Wednesday, October 12, 2011
WWJD?
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There it is Democracy, here it is revolution.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Who Really Owns The NYPD?
Who Really Owns The NYPD? Turns Out It's Not Such A Rhetorical Question
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Journalists Funded By GOP 'Vulture Capitalist'
Journalists Funded By GOP 'Vulture Capitalist'
New York Times has documented, Paul Singer, a Republican activist and hedge fund manager worth over $900 million, has emerged as one of the most important power brokers within the GOP. Now, it appears that the reporters financed by Singer are at the forefront of efforts to tarnish the reputation of 99 Percent Movement demonstrators:
Journalist Who Admitted To Infiltrating Protests To ‘Mock And Undermine’ The Movement Works For A Singer-Supported Right-Wing Magazine. In a column posted last night, reporter Patrick Howley admitted that he had surreptitiously joined an anti-war spin-off group from the OccupyDC protests that planned to demonstrate at a military drone exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space museum. Howley wrote that he “infiltrated” the action and sprinted into the police along with a few protesters in order to “mock and undermine” the movement. Singer is a major donor to the Spectator, a right-wing magazine known for its role in the “Arkansas Project,” a well-funded effort to invent stories with the goal of eventually impeaching President Clinton.
Journalist Pushing To Discredit Occupy Wall Street Is Funded By Singer’s Think Tank. Josh Barro, a journalist who has attacked the 99 Percent Movement in the National Review and the New York Daily News, draws a salary from the Wriston Fellowship at the Manhattan Institute, a big business advocacy think tank in New York. Barro makes the same tired arguments, that anti-Wall Street protesters are too inarticulate and “extreme” to be taken seriously. Singer is the chairman of the Manhattan Institute, and even oversees the Wriston annual fundraiser.
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U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus
October 10, 2011
U.S. Drones Have a Computer Virus
You'd think we would be more careful than this:
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.[...]
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. "We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know."
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Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 09, 2011
I Can Relate
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One on One With Rep. Jan Schakowsky: "We Are Not Helpless!"
One on One With Rep. Jan Schakowsky: "We Are Not Helpless!"
Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D-Illinois) $227 billion jobs bill was more or less dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled House. And while she's proud to say it left its mark on the president's American Jobs Act, that bill is stalled out in Congress. But in a wide-ranging interview last month, Schakowsky insisted that a jobs bill must pass. In a rhetorical landscape overrun with hyperbole, she claims that today's political battles really are "epic," and she remains ambitious on every front, from auditing the military to experiencing firsthand what it means to rely on food stamps. In this conversation with Truthout, Schakowsky envisions a not-so-distant future where food banks set up shop on Capitol Hill, foreclosed homeowners trade their sadness for anger like bankers trading credit default swaps, and the public comes forward "with their hair on fire that ordinary people deserve better."
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Artists Occupy Wall Street for a 24-Hour Show
Artists Occupy Wall Street for a 24-Hour Show
By COLIN MOYNIHANFor weeks, a growing collection of protesters have tried to get their grievances heard on Wall Street — even if the police have prevented them from establishing a physical presence on the fabled street.
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released By The Wall Street Protesters - 2011-10-05
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Here's to the misfits...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
RIP Steve Jobs
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Politics =
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Saturday, October 01, 2011
The Best Among Us
The Best Among Us
An activist from the Occupy Wall Street movement is shown being arrested by police in New York on September 24, 2011. (Photo:Brennan Cavanaugh / Flickr)
There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
If you can't afford a doctor...
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Being Grownup
Burgandy Alden Smith
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Iranian warships close?
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
If You’re Not Paying for It; You’re the Product
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Quote of the Day: Making Friends all across America
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Because some times you just need cute.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
The revolution continues
The revolution continues...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
23 percent of unemployed Minnesota vets
| QUOTE OF THE WEEK |
“You run into sergeant majors and lieutenant colonels who did 26 years in the military and have college educations, but yet you see them at a job fair looking for work.”
- Jeff Holmstrom, 33-year-old staff sergeant in the Minnesota National Guard who spent months job hunting after returning from his second deployment, on the 23 percent of unemployed Minnesota vets.(Source:Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
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Monday, September 19, 2011
I refuse to believe corporations are people until...
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Yer'elephant ... but not without value.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
Call to non-violent revolution: the New Social Revolution
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They are ignoring us now.
Be aware and not fooled. They are ignoring us now. then in their arrogance they will laugh at our broken efforts. Soon, all too soon, they will meet our actions with violence. Then we must be the strongest in our posture of non-violent revolution.
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The rains...
by bentlily
The rains have returned
I forgot
how loud
it attacks
like marbles shaking
in a tin can
underneath it
we try to sleep
wondering why
no one in this wet land
builds gardens on their roofs
to swallow
the falling ocean
turn it upside down
into proud lineups of snow peas
and artichokes
and at night
a blanket of earth above us
to hush
the clamour.
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Contradictions: Why this stated position is disingenuous
by Vachel Lindsay "There's machinery in the
butterfly;
There's a mainspring to the
bee;
There's hydraulics to a daisy,
And contraptions to a tree."If we could see the birdie
That makes the chirping sound
With x-ray, scientific eyes,
We could see the wheels go
round."And I hope all men
Who think like this
Will soon lie
Underground.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Eye-popping pay
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Rick Perry is a Texas governor for people who found Bush too cerebral
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Saturday, September 03, 2011
Micky D's in different cultures
The McArabia is made with grilled chicken or grilled kofta (beef with spices). Comes with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and garlic mayonnaise, wrapped in an Arabic style pita bread.
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Friday, September 02, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Eight False Things
Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior To Election Day
(Note: The words that appear in red are links that you can click.)
There are a number things the public "knows" as we head into the election that are just false. If people elect leaders based on false information, the things those leaders do in office will not be what the public expects or needs.
Here are eight of the biggest myths that are out there:
1) President Obama tripled the deficit.
Reality: Bush's last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama's first budget reduced that to $1.29 trillion.
2) President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.
Reality: Obama cut taxes. 40% of the "stimulus" was wasted on tax cuts which only create debt, which is why it was so much less effective than it could have been.
3) President Obama bailed out the banks.
Reality: While many people conflate the "stimulus" with the bank bailouts, the bank bailouts were requested by President Bush and his Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson. (Paulson also wanted the bailouts to be "non-reviewable by any court or any agency.") The bailouts passed and began before the 2008 election of President Obama.
4) The stimulus didn't work.
Reality: The stimulus worked, but was not enough. In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the stimulus raised employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs.
5) Businesses will hire if they get tax cuts.
Reality: A business hires the right number of employees to meet demand. Having extra cash does not cause a business to hire, but a business that has a demand for what it does will find the money to hire. Businesses want customers, not tax cuts.
6) Health care reform costs $1 trillion.
Reality: The health care reform reduces government deficits by $138 billion.
7) Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is "going broke," people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.
Reality: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 25 more years and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.
8) Government spending takes money out of the economy.
Reality: Government is We, the People and the money it spends is on We, the People. Many people do not know that it is governmentthat builds the roads, airports, ports, courts, schools and other things that are the soil in which business thrives. Many people think that all government spending is on "welfare" and "foreign aid" when that is only a small part of the government's budget.
This stuff really matters.
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Bachmann is just a joke. -God
| | By: CNN Political Unit |
(CNN) - Michele Bachmann's press secretary characterized comments by the Republican presidential candidate, when she said Hurricane Irene was a message to Washington, as a joke.
"Obviously she was saying it in jest," Alice Stewart told TalkingPointsMemo Monday.
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The Hurricane
by William Carlos Williams The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
The deal about theology
Theology is to truth like a model globe is to the earth. A globe is spherical and represents the proper placement of the continents and oceans. But a globe is not wet, contains no dirt, lacks any living creatures, and is a bit on the small side. When we build theology we take the raw materials of revelation, tradition, community, and experience and build the best model we possibly can. We are thankful that in many ways we have built an excellent model of truth, but absolute adherence to even the best model is somewhere between hubris and lunacy.
-- Overheard
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Nobody but yourself
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But can he take the heat?
Texas' Perry rejects manmade global warming
By STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Ya see? That's what you get for jailing anti-corruption activists. D'oh!
Anna Hazare, India's Leading Anti-Corruption Activist, Refuses to Leave Delhi Jail
BY: SIMON DENYER, RAMA LAKSHMI | THE WASHINGTON POSTNEW DELHI - Indian police jailed a leading anti-corruption campaigner and detained thousands of his supporters Tuesday morning, hours before the veteran activist was due to begin an indefinite hunger strike to demand tougher laws against graft.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
How soft drinks impact your health
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You might be a conservative if...
1: You’re irate over the president taking so many vacation days on the taxpayer’s dime (61 thus far), but you thought George W. Bush earned every minute of his leisure time (196 days at the same point in his presidency).
2: You’re happy with your 40 hour work week, paid vacations and company-provided healthcare, but you’re strongly anti-union, because those commies haven’t done anything for you lately.
3: You strongly support the First Amendment and it’s guarantee of religious freedom to all, but you don’t think Muslims have a right to build an Islamic Community Center in Manhattan.
4: You believe Ronald Reagan was a devout Christian, even though he hated going to church, but any president who spends twenty years going to the same Trinity United Church in Chicago must be a Muslim.
5: You believe when a Republican governor creates a healthcare package with an individual mandate for everyone in his state, that’s a good idea. But when a Democratic president does it, suddenly it’s unconstitutional.
6: You’re so enthused about demonstrating your Second Amendment rights, you can think of no finer place to brandish your pistol in public than at a presidential rally.
7: You believe Bill Clinton was responsible for Osama bin Laden’s escape ten years ago, but thankfully George W. Bush caught up with him and killed him in Pakistan.
8: You believe in putting American jobs first, except when president Obama rescued 1.5 million GM and Chrysler autoworkers, because that was socialism.
9: It angers you that you can’t communicate with the Mexican busboy at your local Olive Garden, but when you took a vacation to San Francisco’s Chinatown, you thought it’s quaint that so many Chinese-Americans are holding fast to their traditional language. Because that’s America!
10: You deny that the lunatic who tried to murder Gaby Giffords was a conservative, even though he targeted a Jewish, pro-choice, pro gay rights, Democratic Congresswoman.
11: You thought it was perfectly normal that every president in history had an untethered right to raise the debt ceiling when warranted, but when Obama asked the GOP held congress to do it, you thought it only natural that it be tied to cutting Social Security and Medicare.
12: When the new 112th Congress was sworn in, you swooned as they promised to focus on “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” But when they pivoted, and went after NPR, Planned Parenthood and gay rights, you cheered.
13: You accuse president Obama of raising your taxes to the highest point ever, even though they’re lower today than at any time since 1950.
14: You believe the wealthiest Americans are “job creators,” and they are — but it doesn’t bother you that all the workers in those positions are in India, China and Malaysia, and they’re doing the jobs that our fathers once did.
15: You believe gays are anti-American, because their lifestyle is a threat to the children… unless they’re married to Tea Party-backed presidential candidates from Minnesota.
16: You strongly defend individual freedom, but that freedom doesn’t include a woman’s right to decide her own healthcare needs.
17: You believe corporations are people too, and are deserving of the same rights as the rest of us. Just not the same obligations to pay personal income tax free of corporate loopholes, or penalties for massive criminal behavior and tax evasion. In these matters, corporations are deserving of special rights.
18: And since corporations are now people too, you must believe in their right to a driver’s license, the right to marry, to adopt children, etc. These rights shall not be denied to Exxon, Halliburton and BP (but still immune from the right of the People to try, convict and sentence to death any corporation that conspires to commit a felony… because at that point, they’re suddenly not people again.)
19: You still believe Climate Change is a myth, and the recent record highs, lows, floods and droughts around the world coinciding with climate scientist’s predictions are all an amazing coincidence. Oh, and Al Gore is FAT!
20: You believe when George W. Bush took the national debt from $5 trillion to $11 trillion, it was necessary for him to do so to keep America safe. But when Barack Obama added to it by trying to rescue the country from a second Great Depression, he was deliberately trying to destroy America!
21: You believe America is a God fearing country, and that the Almighty protects those who believe just as you do. But it’s never crossed your mind that the majority of tornados, hurricanes and floods all occur in the Bible Belt.
22: You believe that no matter who’s in the White House, the office, if not the man himself is deserving of your respect. The only exceptions to this rule, are if his middle name sounds Muslim, and if he’s not at least as white as that black guy who works down in the mailroom at the office.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
What makes America look unreliable

"What makes America look unreliable isn’t budget math, it’s politics. And please, let’s not have the usual declarations that both sides are at fault. Our problems are almost entirely one-sided -- specifically, they’re caused by the rise of an extremist right that is prepared to create repeated crises rather than give an inch on its demands." -- Paul Krugman in yesterday's Times [LINK: Stolen entirely from Deus Ex Malcontent ]
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
The ship that faced a thousand lunches.
michele bachmann: corndogs are people too
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...the Democrats to my eternal bafflement
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Revisionist History: Whitewash
New Film 'The Help' Whitewashes the Civil Rights Struggle into a Heartstring-tugging Hallmark Card
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Monday, August 08, 2011
It is a sad state of affairs
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Saturday, August 06, 2011
Friday, August 05, 2011
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Worlds from before
Luci Tapahonso Diné (Navajo)
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Living the unresolved
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Monday, August 01, 2011
Getting take to the cleaners...
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Anyone who characterizes the deal between the President, Democratic, and Republican leaders as a victory for the American people over partisanship understands neither economics nor politics. The deal does not raise taxes on America's wealthy and most fortunate - who are now taking home a larger share of total income and wealth, and whose tax rates are already lower than they have been, in eighty years."
Read the Article
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Every time...
Every Time You Watch Jersey Shore, A Book Commits Suicide [PIC]
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
How conveeeenient...
News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead
Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious
• Sean Hoare profile: A courageous and distinguished reporter
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Choices
Making choices
Angeles Arrien
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The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | October 12, 2011 at 04:19 PM