I’m Vegan. October 8, 2009 - Issue 345. The reported demise of the European left has been greatly exaggerated.
Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam’s Club. City leaders in Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam’s Club, a retail warehouse store operated by Wal-Mart. A University of Alabama archaeology report commissioned by the city found that the site was historically significant as the largest of several ancient stone and earthen mounds throughout the Choccolocco Valley.
But Oxford Mayor Leon Smith — whose campaign has financial connections to firms involved in the $2.6 million no-bid project — insists the mound is not man-made and was used only to “send smoke signals.” In fact, the report does not conclude the mound is a result of “natural phenomena” but says very clearly it is of “cultural origin.”
The site is also significant to Native Americans. A local resident named Johnny Rollins told the Anniston Star how his Native American grandmother taught him that when she died he could “go to that mountain” to talk to her: UN Unanimously Backs Obama's Nuclear Disarmament Goal. Jeffrey Feldman: The Outrage Pandemic. Forget the Swine Flu.
America is suffering from an outrage pandemic. Like everybody else in America, I was surprised when the Nobel committee awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to Barack Obama. Richard Dawkins on “The Greatest Show on Earth” Obama's escalating disaster. President Obama meets with Gen.
Stanley McChrystal in the Oval Office (Pete Souza) WHAT'S THE intent behind Gen. Stanley McChrystal's report on Afghanistan? Gore Vidal's United States of fury - Americas, World. Gore Vidal is not only grieving for his own dead circle and his fading life, but for his country.
At 83, he has lived through one third of the lifespan of the United States. If anyone incarnates the American century that has ended, it is him. Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen. Marching Backwards: The Spectacle of Fear. Jonah Goldberg is a very sad case who thinks that ignoring an argument makes you smarter.
Ensign Says He Won’t Step Down. The Right's Hate Doesn't Equate. Rachel Maddow:Shagged by a rare parrot. Bayer Pesticides Blamed For Honeybee Deaths. Source: London Independent.
The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief : The Coalfield Uprising. Elizabeth Smart Testifies About Her Abduction Ordeal in Horrifying Detail - Elizabeth Smart. By Cathy Free 10/01/2009 at 04:45 PM EDT For the first time since she was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom seven years ago, Elizabeth Smart on Thursday provided details about her nine-month ordeal with her accused kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell. She described being drugged, tied to a tree and raped as often as four times a day. Smart was prepared to meet Mitchell face to face in a federal court, but that never happened. Alan Grayson Calls Out Lying Repugs On CNN. The Atheist Missionary: Christian minister provides bat shit crazy explanation for natural disasters.
John R. Bohrer: Because Bipartisanship Is Dead Until 2011: A Defense of Senate Moderates. After the Republicans got thrashed in the 1964 elections, a GOP senator told columnist Joe Alsop, "That damn Lyndon Johnson hasn't just grabbed the middle of the road.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Andy Worthington: A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions. In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have become used to uncovering shocking information, but for sheer cynicism, I am struggling to think of anything that compares to the revelations contained in the unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (PDF).
In the ruling, to put it bluntly, it was revealed that the U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth. The background: lies hidden in plain sight for five years These appeared to be valid explanations, especially as al-Rabiah, a 42-year old father of four children, had no history of any involvement with militancy or terrorism, and had, instead, spent 20 years at a management desk job at Kuwait Airways, and had an ownership interest in some health clubs. Op-Ed Columnist - Where Did ‘We’ Go? Free speech: One poke over the line? I have a serious question.
Where is the line drawn between protected speech and incendiary, threatening, outrageous unprotected speech in this country? This is an issue I have always struggled with, partly because I was raised to speak with consideration for others and to be responsible for what I’ve said. I don’t always succeed, but I am having a serious struggle for what I’m seeing pass as free speech today. Here are three examples, all from articles I’ve stumbled across in the past three days. Keith Olbermann: What The FOX? Free markets, and fuck you. 30 September 2009 by Mike Gogulski Posted in mind control, philosophy | 64 Comments » I’m republishing, here, an essay — or, perhaps, diatribe — by Jessica Pacholski.
I don’t have to agree with every word, or even understand the full context of where she is coming from. What I do understand, however, is the frustration at dealing with people who seem to have nothing better to do than run around pointing out the “not real”-anarchists, painting themselves into ideological purity corners and doing precisely nothing to build the links to trust and camaraderie necessary to create a new society — nay, in fact, acting daily to smash and sunder those links, before they can even be forged.
AUDIO- Right-Wing Panel: Obama Is ‘First Muslim American President’ David Iglesias Joins Maddow For "Truth About The Lies About ACORN" Segment. David Iglesias, who was one of the U.S. attorneys (New Mexico) that the Bush Justice Department ousted for political reasons, joined Rachel Maddow tonight to continue her ongoing segment "The Truth About The Lies About ACORN.
" Iglesias says he was forced out from his position in part because he refused pressure from Republicans to investigate bogus claims of voter registration fraud against ACORN. Iglesias recounts to Maddow the work that ACORN was doing to register New Mexico voters and the intense political pressure he was receiving from Republicans to halt ACORN's efforts: As a matter of fact, I set up one of only two voter fraud task forces in the country. I worked with state and local officials. I worked with the FBI. {*style:<i>*}Send us tips! Glenn Beck's average Americans.
September 29, 2009 2:42 pm ET by John V. Santore. Too Many 'Nones' - Religious Right Bothered By 'Do-It-Yourself' Spirituality. Karl Rove And The Republican War Against ACORN. ACORN has long been one of Karl Rove's targets. In recent days, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major news outlets have recounted the “troubled” history of the poor people’s advocacy group ACORN, but left out the five-year anti-ACORN campaign led by White House adviser Karl Rove and other Republican operatives. Dropped down the memory hole is the fact that ACORN was at the center of the so-called “prosecutor-gate” scandal, when the Bush administration pressured U.S.
Attorneys to bring indictments over the grassroots group’s voter-registration drives and then fired some prosecutors who resisted what they viewed as a partisan strategy not supported by solid evidence. The latest furor over ACORN was touched off by conservative filmmaker James E. O’Keefe III and a right-wing columnist who posed as a couple planning to buy a house for use as a brothel and getting advice from a few ACORN employees, rather than being turned away. Internet Security: How Criminals Hack Other Peoples Computers. G20 Protests Show Preferential Treatment of Right Wing Protesters. The authorities who protect the establishment’s power have demonstrated something in the last couple weeks: they will cater to right wing protesters while trampling on the rights of left wing protesters.
Keith Olbermann: Vast Ring-Wing Conspiracy? Confessions Of A Domestic Terrorist [Earth Liberation Front] Rachel Maddow Investigates: Republicans Vs Acorn. Final Footprint: Colorful, Expressive Funerals for a Better Future. The Story of Oybek Jabbarov, An Innocent Man Freed From Guantánamo. Mythmaking 101: Why Millions Have Bought into 'Death Panel' Propaganda. September 16, 2009 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Olbermann: Greatest Threat To USA is Willful Stupidity. Entrapping ACORN. ACORN, an umbrella organization of community groups that serves poor people in major cities across the country through housing, legal advocacy, family services, and higher wages, has lost all federal funding, after decades of working for low-income, disadvantaged Americans.
R) Rep Darrell Issa vs Acorn CEO Bertha Lewis On FOX News Sunday. Countdown:Racism at the root. CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress.