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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 [...]

By Rich | Also posted in 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

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 [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Economic justice | Comments (0)

but we will have a perfect model of an administration shill

March 17, 2008 – 9:08 am

From Alan Greenspan’s attemp at self-exculpation in the Financial Times this weekend, We will never have a perfect model of risk:
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the second world war. It will end eventually when home prices stabilise and [...]

By missy | Also posted in Economic justice, Gov Acctability, Republicans | 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 [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Democrats, Domestic spying | Comments (1)

according to bushco, we’re all just soylent green for the economy

March 13, 2008 – 11:46 am

Spokesmonkey Tony Fratto this morning:
Q Tony, could I follow up on something you said at the gaggle this morning about — in your response to the retail sales numbers? You said, we want consumers to spend. How can they –
MR. FRATTO: We call them consumers.
Q How can they, and why can’t — why should they, [...]

By missy | Also posted in Bush crime family, Economic justice | Comments (0)

words matter

March 4, 2008 – 10:07 am

I wasn’t that surprised to see it in The Columbian, but I was disgusted that even the hosts on KPOJ have been referring to the Earth Liberation Front wackos who torched those McMansions up in Woodinville as terrorists.
E.L.F.’s actions are doomed to failure: burning a few model homes won’t stop sprawl or conspicuous consumption, any [...]

By missy | Also posted in Bush crime family, Environment, War on terror | Comments (0)

sympathy for the devil

February 28, 2008 – 10:10 am

For John Roberts, there’s nothing playful about being the devil’s advocate:
Chief Justice John Roberts was pained.
Exxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had earned a profit of nearly $40 billion in 2006, the largest ever reported by a U.S. company — but that’s not what bothered Roberts. What bothered the [...]

By missy | Also posted in Economic justice, Environment, Human rights, Republicans | Comments (0)

Wobblies on The Great Starbuck’s PR Stunt of ‘08

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 [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Culture, Dept. of just Sayin', Economic justice | Comments (1)

want some vioxx for that, nino?

February 22, 2008 – 9:29 am

Pacemaker dies, so you do, too? Bad luck, man. Knee replacements wear out before their time? Tough shit. Because according to 8 of our 9 illustrious SCOTUS justices (with their of the cadillac health care plan and the lifetime employment), even if a company knew its medical device was faulty, if [...]

By missy | Also posted in 2008 Election, Constitution | Comments (0)

Commerce Dept docs: Cheney and oil execs decided to take Iraq’s oil in spring 2001

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 [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Bush crime family, Foreign policy, Iraq, Middle East conflicts, War on terror | Comments (0)