Action Point with Cynthia Black 10-07-2007: The Reference Shelf

Today's article and item links:

• Beyond MOVEON: First: MoveOn.org Didn't Invent BetrayUs- The Troops Did! but the Senate voted to "censure" 'them' (all 3.3 million) instead. Then, Moveon didn't balk but instead created: Americans for Exit: "...a powerful new project that will remind our representatives that those of us against the war are America." THEN, Limbaugh got busted with his "Soldiers who don't go to Iraq to die are 'phony' " diatribe and winger talkers like Glen Beck pee'd all over themselves trying to carry his water!

• Mukasey Revisited: Chrony for the next Republican President? Giuliani loves him, that's bad enough, but what other skeletons are in his closet? My interview subject for today Peter Lance knows: Bush nominee helped mask FBI's pre-9/11 failures and kept al Qaeda's infiltration of US intelligence from view. Today and in future shows Peter and I will be reviewing this timeline leading up to 9-11 (32pg. PDF), from his book Triple Cross and available on his website.

• The Casual Cruelty of Republican Pundits: Casual Cruelty and Limbaugh Portrays Vets As Terrorists: From this week's topic on The Campaign Frame with Jeffrey Feldman.
  

• OMB Watch Regulatory Resource Center: The Resource Center will provide the public, media, lawmakers and non-governmental organizations with a central location to learn about the federal regulatory process. The Resource Center will include background material as well as advocacy resources for those who want to make their voices heard. And it's easy to use!!!

• From The File Formerly Known as Andrew Meyers/ Star Simpson: Family Blames Police in Airport Death:

  "The family of a woman who died after being detained at the Phoenix airport has hired an attorney to monitor the police investigation into her death and is sending a representative to her autopsy."

  More. Is it me, or if I continue to follow this thread every week, will I find out we are killing more people preventing terrorism than terrorists in America are killing themselves?
  

• MUST READ: Immoral, Not Inept: by David Sirota "The Bush administration and the Republican Party are often criticized for refusing to aggressively use the "soft power" of international diplomacy. But alas, the attacks are misguided. This crew is more than willing to use "soft power" — not in Iraq, but in Central America, and not in an effort to bring American troops home, but in a ploy unfolding this weekend to enrich its big campaign contributors through the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)."

• ENVIRONMENT: From the Slow Heat Death of the Human Race File: Conservationists Lose Battle to Stop Tasmanian Pulp Mill: Global heating will not occur in the United States alone. It is occurring globally. So let's (finally) read, think and act on the issue, as international citizens:

  One of the most vigorous opponents of the mill is Greens Senator Bob Brown, who represents Tasmania. "Gunns pulp mill will have a forest furnace attached to it, which will burn 500,000 tonnes of forest wood per annum, next to a pulp mill which at the outset is going to have 80 percent of its resource stock of native forests," Brown said in a speech last month.

  "In other words, they are going to create a massive factory to burn the carbon banks or chemically break up the carbon banks now sitting there in the Tasmanian valleys and mountains holding back climate change, and they are going to promote the transformation of those great saving forests into an added hit on the global climate change phenomenon," Brown said.

Report on the Slow Heat Death of the Human Race: Top 100 Ways Global Warming Will Change Your Life: Carried forward from last week. This time, read it.

• INCOMING: Freedom's Watch; the 5%'ers Own 'Lil "Moveon": Big Coffers and a Rising Voice Lift a New Conservative Group: Ah, how cute. Dick Cheney's butt buddies are putting their monies where there mouths are-- endless Oil Wars. Funny how much 3 million Americans can scare the Billionaire's Crony Club. Is there any reason Moveon membership has not targeted the revenue machines of the Boys Crony Club and simply Pushed Back? Boycotting say Coors, or Club Med or whatever little vacation, sin or other mega-millions generating stream it would take to cripple the geezers?