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POPSRush Limbaugh Lies: McCain Says He Provided Intell While Being Torture (Not True)
Elsewhere in his memoir, McCain recalled providing false information to his captors on multiple occasions in order to “suspend the abuse.” Further, McCain explained in a 2005 Newsweek column that he believed torture would yield little actionable intelligence. “In my experience, abuse of prisoners often produces bad intelligence because under torture a person will say anything he thinks his captors want to hear — whether it is true or false — if he believes it will relieve his suffering,” McCain wrote. McCain was right. As the Washington Post reported last month, the torture of Abu Zubaida — who was once thought to be a high-level AQI operative — did not foil “a single significant plot” and provided the CIA with a number of “false leads.” “We spent millions of dollars chasing false alarms,” one former intelligence official told the Post. Further, “most of the useful information from Abu Zubaida — chiefly names of al-Qaeda members and associates — was obtained before waterboarding was
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POPSHow dangerous is that jar of honey? Quick summary : Most U.S. and Canadian honey is of high quality and safe; , the large majority of honey consumed in the U.S. is imported; millions of pounds of Chinese honey destined for the U.S. is transshipped and frequently mislabeled as coming from a different foreign country; some importers and honey packers are in on the con; federal investigators and some large honey importers say they still find Chinese honey tainted with illegal medications; FDA, USDA, and customs agents have far too much on their plates to pay much attention to honey; and only a smallest fraction of honey seeping through our borders is ever tested.
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POPSPelosi Promises Investigation of Bush Crimes Man, just when I was all set to get back to hating Nancy. As Michael Corleone said in Godfather III (I think), "Just when you think you're out, they suck you back in!" The piece goes on: he was far less restrained when asked about the White House role in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, vowing to push forward on hearings that could lead to prosecutions. "That's not up to us to say that doesn't matter anymore... We cannot let the politicizing of, for example, the Justice Department to go unreviewed," she added. "I want to see the truth come forth." Wow, maybe the neocons aren't going to get away with it...
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POPSMcCain gaffes pile up; critics pile on McCain's mistakes raise a serious, if uncomfortable question: Are the gaffes the result of his age? And what could that mean in the Oval Office? Voters, thinking about their own relatives, can be expected to scrutinize McCain’s debate performances for signs of slippage
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POPSMiddle Class Poverty Soon, we will all be added to the list of poverty as what we know as the "Middle Class" disappears altogether. If you think the 21st century Robber Barons plan to stop this massive wage degradation, you better hang on to your britches. Like the wealthy Robber Barons of Mexico, our corporations won't stop the next added 20 million ILLegal migrants -- nor will they stop the insourcing, offshoring and outsourcing of jobs.
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POPSCourt: US can force beef packers NOT to test Large packers alarmed that small packers wanted to compete by testing every animal for mad cow disease. Got their Repub buddies to pass law prohibiting more than spot testing. Now who is it that this law protects?
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POPSNAIS – it's not about food safety, it's about favoring big agribusiness
More: Producer objections to NAIS involve issues of cost, privacy, and liability. Some producers are worried that meatpackers would transfer liability for bacterial contamination of processed meat back to the farm of origin. Others see NAIS as a threat to the confidentiality of producer records; they're concerned that foreign governments, packers, or other buyers might gain access to those records for their own benefit. Tags that remain on an animal throughout the supply chain could be scanned, and the data retained by buyers to build a database of a producer's products and values. Some worry that packers might use the information they gain from RFID tags for an unfair advantage… Owners of independent livestock markets are concerned about the bookkeeping and reporting burden NAIS creates for them. Some states have already required FFA members to comply with NAIS before they're allowed to participate in livestock projects.
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POPSWill football players one day look like race cars? This move by the Packers seems like a giant step towards sponsored uniforms. I suppose that with stadiums names after sponsors, race cars decorated with sponsors, golfers basically functioning as walking billboards and home run fences in baseball decorated with advertising, it is only a matter of time before players' jerseys contain ads.
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POPSPatriot Games: What Again New England? "It's not their first time," a member of the committee, who did not wish to be identified, said. In fact, Green Bay Packers president Bob Harlan confirmed a similar incident that occurred when the Patriots played at Lambeau Field last Nov. 19. The same cameraman who was questioned by NFL security on Sunday was also the one whom the Packers removed from the sideline and escorted from the field during their 2006 game, according to Packers security official Doug Collins. "From what I can remember, he had quite a fit when we took him out," Harlan said. "We had gotten word before the game that they did this sort of thing, so we were looking for it."
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POPSMad Cow Desease and The FDA Testings According to a law from 1913, yes 1913, that was supposed to eliminate drugs and tests that were ineffective, has been used to limit testing for meat packers and processors. So we will find out only after the bad, mad cow has been eatin'.
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