WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Kansas Republican caucuses Saturday.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Huckabee had 60 percent of the vote, compared with 24 percent for Arizona Sen. John McCain and 11 percent for Texas. Rep. Ron Paul.
Huckabee won all 36 of the delegates at stake.
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Huckabee gets all 36 Kansas delegates
Television Was Hacked By the "Max Headroom" Pirate, and Never Has Been Since...
The Max Headroom pirating incident was a television signal hijacking in Chicago, Illinois on the evening of November 22, 1987; it is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion. The hijacker was successful in interrupting two television stations within three hours. Neither the hijacker nor his accomplices have ever been found or identified.This is a subtitled version of the original footage, since many people cannot tell what the pirate is saying:
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U.S. Military Supports Anti-War Candidates Paul and Obama
The Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign cash, looks at the 2007 money-raising and finds the following:
In 2007, the 2008 presidential candidates raised $582.5 million and spent $481.2 million.
In the 4th quarter of 2007, individuals in the Army, Navy and Air Force made those branches of the armed services the No. 13, No. 18 and No. 21, contributing industries, respectively. War opponent Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, received the most from donors in the military, collecting at least $212,000 from them. Another war opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was second with about $94,000.
Soldiers love Ron and Barack, and lobbyists love Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the No. 1 recipient of lobbyist cash, receiving $823,000 in 2007 from the lobbying industry, which gave about $2.7 million overall.
Lawyers and law firms have contributed more than any other industry, giving $46.6 million. Democrats got 77 percent of that, with Clinton the top recipient.
Youth vote, shmooth vote, Obama has raised more from retired individuals -- the second biggest donor group -- than any other remaining candidate.
The securities and investment industry, in third place, gave nearly $28.7 million, 56 percent to Democrats, Clinton the top recipient.
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CNN projects Obama wins Washington State
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CNN projects Obama wins Nebraska caucuses
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Volunteer spat at Virginia's Jefferson-Jackson dinner
RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) – Oh, what a tangled web political endorsements weave.
Volunteers for Hillary Clinton's campaign in Virginia, who are taping up Clinton signage for tonight's Jefferson-Jackson dinner here, are groaning to state Democratic party officials that Barack Obama's volunteers corps has more hands on deck for the event this evening because, team Clinton claims, volunteers for Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine are also here working on Obama's behalf.
Kaine endorsed Obama last year and will likely speak glowingly about him tonight, but the Obama and Clinton campaigns reached an agreement to only allow a fixed number of volunteers into the event site to put up signs before a security sweep of the area. Gov. Kaine's supporters were not, apparently, factored into the rules.
The Clinton volunteers said they saw Kaine staff and volunteers putting up "a few" Obama signs. However, CNN spied another Kaine staffer who was taping up Clinton signs. And despite their boss's preference, Kaine's staffers, including many of the men and women who worked on his 2005 campaign, are split between supporting Obama and Clinton.
The Clinton volunteers eventually wrangled in four more of their people to make up for the crucial sign-taping disparity. They appeared to be closing the gap as security entered to examine the event site, Virginia Commonweath University's basketball arena.
Ultimately, former Gov. Mark Warner, now the front-running candidate to fill John Warner's soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat, is winning the "visibility" game: he has more signs up than anybody.
Why Has Ron Paul All But Suspended His Presidential Campaign?
Congressman Ron Paul's decision to essentially suspend his presidential campaign and focus instead on safeguarding his Congressional seat will confuse and disappoint many of his supporters, while delighting establishment media debunkers, but the truth of how far we have progressed and the reality of the battles that lie ahead show that the campaign has made a shrewd decision.
After months of media censorship, smear attacks and dirty tricks, Ron Paul was essentially left with four choices.
- Drop out of the Republican race altogether and allow the establishment to claim a hollow victory while disappointing his legions of supporters. This was never going to happen.
- Drop out of the Republican race and run as a third party candidate. Up against Hillary and McCain, Paul would have had a 20-30% chance of success but would have immediately endangered his Congressional seat.
- Seek to capitalize on a brokered convention should the Republican's conservative base move against the left-leaning John McCain. This was always a remote option because to have any chance of success, Paul would have had to be trailing McCain by just a few percentage points in the primary results, which was not the case.
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Larry Nichols Interview on the Alex Jones Show
A MUST HEAR INTERVIEW!Larry Nichols interviewed by Alex Jones on Thursday the February 7th. Larry has been blowing the whistle on the crimes of the Clinton for years.
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Chinese Spies Steals $62 Billion A Year
CNN's Brian Todd reports Chinese espionage operations within the US may be much more extensive than previously thought. Military experts say its the single greatest threat to our security.
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Colin Powell may support Democrat or Independent in 08
Watch Colin Powell discuss the presidential race. WASHINGTON (CNN) Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican who served under President Bush, said Friday he may not back the GOP presidential nominee in November, telling CNN that I am keeping my options open at the moment.I have voted for members of both parties in [...]
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Scientists Upset Al Gore's
Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.
Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.
To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.
Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.
This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.
Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.
Obama bests Clinton against McCain
CNN) — It's a question both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have raised since John McCain's initial surge in the polls: Which Democrat can best take on the Arizona senator in a general election match-up?
A new Time magazine polls seems to suggest the answer is Obama.
The poll, conducted over the three days leading up to Super Tuesday, shows Obama beating McCain by 7 points, 48 percent to 41 percent. Clinton ties McCain at 46 percent.
The difference between the two candidates, according to Time, is where the Independent vote goes: The poll indicates a larger share of those voters will chose to support McCain over Clinton than McCain over Obama.
Exit polls taken from the early primary contests have indicated that both McCain and Obama have strongly benefited from the support of Independents. In combined surveys of the 22 states that voted on Super Tuesday, Obama beat Clinton among Independents by roughly 20 points. McCain, meanwhile, beat rival Mitt Romney among Independents by nearly 15 points on Super Tuesday.
Responding to the poll's findings, Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson touted the New York senator's vast differences with McCain on a host of issues, and pointed to a recent CNN poll that showed Clinton beating McCain by 3 points. Though that same poll found Obama beating McCain by eight points.
CNN's Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider says the biggest difference between Obama and Clinton is their support from male voters. In the CNN poll, Obama and McCain were nearly tied among male voters, but the polls shows men breaking for McCain over Clinton by nearly 20 points.
"Obama argues that he can reach across party lines," Schneider said. "And he does do a little better than Clinton with Independents and Republicans. But the big difference is that Clinton doesn't draw very well with men. Obama does."
Friday, February 8, 2008
Congressman Wexler questions Mukasey on Impeachment and Contempt
February 07, 2008 Congressman Wexler questions Attorney General Michael Mukasey on impeachment and enforcing contempt citations. Politicians are living above the law. Im not going to court any more either.
Toxic Baby Bottles
New scientific research shows everyday baby bottles release toxic chemicals when heated. The chemical released is linked to infertility and cancer. The report claims 95 percent of all baby bottled contain BPA, a number which is referenced as according to ScienceNews.org.According to a separate report from Environment California Research & Policy Center, experiments on animals link exposure to BPA at very low doses to serious health problems including: Prostate and breast cancer, early onset of puberty, obesity, hyperactivity, lowered sperm count, miscarriage, diabetes,and altered immune system
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Mitt Calls It Quits
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Published 2/8/2008 12:08:45 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator John McCain became the presumptive Republican nominee as Mitt Romney withdrew from the presidential race yesterday, but you wouldn't have been able to guess that from the reaction of the CPAC crowds.
The line for Romney's speech was already snaking around the corner an hour and a half before it began. Minutes before he started speaking, political insiders and media types began buzzing about his imminent departure from the race and I caught wind of this.
With some inkling of what was to come, I scanned the faces in the crowd for reactions. I saw an engaged audience hanging on the former governor's every word, clapping often and loudly. I fidgeted through his talk about America's problems. And when he said, "Even though we face an uphill fight, I know that many in this room are fully behind my campaign. You are with me all the way to the convention," I thought maybe the media had got this one wrong. Maybe Romney would battle it out all the way to the convention.
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Smuggling Cocaine for the CIA
Smuggling Cocaine for the CIAIn the 26th episode of Out There Radio, we look at the alleged CIA drug smuggling ring operating out of Mena, Arkansas in the 1980s and 90s. Barry Seal, Oliver North and the three most recent U.S. presidents all show up in connection to this sleepy little town and the shameful crimes surrounding it.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
US aid for Russia linked to Iran
WASHINGTON - A U.S. program to keep Russian scientists from providing nuclear expertise to terrorists has funded research facilities that have helped Iran build its new nuclear power reactor, a congressional committee says, citing Russian sources.
The Bush administration expressed confidence that no projects under the program support nuclear work in Iran.
Rep. John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, raised questions about the program and its possible link to Iran on a letter Wednesday to Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. Dingell, D-Mich., cited information the committee had received from Russian sources.
"It is troubling that DOE (the Department of Energy) would subsidize or otherwise support Russian institutes providing technology and services to the Iranian nuclear program," according to the letter signed by Dingell and Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., chairman of the investigations subcommittee.
The lawmakers asked the department to provide information on whether specific scientists helped by the program were involved in any Iranian reactor work.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees to assistance program, said it was reviewing all the projects for any possible link to Iran. In a statement, spokesman John Broehm said, "We take all measures necessary to ensure that neither money nor technology falls into the hands of countries of concern."
Iran has said its first nuclear reactor, the 1,000-megawatt Bushehr power plant, will begin operating this summer after receiving from Russia nearly all the nuclear fuel needed to operate.
Dingell's committee held a hearing last month into the aid program, which began after the breakup of the former Soviet Union. The goal was to assist Cold War-era Russian scientists find jobs, making it less likely they would sell nuclear information or provide help to terrorists or rogue states.
A report by the Government Accountability Office in January said its investigators had found that in many cases the program was supporting scientists working at thriving Russian research institutes, including those involved in nuclear work.
Documents provided Dingell's committee by the investigative arm of Congress — but not in the original report — included presentations from two leading Russian research institutes involved in the U.S. program that described work the facilities also did for Iran, the lawmakers said.
The committee found that Russia's Scientific Research Institute of Measuring Systems received $2.65 million for geologic mapping projects. The institute also has worked on automated nuclear reactor controls for Bushehr, according to the documents obtained by the committee.
A second Russian institute, the Federal Scientific and Industrial Center of Nuclear Machine Buildings, got $1 million under the U.S. program for a project involving radioactive medical waste management, the committee said. Dingell said that the center, which has built a number of Russian reactors, also worked on water circulation pumps and ventilation equipment at Bushehr.
Dingell and Stupak acknowledged there was no evidence that individual scientists who received assistance from the U.S. program directly participated in any Iranian nuclear activities.
The U.S. program is providing money to more than 100 projects at research institutes in Russia and other former Soviet countries.
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Bush Attacks Ron Paul
George Bush explains that preemptively attacking other nations is freedom.
What usually occurs in a fascist scenario?
* Labor unions are weak and the right to strike is denied by law. In Bush's America, the unions and their solidarity are extremely weak. The right to strike is still permitted by law, but strikes seldom happen and when they do, as in the current case of Northwest Airlines, scabs are brought in and management and the White House collude about how best to crush the workers. A merging of giant corporations and the State is well along.
* Civil liberties are declining in number and the right to assert them grows increasingly chancy. When the Patriot Act is combined with a variety of authoritarian laws passed during the Clinton administration and fanatics are placed in charge of the secret police, those who do speak out against the government must carefully watch their words. Much of what was once permitted to rebels is now against the law. Indeed, with secret trials, undisclosed prisons and torture, one may question to what extent the law actually still exists.
* The increasingly Draconian regime faces a weak, dispirited and divided opposition. America is almost a de facto one party state where the Democrats pay Bush the highest compliment by trying to imitate him. And many in the radical left and progressive movements (Cindy excepted) aren't able to go beyond silly sectarianism or tactical and organizational incompetence. --- The rise and glorification of irrational philosophy. The current government assault on scientific thought in the name of Christian extremism and phobic nationalism easily fills that requirement. Additionally, a cultural war rages where authoritarian religious values deride and delegitimize their opponents as practitioners of decadence and treason.
* Fascism tends to be warlike and criminally aggressive. The invasion of Iraq combined with the flag waving, ultraviolence and official big lies does the trick. And the ongoing threats to Syria and Iran strengthens the case.
* We usually find a "Duce" in charge. A character created by image manipulation and propaganda. Every attempt has been made to put Bush over as a triumph of the will cowboy hero who flies big airplanes and struts on flight decks in his special uniform. The effort to create a sneering superman hasn't completely worked because Dubya comes across as a little too dumb for the task.
* Racism is usually part of the fascist mix. The post 9/11 antidemocratic assault on Arabs and certain Muslim Asians combined with the panic and minute man vigilantism taking place on the Mexican border satisfies this similarity.
* Free elections no longer take place although fascism may permit some stage managed electoral activity. George Bush was not elected President in 2000. The Presidential election was fixed in Florida. Doubts continue about the integrity of the 2004 election. There is authentic concern about the introduction of non paper trail computer voting. And Republicans are redistricting to assure their Congressional power.
The leaders of this fascist construction have been following a successful right wing version of Gramscian analysis. They have gradually been building an authoritarian culture within the framework of ordinary civil society and have now reached a point of power where they have begun reconstructing the State.
When making judgments about fascism's presence we should not just look at the final totalitarian model that developed in Europe during the 1930s. Fascism passed through various stages and wasn't born overnight in its final horrible form. And it's possible that America will never go the full route. It may even develop am Americo-fascism with a human face. But there is a difficulty with this speculation. The fascisms of Europe evolved in opposition to the rise of the proletariat and the challenge of socialism. Hence it included and corrupted certain aspects of socialism in its practice. It always contained an element of welfare state in its structure and defined itself as a middle way between liberal capitalism and socialism.
American fascism is flowering in a post socialist era in which global capitalists feels fully free to bury the welfare state. Because of this historical circumstance, American fascism has within itself the potential for an unearthly collective barbarism.
ON THE TRAIL: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Compiled by Rebecca Sinderbrand, CNN Washington Bureau* Hillary Clinton attends a rally in Arlington, Virginia.* Barack Obama attends a community event at Tulane University in New Orleans, attends a campaign rally in Omaha, Nebraska.* John McCain speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC.* Ron Paul speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference [...]
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Huckabee vows to continue campaign
Huckabee said Thursday he's staying in the race. (CNN) — Mike Huckabee said Thursday he will continue his quest for the Republican nomination, and directly appealed for support from backers of Mitt Romneys now suspended presidential bid."As a true authentic, consistent, conservative, I have a vision to bring hope, opportunity and prosperity to all [...]
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POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Thursday, February 7, 2008
Compiled by Jonathan HelmanCNN Washington BureauWSJ: Democrats' Nightmare: Back to Smoke-Filled RoomsHere's a nightmare for the Democrats: The party's bigwigs, rather than its voters, may end up choosing the presidential nominee. If neither Illinois Sen. Barack Obama nor New York Sen. Hillary Clinton manages to pull decisively ahead in the next few weeks, the nomination [...]
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Rejecting National ID
Last year, seventeen states passed legislation objecting to the REAL ID Act, a massive national identification program the federal government is trying to foist on the American people through their states' driver licensing systems. Virginia may soon join those states in the REAL ID rebellion. Today, the Virginia Senate's Transportation Committee will consider a bill to reject the unfunded mandates in the REAL ID Act.
Under the bill, the Department of Health's Office of Vital Records and the Department of Motor Vehicles would develop and implement a plan to provide Virginia residents with appropriate identity verification. This would let Virginians avoid the national ID system, a network of government databases containing basic identity information, including scanned copies of Social Security cards and birth certificates.
With so many states on record opposing REAL ID, the feds have been shifting through numerous stories trying to justify their national ID. First, they said it was a national security tool. But by now everyone realizes how easy it would be for criminal organizations and terrorists to avoid or defeat a national ID system.
Then REAL ID became a way to control illegal immigration. But it has the same defects here too. Illegal immigrants will use a mix of forgery, fraud, and corruption at any motor vehicles bureau in the country to get around REAL ID. Driving illegal immigrants further into criminality deepens the problem rather than fixing it. And should law-abiding American citizens really have to carry a national ID to get at illegal immigrants? Just who is the criminal here?
Next, we were told that having a national ID was about identity fraud. But putting our personal information, Social Security Numbers, and basic identity documents like birth certificates into a nationwide string of government databases is a recipe for more identity theft, not less.
THE Department of Homeland Security came out with the final REAL ID regulations last month, a top official threw the department's final Hail Mary, suggesting that REAL ID could be used to control access to cold medicine. That's right: cold medicine. The lesson? Once a national ID system is in place, the federal government will use it for tighter and tighter control of every American.
The DHS has admitted that not a single state will comply with the REAL ID law by the May 11, 2008 deadline. Even today, nobody knows how to build a massive database system that protects Americans' privacy and data security. So the department is giving states extensions until the end of 2009, just for the asking. It is also threatening to send air travelers to secondary search at airports if their states haven't applied for those extensions and kissed the DHS ring.
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Sept. 11 Spin Control
'The 9/11 Commission Report received almost universal acclaim upon its publication in 2004. Bush and John Kerry (both on the campaign trail at the time) praised the report, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called it a "tour de force," and it was nominated for a National Book Award. In a new behind-the-scenes history, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon reveals how investigators compiled the fabled report, often with tough resistance from the White House. He also argues that political considerations may have influenced the commission's findings.'Although The Commission is well worth reading . . .'
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Media Smeared Paul For Racism, Ignored McCain's "Gook" Comments
A shining example of how the media engaged in a witch hunt as part a coordinated campaign to sink the presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul is when they attacked him for vaguely racist comments made by other people in the 80's, while completely ignoring the fact that Republican frontrunner John McCain openly said he hated "gooks" more recently.
James Kirchick's New Republic hit piece, which was echoed by every sector of the establishment media for weeks on end, was a vitriolic, biased, and agenda-driven smear attack that lumped in half-truths, outright lies and guilt by association in an attempt to demonize Ron Paul as a racist.
Bear in mind that the comments Kirchick based his article on were largely drawn from newsletters put out in the 1980's of which Ron Paul had no editorial control over. Despite the fact that the comments were made by other people, Ron Paul apologized anyway and yet the feeding frenzy that ensued blatantly exposed the fact that the establishment had been chomping at the bit to seize on anything negative to attack the Congressman with.
Meanwhile, John "Keating Five", ahem I mean John "anti-corruption" McCain, disgracefully said he hated "gooks" in public for assembled reporters to hear during his previous presidential campaign in 2000.
"I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live," McCain said on his campaign bus.
'So what? This happened eight years ago and McCain apologized for it soon after', would be the likely Neo-Con riposte.
Compare it to Ron Paul, who is still apologizing for comments made by other people 20 years ago, as establishment hacks ninny and obsess about his imaginary links to white supremacists.
But McCain can openly spew racist slurs in public and the media doesn't even give it the time of day when the man looks set to go head to head with Hillary for the White House and possibly become the President for over 12 million Asian-Americans, or "gooks" as McCain calls them.
Double standards? That hardly covers it. The corporate media are once again protecting their war candidate, Mr. "bomb bomb bomb Iran", Mr. "stay in Iraq for 100 years" while crucifying Paul for comments made by other people that pale in comparison to McCain's personal vitriol about his deep-seated hatred of "gooks".
How Clinton, McCain may have won California
(CNN) – Sen. Hillary Clinton can thank Latino and Asian voters for her projected victory in California. Early exit polls indicate that Sen. Barack Obama carried white voters in California because of his overwhelming support among white men. White women, as in other states, more often supported Clinton. Black voters overwhelmingly favored Obama but Asian [...]
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Obama, Clinton separated by 0.4 percent on Super Tuesday
Of all the votes cast Tuesday, Obama and Clinton are separated by a razor thin margin. NEW YORK (CNN) — Just how sharply are Democrats divided between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?Of all the votes cast on Super Tuesday for the two candidates nationwide, they are only separated by 0.4 of a percentage point.By midday [...]
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