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IRAQ PROGRESS, HONEY BEES and NETWORK NEWS

 

General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will brief Washington about progress in Iraq. All the candidates will be there to grill and grandstand so it has the makings of a good show, if not good government.

So what better way to cover the nexus of military oversight and Presidential campaigning than to call up ex-Presidential candidate General Wesley Clark. That’s in the first hour. He’s been working with VoteVets.org lately to get John McCain to step up and stand behind the new GI Bill.

Here's his info packed WesPAC website.

Where are the honey bees? It’s an old story: whole colonies of honey bees are vanishing with no known explanation. But in the year or so since this hit the headlines, has anything changed? Were the fears justified? Have scientists figured it out? Kevin Hackett from the USDA will give us the update.

UPDATE: Lionel's raving about it on air - Ulee's gold, the bee movie.

FROM THE ETERNAL CAMPAIGN

It sorta makes sense, when you think about it. The troops support Obama according to a small and un-scientific sample of US Troops overseas by an ABC reporter. Most of them are young and right in the age group most frenzied about Obama's Yes-We-Can campaign.

 

Obama’s inspirational influence on young voters is also gaining him ground with Super Delegates, albeit, through a round about and illogical way. Super Delegates are admitting they are now supporting Obama because their kids made them do it. Um, ok.


While Mark Penn’s resignation is still in the news (and before he slithers back into a prominent position in the campaign) let’s look at how much money a pollster can make off of a campaign.

 

IN THE MÉLANGE CBS is considering outsourcing their news coverage to CNN. Imagine one news source hosted by different hosts. Forget Murdoch owning everything, this is voluntary. And Dan Rather is wilting away on HD cable.

Princess Diana was killed because of negligence by her driver. So says the inquest.
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According to the new Oliver Stone film about George Bush

Our President "is a foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with baseball, Saddam Hussein and a conflicted relationship with his dad. Or at least that's how he's portrayed in the script for Oliver Stone's upcoming feature 'W.'" Read more here.

 

Our 3am Phone Ringing Parody video is still climbing, and fast at 130,000+ hits so far. Not bad, eh? Watch it here.

 

And much much more …

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thanks Lionel

Finally you are takin' it to McCain instead of repeating Obama's weak points over and over and over.

We had video yesterday

How can we access it today?

Missing the Lionel Show

I got your video cam earlier this AM but now that doesn't work at all. The regular "Listen Live" feed still contains at least two out-of-sync streams. Hope they fix it soon!

Pet Peeves.................................

The old site worked better switch back!

If I owned AAR I would have never changed the site layout! The old site worked, Lionel Vision worked, also the live stream worked!

Lionel says that Rachael Raye saying (EVOO Extra Virgin Olive Oil) is annoying, that's not as annoying as Lionel saying another 60 minute hour of the Lionel show coming up after the news!

We all know that there are 60 minutes in an hour! So knock it off!

Why don't you say another misanthropic zeitgeist hour of the Lionel Show on Air America Radio!

AM 1600 WWRL calls themselves the Flagship station of AAR, but they removed Lionel (in favour of a pharmacy call in show) & Thom Hartmann in favour of ( Ed "Rush Limbaugh" Schultz)

Mark Greene is a cluster f***!

**For those of you who are not in the military or a veteran (cluster f***) is a walking SNAFU!

Artificially Imposed Peak Oil Arrives

Statism Beats Capitalism As Gazprom Squeezes Exxon, BP

Once IRAN's Shock&Awe commences public demonstrations will NOT be tolerated

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees. According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton.

Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response to "a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order."The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.

Also in 2007, the White House quietly issued National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure "continuity of government" in the event of what the document vaguely calls a "catastrophic emergency." Should the president determine that such an emergency has occurred, he and he alone is empowered to do whatever he deems necessary to ensure "continuity of government." This could include everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack. Congress has yet to hold a single hearing on NSPD-51.U.S.

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has come up with a new way to expand the domestic "war on terror." Her Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR1955), which passed the House by the lopsided vote of 404-6, would set up a commission to "examine and report upon the facts and causes" of so-called violent radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative recommendations on combating it.According to commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Rep. Harman and her colleagues from both sides of the aisle believe the country faces a native brand of terrorism, and needs a commission with sweeping investigative power to combat it. A clue as to where Harman's commission might be aiming is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a law that labels those who "engage in sit-ins, civil disobedience, trespass, or any other crime in the name of animal rights" as terrorists. Other groups in the crosshairs could be anti-abortion protesters, anti-tax agitators, immigration activists, environmentalists, peace demonstrators, Second Amendment rights supporters ... the list goes on and on.

According to author Naomi Wolf, the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000 "terror suspects" with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own citizens?
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In August 2007, Congressman Peter DeFazio, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the House that he and the rest of his Committee had been barred from reviewing parts of National Security Presidential Directive 51, the White House supersecret plans to implement so-called "Continuity of Government" in the event of a mass terror attack or natural disaster.

According to the Department of Homeland Security,

Endgame is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Detention and Removal (DRO) multi-year strategic enforcement plan. It stresses the effective and efficient execution of the critical service DRO provides its partners and stakeholders to enforce the nation’s immigration and naturalization laws. The DRO strategic plan sets in motion a cohesive enforcement program with a ten-year time horizon that will build the capacity to "remove all removable aliens," eliminate the backlog of unexecuted final order removal cases, and realize its vision. ...

Detention can be affected by unforeseen events occurring in other countries, such as natural disasters (i.e., earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.), war, and economic/political crises. These events can produce a “shock” to DRO detention. Such shocks can produce large numbers of illegal aliens, additional detention needs, and the inability to remove aliens from the U.S. back to countries in crisis. Though these immigration emergencies are relatively short-term in nature, they can have a drastic and enduring impact on available detention space. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "ENDGAME, Office of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan, 2002-2012," June 27, 2003)

Commenting on ENDGAME, Scott wrote,

Significantly, both the KBR contract and the ENDGAME plan are open-ended. The contract calls for a response to "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." "New programs" is of course a term with no precise limitation. So, in the current administration, is ENDGAME's goal of removing "potential terrorists."

It is relevant that in 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced his desire to see camps for U.S. citizens deemed to be "enemy combatants." On Feb. 17 of this year, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country's security, not just by the enemy, but also by what he called "news informers" who needed to be combated in "a contest of wills." Two days earlier, citing speeches critical of Bush by Al Gore, John Kerry, and Howard Dean, conservative columnist Ben Shapiro called for "legislation to prosecute such sedition." (Peter Dale Scott, "10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan for Detention Camps Revives Proposals from Oliver North," Pacific News Service, February 21, 2006)

But is the DHS' ENDGAME "only" a program for "removing all removable aliens"? Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, environmental activist Lewis Seiler and former congressman Dan Hamburg ponder the real questions posed by such antidemocratic initiatives:

What kind of "new programs" require the construction and refurbishment of detention facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house perhaps millions of people?

THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE MONKEY'S DEAD...........THE SHOWS OVER.........SUE YA!

Governor Jesse Ventura is THE MAN.

Jesse Ventura really shows how to face Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes today on their show. He comes across extremely strong and brings up controversial topics. Here is a clip of the exchange - 6 minutes in length.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUhVFpwhgE

Enjoy!

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