Looks like John Stewart fell into the spotlight by accident. Never had a clue as to what the real issues are. Apparently thinks War Crimes are merely technicalities and Fox News doesn’t spew propaganda.

Murder of Millions “ No Big Deal”.

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Exactly When Did Clarence Thomas Attend Kochfest - And Did He Bring His Wife ?

 

Marcy Wheeler looks at the Think Progress report and comes up with some questions about the connection between Clarence Thomas and the Koch brothers:

Again, it’s not a surprise that the guy who duck-hunted with Dick Cheney while reviewing a suit involving the Vice President would hang around with the conservative elite.

But the report raises a whole slew of questions.

Think Progress has an important post looking at how Scalia and Thomas have been instrumental in loosening campaign finance regulations, which has made it a lot easier for people like the Kochs to buy elections.

But Scalia and Thomas have been involved in more than just rulings that make it easier for the Kochs to win election.

After all, they once cast two of the only nine votes to matter in the 2000 Presidential election.

They’ve not only issued rulings that make it easier for conservatives to win elections, they’ve decided an election. And one of the most obvious explanations for why Thomas and Scalia have attended at least one of these secret shindigs but not Sam Alito or John Roberts would be if they attended before the latter two were SCOTUS Justices. You know, back before Thomas and Scalia selected a President.

So did Thomas and Scalia attend a meeting strategizing how to win elections before the decided one?

And then there’s the other question: whether Ginni Thomas, the founder of an organization that bridges mainstream conservatives with the TeaBagger movement, attended the gathering.

The invitation from this year’s shindig shows that most attendees bring their spouses. So if Thomas followed the norm, then Ginni would have attended with him. Which would put Ginni Thomas, now a big player in the TeaBagger movement, at an event hosted by the guys who are bankrolling the TeaBagger movement.

The Koch brothers would already be leading candidates to be funding Liberty Central. The Koch brothers would already be leading candidates to be the source of the $500,000 or $50,000 donations from undisclosed individuals to Liberty Central. The Koch brothers–and their funding of TeaBagger activities–have been central in opposing the health care reform that Liberty Central has called unconstitutional.

But it would be very neat if the Koch brothers recruited Ginni Thomas to front this group at their secret cabal meeting, wouldn’t it?

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If you want an interview, it's unwise to ask WikiLeaks founder and former hacker Julian Assange about charges of sexual impropriety, as CNN correspondent Atika Shubert found out recently.

When Shubert first inquired about the allegations of internal turmoil at WikiLeaks -- claims leveled by former employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg -- Assange took a dry tone and emphasized that his purpose for appearing in front of the cameras was the publication of classified Iraq war documents.

Then she asked about the molestation charges being investigated by Swedish police. Her written report to CNN, which initially summarized that he refused to talk about it, is something of a polite understatement.

"This interview is about something else," he said. "I will have to walk if you are... If you are going to contaminate this extremely serious interview with questions about my personal life."

The reporter persisted, so Assange calmly got up, removed his mic, apologized and left.

Appearing at a London press conference on Saturday, Assange insisted that the site's latest disclosure is "about the truth."

"The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends," he said. "We hope to correct some of that attack on the truth that occurred before the war, during the war and which has continued on since the war officially concluded."

He claims the cache of documents reveals over 104,000 civilian deaths during the Iraq war, and an initial report by the Associated Press confirms the files detail at least 15,000 additional unreported civilian casualties.

Additionally, German paper Der Spiegel pointed to several accounts of what it calls "dubious attacks" by US Apache helicopters, suggesting they may have amounted to war crimes.

Assange has called the charges of rape and molestation, filed by two women in Sweden, a "smear campaign" based on a consensual relationship.

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Memo exposes secret list of conservative donors plotting campaign against Democrats, climate change.

John Byrne Raw Story

A secret memorandum and invitation to an under-the-radar meeting of conservative minds has been leaked to the liberal blog ThinkProgress, and the list has been reprinted by Raw Story below, in an effort to highlight and focus on the names of the participants in the meeting. The meeting was organized by Charles Koch, Chairman of Koch Industries (whose secretive 'war' against Obama's agenda was recently documented by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker).

A review of the list shows that some of the CEOs and owners of massive multinational corporations are behind efforts to plot against the progressive agenda. Among them include the owners of the Bechtel Group, the largest engineering company in the United States; the CEO of Fluor Corporation, a multinational involved in pipeline construction and oil refinery production; the Vice Chairman of Cintas Corp; the former CEO of Circuit City; the CEO of Service Group of America; the founder of the Blackstone Group; the owner of The Examiner newspapers; and the former CEO Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, among others. Also in attendance was Fox News host Glenn Beck.

ThinkProgress' Lee Fang notes: "While the Koch brothers — each worth over $21.5 billion — have certainly underwritten much of the right, their hidden coordination with other big business money has gone largely unnoticed. ThinkProgress has obtained a memo outlining the details of the last Koch gathering held in June of this year. The memo, along with an attendee list of about 210 people, shows the titans of industry — from health insurance companies, oil executives, Wall Street investors, and real estate tycoons — working together with conservative journalists and Republican operatives to plan the 2010 election, as well as ongoing conservative efforts through 2012. According to the memo, David Chavern, the number two at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Fox News hate-talker Glenn Beck also met with these representatives of the corporate elite. In an election season with the most undisclosed secret corporate giving since the Watergate-era, the memo sheds light on the symbiotic relationship between extremely profitable, multi-billion dollar corporations and much of the conservative infrastructure. The memo describes the prospective corporate donors as “investors,” and it makes clear that many of the Republican operatives managing shadowy, undisclosed fronts running attack ads against Democrats were involved in the Koch’s election-planning event." Fang's expose is well-documented and well-linked and is a very worthy read. Raw Story has reprinted the list of attendees to Koch's event below in an effort to broaden knowledge about those involved in the Koch's anti-progressive efforts.

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This isn’t the first time this has happened. See The Whitehouse Coup Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

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Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart did what he does best: using clips from Fox News and GOP leaders to show how hypocritical both can behave.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling this past January eased restrictions on how much money corporations can spend on political ads, but it also allows certain organizations called "501C4s" to have a special tax status so they do not have to reveal who their donors are.

As Stewart points out, "Democrats are furious about Republicans' untraceable ads because of their principled stand against fear mongering." Yet, the DNC did exactly that when they recently ran an ad vaguely accusing Republicans of using "secret foreign money."

"It looks like the fear 'mongee' has become the fear monger" Stewart said.

No one was more upset with this accusation than Karl Rove, who immediately wanted to know
"Who's behind all this?" In fact, as Stewart backed up with clips, everyone at Fox News has suddenly become outraged by people wanting to know where money is coming from, when just two months ago it was Fox News who was "following the money" in regard to the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.

Stewart wondered: Does the GOP's selective outrage only apply to "dirty Muslim money?"

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"Stephanopoulos : "Finally there was some provocative comments that came out over the weekend from Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He described what he sees as the president's misguided policies to his Kenyan roots.I want to show you what he said in the National Review Online. 'What if President Obama is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together  his actions?' And he goes on to say, 'That is the most accurate predictive model for his behavior.' Your response?"

Gibbs: "George, I think you may have hit the nail on the head that it is hard to comprehend. I don't even have quite frankly, George, the slightest idea what he's talking about."

Stephanopoulos: "No idea what he's talking about? Do you think it's appropriate?"

Gibbs: "I think Newt Gingrich knows that he's trying to appeal to the fringe of people that don't believe the president was born in this country. You would normally expect better from somebody who'd held the position of speaker in the House but look, it's political season and most people will say anything and Newt Gingrich does that on a genuinely on a regular basis."

Stephanopoulos: "Okay, Robert Gibbs. Thank you very much for your time this morning."

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