Endgame, or Could they make it sound any scarier?

Project Censored lists the 25 most censored news stories of 2007. The one I find most horrifying is #14, "Homeland Security Contracts KBR to Build Detention Centers in the U.S." These detention centers built under the guise of rounding up immigrants could be easily be used to detain American citizens.

According to Peter Dale Scott:

The contract of the Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of “all removable aliens” and “potential terrorists.” In the 1980s Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld discussed similar emergency detention powers as part of a super-secret program of planning for what was euphemistically called “Continuity of Government” (COG) in the event of a nuclear disaster. At the time, Cheney was a Wyoming congressman, while Rumsfeld, who had been defense secretary under President Ford, was a businessman and CEO of the drug company G.D. Searle.

These men planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after nuclear attack, but for any “national security emergency,” which they defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as: “Any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.” Clearly September 11 would meet this definition, and did, for COG was instituted on that day. As the Washington Post later explained, the order “dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans.”

The Bush Administration: Suspending more then Habeas Corpus since 2001.

Fruit Falling far from the Tree, or Have you any Wool?

Nothing against Barack Obama, but I find this whole situation hilarious:

When asked about Hillary Clinton during an October 16, 2007, MSNBC interview, Lynne Cheney said that she had a "certain bias" as "Dick [Cheney] and Barack Obama are eighth cousins." When asked if that meant that she was supporting Senator Obama, Cheney replied, "No."

"The Obama campaign's response? 'Every family has a black sheep.'"

Cheney was on MSNBC plugging her new book, Blue Skies, Open Fences. When she appeared on the Daily Show on October 10, Cheney claimed that there have been no terrorist attacks against the United States or American interests since 9/11. When Jon Stewart mentioned the bombings in Madrid and London, Cheney argued that these attacks on our allies' capitals did not count because "we were talking about American interests." The audience booed. Watch it:

Intelligent Debate That Can Only Be Found on Fake News

Jon Stewart is referring to this clip of an interview with Dick Cheney in 1994 following the first Persian Gulf War that recently appeared on YouTube:

Impeachment Fever

According to a recent poll, 45% of Americans favor "beginning impeachment proceedings" against President Bush, with 46% opposed. The number rises to 54% in favor of beginning proceedings against Vice President Cheney, with 40% opposed. Only 36% favored holding hearings to impeach President Clinton in 1998.

Even William Odom, head of the NSA under Reagan, has laid out his strategy for Dubya's impeachment:

To force him to begin a withdrawal..., the first step should be to rally the public by providing an honest and candid definition of what “supporting the troops” really means and pointing out who is and who is not supporting our troops at war. The next step should be a flat refusal to appropriate money...to be used in Iraq for anything but withdrawal operations with a clear deadline for completion.

The final step should be to put that president on notice that if [he] ignores this legislative action and tries to extort Congress into providing funds by keeping U.S. forces in peril, impeachment proceeding[s] will proceed in the House of Representatives. Such presidential behavior surely would constitute the “high crime” of squandering the lives of soldiers and Marines for his own personal interest.

Meanwhile, the first steps to impeach Dick Cheney have already been taken. An internet petition posted today already boasts over 12,000 signers. (Sign it here.) A House resolution has been introduced by Dennis Kucinich to impeach Cheney. According to the Library of Congress, H.R. 333 was introduced back in April and has languished in the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties since May. The members of the subcommittee are listed here. I urge you to call them in support of H.R. 333. E-mail your representative here. Ask them to support or co-sponsor the resolution.

Keith Olbermann Calls for Bush's, Cheney's Resignations