CIVILIANISM PODCAST

How are we all going to stay calm and sane through this last year of the Bush administration’s reign? I’m stressed out by the presidential campaign already, and what seems like eternal war. I’ll be spending this year hoping for no new wars and that Bush won’t totally wig out and devolve further. Where has my country gone? I’ve been looking for it since 2002. We have problems with Palestine, Al Qaeda, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan; the list goes on and on. An Iraqi woman knows the ‘joke’ about all dead men in Iraq being labeled “Al Qaeda”. (They’re on to you George.) Yet NATO wants permission to start a preemptive nuclear war? It’s going to be a very bumpy year.
The movie mentioned: Taxi to the Dark Side trailor is here

Escape from Gaza — Voluntary transfer?
The Information clearing House article is here. You can find the usual news everywhere, but for news on Gaza and Israel, ICH is great.

TMPMukraker article on the FISA fiasco.

What, only 935 lies to get us into war with Iraq? That number seems low to me. You can see the project to compile all of the Bush Administration’s many many lies here at the Center for Public Integrity. It’s astounding, but true. Surely, this proves impeachability.

Dennis Kucinich drops out of the presidential race, endorses no one, and is facing an uphill battle for reelection to Congress. He needs moral and financial support for his race for Congress, and moral support for his introduction on January 28th, the date of the State of the Union address, articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. Visit http://www.kucinich.us
Then he had to retract his comments, but we all heard them and I sure agreed with them. He was my candidate so now, my list is sadly blank.

The State of the Climate is bad. See the article here.

Green party can be found here.

Cynthia McKinney is running for president, had you heard? She has some thoughts on Palestine: be an honest broker. Are you listening, Obama and Hillary?

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It is an outrage that Dennis Kucinich was excluded from the NBC debate in Las Vegas, especially after they invited him and then changed the criteria after they decided he wasn’t wanted. I hope everyone either boycotts MSNBC or writes them an email and tell them why you are angry with their censorship. The exclusion of Kucinich was probably based on his being anti-war, and GE, which owns NBC, is a major war profiteer. In 2005 their war profits totalled 2.2 billion dollars. At the end of this podcast I play a heavily edited version of the DemocracyNow.org modified debate viva Las Vegas the includes Dennis Kucinich. Visit DemocracyNow.org for the whole thing.

Last Sunday, Iraq factions met to agree on a unity pact, which would not allow their country to be split up and would not allow their oil to given to other governments or corporations.
On Monday night, Condi panicked and on Tuesday she was in Baghdad on a “surprise visit” to talk to Maliki. The end result… they are closer to reaching a “hydrocarbon resource agreement”. Uh-huh. Every time Iraq tries to kick us out and show some backbone, Condi or Bush arrives to twist their arms or “explain” to them — probably with threats and bribes — how they have to meet OUR benchmarks. Not theirs.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell wants to read all your email and look at all your searches online. Don’t trust Google! We spend billions on spying and what good does it do?

What good did Bush’s trip to the Middle East last week accomplish? Nothing other than trying to drum up support for war with Iran, promising Israel we’d be behind them if they decided to strike Iran with a nnuclear bomb, giving them the OK to go into Gaza and attack people (which they did.) Bravo Bush. Yours was the most devasting winter holiday in history so far. But advancing the peace process–? Don’t make me laugh.

Watching what you say and do more than you used to? Ah, the insidious creeping of compliance and conformity. Our FBI wants to cooperate with IDENT1, a UK database to search for criminals. They want to gather biometric evidence on everyone on the planet and then share it with everyone in the world. Welcome to “1984″ or even worse, East Berlin and the Stasi. Feeling watched and spied on? Read ‘The Picture of Conformity‘

We’ll nuke Iran – Bush promises Israel

The Iraqis Don’t want us there

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George will be out of our hair and banished from our collective consciousness on 1-20-09. The process of the long good riddance has begun! Unfortunately replacing him is a long, unpleasant process with lots of hang-wringing, tears, back stabbing, disloyalty, and strategies. I feel sorry for the people involved and I already wish it was over, but the subject is unavoidable.

Bush gives a press conference explaining his tour of the Middle East. He is currently in Israel, with an entourage of hundreds to keep his ass safe as they burn him in effigy in Gaza. He still refuses to talk to Hamas, even though he claims to want peace. Peace for who? Not the imprisoned inhabitants of Gaza.

The Iranian boat incident video I play the audio of can be found here.

Barack won Iowa, Hillary won New Hampshire, who is next? It’s on to Michigan, where the top Democrats won’t even be on the ballot! Just remember — only 2 states and only 1% of voters have weighed in so far.

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Call my Skype Line with comments at 320-300-4273. Thanks to AJ for the Eco Moment. Promo played for Secret Frequency, a new Green-oriented politically themed podcast. Shout out to World News Review and the Voice of Freedom Radical Podcast. CODEPINK website is here where you can read about Omar Deghayes. The January 11th protest information is here at Witness Against Torture. If you can’t make it to a protest, call (202-353-1555) or write (AskDOJ @ usdoj. gov) Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Demand that Guantanamo prison be shut down, and that all detainees either be charged and tried in US federal courts or released!
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