Cedric's Big Mix: Bad MoJo

Monday, April 21, 2008

Bad MoJo

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE.

(415) 321-1700 IS THE CONTACT NUMBER FOR MOTHER JONES 'MAGAZINE' BUT WHEN YOU CALL IT, YOU FIND OUT THAT THEY NOT ONLY DON'T WANT TO BE CONTACTED, THEY THINK THEY DO NO WRONG.

A FIVE MINUTE AND 17 SECONDS CALL TO THEM BY ___ THIS MORNING YIELED NO RESULTS UNLESS YOU CONSIDER BEING SCREAMED AT OVER THE PHONE "RESULTS."

THE CALLER, A COMMON ILLS COMMUNITY MEMBER, PHONED TO SEE WHY MOTHER JONES HAD REFUSED TO CORRECT DAVID CORN'S IDIOTIC CLAIM THAT BILL CLINTON PARONDED SUSAN ROSENBERG AND LINDA EVANS.

IT WAS NOT PRETTY. "THIS WOMAN WOULD NOT STOP YELLING, SHE CUT ME OFF REPEATEDLY AND I FINALLY HAD TO YELL BACK AND STATE I WANTED TO TALK TO SOMEONE ELSE. AT WHICH POINT SHE TOLD ME THAT I COULDN'T. EVERYONE ELSE WAS 'BUSY IN PRODUCTION'."

PRODUCING MORE LIES OBVIOUSLY. MOTHER JONES IS A SICK LITTLE MAGAZINE THAT DOESN'T HAVE A FACT CHECKING DEPARTMENT AND REFUSES TO CORRECT THEIR ERRORS WHEN THEY ARE POINTED OUT.

THEY ARE ALSO IN VIOLATION OF THEIR TAX STATUS -- 501 (C) (3) -- BECAUSE THEY HAVE REPEATEDLY ATTACKED HILLARY CLINTON NON-STOP WHILE STROKING BARACK OBAMA AND THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ENDORSE. SINCE THEIR ATTACKS HAVE INCLUDED LIES AND DISTORTIONS, THEY SHOULDN'T CALL THEMSELVES JOURNALISTS.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU IDENTIFIED YOURSELF AS A TAX ATTORNEY?

"AFTER THE WOMAN FINISHED HER SCREAMING FIT, I INFORMED HER I WAS A TAX ATTORNEY AND THAT MOTHER JONES WAS IN VIOLATION OF THEIR TAX STATUS. I ASKED TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE REGARDING THAT AND SHE REFUSED AND STARTED SCREAMING AT ME AGAIN. HAVING WASTED OVER FIVE MINUTES ON THE PHONE WITH THE BANSHEE, I HUNG UP."

MOTHER JONES, THE CRAP LEFT FLOATING IN THE TOILET. FLUSH IT DOWN, I.R.S., FLUSH IT DOWN.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting with war resistance. Lou Michel (The Buffalo News) reported Sunday on US war resister Patrick Hart who is seeking safe harbor in Canada and explains, "This is home for me now. I love Canada. A lot of us have been here a few years and planted roots." Hart is an Iraq War veteran who was stationed in Iraq from 2003 (April) to 2004 (March) and who self-checked out and went to Canada in August of 2005. He, his wife Jill and their son Rian have made Canada their home. Michel notes that, "The Canadian House of Commons is expected to vote soon on a resolution that would allow him and the other deserters to seek residency there. It's considered a last resort -- a political solution -- because the Canadian courts have determined they lack the jurisdiction to rule on deserters' claims that the war in Iraq is illegal and make them eligible for asylum as refugees."

The Canadian Parliament will debate a measure this month on that issue. You can make your voice heard. Three e-mails addresses to focus on are: Prime Minister Stephen Harper (pm@pm.gc.ca -- that's pm at gc.ca) who is with the Conservative party and these two Liberals, Stephane Dion (Dion.S@parl.gc.ca -- that's Dion.S at parl.gc.ca) who is the leader of the Liberal Party and Maurizio Bevilacqua (Bevilacqua.M@parl.gc.ca -- that's Bevilacqua.M at parl.gc.ca) who is the Liberal Party's Critic for Citizenship and Immigration. A few more can be found here at War Resisters Support Campaign. For those in the US, Courage to Resist has an online form that's very easy to use.

There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes Matt Mishler, Josh Randall, Robby Keller, Justiniano Rodrigues, Chuck Wiley, James Stepp, Rodney Watson, Michael Espinal, Matthew Lowell, Derek Hess, Diedra Cobb, Brad McCall, Justin Cliburn, Timothy Richard, Robert Weiss, Phil McDowell, Steve Yoczik, Ross Spears, Peter Brown, Bethany "Skylar" James, Zamesha Dominique, Chrisopther Scott Magaoay, Jared Hood, James Burmeister, Jose Vasquez, Eli Israel, Joshua Key, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Clara Gomez, Luke Kamunen, Leif Kamunen, Leo Kamunen, Camilo Mejia, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Agustin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Abdullah Webster, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder, Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, Blake LeMoine, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Logan Laituri, Jason Marek, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Dale Bartell, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Chris Capps, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake, Christopher Mogwai, Christian Kjar, Kyle Huwer, Wilfredo Torres, Michael Sudbury, Ghanim Khalil, Vincent La Volpa, DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total, at least fifty US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline [(877) 447-4487], Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. Tom Joad maintains a list of known war resisters. In addition, VETWOW is an organization that assists those suffering from MST (Military Sexual Trauma).

Last month Iraq Veterans Against the War's Winter Soldier took place and KPFA has a live program coming up April 22nd:

Live On Air and Online at kpfa.org!

April 22 from 10am-1pm
Join us on April 22nd for this very important follow up to Pacifica's groundbreaking Winter Soldier live coverage. We will be following the San Francisco trial involving wounded vets and the Department of Veterans Affairs. In this first class action lawsuit U.S. Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder sue the VA, alleging a system wide breakdown in the way the Government treats those soldiers.
During this special broadcast we will be bringing our listeners live updates from the San Francisco federal courthouse, we'll speak with wounded Veterans attorney Gordon Erspamer, (taking this case pro bono because his father was permanently disabled in World War II and never received proper health care) and speak with Veterans advocates including Veterans for Common Sense, and Vets for America.
Read more about the broadcast here.

That announcement will appear in the snapshots until the broadcast. If you missed Winter Soldier you can stream online at Iraq Veterans Against the War, at War Comes Home, at KPFK, at the Pacifica Radio homepage and at KPFA, here for Friday, here for Saturday, here for Sunday. Aimee Allison (co-host of the station's The Morning Show and co-author with David Solnit of Army Of None) and Aaron Glantz were the anchors for Pacifica's live coverage.

Today William Branigin (Washington Post) reports, "Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates chided the U.S. armed forces today for not providing enough intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance help to troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying it has been 'like pulling teeth' to get the services to change old habits." Gates was speaking at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama and he opened with memories that drew (intentional) laughter -- four times at the start of his speech. Getting more serious, Gates began pushing counter-insurgency: "Furthermore, the counterinsurgency manual issued by the Army and Marines is over 200 pages long and yet only four pages are dedicated to air, space and cyberspace. Not long ago, the Air Force published a doctrine document on irregular warfare, but as future leaders of air power, you should consider whether there is more the service might do to articulate and codify the unique role of air power in instability operations." He pushed predators and other "unmanned systems" (they "cost much less and offer greater loiter times") which is only surprising if you missed the hard sell done by the military last week (Thursday) in the US House Armed Service Committee's Strategic Forces Subcommittee when THAAD was being pushed hard. If you caught that hearing, you know drones are being pushed hard by the military which is being creative with the funding aspect. Mark Thompson (Time magazine) observes, "Gate's comments richoeted at supersonic speed around the Pentagon and across broader defense networks, as officers -- and contracters -- tried to parse their implications. His bottom line: The Air Force ought to be less concerned with buying more $350 million F-22 fighters for use in future wars that may never happen, and do more to deliver what is needed to fight the wars currently underway 'while their outcome may still be in doubt'." Of course the pitch may have been undercut by the fact that a US drone crashed today in Musayyib. Gates also took a swipe at the intelligence communtiy noting that "the intelligence community has wrestled with this over the years and, I would say, mostly unsuccessfully. And one example is the role of the national intelligence officer for warning. Now, this is supposed to be the out-of-the-box thinker who spots the threat coming down the road that nobody else can spot. But since most of the time, most threats don't materialize, eventually that person gets sidelined, and they don't play a constructive role." Okay, who's job was national security on 9-11? Condi Rice. Her title was National Security Advisor. Today she's the US Secretary of State and she just finished a for show trip to Iraq.