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Breitbart Obama Video ‘Controversy’

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March 9, 2012


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Breitbart Obama Video ‘Controversy’

So Breitbart and Hannity are certain that they
HAVE Obama from his college days, hugging
a radical professor and then covering it up. Except
the professor wasn’t radical and there was no coverup.
(The Young Turks – March 8, 2012)

Listening Post – Drums of war: The Media on Iran, Syria and in Libya

Evans Liberal Politics
February 25, 2012


Listening Post – Drums of war:
The Media on Iran, Syria and in Libya


Commentary by Evans Liberal Politics owner Paul Evans: Below is a fairly long (25:05) video produced by AlJazeera, the independent Arabic news operation which does a good job with the English language versions of its news and has a global reach. In my experience, they have been fairly unbiased as a news source. So when AlJazeera does a segment describing the current media frenzy regarding an imagined necessity of going to war with Iran, and comparing that to the run-up to the Iraq war, it sends chills down my spine. And it should for you, too.

If you remember,there was absolutely no need to go to war with Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and even the last U.N. inspectors who had been in Iraq (not too long before the war) stated that, while there was no transparency in the inspection process, there also was no evidence of a dangerous capacity in regard to WMD. Moreover, Saddam Hussein (the dictator in Iraq) was a secular Muslim, who hated fundamentalist groups such as Al Qaeda. There was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before the U.S. invaded.

Do you remember all the speeches Bush made about WMD and “yellowcake” going to Iraq from Africa and “significant contacts” between Iraq and Al Qaeda? Do you remember the sham speech that Colin Powell was conned into making at the U.N., which gave us the necessary backing to go to war with Iraq?

In this video, the second and third sections are about the media in Syria and the altogether new, free media in Libya.

Please at least watch the first part, describing the building media hysteria about going to war with Iran. Going to war with Iran is a much bigger deal, than was going to war with Iraq, too. You would see the whole Middle East region go up in flames. Israel would be fighting a war on three fronts, against Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria. Probably the U.S. and likely Saudi Arabia would be fighting Iran inside Iraq. (Iraq and Iran share a 906 mile (1458km) border.)

It is also likely that it would be necessary to re-instate the draft, and that gasoline prices would double, destroying the economy’s fragile recovery and sending America deep into an economic depression.

There is no evidence that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has reached the level of 90 percent purity, necessary to produce an atomic weapon. The last news I read about it had their enrichment level at 20 percent, which is a level consistent with medical uses.

One fifth of the world’s oil passes through the 21 mile-wide Straits of Hormuz, adjacent to Iran. There are two (and only two) main Saudi oil terminuses and Iran has 1,000 or more ballistic missiles. Do you think we could put in a sufficient number of Patriot missile batteries so that the Saudi oil terminuses remained safe? Likewise, Israel has only two major cities, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. So that would give Iran only four primary targets for 1,000 or 1,500 ballistic missiles.

Folks, do we really want to do this?

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Fanfare for the Common Man 1977

Evans Liberal Politics
February 21, 2012


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Fanfare for the Common Man
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MSNBC: US Naval commander in Gulf: We’re ready to confront Iran

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MSNBC: US Naval commander in Gulf:
We’re ready to confront Iran

Perhaps the main significance of this video
being featured on page one of MSNBC is the fact that
war with Iran is now being openly discussed
in the mainstream media.

Scott Rasmussen: Obama very likely to be reelected if trends continue

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Scott Rasmussen: Obama very likely
to be reelected if trends continue

Scott Rasmussen: Obama very likely to be reelected if trends continue, The Raw Story, February 6, 2012, by Eric W. Dolan, quoted verbatim: Logos57: A Caring Community is pleased to partner with The Raw Story to bring you cutting edge news:

Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports predicted on Monday that President Barack Obama would win the 2012 election if the economy continued to improve.

The latest Rasmussen poll showed Obama with a 7 point lead over the Republican frontrunner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Fox Business News:
Obama Likely to be Re-elected
If Trends Continue

“The trends are moving in President Obama’s direction,” Rasmussen said during an appearance on Fox Business. “Consumer confidence this morning is at the highest level in more than a year, and by the way it is getting near the highest level of the past four years. A plurality of investors now think the economy is getting better.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the unemployment rate had fallen to 8.3 percent, the fifth straight monthly decline since August. In addition, the private sector added 257,000 jobs in January.

Following the report, Rasmussen found that 37 percent of Americans strongly approved of Obama while 27 percent strongly disapproved.

“The absolute numbers tell one part of the story, but the trends tell another,” Rasmussen explained. “If we continue to get good economic news, the president is very likely to be reelected.”

An ABC/Washington Post poll released Monday found Obama ahead of Romney by 52 to 43 percent.

See Hannity: ‘It’s end time in America’ if Obama re-elected, The Raw Story, February 7, 2012, by Andrew Jones.

Comment: Like that preacher who kept predicting Judgment Day and the end of the world, Hannity will have a strong basic appeal to fundamentalist types, and so his claim may even hang around after the election for some time. Did you ever notice that Fox has had a few of their main spokesmen basically make their appeal as if they were slick preachers (Hannity and Beck, at the least), appealing to those who may not know better? Yet the “end of the world” has been predicted as long as there has been a print medium. It is one of those topics which charlatans like Hannity pitch very well. ~ Paul Evans

In the News: Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri:
What to Look for in the First Day of Multiple Contests

Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri: What to Look for in the First Day of Multiple Contests, AP OTUS on Yahoo News, February 7, 2012, by Elizabeth Hartfield:

Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri are hosting their voting contests Tuesday, marking the first day in the 2012 cycle to see contests in multiple states. Colorado and Minnesota will have caucuses, and Missouri will hold a primary, though that state will also hold another voting contest – a caucus – in March.

A total of 76 delegates are at stake; 36 in Colorado, 40 in Minnesota and zero in Missouri. Missouri will hold off awarding delegates until its caucuses on March 17. Colorado and Minnesota will allocate delegates on a proportional basis, meaning that each candidate is likely to receive part of the full slate.

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Video News Update for Wednesday February 1, 2012 (4 Videos)

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Video News Update for Wednesday
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Twitter Implementing
New Censorship Policy

Big win for Romney
in Florida primary

Report says Taliban preparing
to retake Afghanistan

Extreme freeze claims lives
in eastern Europe

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