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AMERICAblog: MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, FOX News, and terrorist Web pages

  • SINGING_TROLL · 1 year ago
    "But as the former CLINTON PASTOR was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for inappropriately touching a 7-year-old girl at his home last March, Judge Michael L. Dwyer said Procanick sacrificed his honesty the day he testified.
    Posted Mar 20, 2008 08:46 AM PST
    Okay, so now that Clinton's pastor has been convicted of child molestation, will see see the same furor directed at Hillary that Obama has had to endure these last few days?
    http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1637676857
  • GrantinHouston · 1 year ago
    This pastor is from the town of CLINTON, NEW YORK, near Utica! He was a fundie Assembly of God pastor, not a Southern Baptist, Bill's denomination.
  • SINGING_TROLL · 1 year ago
  • SINGING_TROLL · 1 year ago
    LAst OT

    US blocks Venezuelan purchase of food

    "The war with the US has already begun and they are blocking our purchases of food", Venezuelan Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín told viewers on Venezuelan TV on March 12. His statement came at a time when the US is threatening to add Venezuela to its list of "terror-sponsoring" states and some Senators are calling for a full blockade of the country.

    The Venezuelan minister, speaking on the program Counter Coup in Synthesis, accused the US of blocking purchases by the government, especially of food, from foreign sources. Venezuela’s economy is essentially oil-based. It imports around 70 percent of its food products. The blocking of food supplies is just one of the methods being used by the US in its attempts to undermine the popularity of the government and destabilise the internal situation there.

    Rodríguez told viewers that for some time the US has exercised an informal blockade against Venezuela. The government has also had difficulty acquiring spares for military equipment and other items important to the national interest.

    This, he added, was part of the war declared by Washington on the Bolivarian Revolution and it combines with the paramilitary offensive in Venezuela and the actions of the Opposition.

    US President Bush last week accused Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez of backing "terrorists" in Colombia. Since Colombia’s brutal bombing of a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)* camp in Ecuador on March 1, the US administration’s propaganda machine has been churning out lies to discredit the progressive governments of Venezuela and Ecuador.

    Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has strongly denied accusations that his country has harboured FARC forces. Those making such accusations were attempting to destabilise Ecuador and force Ecuador to join Plan Colombia, Correa said.

    Plan Colombia is part of the US’s bogus war on drugs, where billions of dollars are given to puppet governments to fight progressive forces in their countries.

    The Colombian government has since apologised for its actions on the sovereign territory of Ecuador, but diplomatic relations with Colombia are still cool after the bombing of its territory and the deaths (in fact cold-blooded assassination) of around 21 people in a FARC camp, including three Mexican students.
    http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve08/1358venez.html
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    it's right on topic, ST. bushco and it's mouthpiece fox news just decide who they think are terrorists and that's it. blithering fools.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    OT too: Lieberman better stop correcting McBooboo or he's gonna get a punch in the nose..
    http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/...
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    i am loving glenn greenwald these days...here he discusses the phony argument that 'militarism' equals toughness...which bushco, mcCain, O'Reilly and all the GOPer wagging tongues catapult far and wide. it is bullshit. and it's dangerous.
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
  • theWalrus · 1 year ago
    I've been reading Glenn since day one ("old" day one at Unclaimed Territory, before Salon). His posts have always been insightful, well written, fact-based and on-target. He's one of the best (which is why the right hates him so much). I was honored to help him with some technical details at his old site.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    the guy is sharp...cool that you worked together-
  • Tom3 · 1 year ago
    Rupert Murdock the Terrorist. He should be rendered by the CIA to a secret prison where he can be waterboarded until he confesses. LOL!!
  • Mike_H · 1 year ago
    I bet you dollars to donuts O'Reilly never brings this up. I mean, c'mon -- remember, it's okay if you're a Republican!
  • Tom3 · 1 year ago
    Why should this be shocking? Al-Quaeda and Chimpy are in bed together.

    The Bin Ladens are old family friends of the Bushes.

    And Osama was in on the 9-11 inside job. His guys hijacked the planes.

    Chimpy's guys detonated the explosives that actually brought the buildings down.

    So why shouldn't Murdoch have terrorist websites? He's in bed with them too.
  • theWalrus · 1 year ago
    I wondered why comments were disabled this morning. I thought John might have read:

    "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has moved into a significant lead over Barack Obama for the first time in weeks in the race for the party nomination, according to a Gallup poll. "

    ..and his head exploded!

    Glad to see he's still in one piece.
  • nicho · 1 year ago
    His head might have exploded if (a) this wasn't a momentary snapshot in a long process and (b) the Gallup Poll was worth paying attention to.

    In a listing of 28 polls, Gallup came in at #19 with an error rate of 9 percent.

    Even Fox News is more accurate than Gallup.

    http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2008/02/04/2...

    Don't you go to pieces, now.
  • theWalrus · 1 year ago
    I had a shot of cabo wabo and feel just fine. I'm not gonna let Gallup ruin my day.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    For good or ill, I do not condone censorship. So if its a public or quasi-public site, anyone should be able to have a page.
    However, I personally would have no objection if some public-spirited mafioso were to chain Rupert and Billo together and use them as a boat anchor in the LI sound.
  • Tom3 · 1 year ago
    I'm worried by polls showing McCain too close to Hillary or Obama.

    I don't get it. He should be polling in the 30s. He's 4 more years of Chimpy policies and voters should be rejecting him.

    We are in big trouble if that senile fool wins. He is obviously another puppet.
  • ConcernTroll · 1 year ago
    Yay! A real, honest-to-goodness old-fashioned Americablog post, with ALMOST no reference to Hillary. There's hope for this site yet!
  • theWalrus · 1 year ago
    OT: I hope AB has a post about this new comment engine. (It's terrible).
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    (and even though O'Reilly's own kooky commenters made some rather troubling threats about Hillary). O'Reilly has a very strict standard for accountability from others, even when they're not really responsible for the hate that may appear on their Web sites.

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    Hey Joe? you forgot to mention that o'reilly's site wants you to register (meaning, JOIN $$$) to post comments.

    so, the twisted comments posted to his site are from people that have PAID to do it... not the drive-by posters we get (used to get? hate the comments thing BTW) in here.
  • US_inCanada · 1 year ago
    While I agree that O'Reilly is being hypocritical in his journalistic selectivity, I think that this post dangerously engages in a lot of the same tactics used by the right to construct an "us vs. them" mentality. Iran isn't wholesale an evil place, and the Mideast's concerns about Israel, though they should not be expressed in violence, are not entirely unwarranted. Instead of demanding corporations like MySpace get out of countries with whom we have disagreements, lets applaud the fact that at least this small modicum of free speech is allowed, and encourage new forms of better and more accessible communication to end our conflicts.

    Also, good point Mikki, censorship is a quick solution that always leads to more complications.
  • EdNSted · 1 year ago
    Wow, it took me 4 hours to get to point where I could post a comment. I never did get IE to work. Firefox does seem to be far better for this system. Anyway, I agree with others who prefer the flat display as opposed to the tree layout for comments.
  • Sanders · 1 year ago
    Hillary has close ties to Murdoch and is probably behind this. If you remember it was Bill Clinton who negotiated with the FCC in order to pave the way for FOXNews in the first place. I am so sick of the Clinton corruption and scams. I would NEVER vote for Billary and her involvement with FOXnews is a big reason.
  • GDawg · 1 year ago
    I know one thing about Fox News. They broke the story and exposed Obama's Pastor and now Obama is toast. Game Over!
  • Comfortably numb · 1 year ago
    Care to tell why? It's not like McCain was hurt by his connections, or Bush by his, or Reagan by his or... Oh wait, I see. It's OK if you're a Repub.
  • Comfortably numb · 1 year ago
    Oh noes! A page about Hamas! Just because they won an election and aren't (and never have been) terrorists (despite popular opinion), they dare to have a web page!