tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35101412009-07-02T07:21:10.332-07:00A random walk through the day's news.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger1046125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-14431024983831189232009-07-02T07:04:00.000-07:002009-07-02T07:21:10.348-07:00

Seeds of Dissent in the U.S. Military Are Growing(By Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, July 2, 2009)"It was in Iraq that I turned against the occupations. I started to feel very guilty. I watched contractors making obscene amounts of money. I found no evidence that the occupation was in any way helping the people of Iraq. I know I contributed to death and human suffering.

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The End of America by Naomi Wolf

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Official story of 9/11 "almost entirely untrue" per U.S. Official(Daily Kos, May 16,2009)John Farmer served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, . . . James Farmer has just come out with his new book. . . . Description: As of the 9/11 Commission's one of the primary authors report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues' work. Yet he came away from the experience convinced that there

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Mayor of Eugene proclaims Medical Marijuana Awareness week(Salem-News.com, April 29, 2009)The city of Eugene, Oregon has done something that few cities so far have had the courage to do; Eugene is commemorating Oregon's Medical Marijuana Program during a special week-long observance.Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy put forth a proclamation that minces no words about the positive side of this medical

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Hey Paul Krugman, where the hell are you, man?

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Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need(Dara Colwell, AlterNet, Posted on March 26, 2009)While Uncle Sam's scramble for new revenue sources has recently kicked up the marijuana debate -- to legalize and tax, or not? -- hemp's feasibility as a stimulus plan has received less airtime. . . . But with a North American market that exceeds $300 million in annual

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The Voters' Uprising: President Obama What Are You Thinking?(Don Hazen, AlterNet, Posted on March 23, 2009)"During the past nine months, gigantic financial bailouts amid collapsing economic life made visible the crippling divide between governing elites and citizens at large. People everywhere learned a blunt lesson about power, who has it and who doesn't. They watched Washington rush to rescue

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We Are Being Robbed!(MATT TAIBBI, Rolling Stone, Mar 19, 2009)The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolutionall this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to

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ENOUGH! ... Comment by Keith Olberman

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Does America Face the Risk of a Fascist Backlash?Without loans from China, the U.S. economy cannot be revived. The significance of this cannot be overstated: the U.S. no longer exercises sovereignty over its own economic affairs. That sovereignty now resides in the hands of China, the U.S.'s greatest long-term rival.Thanks to Republican policies of massive debt and shipping jobs abroad, the U.S.

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Coal-sponsored CNN rejects anti-coal adInterestingly, YouTube won't let me embed the video you can see via the link above. I wonder why?

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A Moment of Truth for the Democrats

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Olbermann - 8 years of Bush in 8 minutes

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The End of Law in America(Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 15, 2009)Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. "I don't believe that anybody is above the law," he responded, but "we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." . . . I'm sorry, but if we don't have an inquest into what

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How Rick Warren Is Undermining AIDs Prevention in Africa(Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast,January 8, 2009)Warren's defense against charges of intolerance ultimately depends upon his ace card: his heavily publicized crusade against AIDS in Africa. Obama senior adviser David Axelrod cited Warren's work in Africa as one of "the things on which [Obama and Warren] agree" on the Dec. 28 episode of Meet

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"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 'not

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Israel's U.S. Senator Retains Homeland Security ChairmanshipZionist 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 friends.

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Understanding the BailoutIf 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

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Rising 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 an

Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-1268260850472192172008-11-10T20:22:00.001-08:002008-11-10T20:22:55.981-08:00

Keith Olberman Speaks Out Against Bigots

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Utah 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 heavy

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Mormon Churches Face Nationwide Protests over Gay Marriage Ban

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Why 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. And

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Too True to be Funny ... CHANGE!

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Obama 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. . . .

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