[16] AZ Secretary of State’s procedures manual: http://www.azsos.gov/election/Electronic_Voting_System/2010/Manual.pdf
So are there any pictures of him chowing down on some authentic “Gulf seafood”?
See also Stephen Lendman’s piece at
http://impactglassman.blogspot.com/2010/08/obamas-gulf-swim-was-fake.html.
MCM
President goes for a swim in the Gulf – or does he?
By Guy Adams
President Barack Obama wanted to convince America that the Gulf of Mexico remains open for business. But perhaps he didn’t want the world to catch another glimpse of his hairless chest.
So when he and his daughter, Sasha, took a dip in the sea off Florida this weekend, only the White House photographer was allowed to capture proceedings.
The official picture was intended to provide evidence that the region’s beaches are back to normal. Yet it soon emerged that the private beach on which it was taken, off Alligator Point in St Andrew Bay, north-west Florida, isn’t technically in the Gulf.
What’s even more appalling than Glenn Beck himself, and rants like this one, is that they raise no eyebrows in “the liberal media.”
Imagine what would happen if somebody in the MSM would ever dare to vent like this against the rich–or even just to speak a little truth about the world they’ve made for us.
If you can’t imagine it (I can’t), that in itself suggests how free the US press is, and how “balanced.”
MCM
Glenn Beck on the 99ers: “I bet you’d be ashamed to call them Americans”
By karoli Tuesday Aug 17, 2010 2:00pm
Before you go after me for giving Glenn Beck any attention again, please watch this:
SEE THE VIDEO AT Crooks and Liars
I am writing this post so that I can email it to my in-laws who watch Glenn Beck’s show every single day and ask them how they can support this kind of heartless and inhuman spew. I am writing this post because it isn’t right for him to be able to shout this kind of excrement out with no counter response. It offends me. No, it infuriates me. At this point, it’s all too personal and too close to home and I’m really just damn sick and tired of letting conservatives get away with this crap while they roll in their moneybags and lowball bids on foreclosed homes of the people who aren’t them.
This exclusion shouldn’t come as a surprise, since Obama’s policy, re: public housing, is to privatize the system coast to coast–as we noted in May:
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2010/05/alert-obama-trying-to-privatize-all-us-public-housing/
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2010/05/background-to-obamas-plan-to-privatize-us-public-housing/
So this exclusion of progressive activists recalls BushCo’s exclusion of environmentalists from Dick Cheney’s energy task force meetings at the White House back in 2001. Which is to say, it isn’t promising.
MCM
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From Dan Barenblatt:
There are natural, nontoxic ways to get rid of bedbugs (cimex lectularis, used as a germ warfare vector by the japanese against china civilian populations in WW II):
1) Spread diatomaceous earth powder–available by mail order or in selected stores*–around your infested dwelling.
2) If you can stomach it, collect spiders and/or centipedes, and set them loose in the infested dwelling. they will eat up and drive out the bedbugs.
3) A combination of 1 and 2.
Dan
Study: Gulf oil spill still a threat to seafood safety
BY FRED TASKER
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill still poses threats to human health and seafood safety, according to a study published Monday by the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association.
The report comes two days after President Obama and members of his family swam in the Gulf at Panama City Beach and ate fish caught there, and hours after this year’s commercial shrimping season officially kicked off along the Louisiana coast.
Federal officials disputed the new report and said ongoing testing is aggressive and sufficient to protect public health.
No doubt you remember this:
WASHINGTON – The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated – and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.
Thus the NYTimes reported on 8/5 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/science/earth/04oil.html).
Well, here’s some news that’s far more credible, from two teams of academic scientists, one at the University of Georgia, the other at the University of South Florida.
Kudos to CNN for highlighting the latter’s work. Now let’s see if these findings resonate as loudly as that blast of propaganda from the government.
MCM
UGA report: Vast majority of Gulf oil remains
By STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS – Athens Banner-Herald
University of Georgia marine scientists say that nearly 80 percent of the oil released into Gulf of Mexico from BP’s blown out Deepwater Horizon well has not been recovered and remains a threat to the Gulf’s ecosystem.
The leaking well, which ruptured from an April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers, was sealed July 15, when BP finished closing up a cap mounted on top of the well. Reportedly, no oil has seeped out since.
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Plumes of Gulf oil spreading east on sea floor
By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) — A new report set to be released Tuesday renews concerns about the long-term environmental impact of the Gulf Coast oil disaster, and efforts to permanently plug the ruptured BP oil well have been delayed again.
Researchers at the University of South Florida have concluded that oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico further east than previously suspected — and at levels toxic to marine life.
Initial findings from a new survey of the Gulf conclude that dispersants may have sent droplets of crude to the ocean floor, where it has turned up at the bottom of an undersea canyon within 40 miles of the Florida Panhandle. The results are scheduled to be released Tuesday, but CNN obtained a summary of the initial conclusions Monday night.
As if there’s not enough to worry about…!
MCM
Bed Bug Infestation Is Scaring Millions Of Americans
Outbreaks of bed bugs, soaring in the most unexpected places — like CNN’s headquarters — stoke some of our deepest fears.
August 16, 2010 | Peter Krask stepped out of his New York City apartment one day last year, shut the door, and walked away forever, leaving behind almost everything he owned.
He carried away only a few items of clothing, personal records, and his computer.
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“Three Digital Myths”
Three digital myths
by Christian Christensen
The release of the Afghan War Diaries on Wikileaks,
with stories published in The Guardian, the New York
Times and Der Spiegel by agreement with Wikileaks, has
made news around the world. Le Monde Diplomatique, in
conjunction with Owni and Slate.fr, have also made the
documents available online via a dedicated website. The
security implications of the leaked material will be
discussed for years to come. Meanwhile the release of
over 90,000 documents has generated debate on the
rising power of digital journalism and social media.
Many of the discussions are rooted in what I call
internet or digital myths — myths which are rooted in
romantic, deterministic notions of technology.
Myth 1: The power of social media
Media experts and commentators are commonly asked what
the Wikileaks case tells us about the power of social
media in contemporary society, particularly in the
coverage of war. There is nothing wrong with this
question, but it does illustrate a troubling tendency
to place all forms of social media (blogs, Twitter,
Facebook, YouTube, Wikileaks) under the same huge
umbrella. The myth is that social media are homogenous
by virtue of their technologies. But Wikileaks is
nothing like Twitter or YouTube. What separates it from
other forms of social media is the review process that
submitted material must go through in order to be
posted to the site. This might seem like a detail, but
it strikes at the heart of “techo-utopian” notions of
an “open commons” where anyone and everyone can post
(almost) anything for all to read, hear and see.
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