Local AM radio wing-nut Victoria Taft proposed a dirty voting trick and KATU is only too happy to help catapult the propaganda:
local conservative talk show host is pulling out the big guns by urging Republicans around Oregon to commit party treason and switch sides, at least for a day.
For the May primary, KPAM’s Victoria Taft [...]
[ April 9, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza - who blames multi-culturalism for America’s decline and godless liberals for the 9-11 attacks - will be speaking at Skyview High School as part of WSU’s Public Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series.
From the Columbian:
D’Souza is the latest in a line of prominent speakers to deliver the annual WSU Vancouver lecture, which rotates [...]
February 27, 2008 – 9:33 pm
Starbucks over-expanded and feel the crunch of an ailing economy. Their solution? A massive, newsmaking public relations stunt, ostensibly to re-train and strategize.The IWW Starbucks Workers Union smells a rat and tells it like it is:
Starbucks Baristas Question Substance of National Shutdown for “Training”
New York, NY- As Starbucks stores around the United States reopen after [...]
February 21, 2008 – 9:17 am
The Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking control of Iraq’s oil:
In [...]
February 8, 2008 – 7:40 am
Who runs Bartertown?:
The FBI Deputizes Business
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they [...]
February 1, 2008 – 8:24 am
With Edwards officially out, I have lost the little sliver of hope that we could somehow get this country even marginally close to back on the same path. You might have noticed that I have been staying away from much political blogging. I feel that cynicism is something that shouldn’t be shared or spread around. [...]
January 30, 2008 – 10:46 am
Marjane Satrapi and her comic self portrait.
KBOO’s Words and Pictures show recently featured an interview with Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, whose autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis was just made into a feature length film.
“Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her [...]
January 27, 2008 – 7:48 pm
British comic Robert Newman tells the story of Western oil dependency and the U.S.’s unique ‘trade relationships’ with oil-producing nations better than any Chomsky lecture.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8957268309327954402
Funny and illuminating.
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December 21, 2007 – 8:20 am
“Sorry to interrupt, but I had one of those brain learnin’ things that wasn’t there a minute ago…”
Have a great Christmas, Solstice, Mithras, Saturnalia, Hanukkah, Festivus, Holiest of High Holy Shopping Day, Stuffmas, or whatever you call it.
I call it Christmas out of convenience, despite neither being a Christian or having much of a religious [...]
December 8, 2007 – 12:20 pm
Big Corporations:
A bipartisan group of Congressmen (and one woman) yesterday introduced a major bill aimed at boosting US intellectual property laws and the penalties that go along with them. While much of the legislation targets industrial counterfeiting and knockoff drugs, it also allows the government to seize people’s computers. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for [...]
November 28, 2007 – 8:26 pm
Author, podcaster and Mondo 2000 founder Ken Goffman - better known as R.U. Sirius - has a proposal for all of us:
A dark cloud is passing over America. We’ve witnessed, in recent years, the death of many of our constitutional rights and liberties. We’ve also seen increasingly authoritarian trends in daily life and culture.Those of [...]
November 28, 2007 – 8:00 am
The video-sharing website YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the activist said.
Wael Abbas said close to 100 images he had sent to YouTube were no longer accessible, including clips depicting purported police brutality, voting irregularities and [...]
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