Twitter 2. Anarchy In Your Head » Archive » Listen To Your Heart. August 8th, 2009 I co-host Free Talk Live every Thursday night from 7pm to 10pm, a nationally syndicated talk radio show. Last Thursday, an anarchist called in to talk about how he attended a meeting about a local smoking ban to speak out against it. There was some discussion about whether such an act is part of working within their system and I’m known for not being a big fan of that game, to put it lightly. Mark is equating this act with voting based on the notion that you’re just voting by proxy, i.e. trying to persuade council members to vote a certain way. I’ve given some more thought to this and wanted to expound. I wouldn’t go in there telling them to vote a certain way.
You have to understand that the vote is not the act of violence. I do feel that politics follows culture overwhelmingly more so than the other way around. I can’t definitively argue that there is more harm done in the long run by playing their game than not. Warranted Wiretaps: Twitter Users Punk Teabaggers: Teaparty Activist Organizing Call 2009.11.17. (Updated three times.) On Tuesday evening, several organizers of the Teaparty Movement and of the ultraconservative website 73wire.com, including healthcare executive and conservative activist Michael Johns and Eric Odom, founder of the American Liberty Alliance, hosted a telephone conference call for Teaparty activists.
Twitter user @Strwbrry_Blonde learned of the call and enlisted Twitter-based community organizer @Shoq to disseminate the dial-in number. In the end, several liberal or satirical Twitter users, including Comedy Central's Elon James White (@ElonJames), Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead (@LizzWinstead) and a few dozen other tea-party-crashers participated in the call, livetweeting comments among themselves under the Twitter hashtag #teapartycall.
During the call, the organizers urged listeners to start their own blogs on the 73wire.com website to avoid what they claimed was routine censorship of conservative views by Typepad and other mainstream blog hosts. Why I Parted Ways With The Right. 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.) 2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.) 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. And much, much more. I won’t be going over the cliff with them. OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. The Tumbling Boulder of Racism: Special Comment by my 72-year-old friend. Don't Let The Deathers Ask Stupid Questions At Townhalls!
We need you guys to keep showing up in force at these Democratic townhalls to ask real questions of our elected Democratic representatives, especially those who signed H.R. 676, and those who are currently on the fence about the public option. You've got to ask real questions that the news media doesn't ask of these Democratic officials about why they say they support the public option, but are ready to jettison it in the final legislation for so-called "bipartisanship," when research and studies have shown that a majority of Americans want the public option, and that the public option is cost-effective.
Here are steps that you can take in being the best advocate for the public option at these Democratic townhall events: Read ShadowSD's diary for his excellent defense of the public option, and the rebuttals to the most common conservative talking points. Please bring a copy of his diary with you and your friends when you go to a townhall event. Why the Free Market Doesn't Work: Consumption vs. Conservation by Mike Adams the Health Ranger. (NaturalNews) I'm a big free market proponent. I love the "freedom" in it... the individual decisions of hundreds of millions of people coalescing into an "invisible hand" of efficiency improvements, quality of life enhancements and unlimited abundance.
That's the Alice-in-Wonderland version of the free market economy, anyway. In reality, the free market is broken. It doesn't work (at least not as we once hoped it would), and it can't last. In fact, unless some important changes are made to the way in which it works, the free market will lead us to the destruction of human civilization. How, you ask? Examine the interaction between Big Pharma and consumers, for example: Drug companies use campaigns of disinformation, deception, exaggeration and scientific fraud to convince consumers they suffer from various "diseases" requiring chemical intervention. It isn't. The consumption of pharmaceuticals makes all this as plain as day, and yet pharmaceuticals are just the beginning of this story. A Tale of Two Health Care Systems : The Scientific Activist. Mike Dunford tells a compelling story today at The Questionable Authority: Yesterday, I took the kids to the doctor for their school physicals.
I wouldn’t normally subject you to an account of the day-to-day minutia of my personal life, but given the current debate about how we should handle health care in the United States, the details might be of interest.We arrived – without an appointment – at a medical facility that we had not been to before. We did not have medical records with us, and the only paperwork of any kind that we had brought were the forms that needed to be filled out to enroll the kids in sports programs. When we checked in, the only thing I had to do was hand the clerk a government-issued photo ID. I did not have to fill out any insurance forms, I did not have to hand over any payment of any kind, and I didn’t touch a clipboard. I mention this because it reminded me so much of something I wrote about previously on my blog: