as I think they may have policies - albeit slanted and inconsistently applied - about external links.

But in the home stretch, with the threat of re-establishment of Congressional oversight on the table in the upcoming elections, there's no doubt that it's "clicked" to the moguls atop the defense-contractor and investor-class media that every time one of their channels mentions one of these alternative narratives they lend their own breadth of reach to the dissemination of the narrative.

And they know it's going to be hideously ugly for them when America loses that "blind spot"; lots of roaches came out when the lights went out.

That's why I predict you may see things like this more commonly in the coming couple of months:

Fox questions Plame leak story without even identifying book

David Edwards
Published: Monday August 28, 2006

Former Under Secretary for the State Department Richard Armitage, leaked the classified identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, according to a new book.

In this video report, Fox News asks if the book proves that Armitage actually leaked the name.

"Armitage's central role as the primary source on Plame is detailed for the first time in Hubris, which recounts the leak case and the inside battles at the CIA and White House in the run-up to the war," this week wrote Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, who co-authored the book with David Corn.

Fox never mentions the title of the "new book" that they used as a source for their analysis, and saying that it's one of the "most insignificant" stories of 2006...

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That is - until they are hounded out of this silly and circular effort.

It tickles me to think that these are the grownups who are going to "keep us safe". With all the incredible resources at their disposal, they can't even prosecute info war against the American public competently. I think it's because the plans were laid for this corporate coup d'etat long before the Internet and blogosphere were on the radar screen - and one of the movement's greatest vulnerabilities is its lack of adaptability.

I have stood lookout watch on a cutter sailing around in temperatures well below freezing. If a Coast Guard vessel is sailing around in cold water areas like the Bering Sea, they'd be pretty foolish to use a sensor that fails when the air gets below 5C. Liable to hit ice out there, and most CG ships have very thin hulls. That would also make it harder to search for small boats lost in cold weather, if you can't depend on FLIR.

Of course, it might be possible to retrofit a heating element to the FLIR unit. Why didn't Lockheed do that? Oh, that's right--it's cheaper to pay off BushCo with a cash bribe.

"Death before being dishonored any more." - Col. Ted Westhusing

I find it fascinating that the MPAA has the power to get clips removed from YouTube with minimal delay, however the USCG apparently requested the removal of this clip as of the publication date of the NavyTimes story (August 7th?) and it's still there.

Becaues emphasis is difficult to convey, that's a pointed comment about the MPAA rather than about YouTube.

but speaking of the US Coast Guard:

U.S. Coast Guard seeks firing ranges on Great Lakes

First time since 1817

Suddeness of the plan

Yahoo.news

Comment: Arm the vessels in March, 2006 and now they need targets for their guns. Isn’t there any better target than fish that live in the Great Lakes waters? They are rather small and live under the water, but the lead from the bullets will kill their habitat. Is the US Coast Guard restricting the killing to only US fish? I wasn’t aware fish had nationalities. :-) But it does seem reasonable to request that the US Coast Guard kill only fish that are in their waters and not ours.

Planning? You have to be joking. It could imperil Canadian shipping and boaters as well as fish.

From the third link: “The Coast Guard says it has done an environmental assessment with the help of two independent research companies. But according to the Michigan Environmental Council, that report isn't publicly available.” How much would you like to bet the independent research company, who is nameless, is an incompetent bunch of boobs that have no qualifications about environmental issues?

Homeland Security is just another layer of bureaucracy. There were clear lines of communication before the Patriot Act was passed and before the Department of Homeland Security was put in place. Political appointments to senior positions in Homeland Security has weakened emergency planning. Where previously there were competent planners, those positions have been filled with unqualified political hacks. FEMA is a perfect example.

From the fourth link: “Car ferries that operate in summer from Ludington and Muskegon to Wisconsin would be in live-fire zones.” They also mentioned that the areas are close to sports fishing zones. Sure they’ll post notices on the radio and wherever they can, but many boaters don’t have radios and don’t check notices either in newspapers or posted at marinas. Do they become collateral damage?

Canadian border guards to be armed It will take ten years to train them in the use of their weapons. Every checkpoint I’ve ever crossed has a RCMP officer that is armed and knows how to use his weapons.

Stephen Harper will agree to anything Homeland Security requests and President Bush calls him ‘Steve’. More fitting is salivating, ‘Lapdog'.

When will sanity about security return to the United States?