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Right Wing Watch. Home. Common Cause. Swedish Pirate Party Offers Web Hosting for WikiLeaks. U.S. Congressman Calls For Execution Of Wikileaks Whistleblower. What should happen to PFC Bradley Manning, the young man now charged with the unauthorized access of and subsequently leaking of classified military information, namely the video that Wikileaks released under the title “Collateral Murder”?

U.S. Congressman Calls For Execution Of Wikileaks Whistleblower

Should the United States government execute him? If your name is Congressman Mike Rogers, then you believe that yes, the young man should be put to death. Fox News to move to front-row White House briefing-room seat. The White House Correspondents Association voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing room. The seating change was prompted by the resignation of veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas. According to Ed Henry, the senior White House correspondent for CNN and member of the WHCA board, the Associated Press will move to the front-row middle seat formerly occupied by Thomas.

“Fox is a right-wing propaganda outlet, not a legitimate news agency” Anyone taking bets on whether or not the White House Correspondents Association will be snookered into giving ClusterFox a front row seat at the Daily Press Briefings?

“Fox is a right-wing propaganda outlet, not a legitimate news agency”

Helen Thomas's seat is up for grabs. And by seat I mean vacant chair in the briefing room. Fox moves to front row - On Media. Right-wing media respond to AZ ruling with unhinged rhetoric. Bill Brady Takes Tea, My Dear. “I don’t drink coffee, I take tea, my dear.”

Bill Brady Takes Tea, My Dear

Those are the opening lines of Sting’s “An Englishman in New York,” which was inspired by British author Quentin Crisp. Ordinarily, you wouldn’t quote a song about a gay raconteur to describe Bill Brady. But Brady is alienated from the big city where, as a candidate for governor, he’s forced to spend a lot of his time. He prefers the Tea Parties of rural Illinois to the coffee shops of Chicago. Brady attended a Tea Party in Oglesby on Tuesday night. The Right Wing and Their Media Empire - Fact Checkers Need Not Apply. Right Wing Liars: Michael Charles Master, James David Manning, GiniCorp, and ATLAH World Ministries. Aug-02-2010 01:01 Ersun Warnke Salem-News.com Business/Economy Reporter These people are hypocrites, liars and con artists, pure and simple. (EUGENE, Ore.) - ATLAH World Ministries is a bizarre “Christian” ministry operated in Harlem by an ex-felon named James David Manning. Manning espouses a variety of conflicting racists view points, which even Fox News labels as “Hate Filled,” although that doesn’t stop them from giving him air time.

In a notorious Fox News interview, Manning stated of Obama: “His African in heat father went a-whoring after a trashy white woman. Right-Wing Crazies Fight Witchcraft and Demons, Gunning for a State Near You; Sarah Palin Fans Use Prayer to Strike Down the Dark Forces : Veterans Today. - A radical, right-wing charismatic evangelical movement is burrowing into the power structures of major American cities and states; if Sarah Palin runs for president in 2012 we could have a New Apostolic Reformation president - By Bruce Wilson in AlterNet Editor’s note: This story is about a radical right wing movement in charismatic Christianity that claims to fight demons but, leaving demonology aside, is demonstrably close to seizing the reigns of power in entire US states.

Right-Wing Crazies Fight Witchcraft and Demons, Gunning for a State Near You; Sarah Palin Fans Use Prayer to Strike Down the Dark Forces : Veterans Today

Political pollution by right-wing zealots. PhotOh! We “pale faces” are the “illegals” The Takeaway from 91,000 Leaked Secret Documents on Afghanistan: It's Bad. Very Bad. Time to Go. August 2, 2010 | Like this article?

The Takeaway from 91,000 Leaked Secret Documents on Afghanistan: It's Bad. Very Bad. Time to Go

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Siddiqui: Afghanistan: It’s even worse than you thought. The buckets-full of leaked documents on the war in Afghanistan have elicited three responses, all misguided.

Siddiqui: Afghanistan: It’s even worse than you thought

Wikileaks Mirrors. Wikileaks posts an Insurance policy. Wikileaks Afghanistan War Diary It seems that Wikileaks has posted a massive (1.4 GB, 10x larger than all the other files on the page combined) heavily encrypted file on their dedicated "Afghan War Diary" page labeled simply "Insurance".

Wikileaks posts an Insurance policy

(See link above) Possibly in response to the harsh rhetoric issuing from the US DoD regarding Wikileak's founder Julian Assange (including the rumored price on his head), sometime last Sunday afternoon the new file was quietly uploaded with no explanation. The Daily Beast is reporting the Pentagon has a manhunt currently underway for Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange. Cryptome. Mystery File Posted to Wikileaks Afghan Page - PCWorld. A mystery file with the name "Insurance" has been posted to the web page where earlier this week some 77,000 secret documents about the Afghan war were leaked.

Mystery File Posted to Wikileaks Afghan Page - PCWorld

MIT students helped WikiLeaks suspect, hacker says. MIT students linked to WikiLeaks?

MIT students helped WikiLeaks suspect, hacker says

Hacker says he's talked to two men who say they helped WikiLeaks suspect ManningLamo says at least one of the men threatened him MIT says it won't comment at this time The suspect in WikiLeaks disclosures is being held in Virginia (CNN) -- Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who tipped off federal authorities to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, says two men in the Boston area have told Lamo in phone conversations that they assisted Manning. Lamo said both men attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but he refused to identify them because, he said, at least one of them has threatened him.

One of these men allegedly told Lamo they gave encryption software to Manning and taught the Army private how to use it, Lamo said. Manning, an Army intelligence analyst, is being held in solitary confinement at a Virginia detention facility. Lamo claimed both men are working for WikiLeaks. Daniel Ellsberg: Wikileaks' Julian Assange "in Danger" Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Hunted by Pentagon Over Massive Leak. The best NFL quarterback isn’t Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, or Drew Brees. Daniel Ellsberg's WikiLeaks wish list. The disclosure of tens of thousands of classified reports on the Afghan war last week by WikiLeaks has been compared, rightly or wrongly, to the release in 1971 of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

Daniel Ellsberg's WikiLeaks wish list