Dennis Kucinich:" Wake Up America!" 2008 Democratic Convention

Beautifully said speech and finally Dennis Kucinich has been given the platform to say it to the masses (albeit pre-national feed). (Wonder if the corporate press will report it? I wouldn't bet yes on it.) Dennis is saying what people need to hear, to be faced with the facts and the alternatives: not a call to move from right to left, he said, but "a call to go from down to UP". Do yourself a favor and listen to (or at least read) this six minute speech -- the crowd caught his energy and went wild. 

Also, there are more great Democratic convention speeches to be found at CSPANjunkie.org  (I love "Junkie" from YouTube as I still don't subscribe to cable TV -- only cable I have is on my computer :-)

Peace hugs,

Kate Anne

Mark Crispin Miller gave a stunning interview to Thom Hartmann yesterday about election fraud and the stealing of the 2000 and 2004 elections, heavily orchestrated by Bush thug Karl Rove. The show crashed the site it mentioned folks should go to for more information and action ideas, the Velvet Revolution's www.rovecybergate.com

Tell Congress to investigate Karl Rove’s cyber strategy to illegally manipulate elections. Click here to send an email to your Congress Members demanding immediate public hearings on whistleblower allegations that Rove architected and directed illegal attacks on Democrat candidates through the improper use of corporate funds channeled through fake Web-based front organizations, the improper political use of the Justice Department to prosecute opposition candidates, and the use of Internet based IT networks to alter election results. MORE

We can't let it happen again. Act now to protect Election 2008. (Go to AAR and listen to Hartmann's Tuesday August 19, 2008 show for this and great stuff on healthcare and energy -- one of the best of the best Hartmann shows.)

Peace hugs,
Kate Anne

John McCain: The Candidate We Still Don't Know

In his New York Times column this weekend, Frank Rich ponders the picture the press paints of Obama vs press favorite McCain.

As I went on vacation at the end of July, Barack Obama was leading John McCain by three to four percentage points in national polls. When I returned last week he still was. But lo and behold, a whole new plot twist had rolled off the bloviation assembly line in those intervening two weeks: Obama had lost the election!

The poor guy should be winning in a landslide against the despised party of Bush-Cheney, and he’s not. He should be passing the 50 percent mark in polls, and he’s not. He’s been done in by that ad with Britney and Paris and by a new international crisis that allows McCain to again flex his Manchurian Candidate military cred. Let the neocons identify a new battleground for igniting World War III, whether Baghdad or Tehran or Moscow, and McCain gets with the program as if Angela Lansbury has just dealt him the Queen of Hearts....MORE

When is the press corps going to follow the lead of a few insightful (and liberal) NYTimes columnists and start reporting on The Real McCain(s)? (Rich also discusses coverage of Michelle vs. Cindy. Puhlease.)

Finally, however, the Obama campaign must press the press to push the differences between the candidates. Bottom line, if the public were to hear more of the truth including the many covered-up gaffes, the cavorting with lobbyists (including his chief foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann having lobbied for the Georgian government until VERY recently!!), the cowtowing to the wealthy, and the many contradictions of John McCain, Obama would be the shoe-in he should be. [For more on how McCain is covered and how he is campaigning listen to AAR's Rachel Maddow's commentary, for example.] The Obama campaign must also give more play to such ads as the radio ad run in York, Pennsylvania [thanks, again, to TRMS], concerning McCain's telling Harley motorcycle enthusiasts that he enjoys the sound of the roar of American-made Harley's even as he opposed a law requiring the government to buy American made motorcycles, just one symptom of McCain's condoning American jobs being shipped overseas. McCain is the wrong choice if Americans care about the economy, jobs, and healthcare.

Keep on keeping on --

Peace hugs,
Kate Anne

The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0

I plan to keep my TV tuned away from the Olympics -- wasn't China supposed to follow some guidelines to show they were more humane? The humane Chinese prepared for the Olympics by destroying certain homes in the way without proper reimbursement -- that on top of everything else....

The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0
by Naomi Klein

So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese government has seemed amazingly unperturbed. That’s because it is betting on this: when the opening ceremonies begin friday, you will instantly forget all that unpleasantness as your brain is zapped by the cultural/athletic/political extravaganza that is the Beijing Olympics.

Like it or not, you are about to be awed by China’s sheer awesomeness.

The games have been billed as China’s “coming out party” to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism — central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance — harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. Some call it “authoritarian capitalism,” others “market Stalinism,” personally I prefer “McCommunism.”MORE

I posted on CommonDreams.org: Keep the television sets turned off of the Olympics for political reasons and ask others to do similarly. (And don’t go watching the events on YouTube.com or other such sites either.) To which rtdrury replied, "When the people learn to select all of their exchange/association for political reasons, the people will have full political power." Exercise some power, folks!