another quote for today...
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Friday, May 23, 2008
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
Elizabeth Royte's new book explains why bottled water is one of the greatest marketing coups of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All
As this excerpt from AlterNet's new book, Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio, makes clear, host Michael Savage promotes hatred.
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today's quote...
"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."
'Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.' - Bob Marley
Portraits of fallen comfort broken hearts
Not long after Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Kirven was killed in an insurgent ambush in Afghanistan on Mother's Day in 2005, his family was contacted by a stranger.
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China: Roused by Disaster
The quake has revealed the compassionate side of China's Me generation and put the government under unprecedented scrutiny. The country will never be the same
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Clinton Campaign in Talks With Obama About VP Slot, CNN Says
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is in formal talks with Senator Barack Obama's campaign about becoming his vice presidential running mate, CNN reported, without citing anyone specific.
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Obama, Clinton Campaigns Deny Discussions to End Race
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- The campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama denied a report they are discussing ways of ending the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, including a possible offer to Clinton to be her rival's vice presidential running mate.
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Russia, China unite against U.S. defense plan
Moscow and Beijing have formed closer ties in recent years as part of their efforts to counterbalance Washington's global dominance.
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Joe Lieberman, ideological turncoat
The senator's indictment of the Democratic Party is just as dishonest as his failure to discuss his own evolution as an ally of McCain's.By Joe Conason
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Speechless - Real Clear Politics - Elections 2008 - TIME
Congresswoman Maxine Waters wants to nationalize the oil industry - if only she can find the words:
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Sign The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2008 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary. It's time for a global conversation about human rights and the values that unite us as one human family. But it can also be a time when each of us chooses to take human rights into our daily lives, by joining a powerful people network. [sign up here]
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Escape from Baghdad By Anna Badkhen
Unlike many who would also like to leave, today I board a cargo plane and fly away.May 22: I am leaving Iraq, and a lot of people who are staying wish they could do the same: Sahar al-Jawari, the unemployed, divorced mother who is slowly selling the last of her jewelry to survive in a city where gunshots are an everyday affair and electricity
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The ugliest election by Gary Kamiya
"Recount," director Jay Roach and screenwriter Danny Strong's first-rate docudrama about the disputed 2000 presidential election, is almost too painful to watch. Close to eight years have passed since a divided Supreme Court ended the epic 36-day battle over the votes by halting the recount in Florida, thus handing the election to George W. Bush.
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Nation's Poorest 1% Now Controls Two-Thirds Of U.S. Soda Can
A report on growing disparities in the concentration of U.S. aluminum-can wealth, released Tuesday by the Department of Commerce, revealed that 66 percent of the nation's recyclable assets are now held by the poorest 1 percent of the population.
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McCain Tells Ellen: You Shouldn't Be Able To Get Married
Below is the CNN news clip on John McCain's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show...
Appearing on Ellen DeGeneres's show today, McCain said, "I just believe in the unique status of marriage between man and woman." Ellen replied, "We are all the same people. All of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same."
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David Sirota: A Different Kind of Democracy
A big theme in my upcoming book, The Uprising (due out this coming Tuesday), is our culture's inability to see anything other than elections - and specifically federal elections - as a major instrument of social change or democracy. This myopic view expresses itself in all different ways - the media coverage of presidential campaigns,
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The Federal Reserve: Traitorous America Haters
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: Perhaps the greatest tragedy caused by the rise of right-wing radio is that now everything -- every single statement made -- is political and not factual. As a result, discussion about negative facts often boils down not to a refutation of those facts, but ad hominem attacks on those who mention those facts. For example,
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For a "Change-Turnout-New Voter" Race, Bill Richardson VP
Richardson Drives New Voter Registration and Turnout. The '08 election will be about change (from different people, to the way we conduct our political system, to policies, to transcending politics), for which voter turnout and new voter registration are the keys.
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Myanmar to Accept ‘All’ Aid Workers
The United Nations secretary general said that Senior Gen. Than Shwe had agreed to allow “all aid workers” to help survivors of the country’s cyclone.
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Wars take a deadly toll, even after vets return home
When a top doctor at the Department of Veterans Affairs learned in February that about 1,000 veterans under VA care attempt suicide each month, he knew just what was needed: A smart public relations strategy.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Court: Texas had no right to take polygamists' kids
An appeals court has ruled that Texas had no right to seize hundreds of children from polygamous sect.
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Today's food crisis isn't a blip
By Paul E. Roberts For anyone wondering where food prices are really headed, the news that Beijing has begun buying up farmland in Africa and South America offers a troubling hint. When China began acquiring oil fields in the 1990s, it signaled both the end of China's self-sufficiency in oil and the start of a competition between China and...
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Kennedy Roars in Search
Lookups on just about possible variant of Senator Kennedy's name spiked, including everything from the very proper "senator edward m. kennedy" to the more casual "teddy kennedy." Interest in "senator kennedy biography" and…
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another quote for today...
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group."
today's quote...
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
We Are Citizens, Hear Us Roar
For years, political pundits have been wringing their hands over dismal voter turnout. Now, with the most energized Democratic presidential primary race in decades, they've been nagging the candidates to wrap up their show, for the good of the party.Well, the voters aren't ready to stop voting.
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Officials say Obama starts search for running mate
Democratic officials say Barack Obama has begun a top-secret search for a running mate.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Veterans Attest to PTSD Neglect by VA
by: Maya Schenwar and Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t | ReportRecently released documents from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are further proof the VA has failed to adequately address the crisis in veterans' mental health care, according to a former top VA employee turned veterans' advocate.
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More Americans Fear Losing Health Insurance Than Terrorism
Will a new administration and Congress get universal health care right this time?
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Homeland Security's Emerging Immigration Police State
Forced drugging. Abuse. Death. That's what workplace-based immigration enforcement without deeper reform looks like.
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Why Won't Fox Reveal "Analyst" Karl Rove as McCain Adviser?
It has now been more than three months since Karl Rove first appeared on television as a Fox News political analyst on Feb 5. In no fewer than 57 appearances. They have yet to acknowledge the fact that he is an adviser to John McCain.
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McCain Campaign Enlisting Trolls to Spam the Internet
Unlike Obama's online support which has risen up quite organically, it appears that McCain is attempting to manufacture greater web presence through his "Blog Outreach" program.
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'Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term'
Israeli officials say Bush, Cheney wish to launch military op. in the coming months but are being held back by "hesitancy of Gates and Rice."
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FBI Agents Complained About Torture in 2002 But Was Ignored
F.B.I. agents complained repeatedly, beginning in 2002, about the harsh interrogation tactics that military and C.I.A. interrogators were using in questioning terrorism suspects, like making them do dog tricks and parade in the nude in front of female soldiers, but their complaints appear to have had little effect, according to an exhaustive report
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ANALYSTS' VIEW: Israel-Syria talks
(Reuters) - Following are comments from analysts after Israel and Syria said in surprise announcements on Wednesday they were conducting indirect peace talks with Turkish mediation. EZZEDIN CHOUKRI-FISHERE, DIRECTOR, ARAB-ISRAELI PROJECT AT THE...
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After Cancer Diagnosis, Kennedy Leaves Boston Hospital
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of the Kennedy family, has a malignant brain tumor.
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Obama wins Oregon, moves to brink of nomination
Americans see the light, the peace, we want to let go of the good old boys and girls club. We no longer want Corporate Greed, We want Health Care, Not Wealth Care. We want to end the unacceptable hate, shame and war that Bush and Cheney have brought to our country and the World, Peace
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Sen. Edward Kennedy has a brain tumor
BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma, they said.
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