tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35101412008-12-22T10:13:27.421-08:00U.S. News BlogsA random walk through the day's news.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger1031125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-55476726806633376422008-12-22T10:05:00.000-08:002008-12-22T10:13:27.437-08:00"Time" Calls Obama a Bigot
(Kilian Melloy, EDGE Boston,Dec 22, 2008)
The GLBT community and liberals have joined in their condemnation of President-Elect Barack Obama’s selection of mega-church pastor Rick Warren to deliver the Inaugural Invocation. Now Time Magazine has joined the chorus. . . . "Homosexuality, Pastor Warren explained in the virtually content-free language of the dogmatist, is 'Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-53675772832497312192008-11-18T16:07:00.000-08:002008-11-18T16:20:05.777-08:00Israel's U.S. Senator Retains Homeland Security Chairmanship
Zionist Senator Lieberman, who primarily represents the interests of Israel in the U.S. Senate, has been allowed to retain the chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee. This is the vile man who called Obama a traitor, a Marxist, and unfit to lead the country. .... So let's hear it for the Gutless Democrats, Fascism's best friendsLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-29828058285684264832008-11-15T16:01:00.000-08:002008-11-15T16:12:46.997-08:00Understanding the Bailout
If you are confused by all of the jargon being thrown about regarding why the U.S. Taxpayers were forced into bailing out Wall Street, check out the short video clips on Richard Grove's important Web site. ... The bottom line is that we covered the bad bets of the Fat Cats on Wall Street and in financial capitals all around the world.
But there is a lot more valuable Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-81501847651044875292008-11-12T17:09:00.000-08:002008-11-12T17:17:25.346-08:00Rising Number of Racist Anti-Obama Actions Reported
(Dexter Hill, Editor and Publisher, November 12, 2008)
Away from the spotlight, many local newspapers around the country have covered recent incidents of racially-motivated reactions to last week's election, from flags hung upside down to the dangling of nooses and cross-burnings. As we noted last week, a couple in northern New Jersey who had anLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-1268260850472192172008-11-10T20:22:00.001-08:002008-11-10T20:22:55.981-08:00Keith Olberman Speaks Out Against Bigots
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-12101835109531512582008-11-08T11:47:00.000-08:002008-11-08T11:53:10.150-08:00Utah Boycott Urged After Calif. Vote
(Brock Vergakis, Associated Press, November 8, 2008)
Utah's growing tourism industry and the star-studded Sundance Film Festival are being targeted for a boycott by bloggers, gay rights activists and others seeking to punish the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its aggressive promotion of California's ban on gay marriage. . . . It could be a Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-65706452156044048412008-11-07T14:53:00.000-08:002008-11-07T14:57:20.082-08:00Mormon Churches Face Nationwide Protests over Gay Marriage Ban
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-85220555786451708102008-11-06T16:42:00.000-08:002008-11-06T16:46:59.561-08:00Why McCain Wasn't Qualified to be President
(Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish, November 6, 2008)
Look: I understand that information given strictly off the record cannot be used. I am a stickler for that myself and there's stuff I know that I cannot tell Dish readers because of those rules. But at the same time, my commitment to you is never to bullshit my opinion that reflects that information. Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-86659205778501185532008-10-28T21:07:00.000-07:002008-10-28T21:08:44.545-07:00Too True to be Funny ... CHANGE!
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-54398578041881824492008-10-18T13:48:00.000-07:002008-10-18T21:49:27.322-07:00Obama Rally In St. Louis Draws 100,000
(Huffington Post, October 18, 2008)
Barack Obama drew a crowd of 100,000 at a rally near the Gateway Arch in St. Louis on Saturday, the AP reports. McCain spent the day campaigning in North Carolina. . . . The focus on the stump Saturday for both Obama and McCain continued to be taxes, and the candidates traded sharp criticisms of each other's plans. . . . Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-28263461694868243192008-10-15T14:57:00.000-07:002008-10-15T15:09:47.411-07:00Why Voter Turnout Is Crucial The Birth of VideoTheVote
The election's been stolen. What you have to do is to steal it back. --Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter
If you are wondering what you can do to make a difference this time around, it may be worth your time to watch the full length feature or the trailer of this interesting, informative, and very well-produced feature-length film.
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-68270526768598028002008-10-10T14:58:00.000-07:002008-10-10T15:25:47.266-07:00Is the Federal Reserve Engaged in Acts of Economic Warfare Against America?
(Mike Adams, Natural News, October 8, 2008)
Today, the Federal Reserve is engaged in an eerily similar operation, counterfeiting trillions of dollars in U.S. bank notes and flooding the U.S. money supply with money created from nothing. The result, of course, is the same as was intended by Operation Bernhardt in 1942: Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-75050569861992850142008-10-08T16:59:00.000-07:002008-10-08T17:08:25.458-07:00U.S. Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest" in USA
(Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, September 26, 2008)
The Army Times reports that the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Team is returning from Iraq to defend the Homeland, as "an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks." The BCT unit has been Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-59236643583230215082008-09-22T10:03:00.000-07:002008-09-22T10:12:14.022-07:00Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle
(William Greider, The Nation, September 19, 2008)
Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to the crisis: dump it all on the taxpayers. That is the meaning of the massiveLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-91739548426312812252008-09-19T21:03:00.000-07:002008-09-19T21:24:43.690-07:00McCain, American Traitor, Covered-up News of Live POWs Abandoned by USA
(Sydney H. Schanberg, The Nation, September 17, 2008)
John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate careerLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-38029336555708008092008-09-03T10:44:00.000-07:002008-09-03T10:55:18.413-07:00Police fire chemical weapons and bullets at RNC protesters
(CNN, September 2, 2008)
St. Paul police fired chemical weapons and bullets into a large crowd of protesters outside the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night. . . . Witnesses said the protesters marched from the grounds of the state Capitol after a concert there ended abruptly. . . . The protesters were noisy but peaceful as Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-4266469758907103432008-08-29T13:39:00.000-07:002008-08-29T13:40:18.399-07:00The Art of Burning Man 2008
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-61142743600722360512008-08-24T21:21:00.000-07:002008-08-24T21:34:57.026-07:00Obama's Blowing It
(Jeff Madrick, Huffington Post, August 21, 2008)
John McCain's economic programs are so meaningless and damaging they require new adjectives. Absurd won't do. . . . But Barack Obama's campaign is tragically modest. A soft kiss on the cheek for those in trouble. And it could cost him the election. More to the point, it will cost America its future. . . . His diagnosis is not Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-22713318130294961512008-08-07T19:22:00.000-07:002008-08-07T19:26:01.463-07:00Over 500 Casualties of the Afghan War ... so far
(ANDY LEHREN, GABRIEL DANCE, MATTHEW ERICSON and BEN KOSKI, The New York Times, August 7, 2008)
Since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, 563 American service members - listed here - have died in Operation Enduring Freedom, the global antiterror campaign. Of those deaths, according to an analysis by The New York Times, 510 haveLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-27338700229546430132008-07-28T20:48:00.000-07:002008-07-28T20:49:51.026-07:00Forget the elections, they're rigged!
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-83236967914050541712008-07-20T20:50:00.000-07:002008-07-20T20:51:33.524-07:00George Carlin - You get the leaders you deserve
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-44901222690821768112008-07-16T10:12:00.000-07:002008-07-16T16:10:33.156-07:00Naomi Wolf Speaks Out About U.S. Fascism
You may regret it if you don't watch this video.
Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-19175050649792034702008-07-15T10:08:00.000-07:002008-07-15T10:09:36.897-07:00How To Pretend You Give A Shit About The Election
Today Now!: How To Pretend You Give A Shit About The ElectionLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-2177331737981383032008-07-09T11:33:00.000-07:002008-07-09T12:01:42.761-07:00Obama and Friends Cancel the 4th Ammendment
(Martin Bosworth, Huffington Post, July 9, 2008)
Today is going to go down as a dark day in our nation's history, as the Senate completes its total capitulation to the Bush administration and its corporate masters, through passing legislation that dramatically expands the government's surveillance powers and immunizes the companies responsible for Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-20425135043498397942008-07-07T21:05:00.001-07:002008-07-07T21:05:56.474-07:00The Sad Truth About Life In The USA
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