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Author Archives: Rich

Spotlight on Neo-Nazis and Anti-Immigration Activists

May 4, 2008 – 12:12 pm

What is it with nativist nutbars and neo-Nazis? Anti-immigrant a-holes always pitch a fit when referred to as racists. Yet their knees turn to jelly for swastika-lickers, no matter how ancient or feeble the National Socialist.
Take 74-year-old Elton Hall. (Please, take him.) An Arizona organizer for the American Nazi Party back in the day, he’s [...]

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Good Work, Sister!: Women Shipworkers of WWII

April 27, 2008 – 12:09 pm

Winner of the Oral History Association’s 2007 Nonprint Format Award…..A production of: The Northwest Women’s History Project
GOOD WORK SISTER! tells the stories of women shipyard workers of World War IIan eventful period in women’s economic and social history.“In their OWN WORDS these women reveal the pride they took in their work and the loss they [...]

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Spotlight on Media Military Analysts

April 20, 2008 – 11:23 am

Most of the mainstream media seem to have dropped any pretense of impartiality.I listened to an NPR piece about the cease-fire talks in Israel and both guests were pro-Israel, American Enterprise Institute members, who gave no mention of the Palestinian people’s complaints. To make matters worse, few Americans know who these frequently sourced or featured [...]

Posted in Media, Middle East conflicts, Military | Comments (0)

If ABC Covered the Lincoln/Douglas Debates

April 19, 2008 – 12:33 pm

Publius brings the funny:

LINCOLN: In my opinion, slavery will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Excuse me, did an Elijah H. Johnson attend your church?
LINCOLN: When I was a [...]

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Win Ben Stein’s Credibility

April 16, 2008 – 8:50 pm

Cranky conservative curmudgeon Ben Stein’s (Bueller?) anti-Darwin film is getting slammed for some lapses of integrity. Surprise surprise.
Six Things in Expelled that Ben Stein Doesn’t Want You to Know…
…about intelligent design and evolution
1) Expelled quotes Charles Darwin selectively to connect his ideas to eugenics and the Holocaust.
When the film is building its case that Darwin [...]

Posted in Ethics, Religion | Comments (0)

Them Librul’s Gonna Take Away My Guns…

April 4, 2008 – 12:40 pm

There’s a lot of symptomatic nuttiness in this tale of yet another gun-nut nearly run amok.
MIAMI (AP) - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday.
Oregon authorities learned of a March 25 Internet message allegedly posted by [...]

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I Can’t Think of a More Fitting Legacy

April 2, 2008 – 7:55 am

Forget about the George W. Bush Presidential Library (900 copies of My Pet Goat). I think this is one memorial we can all safely get behind.

The Presidential Memorial Commission is proposing an ordinance initiative for the November 2008 San Francisco ballot, to rename the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility the George W Bush Sewage Plant. [...]

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Time Magazine: We Don’t Report the News, We Write it

March 18, 2008 – 8:07 am

Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush’s domestic spying abusesNo matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. Time Magazine has just published what it purports to be a news article by Massimo Calabresi claiming that “nobody cares” about the countless abuses of [...]

Posted in Corporate control, Domestic spying, Media, Privacy, War on terror | Comments (2)

The Revolutionary Underclass Will Not Be Televised

March 18, 2008 – 7:38 am

Where else but the BBC would you read about shanty-towns in America?
Return of Hoovervilles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8

What if there was a Depression and Nobody Told?
Tent Cities - 21st Century Hoovervilles - springing up outside Los Angeles to no media notice.
I live there, and the first I hear about is on [...]

Posted in Corporate control, Economic justice | Comments (0)

Something to be grateful for

March 15, 2008 – 8:19 pm

House Passes Spy Bill, Rejects Telcom Amnesty Despite Veto Threat
Democrats continued their defiance of President Bush on Friday over his secret wiretapping program, passing a spying bill that calls for a commission to investigate the program, and refusing to give amnesty to telecoms that collaborated with the warrantless surveillance.
House Democratic leaders secured passage of the [...]

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Why are there so many names on the U.S. government’s terrorist list?

March 14, 2008 – 6:45 am

The American Civil Liberties Union has some frightening info about who’s on the U.S. Government terror watch list, as well as a snazzy counter.
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 [...]

Posted in Civil rights, Constitution, Domestic spying, Middle East conflicts, War on terror | Comments (2)

Iraq/Afghanistan Winter Soldier Hearings

March 14, 2008 – 6:16 am

All regular programming on KBOO is pre-empted from 6AM to 4PM today (Friday the 14th) in order to carry the Iraq/Afghanistan Winter Soldier hearings, currently underway.
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will feature testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, [...]

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