Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Perspective.
[This post is cross-posted at Cure This.org]. From a Washington Post editorial by Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition against Hunger: Our country has been told that a gargantuan government rescue of the private sector is necessary because the collapse of major financial institutions would lead to unthinkable outcomes for society. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in corporations,food policy,housing,right to the city by anjali
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Let me be clear
Over at CrookedTimber, Righteous Bubba put Sarah Palin’s lines into a Markov chain (which randomizes words but keeps sentence structure, verbs, nouns, prepositions intact). It’s pretty funny: We do not believe in American ideals, and they are violent and they are our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
I swear I saw these guys last month…
Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations Beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in california,culture,iraq,nonviolent resistance,state-sponsored violence by anjali
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
The Jon Stewart Doctrine, as explained to Tony Blair
Jon Stewart: 19 people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make the world safe enough that 19 people wouldn’t want to do harm to us so it seems like we have to rethink a strategy that is less military-based, in general. Jon [...]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Obama brings it.
Yesterday, my opponent, Senator McCain, gave a speech in which his big solution to this worldwide economic crisis was to blame me for it. This is a guy who’s spent a quarter century in Washington. And after spending the entire campaign saying I haven’t been in Washington long enough, he apparently now is willing to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in corporations,obsession2008 by anjali
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
McCain thinks healthcare should go the way of the banks
OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this. Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform: Opening [...]
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Allow a crowd to gather, lock down escapes, and then arrest everyone for unlawful assembly
The photograph is a picture I took from Kellogg Street, overlooking Shepherd Road, while a mass arrest of peaceful protesters was underway. This was probably the first time during the RNC that the police used “unlawful assembly” to arrest hundreds of people who literally couldn’t escape. The police allowed a crowd to gather, locked down [...]
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Pocket guide to Palinguage and double standards
If you’re a minority and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates you’re a “token hire.” If you’re a conservative and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates you’re a “game changer.” If you live in an urban area and you get a girl pregnant you’re a “baby daddy.” If you’re [...]
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Giuliani and Palin ridicule “community organizers”
I’m not sure who pushed forward the GOP strategy to ridicule community organizers, but Giuliani and Palin offended Americans to the core yesterday, during their speeches for the Republican National Convention. Giuliani on Obama: “On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in culture,obsession2008,press this by anjali
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
RNC Protests and Riot Police (photos)
Riot Cops RNC Day 1 TASER X26 and Glock Magazine originally uploaded by Tony Webster. Some photos from a talented photographer who was arrested today at the peaceful protest outside the Republican National Convention. Apparently 43 others were arrested together, paraded to the press (as Webster states) and then cited for presence without a permit [...]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Nicole Salazar films her own arrest [viewer discretion advised]
This morning on my drive to work, I tuned into Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman (who was arrested for asking the police why her colleagues had been arrested). Among the insightful reporting on the constitutional violations that the riot police committed, she shared an audio clip of her producer Nicole Salazar essentially filming her own [...]
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
RNC has turned Twin Cities into police state; Office of Pre-Crime in full swing
Amy Goodman, world-reknown and widely respected journalist broadcaster of the show Democracy Now!, being arrested for ASKING the police why they were doing what they were doing. Yes, a woman peacefully holding a flower, getting pepper sprayed. (thanks to BFP for the video) Just two examples of the violent protesters being nicely moved away by [...]
