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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Revealed: Fake Facebook Identity Used By Military Contractors Plotting To Hack Progressive Organizations
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Shock Doctrine in Practice: The Connection Between Nighttime Robbery In the Streets and Daytime Robbery By Elites | | AlterNet
Shock Doctrine in Practice: The Connection Between Nighttime Robbery In the Streets and Daytime Robbery By Elites | | AlterNet
When you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance.
I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities—window smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten. Read More Here
When you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance.
I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities—window smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten. Read More Here
Repeal, then deal: How labor broke Kasich’s back pt. 1.
Repeal, then deal: How labor broke Kasich’s back pt. 1.
Want to see how a politician can, in an attempt to gain some short term public relations gain, cause himself long-term political harm? Enter Governor Kasich who writes a ridiculous letter to We Are Ohio’s labor leaders demanding that they negotiate his surrender on Senate Bill 5 on Friday. Read More Here
h/t Adrienne
Want to see how a politician can, in an attempt to gain some short term public relations gain, cause himself long-term political harm? Enter Governor Kasich who writes a ridiculous letter to We Are Ohio’s labor leaders demanding that they negotiate his surrender on Senate Bill 5 on Friday. Read More Here
h/t Adrienne
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs VP Changed His Name, Now Advances Goldman Lobbying Interests As Top Staffer To Darrell Issa
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Peter Haller, also known as Peter Simonyi, a former Goldman Sachs VP now working for Chairman Issa to block regulations on Goldman Sachs |
Dominionism: Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry’s Dangerous Religious Bond - The Daily Beast
Dominionism: Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry’s Dangerous Religious Bond - The Daily Beast
With Tim Pawlenty out of the presidential race, it is now fairly clear that the GOP candidate will either be Mitt Romney or someone who makes George W. Bush look like Tom Paine. Of the three most plausible candidates for the Republican nomination, two are deeply associated with a theocratic strain of Christian fundamentalism known as Dominionism. If you want to understand Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, understanding Dominionism isn’t optional. Read More Here
With Tim Pawlenty out of the presidential race, it is now fairly clear that the GOP candidate will either be Mitt Romney or someone who makes George W. Bush look like Tom Paine. Of the three most plausible candidates for the Republican nomination, two are deeply associated with a theocratic strain of Christian fundamentalism known as Dominionism. If you want to understand Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, understanding Dominionism isn’t optional. Read More Here
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
How the Head of Fox News Is Making Americans More Right-Wing, More Ignorant and Ever More Terrified | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
How the Head of Fox News Is Making Americans More Right-Wing, More Ignorant and Ever More Terrified | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing bright in the darkened tavern: the MSNBC logo. A chorus of boos erupted among the Fox faithful. The CNN logo followed, and the catcalls multiplied. Then a third slide appeared, with a telling twist. In place of the logo for Fox News was a beneficent visage: the face of the network's founder. The man known to his fiercest loyalists simply as "the Chairman" – Roger Ailes. Read More Here
At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing bright in the darkened tavern: the MSNBC logo. A chorus of boos erupted among the Fox faithful. The CNN logo followed, and the catcalls multiplied. Then a third slide appeared, with a telling twist. In place of the logo for Fox News was a beneficent visage: the face of the network's founder. The man known to his fiercest loyalists simply as "the Chairman" – Roger Ailes. Read More Here
Taibbi: "Orwellian" SEC May Have Been Hiding Big Wall Street Crimes | AlterNet
Taibbi: "Orwellian" SEC May Have Been Hiding Big Wall Street Crimes | AlterNet
t's tragic and frightening in implication when the checks and balances, alert systems and safety nets designed to protect consumers and taxpayers end up instead protecting those who would do them harm.
Here's an explosive report from Rolling Stone's intrepid Matt Taibbi on the potential that the Securities and Exchange Committee has been committing exactly that kind of wrongdoing--and it's based on congressional evidence presented by a whistleblower. Emphases are mine: Read More Here
t's tragic and frightening in implication when the checks and balances, alert systems and safety nets designed to protect consumers and taxpayers end up instead protecting those who would do them harm.
Here's an explosive report from Rolling Stone's intrepid Matt Taibbi on the potential that the Securities and Exchange Committee has been committing exactly that kind of wrongdoing--and it's based on congressional evidence presented by a whistleblower. Emphases are mine: Read More Here
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Exclusive: New ‘Non-Partisan’ Health Repeal Front Group Comprised Entirely Of Republicans
How America criminalised poverty | Barbara Ehrenreich | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
I completed the manuscript for Nickel and Dimed in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity. Technology innovators and venture capitalists were acquiring sudden fortunes, buying up McMansions like the ones I had cleaned in Maine and much larger. Even secretaries in some hi-tech firms were striking it rich with their stock options. There was loose talk about a permanent conquest of the business cycle, and a sassy new spirit infecting American capitalism. In San Francisco, a billboard for an e-trading firm proclaimed, "Make love not war," and then – down at the bottom – "Screw it, just make money." Read More Here
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Fighting Sioux nickname to be gone by year's end | cleveland.com
Fighting Sioux nickname to be gone by year's end | cleveland.com
[A school wants to change it's name, and the GOP have to get involved.--MIO]
21 Reasons Rick Perry's Texas Is a Complete Disaster | News & Politics | AlterNet
Rick Perry's road to the White House will be paved with spin and blatant lies of omission. He's basing his entire campaign on a single data-point: Texas, with 10 percent of the country's population, has produced 37 percent of net new jobs in the U.S. since the recovery. Read More Here
Rick Perry's Campaign Strategy? Distorting His Abysmal Economic Record | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Global News: China to Double Solar Capacity by Year End; Nigeria to Continue Pumping Oil Despite Damning UNEP Report
Monday, August 15, 2011
Americans Don't Realize Just How Badly We're Getting Screwed by the Top 0.1 Percent Hoarding the Country's Wealth | Economy | AlterNet
With an unprecedented sum of wealth, tens of trillions of dollars, held within the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population, we now have the most severe inequality of wealth in US history. Not even the robber barons of the Gilded Age were as greedy as the modern-day economic elite. Read More Here.
“In Coverage of Extreme Weather, Media Downplay Climate Change” — Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes.com
OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. Read More Here
Daily Kos: The Tea Party: the conspiracy branch of the Republican Party
Throughout recent American history, the Republican Party has been made up principally of an uneasy alliance between religious conservatives and corporate interests. The two have not always gotten along, and generally the religious/cultural conservatives have always gotten just barely enough to keep them begrudgingly happy, while the major spoils went, reliably, to the corporate wing. Whatever you want to call the arrangement, it has definitely been successful. Read More Here
James Napoli: Eleven New Slogans for Fox News
If it weren't for all the people that got screwed over in the Murdoch phone hacking scandal, we might have been allowed some schadenfreude at the recent News Corp woes, but, alas, we were deprived even of that fleeting guilty pleasure. Nonetheless, the Fox News empire was brought into sharp relief by the revelations, and so it seemed time to re-imagine some marketing spin regarding everyone's favorite go-to network for fine reporting. And here it is. Read More Here
Thinning Arctic Sea Ice Poised to Undergo Record Decline in Mid-August, Volume Minimum Likely
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Mainstream Economist: Marx Was Right. Capitalism May Be Destroying Itself | AlterNet
Mainstream Economist: Marx Was Right. Capitalism May Be Destroying Itself | AlterNet
Nouriel Roubini is a mainstream economist who teaches at New York University and may be best known as one of the early predictors of the '08 crash.
He is no Marxist. Read More Here
Nouriel Roubini is a mainstream economist who teaches at New York University and may be best known as one of the early predictors of the '08 crash.
He is no Marxist. Read More Here
Are facts a low priority for Michelle Bachmann?
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