FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Subpoenaed, Set to ‘Break’ Gag Order Unless DoJ Intercedes
Former agency translator called to testify in Ohio election case this Saturday on Turkish infiltration of U.S. government. Brad Friedman | BradBlog.com Unless the Dept. of Justice re-invokes their twice-invoked “state secrets privilege” claim in order to once again gag former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, her attorneys have notified the department by hand-delivered, sworn letter [...]
Obama & Biden To Protect Bush Administration Criminals
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com It’s par for the course for Obama and Biden, the men who promised “change” but in every step of their preparations for assuming office have pursued nothing but continuity, to acknowledge that they will protect criminals in the Bush administration from prosecution for authorizing torture, a complete violation of both [...]
Mike Connell was warned not to fly before plane crash
OnlineJournal.com WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources in Ohio that Republican Party computer networking guru Mike Connell was warned not to fly in anonymous warnings conveyed to principals in the ongoing federal civil lawsuit of King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell, stemming from GOP-engineered vote fraud in the 2004 Ohio presidential election, as well as a potential Ohio [...]
Liberals voice concerns about Obama
Carol Lee, Nia Malika Henderson | Yahoo.com Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He’s hedged his call for a quick drawdown [...]
Jeb Bush: GOP Should Set Up “Shadow Government”
Rachel Weiner | HuffingtonPost.com Via ThinkProgress, in an interview with NewsMax, President Bush’s brother Jeb says the Republican party should not cave to a Democratic majority. Rather, they should set up a “shadow government” to provide a counter-agenda. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells Newsmax that the GOP must broaden its appeal to avoid becoming “the old [...]
This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House
Jeremy Scahill | Alternet.org U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. [...]
REPORTS: Hillary Clinton Being Considered For Sec of State
HuffingtonPost.com There are numerous reports tonight that Hillary Clinton may be under consideration for Secretary of State in the Obama administration. From the Washington Post: There’s increasing chatter in political circles that the Obama camp is not overly happy with the usual suspects for secretary of state these days and that the field might be [...]
Obama softens ban on hiring lobbyists
Michael Kranish | BostonGlobe.com WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama, who vowed during his campaign that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” said through a spokesman yesterday that he would allow lobbyists on his transition team as long as they work on issues unrelated to their earlier jobs. Obama’s transition chief laid out ethics [...]
Obama Website Scrubs Mandatory Community Service Call
Paul Joseph Watson |Infowars.com Following a controversy over language that appeared on Barack Obama’s official website suggesting that Americans would be mandated to complete up to 100 hours of community service as part of a national service program, the original text has been memory-holed and replaced with a more sanitized version. [...]
Dean: DNC Uses Credit Card Data to Predict Votes
What’s in your wallet? Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean would like to know. Dean and Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan were speakers at a luncheon at the National Press Club Nov. 5, where both reflected on what went right and wrong with their efforts during the 2008 election cycle. Dean revealed his party [...]
Obama: “The first thing I will do as President…”
@3:58″…The first thing I will do, when I am President, is to call in my Attorney General. Uh, and have he or she review every executive order, to determine which of those have undermined civil liberties, which are unconstitutional and I will reverse those with a stroke of a pen…” Hope?
Now That Obama Has Won . . . There is No Excuse
GeorgeWashingtonBlog.com Now that a Democrat has been elected president, the Democrats in Congress have no excuse. They can no longer pretend that they have to “hold back” to win the election. They have no excuse to delay war crimes charges against Bush, Cheney and company for Iraq. They have no excuse to delay war crimes charges for torture. They have no [...]
Will Obama “Change” The Bush Police State Or Expand It?
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Now that Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States we offer a challenge – will those who elected him be able to progress past their fawning idolatry and actually pressure Obama to deliver on his mandate of “change,” or will the architecture of the Bush police state [...]
Video: Ralph Nader discusses John McCain and Israel’s bombing of the U.S.S. Liberty
We covered and linked this article a few days ago.Here is the video from the Forum Auditorium, Cleveland, Ohio, October 30, 2008. Video by Karen Kilroy.
The Bush-Obama-McCain Administration
By Morton Skorodin November 01, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse“: The period we’re living in now is the Bush-Obama-McCain Administration. Bush obligingly initiated Obama’s bombing campaign on Pakistan. The three of them colluded on the recent wealth transfer (about $840 billion) from the American people to Wall St. The 24 hr/7 days/wk media Wurlitzer distracts us from [...]
Nader Presses McCain on Liberty Attack
Military.com Adding to his usual criticisms of the “corporate candidates” from the two major parties, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader yesterday introduced a wrinkle, calling on John McCain to come clean about Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty. “He doesn’t like to have his character impugned. I’m challenging his character on this point,” Nader [...]
Hope for Change or Change Your Hopes? – by Michael Collins
Michael Collins | 911blogger.com “Some say” that no matter who gets elected we’re still going to be in Iraq, the bailout will continue, and there will be no drawdown of the bloated budgets, particularly the military, that feed the defense contractors their daily ration. We’re not getting national health, rather an electronic exchange and so forth [...]
Et Tu Lindorff?
JohnDoraemi’s blog David Lindorff has finally stuck his foot in his mouth, over at Commondreams.org, a notorious anti-truth gatekeeping site. I suppose we should all just abandon even the hope for justice, truth and reconciliation and take orders from the establishment Democrats? Lindorff mixes irrational hyperbole with some revisionist whitewashing, all in an effort to [...]
