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Murder & Election Fraud --LinkTV condensed Vote Fraud, Cover-up, and Murder accusations DVD @ http://votinglies.com/ Tom Feeney Clint Curtis Ray Lemme "Suicide" Jeb Bush George Bush Florida Georgia Murder Spies & Voting Lies Tags: Election Fraud Coverup Murder Tom Feeney Clint Curtis Ray Lemme Suicide George Jeb Bush Florida

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Bill Gates on Technology A user requested the rest of Gates' interview...so here it is... Z: What is the Internet going to look like 10 years from now? G: Well, the thing that I think people are underestimating is that the shape of the computers that are connected up will be very different. You know, a tablet-type reading device, ability to walk in the room and it can see who's coming in. You can just talk.Your walls - screens will be very cheap, so your walls will - you'll be able to have sort of virtual wallpaper, anything that you're interested in. You know, you hear your parents walking down the hall, you change it to something else. Or you have your grandmother visiting, you change it to what she might be interested in. Z: Why will this increase productivity? What's the big leap ... G: Well, the computer industry has always sold, amazingly, both into the home to let people play games, and plan their finances and plan their schedule, and communicate with their friends, as well as sold into business where you can look at product designs. You know, just think about how a car is designed digitally now, and you can try different things out. The whole economy is using software simulation, so that innovation is far more rapid. And way before you make a product, which is expensive and takes time, you understand the wear and the cost inside this computer model. Z: For Microsoft, is the dominating concern going forward who will dominate the Internet? G: Nobody dominates the Internet. The Internet is this phenomenal thing that new companies and new ideas are being created all the time.Microsoft participates in the software market. And software, whether it's voice recognition or reading devices or robotics, the opportunity to add value in software is greater today than it's ever been. And so, Microsoft has lots of opportunity. Where other companies can do well, Microsoft can do well.Microsoft is very strong in helping people at work be more productive. That - you know, we are the company that gets up every day and says, "Why do people still need paperwork? Why do they still need that white board? How can they communicate at a distance very easily?" And we ourselves see where software could make us more effective. So, new generations of office were really the company that has breakthroughs on worker productivity. We also participate in video games and phones and search, and you name it. Z: But you're not worried about Google? G: Oh, all good capitalistic companies get up every morning and think, "How can we make a better product? What are they doing well? We're going to make it cheaper, better, simpler, faster." And great competitors spur companies on. And at every phase of our industry, it's been a different set of companies.Historically you would have said Novell or Ashton-Tate or IBM, or something like that. Today you'd probably say Google or Apple. But that's wonderful, you know. We're going to give people a choice in search.They're not just going to have one choice in phones. You know, this phone you can talk to and it - you just point it at your sales receipt and it can recognize what that is and immediately file that for you without you having to do anything.That kind of software breakthrough, that's why we have our research group and we're so excited about what we can do. And the fact that other companies are doing some of the same, that's always been the case, and it's great to see. Z: Is some of the innovation coming from outside the United States now in a way that it wasn't 10 or 15 years ago? G: Absolutely. The computer market 15 years ago, you could say the most demanding customers were in the United States. And so, if you could satisfy their needs, you just basically took the same thing and sold it worldwide. You did some localization.Today, the penetration of cell phones is actually higher in other countries. China's got more broadband users than any country in the world. And unless India really goes fast, that'll be the case for the rest of the century. So, you have to be far more global in terms of seeing what customers are doing, and having bright people who work on those problems. And so, all the technology companies are figuring out how we gather that customer input on a broader basis than ever before, how we work with more universities on their research programs than ever before.And I'm very proud of the way that Microsoft has done that. It's one of the things that has driven our success. Tags: Bill Gates Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN Technology

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CCMRF Troops Inside US -NorthCom Denies Role CCMRF Troops inside US -NorthCom Denies Role In a barely noticed development last week, the Army stationed an active unit inside the United States. The Infantry Divisions 1st Brigade Team is back from Iraq, now training for domestic operations under the control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The unit will serve as an on-call federal response for large-scale emergencies and disasters. Its being called the Consequence Management Response Force, CCMRF, or sea-smurf for short. Its the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to USNORTHCOM, which was itself formed in October 2002 to provide command and control of Department of Defense homeland defense efforts. An initial news report in the Army Times newspaper last month noted, in addition to emergency response, the force may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control. The Army Times has since appended a clarification, and a September 30th press release from the Northern Command states: This response force will not be called upon to help with law enforcement, civil disturbance or crowd control." When Democracy Now! spoke to Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Goodpaster, a public affairs officer for NORTHCOM, she said the force would have weapons stored in containers on site, as well as access to tanks, but the decision to use weapons would be made at a far higher level, perhaps by Secretary of Defense, SECDEF. Well, Im joined now by two guests. Army Colonel Michael Boatner is future operations division chief of USNORTHCOM. He joins me on the phone from Colorado Springs. Were also joined from Madison, Wisconsin by journalist and editor of The Progressive magazine, Matthew Rothschild. Tags: CCMRF Troops inside US NorthCom Role DemocracyNow Amy Goodman Matthew Rothschild USNORTHCOM Army Colonel Michael Boatner

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Bailout Knockout! -- Lehman CEO KO'd -- short CNBC Sources: Dick Fuld gets punched on treadmill in Lehman gym. Vanity Fairs Vicki Ward on CNBC wants to punch Lehman Brothers' CEO, Dick Fuld. She reported: While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm was going bankrupt. CNBC and Vanity Fair contributor Vicki Ward said Fuld was attacked at the gym on a Sunday following the bankruptcy. Frankly, I sat there and listened and Im with the guy who apparently, the day before Barclays announced they were coming in and Lehman had already filed for bankruptcy, went over to him in the gym and punched him because thats how I feel when I, you know, when I watched that, Ward said on the Oct. 6 Power Lunch. I didnt think he was contrite at all, I thought he was arrogant. Ward confirmed previous reports about the incident that reportedly occurred Sept. 21 and said the information came from two very senior sources. From two very senior sources one incredibly senior source that he went to the gym after Lehman was announced as going under. He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. And frankly after having watched this, Id have done the same too. Ward determined Fuld deserved the beating based on his testimony before the committee. Tags: Bailout Knockout Lehman Brothers CEO Chairman KO Richard Dick Feld

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Bailout Knockout! -- Lehman CEO KO'd Woman on CNBC wants to punch Lehman Brothers' CEO, Dick Fuld. While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm was going bankrupt. CNBC and Vanity Fair contributor Vicki Ward said Fuld was attacked at the gym on a Sunday following the bankruptcy. Frankly, I sat there and listened and Im with the guy who apparently, the day before Barclays announced they were coming in and Lehman had already filed for bankruptcy, went over to him in the gym and punched him because thats how I feel when I, you know, when I watched that, Ward said on the Oct. 6 Power Lunch. I didnt think he was contrite at all, I thought he was arrogant. Ward confirmed previous reports about the incident that reportedly occurred Sept. 21 and said the information came from two very senior sources. From two very senior sources one incredibly senior source that he went to the gym after Lehman was announced as going under. He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. And frankly after having watched this, Id have done the same too. Ward determined Fuld deserved the beating based on his testimony before the committee. Tags: Bailout Knockout Lehman Brothers CEO Chairman KO Richard Dick Fuld

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Humiliating Russia & The Georgian Conflict Fareed Zakaria--GPS-CNN Russia Georgia Singapore MAHBUBANI: The West had been humiliating Russia for almost 15 or 16 years. And Russia is a proud, old country. And if you keep humiliating them for so long, at some point they had to react. And they reacted viciously, as you know, in Georgia, because they said, "Enough is enough. I do not want to have my face scrubbed in the dust one more time. This time I want to send a signal. I will draw a line." And so, what amazed me is, all the Western commentary tried to portray Georgia as the victim of this exercise, even though the Georgian president instigated the exercise and the Russians were reacting. And of course, they were given the perfect excuse to react. But they were sending a broader signal that there is a larger geopolitical issue that they would like the West to comes to terms with, and to treat Russia as an equal and not as a subservient power. ZAKARIA: Raja, how was this seen in India? MOHAN: I think there's another view. We've had a relationship with Russia that goes a long time. But yet, I don't think India would support, has supported, what Russia has done, essentially because the idea that you could recognize separatist movements in a particular country as independent, I think it's fundamentally unacceptable to India. We didn't accept Kosovo. We're not going to accept Abkhazia and Ossetia as separate entities. So, there is, while we would like to see Russia not humiliated, and treated like a great power, but the Russian actions are fundamentally in contradiction with the interests of India and, I would say, in China, because anybody who has a bit of a problem of separatism are not going to accept what Russia has done. ZAKARIA: Simon, what was - the Chinese have been careful to distance themselves from the Russian position, but not too far away. TAY: Well, I think this is exactly correct. What Kishore says is true. I think rising powers, Asian powers, certainly do not want to be in the same position as Russia, where your very real economic strength, et cetera, is being sort of pinned down and you are literally forced back in areas which you consider your backyard. And we are also in an area where the American presence is very real, but there are rising Asian powers. So, in some ways, I think we could, if you're going to watch it, be in a similar situation. As for China, my own take is, China is going to be a big winner in this, because if tensions rise between Russia and the West, China is going to look like a darling and an angel in comparison. ZAKARIA: Because both sides will also be wooing China ... TAY: Correct. ZAKARIA: ... and wanting it on their side. TAY: Correct. ZAKARIA: But Kishore, when one hears the discussion in the United States or even in Europe, it's really all about Georgian democracy, supporting Georgian democracy. Why are you not moved by all this? MAHBUBANI: Well, I mean, certainly, we would like to see the spread of democracy. But there is an incestuous, self-referential, self-congratulatory dialogue among Western intellectuals, which is very, very dangerous, because it's a dialogue that reflects the wishes and interests of 10 percent of the world's population and shuts off the voices of 90 percent of the world's population. And that's the biggest danger. And certainly, no one is opposed to democracy in Georgia. That wasn't the issue at all. But what the world noticed is that the West keeps tapping and intruding into spaces of other countries and other societies without even being aware that it is doing so. And that's the problem. I mean, the West has basically been in a sort of a triumphant mood since the end of the Cold War. And that, over the course of time, has built up a lot of resentment towards the West. And that's what I try to talk about, because I think this resentment is not necessary. I think you can easily, very easily, build bridges between the West and the rest of the world, if the West is prepared to accept parity in the discourse between the West and the rest. ZAKARIA: And on that note, from Singapore, thank you all very much. Tags: Russian Georgian Conflict End of Cold War

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Bill Gates on Economy, Education, 3rd World (2/2) Bill Gates Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN Z: At a personal level, one of the decisions you've made is not to leave enormous amounts of money to your children. Are they old enough to understand this yet? G: Well, I'm sure I'll get more flak as they get older.But I don't think it would be beneficial to them to have huge amounts of wealth. I think that's very distortive in terms of how you think of what the impact you're going to have, how you measure yourself, how your friends think about you and how they do things with you.And it's also bad for society. You know, Warren Buffett says that we could pick our Olympic team by picking the grandchildren of the 1900 Olympic team. And, you know, we could see how that would work.In a sense, if we have so much inherited wealth, particularly these very large fortunes, we're actually doing that. We're picking the grandchildren of the people whose skill and luck accumulated that money and saying to them, they should have this vast control of society's resources.I just don't think that's a great way to run a society. And so ... Z: So, you're in favor of the inheritance tax. G: I'm in favor of two things. I'm in favor of people who are lucky enough to have these resources thinking about how either they or somebody they back should give the money back to society. And so, if you give money away, then you don't even get into the taxation issue.If you don't give it away, yes, I think some portion of it ought to be taxed, that there would be an estate tax. After all, the accretion of that fortune depended on the government's educational system, justice system. You know, it wasn't something where you just went off on your own and magically pulled some gold out of the ground.And my case is a clear one. I'm a beneficiary of an educational system and a system of stability and incentives, where I got to hire bright people and come up with products. And the fact I was 19 years old, that didn't matter. If I had a good piece of software, somebody could buy it from me.I was just there to innovate. And that kind of society is where the opportunity for those great fortunes come from. Z: You're going to give away almost all your money. You're going to give away almost all of Warren Buffett's money. That's, collectively, tens of billions of dollars.You've chosen something very unusual. Ninety-eight percent of the philanthropists in the United States give the money in America essentially to Americans.You chose not to do that. Why? G: If you look and say where is the greatest inequity, you have to take a global view of that. I mean, America stands for a lot of things. It stands for the innovation that a capitalistic society can drive. It stands for political freedom. But it also stands for ending inequity.And over the decades, the inequities against women, or various religions, or races, America's made a lot of progress. And so, I think we can say today that the global economic inequity is the greatest one left and probably the hardest one to make progress on.So, I think it makes sense, since the U.S. benefits from the world market, for people who give back to certainly give some in the country. Over a quarter of what we do is focused on helping to improve education in the United States, but the bulk of it goes to where a dollar can save a life most effectively. And we know that if you start to improve health and help people out who are poor, you can get that society into a situation where it's self-sufficient, where the population growth goes down, where the agricultural productivity goes up, the educational achievement goes up.We have this incredible good news story, where the old divide of the rich and the developing world is a misleading dichotomy now, because that developing world, although it was once really bimodal, rich and developing now, across the whole spectrum, we have countries like China or Mexico or Brazil that have done so well. And then we have some like Yemen or Central African Republic - a lot of them in sub-Saharan Africa - that are still really down at the bottom and haven't gotten going.And so, the capitalistic approaches, scientific innovation, decent governance - those things have been proven out in most of the world. And we should want to help the countries that have got tough situations, to help them get on that same track. Tags: Bill Gates Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN Economy Education Third World

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Bill Gates on Economy, Education, 3rd World (1/2) Bill Gates Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN BILL GATES: It's a very interesting crisis. And it's important that that things move forward, that markets are continuing to operate. And there's some type of correction we'll have to look at in terms of the leverage we allow, the complexity of balance sheets we allow. People who are so key that the government feels like they have to come in and bail them out. And there's a lot - a lot thinking the House go on. But fundamentally, the total market valuation of companies, companies' willingness to invest, right now we haven't seen a huge disruption in that. There may be - it looks like the economy may go down somewhat, but nothing like a big recession or a depression. And the amount of innovation taking place, the amount of investment is actually greater today than ever, because you not only have more American companies with more scientists and engineers and innovators, but now you have what Friedman calls the flat world, where you have people from all over, including lots of people in India and China, now contributing to new drug design, new software design, new energy generation design. And so, it's easy for people to underestimate that, despite these imbalances that are certainly scary, the rate of improvement on the medical front, the efficiency front, communication front is greater today than ever. And in fact, that's why you can take a problem like the food crisis and say, you know, let's get cheaper fertilizer, let's get better seeds - or the climate crisis and say, let's get a different source of energy that's both cheaper and doesn't generate CO2. And given the right timeframes, this rapid innovation will deliver those advances. : Well, certainly, whenever a stock goes up and then comes down, there was an element of a mistake that people thought, "Oh, this really is going to go on forever. It's a great thing." These financial companies, in terms of needing short-term funding, but not having liquid assets, so the short-term funding dried up, you get literally a bankruptcy. And so, all it took was a whiff of lack of confidence, and then the whole thing would come apart. That was not a stable enough structure to deal with the mistakes that were made in mortgage valuation, particularly the so-called AAA type instruments. Now, there have been people, including Warren Buffett, that have talked about this level of complexity, that some problems would come out of it. And so far, even despite this bailout, it doesn't look like fixing these problems is going to derail the economy in some dramatic way, where, you know, universities aren't doing research and drug companies aren't doing research, and software companies aren't hiring more engineers to sell to a market that, in the long run, is going to be a bigger and bigger market. And so, we're maneuvering to make sure we don't get this broad contagion. And experts who know, who live in that financial world, should be disagreeing and debating - taking a little time to figure out this fix. But it's not yet really cutting into the fundamental thing that's going on in the world today, which is an increase in the scale of the economy, increase in the number of people going to colleges, an increase in scientific understanding, which the Internet has facilitated this great sharing. So, you know, our foundation has scientists in China and India and the U.K. and the U.S. And during the course of a 24-hour period, they're sharing results, coming up with new ideas, and it's almost location-independent. We certainly have a challenge that we have too many high school dropouts in the United States. And the structure of our economy does not offer that many opportunities to somebody without at least a high school education. There's always this fallacy that there's a certain number of jobs. And ... : ... you know, it's a finite - yes, that somebody's taking them. Take farming jobs. Who took all those farming jobs? The tractor took those farming jobs. We feed this country on less than two percent of the population, and we're one of the great food exporters in the world. And so, automation took those jobs. Is that a bad thing? Do people miss plowing? I don't know. I never did it. As the economy expands, certain sectors like education and medical care and entertainment grow a lot bigger. And until we can say that our education is perfect and the, you know, medical care - everybody gets all the attention they need. You know, there are jobs there. We just need the breakthroughs that allow us to devote resources to those things. So, college educated people are going to have plenty of opportunities. But our education system is gypping people if it doesn't let them know that, if they drop out from high school, that they face a bleak future, so they're really engaged.... Tags: Bill Gates Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN Economy Education Third World

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Biden Confronts Palin on VP Powers & Republican Interpretation of the Unitary Executive Vice Presidential Debate: Biden Confronts Palin on the role of Vice President and Republican Interpretation of Executive Powers. Unitary Executive Joe Biden Sarah Palin Tags: Vice Presidential Debate Joe Biden Confronts Sarah Palin Executive Powers Dick Cheney Republican Unitary

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Paul Newman, Legacy of Charity --CNN+ Paul Newman (Jan 26, 1925 - Sep 26, 2008) I look for transparency when evaluating charities. A very good indicator of this is a 501(c)(3) tax status. http://www.newmansown.com/ http://www.holeinthewallcamps.org/ http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=228900023 http://lnshhq05w.hud.gov/NN/nn_news.nsf/7ead9131e5c7e3b1852569af006ab81c/25792720ae009339852572dd0067c3c8?OpenDocument Tags: Paul Newman Legacy of Charity --CNN Jan 26 1925 to Sep 2008 Newmans Own Hole in the Wall Camps Larry King 501c3 501(c)(3)

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Troy Davis Execution Stayed --CNN Amnesty International Praises Stay of Execution for Troy Davis Last update: 6:32 p.m. EDT Sept. 23, 2008 ATLANTA, Sept 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today welcomed the order from the Supreme Court of the United States to stay the execution of Troy Anthony Davis hours before his scheduled execution. The state of Georgia scheduled Davis' execution for today, in effect circumventing the U.S. Supreme Court before it had time to decide whether its justices would consider Davis' case. "For reasons that are unfathomable, Chatham County officials seemed doggedly determined to ram this execution through before justice could fully run its course," said Larry Cox, executive director for AIUSA. "We are grateful that the U.S. Supreme Court has shown the foresight to stay the execution. We hope that it takes up the case and looks at it with fresh eyes, marking the first time that evidence pointing to Davis' innocence will have been heard in a court of law." Davis was convicted in 1991 of killing Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Authorities failed to produce a murder weapon or any physical evidence tying Davis to the crime. In addition, seven of the nine original state witnesses have since recanted or changed their initial testimonies in sworn affidavits. In March 2008 the Georgia Supreme Court decided against a new evidentiary hearing for Davis in a narrow 4-3 ruling. Last Friday, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Davis' request for clemency. Since the launch of its February 2007 report, Where Is the Justice for Me? The Case of Troy Davis, Facing Execution in Georgia, Amnesty International has campaigned intensively for clemency for Davis, collecting well over 200,000 petition signatures and letters from across the United States and around the world. To date, internationally known figures such as Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter have all joined the call for clemency, as well as lawmakers from within and outside of Georgia. Tags: Troy Davis Execution Stayed

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US Senator Slams China on Human Rights during Olympics Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) explains how economic interests outweigh human rights concerns: (1:52) "The closing ceremonies were beautiful, but there was no free press, there were no protesters permitted, and they rounded up every conceivable dissident and put them in jail. We have made no progress whatsoever in improving the human rights condition in China, but Walmart makes money and we get a lot of cheap goods from them. And so it goes." Tags: US Senator Mel Martinez Republican Florida Cuban Relations China Human Rights Economic Interests Walmart

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All Roads Lead to Rove Heather Wilson Pete Domenici Karl Rove David Iglesias US Attorney Scandal at Justice Tags: Heather Wilson Pete Domenici Karl Rove David Iglesias US Attorney Scandal at Justice

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Pakistan Challenges U.S. Incursions ... Iraq POWs --Rachel Maddow-MSNBC US Forces repelled from Pakistan Border. Pakistani Troops are ordered to shoot US Soldiers crossing into their country. Tortured Iraq War POWs blocked from receiving compensation. One of our allies on the war on terror has ordered its troops to open fire on U.S. troops. Yes, you heard that correctly. Pakistan says its army will shoot at American troops if U.S. forces launch another ground or air raid across the Afghan border into Pakistani territory. This after local officials in Pakistan say there was a border standoff between American troops and armed soldiers and tribesmen in Pakistan on Sunday. The pentagon said it never happened. Local officials say, very near where U.S. troops are confirmed to have made a ground invasion into Pakistan 2 weeks ago, Americans trying to cross the border into Pakistan were turned back by a whole lot of warning shots fired from the Pakistani side. Again, the pentagon said this did did not happen. To recap, nuclear armed Pakistan, likely haven of Osama bin laden, has ordered its soldiers to fire on our soldiers if they cross a border that we know they have recently been crossing. Pakistan's new prime minister did not exactly calm the waters on this when he told the local press in Pakistan, "We are a nuclear state. We cannot act irresponsibly." Finally, the house of representatives has passed legislation about the aftermath of the first gulf war. The 1991 Gulf War was a short conflict but there were American P.O.W.'s and civilians who were tortured or held hostage by Saddam's regime. The most senior lost 45 pounds and was near starvation after 47 days in Saddam's care. The P.O.W.'s and their families want to sue Iraq for damages. A U.S. law passed under President Clinton in 1996 says they can. But the white house is fighting them. -- The white house is fighting the American P.O.W.'s -- and threatening to veto the newly passed legislation that would clear the way for the lawsuit. When our government signed the Geneva convention we pledged never to absolve any country of any liability for the torture of prisoners of war. Many of the P.O.W.'s were American pilots tortured by Iraqis in the same Iraqi prison that is now notorious for how our forces treated Iraqi prisoners, Abu Ghraib. Think the administration has its own liability in mind when it tries to prevent American veterans from suing a foreign government for toruture? Where would the this fall on supporting the troops scale? Tags: State of the Middle East Bush Administration Pakistan Nuclear Power Iraq POW War Veterans Rachel Maddow MSNBC

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Fox News Bias - Republican Connection, Roger Ailes Fox News President, Roger Ailes' History: Republican Party, Fox News, Fake townhall meetings Rick Perlstein: Nixonland ......... Ailes served as a political consultant for many Republican candidates during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. His first such job was as media advisor for the Nixon campaign in 1968. He returned to presidential campaigning as a consultant to Ronald Reagan in 1984. He is widely credited with having coached Reagan to victory in the second presidential debate with Walter Mondale. ......... Nixon's television propaganda (with Lee Atwater) scripted and produced the "Revolving Door" ad. ......... The ad shows a line of convicts (portrayed by actors) casually walking in and out of a prison (filmed in Draper, Utah) by means of a revolving door. The narration states that when governor of Massachusetts, Dukakis vetoed mandatory minimum sentencing for drug dealers, that he vetoed the death penalty, and that he gave weekend furloughs to first-degree murderers. (The furlough program was actually enacted before Dukakis become governor. As governor, Dukakis abolished it.) The narrator goes on to point out that while furloughed, many of the convicts committed crimes including kidnapping and rape, and are still at large. The ad concludes with the phrase: "Now Michael Dukakis says he wants to do for America what he's done for Massachusetts. America can't afford that risk!". The disclaimer at the end indicates the ad was paid for and endorsed by the Bush/Quayle campaign. The spot produced a special effect among women viewers. In looking at the effects of this ad on agenda setting, fascinating differences arise based on the personal circumstances of viewers. I broke down group reactions to the ad in regard to agenda setting on crime. Among the people most likely to cite crime as the top problem after seeing Bush's "Revolving Door" commercial were Midwesterners and young people. But most significant were the differences between men and women in regard to Bush's 1988 ads. One of Bush's strongest agenda-setting effects from his "Revolving Door" ad, for example, was among women on the crime issue. After seeing this commercial, as well as the widely publicized Horton ad produced by an independent political action committee, women became much more likely than men to cite crime as the most important issue. (Note: There often has been confusion between the Bush-produced "Revolving Door" ad, which did not mention Horton directly by name, and the Horton ad aired by an independent political action committee, which used his name and picture. It is not clear whether viewers actually distinguished the two, because both dealt with crime.) Tags: Fox News Republican Nixon McCain Bush Our Man Roger Ailes History

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Politics in Iraq & The Surge --Peter Bergen Events from inside Iraq CNN Interview 7-16-08 Iraq Standing Up ......... They really should not replay footage from over a year ago in the background...(July 18, 2007 below @ 2:35) ------- Peter Bergen is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know (ISBN 0-7432-7892-5). Bergen is known for conducting the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. Mr. Bergen also participated in the CNN documentary In The Footsteps of Bin Laden, which was based on his most recent book, The Osama bin Laden I Know. Here is Bergen on: June 20, 2008: Pakistan/Taliban/Afghanistan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJulYeCuGms July 18, 2007: Focus Shifting from Iraq to Afghanistan Blowback Amplification for UBL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2rsgc7oMI&feature=related February 22, 2007: Extreme Blowback / al-Qaeda / Iraq War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05fo4fkz1sw&feature=related Tags: Politics in Iraq The Surge Peter Bergen Inside CNN First Osama bin Laden Interview

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Louisiana Police Torture & Kill Handcuffed Suspect Motions will be heard in the criminal case against Scott Nugent, the son of the former police chief. A trial date will be set on Oct. 23, 2008. There is an ongoing LA State investigation into the incident. ------------------------------------ Death by Taser: Police Accused of Cover-Up in Death of African American Man Shocked Nine Times While in Handcuffs. ------------------------------------ Police in the city of Winnfield are being accused of covering up the death of an African American man named Baron Pikes. Pikes was twenty-one-year-old. He was Bell's first cousin. Baron Pikes died in police custody on January 21st after being shot nine times with a taser gun while in handcuffs. The city police chief initially claimed Pikes was high on crack cocaine and PCP at the time of his death. But the coroner has just ruled Pikes' death a homicide, after an autopsy determined there were no drugs in his system. His death certificate states he died after being "electro shocked nine times while in police custody and restraint." The coroner also determined the police shot Pikes twice after he lost consciousness—tased him twice. Scott Nugent, the white police officer who tased Pikes, has been fired from the police department, but no charges have been filed in Pikes' death. We are joined right now by three guests. Howard Witt is the Southwest Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune. He wrote the first articles in the national press about both the killing of Baron Pikes and the Jena Six. Howard Witt was a finalist this year for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his wide-ranging examination of racial issues in America. Kayshon Collins is also with us, on the phone from Winnfield, Louisiana. She is the stepmother of Baron Pikes. And we're also joined on the phone from Winnfield by the police lieutenant and spokesperson, Charles Curry. HOWARD WITT: Yes. This incident happened last January, as you mentioned. Pikes had—there was an arrest warrant out for Pikes for possession of cocaine, I believe. The police officer Nugent spotted him walking on the street downtown in Winnfield. Pikes started running. They chased him down near a shopping center, near a grocery store in a little shopping center. Nugent subdued him, handcuffed him. And then, after Pikes was on the ground and handcuffed, Nugent began ordering him to get up and walk to the police car. Pikes either wouldn't or couldn't, and so Nugent then began a series of taser shocks to [Pikes], which continued for a period of about fourteen minutes. And over the course of this fourteen minutes, both on the ground and later in the police car and at the police station, they delivered nine of these electroshocks to Pikes, as witnesses said he was pleading for them to stop tasering him. And by the way, everything I've just told you comes directly from the police report that Scott Nugent, the officer himself, wrote about the case. AMY GOODMAN: When you say "they," in terms of the tasering of Pikes, who do you mean? HOWARD WITT: Well, according to all the police reports, there were three officers present. Nugent was the one actually delivering the taser shocks, and there were two other officers there at various times during this incident. One of them was a supervisor of Nugent and the guy who had actually taught him how to use the taser. And those other two officers were present, as I say, at various times during this incident. Tags: Baron Pikes Cousin Mychal Bell Violence Police Brutality Torture Kill Cover-up Taser Racism Jena6 Winnfield Louisiana Howard Witt LT. Charles Curry

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US Interests in Afghanistan http://memosphere.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/ron-paul-the-last-chance-for-peace/ Afghan War & Unocal Pipeline Plan to access Central Asian Oil Al-Qaeda = US Base Usama Bin Laden Tags: US Interests in Afghanistan Unocal Pipeline Plan Central Asian Oil Al-Qaeda Usama Bin Laden War John McCain Barak Obama Brzezinski Zbigniew

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Relations With That Iran? --CNN Blip http://memosphere.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/ron-paul-the-last-chance-for-peace/ Report: US to Re-Establish Diplomatic Presence in Iran The Bush administration is reportedly planning on establishing a diplomatic presence in Iran for the first time in three decades. According to the Guardian of London, the White House will open a US interests section in Tehran next month. Last week, Undersecretary of State William Burns said the US was still deciding on the move. Burns is representing the US in six-party nuclear talks with Iran this week, another sign the Bush administration could be shifting towards more diplomacy with Iran. Tags: US may Normalize Relations With Iran CNN Blip Embassy

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What Happened to Electric Cars? http://memosphere.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/earth-past-present-future/ What Happened to Electric Cars? Tags: What Happened to Electric Cars?

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