that Fox News is nothing but the GOP propaganda (I know, as if we needed any): via TPM
Great Moments In Fox News Dept. If there was any doubt left that Fox News is just a media organ of the Republican Party, then take a look at this screen capture of the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s multimedia page. You might think the term “multimedia” would imply that it’s a collection of stuff from various news organizations, plus in-house content from the NRSC. It turns out, though, that it’s nothing but … a collection of Fox News video clips. Every clip in the NRSC’s “multimedia” section is from Fox:
The link has the screen shot.
on April 24, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Why doesn’t the Republican Party just merge with Fox News? There’s a lot of duplicated effort between the two, hence a lot of opportunities for cost cutting.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Shelling and artillery fire shook northern Mogadishu on Tuesday, the seventh day of fighting between allied Somali-Ethiopian forces and Islamist gunmen that has killed hundreds of people.
The interim government has said the offensive will continue until it wipes out an insurgency frustrating its attempt to restore central rule to the Horn of Africa country for the first time in 16 years.
Terrified residents said neither side appeared to be gaining ground in a battle focused on about one square-km of land, an Islamist stronghold of bomb-shattered buildings.
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A report by a Somali human rights group on Monday put the death toll at 267.
Nearly half a million people have fled the seaside capital by foot, donkey and vehicle. Thousands are sleeping under trees or in the open in nearby towns and villages.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico City lawmakers will vote on Tuesday on whether to legalise abortion in the capital of the world’s second-largest Roman Catholic country in direct defiance of the pope.
In Latin America, only Cuba, Guyana and U.S. commonwealth Puerto Rico allow abortion on demand. Some nations like Mexico and Brazil permit it in special cases, including after rape, if the foetus has defects or if the mother’s life is at risk.
The abortion law, likely to be passed by the city’s leftist-dominated assembly, would apply only to the capital and limit the termination of pregnancies to the first trimester.
Mexico City lawmakers have recently stirred up controversy by allowing gay civil unions and considering a euthanasia law.
Former President George Bush told CNN’s Larry King Monday that the electorate may be experiencing “Bush fatigue.”
And it may be the reason his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is sitting out the 2008 presidential election, the 41st president said.
“There’s something to that — there might be a little Bush fatigue now,” former President Bush told CNN’s Larry King when asked if he agreed with a recent assessment from GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney that Jeb Bush would currently be a frontrunner for the Republican party’s presidential nomination if his last name wasn’t Bush.
Hate to tell you, Poppy, but I think that by the time your #1 son is done, anyone with the last name Bush is going to be wanting to move to say, Saudi Arabia, or someplace else far away. Definitely not running for election for anything, even dogcatcher, here in the US.
Courtesy of that climate change that “doesn’t exist”: UK Independent
The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland’s enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.
Several miles long, the island was once thought to be the tip of a peninsula halfway up Greenland’s remote east coast but a glacier joining it to the mainland has melted away completely, leaving it surrounded by sea.
The foreign ministers of Norway and Iceland will sign a defense pact later this week that calls for Norway to help fill the gap left when the US withdrew its forces from the small island nation last year.
Iceland, with a population of just a few hundred thousand, doesn’t have its own military even though it was a founding member of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). For decades, the US maintained an active military presence in Iceland, and contributed to the small country’s defense.
The US pulled out in 2006 and Norway is stepping in with its own fighter jets and naval patrols, reports newspaper Aftenposten. Norway’s defense ministry has agreed to help protect Icelandic sovereignty, although it’s not providing any security guarantees.
MSNBC — […] Now another company is suspected of importing rice protein from China, Democratic Sens. Richard Durbin of Illinois and Maria Cantwell of Washington said in a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“We have learned that in addition to Wilbur-Ellis, a second United States company imported a shipment of rice protein from China that is also likely to be contaminated with melamine,” the senators wrote. “We request the FDA identify this second importer as well as those manufacturers to which it may have sold the contaminated product.”
An aide to Durbin said the senators found out about the second importer from industry sources.
Latest Afghan abuse claims spark cries for O’Connor’s resignation
CBC — The opposition made calls for the defence minister’s resignation Monday, after the publication of a damning report about the torture Afghan detainees face when Canadian soldiers transfer them to Afghan security forces.
The Globe and Mail published interviews Monday with 30 men who say they were beaten, starved, frozen and choked after they were handed over to Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, a notorious intelligence police force.
the problem is that Canada is releasing prisoners knowing that they are being mistreated and tortured. Our defence minister said the Red Cross was monitoring these prisoners – not true, so says the Red Cross. Defence Minister has since apologized for misstating, and there have been many calls for his resignation. Here’s a bit more:
ADDIS ABABA – At least 74 workers have been killed in an attack on a Chinese-run oil field in eastern Ethiopia, an official of the Chinese company said Tuesday.
“The attack happened this morning. Nine Chinese were killed, seven Chinese workers were kidnapped and 65 locals were killed,” said Xu Shuang, the general manager of Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, based in Addis Ababa, told The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities.
But the Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been headed by chief strategist Karl Rove.
The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney, missing White House e-mails, and White House efforts to keep presidential appointees attuned to Republican political priorities, could create a substantial new problem for the Bush White House.
First, the inquiry comes from inside the administration, not from Democrats in Congress. Second, unlike the splintered inquiries being pressed on Capitol Hill, it is expected to be a unified investigation covering many facets of the political operation in which Rove played a leading part.
“We will take the evidence where it leads us,” Scott J. Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel and a presidential appointee, said in an interview Monday. “We will not leave any stone unturned.”[..]
This is a big deal,” Paul C. Light, a New York University expert on the executive branch, said of Bloch’s plan. “It is a significant moment for the administration and Karl Rove. It speaks to the growing sense that there is a nexus at the White House that explains what’s going on in these disparate investigations. [.]
Not so sure. Who is this guy? Turns out he is a Bush appointee – and check this from his official bio:
From 2001-2003, Mr. Bloch served as Associate Director and then Deputy Director and Counsel to the Task Force for Faith-based and Community Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on First Amendment cases, regulations, intergovernmental outreach, and programmatic initiatives. Before serving in the Justice Department, he was a partner with Stevens & Brand, LLP, of Lawrence, Kansas, where he practiced in the areas of civil rights law, employment law, and legal ethics. Mr. Bloch tried jury trials before state and federal courts, representing employees and employers in cases involving whistleblower and other retaliation claims, as well as civil rights claims. He worked on important cases that set precedents in the field of legal ethics, including a ground-breaking Texas case that changed the way plaintiffs’ lawyers handle mass tort cases.
Doesn’t exactly seem to be Fitzgerald material. I smell cover up.
The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general has been investigating allegations by current and former OSC employees that Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch retaliated against underlings who disagreed with his policies — by, among other means, transferring them out of state — and tossed out legitimate whistle-blower cases to reduce the office backlog. Bloch denies the accusations, saying that under his leadership the agency has grown more efficient and receptive to whistle-blowers.
The probe is the most serious of many problems at the agency since Bloch, a Kansas lawyer who served at the Justice Department’s Task Force for Faith-based and Community Initiatives, was appointed by President Bush three years ago. Since he took the helm in 2004, staffers at the OSC, a small agency of about 100 lawyers and investigators, have accused him of a range of offenses, from having an anti-gay bias to criticizing employees for wearing short skirts and tight pants to work.
have to agree with Steve Soto at The Left Coaster, on this one…
…/the fact that the administration launched an investigation here is a sure sign that Democratic oversight and attention on the issue of the federal attorney sackings opened up some real vulnerabilities for the White House. The modus operandi for this administration when a real problem surfaces is to push the issue into the lap of an in-house “investigation” that will drag on forever, allowing the White House to deflect all media and opposition inquiries and demands for open accountability by saying “we can’t comment because the matter is under investigation.”…
One of three peregrine falcon eggs rescued from a perilous perch on the Bay Bridge has hatched and the chick is doing great, ornithologists said Monday.
The chick hatched Friday in an incubator at UC Santa Cruz and may soon be placed in a falcon nest of “foster birds,” which would raise it as one of their own….
Reuniting the newborn chick with George and Gracie “wouldn’t work,” Stewart said, because the adult birds have already moved on to their next clutch of eggs. The foster bird plan is better, he said, because falcons assume that any babies in their nest are their own.
“Falcons can’t count,” Stewart said. “They feed anything with an open mouth.”
Somewhat related: Did you see this month’s Vanity Fair? It’s the ‘green’ issue, and there’s a great article by RFK Jr on falconry, where he mentions that peregrine falcons dive at speeds of up to 240 miles per hour when they go after prey. It’s worth picking up ifyou have a chance.
that Fox News is nothing but the GOP propaganda (I know, as if we needed any): via TPM
The link has the screen shot.
Why doesn’t the Republican Party just merge with Fox News? There’s a lot of duplicated effort between the two, hence a lot of opportunities for cost cutting.
Hmmm…they seem to be trying to do that already, don’t they?
Somali govt and insurgents battle for seventh day
Mexico City to hold landmark abortion vote
Go, Mexico City Assembly!
Wow, gay civil unions, maybe legalized abortion, what’s next? Universal Healthcare?
CNN
Hate to tell you, Poppy, but I think that by the time your #1 son is done, anyone with the last name Bush is going to be wanting to move to say, Saudi Arabia, or someplace else far away. Definitely not running for election for anything, even dogcatcher, here in the US.
Courtesy of that climate change that “doesn’t exist”: UK Independent
seems to be making a splash in the news this week. This time for her environmentalism: BBC
And just who is going to enforce this ban? I can’t believe they publish this crap (and here I am repeating it….).
Norway to help defend Iceland
Damn Norwegians. We Must Fight Them There or We Will Fight Them Here.
Latest Afghan abuse claims spark cries for O’Connor’s resignation
And this is Afghans torturing other Afghans? What is the solution to this?
the problem is that Canada is releasing prisoners knowing that they are being mistreated and tortured. Our defence minister said the Red Cross was monitoring these prisoners – not true, so says the Red Cross. Defence Minister has since apologized for misstating, and there have been many calls for his resignation. Here’s a bit more:
O’Connor sorry for misinforming House on Afghan detainees
Thank you!
Why do all these ‘leaders’ lie? And why on earth is torture so in style?
At least 74 slain at oil field in Ethiopia
More from BBC:
Interesting from LA Times
Low-key office launches high-profile inquiry
The Office of Special Counsel will investigate U.S. attorney firings and other political activities led by Karl Rove.
from little acorns big trees grow? we can hope.
..we can hope.
Not so sure. Who is this guy? Turns out he is a Bush appointee – and check this from his official bio:
Doesn’t exactly seem to be Fitzgerald material. I smell cover up.
I was thinking to do some research and a diary – but there is already plenty of discussion over at kos – with a fp-story and a recommended entry.
making him the perfect BushCo choice. From WashPo
who in the Bushco administration isn’t being investigated?
have to agree with Steve Soto at The Left Coaster, on this one…
time for an independent investigation/prosecutor…unlikely as that happening may be.
ITMF’sA
San Franciso falcons are one for three
That’s cool.
Somewhat related: Did you see this month’s Vanity Fair? It’s the ‘green’ issue, and there’s a great article by RFK Jr on falconry, where he mentions that peregrine falcons dive at speeds of up to 240 miles per hour when they go after prey. It’s worth picking up ifyou have a chance.
or you can read it on line HERE, along with some very nasty snark from james wolcott…keep the dictionary and thesaurus handy.