The GOP is the Party of Death and Destruction (PODD)
NOTE: For background on Deathwatch see:
The Party of Death - A Primer for Democrats ...
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/145arendtThis is so easy to do that, despite saying I would stop, I will continue it for a while.
Comments on today's headlines: What is striking to me is the lack of focus on the Yoo/Addington torture story. This story was hot yesterday, but seems to have vanished today. Does this mean that DU takes its lead from the Corporate Media (who have buried it under a bunch of Clinton trivia)? Or, does it mean that the war (i.e., the whitewash of the Basra disaster) and Petreus' testimony has caused everyone here to move to that topic?
In any case, war and the cratering economy continue to dominate DU. The environmentalists have brought a lot of bad news today, too. The corporate media is in damage control mode on the Seligman/US attorney mess; so it doesn't get too much exposure.
I would appreciate anyone else's take on why the PODD frame is not getting picked up at DU. Is it because everyone at DU slavishly follows the corporate media, who are focused on irrelevant trivia like Obama's bowling?
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KILLING THE PLANETClimate target is not radical enough - study (Hansen: 550 ppm "disaster", 2m sea rise this century)
Rainforests Being Rapidly Cut And Cleared For More Rubber Plantations In Southern China
Renewables' Replacement Of Fossil Fuels Lags Well Behind Estimates
Peak Of Austria's Stubai Mountains Vanishes - Glaciologists Suspect Climate Behind Melt, Erosion
Seahorses - Native To Africa & Mediterrenean - Now Living In Thames Estuary
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DESTROYING THE CONSTITUTION (examples of systemic corruption)
Finally. On TeeeVeee. "Bush Administration Officials Will Be 'Indicted For War Crimes" War on Drugs = Voter Disenfranchisement?
Another Test for Habeas Corpus
Siegelman Future Hinges on Appeal ("60 Minutes" Interviews Freed Governor - 'Rove Needs to Testify')
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DESTROYING PUBLIC SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTUREno items today----
DESTROYING GOVERNMENT REGULATION (examples of failure and more deregulation)
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DESTROYING THE MIDDLE CLASS (examples of job loss and economic stress)
Stagflationary Abyssal Part II - More Evidence and Suggestions for What to Do
"We are seeing .. the collapse of the modern day banking system"
U.S. retailers cut jobs as shoppers stop shopping
Strip Mall Vacancy Rate Highest in 12 years
Medical Tourism: Pathway to Outsourcing Physician Jobs
Dell will focus on emerging markets to boost growth
Congress doing little to help homeowners, unions charge
Iraq War costs every American family $100 a month
$3 Trillion May Be Too Low by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
For bargain basement America, foreign investment no panacea
Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) and the mess they have made
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DESTROYING SCIENCE AND EDUCATIONno items today----
KILLING PEOPLE IN WARS----Today's Laugh----
REAL WORLD:
LAT: Officials foresee no ebb in Iraq violence
Gunmen set Baghdad's largest food market on fire - eyewitnesses
Blackwater contract renewal not approved by Iraq: Maliki
Frank Rich: Tet Happened, and No One Cared
MC-INSANE'S WORLD:
McCain insists Iraq buildup is working
US congressional hearings on Iraq foreshadow aggressive stance against Iran
Petraeus Testimony to Defend False "Proxy War" Line
Israel, U.S. plan to release details on Syria attack
Sherwood Ross: Bush Military Buildup Recalls Stalin And Hitler
Robot armies - another military revolution?
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