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This disturbing video clip shows Occupy Oakland protester and three-tour Iraq war veteran Kayvan Sabehgi in an altercation with riot police on October 2. The Guardian posted the clip late last week and reported that Sabehgi suffered a ruptured spleen as a result of the beat-down captured here, and that Oakland police say they are looking into the incident.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/another_vet_struck_down_by_police_in_oakland_20111121This disturbing video clip shows Occupy Oakland protester and three-tour Iraq war... more
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A series of stories that I hold close to my heart, the plot thickens and things keep changing. But we'll keep on keeping on, power to everyone out on the street!
What do you all think?A series of stories that I hold close to my heart, the plot thickens and things keep... more
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LONDON—The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly irrational, wasteful and shameful moment in the political and economic history of the United States. It reflected much of what is wrong with the priorities of our political elites and the obsessions of those who now hold effective veto power over our government.
It began with the world hanging on to every development in the debt-ceiling negotiations as it fretted over whether Washington’s dysfunction would lead to American default and global calamity. Even robustly pro-American commentators and politicians wondered aloud if the United States could still govern itself.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/can_america_still_lead_20110809/LONDON—The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly... more
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The Sky Really Is Falling |
The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with equal parts of self-delusion.The Sky Really Is Falling |
The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming,... more
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An extremist Florida church says it will go ahead with plans to mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11 by setting copies of the Quran on fire, even though authorities have warned that such actions would endanger Americans fighting, serving and traveling abroad.
The White House said the event “puts our troops in harm’s way,” while the State Department called it “un-American.”
The Dove World Outreach Center is led by a man named Terry Jones, pictured, who wrote a book called “Islam Is of the Devil.” Jones’ raving can be witnessed in the video below.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/florida_church_determined_to_burn_qurans_despite_warnings_20100907/An extremist Florida church says it will go ahead with plans to mark the ninth... more
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Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer took the opportunity to stick it to the neighborhood.
For the uninitiated, Webby winners are held to a strict five-word limit for their speeches. It’s pretty difficult to say something profound, relevant or even just funny in that space, but Bob did a great job.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/our_webby_acceptance_speech_20100615/Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer took the opportunity to stick it to the neighborhood.... more
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Tuesday’s election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of that windbag chameleon Sen. Arlen Specter is long overdue, and pro-labor forces were able to push Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff in Arkansas. Even the big tea party win in Kentucky has its bright side.
Count me as one lefty liberal who is not the least bit unhappy with the victory by Rand Paul in Kentucky’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Not because it might make it easier for some Democratic Party hack to win in the general, but rather because he seems to be a principled libertarian in the mold of his father, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and we need more of that impulse in the Congress. What’s wrong with cutting back big government that mostly exists to serve the interests of big corporations? Surely it would be better if that challenge came from populist progressives of the left, in the Bernie Sanders mold, but this is Kentucky we’re talking about.
Rand Paul, like his dad, is worthy of praise for standing in opposition to the Wall Street bailout, which will come to be marked as the greatest swindle in U.S. history and which was, as he noted on his website, an unconstitutional redistribution of income in favor of the undeserving rich:
“Federal bailouts reward inefficient and corrupt management, rob taxpayers, hurt smaller and more responsible private firms, exacerbate our budget problems, explode national debt, and destroy our U.S. dollar. Even more importantly, any bailout of private industry is in direct violation of the Constitution. It is a transfer of wealth from those who have earned to those who have squandered.”
read more:http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/whos_afraid_of_rand_paul_20100518/Tuesday’s election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of... more
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Meet Marco Calasan, the world’s youngest Microsoft systems engineer and official computer genius. At the advanced age of 9, Marco, who calls Macedonia his home, is already the author of a book on Windows 7 that he’s hoping to publish and has earned four Microsoft certificates. Oh, and he speaks three languages. And they say all the youngsters like the Macs these daysMeet Marco Calasan, the world’s youngest Microsoft systems engineer and official... more
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A two-pronged war against wild horses is under way and at this moment the country’s great icon of freedom is losing.
One front in this war involves agencies tasked with wild horse management, primarily the Bureau of Land Management. It recently carried out a mandated although deadly mustang roundup in Nevada during which foals were harried by helicopter over rough terrain until their hooves apparently fell off and other horses later died of stress and exhaustion.
The other front involves lone operators who venture into the wilderness and kill wild horses—which is illegal, although arrests are rarely made and when they are, the cases often fall apart
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_war_against_the_horse_20100504/A two-pronged war against wild horses is under way and at this moment the... more
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Here’s some footage to keep the dysfunction of U.S. politics in perspective. Our lawmakers may not agree on anything, they may be rude to the president and on the corporate take, but at least they have the decency to keep their eggs and smoke bombs at home.Here’s some footage to keep the dysfunction of U.S. politics in perspective. Our... more
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While most U.S. media coverage of events in Mexico these days focuses on that country’s ongoing drug conflict, other news, such as the fact that Mexico has become America’s leading provider of sex slaves—some as young as 6—gets overlooked.
In what is being called the “other” crisis in Mexico, analysts claim the country has achieved the notorious ranking due to confusion and/or negligence over which agencies have jurisdiction over sex-trafficking cases.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/mexicos_other_crisis_20100418/While most U.S. media coverage of events in Mexico these days focuses on that... more
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After apparently shaking the hand of a Haitian at one of the camps of displaced survivors he and Bill Clinton visited as part of their work for the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Bush gave No. 42 a chummy pat on the shoulder that lingered into a swipe on Clinton’s sleeve. Next time, Bush might want to wait a beat or two longer before going for the handy-wipe move
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/bush_shakes_haitians_hand_wipes_his_on_clinton_20100324/?lnAfter apparently shaking the hand of a Haitian at one of the camps of displaced... more
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I was very excited when first hearing about the Ipad coming out but now im not sure anymore....
Please read this you might be buying some thing you might not need:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/apples_ifail_tabletus_interruptus_20100127
Steve Jobs calls his new tablet “a magical device at a breakthrough price,” but chances are you don’t need one and can’t afford it anyway.
It’s basically a giant iPhone that goes for $729. It costs more if you want more storage, less if you can do without mobile broadband and don’t need as much room for videos, music and so forth. With six models to choose from—16-, 32- and 64-gigabyte flavors, each with or without a 3G radio—prices range from $499 to $829.
That’s about two to three times as expensive as most netbooks, those inexpensive miniature laptops that Steve Jobs treated with such derision at the beginning of his iPad presentation. Of course Apple hates netbooks—there’s no way to charge an outrageous premium on a zero-margin product. But customers love them. Netbook sales shot up 103 percent in 2009, and Apple wants in on that bigger-than-a-smartphone-smaller-than-a-… honey. Hence the iPad.I was very excited when first hearing about the Ipad coming out but now im not sure... more
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So it has been one week now and the people of Haiti are still in shambles
1.5 million Haitians are homeless, 200,000 or more have died
Are we doing enough to help these people or should we stop helping them all together ?
I know we need to help them but how much and to whom...
- I dont want the money going into the hands of local militias...
More Troops from U.S. and U.N. Heading to Haiti (update):
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/more_troops_from_us_and_un_heading_to_haiti_20100119/So it has been one week now and the people of Haiti are still in shambles
1.5... more
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How Are We Kept In Line By Our Own Shallowness & Well Entertained Psychopath & Sociopath Tendencies ?
According to Award-winning author and journalist Chris Hedges, we live in two societies:…one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic where serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.
Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are courtiers. Our pundits and experts are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games. We are being had. - Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
http://pulsemedia.org/2010/01/13/chris-hedges-on-the-empire-of-illusion/
Chris Hedges Writings...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/category/hedges/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
I REST MY CASE !
"Politics is the showbiz of industry." - Frank Zappa
HAVE A RED PILL ;)How Are We Kept In Line By Our Own Shallowness & Well Entertained Psychopath &... more
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Professional prankster group Improv Everywhere’s “No Pants Subway Ride” is one cultural trend that appears to be taking off. Despite a frigid winter, participants in as many as 43 cities around the world commuted in their underwear
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/pictures_of_no-pants_subway_riders_20100111/
In the words of one participant, quoted by the BBC, “We’re just trying to put smiles on people’s faces.”Professional prankster group Improv Everywhere’s “No Pants Subway... more
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