Free Trade, Technology, and Pandering
• Reason.tvReason.tv updates Bastiat's "Candlemaker's Petition" for 2008.
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Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media - Part I
Stephen LendmanAnother tour de force from our most noted media scholar and critic.
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Bob Beckle: ‘The Iraqis owe us’ century-long oil leases
• RawstoryFox political commentator Bob Beckel said on last night’s O’Reilly Factor that Iraq owes American oil companies 100-year leases. Such leases, he went on, would lower oil prices.
Housing taxpayer bailout plan passes key Senate test
• APA massive foreclosure rescue bill cleared a key Senate test Tuesday by an overwhelming margin, with Democrats and Republicans both eager to claim election-year credit for helping hard-pressed homeowners.
Feingold, Dodd filibuster wiretap bill
• RawstorySenator Chris Dodd has taken the floor and begun the wiretap bill filibuster. The video is live-streaming from the Senate floor.
Dems who flipped on FISA immunity see more telecom cash
• The CryptHouse Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last week’s FISA bill took thousands of dollars more from phone companies than Democrats who consistently voted against legislation with an immunity prov
Consumers to pay for new cargo security laws
• AFPUS consumers could be hit hard by new security laws demanding that all cargo containers bound for the United States be scanned for radiation or weapons, a senior US customs official said. The measures, which Congress has demanded must
NASA expert: Prosecute those who don't acknowledge global warming
• ReutersTHE heads of major fossil fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be "tried for high crimes against humanity and nature," according to a leading climate scientist. [Disagreement is treason, eh?]
Doctor Holds Patient Hostage Until She Pays Her Bill
• The ConsumeristDoctor Laurusonis and 2 assistants in Georgia have been accused of locking a woman in an examination room "when concerns arose about her ability to pay the bill." The 3 were indicted on charges of false imprisonment for the October 4th, 200
Poll: 44% of Americans favor torture for terrorist suspects
• Rawstory.comA new poll of citizens' attitudes about torture in 19 nations finds Americans among the most accepting of the practice.
Scientists calculated the exact date of the Trojan Horse
• Telegraph.co.ukScientists have calculated that the horse was used in 1188 BC, ten years before Homer in his Odyssey describes the return of a warrior to his wife on the day the "sun is blotted out of the sky"
Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense
• NY Times (h/t Liz)How an 21-year veteran Assistant District Attorney deliberately threw a case to let a couple of wrongfully convicted men go free.
Job Opening at PBS for a 'r3VOLution Mole' :)
Ernest HancockThis job is in Arlington / Crystal City (Virginia). It includes editorial control over content, including election 2008 coverage. "Nuff said.
Message to Obama and McCain: Don't Waste Time on Paul's Backers
• by Earl Ofari Hutchinson (HuffPo)The really scary thing was that his out of the pale views and bigoted quips made sense to the throngs of mostly young, naïve, and impressionable voters who shrilly cheered him on. They repeatedly lambasted, hectored, harangued, and giddily name calle
Police molestation
• Radgeek (video)As many as 7 male and female deputies forcibly removed Steffey’s clothes inside a Stark County jail cell and left her completely naked for 6 hours. Steffey had someone call for help [big mistake] when a cousin injured her during a fight.
Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass'
• Onion News Network videoOfficially approved news to a slavish people.
Thomas Merton: a spiritually based political activist
• Christine Smith
Bennet Sedacca: Fed faces "Financial Tsunami" it can't contain
• Bloomberg.comSedacca wrote that current financial-market conditions remind him of ``someone standing on a lonely beach, armed with only a small bucket, trying to stop a rare tsunami that hits the shores
US Supremes again ignore private property seizures on Kelo Anniversary
• NY TimesThe United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a dozen New York City property owners and tenants whose homes and businesses are scheduled to be taken over by the government and demolished to make way for the $4 billion Atlantic Yards p
The Neocon Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf
• informationclearinghouse.infoThe most sophisticated of Iran’s cruise missiles are the ‘Sunburn’ and ‘Yakhonts’. These are missiles against which U.S. military experts conclude modern warships have no effective defense.
Hitler Video: Film of Hitler Singing at Party Rally
• MondorebIf this film footage had been widely broadcast in the 1930s, WWII wouldn't have happened and Hitler might have ended up a sitcom actor.
Congress to demand Bush 'blockade' Iran's imports of gasoline
• AfterDowningStreet.orgBy, inter alia [among other things], prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran
NAFTA Highway plans questioned by area residents
• Kingman Daily Miner NewspaperCHLORIDE - If the NAFTA Highway - also known as the Canamex Highway - comes to fruition, 130 miles of it will run through Mohave County and a lot more will traverse the rest of Arizona, joining Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, and effectively erasing the
Toehold in Tehran?
• Washington PostA smart idea to shake up US policy and reach out to the Iranian people is being debated in Washington, but the debate isn't taking place within or between the presidential campaigns. It's going on inside the Bush adminstration.
George Carlin: A Four-Letter Threat to Authority<br> by Butler Shaffer
• LewRockwellIt is difficult to find words that convey the sadness I felt upon being awakened, this morning, to the news that George Carlin had died the night before. He was the successor to the man I continue to regard as the most significant dismantler of autho
How to deal with a traffic stop
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Senate Dems won't stop telecom domestic spying bill
• Greenbay PRess-GazetteWisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold will not filibuster a compromise version of an electronic surveillance program although he thinks it will infringe on U.S. citizens' civil liberties. [So much for a difference. Lip service for suckers.]
John Bolton: Israel 'will attack Iran' before new US president sworn in
• Daily TelegraphIsrael could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in.
Actors' strike threatens to bring Hollywood to a standstill
• Independent[Death of TV part 2] To have one trade union paralyse Hollywood was strange; two doing it in quick succession feels like carelessness. A threatened walkout by actors, which could begin as early as next week, is throwing major film and television stud
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