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  • Ralph Nader, The Road to Corporate Fascism (video, 54’)
    1 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    54 mn 16 s - 14 oct. 2007
    Ralph Nader exclaims that the central political issue of our time is giant corporate power and its take over of our government, plus the spread of commercial values into every nook and cranny of our culture including the commercialization of childhood, the universities and almost everything these large corporations touch. Speaking at the Washington, DC Green Festival, he also details what we can and must do about it.
    Watch the video:
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  • A Ship’s Smoke on the Horizon
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Ship’s Smoke on the Horizon By David Glenn Cox
    The lost and stranded are always grasping for survival, it is human nature. Ernest Shackleton, lost in the Antarctic in 1914, gave his men a speech promising them only survival. And to emphasize the point he tore a single page from the Bible, a page that promised salvation, and threw down the rest of the book into the snow. Banished were any other ideas, only certain salvation was to be contemplated. It was a masterstroke of leadership, (…)

  • Sunrise at Buchenwald
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    mdmorrissey, Feb. 28, 2008 (www.mdmorrissey.info/sunrise )
    Hail, Sol Invictus.
    Pray tell what mortal hand or eye
    could frame such irony,
    read from the inside:
    Jedem das Seine.
    We will not tolerate
    outrageous conspiracy theories.
    Preemptive war
    and torture
    will set you free.
    On this drizzle of a day
    the old god struggles
    across cluttered cyberskies
    fortunately returning
    but still the iron stands.
    It does not melt like buildings
    struck by airplanes
    or (…)

  • Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Protests Will Shut Nation
    25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Protests Will Shut Nation
    By Andres R. Martinez
    Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Former Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked supporters to shut airports, oil facilities and highways next month when President Felipe Calderon introduces a plan to open the state oil industry to investment.
    The country’s oil belongs to the people, even the most humble,’’ Lopez Obrador told protesters outside state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos headquarters in (…)

  • Sarkozy "get lost" video becomes Internet hit (video)
    25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Astrid Wendlandt
    A video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy telling a bystander to "get lost" has become a hit on the Internet.
    Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist from the daily Le Parisien on a walkabout at the annual farm fair in Paris on Saturday.
    Sarkozy offered his hand to a man who said: "Don’t touch me, you are soiling me." In reply, Sarkozy said, without dropping his smile: "Get lost, dumb ass."
    The video was posted on Le Parisien’s website www.leparisien.fr.on and by (…)

  • The Gray Side of the Mirror
    24 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Gray Side of the Mirror By David Glenn Cox
    The truth lives in the gray side of the mirror, rather than reflect the truth it absorbs it. Rather than accept the truth it absolves it, rather than championing truth it only bears it. The gray side of the mirror is the unpresented side, the side kept in the dark just as we are kept in the dark, shoved between frame and wall, between dark and light. Unasked, unnoticed, unrequited.
    Like the Shroud of Turin, its facets and details are only (…)

  • Watching the Dinosaurs Fall
    22 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Watching the Dinosaurs Fall By David Glenn Cox
    The motivation for this comes from an article written by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and he told the truth, mainly. I won’t dispute a single fact or figure but in his article, “America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns” he comes to us as a prognosticator, predicting the future of the things that will be.
    He wants to be the ghost of Christmas future when in fact he is the ghost of Christmas present. Come then, touch the hem of my (…)

  • The Rockets Red Glare
    21 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Rockets Red Glare By David Glenn Cox
    The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Gosh, they really do think we’re stupid, all of us, not just the Fox viewers. Our protector, big bad bullyboy George, is going to protect us from an errant spy satellite. Its orbit is decaying and no mortal can judge where it might fall to Earth. Now considering that since the Earth’s surface is 2/3rds water, George thinks that, for safety’s sake, we must fire a missile (…)

  • Conspiracy buffs may feast on JFK documents
    20 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conspiracy buffs may feast on JFK documents
    Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:16pm EST
    By Ed Stoddard
    DALLAS (Reuters) - John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy buffs have been handed a Presidents’ Day present they are sure to savor.
    The Dallas County district attorney said on Monday that he could not categorically dismiss as fake a transcript of an alleged conversation between Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald’s killer Jack Ruby.
    The transcript is one of many items related to the (…)

  • Sen. Lieberman Says Waterboarding Won’t Really Hurt You!
    20 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Hughes
    “The healthy man does not torture others.” - Carl G. Jung
    “Turncoat Joe” Lieberman is full of surprises. The other day, Feb. 14, 2008, the hawkish U.S. Senator from Connecticut said that waterboarding “is not torture!” He added, however, that it should be permitted “only under the most extreme circumstances” Well, let’s see... personally, I don’t like Barbara “BaWa” Walters. She gets on my nerves, whining so much about everything. I wouldn’t mind seeing her (…)