My exclusive MidEast interview on neo-cons and war; Strauss and spoofed intel
This is my first posting on the new DKos so I will try to introduce myself briefly. My name is Dan Feidt and I'm a junior Poli. Sci. student at Macalester College in St. Paul MN, which is an...
View ArticleMinnesota's Sen. Mark Dayton feels "lied to" by Bush on WMD
A top story in the St. Paul Pioneer Press today described how Senator Dayton (D, second half of first term) believes he was "lied to" by administration officials in briefings. (Dayton is fairly...
View ArticleLaurence Silberman-Bush Intel panel=IranContraPimp
Key fact about the guy that Bush tapped for the Intelligence review panel. He was one of the guys who got Iran-Contra rolling-prior to the hostage release and prior to Carter's defeat. This man knows...
View ArticleMy pics from Edwards rally in St. Paul/Kerry today
I have thrown together an ugly iPhoto web gallery of my pictures from when John Edwards came to St. Paul on Saturday. Here is a choice image of my roommate Alison giving a w00p w00p sort of expression...
View ArticleLast thoughts inside the box
In less than 12 hours I'll be winging it out of this country for the first time in many years. For the next seven days, I'll be hanging around with a high school friend studying abroad in London. The...
View ArticleReporting Near the Gates of Hell
There are some days when you wish that they would just put out the real damn story for a change. But now, let's go to the Laci Petersen case. You can always tell when the narrative is dissolving,...
View ArticleJewish children in West Bank settlements
There was a big news story today about a very young Palestinian boy who apparently was strapped to a suicide bomb, and the Israelis had to get it off him, a tragic example of the conflict consuming the...
View ArticleApril War News Blitz
I am supposed to write a proposal for my final paper in International Security class tonight. But given what's been happening the last few weeks, what can I address that isn't tearing apart like wet...
View ArticleIn this conversation is contained news of the Mudschahidin on the battlefield
Mac Weekly interview, October 10, 2003:Dan Feidt (hongpong): There have been a lot of violent incidents of in Sadr City recently, because the Americans have detained some clerics that follow Sadr. Is...
View ArticleBush-Sharon declaration approaches: Fundamentalism at the gates?
He said to them, "Not yours is it to know times or eras which the Father placed in His own jurisdiction. But you shall be obtaining power at the coming of the holy spirit on you, and you shall be My...
View ArticleThe Israeli settlement playoffs
Haaretz' Amir Oren reporting on the machinations unleashed inside Israeli politics by Bush's declaration about settlements:Bush's spokesman had reservations about the list of settlements that Sharon...
View ArticleRevealed: the True Structure of the Coalition Provisional Authority
Somewhere in Washington is the Congressional Research Service. Somehow they have produced something of great awe and mystery, just in the nick of time. It is perhaps the best (only?) study of the...
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Light rail comes to Minneapolis (photos & video)
I present a couple pictures --and a movie--that I took with a digital camera a couple nights ago. These are posted on my website now, I.E. a crosspost. The video is hosted from my new University web...
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Light Rail in Minneapolis: my photos
I have some pictures up of the light rail opening in Minneapolis this weekend. It was well-attended by roughly 30,000 people, and everyone was having a good time. I have posted a half-dozen pictures on...
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Fahrenheit via the Internet, or otherwise...
This weekend I decided to see if Fahrenheit 9/11 is downloadable from the Internet. I got it off BitTorrent in about 36 hours, and I did indeed leave my connection open for a while to 'give back' the...
View ArticleCENTCOM-Iraq meets HongPong.com
Heh, I just ran my server logs for the first time in ages. Seems that my May-June logs went down the memory hole somewhere, which is too bad... The results for the past few weeks have been spectacular,...
View ArticleGround Zero or Bust: An Un-Conventional Trip to Manhattan
Right now it's about 22 hours from departure. Dan Schned and I are cruising to Philadelphia, leaving early Friday morning. Then we get on the train. Wednesday was filled with the last tasks....
View ArticleIran election turnout nearly 63%, really not so bad? Or fraud?
In a move sure to annoy the many regime change enthusiasts in Washington, the Iranian public (including a significant number of expatriates) voted in surprisingly large numbers in the first round of...
View ArticleGaza's test of stability: Settlers plan resistance to IDF, led by Yesha...
The government officially ordered Jewish settlers to leave Gaza today, and thousands refused to budge. Within 48 hours the forcible removal of everyone who hasn't yet left will begin, and it's...
View ArticleZarqawi == Emmanuel Goldstein; Macalester teaches Billy Joe Armstrong to...
I missed the Green Day concert in St. Paul on Friday. It sounded like a hell of a good time, made particularly special by Billy Joe Armstrong's connections to the area: his wife is from New Brighton,...
View ArticleMadsen: Discreet top political / intel torture meeting today in DC
Wayne Madsen (maverick/somewhat conspiratorial) DC journalist, reports that a major meeting of defense and intelligence personnel, including John McCain, are quietly meeting later today to come up with...
View ArticleA strange Wyoming double murder...
My friend Peter Gartrell at his newspaper in Wyoming asked me to post this story around the internet, because they aren't publishing on Christmas. it's not a very political story, but it's a sordid...
View ArticleIran War is on; "Zarqawi" is a Pentagon PSY OPS operation!! Really!
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt: "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date." Here are two crucial elements of the current political environment that have to be fully...
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Hookergate @ Watergate: Porter Goss is a pimp; Cunningham scandal now...
Oddly enough, I was watching American Pimp earlier tonight, and those guys are small fry compared with corrupt DC defense contractors. When I said earlier that MZM, the corrupt contractor that hooked...
View ArticleYellowcake & Black PSY OPS: insiders call Niger forgeries WH "Black...
Vanity Fair:"To me there is no benign interpretation of this," says Melvin Goodman, the former C.I.A. and State Department analyst. "At the highest level it was known the documents were forgeries....
View ArticleSy Hersh shows DC, J'lem setup "demo" Lebanon war; goal to start...
The next three paragraphs are horror incarnate. It's like we wrapped everything wrong about the whole last six years into one little ball and fucking nuked the world. Seymour Hersh's latest: Cheney’s...
View ArticleI'm Interviewing the Minnesota Legislature!
I'm just dropping a quick message for the Dkos. Right now I am working for the little publishing operation Politics in Minnesota, which runs off a bi-annual directory of all state legislators and...
View ArticleMN Senate committee passes 25% 2020 renewable electricity standard with GOP...
"Haven't you heard? We're the white hats now!" -- Utility lobbyist at State Capitol hearing this afternoon Today marked a milestone in the pursuit of America's renewable energy policy, as I watched the...
View ArticleNew NASCO NAFTA Superhighway Docs Released From MnDOT
The weirdest stuff shows up @ my day job, Politics In Minnesota. The design of transportation systems carries its own ideology: the routes, exit placement, the eminent domain actions, the financing,...
View ArticleHillary's skeleton: These CIA Iran-Contra Arkansas docs reveal ugly past
Many people don't like Hillary Clinton because she seems dodgy and shady. Her background at the Rose Law Firm in the 1980s has really not been examined, because the American press, the GOP and the...
View ArticleWe are going to Iowa right now!! And sending video to YouTube!
A big adventure is at hand: I and two friends are going down to Iowa right now. We are going down there to see what is going on and wander around. I just figured out to upload videos directly from my...
View ArticleCity of St. Paul opens RNC park permit lottery process - for a few days!
I caught some important news late Friday afternoon (And I've got a cold right now and nothin' better to do!). The City of St. Paul would take all applications for demonstrations and space in parks on...
View ArticleThe unmaking of a Democratic governor: Part 3
Yesterday the Chicago window workers' sit-in looked like it was gaining momentum - national press, a huge deal, an icon of a nation whose economy is parked in free fall as companies get denied the...
View ArticleRobert Erickson, Tea Party prankster, spoofs movie trailer
Minneapolis, MN - February 9th, 2010 - At the first convention of the right-wing Tea Party movement this weekend, Sarah Palin called for "revolution," and a documentary about the movement's rising has...
View ArticleMinneapolis Activist Raid Press Conference FBI Antiwar Crackdown [VIDEO]
TC Indymedia - The social justice community in Minneapolis continued to respond Friday afternoon to the raids of several of its members homes, which started before 7am this morning. Since then, a dozen...
View ArticleMetrodome collapse new video closeups panels ripping away
Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately.New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2
View ArticlePresidential Candidate Newt Gingrich Glittered at Anti-Gay Event - Feel The...
The latest prank from Tea Party Prankster Robert Erickson! (Minneapolis) –At a book signing in Minneapolis, recently declared the hippest and gayest city in America, local activist Robert Erickson...
View ArticleKnives out for solar- ALEC & fossil fuel lobby gets MN House plan to gut...
Quick post to roust people on another impending political disaster in Minnesota. Nationwide the American Legislative Exchange Council politicians (ALEC - a corporate establishment coordinating body,...
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