Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now responding to the statements that Nancy Pelosi made on The View about impeachment. 

Think Progress (Full Article)

Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources.

During the journalism conference event, I asked Hersh specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney’s office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:

HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.

Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

 

When I was in the fourth grade, I had a friend named Andy. I walked to school with him every day. Back then we had neighborhood schools, so we were allowed to walk home at lunch time to enjoy a home made meal. People might say that times were different then, that people were different, but I don’t believe we were so much different than we are now. I don’t believe that the nature of human beings has changed, but perhaps the attitudes reflected in our society have.

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Ron Paul announces two major performers joining us in Minneapolis from Aug 31 - Sept 2. 

The Independent (Full Article)

Why are we asking this now?

Because if confirmation were needed that crackdowns on drug use in the UK were having little effect, it came in a report by the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC), an independent group set up to examine the state of the nation's drug trade.

WebMD (Full Article)

July 30, 2008 -- They are beautiful and durable, but do those pricey granite kitchen countertops so popular with home builders and renovators also pose a health risk?

Some researchers say they might, but a group representing the granite industry counters that those claims are “alarmist” and that their studies are little more than “junk science.”

At issue is whether some granite countertops emit dangerous levels of radiation, especially the gas radon, which is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.

Experts agree that most granite countertops emit some radon and even other types of radiation. The question is whether they do so at levels that can impact cancer risk.

by Marc Emery

Statement about my intention to run

Prominent magazines and surveys assessing the most livable cities in the world frequently cite Vancouver as the best place to live. It’s certainly true that Vancouver is proudly one of the most tolerant communities in the world, a city largely made up of immigrants who came to Vancouver from elsewhere to actualize their dreams of personal freedom, personal autonomy, and shared cultural communities. The most important feature of any representative of the people of Vancouver is a respect for the individual liberty of the citizens who make our community so diverse and tolerant.

The first mandate of any Vancouver Mayor then is tolerance for all the various cultures within Vancouver.

The second requirement for legitimate representation is competence.

The third requirement is a philosophical grounding in what government’s legitimate role for the people is and not to exceed those boundaries. The legitimate representative offers forth Restraint in dealing with the people’s money, freedom, constitutional rights and property.

CANADIAN PRESS (Full article)

TORONTO - A group of Canadian journalists is calling on Ontario's minister of safety and correctional services to order the Ontario Provincial Police to stop impersonating reporters.

It was recently revealed that an undercover provincial police constable pretended to be a journalist at a Mohawk rally held in conjunction with the aboriginal day of protest in 2007.

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression says in a release that the tactic threatens the safety of real reporters, as well as their ability to gain access to stories and sources.

The organization says when undercover officers pose as journalists they undermine the public's trust in the media and infringe on the public's right to a free press.

The officer told a preliminary hearing for Mohawk protester Shawn Brant that there are no guidelines telling officers what roles they can play while undercover.

Third Party Watch

 You all did a great job participating in the last money bomb. On July 2nd we raised over $40,000 in one day! This was a great success for the Barr campaign and is the kind of help that they need from us again. Right now, millions of dollars just isn’t realistic, it would be great, but we need small victories to help Bob get out on the campaign trail. Your participation encourages other people to join the crew… so it’s imperative that we continue to build! Encourage your friends and family to help give us a voice on November 4th by pledging for the new $100,000 ‘Axe the Tax’ money bomb day on August 5th.

This might seem like a tall task, but if we can get 1,000 pledges to donate $100 we will easily hit our goal. I participated in the Ron Paul money bombs, and worked hard to spread the word then. At first our numbers were small, but as word got out and as videos like the new ‘Time for Liberty’ video came out – the numbers exploded! Right now we just need hard working people to get the word out and help us!

Edmonton Sun (Full Article)

TORONTO -- A Toronto newspaper is reporting that when agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service got access to the U.S .military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in February, 2003, it wasn't just 16-year-old Omar Khadr they went to see.

The Toronto Star says CSIS wanted to interrogate three other detainees who were not Canadian but once lived in Montreal.

As one CSIS agent questioned Khadr over four days, two others tried to get what information they could from two Algerians and a Mauritanian, the Star says.

The paper says no one from the federal government or CSIS will talk about the cases involving the three detainees.

Hello and welcome to planet Earth.

I trust your trip was a pleasant one. To be honest I’ve always believed you existed. I know some of us here have a little problem believing in you guys, but I’ve always figured in such a big universe with so many planets that you guys had to exist. I heard Dr. Edgar Mitchell do a radio interview today where he confesses you guys do, in fact, exist. Here’s a man who walked on the moon, achieved a doctorate degree, and is a respected scientist who speaks out and says you exist. It’s my understanding that he’s been saying such things for years and yet I’ve never heard of the mainstream media reporting on it. I’m sure some skeptics are going to continue to insist that something else happened or was said. I’m fairly certain that some of the spinners will try to convince themselves and others that Dr. Edgar Mitchell is some kind of lunatic or didn’t mean what he said. A friend of mine already asked me if he was suffering from dementia. Someone else claimed he was suffering from space craziness or some such thing. I don’t know about that and see no reason not to take him at his word.

WeAreCHANGE Winnipeg films WPS cops roughing up some drunk girls. One constable didn't appreciate our filming and aggressively approached us to demand identification, but we stood our ground. 

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, July 24, 2008 

Dennis Kucinich spoke exclusively to the Alex Jones show yesterday concerning his effort to bring articles of impeachment against the president and the vice president.

Meanwhile, staffers of the chairman of the Judiciary Committee have reportedly told witnesses that Kucinich’s informal impeachment hearing this Friday may be under threat of dismissal before it is even underway.

Raw Story (Full Article)

George W. Bush has been more sparing than most presidents in handing out pardons, but it is starting to seem that the conclusion of his term in office may be marked by a generous use of the pardon power to let members of his own administration off the hook. What’s more, constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley believes that the Democrats will let him get away with it.

“The Democrats are trying very hard to show … that they’re not going to re-open these issues and that the Bush crimes will remain buried for all time,” Turley told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Tuesday. “It would start a new administration on the same level that George Bush left it. And that’s a very sad thing.”

Turley was particularly concerned about a recent statement by law professor Cass Sunstein, an Obama adviser, that only “egregious” crimes by Bush officials should be prosecuted by an Obama administration.