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Sunday, 20JUL2008 
Obama Damaging Chances of Dialogue with Cuba and Venezuela
Michelle Wie drops the ball, uh,
wizbangs scorecard.
This is Sports? You Bet! 
Ed. note: As of this update,
4,125 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq;
558
U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan.
[NAMES BY DATE] See
Charlie Wilson's War, and Robert Redford's
Lions for Lambs.
Juan Cole: "Presidential hopeful Barack Obama held consultations Saturday in Kabul with Afghan government officials. He discussed the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the country. I heard him on television at one point pledging to defeat the Taliban. "Aljazeera is showing footage of him addressing US troops who are going wild for him, and shooting hoops in the base gym. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Iraq, endorsed Obama's plan for a withdrawal US troops from Iraq. Although al-Maliki said he was not choosing up sides in the presidential race, it seems clear that he'd be much more comfortable with Obama." More Afghanistan reports on INFORMED COMMENT For your entertainment and delight, early in the day, yesterday on dKOS, turneresq posted a kind of sez it all piece; Major WH Blunder: Emails al-Maliki Story to Reporters. Gloat if you want to... MORE George Carlin died - who no one ever took seriously because he was so funny, so now with no one to be compared to, everybody thinks they can be funny. Seriously. Did you hear the one about Obama? According to a recent story in the Los Angeles Times... "Barack is stingy. How stingy is he? Why, he's so stingy that, in campaign headquarters, the first time you put your hand under the electric towel dispenser you get a towel. The second time, you get a message to go see David Plouffe, the tight-fisted campaign manager. Or so the joke goes. Are you laughing? No? Not even a tiny bit?" If not, go back to sleep. If so, read on! News of the Day As Seen on C-SPAN: Google Netroots. Barack didn't show up for the occasion. Likely he already has sufficient dKOS support, so better mo better he should go after expat and in-uniform voters wherever he can find them. Challenging Barack to "see the world" was John McCain's biggest mistake since getting shot down in Vietnam or taking favors from Charles "Lincoln Savings and Loan Association" Keating. See At 'Netroots Nation,' Obama Campaign Goes to Ground by Garance Franke-Ruta on WaPo. Democratic Politics and News Barack Obama’s "Big Trip" is Also a Big Risk By Susan Estrich The obvious risk, the risk that is being much discussed, albeit in careful tones, is that something could happen to him. The world is a dangerous place. The places Sen. Barack Obama is visiting — Iraq, Afghanistan, the West Bank — are among the most dangerous places in a dangerous world. And Obama, himself, is the sort of leader who attracts adoration and hatred and zealots of all stripes; part politician, part mega-watt celebrity, he is the sort of superstar who, security people will tell you, is the most challenging to keep safe. No one releases such counts, nor should they, but I have absolutely no doubt that Obama receives many more threats on a daily basis, and more serious ones, than Sen. John McCain. He is, for want of a better term, "hotter." But as he travels abroad, Obama is surrounded by Secret Service agents trained to provide security at the highest level. He is the guest of foreign governments who afford him the same level of security and protection that they would an American president. He is following a schedule and a route that has been carefully planned with his safety in mind, with access to him tightly controlled and chance encounters all but eliminated. To be sure, there is no such thing as perfect security, but the precautions being taken to protect Obama and his entourage are as close to perfect as humans can get. There is no reason to believe that Obama is at any greater risk in leaving the country than he is every day on the campaign trail. In fact, he may well be safer. MORE 
Bush lied. People died. This is an action item. MORE Based on the Scott McClellan revelations that "Cheney lied about Plame and the Bush Administration used propaganda to pump up the case for the Iraq war," Bob Wexler has renewed his call for the impeachments. MORE New Scott McClellan news and links over the past 24 posted HERE See Senate Intelligence Report: Bush Overstated Iraq Evidence, and Rove's Pre-War Propaganda Campaign Dissected. MORE See The Pre-Islamic "Silk Road" Caravan Stories; A Case of Mistaken Identity, and the Lily Allen Encore.   
Saturday, 19JUL2008
New Hampshire Will Accept Free Oil from Venezuela
THIS JUST IN: Barack doing an overnight in Kabul DETAILS 
Miley Cyrus coming and going
the way of
Vanessa Anne Hudgens and
Britney Spears? Uh, yeah. Latest Official Chinese (Communist) news.
Ed. note: As of this update,
4,125 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq;
558
U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan.
[NAMES BY DATE] See
Charlie Wilson's War, and Robert Redford's
Lions for Lambs.
Juan Cole: "As usual Bush's staff made up an implausible euphemism for the timetable, calling it a 'time horizon' for 'aspirational goals?'" And so goes the rest of the GHWB-CIA attempted how-to of getting oil into the hands of Hunt and wrestled away from China's Sinopec or Russia's Lukoil. Also see details of the (Ruskie's) Gazprom deals with Libya and Iran. Professor Cole wrote, "On 13 July, Gazprom signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Iranian Oil Company, with some provisions similar to the agreement reached with Libya. The two companies proposed a joint venture for exploration and development of gas and oil fields in Iran, and to build refining and transport facilities in Russia, Iran, and 'third countries.'" More at INFORMED COMMENT 
See The Pre-Islamic "Silk Road" Caravan Stories; A Case of Mistaken Identity, and the Lily Allen Encore.
 See The Pre-Islamic "Silk Road" Caravan Stories. 
Mary Magdalene in happier times; portrayed as a prostitute, a disciple, a goddess,
a wife (of Jesus), and a mother. She is also a feminist heroine, a challenge to traditional
religion, and, according to a website devoted to her, is "the most misunderstood woman in
the Bible". Mary Magdalene, is also remembered as a frequent visitor to the southern coast
of France.
See the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. See Pope Ratzinger Opens Debate on Authenticity of "Christian" Churchianity. - Painting courtesy of Leonardo Da Vinci 
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Like Algiers before, it's Fallujah Still CLICK Updated 20DEC2004
Ed. note: Included are links (below) to Battle of
Algiers, Z, and Godfather II. All three are
telling the same story about Algiers, Greece, Cuba, and, uh, downtown
Fallujah or Baghdad.
In this game, the most committed wins. For the Bush White House to ask American soldiers to die for Iraq, is socially and morally irresponsible if not flat-out insane. Doesn't anyone inside the Beltway remember Vietnam anymore? A new DVD version has just been released. See Amazon for details and "reviews" of the original 1967 movie. Like Algiers before, it's Fallujah now By George S. Hishmeh Ground Zero Nation From 28AUG2003 edition By Tom Engelhardt 
 The Godfather VHS - (Widescreen Edition) * VHS - Spanish subtitles * The Godfather DVD Collection (2001)    by Paul Aussaressess and Robert L. Miller
As Seen On TV Wal-Mart: "We are in business for small business." That of course is a goddam lie because it just isn't true. In Wal-Mart's quest to sell at the lowest prices, they buy only from small businesses that don't pay their workers decent wages and benefits. There will come a day when Wal-Mart will be buying for export, goods made at the hands of men and women incarcerated in privately owned U.S. prisons. Wal-Mart as One of the Ten Worst Corporations in 2004 By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman - Wal-Mart has refused a partnership with a closed textile mill that former workers hoped would restore jobs in Mullins. 
WAL-MART: THE WORKFARE COMPANY "There's no question that Wal-Mart imposes a huge, often hidden, cost on its workers, our communities and U.S. taxpayers ... Wal-Mart is in the driver's seat in the global race to the bottom, suppressing wage levels, workplace protections and labor laws." You only have to look at the cover of Wal-Mart's 2004 Annual Report to know the company is facing trouble unlike any it has had to handle before. "It's my Wal-Mart," asserts the slogan on the cover of the annual report. At the bottom are these claims: "Good Jobs * Good Works * Good Citizen * Good Investment." Missing is any reference to "Always Low Prices." Stepped up and novel community and legal challenges confronting the company are making the mammoth retailer expend energy on repositioning its image. Hence the annual report, the major image-oriented television ads, the sponsorships on National Public Radio - listened to by few of its shoppers - and the huge surge in campaign contributions. Wal-Mart and its managers gave more than $2 million to federal candidates in the last U.S. electoral cycle, more than any oil company, and almost triple the level the company donated in the 2000 elections. The company faces a class action lawsuit on behalf of 1.6 million women workers, alleging rampant employment discrimination at Wal-Mart. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has announced plans to spend $25 million a year with the ultimate goal of unionizing Wal-Mart, the largest private U.S. employer. And the company - which has already lost more than 200 site fights - faces an even more-intensified resistance to its efforts to locate new stores, as it increasingly seeks to enter markets in more urban areas. In April, voters in the largely African-American and Latino working class town of Inglewood, California rejected a referendum that would have allowed Wal-Mart to open a Supercenter without being subject to normal municipal reviews. But while on a bit of a public relations defensive, the company remains the colossus of U.S. - and increasingly global - retailing. It registers more than a quarter trillion dollars in sales. Its revenues account for 2 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product. The company takes in more than one in five dollars spent nationally on food sales, and market researcher Retail Forward predicts Wal-Mart will control more than a third of food store industry sales, as well as a quarter of the drug store industry, by 2007. Wal-Mart is the largest jewelry seller in the United States, "despite the fact that the prime target market for jewelry - high-income women from 25 to 54 years - are the least likely of all consumers to shop for jewelry in discount channels," as Unity Marketing notes. Wal-Mart is the largest outlet for sales of CDs, videos and DVDs. And on and on. For two years running, Fortune has named Wal-Mart the most admired company in America. It is arguably the defining company of the present era. The company's business model has relied on new innovations in inventory management, focusing on ignored markets (low-income shoppers in rural areas - though this is now changing), and squeezing suppliers to lower their margins. But it has also relied centrally on undercompensating employees and externalizing costs on to society. A February 2004 report issued by Representative George Miller, D-California, encapsulated the ways that Wal-Mart squeezes and cheats its employees, among them: blocking union organizing efforts, paying employees an average $8.23 an hour (as compared to more than $10 for an average supermarket worker), allegedly extracting off-the-clock work, and providing inadequate and unaffordable healthcare packages for employees. Miller's report's innovation was in documenting how Wal-Mart's low wages and inadequate benefits not only hurt workers directly, but impose costs on taxpayers. The report estimated that one 200-person Wal-Mart store may result in a cost to federal taxpayers of $420,750 per year - about $2,103 per employee. These public costs include: $36,000 a year for free and reduced lunches for just 50 qualifying Wal-Mart families. $42,000 a year for Section 8 housing assistance, assuming 3 percent of the store employees qualify for such assistance, at $6,700 per family. $125,000 a year for federal tax credits and deductions for low-income families, assuming 50 employees are heads of household with a child and 50 are married with two children. $100,000 a year for the additional Title I [educational] expenses, assuming 50 Wal-Mart families qualify with an average of two children. $108,000 a year for the additional federal healthcare costs of moving into state children's health insurance programs (S-CHIP), assuming 30 employees with an average of two children qualify. "There's no question that Wal-Mart imposes a huge, often hidden, cost on its workers, our communities and U.S. taxpayers ... Wal-Mart is in the driver's seat in the global race to the bottom, suppressing wage levels, workplace protections and labor laws." Wal-Mart's abuses are giving rise to countervailing efforts, but it is an open question whether the company has amassed such power that it will be able to defeat such initiatives. In California, in November, the company was able to stave off by a 51-to 49 percent margin a proposition that would have required every large and medium employer in the state to provide decent healthcare coverage for their workers, with the employer contribution set at a minimum of 80 percent of costs. Wal-Mart dumped a half million dollars into the anti-Proposition 72 campaign just a week before the vote. "As one of California's leading employers, we care about the health of our 60,000 employees here," said Wal-Mart spokesperson Cynthia Lin, in celebrating the defeat of Proposition 72. "That's why we provide our employees with affordable, quality health care coverage." "Prop. 72 was never about Wal-Mart," she claimed. "It was about allowing businesses to operate without unreasonable government mandates, it was about the survival of small businesses and it was about consumer choice in healthcare benefits." The biggest immediate challenge facing Wal-Mart is the class action lawsuit filed by its women workers. The women allege that Wal-Mart pays female workers less than men, promotes men faster than women and men above more competent women, and fosters a hostile work environment. A federal judge ruled in June that the case could proceed as a class action. "We strongly disagree with his decision and will seek an appeal," says company spokesperson Mona Williams. "While we cannot comment on the specifics of the litigation, we can say we continue to evaluate our employment practices. For example, earlier this month Wal-Mart announced a new job classification and pay structure for hourly associates. This new pay plan was developed with the assistance of third party consultants and is designed to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness." Liza Featherstone, who has chronicled the claims of the women employees in her book Selling Women Short, says women workers report "a pattern of arbitrary, very subjective decision-making by management." They report business meetings being held at Hooter's or strip clubs. The contradiction of a self-righteously moral company - which won't sell racy magazines or CDs with parental advisory labels - permitting such behavior is a reflection of women employees' powerlessness. "Unlike its female workforce," Featherstone writes, "the women who shop at Wal-Mart canZt be ignored, and many of them have conservative values." But while Wal-Mart is willing to bend to consumer demand on marginal issues like covering over the headlines on Cosmopolitan magazine, it is not so flexible on respect for worker rights. Nor is there any sign of a consumer rebellion on anything like the scale necessary to make the company revisit its employment policies. Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman are co-authors of On the Rampage: Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy. Robert Weissman is general counsel for Essential Inventions, a nonprofit mentioned in the Abbott profile.
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