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Morning headlines brought to you by Carolyn Kay MakeThemAccountable.com Top StoryMilitary Envisions Longer Stay in Iraq (but with fewer troops)
BAGHDAD -- U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years. This goal, drawn from recent interviews with more than 20 U.S. military officers and other officials here, including senior commanders, strategists and analysts, remains in the early planning stages. It is based on officials' assessment that a sharp drawdown of troops is likely to begin by the middle of next year…
Troop reductions just in time for the presidential election? Coincidence? —Caro The Heretik
The World3 U.S. troops killed in Iraq car bombing
MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq - With a thunderous rumble and cloud of dust and smoke, a suicide car bomb brought down a section of highway bridge south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing three U.S. soldiers and wounding six from a checkpoint guarding the crossing and blocking traffic on Iraq's main north-south artery.
Israeli Air Force Strikes Back Against Palestinians
The Israeli air force struck at least two buildings in Gaza City in the early hours this morning in an apparent response to a raid by Palestinian militants on Saturday.
Explosion in Istanbul street injures 14
ANKARA, Turkey - A small bomb exploded outside a clothing shop in Istanbul on Sunday, injuring 14 people and shattering nearby windows, police said, amid heightened tensions over attacks by separatist Kurdish rebels.
Taliban rocket explodes near Afghan president
MIRI, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt after Taliban militants fired rockets at a school where he was meeting with tribal elders, officials said Sunday.
Australian Muslim leader steps down
MELBOURNE, Australia - Australia's top Islamic cleric, who came under fire last year when he likened women without head scarves to "uncovered meat," stepped down Sunday. Muslim leaders appointed a new mufti.
Albania Gives Bush A Hero's Welcome
Leaving behind thousands of anti-Bush protesters in Rome, the president got a hearty reception in Albania as he became the first sitting president to visit this tiny impoverished nation. He was hailed by trumpets, banners, even commemorative stamps.
Finally, somewhere in the world, somebody likes him. —Caro The NationLieberman: U.S. should weigh Iran attack
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Sunday the United States should consider a military strike against Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq.
Richardson: I'd Leave No Troops in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Sunday he wanted a total withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq and that American troops are targets in a civil war. "I would leave no troops in Iraq whatsoever," Richardson said.
Dean: Democratic president would end war
WASHINGTON - The high hurdles faced by congressional Democrats in their efforts to end the Iraq war make electing a Democratic president in 2008 the best way to finish the conflict, Democratic party chairman Howard Dean said Saturday.
Powell calls for closing Guantanamo Bay
WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he favors immediately closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison and moving its detainees to U.S. facilities.
Why didn’t he say something when he was Secretary of State? —Caro
‘Inappropriate’ Call To Justice Official May Have Forced Election-Timed Indictments
In his Senate testimony last Tuesday, former Missouri U.S. Attorney Bradley Schlozman repeatedly claimed that four controversial voter fraud indictments he filed a week before the 2006 mid-term elections were “directed” and “approved” by others… Former Justice Department officials familiar with Donsanto — the man who literally wrote the Justice Department’s manual on how to approach election crimes — consider his approval of the indictments to be highly unusual.
Income Inequality, Writ Larger
(T)he orthodoxy surrounding income inequality is being undermined by research that looks at institutional issues… It is commonplace to hear that the current set of arrangements and policies is the only possible way the economy can work, given trends like the rise of China and global economic integration. As (Frank Levy, the Rose professor of urban economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) said, “That’s a very convenient argument for people to make if they’re doing very well.”
That’s what they used to say about inequality for black people, until such stupidity was forced to go underground, and it’s still what many people say about inequality for women. —Caro MediaPermanent link to MTA daily media news
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Your TV might have 500 channels, but media consolidation has all but guaranteed that progressive, alternative channels like Free Speech TV are not among them.
Save the Internet: Tell Your Story to the FCC
Last year, more than 1.5 million Americans contacted Congress and stopped phone and cable company efforts to kill Net Neutrality. Now industry lobbyists are pressuring the Federal Communications Commission to abandon this fundamental Internet freedom. It's time the FCC heard from you.
Click through to send your story. —Caro
TV Politics
So, even though we know for a fact that it takes more skill than being a grade B TV actor or a good beer drinking partner to be president, it looks as though we are entering another presidential campaign in which manufactured, irrelevant personality characteristics are the primary means of making the decision… (E)ver since the press tried to sell that petulant, incoherent cretin Junior Bush as Winston Churchill, it's clear their judgments in this regard are untrustworthy. Not that it will stop them.
Matthews serenaded senior Bush adviser with "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
On the June 1 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews began an interview with White House counselor Dan Bartlett, who had announced his resignation earlier that day, by singing: "For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow." Bartlett responded: "Appreciate that."
Politico noted DeLay's "retirement" from Congress, but not that he resigned after indictment
In a June 7 article on Republican efforts to win back the congressional seat formerly held by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), now belonging to Democrat Nick Lampson, The Politico reported that no Republican appeared on the ballot in the 22nd District in 2006 "(b)ecause of DeLay's withdrawal from the race and retirement from Congress in June 2006." The article did not note that DeLay resigned his seat following his indictment in Texas on money laundering and conspiracy charges relating to a campaign finance probe and that two of DeLay's former staffers, press secretary Michael Scanlon and deputy chief of staff Tony C. Rudy, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
O'Reilly apparently finds it odd that Kansas murder suspect is a "white-bread guy"
On the June 7 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly said of Edwin Roy Hall -- the man charged with murdering 18-year-old Kelsey Smith after abducting her from the parking lot of a Target store in Overland Park, Kansas: "(T)his guy who is charged has a child and a wife. You know, he's like white-bread guy. And we're all going, 'What is that?' "
If O’Reilly thinks white guys never commit murder, he obviously doesn’t watch American Justice on A&E. —Caro Technology & ScienceHelpful Robot Alters Family Life
(W)hen a woman bumps into her disk-shaped (Roomba robotic vac) and says, “Excuse me,” or when a family names its vac “Robby,” that begins to tell you something about how people will adopt future robotic systems and how that might affect their design and function.
Desk jockeys can cool off or heat up with C2 device
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Office furniture maker Herman Miller Inc. wants to let cooler heads prevail when it comes to the often-heated issue of how hot or cold offices should be.
Corn-Based Polymer Production Begins
The nation's top energy official hailed on Friday the innovation behind chemical giant DuPont Co.'s new $100 million bioengineering joint-venture with multinational agri-processor Tate & Lyle PLC to produce a new biology-based polymer.
New MRI Image Technique Predicts Early Onset of Alzheimer's Disease in Patients with Mild Memory Problems
Using new MRI techniques to analyze tissue composition and structure in the brain, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institute on Aging successfully detected mild cognitive disorder (MCI), a condition in which patients suffer mild memory problems and is often an early symptom of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Water-Rich, Low-Fat Foods Encourage Weight Loss
Fruits, veggies, grains curb appetite, help shed pounds, study finds
Chimps Pass On Culture Like Humans Do
Chimpanzees readily learn and share techniques on how to fiddle with gadgets, new research shows, the best evidence yet that our closest living relatives pass on customs and culture just as humans do. The new findings help shed light on the capabilities of last common ancestor of humans and chimps. EnvironmentGore goes green, making changes to Nashville house
NASHVILLE -- Al Gore, the environmental activist stung by criticism over his house's energy efficiency, says renovations are nearly complete to make it a model "green" home. "This plan has been in the works for a long time," the former vice president said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. "The only thing that has changed is that we're more public about it because of the misleading attack by a global-warming denier group."
Canada says could suffer if U.S. shuns climate targets
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (Reuters) - Canadian industry could suffer if the country committed itself to the expensive process of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and the United States did not, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday.
Feds OK wells on Colo. plateau land
DENVER - Federal land managers on Friday authorized up to 1,570 new natural gas wells over the next 20 years on a mountain plateau prized for its energy reserves — and its wildlife.
American buys slices of South America
LOS ESTEROS DEL IBERA, Argentina - The American multimillionaire who founded the North Face and Esprit clothing lines says he is trying to save the planet by buying bits of it. First Douglas Tompkins purchased a huge swath of southern Chile, and now he's hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina. For more headlines, visit MakeThemAccountable.com. |
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