David Sirota shares letters from right wingers that were written in response to his article on how the FDR really did get the New Deal right. He wrote the article in response to recent attempts by conservative pundits to say the New Deal prolonged the depression is revisionism at its worst.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Natl Security, Dennis Blair - the Military-Industrial Complex
Blair is president of a Defense policy think-tank - supposedly non-profit, IDA, which has been very lucrative for the people who involved in this think tank. It seems top heavy with Air Force types (like Blair) and is involved in weapons procurement.
Quoting from Wikipedia:
As early as 2002, the President of IDA, Retired U.S. Air Force General Larry Welch, was being paid an annual salary of $323,979, according to IDA’s Form 990 for the year beginning Sept. 29, 2001 and ending Sept. 27, 2002.
At least ten other IDA executives were also paid annual salaries of over $140,000 in 2002. For instance, the IDA Vice-President for Administration and Finance, Ruth Greenstein, was paid an annual salary of $261,212, while the IDA Vice-President for Planning and Evaluation was paid $212,554. Annual salaries of between $196,889 and $231,076 were also paid to the directors of IDA’s five weapons research divisions in 2002.
In addition, the chairman of the IDA board of trustees, former University of South Carolina President John Palms, was paid an additional $27,100 in 2002 by IDA for his work as IDA board chairman. MIT Professor Sheila Widnall, a former Clinton Administration Secretary of the Air Force, also was paid an additional $10,800 in 2002 by IDA for apparently representing MIT on IDA’s board of trustees in 2002.
Although IDA is a non-profit, from its Pentagon weapons research contracts in 2002 it earned total revenues of $145 million that were $4 million more than the $141 million it had to spend on its weapons research think-tank activity. These funds are spent on internally-initiated research projects.
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Quoting from Wikipedia:
As early as 2002, the President of IDA, Retired U.S. Air Force General Larry Welch, was being paid an annual salary of $323,979, according to IDA’s Form 990 for the year beginning Sept. 29, 2001 and ending Sept. 27, 2002.
At least ten other IDA executives were also paid annual salaries of over $140,000 in 2002. For instance, the IDA Vice-President for Administration and Finance, Ruth Greenstein, was paid an annual salary of $261,212, while the IDA Vice-President for Planning and Evaluation was paid $212,554. Annual salaries of between $196,889 and $231,076 were also paid to the directors of IDA’s five weapons research divisions in 2002.
In addition, the chairman of the IDA board of trustees, former University of South Carolina President John Palms, was paid an additional $27,100 in 2002 by IDA for his work as IDA board chairman. MIT Professor Sheila Widnall, a former Clinton Administration Secretary of the Air Force, also was paid an additional $10,800 in 2002 by IDA for apparently representing MIT on IDA’s board of trustees in 2002.
Although IDA is a non-profit, from its Pentagon weapons research contracts in 2002 it earned total revenues of $145 million that were $4 million more than the $141 million it had to spend on its weapons research think-tank activity. These funds are spent on internally-initiated research projects.
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Think Again: Climate Change
The science is settled, and the damage has already begun. The only question now is whether we will stop playing political games and embrace the few imperfect options we have left. Bill McKibben debunks the conventional "wisdom" on climate change.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR #1 TOPIC AT OFFICIAL OBAMA WEBSITE
FORWARD:
SPECIAL PROSECUTORQUESTION NUMBER ONE NOW ON THE OBAMA SITE
Thanks to your valiant participation, the question we told you about, asking about a special prosecutor for the gravest crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration is now NUMBER ONE on the official Obama site. And as of last check they are still open for voting. So if you have not voted already, the easiest way to find the question is
1. Sign in at http://change.gov/openforquestions and remember you have to set up a login for yourself at that site to vote
2. Click on "Additional Issues" under "Pick a Topic" on the left
3. The special prosecutor question started by "Bob Fertik" should be the one leading the top of that section (and now leading all questions over all topics with 16,000 votes).
4. Look right for the checkbox, mouseover it so it goes from white to dark, then click to cast your vote
Please cast your vote as soon as possible, as the voting may close at any time. They may not work straight through holiday weekends, but we DO,
What this means is that Obama will now have to ANSWER this question on his official site, just as if he had accepted this question at a real press conference. And we're going to keep the heat on in every other possible way, just stay tuned.
THEN GET YOUR NEW CONVICT DICK & W CAP TO DEMONSTRATE WITH
As we in the White House accountability movement look forward, whether it's impeachment, federal prosecution, or state by state prosecutions as a last resort, the key work is "convict". And that is why we are introducing a new cap to wear to continue to carry the ball with that says "CONVICT DICK & W" in red, white and blue. If you want to be one of the first to get one of these new caps please submit the page below.
New Convict Dick & W Cap: http://www.usalone.com/convict_cap.php
We are not setting a price for these. You can have one for a contribution of any amount. We just want to put as many out there as possible. And we will have much more news for you soon about planned actions to pressure prosecutors at all levels to step up to the plate and do their duty.
We are in this thing for the long haul, folks. The criminal dictators of the future can only be constrained by pursuing prosecution NOW of the criminal dictators of the present and past. In some cases it has taken many years of work by dedicated activists to bring criminal former heads of state to justice.
We the people will never forget the crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration. How can we? Their willful disasters will cripple our economy, our military, every aspect of our government and our own personal lives for many years to come. But if we just continue to speak out, someday soon enough there WILL be prosecutors at some level who will have the integrity, backbone and determination to do what Congress to their eternal shame did not.
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
SPECIAL PROSECUTORQUESTION NUMBER ONE NOW ON THE OBAMA SITE
Thanks to your valiant participation, the question we told you about, asking about a special prosecutor for the gravest crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration is now NUMBER ONE on the official Obama site. And as of last check they are still open for voting. So if you have not voted already, the easiest way to find the question is
1. Sign in at http://change.gov/openforquestions and remember you have to set up a login for yourself at that site to vote
2. Click on "Additional Issues" under "Pick a Topic" on the left
3. The special prosecutor question started by "Bob Fertik" should be the one leading the top of that section (and now leading all questions over all topics with 16,000 votes).
4. Look right for the checkbox, mouseover it so it goes from white to dark, then click to cast your vote
Please cast your vote as soon as possible, as the voting may close at any time. They may not work straight through holiday weekends, but we DO,
What this means is that Obama will now have to ANSWER this question on his official site, just as if he had accepted this question at a real press conference. And we're going to keep the heat on in every other possible way, just stay tuned.
THEN GET YOUR NEW CONVICT DICK & W CAP TO DEMONSTRATE WITH
As we in the White House accountability movement look forward, whether it's impeachment, federal prosecution, or state by state prosecutions as a last resort, the key work is "convict". And that is why we are introducing a new cap to wear to continue to carry the ball with that says "CONVICT DICK & W" in red, white and blue. If you want to be one of the first to get one of these new caps please submit the page below.
New Convict Dick & W Cap: http://www.usalone.com/convict_cap.php
We are not setting a price for these. You can have one for a contribution of any amount. We just want to put as many out there as possible. And we will have much more news for you soon about planned actions to pressure prosecutors at all levels to step up to the plate and do their duty.
We are in this thing for the long haul, folks. The criminal dictators of the future can only be constrained by pursuing prosecution NOW of the criminal dictators of the present and past. In some cases it has taken many years of work by dedicated activists to bring criminal former heads of state to justice.
We the people will never forget the crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration. How can we? Their willful disasters will cripple our economy, our military, every aspect of our government and our own personal lives for many years to come. But if we just continue to speak out, someday soon enough there WILL be prosecutors at some level who will have the integrity, backbone and determination to do what Congress to their eternal shame did not.
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
Senator Reid calls Bush a liar - Meet The Press
MR. GREGORY: Before you go, do you have any regrets about the way you have publicly battled with President Bush? Over the years you've called him a liar, a loser, and you've described him as "our worst president ever."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608
SEN. REID: I wrote a book and I said that in the book several times. David, I am who I am. I'm going to continue being who I am. I think you just have to call things the way you see them. I really do believe that President Bush is the worst president we've ever had. I think his efforts to destroy Social Security were very bad. That brought about one of those statements. I think as we've looked now at what's happened to the stock market, wouldn't that have been an awful thing to do, to privatize Social Security? Medicare, he's done, he's done his very best to destroy Medicare. Medicare, a wonderful program. Perfect? Of course not. But one of the best programs ever developed to take care of sick people. So...
MR. GREGORY: You said that the war is lost. Today, in 2009, that's no longer your view?SEN. REID: David, listen, someone else will have to determine that as the years go on. What has the war done? It's brought about--it's destabilized the Middle East. We have a civil war going on in Israel. We have a civil war in Iraq, as indicated today, more than 50 people killed with a bomb in Iraq today. We have Lebanon, a civil war there. We have Iran thumbing their nose with every, everyone. And if that weren't bad enough, our standing in the world community is so far down as a result of this war, so--and that doesn't take into consideration the tens of thousands who have been injured...
SEN. REID: ...and the thousands have been killed in the war. So it's, it's--historians will have to talk about what the war in Iraq did. But I think historians today indicate, as I have, the outline that I've given.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The N.Y. Developement Project & the $100,000 donation to Clinton
A picture of DESTINY USA - developement in Upstate New York; heavily financed with tax breaks and subsidies etc.. The chief developer gave $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation in 2004. Hillary Clinton pushed a bill through the Senate which helped this developement.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Survey: Oil May Lose Top Rank as Cheapest Energy
Over the next 20 years, oil and natural gas will lose top ranking as the world's most affordable energy sources, according to a survey of energy executives released Wednesday. Deeper wells in more inhospitable places, both political and geological, have altered presumptions of doing business in the oil patch.
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