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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - May 03 2007 | iraq, news, blogs, politics, legal, thepugetnews
    Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death -

    An announcement: "Please keep fighting for our rights to freedom of speech, just make sure not to use it."

    Quoted: The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.

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    Quoted: "The reputation of the Army is maintained on many fronts, and no one fights harder on its behalf than our young soldiers. We must allow them access to the fight," Robbins wrote. "To silence the most credible voices -- those at the spear's edge -- and to disallow them this function is to handicap ourselves on a vital, very real battlefield."

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 03 2007 | iraq, news, karl rove, politics, blogs
    Our Karl Rove

    A blog called "Our Karl Rove: If Karl Rove was a Democrat, This is What He'd Say."

    Quoted: Our Karl Rove. Kerry's Karl Rove. Presidential advisor. Democratic Strategies. Carville. Chris Matthews.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 22 2007 | news, blogs, video, Fox, politics, Barack Obama
    AlterNet: MediaCulture: The Lies They Tell: How to Stop the Fox Propaganda Machine

    I wasn't aware that Obama has frozen out Fox News for reporting on him inaccurately and in a scurrilous manner. I think that's great.

    Calling Fox's echo-chamber "news" is horribly inappropriate.

    There is also a video on this page showing Barack's coverage on Fox to date.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2006 | George W Bush, donald rumsfeld, sidney blumenthal, politics, Iraq, blogs
    "I'm the decider" | Salon.com

    My favorite line is where one of the retired generals calls the Bush regime the "axis of arrogance."

    Quoted: Clinging to Rumsfeld as generals lead an unprecedented revolt, Bush reveals his weakness and his disdain for the lessons of history.

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    5 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 18 2006 | billboard, billboard liberation front, politics, art, blogs
    The Billboard Liberation Front » Blog Archive » Billboard Alteration Salutes U.S. Military in Iraq

    Quoted: Located at the intersection of Seventh and Folsom Streets in San Francisco, the billboard was apprehended, rehabilitated, and discharged without incident. The advertisement, which had been attempting to sell and distribute petrochemicals, was corrected to promote the U.S. Department of Defense and their private subcontractors operating in Iraq.

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    0 starseric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 07 2006 | Joe Conason, George W Bush, valerie plame, politics, blogs
    The deception Bush can't spin | Salon.com

    Libby's testimony on the Valerie Plame case is implicating people all the way up to the top. How can George W. Bush tell the public that he wants the source of the leak found when he knows that he and his closest staff were the ones responsible?

    Quoted: Libby's testimony shows that Bush disclosed national secrets for political gain -- and makes Bush's statements about finding the leaker ludicrous.

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