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  • Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo.
    4 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOE MOWREY
    Which Candidate Supports Petraeus, the Bailout, the Death Penalty, Nuclear Power, the Occupation, the Cuban Embargo...
    Name That Candidate
    This week came exciting news. Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yippie! The blogosphere is all atwitter. Our guy has worked hard, taken solid positions on all the most important progressive issues and managed to convince the exalted Mr. Powell to throw his support our way. Celebrations are in order. We’re one step (…)

  • The Black Swan: Quotes & Warnings that the Imbeciles Chose to Ignore (+ videos)
    3 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (April 2007)
    For the last 12 years, I have been telling anyone who would listen to me that we are taking huge risks and massive exposure to rare events. I isolated some areas in which people make bogus claims —epistemologically unsound. The Black Swan is a philosophy book (epistemology, philosophy of history & philosophy of science), but I used banks as a particularly worrisome case of epistemic arrogance —and (…)

  • HORNY OLD MEN AND FEMININE WILES
    3 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    HORNY OLD MEN AND FEMININE WILES
    By Peter Fredson November 3, 2008
    It is November and the rutting season for bull moose has begun. They will bellow, wave antlers, paw the ground, and run amuck at the first glimpse of a rival. It is their nature. Or, more aptly, it is nature’s way of reproducing their species. They can’t resist.
    Although civilization has tamed human desires, it has not obliterated them. Males will still be entranced by female beauty and feminine wiles. Winks, nods, (…)

  • US terrorism : 3 missiles fired from Afghanistan
    3 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    3 November 2008
    Peshawar—Three missiles were fired on Angoor Adda from Afghanistan, however, there was no loss of life. According to foreign news agencies, the missiles were fired from Paktika province of Afghanistan in the night Saturday and Sunday.
    Meanwhile, tribesmen staged a big protest in Wana against US missile attacks and violations of Pak space by US drones.
    The participants chanted slogans against US and demanded to stop the killing of innocent (…)

  • Why Don’t Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class?
    2 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Democracy NOw !
    October 27, 2008
    With the economy the number one issue on the campaign trail, major party candidates John McCain and Barack Obama discuss their tax plans, jobs and the financial bailout on the stump. But are they really addressing the needs of the working class? A new study from the Center for the Study of Working Class Life suggests that neither McCain nor Obama have adequately spoken to the needs of one-fifth of the population—the 60 million Americans who are barely (…)

  • Bush administration denies funding for FBI probe of mortgage mess
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is rejecting FBI pleas for more agents to investigate crimes that helped trigger the global financial meltdown, bureau sources said this week.
    Many more agents needed, official says
    Friday, October 31, 2008 Last updated 2:54 p.m. PT
    By PAUL SHUKOVSKY AND DANIEL LATHROP P-I REPORTERS
    "They are bogged down big-time or there would be some indictments by now," said a recently retired bureau official who played a pivotal role in setting FBI policy after 9/ 11. (…)

  • A Single Lifetime
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    Surviving to over age 50 is no major accomplishment, in and of itself. It’s only a chance to see things and experience things, and sadly, most of it for the worse. As a child, playing in the sun was not seen as a danger; the polar ice caps weren’t melting, or at least we didn’t know about it yet. Gasoline was .29 cents a gallon and seat belts were a novelty only required in the front seat.
    But I started life on a wholly segregated, post-World War II street, in a (…)

  • Video: Rep. Cummings: Health Care is a Life and Death Issue!
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Five Democratic members of the U.S. Congress from the state of Maryland declared their support for “Health Care for America Now!,” (HCAN), on Oct. 31, 2008, at a press conference held at the AFSME headquarters in South Baltimore. Three members of the U.S. Congress, Rep. Elijah Cummings (7th D), Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (2nd D), and Rep. John Sarbanes (3rd D), personally signed onto the statement of principles and also spoke at the event. Rep. Cummings said: Health care is a “life and (…)

  • It’s The Money, Stupid!: Over $1 Billion Raised for Prez Race!
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” - Will Rogers
    Back in the late 50s, I was an aide-de-camp to the Hon. Michael J. “Iron Mike” McHale, 6th District City Councilman in Baltimore City. Around that time, there was a hotly contested citywide municipal election going on. McHale, now deceased, went to a meeting with the then leader of his South Baltimore organization, Julian “Fats” Carrick. They met in a downtown office, with Philip H. (…)

  • The Bush-Obama-McCain Administration
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush-Obama-McCain Administration
    The period we’re living in now is the Bush-Obama-McCain Administration.
    Bush obligingly initiated Obama’s bombing campaign on Pakistan. The three of them colluded on the recent wealth transfer (about $840 billion) from the American people to Wall St.
    The 24 hr/7 days/wk media Wurlitzer distracts us from looking at these white elephants too closely. The circus is so loud and visually entraining that it hides the deeper structure of society. The U.S. (…)