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AlterNet: Lady Gaga: Pop Star for a Country and an Empire in Decline
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Truthdig – The Biggest Secret From the ‘Secret Archive’ – Boyarsky
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Government Has Run Amok Since 9/11 : ICH – Information Clearing House
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010AlterNet: How You Will Change the World with Social Networking
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Truthdig – Thank God for the Whistle-Blowers – Scheer
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Uncle Sam Needs You … to Multiply
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Truthdig – Afghanistan: The Pentagon’s Lost War – Pfaff
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Troubles ahead for world economy – Joseph Stiglitz
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Arianna Huffington: Fear Factor: What’s Keeping the President From Picking the Best Person to Protect Consumers?
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, July 29, 2010Bruce McEwen: The Great Marijuana Boom
McEwen on CounterPunch via Mendecino County's Anderson Valley Advertiser ...With ever more people getting into the marijuana business, the pot market has become glutted. Prices are down. But two thousand dollars a pound still looks good to people fighting the economic downturn with outdoor agriculture. The “Green Rush” is on, and it's been building for a decade now ... Black is the color of the DEA. They wear black jump suits, drive black SUVs, and fly black helicopters. They had a whole squadron of little black choppers at the Ukiah airport a few weeks ago to train law enforcement personnel from all over in spotting and eradicating marijuana crops. The DEA also uses military choppers, and they had a big Blackhawk apparently working as flagship with the smaller choppers brought in for the training exercises. Some of the little black choppers are still around, as is a big CH 46, the one with the twin rotors and a tailgate that you can drive a Hummer into. It seems to be the mothership.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, July 29, 2010
Soft-headed intellectuals: What the octopus is revealing about the nature of intelligence
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, July 29, 2010In American politics, stupidity is the name of the game
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, July 29, 2010Dems Take on Supreme Court’s Giant Sell-Out of Our Democracy to Corporations
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, July 29, 2010A Video Interview With Elizabeth Warren
Hope, beyond hope, that we get her to represent us. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
t r u t h o u t | Robert Reich | The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits From Jobs
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, July 28, 2010The Forgotten Threat: ‘Countdown to Zero’ on Nuclear Weapons
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, July 28, 2010Bush Tax Cuts and the GOP’s Deficit Hypocrisy – The Daily Beast
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, July 28, 2010Tom Tomorrow: Obama Divorces Wife after Conservative Media Uncovers Shocking [edited] Video
(via TruthOut)
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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (3)
"Corporations and unions can spend whatever they want on independent political ads, and now they can do so anonymously" (Editorial); "The Gulf Coast doesn’t look so bad on the surface. But it’s the unknowns that nobody is talking about" (Friedman); "Why can’t we train the fierce warriors of Afghanistan to be the fierce warriors of Afghanistan?" (Dowd)Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
NYT (6): National News
MA TO BECOME 6TH STATE TO PASS LAW CIRCUMVENTING ELECTORAL COLLEGE; Residual surface oil in gulf disappearing faster than expected; Anti-financial reform lobby includes many former DC insiders; Success of wind farms brings problem - where to store the energy; Bloomberg loses appeals court decision on hybrid taxis; and NYC will pay $7 million settlement in Sean Bell case.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
NYT (3): Int’l Affairs
House Dems pass money for wars, but Wiki leaks create rift; Blix tears Bush, Blair & Co. a new one re Iraq; and Russian court gives opposition media a rare victory.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
