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In another ominous sign in the run-up to war with Iran, General Electric announced earlier this month that it was jumping on the bandwagon of hawkish non-profit “American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc.” (ACANI) signing a pledge to never conduct business in the nation and also pledging not to do business with anyone who owns any property inside Iran unless that property has been abandoned.

ACANI, which regularly runs commercials on all the major cable news channels (including GE-owned MSNBC, which has also been spreading anti-Iran hysteria) accusing Iran of developing nuclear weapons, keeps an “Iran Business Registry” which lists companies in the US and abroad which do business with Iran and urges visitors to contact elected officials to press for action against those companies.

The group’s president, Mark Wallace was the deputy campaign manager of Bush-Cheney ’04, but they also boast two co-founders who are highly placed in the Obama Administration, including Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross, who is Hillary Clinton’s “special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia, including Iran.”

Gore Vidal supported Barack Obama for President, but now says “America is rotting away,” under the new President.

Read the full interview with the Times of London.

From the Small Press Expo cartoonist show this weekend in Bethesda, MD – a tribute to the greatest political movie of this century:

[full size versions of photos available here]

Hey everybody, check out this awesome interview of James Bovard by Judge Andrew Napolitano about the lawless, and near-lawless, abuse of American persons by the FBI – specifically those arrested and charged last week for merely lying to feds while the subjects of loudly trumpeted terrorism accusations across the TV.

And check out Judge Napolitano’s Web show at Fox News’s Website, where he continues to prove, now every day, that the Bill of Rights is no partisan issue.

Not much can top a federally-funded ACORN associate telling a (supposed) prostitute how she can launder her income — on camera. Except for maybe this:

or this:

Those are guards from the federally-funded ArmorGroup, which has a $184 million contract to protect our embassy in Afghanistan. When these photos emerged from a FOIA request by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), ArmorGroup fired 14 guards for a whole host of inappropriate, and perhaps even illegal activities. Subsequent reports indicate that the guards may have even been involved in running a prostitution ring.

According to Ryan Grim over at Huffington Post, the ironies have not been lost on Democratic lawmakers who have been whipsawed in recent days by legislation passed by the House and Senate to punish ACORN. The  House bill , however, would in essence de-fund any federally-funded organization guilty of a wide range of ethical and legal violations, including fraud. That, according to POGO, would apply not only to ACORN, but to possibly the ArmorGroup, and a long line of federal defense contractors, including tip-toppers like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. So far, they have identified 87 cases of fraud among 43 contractors.  Here’s the list — have fun.