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Breaking: FBI to post dossier on Sen. Edward Kennedy on “Hot Topics” website
J. Edgar Hoover and Teddy Kennedy
This just in--The public will be able to learn more about Bureau surveillance of Americans, including American politicians, next Friday. On May 28, according to information just received, the FBI will post its file on the late Edward Moore Kennedy on its “Hot Topics” website.
We also have MIT and Woodshole and Alvin and Jason, the crew that brought up the Titanic, Robert Ballard.
Rand Paul, and his father as well, well, the thing is, is while I disagree with many of their positions about the Federal Government, the social safety net, civil rights, at least, I trust them more than most policticians. When Rand Paul says he wouldn't enforce civil rights, I believe him!
I find don't find Hillary reassuring at all. More reassuring than Henry the K., now that makes me sleep better, for sure! See Ray McGovern article above for more such reassurance.
@Foodfascist,
I've self-censored my thoughts on Thom's choice of guests after being invited to leave the blog last week. This isn't my space, I'm aware of that and do appreciate the opportunity to play in this sandbox, so...
Well, if Rand Paul takes a strong position on legalizing drugs and prostitution, who knows, maybe a lot of Democrats will vote for him. Krazy Kentuckians.
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re: Rand Paul = the man who came to dinner
that friendly bacteria is nothing to turn-up yer nose at!
@ZeroG- yeah, when is Thom going to have Amy G on and her new lawsuit....
After blocking CBS crew, Coast Guard denies ‘BP rules’
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 -- 12:40 pm
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Thom, when is Obama going to turn on his corporate masters? Don't hold your breath...
@Zero G. I disagree, I'm pretty sure Amy Goodman wouldn't have arrested those reporters. ;-)
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@Zero G Yeah! however, so many reporters are getting killed these days, the corp. underwriters probably won;t allow reporters to put themselves "at risk" anymore.
CBS reporters ought to have refused to leave and forced the Coast Guard to arrest them! Amy Goodman would have...
@Matate:you are very unlikely to reach Thom on this blog. I recommend checking the home page for the best way to contact Thom. :D
Coast Guard Under 'BP's Rules'
May 18, 2010 4:04 PM
Kelly Cobiella reports that a CBS News team was threatened with arrest by Coast Guard officials in the Gulf of Mexico who said they were acting under the authority of British Petroleum.
Re: Coast Guard working for BP
Reminds me of when the National Guard worked for the corporations in order to bust up the miners.
Thom, I have not been able to listen to your whole shows this week, but have you heard about this story?
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/florida-mosque-bombed-fbi-calls-help-na...
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On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonville Islamic Center of Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated it. Fortunately, there were no injuries to people, though the bomb did damage property.
The surveillance video above gives a fairly decent picture of this man, who is clearly white, middle-aged, and on a mission.
The local news is all over it, of course. WOKV.com reports the FBI investigating it as a hate crime and possible domestic terrorism.
"It was a dangerous device, and had anybody been around it they could have been seriously injured or killed," says Special Agent James Casey. "We want to sort of emphasize the seriousness of the thing and not let people believe that this was just a match and a little bit of gasoline that was spread around."
Casey says surveillance video from the Islamic Center shows the arsonist carrying gasoline and the pipe bomb. When the explosive went off, parts of it were found 100 feet away on 9A.
So, a mosque is bombed by a white guy and the bomb isn't exactly small, but the national media sees no value in reporting it? Really? And yet, that is evidently the case.
Anti-Muslim sentiments in Florida have been bubbling to the surface, particularly after Republican Dan Fanelli's campaign commercial was aired asking if a man appearing to be from the Middle East "looked like a terrorist." According to Yahoo News, there were two other ads with even more pointed messages against Muslims:
Another ad has Fanelli saying, "This is a terrorist," as he presents a "Middle Eastern" man strapped with a "bomb" and wearing what appears to be a dish towel "turban."
Yet another ad shows two Arabic-speaking "terrorists" constructing a bomb while discussing "martyrdom" and "killing infidels." The ad also mocks long-standing due process rights such as Miranda warnings and access to lawyers.
These ads air, and a mosque is bombed. The bomb could have killed many people. To further stir the pot, this:
Last month, CAIR reported that a Muslim university professor was appointed to the Jacksonville, Fla., Human Rights Commission despite a prolonged smear campaign by the anti-Islam hate group ACT! for America, whose leader says Muslims should not be allowed to hold public office.
There's a deep pattern of anti-Islam behavior in Florida. CommonDreams.org has the list. It's a story worthy of attention by every single citizen in this country.
I did a quick Google news search. I found lots of local stories. But look what happens when I try major news sites:
FOX News: Nothing
CNN: Nothing
MSNBC: Nothing
CBS News: Nothing.
Why is that?[quote]
Wow- Calderon asks the US to cooperate in stopping assault weapons! Let's hear the righties munch on that news. CNN Radio
@Foodfascist I didnt hear the bumper song, but John Hartford has a song called "turn your radio on" gospel sound. I used to use it on my radio show.
So I've been reading Thom and Lamar's Legacy of Secrecy (thanks Shawn) and I've been pleased to see some of the authors that I've referenced here included within. Specifically, I'd point to here Carl Bernstein's THE CIA AND THE MEDIA which appeared in Rolling Stone.
The issue is still of relevence, of course. We only have to look to the NYTimes in the run-up to the Iraq invasion to see how. Even today, as mothers of three hikers (two of whom were journalists) who ventured over the border from Kurdish Iraq and into Iranian jails head to Tehran, the Iranians claim they were spying...I'm not saying they were, but the history is there. Similarly the case of Roxanne Sibery, and again, I'm not claiming she was involved in espionage, only that the history of journalists so involved exists to give ammunition to the Iranians.
The case of John Burns of the NYTimes though poses a more difficult challenge. We might recall Saddam Hussien claiming he (Burns) was a spy and Burns denial. Mr. Burns later recalled while sitting with Gen. Tommy Franks and GHWBush, that Mr. Bush was instrumental in getting him his job at the Times. I used to be able to find a photo of the three of them sitting and talking, though I couldn't find the transcript. Today, I've not been able to pull up the photo through Google....
The extreme cost of running for office these days gets funneled into the media, mostly TV for ads.
So now, as we watch the US try to scuttle the Iran/Turkey/Brazil nuclear deal, Ray McGovern (also footnoted in Legacy of Secrecy) offers us:
US/Israel Challenged on Iran
By Ray McGovern
May 19, 2010
Say- the bumper music is getting so good here at the Thom Hartmann Show, could you disclose this info in your Daily Newsletter. I especially would like to get a copy of 'Trun the Radio Up'- what group performs this?
Wow- thx Thom for the rumble on the wage earner slave students indebt and the stats of people losing their homes. IT is as if everyone including the progressive radio hosts even how difficult it is to get by out here. I even took someone with a high profile to task the other day for subjecting us to an hour of Hollywood baloney after I put the money together for the podcast. We are trying not to complain out here however we are still miserable. I welcome the honest debate this nation needs between the far left and the far right. It is time.
By the way, wise statement of the week award goes to Eroll Lynn who said BUILD IT INTO THE COST- meaning that what you say, develop a financial system around the way we want to live and be in this society and not take a bunch of rules that work for a few and strap those rules that aren't even allowing for basic sustainablity and self-sufficiency for the rest of us.
Are Feingold and Cantwell allowing the perfect to become the enemy of the good here? We need the Senate to pass SOME KIND of REAL reform here. Once SOMETHING is in place, we can worry about strengthening it - but we need to put some new controls in place (or to re-instate some OLD controls) first.
I'm reminded of a song The Byrds did on the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album, about Pretty Boy Floyd -
"As thru this life you ramble, you'll meet some funny men,
Some rob you with a 6-gun. and some with fountain pen.
As thru this life you ramble, as thru this life you roam,
You'll never see an outlaw take a family from their home."
The banksters, however, appear to have no such compunctions.
I'm beginning to think that the worst thing about the Bush administration is that they made the lowest common denominator so low, that even when progressives behave horribly, its excused because "well at least they aren't the Bush administration". Since when has not being the worse than the worst make it ok to be bad?
(Don't tell me it was 2008, I ain't buying it.)
Holding their feet to the fire, is pointless if you douse the fire first.
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Rand Paul talking on the Rachel Maddow Show and on NPR tried to make the distinction that while his is against discrimination of any kind and supports "almost all" of the Civil Rights Act, especially against "institutional discrimination" (he apparently only counts government institutions as "institutional"), but he objects to telling private business owners who they must serve or accomodate - even though he wouldn't patronize any that did discriminate.
Of course, as a libertarian he also believes that almost all government functions should be privatized. So he is really saying that the kinds of discrimination outlawed by the Civil Rights Act should, sadly, be permitted almost everywhere.
@harry ashburn, I take other foods that probably won't do much for my social life. I love garlic, onions, garlic powder, and onion powder. The more garlic and onions, the better I like it!