tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34708235220677726222012-02-16T12:44:10.047-08:00The view from 108th and Broadway.public.takeoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034291084224057247noreply@blogger.comBlogger3041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470823522067772622.post-10598117713729845952009-02-04T09:27:00.000-08:002009-02-04T09:30:12.451-08:00

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Think about it.Why would anyone think that "common ground," on any consistent basis, can be found with people like this, or that it would be beneficial to eliminate real differences in order to accommodate their views?Republicans have made about as clear as possible that even though they'll pay lip service to "bipartisanship," they don't actually want thatRepublicans aren't interested in "

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Is this REALLY commercial tv news?

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Here's a story we haven't seen on the commercial outlets.

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We need 50 million Democrats like this one.

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This is where he explains how advertising killed the working class news publications

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This is mandatory summer reading.Because something had to be done.So we marched. We staged sit-ins and teach-ins. We burned draft cards and blockaded induction centers. We declared 'summers of love'. We stuck daisies into rifle barrels aimed at us. And some reacted, as you said, 'by attacking the symbols, and in extreme cases, the very idea, of America itself'Because the 'very idea of America

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The segment of the Thursday, July 3rd episode will wind up focusing on the Big Media issue as led by Stop Big Media. We want to encourage as many viewers as we can to pick up the phone, call their Congressperson, and weigh in to say NO to the FCCs ruling expanding cross-ownership rights.read more | digg story

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Yesterday evening, Sen. Chris Dodd gave a ripping speech on the Senate floor regarding FISA, the rule of law, and the disrespect for the institutions of government that supporters of telecom immunity have shown. It was the best speech anyone has given since this whole illegal domestic spying program was revealed.read more | digg story

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BAGHDAD, June 19 -- Iraq is preparing to award contracts to several Western energy companies to help develop its vast oil resources, allowing them to consolidate their positions in a country that has seemed less threatening in recent months as security has improved.read more | digg story

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Everybody's caving to BushCo and the war machine. The Senate is set to bow to the House in their long battle over whose plan for the supplemental spending bill will reach the president's desk. The House on Thursday evening approved its latest version of the measure (HR 2642), which would provide $161.8 billion in war funding, an expanded veterans' education.read more | digg story

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House and congressional negotiators have reached a tentative agreement on an anti-terror spy bill that would permit court dismissal of potentially billions of dollars in lawsuits against phone companies, sources familiar with the talks said on Friday.read more | digg story

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Communication and access to technology are central to the success of all social change efforts.Amalia Anderson, Main Street Project, talks about going t]into local communities and giving the common people--immigrants and indigenous people--the skills to tell their stories digitally in lieu of the opportunities offered (or not) by mainstream media.Structure is the theme--structural change, not

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LONDON, June 4 -- For much of the world, Sen. Barack Obama's victory in the Democratic primaries was a moment to admire the United States, at a time when the nation's image abroad is in tatters."Although no one will admit it, Israeli leaders are worried about Obama," said Eytan Gilboa, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. "The feeling is that this is the time to be tough in

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I suspect the GAO is dragging the Pentagon IG, kicking and screaming, to investigate the propaganda program the Pentagon launched in their media psyop to promote the Iraq invasion.read more | digg story

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Lobbyist disclosure forms and campaign contribution records illuminate the sleazy process by which our key laws are written.read more | digg story

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Unitary Executive theory is ahistorical and undemocratic.read more | digg story

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Metropolitan PD officials said yesterday patrol officers will be issued assault rifles by the summer, after policies on their use are released this month. The Wash Times reported Wednesday that the department is arming the officers with the rifles as part of a national trend to protect them from criminals with increasingly powerful weapons.read more | digg story

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Army Radio had quoted a top official in Jerusalem claiming that a senior member in the entourage of President Bush, who concluded a trip to Israel last week, had said in a closed meeting here that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were of the opinion that military action against Iran was called for. read more | digg story

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A sad epilogue to an Inbox from January.read more | digg story

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Scientists estimate that the extinction of more than 25% of all living species on earth in the last 35 years represents an acceleration by a factor of 10,000 of the normal rate in the history of the planet.read more | digg story

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The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.read more | digg story

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Jeffrey Feldman has a brilliant post on Alter Net entitled, "The Violent Language of Right Wing Pundits Poisons Our Democracy," in which he states:Most right-wing pundits see the power of the state as residing ultimately in the monopoly over violence, an idea that comes from the writings of German philosopher Max Weber. This, however, is not the political philosophy that guided the framers of the

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James Carroll writes in yesterday's Boston Globe:Let's call this repeated insanity the mistake of "supermilitarism," choosing war over diplomacy, and expecting order to follow, instead of chaos. The mistake was made at the beginning, in the middle, and is being repeated now, in what should be the end. The mistake is so deeply rooted in American structures of imagination, economy, and government

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The recession of 2001 never ended for most Americans. The only "growth" the economy has undergone since then has been borrowing and incursion of debt disguised as growth.read more | digg story

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VIENNA (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and the government of President George W. Bush were to blame for the U.S. financial crisis, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz said in a magazine interview. ''This man...read more | digg story

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Barstow on retired military officer pundit corps:A few expressed regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis.Read more

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How much the way that a campaign is run tells you about a candidate’s fitness to be president is debatable – but it does tell you something, especially if the candidate with the misfiring strategy is running on a claim of management expertise. In fact, the campaigns have underlined the contenders’ respective strengths and weaknesses. read more | digg story

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Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. In 2006, Congress passed a provision that will make it easy for President Bush to impose martial law in response to a terrorist “incident.” There is nothing to prevent a president from declaring martial law on false pretexts – any more than there is to prevent him from launching a foreign warread more | digg story

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fascism has come to America. The media and the government work together to serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful, who conspire against the general population. We need a progressive income tax, a hearty estate tax, and protective tariffs. We need a media public takeover.read more | digg story

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d33af42a-04c7-11dd-a2f0-000077b07658.html

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The Yoo memo, disturbing though "disavowed" by the Administration, reveals more about the character of this nation, this administration, and this war than any of us are inclined to acknowledge."read more | digg story

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While the Iraqi government continued its large-scale military assault in Basra, the NPR reporter’s voice from Iraq was unequivocal this morning: “There is no doubt that this operation needed to happen.”read more | digg story

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BAGHDAD, March 25 -- Gun battles erupted between Iraqi security forces and Shiite armed groups in the southern oil city of Basra on Tuesday as the government launched a security offensive against the feuding militias that have turned the city into one of Iraq's most dangerous zones.read more | digg story

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Anti-privatization protesters demonstrate at auction of CESP, the major supplier of electricity to South America's largest city.read more | digg story

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Obama’s words implicate the press in the stagnation of our national discourse on race—and, as such, in our inability to overcome the entrenched racial divides that Obama unearthed in his speech with the spade of personal experience.read more | digg story

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What is evident is that Barack Obama not only cleared the air over a particular controversy — he raised the discussion of race and religion to a higher plane.read more | digg story

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History in the making. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the likely next President is about to deliver a speech that could be historic as a symbol of an America that is starting to move beyond racial divisions. Here's the full text.read more | digg story

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Those well-paid journalists who were cozy with powerful officials, as well as the on-air reporters with nice hair and make-up surrounded by flashy graphics, all got it just as wrong as the Bush administration—with disastrous consequences.read more | digg story

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The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network.Rather than posting the report online and making officials available to discuss it, as had been planned, the U.S. Joint Forces Command said it would mail copies of the document to reporters — if they asked for

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Far from being the gatekeeper of the nation’s legality and the custodian of its ethics, the Justice Department has emerged as the single most corrupt institution on the Washington landscape. -- Scot HortonRead More

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It's looking too much like the early '70s for comfort.read more | digg story

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I think these question requires answers despite the outcome for spitzer. Nobody is going to make the mistake of fighting for this guy when he makes these sorts of clintonian mistakes, but these questions need answers.read more | digg story

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An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.read more | digg story

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Defying White House demands to pass a surveillance measure to expand domestic spy powers and provide legal immunity for companies that assisted the government with warrantless eavesdropping, House Democrats are drafting a new proposal that refuses to grant immunity. read more | digg story

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Friday’s employment report — which was so weak that it had many economists declaring that we’re already in a recession — was bad news. But it was actually less disturbing than what’s going on in the financial markets.read more | digg story

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One of the drafters of the 1980s telecom FISA legislation that granted telecoms immunity for cooperating with the Government in spying IF THEY OBTAIN WARRANTS, wants to sue.read more | digg story

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Hillary shows more of that great "experience" in 2006 as she votes against a ban on landmines/cluster bombs. Obama votes for the ban.read more | digg story

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For all the restless reporting the cable channels do about the Democratic contest being neck and neck, the math doesn't lie: the game is over. read more | digg story

public.takeoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034291084224057247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470823522067772622.post-49656777242790052692008-03-07T08:29:00.001-08:002008-03-07T08:29:23.393-08:00

U.S. employers cut payrolls for a second straight month during February, slashing 63,000 jobs for the biggest monthly job decline in nearly five years as the labor market weakened steadily, a government report on Friday showed.read more | digg story

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The fate of the Florida and Michigan delegations has emerged as a battleground that could be as important to the candidates as April’s Pennsylvania primary.read more | digg story

public.takeoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034291084224057247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3470823522067772622.post-60484045951018325662008-03-07T07:59:00.001-08:002008-03-07T07:59:03.515-08:00

Au contraire. Clinton and McCain are two heads of the same two-headed snake: the big money special interest lobby military industrial complex. Compliments of 1776Forever at DU http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=101913&mesg_id=101943read more | digg story

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even if you were or are in favor of the war, this will boggle your mind.it's in the trillions. and counting.read more | digg story

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On February 24, 2008, The White House posted an argument attempting to contradict Pelosi's points against the necessity of passing the Protect America Act to amend FISA."What" they are attempting to defend here is not clear, other than their own ability to violate the Constitution with impunity.

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Brattleboro and Marlboro, two tiny Vermont towns, have indicted Bush and Cheney, putting them on a list of offenders to be arrested should they ever set foot in their city limits.read more | digg story

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Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution. More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for proseread more | digg story

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We have to work on the House Members who we can bring over to the NO AMNESTY camp, listed in this article.read more | digg story

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Bill Kristol tries to wring a few drops of legitimate Barack Obama criticism out of the wet and bloody rags of his reportage, and fails. We can look forward to some real media circus acts between now and 2016.read more | digg story

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"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."- Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has

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The only question now is how destructive the Clintons will be on their way down. Will they take Obama with them?read more | digg story

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Forget relying on Wall Street executives heading up Treasury and the Fed to "fix" the economy.Real wages are falling for middle and lower income workers. We need to "fix" the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department: the economic managers of this war on the working class.According to CJRWorkers are already getting slammed, according to the Associated Press. It reports that inflation-adjusted

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Paying the PriceWhen the Axis powers surrendered to the United Nations in 1945, there was a widespread expectation of peace and prosperity.After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, there was anticipation of a large "peace dividend."But the peace dividend has not been a savings and reprioritizing of expenses for the American people. We're not beating our swords into plowshares.Instead,

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“For all intents and purposes, EPA has ceased to exist in Florida...” --Jeff Ruch, Executive Director, Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility (PEER).read more | digg story

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The MSM is the "Corporate Media," far right of mainstream and always protecting corporate interests above those of the American people. They serve their parent companies as three ring circuses that distract the public from performing any critical scrutiny of the real business of industry and government.read more | digg story

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Let there be no doubt: a majority of senators, and a large number of Democrats, think the telecoms should not suffer the hazard of accountability for cooperating with the administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Screw you Dems who crossed the aisle!!read more | digg story

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Think Progress has an entry on budget and what it will mean for the Contractors.Last week, President Bush submitted his $515.4 billion defense spending budget for FY ‘09. Contained within that budget is a windfall for defense contractors — “$104.2 billion for weapons procurement and nearly $80 billion for research and development.” This budget is 7.5 percent higher than the current year’s.Where

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InfraGard is a network for security and intelligence sharing that is being set up by the FBI to protect the infrastructure of the United States.It was not created by Congress.As of late January, InfraGard had 23,682 members, according to its website, www.infragard.net, which adds that “350 of our nation’s Fortune 500 have a representative in InfraGard.”To join, each person must be sponsored by “

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An amazing day for the political election, as Obama got the double-whammy endorsement from The Pirate Bay crew as well as Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Recent evidence also links the recent undersea cable damage in the Middle East to the Clinton Campaign. After a weak showing on Super Tuesday, Ron Paul also may be considering dropping out of the election.read more | digg story

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The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that waterboarding was used on three terror suspects. Senate Democrats are demanding a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators. read more | digg story

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"Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia" retakes strategic town south of Kirkuk.read more | digg story

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Ocean garbage. It's a story that, unfortunately, is growing.read more | digg story

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The US spends as much on its military as the rest of the world combined! Here's a breakdown of the reported $515 billion figure, and why it should actually be $713 billion.read more | digg story

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Pentagon Papers Revealed Government LiesI was struck by the ocean of disconnect between what was being reported by the U.S. press, still largely touting the official line that progress was being made in the war, and what I was witnessing at the time.Read More

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"We've seen this script before," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.). "The President proposes more of the same failed fiscal policies he has embraced throughout his time in office -- more deficit-financed war spending, more deficit-financed tax cuts tilted to benefit the wealthiest, and more borrowing from foreign nations like China and Japan. The result can only be the

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A Canadian financier who traveled to Kazakhstan with Bill Clinton and won a big mining deal later donated millions to Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation.A spokesman for Mr. Clinton said the former president knew that Mr. Giustra had mining interests in Kazakhstan but was unaware of “any particular efforts” and did nothing to help. Mr. Giustra said he was there as an “observer only” and there was

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Rising food prices are a threat to many; they also present the world with an enormous opportunityread more | digg story

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Insurance Prices Seen Lower in 2008 on Competition, Sagging EconomyPrices for most types of property and casualty insurance are expected to fall in 2008 for the first time since World War II, as a weakening economy and heightened competition hold prices down everywhere except along coastal areas that are exposed to hurricanes.read more | digg story

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Coming in third in South Carolina may be the real end for the campaign of former Sen. John Edwards, whether he keeps running or not. Sure, Edwards can keep siphoning off delegates so he can bargain for something at the convention. Attorney General, maybe? This essay looks at the larger picture: how Edwards' failure is the end of the Democrats.read more | digg story

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His four state strategy to jump start his national campaign has "failed," according to Christensen. But Edwards has raised $3 million in January.read more | digg story

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Hatch Act violation with email accusing Obama of being a 'radical Muslim.' Just one of the many Republican election fraud tactics.read more | digg story

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A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agencyread more | digg story

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Do you remember this headline from March of 2003? Bush Plan for Iraq Would Be a First. No OK From Congress Seen; Constitutional Issues Raised. No? Don't remember that? That's because its dated Friday, January 25, 2008, from the Boston Globe.read more | digg story

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Climate change is occurring far more rapidly than even the worst predictions of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, Al Gore said on Thursday.Recent evidence shows "the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us," he said.read more | digg story

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Congressional leaders and the White House reached a tentative deal on a package that would pay stipends of $300 to $1,200 per family and provide tax incentives for businesses.read more | digg story

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Whether we talk about Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton or John Poindexter, John Dean, and Dick Cheney, when we refer to "national security" and "intelligence information" we run across specific priorities and viewpoints.These don't necessarily reflect the viewpoints and priorities of the American people--the sovereign.Under the current FISA debate, the Senate Intelligence

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With an antiquated water system, a growing population, and the pressure of global warming, California is in trouble.read more | digg story

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The world's leading scientists are predicting climate change to cause water wars and mass migrations from rural to urban areas.read more | digg story

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The 2008 Clinton Presidential campaign is composed of a surprisingly long list of surprisingly sleazy operatives committing surprisingly sleazy acts. So, why aren't the American people surprised?read more | digg story

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The details of the economic slump have changed since the ’92 presidential race, but the main story line remains much the same.read more | digg story

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Dennis Kucinich reportedly gave the Secretary of State of the state of New Hampshire $25,000 to begin recounting the Democratic votes. There is a reported discrepancy in the tabulations between hand and machine-counted votes for Clinton and Obama.read more | digg story

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South Carolina Elections Are Unconstitutional! Article II, � 1, of the Constitution of South Carolina states, "the ballots shall not be counted in secret." No more need to refer to case law, evidence, or logic to argue against secret vote counting, at least in South Carolina. But, will any of the candidates take action to demand change?read more | digg story

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A new poll by the Reno Gazette-Journal shows a neck-and-neck three-way race among Democrats for Saturday's caucus. On the Republican side, U.S. Sen. John McCain has taken his first lead in Nevada of the election season, and Mitt Romney, who has been working Nevada harder than any other Republican, is trailing in fourth place.read more | digg story

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Kucinich Asks for New Hampshire Recount in the Interest of Election Integrityread more | digg story

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Now that Richardson is out, Edwards is the only Democrat besides Kucinich who will have the troops out within a year, who has signed on to the Apollo Project, who will roll back capital gains and ceo deferred compensation tax breaks, CUT DEFENSE SPENDING, promote organized labor, did I mention Universal Health Care with choice between government and private plans?And so, my fellow Kossaks, ask

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