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Five Lobbyists have been dismissed from the McCain campaign, for, well, being lobbyists. Or, more accurately, being outed as lobbyists So much for Master Straight-Talk. The question, of course, is why exactly isn't this hitting the news media like a perfect storm and generating stories questions his ethics and commenting on how much in disarray his campaign is?
Then again:Obama would pursue vigorous antitrust policies and singled out Big Media as an industry that due to uncontrolled consolidation would bear particular scrutiny.
(As an aside:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has promised more vigorous enforcement of antitrust law if elected, but antitrust experts said on Monday that the courts could trip him up.")
And, after all, Chris Matthews declared that the media was John McCain's base:
MATTHEWS: Every time I look at a poll -- and I expect McCain to win every one of these polls. The press loves McCain. We're his base, I think, sometimes...
In other news...
Democracy and the Web:New York Times editorial FINALLY hits on the issue of Net Neutrality (and see some of the legislation that has been introduced to safeguard this vital right)
and
Two new reports show today's young workers are being squeezed by high costs of living and low or stagnant wages and they want the government to do more to solve this nation's economic mess.
to say nothing of the fact that...
International envoys are meeting in Dublin for a 12-day conference to hammer out a deal that would ban the use of cluster bombs. Big producers like the US and Israel will not be attending, while the pressure is on the UK to push to water down the treaty to prevent it undermining the NATO alliance...
Almost 10 years after the Ottawa Treaty banned the use of landmines, more than 100 countries are gathering on Monday to attempt to ban cluster bombs as well. However, the United States and other big producers will not be attending. Washington is arguing that the proposed treaty threatens to undermine the very fabric of NATO...
The biggest producers of the cluster weapons, the United States, China, Israel and Russia, are not attending the 12-day conference and have been lobbying hard to have it watered down. Benjamin Chang, a spokesman for the US mission to the United Nations, told Reuters that Washington is opposed to any ban. "We do not believe they are indiscriminate weapons." ...
According to the United Nations Development Program, cluster munitions have caused more than 13,000 confirmed injuries and deaths around the world, the vast majority of them in Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon. The munitions caused more civilian casualties in Kosovo in 1999 and Iraq in 2003 than any other weapon system.
Five Lobbyists have been dismissed from the McCain campaign, for, well, being lobbyists. Or, more accurately, being outed as lobbyists So much for Master Straight-Talk. The question, of course, is why exactly isn't this hitting the news media like a perfect storm and generating stories questions his ethics and commenting on how much in disarray his campaign is?
Then again:Obama would pursue vigorous antitrust policies and singled out Big Media as an industry that due to uncontrolled consolidation would bear particular scrutiny.
(As an aside:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has promised more vigorous enforcement of antitrust law if elected, but antitrust experts said on Monday that the courts could trip him up.")
And, after all, Chris Matthews declared that the media was John McCain's base:
MATTHEWS: Every time I look at a poll -- and I expect McCain to win every one of these polls. The press loves McCain. We're his base, I think, sometimes...
In other news...
Democracy and the Web:New York Times editorial FINALLY hits on the issue of Net Neutrality (and see some of the legislation that has been introduced to safeguard this vital right)
and
Two new reports show today's young workers are being squeezed by high costs of living and low or stagnant wages and they want the government to do more to solve this nation's economic mess.
to say nothing of the fact that...
International envoys are meeting in Dublin for a 12-day conference to hammer out a deal that would ban the use of cluster bombs. Big producers like the US and Israel will not be attending, while the pressure is on the UK to push to water down the treaty to prevent it undermining the NATO alliance...
Almost 10 years after the Ottawa Treaty banned the use of landmines, more than 100 countries are gathering on Monday to attempt to ban cluster bombs as well. However, the United States and other big producers will not be attending. Washington is arguing that the proposed treaty threatens to undermine the very fabric of NATO...
The biggest producers of the cluster weapons, the United States, China, Israel and Russia, are not attending the 12-day conference and have been lobbying hard to have it watered down. Benjamin Chang, a spokesman for the US mission to the United Nations, told Reuters that Washington is opposed to any ban. "We do not believe they are indiscriminate weapons." ...
According to the United Nations Development Program, cluster munitions have caused more than 13,000 confirmed injuries and deaths around the world, the vast majority of them in Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon. The munitions caused more civilian casualties in Kosovo in 1999 and Iraq in 2003 than any other weapon system.
