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Morning headlines brought to you by Carolyn Kay MakeThemAccountable.com Top StoryBush's veto survives House vote
The House Wednesday fell far short of overriding President Bush's veto of the Iraq spending bill. Bush rejected the measure Tuesday evening because it includes a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The 222—203 vote was nowhere near the two-thirds majority needed to overturn a veto. Humor Ink
The World4 killed in Green Zone rocket attack
BAGHDAD - A rocket attack on Iraq's heavily fortified Green Zone killed four Filipino contractors working for the U.S. government, the American embassy said Thursday. It was the third straight day that extremists used rockets or mortars to hit the area where Iraq's parliament meets.
Olmert opponents plan rally in Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM - The campaign to oust Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shifted to the streets Thursday, with a mass rally in Tel Aviv expected to draw tens of thousands of opponents calling for the embattled Israeli leader to step down.
'Further action' threatened if Iran continues nuclear enrichment
LONDON (AFP) - The United Nations Security Council will need to take "further action" if Iran fails to meet demands to suspend its nuclear programme, a British Foreign Office spokesman said on Wednesday following six-nation talks in London.
Turmoil in Turkey Imperils U.S. Efforts to Promote Middle East Democracies
The move by Turkey's highest court to scrap the nation's presidential election yesterday prolongs a political standoff that threatens U.S. efforts to promote free- market Muslim democracies in the Middle East.
Afghans Say U.S. Bombing Killed 42 Civilians
President Hamid Karzai said that the Afghan people could no longer tolerate such casualties.
Several injured in Pakistan protest
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Several people were injured in another day of angry scuffles outside Pakistan's heavily guarded Supreme Court in the latest protest over the sacking of the country's chief judge. The NationRepublicans open to benchmarks
Republican leaders say they are open to the possibility of adding benchmarks to an Iraq funding bill, and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) stated Wednesday that a "clean" two-month continuing resolution also remains an option.
Iraqi lawmakers' plans anger Congress
Lawmakers divided over whether to keep U.S. troops in Iraq are finding common ground on at least one topic: They are furious that Iraqi politicians are considering a lengthy break this summer. "If they go off on vacation for two months while our troops fight — that would be the outrage of outrages," said Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn.
Gonzales's Ex-Aide Investigated
The Justice Department has launched an internal investigation into whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's former White House liaison illegally took party affiliation into account in hiring career federal prosecutors, officials said yesterday. The allegations against Monica M. Goodling represent a potential violation of federal law and signal that a joint probe begun in March by the department's inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility has expanded beyond the controversial dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys last year.
Sounds like Monica is caught between a rock and a hard place. If she spills the beans to Congress, the DOJ will go after her. —Caro
U.S. inspector general for Iraq under investigation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stuart Bowen, the U.S. special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction whose office has uncovered abuse of both Iraqi and U.S. funds, is under investigation himself, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
He must be ready to announce another scam and more thievery from the taxpayers. —Caro
Senior VA officials get big bonuses
Months after a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall that put veterans' health care in peril, Veterans Affairs officials involved in the foul-up got hefty bonuses ranging up to $33,000. The list of bonuses to senior career officials at the Veterans Affairs Department in 2006, obtained by The Associated Press, documents a generous package of more than $3.8 million in payments by a financially strapped agency straining to help care for thousands of injured veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
What's US economy's future? Ask illegal immigrants
PHOENIX - Fewer people are trying to sneak across the US-Mexico border… A slowing US economy, resulting in fewer jobs, is discouraging immigrants from slipping into the United States, according to economists at Arizona State University in Tempe. In fact, falling border apprehensions may be an early predictor of where the economy is headed. MediaPermanent link to MTA daily media news
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Stephanie Miller Wows ‘Em On MSNBC
Progressive radio talk show host Stephanie Miller is doing a great job in the old Imus spot on MSNBC, and I hope everyone has a chance to catch her show… She’s funny, pointed, provocative, progressive and her time on MSNBC is a mini-breakthrough and I suspect we’ll be seeing more of her… Mark Green at Air America is off to a good start and has announced an exciting new show with my friend Mark Riley as host. It’s called the Air Americans and will include some of their first-rate talent such as David Bender, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Laura Flanders… Coming attraction: I will soon predict the first blockbuster mega-investor in progressive media and entertainment, and explain why he will do it.
It was a great pleasure to see progressive discussion on cable television. Click the title, above, to read this entire essay and to post a comment that may be read by your senators and congressman! —Caro
Sex and Politics
I seriously doubt, despite the expressed fears of some folks, that the Palfrey (Washington madam) scandal will hit Democrats as hard as Republicans… If any prominent Democrats were on the list, we'd have heard about them by now. But the abject horror that's palpable in the GOP/Media High-Broderesque "this is OUR town" crowd — a horror which shows itself in the extreme reluctance of the GOP-worshiping Fred Hiatt's WaPo to touch the story — indicates to me that this is a purely Republican affair (pardon the pun). And so far, the revelations seem to bear me out.
Do Washington Post Editors Follow the News?
The Post editorial on a bill that would authorize drug reimportation suggests that they don't. The Post tells readers that if people in the United States started importing more low priced drugs from Canada, the drug companies would stop selling their drugs to Canada at low prices… While the Post's editors may think that they know Canadians will just accept higher drug prices, they also thought that there were WMDs in Iraq.
CNN's Glenn Beck to host hour-long global warming smear-fest
A CNN press release declared that Glenn Beck's upcoming "special report" will "deflate what Beck perceives as the media hype surrounding global warming" and "question() the accuracy of Al Gore's claims in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth." Beck has repeatedly advanced falsehoods related to global climate change, cited debunked scientists to support his doubts that "we're causing" global warming, and regularly attacked Gore.
O'Reilly uses name-calling about once every seven seconds
An Indiana University study finds that Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly calls a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night. "It's obvious he's very big into calling people names, and he's very big into glittering generalities," says IU j-prof Mike Conway. "He's not very subtle. He's going to call people names, or he's going to paint something in a positive way, often without any real evidence to support that viewpoint."
Jonathan Chait Engages in Original Intellectual Inquiry
Yes, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and Cindy Sheehan are exactly the same "sort of thing." Just compare: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth garnered attention by falsely claiming Kerry was "lying about his record" in Vietnam; Cindy Sheehan garnered attention by falsely claiming her son is dead. Thank you, Jonathan Chait, for following your logic wherever it led you. It's this type of original intellectual inquiry that blogs—hampered as they are by their demagoguery and dishonesty—just can't touch. Technology & ScienceSmall and Smaller
Ultraportable notebook computers — supercompact, lightweight laptops that slip into briefcases — appear to be finding favor with American tastes.
The merger of phone, PDA, and computer continues. —Caro
IBM Bores Tiny Holes in Computer Chips
NEW YORK (AP) - Computer chips, it seems, work better if they're more like Swiss cheese than American cheese. Chips with minuscule holes in them can run faster or use less energy, IBM Corp. said in announcing Thursday a novel way to create them - potentially one of the most significant advances in chip manufacturing in years.
In China, Curing Addiction To The Virtual
Officials say 2.5 million Chinese teens are addicted to the Internet. Some parents are going to drastic lengths to help them beat the urge to beat games like World of Warcraft and get them living in reality again. Barry Petersen reports.
Musicians decode melody in ‘Da Vinci Code’ chapel
Like a plot from “The Da Vinci Code,” a team of code breakers claims to have found music hidden for 500 years in intricate carvings at the church where author Dan Brown set the climax of the best-selling book. EnvironmentFixing climate carries big costs
Global warming's demands on human ingenuity, and pocketbooks, will take center stage Friday in the latest international report on climate change. Whether humans bury greenhouse gases, blunt them with new technology or buy them off with tax incentives, banishing the emissions responsible for global warming will take quick action, experts conclude in advance of the report.
But there are major profit-making opportunities, as well. —Caro
Rhode Island seeks financing for renewable energy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri on Wednesday proposed creating a new agency that would be able to sell municipal bonds to finance development of wind-power and hydroelectric projects.
Car-Free Zones On Rise In U.S.
More U.S. cities are closing park roads to cars in favor of pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Arguments that such road closures promote family activities, more active lifestyles, and tighter-knit communities have been persuasive.
Clean energy from beer-making
CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists and Australian beer maker Foster's are teaming up to generate clean energy from brewery waste water — by using sugar-consuming bacteria. For more headlines, visit MakeThemAccountable.com. |
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