January 2011
37 posts
Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying... →
Noted speed freak, serial-killer fangirl, and Tea Party hero Ayn Rand was also a kleptoparasite, sneakily gobbling up taxpayer funds under an assumed name to pay for her medical treatments after she got lung cancer.
An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand’s law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand’s behalf she secured...
Spanish Judge Sets Deadline For Bush-Era... →
Looks like Spain hasn’t dropped the ball on their prosecution of the “Bush Six”:
In a National Court writ, judge Eloy Velasco said the U.S. government must promptly state whether alleged human rights abuses in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp during the George W. Bush administration are being probed by U.S attorneys. In the absence of a positive response, he will decide...
The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What... →
he Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” - Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation’s 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America’s...
Protest spreads in the Middle East - The Big... →
75-Year Prison Sentence for Taping the Police? The... →
The growing accessibility of recording devices is prompting officials to dig up dusty old eavesdropping laws that are being used to intimidate the nation’s citizens.
January 28, 2011 |
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Army Was Warned Not to Deploy Bradley Manning to... →
Barack Obama -- Out of the Closet →
Wall Street’s takeover of the Obama administration is now complete. The mega-banks and their corporate allies control every economic policy position of consequence. Mr. Obama has moved rapidly since the November debacle to install business people where it counts most. Mr.William Daley from JP Morgan Chase as White House Chief of Staff. Mr. Gene Sperling from the Goldman Sachs payroll to be...
Keith Olbermann Out At MSNBC (VIDEO) →
Keith Olbermann
Countdown with Keith Olbermann, a staple of the progressive media diet, and the cable news network’s top-rated show, is no more. In a surprise announcement at the end of Friday’s show, Olbermann said the episode would be his last. A release from MSNBC released shortly after the show ended announced “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract.”
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On Anniversary of Citizens United Ruling, DOJ... →
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate spending on election campaigns. We speak with Bob Edgar, the president of Common Cause, which has filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Justice urging it to investigate whether Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence...
Exclusive: DoJ veteran sees ‘dangerous precedent’... →
Ike was right all along: The danger of the... →
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The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV →
This 2007 piece from Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen seems ever more relevant today, as Jeh C. Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, channels MLK in search of legitimacy for an unpopular occupation and war on Afghanistan.
It’s become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King’s death, we get perfunctory network news reports about “the...
Beware of the 'Food Bubble' | Mother Jones →
Experts worry that the world is facing a looming food crisis, one that we are currently not well prepared to deal with.
In his new book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, Earth Policy Institute’s Lester Brown looks at the state of the world’s resources, warning that the outlook does not look good when it comes to feeding the world’s population. Brown warns...
Pat Robertson: Snow Is God's Way of Punishing... →
Rev. Pat Robertson sparked controversy in today’s broadcast of his “700 Club” program when he claimed that God created the blizzard currently battering the Northeast “to punish Americans who were planning to drive to do something gay.”
__Explaining his theory, Robertson said, “Because of the bad road conditions the Almighty has made, any gay activities that...
Weird But True: Grateful Dead Video Game Coming →
RFK Jr: "Uncle Jack's speech in Dallas was to have... →
On November 22, 1963, Mummy picked me up early from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Driving home to Hickory Hill in northern Virginia, I noticed that all the District flags were at half staff. Mummy told us that a bad man had shot Uncle Jack and that he was in heaven. Daddy’s friend and former football teammate, Dean Markham, a Justice Department Rackets Division Attorney picked...
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Fox News: The No. 1... →
11/10/2010 by Steve Rendall
Bill O’Reilly’s recent “joke” about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbankwas only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personalities or their worldview.
During the cable...
WatchCountdown: Olbermann: Violence and threats have no place in democracy
Arizona Shooter Jared Lee Loughner – Internet... →
Tucson Tea Party Leader: We Won't Change Our... →
Ezra Klein - When opposition to health-care reform... →
The Tyranny of Defense Inc. | MichaelMoore.com →
Judged 50 years later, Ike’s frightening prophecy actually understates the scope of our modern system—and the dangers of the perpetual march to war it has put us on.
By Andrew Bacevitch / Atlantic American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable. Yet on occasion, a politician will...
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Howard Dean: tea party is ‘last gasp’ of generation that fears diversity
Two Years After The RIAA Suggested ISPs Were Ready... →
Two Years After The RIAA Suggested ISPs Were Ready To Implement 3 Strikes, Most ISPs Have No Such Plans from the lies-the-riaa-tells dept It’s been a little over two years since the RIAA dropped its strategy of suing music fans for sharing files online — a strategy that was an unequivocal disaster for the record labels. Of course, when the news came out, the RIAA suggested that the reason they had...
Chris Hedges: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’ →
“The left has nowhere to go,” Nader said. “Obama knows it. The corporate Democrats know it. There will be criticism by the left of Obama this year and then next year they will all close ranks and say ‘Do you want Mitt Romney? Do you want Sarah Palin? Do you want Newt Gingrich?’ It’s very predictable. There will be a year of criticism and then it will all be muted. They don’t understand that even...
WatchJudith Miller, who printed every lie from Dick Cheney’s office about Iraq’s WMD’s in the NYTimes which led us to the Iraq war, just criticized Julian Assange on Fox NEWS for not verifying his sources
25 hedge fund managers are worth 658,000 teachers →
Nearly everyone on Wall Street sincerely believes that they are “worth” the enormous sums they “earn.” You see, their pay is determined by the market, and markets don’t lie. They reflect the high value our skilled elites bring to the economy. So we shouldn’t be shocked that the top 25 hedge fund managers together “earn” $25 billion a year, even at a...