Michael Ware and the Four Wars

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Friday February 02, 2007 · 9:29 AM PST

2007/02/02 · 09:29

I was writing a comment, and it got so long I decided to make it a diary. It's entirely commentary and analysis.

Michael Ware was on Anderson Cooper last night for an interview. I saw Cooper, who has been a mouthpiece for support of this war, sit there astounded as Ware told him of realities that none of the MSM talking heads are even willing to acknowledge. Ware is a journalist who has FIRST HAND information and intelligence on the Iraq War, from the beginning until today, and he has risked his life to tell his story.

Ware said that the Iraq War isn't ONE war, it's FOUR WARS happening simultaneously in the same place.

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 10:57 AM PST

2007/01/26 · 10:57

Proposed: A television network to compete with the MSM.

I'm a television producer. I've produced television shows on a shoestring. So I KNOW that what I'm proposing is feasible.

There are perhaps thousands of television producers all across the country. They put out shows on cable access television. The difference between what they do and what I'm proposing: NETWORK AFFILIATION. Not an existing network, but a new network that they themselves create by, well, AFFILIATING.

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Sunday December 31, 2006 · 2:06 PM PST

2006/12/31 · 14:06

Those of you who know me, know my incessant drumbeating on this issue from my comments. I'm really tired of reading articles in the mainstream press from experts who do little more than repeat the same tired refrains against renewable energy, ignoring the FACTS about technology that has been developed and is on the market right now.

This is my pitch: A new infrastructure that relies almost entirely on solar and wind energy for the production of fuel and electricity. Hydrogen is both a storage medium to defeat periodicity in wind and sunlight, and a fuel for use in transportation.

The system I envision is a NETWORK of local webs, composed of smaller energy plants that produce fuel and electricity CLOSE TO MARKET, defeating the need for overcapacity in the current infrastructure, dictated by distant toxic plants (coal, nuclear, natural gas) shipping electricity over high voltage lines.

The system I envision DOES NOT necessitate huge plants making vast amounts of hydrogen. Instead, hydrogen would be produced, AS NEEDED, with a "just-in-time inventory" model at the point of use.

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Tuesday December 26, 2006 · 1:23 PM PST

2006/12/26 · 13:23

You know, they keep saying it, and so I keep coming back to it:

HOW will you exercise oversight with an executive that will lie to you, defraud you, refuse to obey laws, refuse to recognize the legitimacy of your subpoenas, withholds information, misdirects appropriations as he sees fit, even to wage undeclared wars, will employ illegal domestic spying, retaliate against and even prosecute whistleblowers, defies court decisions, breaks treaties at will, uses propaganda, pays off journalists, uses classified information for political purposes, and censors factual information?

HOW? How will you exercise oversight when these abuses of power and criminal activities are POLICY?

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 10:23 PM PST

2006/12/22 · 22:23

It's the reason I've been away from dailykos for a while. It started right after I began to post information about the war crimes case filed by CCR and the petition to Monika Harms.

Let the German Federal Prosecutor know that Bush has made himself immune from prosecution in the United States for war crimes, and that he has veto power over any action by the international court. Universal Jurisdiction by a High Contracting Signatory to the Geneva Conventions is the only chance we have to make Congress sit up and take notice that the crimes committed by Bush and his subordinates are INTOLERABLE to civilized people and that action must be taken immediately to remove Bush and Cheney from office.

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Friday December 08, 2006 · 4:26 PM PST

2006/12/08 · 16:26

I posted this as a comment not long ago. Those who read it encouraged me to post it as a diary. I wuz gonna link all kinds of things, and put pictures in it like my compadres do, but I changed my mind.

It's an editorial. My personal editorial about the disconnection between the establishment and the people. My own opinion about what ought to be done, come January, instead of minimum wage/congressional pay hike.

If you want info on my claims about alternative energy, google it, ok? The kind of infrastructure I'm talking about hasn't been put together in one package yet, but it's components are on the market. Ignore all rumors of undercapacity.

And now, the disconnect:

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Thursday November 23, 2006 · 9:09 AM PST

2006/11/23 · 09:09

We have been seeing this at least since late August of this year. The bodies are turning up 60 to 80 at a time, this report being the largest number I've seen so far in one day. All of them bound, sometimes blindfolded or gagged, and all of them showing signs of having been tortured.

And we are told, these are victims of Iraq's sectarian violence.

Are they?

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Monday November 20, 2006 · 3:38 PM PST

2006/11/20 · 15:38

It's been going on now for a while. Was ragin' like a wildfire this weekend. Both sides got their favorite diaries recommended to the top of the list. Results from the poll from my own diary:
46% We have enough evidence to impeach NOW!
39% Hearings and investigations first
4% We will deal with it eventually
9% Off the table, forget it!
I might add that among the 39% who want investigations first, they range in opinion from hearings immediately and for a few weeks, to hearings in the spring, to hearings and extensive investigations starting next fall.
Many who were at first for hearings sometime over the next year firmed up to hearings as soon as possible after some discussion.

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Friday November 17, 2006 · 11:58 AM PST

2006/11/17 · 11:58

Let me amend that. Impeachment, removal, arrest and prosecution of Bush and Cheney are not off the table.
Perhaps, once they are convicted, the death penalty will be commuted to life in prison. Perhaps.

I'm putting it this way because it's important to realize that we are NOT facing a situation where impeachment of the president alone is doubtful and conviction in the Senate highly unlikely, as was the case with Bill Clinton.

We are not facing an optional act of political theater based upon a defense of questionable principle. Read More

Divided, The Neocons FALL

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 10:34 AM PST

2006/11/03 · 10:34

Two recent news stories have piqued my interest. Both of them stuck in my mind because I couldn't figure out how they fit into the general tapestry of the political strategies of the Republican Party and it's leadership.

Here are the links, and follow me over the fold:

Iraq Study Group: Blessing or Curse for Bush Administration?

Bush Says Rumsfeld, Cheney Should Stay
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Illegal Wiretapping Saves the Day, Forever

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Tuesday September 19, 2006 · 11:55 PM PDT

2006/09/19 · 23:55

I have a remarkable faculty for remembering all kinds of assorted facts. I remember particular facts for no apparent reason at all, sometimes. Often, when I come across a new fact, another fact which was stored in my warehouse of assorted facts springs to mind, and makes an association. Read More

Bush's Twisted Logic

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Sunday September 17, 2006 · 10:01 PM PDT

2006/09/17 · 22:01

I made a comment that was the best received comment I've ever made, so I decided to put it in diary form. It's meant to be a talking point, and with Congress debating the Military Tribunal/Torture/Shred the Constitution and International Law bill tomorrow, I thought I would put this out for anyone who missed it where I buried it.

Below the fold, Bush's Twisted Logic Read More

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