Item: The McCain campaign's handpicked RNC convention czar, Doug Goodyear, resigns after Newsweek reports that his firm, the DCI Group, was working to make the government of Myanmar look good.
"Today I offered the convention my resignation so as not to become a distraction in this campaign. ...
McCain OK with Keeping One Burma Junta Lobbyist on Campaign
mydd.comFound 4 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes, and 5 seconds agoAfter having read account after account after account of John McCain's all-too-close relationship with lobbyists, it's hard for me to get too surprised at reading another account. Or at least I thought it was until reading Michael Isikoff today in Newsweek . ...
McCain Convention Manager Resigns After NEWSWEEK Reveals Burma Ties
blog.newsweek.comFound 5 days, 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 38 seconds agoAround noon today, the powers-that-be at NEWSWEEK posted "A Convention Quandary" on our website. In the story, investigative ace Michael Isikoff reported that the man chosen by John McCain's presidential campaign to run this summer's GOP convention--Arizonan Doug Goodyear--was causing some headaches ...
Judge him by his friends
WWW.samefacts.comFound 5 days, 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 9 seconds agoJohn McCain decided that he couldn't have Paul Manafort of the lobbying firm Davis, Manafort, and Freedman as chair of the Republican National Convention because the firm used to lobby for Ferdinand Marcos when Marcos was dictator of the Philippines. ...
Great Choice, Senator McCain!
obsidianwings.blogs.comFound 5 days, 7 hours, 9 minutes, and 42 seconds ago"Ironically, Goodyear was chosen for the post after the McCain campaign nixed another candidate, Paul Manafort, who runs a lobbying firm with McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis. The prospect of choosing Manafort created anxiety in the campaign because of his long history of representing controversial foreign clients, including Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. More recently, he served as chief political consultant to Viktor Yanukovich, the former Ukrainian prime minister who has been widely criticized for alleged corruption and for his close ties to Russia's Vladimir Putin-a potential embarrassment for McCain, who in 2007 called Putin a "totalitarian dictator.
Myanmar Turns Foreign Aid Into Form of Propaganda
foxnews.comFound 5 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes, and 26 seconds agoMyanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. ...
McCain Convention Coordinator Resigns
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.comFound 5 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes, and 50 seconds ago
Leader of GOP convention quits after Myanmar ties reported
news.yahoo.comFound 5 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 18 seconds agoThe man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar.
Aid on the way to devastated Myanmar but so is heavy rain
apnews.myway.comFound 5 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes, and 9 seconds agoYANGON, Myanmar (AP) - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar - but so is the heavy rain. Diplomats and aid groups warned that the number of dead could eventually exceed 100,000 because of illness and said thousands of children may have been orphaned. The government, which wants full control ...
'I stopped counting bodies on journey down river of death'
timesonline.co.ukFound 5 days, 15 hours, 48 minutes, and 43 seconds agoWe saw the first one a few minutes downriver, no more than five hundred yards from the quayside and the busy town centre of the river port of Pyapon.
Sporadic aid trickles into Burma
news.bbc.co.ukFound 5 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes, and 55 seconds agoDeliveries of aid to help Burma cyclone victims are arriving sporadically, but thousands are yet to receive help.
McCain's lobbyists continue to cause him headaches
thecarpetbaggerreport.comFound 4 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes, and 2 seconds agoFollowing up on an earlier item , John McCain had to accept the resignation of Doug Goodyear, the man he tapped to manage the Republican National Convention, after reports surfaced that Goodyear's lobbying firm represented Burma's brutal military junta. ...
U.N. aid used by junta for propaganda
msnbc.msn.comFound 5 days, 8 hours, 42 minutes, and 24 seconds agoMyanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the cyclone relief effort into a propaganda exercise. ...
Grim fight for survival after Myanmar cyclone - AFP
afp.google.comFound 5 days, 16 hours, 30 minutes, and 9 seconds agoCanada.com Grim fight for survival after Myanmar cyclone AFP - 32 minutes ago YANGON (AFP) - More than one million homeless in Myanmar were battling to stave off disease and hunger Thursday, but the military government maintained tight limits on foreign assistance six days after a massive ...
news.bbc.co.uk
Burma's military goes ahead with a political referendum, despite calls for it to focus on helping victims of the cyclone.
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abcnews.go.com
Referendum in Myanmar likely to solidify junta's power, even after devastating cyclone
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news.bbc.co.uk
Deliveries of aid to help Burma cyclone victims are arriving sporadically, but thousands are yet to receive help.
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rss.cnn.com
As aid groups struggled to distribute supplies to cyclone victims despite government obstacles, Myanmar TV was broadcasting messages urging people to vote
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news.bbc.co.uk
Threatening to drop aid into Burma without permission is
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washingtonpost.com
BANGKOK, May 10 -- Burma's military government said Friday it had cleared a U.S. military relief flight for cyclone victims, declaring itself ready to accept aid from
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BLOGASSAULT.blogtownhall.com
While Al Gore is out there talking up how driving our SUV's are killing the planet and causing devastating cyclones to ravage unsuspecting countries, the real tragedy is happening right before our eyes. Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the ...
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dailykos.com
John McCain once said :
The fact is if you want to drain the swamp, take the money away from the bigtime ... lobbyists, they lose their power and influence.
But that was then and this is now , because John McCain has named Doug Goodyear, the CEO of a consulting firm that "earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients" to manage this summer's GOP convention. It gets better:
Potentially more problematic: the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma's military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today.
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airamerica.com
John McCain being in bed with lobbyists is not really news, even when he's actually, you know, " in bed " with them. His notorious escapades as the " most culpable " of the Keating Five would certainly have left a less well connected politician spending more time with his family.
But this one goes way beyond schmoozing and playing the system. Johnathan Singer informs us that McCain tapped one of his lobbyist pals to run the GOP Convention this August, but let him go hours after Michael Isikoff's Newsweek story disclosed that the guy was the CEO of a firm representing the Burma Military Junta -- hired to whitewash their image with Washington insiders.
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media.nationalreview.com
[ Greg Pollowitz ] The inept rulers of Burma sink lower : Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
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reachm.com
John McCain being in bed with lobbyists is not really news, even when he's actually, you know, " in bed " with them. His notorious escapades as the " most culpable " of the Keating Five would certainly have left a less well connected politician spending more time with his family.
But this one goes way beyond schmoozing and playing the system. Johnathan Singer informs us that McCain tapped one of his lobbyist pals to run the GOP Convention this August, but let him go hours after Michael Isikoff's Newsweek story disclosed that the guy was the CEO of a firm representing the Burma Military Junta -- hired to whitewash their image with Washington insiders.
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eyeteeth.blogspot.com
The man John McCain picked to organize the Republican National Convention, Doug Goodyear, has resigned today , after Newsweek revealed that his firm made $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients -- so much for McCain's anti-special-interests posturing, eh?
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freerepublic.com
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080510/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone ^ | 5-10-08
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blog.brendanloy.com
It makes the U.S. and Louisiana governments' response to Hurricane Katrina seems like a model of efficiency by comparison. Here's an overview of what's happening :
More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar - but so is the heavy rain... [and] relief workers, including Americans, [are] still being barred entry.
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freerepublic.com
MardAnbinder Blog ^ | May 10, 2008 | Marc Anbinder
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1115.org
On Sunday, the McCain campaign regretfully announced the resignation of Doug Davenport.
Funny how on McCain's campaign trail -- McCain being the guy who has no truck with lobbyists, remember? -- you can't seem to turn over a rock without uncovering a lobbyist with ties to a brutal totalitarian regime.
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delawarewatch.blogspot.com
clipped from www.mydd.com
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halfempth.blogspot.com
Burma: Stricken With a Cyclone and Paranoid Kleptomaniacs
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meshio.com
Via New York Times
And report from Irrawaddy.org says that UN has stopped all aid shipments…
The UN announced on Friday that it has suspended all aid shipments to Burma, following the junta's seizure of all food and equipment of the World Food Program (WFP).
WFP officials said they have "no choice" but to suspend their aid efforts following the unprecedented seizure by the secretive military government.
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linkenlim.blogspot.com
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hoodathunk.wordpress.com
The military junta government of Myanmar wasted no time once international aid shipments hit their soil: they immediately seized it. Reports are now coming in that they've basically repackaged it , stenciling the names of their generals on the boxes along with "Aid from the Kingdom of Thailand." In short, they want to hide from their people that they're incompetent and completely unable to provide for them. Additionally, the generals who are putting their names on the boxes are redirecting the shipments to their regions which are not necessarily the places the shipments need to go.
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yankeesailor.us
[Update1] Well, I guess we know what the generals' grand plan is now .
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
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mungowitzend.blogspot.com
No doubt stung by my attacks, the Burmese Generals have launched a huge image upgrade campaign consisting of printing their names in large letters on the aid packages coming in from abroad. No, I am not making this up :
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poli-yy.blogspot.com
this next little tidbit from the LA Times will
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sundriesshack.com
State-run television continuously ran images of top generals - including the junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe - handing out boxes of aid to survivors at elaborate ceremonies.
One box bore the name of Lt. Gen. Myint Swe, a rising star in the government hierarchy, in bold letters that overshadowed a smaller label reading: "Aid from the Kingdom of Thailand."
"We have already seen regional commanders putting their names on the side of aid shipments from Asia, saying this was a gift from them and then distributing it in their region," said Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, which campaigns for human rights and democracy in the country.
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whynow.dumka.us
As I predicted the Associated Press is now reporting U.N. aid used by junta for propaganda exercise
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
The United Nations sent in three more planes and several trucks loaded with aid, though the junta took over its first two shipments. The government agreed to let a U.
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seablogger.com
A new report says the government of Burma continues to forbid UN personnel into the country. The army has taken control of incoming food aid. It's a safe bet that refugees will require money or political connections to benefit. Outrageous. But here is a strange passage from the close of the article. It directly contradicts other media coverage.
Grim assessments were made about what lies ahead. The aid group Action Against Hunger noted that the delta region is known as the country's granary, and the cyclone hit before the harvest.
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dailykos.com.
John McCain once said :
The fact is if you want to drain the swamp, take the money away from the bigtime ... lobbyists, they lose their power and influence.
But that was then and this is now , because John McCain has named Doug Goodyear, the CEO of a consulting firm that "earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients" to manage this summer's GOP convention. It gets better:
Potentially more problematic: the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma's military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today.
Found 5 days, 4 hours, 10 minutes, and 21 seconds ago
tricycleblog.wordpress.com
The junta has impounded some aid deliveries, which has slowed relief efforts considerably. This has led some to suggest air-dropping the stuff might be better, but U.K. International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander calls this idea "incendiary."
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sajaforum.org
And now, the Burma cyclone affects the presidential campaign. From the AP/Yahoo story, "Leader of GOP convention quits after Myanmar ties reported" : ST. PAUL, Minn. - The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar. Doug Goodyear resigned as convention coordinator and issued a two sentence statement: "Today I offered the convention my resignatio
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texasinafrica.blogspot.com
You can't make this stuff up .
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hongpong.com
Stumper : McCain Convention Manager Resigns After NEWSWEEK Reveals Burma Ties
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displib.blogspot.com
But this one goes way beyond schmoozing and playing the system. Johnathan Singer informs us that McCain tapped one of his lobbyist pals to run the GOP Convention this August, but let him go hours after Michael Isikoff's Newsweek story disclosed that the guy was the CEO of a firm representing the Burma Military Junta -- hired to whitewash their image with Washington insiders.
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radamisto.blogspot.com
From Amanda at ThinkProgress :
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zdrake.blogspot.com
Apparently, McCain's campaign employed Doug Goodyear , the CEO of DCI, a lobbying firm that in 2002 worked for the Burmese junta. (The same one that is letting its own citizens die rather than let foreign aid workers come in to help.)
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minnesotamonitor.com
Doug Goodyear was tapped by Sen. John McCain last week to be the manager for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. On Saturday, Goodyear who is also the CEO of DCI Group resigned under mounting media scrutiny over his firm's lobbying for the military regime of Myanmar. DCI earned $3 million last year lobbying for clients like ExxonMobil and General Motors. Prior to DCI, Goodyear did public relations for cigarette maker R. J. Reynolds.
The Myanmar connection forced him to resign "so as not to become a distraction in this campaign.
Found 4 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes ago
swerveleft.blogspot.com
When McCain's campaign started to take off, honest John evidently hurriedly looked under every rock for the slimiest characters he could find to run things for him. This, along with his pander-to-Joe-five-pack gas tax-cut plan, shows us something about how he'd run the country if elected.
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bloggasm.com
Last week I published a study showing that four major conservative blogs -- michellemalkin.com, redstate.com, littlegreenfootballs.com, and powerlineblog.com -- focus almost entirely on non-policy issues in their Obama coverage. Instead, they focused largely on guilt-by-association stories by hyping every controversial figure even vaguely tied to Obama. For instance, they published dozens of posts criticizing Obama for serving on a few panels with Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers (even though Ayers wasn't a member of the campaign) and the fact that Hamas had issued a quasi endorsement for Obama.
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blogrevolution.com
MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics (#) :
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blogrevolution.com
AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth (#) :
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news.ippimail.com
Deliveries of aid to help Burma cyclone victims are arriving sporadically, as aid agencies continue to face obstacles.
Read the full article (BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition)
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clarkboyd.wordpress.com
Here we go:
WTP 194
Here's the line-up: The venerable Sigue Sigue Sputnik blasts us into the past and the podcast this week. We've got two items on satellites; the first looks at how the UN's Rapid Mapping Unit is using satellite images to assess damage in Burma . The second looks at how satellites are aiding conservation in Kenya . Then a podcast exclusive interview with Dr. Brian Levine , who is helping to connect Ghanian doctors to one another, for free, via cell phones. And we'll end by dipping our toes into the genetic quagmire that is the platypus .
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lickspittle.wordpress.com
Earlier in the week when Burma was hit by a cyclone, we became aware of an appalling natural disaster. The world's aid agencies responded well, but they came up against the self-interested and corrupt military regime that runs Burma. The refusal of the faceless generals to allow most of the aid and almost all the aid workers into the country, while abjectly failing to address the catastrophe themselves, means that they are now guilt of genocide.
In fear that any foreign intervention might expose the excesses of their evil regime both to the world and to their own people, their putting themselves before their people may cost hundreds of thousands of lives , the majority of who would probably been saved if the borders had been opened.
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expat.wordpress.com
Many in the West will be left scratching their heads and wondering where the good side is in this proposal. China, a sometimes-adversary, comes out ahead, while the SLORC emerge unscathed and Western countries foot most of the bill. Yet, as we watch the news from Burma, we cannot underestimate the scale of the tragedy nor the urgency of the situation : between 20,000 and 100,000 already dead, millions displaced, and tens of thousands more threatened by malnourishment, disease, and floodwaters.
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bhfrick.dailykos.com
John McCain once said :
The fact is if you want to drain the swamp, take the money away from the bigtime ... lobbyists, they lose their power and influence.
But that was then and this is now , because John McCain has named Doug Goodyear, the CEO of a consulting firm that "earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients" to manage this summer's GOP convention. It gets better:
Potentially more problematic: the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma's military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today.
Found 5 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes, and 48 seconds ago
vindicovindico.blogspot.com
Nick Clegg is proving himself to be a liberal . No, not the proper kind, but the paternal interfering kind. He is...a modern liberal... The time is fast approaching to parachute aid into Burma - whether the authorities there like it or not, says Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg Hmm. It is indeed and interesting moral dilemma. On the one hand it is absolutely terrible that the people of Burma are oppressed by their own rulers, and to stand by in full knowledge of this is terrible. On the other hand is it any of our business?
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instapundit.com
OOPS: "The McCain campaign's handpicked RNC convention czar, Doug Goodyear, resigns after Newsweek reports that his firm, the DCI Group, was working to make the government of Myanmar look good." Possible McCain spin: "We wanted a guy who's not afraid of a challenge!" Don't see that flying, though . . . .
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mnmonitor.com
Doug Goodyear was tapped by Sen. John McCain last week to be the manager for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. On Saturday, Goodyear who is also the CEO of DCI Group resigned under mounting media scrutiny over his firm's lobbying for the military regime of Myanmar. DCI earned $3 million last year lobbying for clients like ExxonMobil and General Motors. Prior to DCI, Goodyear did public relations for cigarette maker R. J. Reynolds.
The Myanmar connection forced him to resign "so as not to become a distraction in this campaign.
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blog.funtax.org
Never content to allow a " Retarded Staffer Gap ", the McCain camp has just parted ways with RNC "Convention Czar" Doug Goodyear after it came to light that his firm had also been working to make the government of Myanmar look good .
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