Saturday, July 16, 2011

Making Sense of America's Budget Crisis - As Progressive Americans See It

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Here are some dandy links for those following the battle between Obama and congressional Republicans over America's budget deficit. Ja...
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It's Official - Obama Has No Spine

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It's gone, surgically removed by specialists from the Republican congressional ranks.   Now Obama has lost all chance of ever being able...
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Exposing the Real Risk of FrackGas

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Actor Mark Ruffalo on Olbermann explains why frackgas is so insanely dangerous.  "We don't have another 40 years."

Hacking for the Environment - Tar Sands in the Crosshairs

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The international hacking group Anonymous has launched Operation Green Rights .   Their first target was Monsanto, a company the group cal...
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Exxon in Hot Water over Montana Pipeline

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Exxon has been using a pipeline to transport Athabasca bitumen without notifying state officials who thought the line was only carrying conv...
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Seriously, Did He Really Say That?

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Why does the new US Defense Secretary talk just like Donald Rumsfeld? DefSec Leon Panneta has been making the rounds in Baghdad, begging t...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Rupe, Thou Protesteth Too Much

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There's one thing about ritual sacrifice.   Do too much of it and you'll look scared, maybe even guilty of something.  Rupe Murdoch ...

Another Murdoch Lieutenant Falls

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The day began with the announcement that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks had resigned.   Now she's followed by her predecessor and...

Karzai's Assassin - The Afghan Conundrum in a Nutshell

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The guy who gunned down the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai is almost a metaphor for what's never going to let us 'fix'...

SAAB Sob

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Venerable Swedish car maker, SAAB, is all but officially kaput.  It's all about SAAB's suspensions.  First it suspended payments to ...

Ahmadinejad May Be On Way Out

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Al Jazeera is speculating that hothead Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be about to resign .  He has clashed with his country'...

Is the Tea Party America's Khmer Rouge?

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So Wrong, In So Many Ways The struggles underway between Congressional GOP leaders and the White House over America's debt ceiling ha...

Typhoon Heading for Fukushima?

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A major typhoon is barreling toward Japan.  Typhoon Ma-on is expected to make landfall around noon Sunday.   It's path, shown above, i...
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British Columbians Support Carbon Taxes, What's Holding Up the Rest of You?

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A FINE IDEA, BUNGLED - THANKS JACK I'm republishing this because it's an important development and I sent it out last night and ...
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Gulp. America's F-35 Bill Just Skyrockets, Again

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Okay, Now I Need To Know How to Flush This Thing Already America's most-expensive ever military purchase, the F-35 project price tag ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Connie Black Slams Rupe Murdoch

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A big h/t to Matthew Steeples of London, apparently Knightsbridge, who brings us a glance behind the paywall of the Financial Times for a...
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Finally, A Good Rupert Murdoch Cartoon

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From The Guardian's Steve Bell: Apparently Rupe has decided to duck this invitation.   Not to be outdone, Hugh Grant staged this pup...
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The Endless Two-Faced War in Afghanistan Nose Dives

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While myopic NewsyDupes like TorStar's Rosie DiManno and that guy whatshisname at NatPo fell over each other gushing that Canada's ...

Murdoch a No Show, Defies UK Parliament

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Rupert Murdoch is plainly feeling the heat.   He closed News of the World and dropped (for now) his bid to buy BSkyB cable but, despite pre...

Republicans Wage All-Out War On America's Environment

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America's dominant corporatist party, the Republicans, are moving to scrap, block or rollback federal environmental regulations of just ...