Monday, April 13, 2009

Radioactive waste was dumped off Somali coast:
www.sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/

$3.4 billion for 'clean coal', $2.5 billion for energy efficiency and all other renewables:
www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/index.php/the-dirty-truth-behind-obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cclean-coal%E2%80%9D-stimulus/
energyoutlook.blogspot.com/2009/02/energy-cornucopia.html

Sunday, April 12, 2009

*by 2006 top 1% were receiving 23% of pre-tax income. More than double since 1970's.

Kucinich on the Osama card (4/10/09 MSNBC The Ed Show):
earth2obama.org/?p=218#more-218

Lawrence Summers protested 4/9/09 on CSPAN:
video.google.com/videosearch?q=WE+WANT+OUR+MONEY+BACK%21+Dir+Economic+Council+Lawrence+Summers+Protested%21&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

Palin and ethic complaints:
www.adn.com/palin/story/731157.html

Ron Paul on U.S. using North Korea missile test to fund MIC:
earth2obama.org/?p=168

Office of Strategic Initiatives:
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Strategic_Initiatives

Is Obama's OSI, et al working hand in glove with 501c3's to push his agenda?
The list:
1. www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/sustainable_afghanistan.html

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Since 2001, 330 people have died from tasers:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090411/METRO03/904110353/Teen+dies+after+Warren+Police+use+Taser

Friday, April 10, 2009

UAW members at GM 1970's: 450,000
UAW members at GM today: 45,000
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21133

Top 400 taxpayers in 1955 paid three times more of their income in taxes compared to now:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21130

Some banks backing out of bailout money:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/economy/11bank.html

Coast Savings to miss capital requirements (1990):
www.thefreelibrary.com/Coast+Savings+to+miss+capital+requirements.-a09853543

The Pentagon's $1 trillion prob:
www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/04/14/Pentagons-Accounting-Mess

186 institutions have publicly turned down bailout money*:
www.startribune.com/business/42288087.html

*Also: "Treasury's standard agreement included a section allowing Congress to impose conditions retroactively." So was this not applied to bailout money to AIG, for example, as such would've allowed gov't to retake the money because of the exec bonus payments?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Federal judge in Stevens case responds in opposite fashion to Don Siegelman, eliciting evidence of deep-seated partisan corruption:
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-stevens_web_apr08,0,786881.story

Websites/text messages connecting protesters:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html

The logic of financialisation (the global value of financial assets (which means: debt) in the whole world by September 2008 was $160 trillion: three-and-a-half times larger than the value of global GDP):
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21096

Friday, March 27, 2009

On the bailout- "Wall Street welfare: socialism for the rich, market discipline and capitalism for the rest of us":
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20987

ERTA 1981-- top income bracket saw tax cut from 70% to 50%:
www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=6173&type=0

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National debt went from $2 trillion in 1980 to $6 trillion by 1990:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png


“If you have gone to the best schools and graduated from Oxford and Cambridge, and so on, you have instilled in you the understanding that there are certain things it would not do to say; actually, it would not do to think. That is the primary way to prevent unpopular ideas from being expressed. The ideas of the overwhelming majority of the population, who don’t attend Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge, enable them to react like human beings, as they often do. There is a lesson there for activists.”

- Noam Chomsky

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I'm working for $7.75/hr and Obama is giving $90 billion extra to other countries:
online.wsj.com/article/SB123678440844695721.html

"The mostly white bosses of the Democratic party a quarter century ago and today, prefer a Democratic base that votes, and then goes away after the elections...":
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20967

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Ammogate, Bolivia June '07:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19491794/

Thursday, February 12, 2009

crunch:
http://www.williamswhite.com/

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

woman swims 700 miles:
sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/more/02/07/figge.swims.atlantic.ap/index.html

media reports its the atlantic:
sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-great-Atlantic-Ocean-swimming-hoax?urn=oly,140525

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Ann Patchett on Nashville:
travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/tmagazine/10talk-nashville-t.html

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

14-year-old impersonates cop
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-teen-cop-26-jan26,0,6467334.story

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Saturday, April 19, 2008
March 26, 2003: www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0326-10.htm
Nov 19, 2007: www.counterpunch.org/quigley11192007.html

----Iraqi protests----
April 4, 2008: www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/world/middleeast/04iraq.html
March 25, 2008: www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/25/iraq.main/
May 1, 2008: www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_050108WAB_may_day_olympia_protests_TP.bbd246e8.html

----Afghani Student-Reporter Parwez----
www.brandrepublic.com/News/802574/Afghan-journalist-granted-appeal-against-death-sentence/

---RNC 08 protests---
Sept. 1, 2008: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080901/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_protests

---Vietnam protest---
1970: www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1994