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  • Video: Civil Disobedience at Health Insurance Fat Cats’ Confab
    10 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On March 9, 2010, around noon, about 14 pro-Healthcare Reform activists were arrested at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in down town Washington, D.C. They attempted to cross a police line set up at an entrance to the hotel, where the Fat Cats of the Healthcare Insurance Industry were holding a conference. Earlier, the protesters had convened at Dupont Circle for a rally. Then, they paraded down to the hotel, about ten blocks away. The crowd was estimated at about 5,500. The event was staged by (…)

  • Citizen’s Arrest of George Bush Justified, Court Hears
    9 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Calgary Sun March 8, 2010
    Political activist John Boncore [Splitting the Sky] was entitled to try to arrest US President George W Bush for war crimes, his lawyer told a Calgary court Monday. Defence counsel Charles Davison said his client’s attempts at breaching a police barrier to gain access to Bush was justified.
    Boncore is charged with obstructing a peace officer for repeatedly trying to get past security and into the Telus Convention Centre last March 17.
    "Mr. Boncore had (…)

  • "The Hurt Locker": A victory for women!? The Oscars Academy grants an apology to the US Army!
    8 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is a movie that “only” costs $11 million more « politically correct » than a $500 million one?
    They can’t see the trees for the forest.
    Or more bluntly, had the Academy Awards wanted to grant ‘its’ army an Oscar without thinking twice about it?
    People will call it a ‘work of art’, a ‘movie’, ‘without an ulterior motive’ (yes I’ve already read it somewhere...) etc
    On top of it all, was the great March 8th pet theme: “wow it’s awesome, it’s the first women director to get an Oscar” or (…)

  • “Hail to the Cheat,” a political novel, by Ted Venetoulis - A Review
    5 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    [Wandering Sage Publications, 2009, 370 pp., soft cover, $17.95]
    If you’re going to write your first novel, and it’s a political spoof, then you might as well as set it in the White House. Well, Ted Venetoulis does exactly that in his “Hail to the Cheat,” which is not only a fun read, I predict it’s going to make one zany movie.
    Venetoulis is an author who has lived politics and it shows in his book. The main characters are all credible and taken from that realm. As a young man, (…)

  • THE SANITY OF HOPELESSNESS
    5 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Oh say can you see by the fluorescent light
    The politicians we’ve bought at our last corporate meeting?
    Whose venal hearts and deceit wrought health care’s defeat,
    While from boardrooms we laughed and then raised premiums?
    And the wars that were fought for the profits we’ve sought
    Gave proof to our shareholders that freedom is bought.
    Oh say does that banner of corporate fascism now wave,
    O’er democracy’s corpse and the working class slaves?"
    Anthem of (…)

  • Video: Protesting Youth Chant: “Arrest [Governor Martin] O’Malley!”
    5 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday morning, March 4, 2010, a spirited protest action was held in front of the “Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center,” on north Gay Street, not far from the City Hall, in Baltimore. The demonstrators demanded “$100 million [in Maryland’s state budget] be converted from youth jails to youth jobs and education,” according to their press release. Students, teachers and community activists joined in the social justice action. About 13 of the activists made their way into the lobby of (…)

  • The Movement Behind 9/11
    4 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The movement behind 9/11
    "WTC 7 fell at free-fall speed for a period of over 2.5 seconds. Not noted in NIST’s revision was the clear implication that this feat defies the laws of physics if a gravitational collapse did indeed occur."
    "All three coloccur with near zero resistance such as a controlled demolition collapse rather than a gravitational collapse.
    Multi-ton steel ejections were also calculated to be ejected at speeds of over 60 mph and over 600 feet. Gage also addressed the (…)

  • the letter of march to Obama
    3 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 1st, 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    (Translate by William Peterson)
    Mister President, When you receive this letter, five Cubans: Fernando González, René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández and Antonio Guerrero, will have been imprisoned in your (…)

  • Video: “It Isn’t Nice,” Sung by Margaret Flowers
    1 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday morning, Feb. 25, 2010, a sidewalk summit advocating “Medicare for All,” was staged in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Park, North, not far from the White House. To close the rally, Dr. Margaret Flowers sang her rendition of “It Isn’t Nice,” a ballad authored by the late, great songwriter and activist, Malvina Reynolds. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvina_Reynolds Dr. Flower was introduced by activist Katie Robbins. For background on the Sidewalk Summit, go to: (…)

  • Video: Ex-Baltimore City Commish: “’The Wire’ Was Accurate!”
    28 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ed Norris is the former Police Commissioner of Baltimore City. Currently, he is a popular radio talk show host, on 105.7 WHFS (FM), in town. On Feb. 24, 2010, he appeared on a panel to discuss the crime situation in Baltimore. The event, held at a local bistro/pub, was sponsored by “Investigative Voice,” See:
    http://investigativevoice.com/ To learn more about Mr. Norris, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Norris and http://ednorris.com/mainsite/ Mr. Norris said that the HBO’s “The (…)