New Daily Kos Blog Looks to Empower
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
He still calls himself a newbie in the political activism world, but after seven years, even Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zúniga knows it's time to update his hugely popular progressive site. "I've got a pretty good thing going. It's a big risk for me," he confides. But Zúniga thinks his new idea will be a hit. Not only will the blog look different when he unveils it in the fall, but it will allow activists to build their own community on his site. "It's about empowering people," says "Kos," the nickname Army pals gave Zúniga, author of Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era.
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"Progressive" Moulitsas trained for 2 years at the US CIA
Whenever you mention Markos Moulitsas' "hugely popular progressive site", wouldn't it also be relevant to mention that Moulitsas spent two year training with the US Central Intelligence Agency during the precise time when he started his "progressive" blog? He said so himself on June 2, 2006 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Here's a link to the audiotape of his speech:
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I don't know about you, but I prefer to read progressive blogs that were not started by CIA trainees during their period of two years training with the CIA.
However, if you want to read a blog by a CIA-trained "progressive", then DailyKos is the blog for you!
Here's a letter that supposedly "progressive" Markos Moulitsas wrote to his college newspaper, opposing ALL gay service in the military:
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It�s truly disturbing how much ado has been made over Bill Clinton's campaign promise to lift the ban on homosexuals from the U.S. military. It's ironic how it has taken a president who has never served in the military to make a promise that affects the military in such a negative manner.
Those who have served in the military, such as myself, understand the demands and pressures of military life are incompatible with allowing integration with homosexuals. I'm neither socially conservative or prejudiced, and neither is liberal columnist Mike Royko, Gen. Colin Powell, and influential liberal Democrats Sam Nunn and Les Aspin, all who've come out against lifting the ban.
Under military circumstances, as much has to be done as possible to focus the unit's mission and keep disciplinary problems to a minimum. Worrying about whether the known homosexual sleeping next to you is watching as you change your underwear may seem trivial as you read this, but to the soldier who's short-tempered after three weeks in the field and four hours of daily sleep, it becomes a matter of great importance to his pride and sensibilities. And in any case, there aren't many people who would change clothes in a group of co-workers if members of the opposite sex were in the same room watching. There is something inherently uncomfortable about it.
Such fears would go a long way in disrupting efficiency and morale in a unit.
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