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NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (3)
"President Obama needs to do more than mildly criticize Arizona’s new law that turns all of the state’s Latinos into criminal suspects. He should act" (Editorial); "When Greece, Portugal and Spain joined the euro zone, they put themselves in a policy straitjacket. Now they face a debt crisis. There is a lesson here" (Krugman); "The road to energy innovation is sure to be messy, but the U.S. is going to have to develop energy sources that are plentiful and clean" (Brooks)Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, April 30, 2010
NYT+ (9): National News
AS FIRST LEGAL CHALLENGES ARE FILED RE AZ LAW, AZ BASEBALL TEAM IS BOYCOTTED IN IL, AND FBI SAYS LAW ENFORCEMENT STATS DO NOT SUPPORT "NEED" FOR LAW; Gates and Mullen "warn" Congress re changing DA/DT; Obama criticizes liberal SCOTUS courts; Oil spill becomes an incident of "national significance"; Palin email hacker guilty of felony; Officer in bicycle shove case found guilty of lying; and Labor Dept outlines plan for greater compliance with labor laws.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, April 30, 2010
NYT (2): International Affairs
Moussavi woos workers and teachers to opposition; and final British candidate debate leaves plenty of room for upset.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, April 30, 2010
Keeping Fear Alive
Mostly about nukes but we all know it is a way for the MICC (Military Industrial Congressional Complex), The Merchants of Death and our politicians to stay in power and profit. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 30, 2010
t r u t h o u t | Swiftboating Finance Reform
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 30, 2010 Chomsky: What’s At Stake in the Issue of Iran   - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 30, 2010AlterNet: Hightower: Washington Overrun by 11,000 Corporate Lobbyists and $500 Million in Corrupting Donations
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 30, 2010Teaching is Changing Bill Altmiller
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 30, 2010AlterNet: Arizona’s Draconian Immigration Law Is Great … For Our Prison-Industrial Complex
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, April 30, 2010The Hill: Dems Spark Alarm with Call for National ID Card
Alexander Bolton reports for The Hill ...The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment. It would require all workers across the nation to carry a card with a digital encryption key that would have to match work authorization databases .. "Creating a biometric national ID will not only be astronomically expensive, it will usher government into the very center of our lives. Every worker in America will need a government permission slip in order to work. And all of this will come with a new federal bureaucracy - one that combines the worst elements of the DMV and the TSA," said Christopher Calabrese, ACLU legislative counsel."Believe System".. creepy - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, April 30, 2010
Space, the designer’s frontier
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, April 30, 2010Courtesy of Sue Lowden: A chicken in every doctor’s pot
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, April 30, 2010Are Prozac and Other Psychiatric Drugs Causing the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, April 30, 2010NYT Op-Eds (3)
"The new law governing police action with suspected illegal aliens is humane and constitutional" (Guest Op-Ed); "Your elected officials work hard to create as many disasters as possible, and where's the credit?" (Collins); "Former President Jimmy Carter’s plan to eradicate Guinea worm worldwide is succeeding because local villagers are involved in the effort" (Kristof)Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, April 29, 2010
NYT (7): National News
POLICE OFFICER FILES FIRST LAWSUIT AGAINST AZ LAW; Ballot petition secrecy leads to lively SCOTUS debate (and skepticism); SCOTUS "fractured" over religious symbols; U.S. subpoenas NYT reporter re book source; Oil spill may be 5 times larger than suspected; Charges against Espada grow; and HP buys Palm.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, April 29, 2010
NYT (2): International Affairs
Labor protests hit Egyptian government; and Merkel runs out of time.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Death of Self-Interest Fundamentalism
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 29, 2010Robert L. Borosage: Orwellian Obstruction: Republicans on Financial Reform
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 29, 2010Truthdig – Arizona’s Plain Old Politics
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 29, 2010Â Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. USÂ -Â ICH [Video]
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 29, 2010 The Big Six Banks are Shorting the American Dream  - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 29, 2010Truthdig – ‘God, What a Piece of Crap’
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 29, 2010AlterNet: Exposing the Christian Right’s New Racial Playbook
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 29, 2010John Ross on “El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico Cityâ€
Ross is a beat-era poet from Greenwich Village who has lived in Mexico for the past 30 years - this is a fascinating interview - mab .. Democracy NowPosted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, April 29, 2010
