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Wednesday October 20, 2010 · 5:40 PM PDT

2010/10/20 · 17:40

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Monday July 28, 2008 · 7:11 PM PDT

2008/07/28 · 19:11

Why do the AP and other major news sources refuse to give web links on their stories when youtube videos are mentioned in the stories? Do they not want people to see the actual evidence of what happened when it is recorded on video?

Associated Press

July 28, 2008 at 9:41 PM EDT

NEW YORK — Police stripped a New York City officer of his badge and gun Monday after a video posted on YouTube showed him bodychecking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration.

The video was recorded Friday at the Critical Mass ride, a monthly protest of urban reliance on motor vehicles.

The video, posted anonymously, shows the officer standing in the street as bikes whiz past. He moves toward a cyclist and violently knocks him to the ground in front of crowds of people.

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Friday July 13, 2007 · 5:37 PM PDT

2007/07/13 · 17:37

Bush's drive to war with Iran - to cover his Iraq disaster - may be made much more difficult by a new agreement Iran has made with the IAEA this week. The agreement would make it very unlikely that the UN Security Council would in the short run pass resolutions to increase sanctions on Iran for its nuclear enrichment programs.

In an article on 7/13/07, AP reports that Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have reached agreement:

Iran will answer questions regarding previous nuclear experiments, and both sides have agreed how to resolve remaining issues
IAEA inspectors will return to a plutonium-producing reactor Iran is building
Iran has scaled back its enrichment of uranium (but not halted enrichment)
In regard to the nuclear enrichment site that makes the neo-cons get all hard: [see extended entry]

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Tuesday February 27, 2007 · 11:56 AM PST

2007/02/27 · 11:56

U.S. Launches New Talks to Secure Iraq
Updated 1:57 PM ET February 27, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a "neighbors meeting" on stabilizing Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.

As Sid Blumenthal reported at Salon in January, regarding the Baker report on Iraq:

Informed correspondents of the Washington Post and New York Times related in conversation that Bush furiously called the report "a flaming turd," but his colorful remark was not published. Perhaps it was apocryphal. Nonetheless, it conveyed the intensity of his hostile rejection.

So, now, Condi and Bush are backing the Iraqis in meeting with Iran and Syria, in two meetings planned for mid-March and Mid-April.
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So, how does eating part of the Baker report 'flaming turd' taste, Pres. Bush and Sec'y Rice?

Who is on the Iraq Study Group?

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Sunday November 12, 2006 · 6:07 PM PST

2006/11/12 · 18:07

Have you wondered who are the members of the Iraq Study Group? How will their recommendations be shaped by their partisan affiliations and previous government backgrounds?

Here's the membership of ISG, according to the sponsor of the group. "The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress."

"The Iraq Study Group is a bipartisan group of prominent Americans supported by four premier institutions. It is led by co-chairs James A. Baker, III, the nation's 61st Secretary of State and Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, and Lee H. Hamilton, former Congressman and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars."

The other members of the study group include: Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Edwin Meese III , Sandra Day O'Connor, Leon E. Panetta, William J. Perry, Charles S. Robb, and Alan K. Simpson.

More on the membership division in extended body below. Read More

Three Senate Moderates in Support of Tyranny

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 11:17 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 11:17

Remember these names: Ben Nelson (D), Susan Collins (R) and Olympia Snow (R). All are characterized as 'moderates'.

Nelson and Collins voted against the Specter Amendment to the Military Detentions bill - the amendment would have striken the habeas corpus provisions (the worse part of an awful bill) from the overall bill.

All Democrats except Nelson voted for the Amendment and four Republicans with some conscience joined the Dems in the vote: Lincoln Chafee, Gordon Smith, Arlen Specter, John Sununu.

Olympia Snowe did not vote.

If Snowe, Collins and Nelson had voted for the Specter amendment, as so-called 'moderates', the amendment would have succeeded.

Remember these names: Nelson, Snowe, and Collins. Each of these Senators needs a real Democrat to oppose them in their next election.

Harry Reid and the Dem. leadership deserve our thanks for preserving a nearly unanimous Democratic opposition to adding tyranny to our laws.

Now, time for a filibuster.

Evolution evidence rated as top `breakthrough' in 2005

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 6:46 PM PST

2005/12/22 · 18:46

MSNBC: Two days after a federal judge delivered a heavy blow to the intelligent-design movement, the journal Science Thursday proclaimed that fresh evidence of evolution in action was the top scientific breakthrough of 2005.

In the annual roundup, the journal's editors pointed to wide-ranging research built on the foundations of Charles Darwin's landmark 1859 work "The Origin of Species" and the idea of natural selection.
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Newsweek's Clift: Kos is 'Moses Leading Democrats

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Friday August 05, 2005 · 6:56 PM PDT

2005/08/05 · 18:56

to the Promised Land'

In a web-only article on MSNBC , by Eleanor Clift titled 'Fighting Back: An Ohio special election result shows how Democrats are harnessing the power of the blogosphere', Clift reports on Kos and Trippi's presentation as follows:

No fewer than three esteemed political reporters from The Washington Post were in the audience taking notes on a steamy Thursday afternoon at a forum called "Reflections of a Blogger," sponsored by the New Politics Institute, a progressive think tank.

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Mr. Bush: Tear Down Your Global Warming Wall

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Sunday July 03, 2005 · 6:28 PM PDT

2005/07/03 · 18:28

Nick Kristof in today's NYT tells Bush that greenhouse gases can be reduced with benefits, not penalties. Portland Oregon shows how to do it.

"Kyoto would have wrecked our economy," Mr. Bush told a Danish interviewer recently, referring to the accord to curb carbon emissions. Maybe that was a plausible argument a few years ago, but now the city of Portland [Oregon] is proving it flat wrong.

Newly released data show that Portland, America's environmental laboratory, has achieved stunning reductions in carbon emissions. It has reduced emissions below the levels of 1990, the benchmark for the Kyoto accord, while booming economically.

In 1993, Portland became the first local government in the United States to adopt a strategy to deal with climate change. The latest data, released a few weeks ago, show the results: Greenhouse gas emissions last year in Multnomah County, which includes Portland, dropped below the level of 1990, and per capita emissions were down 13 percent.

Multnomah Co, population 600,000 (and 77% voting for Kerry) does things that any city can do:

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Leaked US Docs Show Bush Undermining G8 unity

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Saturday June 18, 2005 · 7:44 PM PDT

2005/06/18 · 19:44

BushCo's willingness to go to the mat for Exxon and friends seemingly has no limit. The G8 conference in the UK is scheduled to take up Global Warming, a major initiative of Tony Blair for the meeting.

The US documents leaked to the Guardian (UK), show that Washington officials:

Removed all reference to the fact that climate change is a 'serious threat to human health and to ecosystems';
Deleted any suggestion that global warming has already started;
Expunged any suggestion that human activity was to blame for climate change.

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ABC News says Dean messages hurt Dems

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Saturday June 18, 2005 · 8:59 AM PDT

2005/06/18 · 08:59

and fit the propaganda line of the the Repubs.

The June 18th story, labeled as 'analysis', is titled Frame Up? Dems, Dean Hit in Message War.

Here's some snips from the story, which is almost unrelently negative regarding Dean's recent comments.

"We need to be blunt and clear about the things that we're going to fight for," he told Iowa Democratic leaders Saturday, according to the Des Moines Register. "People have criticized me for being blunt. I do that on purpose. I am tired of lying down."

So is it a strategy?

If so, it's misguided, said analysts contacted by ABCNEWS.com -- unless it's part of a Republican strategy.

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Frank Rich (NYT), Gays, and 'Advise and Consent'

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Sunday May 15, 2005 · 8:03 AM PDT

2005/05/15 · 08:03

Rich's column in the NYT: "Just How Gay is the Right?", uses the re-release in DVD of the 1962 film drama 'Advise and Consent' to make some points on what he calls a 30 year war on gays by the right. Author Allen Drury's novel turned movie was a best seller in the early 60's.

But when the pivotal gay plot twist kicks in, "Advise and Consent" taps into unfinished business that roils the capital as much, if not more, today than it did then. In 2005, homosexuality is no longer the love that dare not speak its name (the word is never mentioned in the movie), but as Washington fights its nuclear war over the judiciary, it is the ticking time bomb within the conservative movement that no one can defuse.
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Evolution evidence rated as top `breakthrough' in 2005

Newsweek's Clift: Kos is 'Moses Leading Democrats

Mr. Bush: Tear Down Your Global Warming Wall

Leaked US Docs Show Bush Undermining G8 unity

ABC News says Dean messages hurt Dems

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