Month: June 2010

  • Firm once known as Blackwater gets Afghan contract

    Banning this company seems like an easy-reach. Oh well. Firm once known as Blackwater gets Afghan contract KABUL- Afghanistan — Part of the company once known as Blackwater Worldwide has been awarded a more than $120 million contract to protect new U.S. consulates in the Afghan cities of Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif- the U.S. Embassy said […]

  • Glenn Greenwald: The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders

    "In other words- the Obama administration is knowingly imprisoning a completely innocent human being who has been kept in a cage in an island prison- thousands of miles from his home- for the last 8 years- since he's 17 years old- despite having done absolutely nothing wrong." Glenn Greenwald: The Obama administration and its pundit-defenders […]

  • Millionaires vs the Unemployed

    From Yglesias: Temporarily cutting taxes on the children of multi-millionaires would have a minor stimulative effect. But it’s not well-targeted, and the effort to reduce taxes on the kids of multi-millionaires is about permanent tax cuts anyway, which don’t stimulate anything. Yet the very same Senators who said deficit concerns wouldn’t allow them to vote […]

  • Australian Senator: Maternity Leave Causes Abortions

    So happy to know they have crazy assholes down under: The outspoken Steve Fielding, from the conservative Family First Party, [presumably implying all opponents hate families] said women could attempt to cheat the centre-left Labor government’s plans for paid leave by deliberately conceiving a child they never intended to have.  “Drug addicts and welfare cheats can […]

  • Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University

    Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University Slog- featuring Dan Savage- is Seattle's most popular News & Culture Blog. Seattle News- Politics- and Arts Blog. The Stranger covers local & national news- politics- restaurants- bars- music- movies and the arts.

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  • An Energy-Independent Future

    Jon walks through 8 Presidents and decades of energy independence promises. An Energy-Independent Future America is an unstoppable oil dependency-breaking machine — unfortunately the machine runs on oil. Airdate – //

  • Jon Stewart Blasts Obama for War-Related Lies- Broken Promises

    Habeas- rendition- escalation- overreach- secret wars- whistleblower prosecution- death squads.. 'All that power you didn't like when somebody else had it – you decided to keep it.' Jon Stewart Blasts Obama for War-Related Lies- Broken Promises Tonight- Jon Stewart called out President Obama for not only not living up to his campaign-era promises to reverse […]

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  • Personality: Putting It Out There (An Excerpt From The Outrageous Andy Wibbels) | Mitch Meyerson:Mas

    Excerpt from the upcoming Social Media Superstars book that I contributed to: Personality: Putting It Out There (An Excerpt From The Outrageous Andy Wibbels) | Mitch Meyerson:Mas When we see something memorable – something hot with the heat of passion or provocation or simply something unplanned – we're jogged out of the rat race. We […]