Saturday, March 31, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Catholic Church's Secret Sex-Crime Files | Culture News | Rolling Stone
The Catholic Church's Secret Sex-Crime Files | Culture News | Rolling Stone
"As the Monsignor explained to one rape victim, the accused priest slept with women as well as children: 'You see, he's not a pure pedophile.'"
"As the Monsignor explained to one rape victim, the accused priest slept with women as well as children: 'You see, he's not a pure pedophile.'"
Undercover Anarchist
Undercover Anarchist
Interesting article about Mark Kennedy, a London cop who went undercover and betrayed the environmental activists he had infiltrated.
Interesting article about Mark Kennedy, a London cop who went undercover and betrayed the environmental activists he had infiltrated.
Obama's War on Pot | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Obama's War on Pot | Politics News | Rolling Stone:
"In a shocking about-face, the administration has launched a government-wide crackdown on medical marijuana."
"In a shocking about-face, the administration has launched a government-wide crackdown on medical marijuana."
President Obama nominates Bush DEA’s Michele Leonhart to head DEA | The NORML Stash Blog
President Obama nominates Bush DEA’s Michele Leonhart to head DEA | The NORML Stash Blog:
"That does it. I’m burning the Obama cap I got at the Democratic Convention. The man has lost his mind."
"That does it. I’m burning the Obama cap I got at the Democratic Convention. The man has lost his mind."
DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs - Drugs - Salon.com
DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs - Drugs - Salon.com:
"Leonhart, a DEA lifer, is actually a Bush appointee, reappointed by President Obama. She is, obviously, an inflexible zealot when it comes to drug prohibition. This is easily the worst and most offensive thing she’s said that I’ve read, but she does have a history of asinine remarks. This is the sort of quote — dead children are a sign that we’re winning! — that should lead to a resignation. But it probably won’t."
"Leonhart, a DEA lifer, is actually a Bush appointee, reappointed by President Obama. She is, obviously, an inflexible zealot when it comes to drug prohibition. This is easily the worst and most offensive thing she’s said that I’ve read, but she does have a history of asinine remarks. This is the sort of quote — dead children are a sign that we’re winning! — that should lead to a resignation. But it probably won’t."
Michael Bennet - United States Senator for Colorado : Newsroom - Press Releases
Michael Bennet - United States Senator for Colorado : Newsroom - Press Releases:
February 16, 2010
Denver, CO - In his continued effort to pass health care reform that lowers costs and leads to higher quality care, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, is leading the effort in the Senate to pass health insurance reform that includes a public health insurance option under budget reconciliation rules.
Bennet has written a letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid and is circulating it for additional signatures. In the letter, Bennet highlights findings from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that said a public option could yield cost savings of at least $25 billion. Bennet also pointed to the fact that a public option would provide Americans with a low-cost alternative to private insurance and improve market competitiveness.
In addition, the letter noted that there is substantial Senate precedent for using reconciliation to enact important health care policies, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), COBRA, and Medicare Advantage.
February 16, 2010
Denver, CO - In his continued effort to pass health care reform that lowers costs and leads to higher quality care, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, is leading the effort in the Senate to pass health insurance reform that includes a public health insurance option under budget reconciliation rules.
Bennet has written a letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid and is circulating it for additional signatures. In the letter, Bennet highlights findings from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that said a public option could yield cost savings of at least $25 billion. Bennet also pointed to the fact that a public option would provide Americans with a low-cost alternative to private insurance and improve market competitiveness.
In addition, the letter noted that there is substantial Senate precedent for using reconciliation to enact important health care policies, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), COBRA, and Medicare Advantage.
Wade Norris: The Bennet Letter: Change We Can Believe In?
Wade Norris: The Bennet Letter: Change We Can Believe In?: Otherwise, why on Earth would the President announce ,less than a week after the Bennet letter was created, today's health care bill, which has no public option?
The only answer that makes sense is that the President never intended to let the public option through, and this Bennet letter was merely the White House's way to provide a way for some Democratic Senators to bolster their credentials with base voters, while not actually having accomplished anything.
The only answer that makes sense is that the President never intended to let the public option through, and this Bennet letter was merely the White House's way to provide a way for some Democratic Senators to bolster their credentials with base voters, while not actually having accomplished anything.
Obama Health Care Plan Drops Public Option
Obama Health Care Plan Drops Public Option:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he would work with his colleagues to find the votes needed for it; Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third ranking Democrat, pushed for it to be included; and Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, joined in the call as well.
But neither that nor the public option's consistently strong appeal in public-opinion polls was enough to persuade Obama to get behind it.
Indeed, after months of watching Obama say generally that he supports the public option while doing little to see it implemented into law, backers of the idea were unsurprised it was left out of his final offer.
‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World - NYTimes.com
‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World - NYTimes.com:
"Other nations routinely trade in their constitutions wholesale, replacing them on average every 19 years. By odd coincidence, Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to James Madison, once said that every constitution 'naturally expires at the end of 19 years' because 'the earth belongs always to the living generation.'”
"Other nations routinely trade in their constitutions wholesale, replacing them on average every 19 years. By odd coincidence, Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to James Madison, once said that every constitution 'naturally expires at the end of 19 years' because 'the earth belongs always to the living generation.'”
Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil? | Black Agenda Report
Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil? | Black Agenda Report:
"Between bigoted, bumbling tea party Republicans, and level-headed, competent corporate Democrats, which is the greater evil? And which is the more effective evil?"
"Between bigoted, bumbling tea party Republicans, and level-headed, competent corporate Democrats, which is the greater evil? And which is the more effective evil?"
Obama & the Fake Debt Ceiling Crisis: This President Is Really Just Smarter Than You Are | Black Agenda Report
Obama & the Fake Debt Ceiling Crisis: This President Is Really Just Smarter Than You Are | Black Agenda Report:
So if you’re an Obama supporter, and you’re disappointed that your president won’t fight for you — if you’re an Obama supporter and you wonder why the president won’t stand up for Medicaid, Medicare and social security — here’s the answer. The president really, really is smarter than you. He knows what side he’s on and you don’t. He knows that the two-party system is a veal pen, where as long as “he can play good cop to the Republicans’ ever worsening bad cop, the game is fixed, and not in your favor.
The Health Law Mandate - NYTimes.com
The Health Law Mandate - NYTimes.com:
Last month, an amicus brief was filed by 50 doctors and two nonprofit organizations arguing that Congress could avoid a mandate by legislating a national single-payer system that provides nearly universal insurance coverage.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
War on Terror logic and the Saudis - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
War on Terror logic and the Saudis - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com:
The only foreign government which likely had any connection to 9/11 is the one which is the least likely to be attacked by the U.S.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Amazon.com: Robert D. Steele's review of The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and...
Great information and links contained in this review.
Amazon.com: Robert D. Steele's review of The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and...
Amazon.com: Robert D. Steele's review of The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and...
Monday, March 19, 2012
The Authoritarian Mind - Salon.com
The Authoritarian Mind - Salon.com:
Glenn Greenwald's discussion of Guggenheim's propaganda film and the "two-minute interview of Guggenheim by CNN’s Piers Morgan in which Guggenheim explains that nothing critical can or should be said of our President other than the fact that he is so Great that his Greatness cannot be sufficiently conveyed in a single film (via VastLeft); other than noting the obvious — how creepy his Leader worship is and how perfect of a guest-host he’d be for several MSNBC shows — all I can say is that this is the pure face of the Authoritarian Mind, but it is as common as it is repellent."
Glenn Greenwald's discussion of Guggenheim's propaganda film and the "two-minute interview of Guggenheim by CNN’s Piers Morgan in which Guggenheim explains that nothing critical can or should be said of our President other than the fact that he is so Great that his Greatness cannot be sufficiently conveyed in a single film (via VastLeft); other than noting the obvious — how creepy his Leader worship is and how perfect of a guest-host he’d be for several MSNBC shows — all I can say is that this is the pure face of the Authoritarian Mind, but it is as common as it is repellent."
Sarah Palin: Barack Obama's 'enemy of the week' | Paul Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
This is a great piece on the sad spectacle of the Democrats digging up Sarah Palin to remind us of how scary the right is. But the author gets bogged down in this "let's focus on the ridiculous enemy at home so we can forget about how many kids we're killing overseas" trap:
"In an era when vast swathes of the Republican electorate believes Obama is a Muslim (by the way, he isn't), then this claptrap from an icon of the GOP should be no surprise, either."
"[B]y the way, he isn't"? How insulting is this to his readers? And I'm getting tired of being reminded of all the nonsense that the Republican electorate believes. Who cares if they believe that he is a Muslim? Who cares? The greater problem that we should be looking at is why that even matters. I don't give a crap if he's a Muslim or not, and I definitely don't care that some-odd percentage of Republicans believe it.
Sarah Palin: Barack Obama's 'enemy of the week' | Paul Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"In an era when vast swathes of the Republican electorate believes Obama is a Muslim (by the way, he isn't), then this claptrap from an icon of the GOP should be no surprise, either."
"[B]y the way, he isn't"? How insulting is this to his readers? And I'm getting tired of being reminded of all the nonsense that the Republican electorate believes. Who cares if they believe that he is a Muslim? Who cares? The greater problem that we should be looking at is why that even matters. I don't give a crap if he's a Muslim or not, and I definitely don't care that some-odd percentage of Republicans believe it.
Sarah Palin: Barack Obama's 'enemy of the week' | Paul Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
So, Eric Holder, we should just trust that the president won't assassinate us? | Jonathan Turley | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
So, Eric Holder, we should just trust that the president won't assassinate us? | Jonathan Turley | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:
The choice of a law school was a curious place for discussion of authoritarian powers. Obama has replaced the constitutional protections afforded to citizens with a "trust me" pledge that Holder repeated Monday at Northwestern.
The good news is that Holder promised not to hunt citizens for sport.
Our immoral drone war - Salon.com
Our immoral drone war - Salon.com:
The United States publicly denied the drone campaign until January, when President Obama decided to use that most dignified of media venues — a Google Hangout — to tell his Pakistani allies in war that his country had, in fact, been bombing them for years. They should not worry, he said, because America was being careful about whom it killed.
Itching for a fight
It seems that our troops are just itching for something to happen; itching for a fight.
This Whole Line Of 'Infidel' Gear Can't Be Helping International Relations In Afghanistan
This Whole Line Of 'Infidel' Gear Can't Be Helping International Relations In Afghanistan
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
When Did the United States Last Kill an Al Qaeda Fighter in Afghanistan? | The Nation
When Did the United States Last Kill an Al Qaeda Fighter in Afghanistan? | The Nation
Interesting comments. Are people growing more skeptical of the government's conspiracy theory?
Interesting comments. Are people growing more skeptical of the government's conspiracy theory?
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