, and in other ways too premature.

However, has anyone wondered about the following question? What will happen if Fitzgerald indicts all in the Administration on treason, obstruction of justice, etc., and they are found guilty? If this administration ignores that fact and keeps marching on in lockstep, ignoring it? Who is going to lock them up?

(Buzzflash is advertising a political film called "Z". I read the review, which is just too much like the current political scene.)

MPs file impeachment charges against President.

Bet I had you all going for a bit there, eh?

Many thanks, Dredd & Kira...my bad.

Thanks for the clarification, Brad. Since reading the excerpt from Mark Crispin Miller's book, I went back and read Harper's more thoroughly.

Lewis H. Lapham (editor) has a scathing editorial about the Bush regime, and about the lapdog treatment it has gotten from the mainstream media. Compulsory reading for everyone...and for those who can't find Harper's, I'll volunteer as postal conduit for anyone who sends me his or her mailing address. See below.

My new website is robertlockwoodmills.tripod.com.