The government says Toni Anderson is dead, but she insists she is very much alive. David MacAnally of NBC affiliate WTHR reports from Muncie, Ind.
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Written by: Raphael Marambii - I am glad to be the bearer of good news this time. The mediation talks in Kenya led by former U.N. chief Kofi Annan have led to a breakthrough and a power-sharing agreement has been reached. The opposition leader Raila Odinga will get the newly formed position of prime minister with executive powers. This brings to an
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Here Come the Media Attacks on Obama
Posted by soul Labels: 2008 Presidential Candidates, Barack Obama, elections, Hillary ClintonNow that the press has thoroughly trashed Hillary Clinton - they're going to turn their sites on Obama and his supporters.
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Bubble Boy by Mike Luckovich
Posted by soul Labels: Cartoonist Group, cartoons, humor, Mike Luckovich, political cartoons, political satiretoo funny...
By Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
© Cartoonist Group, 2006
Technorati tags: Mike Luckovich, political cartoons, political satire, cartoons, political humor, humor, satire
I watched The Ellen DeGeneres show today...
Posted by soul Labels: entertainment news, human rights, LGBT, politics, videoI watched The Ellen DeGeneres Show today and she did something she doesn't usually do. She spoke of the murder of a young teenage boy named Larry King by another boy named Brandon McInerney. All because Larry had sent Brandon a Valentine.
Watch the video below and then read the rest of what I have to say below....
Choking back tears, she added, "Larry is not a second-class citizen. I am not a second-class citizen. It is okay if you are gay."
***Thank you, Ellen! You brought me to tears as you spoke about Larry King and the hate for gays that still pervades our society. I live in Massachusetts where gay marriage is legal. I am gay and married to my fabulous wife Kathy, since October 16th, 2006. We have a 15 y/o son that attends one of the local high schools in our hometown and is taunted by children because he happily tells people he has 2 Moms. He has lost friends due to their parents finding out we are gay and married. This school year it even became a "political issue" because one of my son's friends mother told the vice principal that we were gay and then made up a story that my son elbowed her son! We tried to work things out with the parents but when we called the kids mom yelled and screamed that she was going to file charges against my son! The school tried to intervene but encountered the same kind of irrational behavior from the mother that we did. The worst thing about all this is my kid and her kid were friends...they hung out together at school...his teachers told my wife and I what good friends the 2 were. That was until the mother actually took her son out of school and started home schooling him! The worst part about this whole thing is that 2 good friends can no longer continue their friendship because of a parents hate for something she doesn't understand.
Peace,
soul
Ellen DeGeneres: The Hate Must Stop - TV News, Ellen DeGeneres : People.com
Technorati tags: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, glbt, politics, human rights, Larry King
Anti-war groups launch campaigns against 'bomb Iran' McCain
Posted by soul Labels: activism, anti-war, The Raw Story, warVoteVets.org has launched a new ad against the Republican candidate featuring a female Iraq vet and her baby, suggesting that McCain will spend on endless war instead of on the things Americans really need. Meanwhile, anti-war group True Majority is planning a campaign targeting McCain's musings about bombing Iran.
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Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13. The day before, he had been shot in the head in an Oxnard, Calif., classroom full of students. Police have charged a sweet-faced boy called Brandon McInerney, 14, with first-degree murder and with a hate crime.
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Ellen DeGeneres took a rare political stance – though she was careful to call it a personal stance, because, she said, "this is important to me" – on her show scheduled to air Friday, regarding the murder of 15-year-old Lawrence King, shot in the head on Feb. 12 by a classmate in a suburban Oxnard, Calif., junior high school.
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By Cynthia Boaz - Elections are the proximate requirement for democracy. Although they alone cannot sustain democracy, without them no system could ever make a reasonable claim to be democratic. Likewise, voting is the most basic, fundamental and obvious means by which citizens can participate in democracy. It is the means by which the people's wil
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I may be moving ahead of the discussion a little bit, but I have always found that in order to help frame a discussion it is important to start early.
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The Reichstag fire helped transform Germany from a democracy to a dictatorship. What can we do to avoid a similar outcome?
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Why do we continue using Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan to undermine important concerns and historic campaigns?
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Five years into Iraq, Bush denies any link between Americans' economic pain and war spending.
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Cholesterol drugs are unnecessary.*This sucks!!! I'm on a statin and my lab results show my cholesterol level has dropped to healthier levels. This article makes me wonder if it is the fact that I changed my diet dramatically that is making my cholesterol levels lower?
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LAS VEGAS - Preliminary tests indicate that a package found at a motel contained the toxin ricin, and seven people have been taken to hospitals, authorities said.
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In a radio interview today, Israel's deputy defence minister threatened a "holocaust" (using the Hebrew word "shoah") against Gaza if Palestinian militants stepped-up their rocket fire against Israel. According to Reuters, Deputy Minister Matan Vilnai said:
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CUKURCA Turkey - Turkey military said Friday it has ended a ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq but said that foreign influence didnt play a role in its decision.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (IPS) - U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries.
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WASHINGTON - The top U.S. military officer told America's armed forces on Thursday to prepare to support whoever wins this year's presidential election but voiced concern about a rapid withdrawal from Iraq...
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The FBI now keeps a list of over 900,000 names belonging to known or suspected terrorists, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.
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He has served his country in the military, the Congress, and the Senate. Now he serves America in song.
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
- Ayn Rand -
There is a battle far from getting the attention it deserves considering the stakes – the rule and governing of the USA.
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Did you know that the federal government has not only set up but is also currently operating a prison that holds entire families - including infants, children and nursing and pregnant women?
It's located in Taylor, Texas and it's operated by Corrections Corporation of America, a privately owned corporation.
This short film by Matt Gossage and Lily Keber is one of the only public reports on this prison. Otherwise this subject has been entirely censored by the US news media.
For more information about prison:Click here:
http://tdonhutto.blogspot.com
Technorati tags: Brasscheck TV, federal government, prisons, concentration camps, human rights, videos
Too little regulation has resulted in a credit-crunch.
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"Could you tell us what happened?" [Paul] Wolfowitz asked. Someone else asked, "Is it abuse or torture?" At that point, Taguba recalled, "I described a naked detainee lying on the wet floor, handcuffed, with an interrogator shoving things up his rectum, and said, 'That's not abuse. That's torture.' There was quiet."
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For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million. Another 723,000 people are in local jails. One in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.
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Signaling impatience with Syria, the United States has sent its USS Cole warship off the coast of Lebanon in a "show of support" for regional stability, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister has written to the U.N. Security Council arguing that sanctions resolutions against the country over its nuclear program lack any legal basis and undermine the council's...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic proposal to curb rising home foreclosures by changing bankruptcy law failed a key test vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. In a largely party-line vote, Republicans blocked the measure from moving ahead, although...
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A Democrat's attempt to impose quick U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq collapsed in the U.S. Senate, as expected, but leaders on Thursday insisted they will retool legislation and force votes in coming months. The Senate spent much of this week debating a plan by Sen. Feingold of WI to begin withdrawing most American troops from Iraq by July.
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is engaged in a concerted effort to reassure Jewish leaders in the face of an increasingly aggressive Republican campaign to question his tolerance and his commitment to supporting Israel.
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Wouldn't it be nice if time on the job and tickets punched translated neatly into superior performance? Then finding great Presidents would be a simple matter of weighing résumés.
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Anti-war groups vow to protest Democratic National Convention in Denver in spirit of 1968 demonstration.
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Could he break $50M? Because “considerably more” means more than an additional $10M. I guess we’ll see what that phrase means soon enough.
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I must confess a dirty little secret - I don't care what presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama say they will do to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq if they become president next year. Thousands more Iraqis and hundreds more U.S. troops will be dead by then, and for what? I want to know what Senators Clinton and Obama are willing
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If McCain wants to mock Obama, perhaps he should pick a topic in which a) Obama is mistaken; and b) McCain knows what he's talking about.
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This is hilarious... until you realize that electronic voting machines are no laughing matter.
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How politicians communicate has more influence than policy details. Why else would the public accept destructive GOP practices like domestic spying?
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Sure, any war can be spun as some necessity against some Very Bad Person, preferably of brown skin, slanted eyes and/or differing deity. Not only can any war be so spun, probably every war there ever was has been, at least since the days when governments had to start offering some justification or another for their little foreign adventures.
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"Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand."
'Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.' - Bodie Thoene
By Matt Wuerker, Politico.com
© Cartoonist Group, 2006
Support Real Diplomacy with Iran, Instead of Military Threats
Posted by soul Labels: activism, diplomacy, foriegn affairs, IranNow that the U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, there is a real chance to avoid another costly war if the U.S. government engages in serious diplomacy with Iran. And there is a bill in Congress that would encourage direct and comprehensive talks with Iran without preconditions.
I just asked my Senators and Representative to support this effort to avoid another military confrontation. This web tool makes it easy:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iran/act.html
Also, in February and March 2008, a nationwide tour is happening called, "The Folly of Attacking Iran: Time for Real Diplomacy." There will be big events in 20 cities. See if the tour is stopping near you:
http://www.FollyofAttackingIran.org
Help this video gain momentum on YouTube and be seen by more people. We've set up a page that makes it easy to tell your friends.
Also, please write a letter to Congress in support of real diplomatic engagement with Iran.
Thanks for taking an active interest in reforming U.S. foreign policy!
Dems face a decision--do the right, courageous thing, and have an opportunity for incredible new levels of long-term power in Congress, or reach for new lows of spineless cowardice and settle for holding onto or slightly increasing their power, for a short time, in the Congress.
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Some senior US military commanders are prepared to resign if President Bush orders a military strike against Iran, a new report says
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Viral videos: yeah, yeah, we know. It's the realm of stupid pet tricks, jackass stunts and crazy kid antics. Today viral video is anybody's game, and the 2008 presidential election has become an online obsession. Look around and you'll see netizens from all over the country rallying behind their favorite candidates and using the power of the Web to
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WASHINGTON - Gen. George Casey, the Army's chief of staff, said Tuesday he has no reason to doubt Barack Obama's recent account by an Army captain that a rifle platoon in Afghanistan didn't have enough soldiers or weapons. (So much for Lush Limbaugh and Shill O Reilly calling Obama a liar)
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Civil rights leader John Lewis dropped his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid Wednesday in favor of Barack Obama. Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Atlanta, is the most prominent black leader to defect from Clinton's campaign in the face of near-unanimous black support for Obama in recent voting.
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Aid workers in Ethiopia's remote Ogaden region are currently facing an impossible dilemma. In order to carry on helping people in the east of the country, the government has warned them that they better keep quiet about allegations of army atrocities in the area.
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A crew from BBC Arabic TV left Sudan on 24 February after running up against too many government restraints on their filming. Reporter Muhammad al-Khatim al-Mahdi’s investigation had been focused on the Janjaweed in Darfur. The BBC press office confirmed this with me today.
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Even though White House computer technicians hunted high and low, an entire week's worth of e-mail from Cheney's office was missing. The week was Sept. 30, 2003, to Oct. 6, 2003, the opening days of the Justice Department's probe into whether anyone at the White House leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
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"No one won. No one lost. And Clinton needed more than a tie to change the course of this race... Both candidates held their own, but there was no defining moment, breakout line or critical game-changer. So, in that sense, Obama won."
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If Washington turned its definition of terror on the U.S., America could easily rise to the top of its own most-wanted list.
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The military is denying crucial care to soldiers, making them vulnerable on the battlefield.
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Republican "limited government" at its worst. From ABC:Former FAA Inspector: TSA's Enforcement of Post-9/11 Laws 'Basically Nonexistent'Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/ll attacks, according to internal
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"Evidence that L. Rob Hubbard plagiarized Scientology from a 1934 German book called "Scientologie." The text seems to map to various hoo-haw from the cult's official doctrine, too."
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Feb. 26, 2008 | Amy Sullivan is a senior editor at Time, a liberal Democrat, and an evangelical Christian. One of those things is not supposed to be like the others, but she argues in her new book that her fellow Democrats need to reach out to her fellow evangelicals if they hope to build an electoral majority. In "The Party Faithful: How and Why D
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Ann Telnaes on Patriotism
Posted by soul Labels: Ann Telnaes, patriotism, political cartoons, political satire, politics
New Hampshire has filed legislation to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of Marijuana
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He finally did it - probably because such of a strong showing at the debate last night.
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There’s a growing chorus of voices starting to call for Hillary Clinton to give it up.
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The Conservative blogosphere says that Barack Obama isn't patriotic enough to be President because he was photographed without his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. Looks like former U.S. President George H W Bush doesn't love America either.
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There are approximately 700,000 marijuana-related arrests made very year. Most of these — 87 percent — involve nothing more than mere possession of small amounts of marijuana. This exercise in scrupulosity costs us $10-15 billion per year in direct expenditures alone.
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This gem posted by Spree!Whether one agrees with America's methods or the handling of the War on Terror, it is safe to say that almost everybody would agree that the US spends billions upon billions of dollars going after terrorists. Why does the US ignore the terrorists within?
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he world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies.
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Entertainment Tonight took a break from stalking Britney Spears to do an exclusive interview with Barack Obama that aired last night. The Illinois senator chewed the fat with Jann Carl, and they talked about Michelle (”she’s a stylish person, and she’s tall and elegant”), his fave movies and he even picked Will Smith to play him...
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Chanting "$25 million isn't enough!" dozens of sick 9/11 first responders stood in the rain on Capitol Hill Tuesday and urged President Bush to restore funding to help pay their medical bills.
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These are some funny anti-Hillary Clinton ebay auctions
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Wikileaks may very well be unstoppable. That didn't prevent a federal judge from vastly overstepping his authority while attempting the impossible. This article offers a description of some of the Constitutional issues presented in the lawsuit.
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Top Army officials have told a Senate panel that the Army is under serious strain and must reduce the length of combat tours as soon as possible. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of Staff said, "The cumulative effects of the last six-plus years at war have left our Army out of balance."
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Globalization has diminished US manufacturing jobs, and created an enduring balance of payments deficit. Both of these threaten the quality of American life in ways that almost cannot be avoided or changed. It's a frightening prospect
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YouTube service was restored to Pakistan this morning after a turbulent 48 hours in which a government-imposed YouTube ban caused an accidental worldwide shutdown on Sunday night. The New York Times is reporting that Pakistan “lifted its restrictions on its citizens’ access to YouTube...See the videos that sparked the controversy here!
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With Kosovo unilaterally declaring independence and a host of wannabe states looking to follow its lead, you might be thinking it’s about time to set up your own country. You’ve picked out a flag, written a national anthem, even printed up money with your face on it. But what’s the next step?
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By Andrew Gray WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army aims to cut the length of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan this summer, its top general said on Tuesday, as commanders seek to reduce severe war strains on the force. Gen. George Casey said the...
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By Tom Brown MIAMI (Reuters) - A massive power outage struck parts of Florida on Tuesday, knocking out electricity to millions, snarling traffic and trapping people in elevators. A spokeswoman for FPL Group Inc, the main energy provider in south Florida.
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I wonder if Pakistan did a You Tube on Florida?
Florida Power & Light is reporting massive power outages throughout South Florida, including Miami, Doral, Westchester, and Pembroke Pines. Reports of outages extended into Palm Beach, an FPL spokeswoman said.
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"In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help.... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings."
Technorati tags: today's quote, quotes, quote, quotations, Urie Bronfenbrenner, children, compassion, society, USA
BREAKING: Greenpeace activists have breached security at Heathrow Airport
Posted by soul Labels: activism, Greenpeace, protestsGreenpeace activists have breached security at Heathrow Airport and climbed on top of a Boeing aeroplane.
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Greenpeace activists rock! I believe they attract alot of attention by using a kind of 'guerrilla activism', for lack of a better word, that a lot of people don't understand. They often use whatever tactics they can to stop Japanese whaling. In this paragraph from a Greenpeace action on trying to block refueling of a Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship;
"As the documentation was in progress, two of the whaling fleet's hunter vessels spent more than an hour performing close-quarter maneuvers around the small Greenpeace inflatables, to harass the activists, and push them away from the Nisshin Maru and Oriental Bluebird."
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press-center/release ...
Peace,
soul
Turkey launched incursion last week against separatist Kurdish rebels---BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government demanded for the first time that Turkey immediately withdraw from northern Iraq, warning Tuesday it feared an ongoing incursion could lead to clashes with the official forces of the semiautonomous Kurdish region.
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Self-help is everywhere, but does it work? One writer immersed herself in the industry for a year to find out.
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It's easy to forget that the road to Guantánamo began in places like Kandahar and Jalalabad.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France may send hundreds of ground troops to east Afghanistan where NATO-led forces are fighting al Qaeda-backed insurgents, Le Monde newspaper reported on Tuesday. It said the move would be part of a new Afghan policy being worked...
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Millions of people taking commonly prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac and Seroxat might as well be taking a placebo, according to the first study to include unpublished evidence.
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This paying off of politicians is what the right wing proudly defends as free speech.
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Check out this new Gallup poll graph. Obama trounces Clinton on the question of "unifying" the country: "Most Americans think Barack Obama ... would unite rather than divide the country as president, but view Hillary Clinton as a potentially more divisive chief executive." Digg this up and read the full results. It's really quite striking.
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The Clinton campaign is attempting to spread fear through the dissemination of this photo. The BBC's head of Somali service explains the meaning of the traditional Somali garb.
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Rejecting entreaties from longtime friends the Clintons, he becomes another of major Dem. to endorse.
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During the Cold War the United States military misplaced at least eight nuclear weapons permanently. These are the stories of what the Department of Defense calls “broken arrows”
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Robed Obama picture ignites row
Posted by soul Labels: 2008 Presidential Candidates, Barack Obama, elections, politics, propaganda
The more desperate Clinton becomes the dirtier the race gets.
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Former presidential candidate John Edwards (D-N.C.), whose endorsement is sought by Democratic presidential rivals Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.), will join several groups that have endorsed Obama in a new effort to end the Iraq war.
TheHill.com - Edwards joins Obama supporters in new anti-war effort
YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses by ZDNet's Richard Koman -- It isn’t often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that’s what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the site facilitates illegal sharing, but also of third-world dictators, [...]
YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com
Obama SINGS the National Anthem... Others Do Not
Posted by soul Labels: 2008 Presidential Candidates, Barack Obama, elections, video
Some people are saying Obama is unpatriotic because he didnt cover his heart during the pledge. Well, it WASNT the pledge, it was the national anthem and modern custom does not require a hand over the heart. But if you watch closely: He is the ONLY one singing! Clinton clearly is not, Richardson might be. So, who is the unpatriotic one?
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Tomorrow morning the Democratic National Committee will file a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against John McCain. Why? In the words of DNC Chair Howard Dean: "We want John McCain to obey the law with his own name on it."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic grass roots organizations on Monday launched a $20 million campaign to defeat Republican John McCain in the 2008 U.S. presidential election by focusing their attention on rising costs of the Iraq war. The campaign,...
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By Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran voiced defiance on Monday as Western powers pushed for new sanctions over its nuclear program, saying high oil prices will cushion the blow. The United States, Britain and France are pushing for a United...
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Barack Obama gained big ground against rival Hillary Clinton in the battleground of Ohio on Monday as their race took a negative turn. With a week until the pivotal votes in Ohio and Texas on March 4, a poll said Clinton leads Obama in Ohio by 51% to 41% among likely Dem voters. This was a narrowing from 55% to 34% two weeks ago, and was a sign...
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so says Raed Jarrar. Today's post features voices from the edge. Sunshine is waiting for the war on her doorstep to end and writes of her hopes and aspirations; Last of Iraqis is turned back at the Jordanian border and writes of hopes lost; Layla waits in the immigration queue; Baghdad Dentist writes of a relaxed Baghdad and the blogger formerly
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I wondered who was voting for Hillary
Posted by soul Labels: 2008 Presidential Candidates, elections, Hillary Clinton, voting
Some political humor highlights from Jon Stewart's opening monologue at the Oscars.
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The closer one looks, the more it appears the administration's fear-mongering was unfounded. Who would have guessed?
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Because, unlike Obama, she doesn't inspire cult-like devotionBecause the Obama campaign twisted her and her husband's statements to paint her as a racistBecause the media repeatedly tells me that, despite her centrist policies, she's "polarizing"Because her campaign is focused on energizing Democrats instead of those all-important Independent
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She urged donors to watch the latest episode of "Saturday Night Live," which featured a skit mocking last Thursday's CNN debate as a love fest for Obama. "The voters of this country deserve to have a real election," she said.
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Is Don Siegelman in prison because he's a criminal or because he belonged to the wrong political party in Alabama?
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Hillary continues to ridicule Obama and his supporters on the notion that all he is bringing to the table is hope, as if that were insubstantial.
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Yes, global capitalism may be resilient. But it looks like its options are increasingly limited.
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The cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have grown to staggering proportions.
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As the Democratic party becomes increasingly pro-gun, not even campus bloodshed grabs the candidates' attention.
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By Oliver Willis - Putting aside the fact that I historically have not found him funny, you really mean that Saturday Night Live was unable to find a single funny black guy?UPDATE: And, not only was the selection kind of insulting -- his Obama impression sucks.
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Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube. This isn't an OpenDNS issue. Just letting you all know. This is now fixed. PCCW took far far too long to fix their broken customer (Pakistan Telecom)... Argh.
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Spoken before the US invaded Iraq
"We can call ouselves Americans. We can fly the American flag, but unless we stand up and defend the values that define us as Americans, we will cease being Americans."
Scott Ritter gave this talk before the US invaded Iraq. As a former US Marine Corps officer, UN weapons inspector and expert on the armaments of Iraq, he very publicly disputed the Bush adminstration's claim that Iraq was a threat to the US.
Now the US is on the same path with regards to war against Iran.
Learn what you can do to help stop another illegal, immoral,and reckless use of US power in the world. Get and Scott's book "Waging Peace."
Olbermann presents an impressively detailed timeline called "The Nexus of Politics and Terror," chronicling the Bush admin's exploitation of terror threats for political gain. "What we were told about terror, and not told, for security reasons, has overlapped considerably with what we were told about terror, and not told, for political reasons."
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In a “shocking” new development, “consumer advocate”, Ralph Nader (that’s the only free one you get, Ralphie), has tossed his hat into the three-ring, two-party circus again.
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Comedian Goes on Anti-Fox News Rant During Live Broadcast
Posted by soul Labels: Fox News, humor, video
Comic
by luvnews
Who is this little guy anyway?
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The vast corruption of our media system is an issue of profound importance-- an issue as important as, and fundamentally related to, the corruption of our voting system. So what really matters isn't whether John McCain was schtupping Vicki Iseman. It's that Ms. Iseman was but one of many pricey lobbyists who have helped McCain schtup all the rest o
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More from the same article;
Here is a bouquet of items on Bomb-Bomb McCain, who's long been whoring
for the worst players in the corporate media--especially Sinclair Broadcasting,
which, back in 2004, stood out for the brazenness of its pro-Bush agenda. It was
Sinclair that first screened Stolen Honor, the anti-Kerry propaganda hit piece that was financed and assembled by the Bush machine. (So much for Bomb-Bomb's solidarity with a fellow vet.)
A ZDNet.com Blog - As of this writing, 3:30 Eastern most of the rest of world can still not get to YouTube
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site, an official said Sunday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it had cleared up all past outstanding issues over its nuclear program with the United Nations nuclear watchdog and accused the United States of providing intelligence that was fake. ''The work plan is...
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Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.
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SpringWidgets: Widget Election
Posted by soul Labels: 2008 Presidential Candidates, Barack Obama, elections, politicsWidget Election Widget...pick your candidate...copy the code onto your website, blog, or social networking site and support the candidate you choose for the 2008 Presidential Elections
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By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent UK
Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region.A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes and Cobra helicopters, yesterday launched a major ground offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan.
By Daren Butler CIZRE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish troops intensified their offensive against Kurdish PKK guerrillas in northern Iraq on Saturday, two days after crossing the mountainous border in a campaign Turkey's allies hope will be short and...
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