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A new poll says 83% of americans think, and I'm paraphrasing, that congress sucks. Twelve percent of Americans are happy with congress. I figure that includes the 1% who are the wealthiest, and the rest are the dumbest americans-- in both parties. I'm pretty sure there aren't many independents who are happy with congress.
My article today is long and meandering. Sorry.
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Snowden did what Americans are supposed to do -- disclose government crimes against the Constitution and against citizens. Without a free press there is nothing but the government's lies. In order to protect its lies from exposure, Washington intends to exterminate all truth tellers.
The auto industry Big Three were loyal only to shareholders, not the people of Detroit. The city was gutted by that social choice. What kind of a society gives a relatively tiny number of people the position and power to make corporate decisions impacting millions in and around Detroit while it excludes those millions from participating in those decisions? No genuinely democratic economy could or would work that way.
Rather than identifying with Trayvon Martin, President Obama would have done better to note his similarities to George Zimmerman. Rather than wringing his hands over Stand Your Ground laws, the President should have recognized the identical logic that informs his own drone murders.
a long, rambling rant about the state of America, Democrats, Liberals, corporations, congress, sociopaths, cluster B personality disorders, and the future of humanity and democracy. I left out the kitchen sink
Russia's Immigration Service has reportedly granted entry permission to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has been stranded at a Moscow airport since last month.
We speak of "institutional evil" here because the greatest evils of our time are conducted by often personally decent, even idealistic, men and women. It is not necessary to be hate-filled or personally violent for an American to commit evil today. One need only be part of, or support the police, intelligence and military activities of the U.S. Executive Branch.
We should not go along with any plan that demands that our students continue to produce huge profits for our government. Making billions and billions in profits off the backs of students is obscene. A proposal that squeezes even more profits out of our kids, while millionaires and billionaires still don't pay their fair share is a bad deal.
This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged with the financial crimes that sank worldwide stock markets by trillions in 2008 and left millions homeless and jobless, from Detroit to Manchester.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today said deceptive claims by the White House mask a big boost in college loan interest rates that would be in store for students and parents under a White House-backed bill now before the Senate.
The victory represented by the election of Barack Obama was also a tragedy, as it turns out. The sellout was predictable, perhaps inevitable but was surprising in its swiftness and completeness. From day one it was clear that we'd been had. The 1% neocon/neoliberal cabal wasted no time asserting itself through their new spokesperson. President Obama, as presidents do, made his loyalty to the empire evident.
I believe that a short collection of basic laws or rules need to be developed that civilized, mature, evolved religions all subscribe to. These rules should aim toward supporting humanity, earth and life with respect for differences.
Yemen's president on Tuesday pardoned a journalist who was jailed for three years on charges of helping al-Qaida and U.S. born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The case of the reporter, Abdelela Shayie, received international attention. President Barack Obama put pressure on Yemen's former president in 2011 to keep him in custody.
Matt Ridley describes the extraordinary, Lamarckian capacity that humans have developed to innovate via social and intellectual collaboration as "ideas...having sex"
A new use for glass could make future hybrid-electric and plug-in electric vehicles more affordable and reliable.
Isolated in the middle of the ocean, Pacific islands rely closely on fishing for their economy and food security. But global warming could considerably reduce their accessible fish resources over the coming decades.
In events that could exacerbate sea level rise over the coming decades, stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ocean, according to new iceberg calving simulations.
Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, but a new study is pointing to evidence for life on land that is four times as old -- at 2.2 billion years ago and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.
By Thomas Farrell
Critchley and Webster Study Hamlet's Complicated Grief What is known today as complicated grief has been seriously under-studied. However, Shakespeare's most famous character, Hamlet, suffers from complicated grief. In their acutely perceptive short book about Hamlet, Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster deepen our understanding of Hamlet's complicated grief enormously. Their remarkable study deserves to be studied by anybody suffering from complicated grief and by everybody.
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the National Security Agency director, met with Democrats and Republicans to lobby against a bill that would end the financing for the agency's phone data collection program. The Republican-sponsored legislation is one of the first Congressional efforts to curb the agency's domestic spying efforts since they were leaked by Edward J. Snowden, a former N.S.A. contractor.
Closing arguments in Bradley Manning's court martial begin Thursday at Ft. Meade. The government has been allowed by the judge to keep the "aiding the enemy" charge against Bradley...
If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, it's tempting to observe that congressional Republicans have gone stark, raving mad. My own GOP congressman, Rep. Tim Griffin, recently delivered himself of an opinion column boasting about having "voted more than 30 times to repeal all or parts of Obamacare." Only in politics does somebody expect praise for sheer futility.
Nothing good has come out of last week's acquittal of George Zimmerman in Florida for gunning down black teen Trayvon Martin. That is unless you happen to be a politician, a media personality or a special-interest group who like vultures ALWAYS descend on a tragedy to feed.
President Barack Obama will move forward with a plan for the United States to arm the struggling Syrian rebels after some congressional concerns were eased, officials said. But both Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees had expressed worries that the arms could end up in the hands of Islamist militants in Syria like the Nusra Front, and would not be enough to tip the balance of the civil war against President Bashar al-Assad anyway.
Apparently there is a lot that the United States can and will do to prevent sovereign countries from granting Snowden asylum. When it actually wants something to happen, the Obama administration, like its predecessors, is prepared to do a full Snowden. And in nearly every case, it will get what it wants.
If Detroit fails it will hurt our nation as a whole. It will send a message to minority and urban youth that their futures are as hopeless as they seem and the country doesn't care. It will add to a national atmosphere of hopelessness and decay. And we will have missed an opportunity to turn the tide for America's cities.
By Glen Barry
Ecocide Is Not Development. Love and Ecology Are the Answer. Earth's ecosystems are collapsing; human and all other species' habitats are being lost; and our one shared biosphere is failing and dying. Love of other peoples and species, and of nature, truth, justice, and equity, is the only lasting basis for global ecological sustainability.
By Zin Linn
Burma President says more than done on human rights On the same day, the Kachin National Organization (KNO) issued a statement criticizing Thein Sein and the British government's red carpet treatment for the ex-army general many Kachin consider a war criminal. The KNO statement mentions that under Thein Sein's leadership Burma's military has carried out "crime against humanity, war crimes and violation of international law" in Kachin state.
the Republicans in Congress would rather see us suffer than either "give in" to the President's signature legislation or injure their cozy relationship with Big Pharma and Big Insurance. And they're not afraid to shut down the government in order to get their way.
Around the mediascape, we hear a lot of talk about Edward Snowden being a criminal, and needing to return home to face "justice." But what about the possibility that people like Snowden actually are the forces of justice, while the criminals are the ones in charge of the system?
Attesting to the appalling average IQ involved in foreign policy debate in the Beltway, information had to be spun to justify yet another military adventure on the horizon -- especially after President Barack "Assad must go" Obama declared he would authorize the "light" weaponizing of "good" rebels only. As if the harsh rules of war obeyed some Weapon Fairy Godmother high up in the sky.
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Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood never hid their ties.But the adversaries of both would have us believe that anything that befalls the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt will befall Hamas in Gaza, which is an exaggeration
For Whom the co*k Crows
Marx's 1844 article on criticism is still relevant today.
The Bankruptcy of Detroit offers a test case for new vision for the US cities to adapt to the 21st century Economy.
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Talking about what propels Al-Qeada & its underlying philosophy.
Fanatic nationalism has arrived.
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The Obama administration has forcefully urged the defeat of a legislative measure to curb its wide-ranging collection of Americans' phone records, setting up a showdown with the House of Representatives over domestic surveillance. The White House urged House members to vote against a measure from Representative Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican, that would stop the NSA siphoning up the telephone records of millions of Americans without suspicion of a crime.
Sgt. Sean Murphy, the state police photographer who released dramatic photos last week of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's arrest, was placed on restricted duty today pending the outcome of an investigation, his lawyer said. A hearing at state police headquarters in Framingham on Murphy's fate after the controversial release of the images was held this morning. Murphy's lawyer, Leonard Kesten, said the sergeant showed a lot of "heart" and "courage" and won't comment until the investigation is over. The officer's 19-year-old son, Connor, called his dad "a hero.
Two sexual assault courts-martial for Navy men at Pearl Harbor are now postponed because of a comment made by President Barack Obama. The trial issues -- related to a statement by Obama, the commander in chief, that sexual assault perpetrators should be dishonorably discharged -- potentially amount to "unlawful command influence" and are part of a spate of military cases nationwide in which the defense is being raised.
If you could hit the reset button on evolution and start over, would essentially the same species appear? Yes, according to a study of Caribbean lizards. [This has huge potential implications, imo, regarding what might be found on other earth-like planets. Not to mention the underlying concepts in evolution generally.]
Outlines challenges that High Schools will have transitioning to an online format
The US has moved a step closer towards arming opposition rebels in Syria. A key congressional committee had raised concerns that US weapons could end up in the hands of fighters linked to Al-Qaeda like al-Nusra Front, but the House Intelligence Committee has now said that it is willing to accept the risks, officials said on Monday.
Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured the color images of Earth and the moon from its perch in the Saturn system nearly 900 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) away. MESSENGER, the first probe to orbit Mercury, took a black-and-white image from a distance of 61 million miles (98 million kilometers) as part of a campaign to search for natural satellites of the planet.
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