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From The Sunday Times
August 16, 2009
Jenni Russell
There’s just one element of the stories of my childhood that fascinates my own children. It’s not the absence of mobile phones, or the idea of a world before the internet. It’s the fact that so many of my small crises ended in the same way: with my being rescued by the kind intervention of an unknown man. Whether… Continue
Thank god for thoughtful and intelligent investigative journalists in the MSM like John Pilger and,..uhm,...uh,..............well, there's,....uh ,................oh crap, we're in trouble aren't… Continue
This is a question I received by email from a close friend of mine after we had been talking on the phone about the ballistic reaction by the MSM to the "town hall gun nut" - and my response of course.
-----Original Message-----
From: REDACTED
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:59 PM
To: Mark
Subject: Confusion..
Back a couple months ago, you were saying that the "tea parties" were… Continue
FBI seizes police files in bridge shootings by Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune
Friday August 07, 2009, 8:45 AM
Sgt. Gerard Dugue had been assigned to investigate the shooting of a man, possibly by police, in Algiers in the days after Katrina hit. The man's charred remains were later discovered in a burned… Continue
The scope of government has escalated during the past 100 years, so that government now dominates the economy. There was a rollback in the old Soviet Union and its satellites, but otherwise the ever greater dominance of the state continues, leaping with each crisis such as the Great Recession of… Continue
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BoingBoing Posted by Cory Doctorow, August 2, 2009
James Grimmelman sez:
"The Associated Press -- which thinks you owe it a license fee if you quote more than four words from one of its articles -- doesn't even care if the words actually came from its article. They'll charge you anyway, even if you're quoting from the public domain.
I picked a random AP article and went to their "reuse options" site. Then, when they… Continue
Alternet By Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast.
Posted August 3, 2009.
Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?
"Yasser tearfully described that when he reached the top of the steps 'the party began. … They started to put the [muzzle] of the rifle [and] the wood from… Continue
Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
Who but the cowardly crew leading the “Christian” churches can be held responsible for the… Continue
A Swedish artist has spent months on a mega-project involving the public installation of faux-bombs, made of carrots, alarm clocks, red and blue cables, metal wire and tape, in the Göteborg area of Sweden. Called "Bunny Project," the concept is "rabbit as symbol for subversive activities, activities outside the reach of the control system. The rabbit has an almost… Continue
Counterpunch
July 17-19, 2009 By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
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"Watch what we do, not what we say,” was the famous advice Nixon’s first Attorney General, John Mitchell, gave the press at the onset of the Nixon presidency in 1969. It’s a handy piece of advice in the Age of Obama too, as we roll towards… Continue
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July 14, 2009 "The Guardian" -- Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.
The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements… Continue
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Mouseland was a story told first by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas, leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and, later, the New Democratic Party of Canada, both social democratic parties. It was a political fable expressing the CCF's view that the Canadian political system was flawed in offering voters a false dilemma: the choice of two parties, neither of which… Continue
>>>>> MARKLAR:"Will somebody please hit this guy over the head and stuff him into a time machine so we can give him his wish of living in 1952. We can perform the emergency vasectomy while we're strapping him…Continue
Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are… Continue
By Mark Levine, AlterNet. Posted July 9, 2009.
Shock: It seems the FBI cares more about protecting its illegal surveillance methods than following leads to stop terrorism.
The recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum serves as a stark reminder to us all that murderous racial and religious hatred still endures in America. One would expect the FBI to infiltrate and prosecute individuals and organizations that… Continue
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People campaigning for a better world should also demand a social salary. A social salary is an extra income apart from one's labor or capital, paid to everyone. It is not a bribe. It is not a reward for good behavior. It is your right. It's similar to the European proposal for a Basic Income.… Continue
The New York Stock Exchange quietly announced last week that it would end its practice of requiring companies to report all their program trading — a move that helps shield large investment banks, particularly Goldman Sachs, from public scrutiny.
The new rule means the public will no longer be able to tell… Continue
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DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...