Olbermann: Murdoch “may have been the man ultimately responsible for the illegal and inaccurate attempt to dismiss Climate Change as a scientific fraud.” Thanks to dailykos.com. When MurdochGate Met ClimateGate by Keith Olbermann July 20, 2011 I’m cross-posting this from our Current website because, well, because. And because the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal may have […]
Read MoreCanada has its wise elder in Paul Hellyer. We have ours in Ron Paul. From this new video: “I want to bring all the troops home . . . I don’t like the Patriot Act. . . I concentrate on the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. . . the way so often government works, they […]
Read MoreThanks to rollingstone.com. Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Deal: Where’s the Uproar? by Matt Taibbi July 20, 2011 TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images Have been meaning to write about this, but I’m increasingly amazed at the overall lack of an uproar about the possibility of the government approving another corporate tax repatriation holiday. I’ve been […]
Read MoreI present here first, Rachel Maddow talking about The People’s Budget. Then a New York Times article yesterday on how the budget debate was “framed” (double-meaning intended). Finally, The Executive Summary of The People’s Budget itself, as found on the Congressional Progressive Caucus site. This is the one budget that brings the troops home; in […]
Read MoreAlfred Weber has a new, long, interview with Canadian elder statesman Paul Hellyer with a great title: “Abolishing the Fed and new energy disclosure key to U.S. survival.” I haven’t watched it yet, but I did go to one of Hellyer’s websites, www.victoryfortheworld.net, and saw there, once again, the transcript for the extraordinary talk he […]
Read MoreI was wondering when a story like this would take form. How can we trust police statements on the “non-suspicious” nature of the “unexplained” — but let’s face it, exquisitely timed — whistleblower and former News of the World reporter’s death when the police themselves have been taking money from Murdoch’s minions? Why did UK […]
Read MoreA 30-minute crash course (so to speak) in why the economy can’t and won’t keep on mindlessly “growing.” Haven’t watched the whole thing yet, but Heinberg has been predicting the end of oil for many years (his first book: “The Party’s Over”), and is very concerned with its implications for life on Earth. The lecture […]
Read MoreLundberg, an independent oil analyst and ecoactivist who runs www.culturechange.org, talks about his wishlist of community action happenings which, actually, are happening on local levels, at least here. Check out, for example, the astonishing number of organizations related to local food on the Transition Bloomington ning site. My own personal effort has been as a […]
Read MoreThanks to SueM, this letter from Florida Congressional candidate Alan Grayson. There are 23 million Americans who can’t find full-time work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . There are 50 million Americans who can’t see a doctor when they are sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control . There are more than […]
Read MoreThanks to SueM. Balance the Budget on the Backs of Billionaires July 20, 2011 by David Swanson buzzflash for truthout The wealthiest nation on earth is not actually obliged to starve our senior citizens. We don’t need a military 670% more expensive than the next largest one on earth. We don’t need to fund health […]
Read MoreTalk about a David/Goliath, Uranus/Pluto creative action! Great story. Put me right in his shoes. And he was right to worry about what it meant, how it would be played, and an old man’s feelings. And yet, and yet. As he concludes, “I really don’t hate 80-year-olds and, at the end of the day, Rupert […]
Read MoreAs seems to be the case everywhere on our Earth today, both the worst and the best are much in evidence. The worst continues to be pumped up by old power-politics; the best is nourished by new/old approaches to life that step aside from the control mechanisms of the industrial age. For example, in Africa. […]
Read MoreLet’s keep in mind that Murdoch as an individual (with corporate empire as cloak) was (and most likely still is) merely usurping the self-appointed perogatives of certain nation states! Thanks to SueM for alerting us to this opednews.com piece. Murdoch Operation Small Change Next to U.S.-UK Eavesdropping July 19, 2011 By Sherwood Ross (about the […]
Read MoreIn the past month or so I have published several posts (here and here) on UFOs’ interest in and interference with our nuclear weapons arsenals, both currently and throughout our nuclear history. Here’s the channel Ramtha, speaking about this phenomenon in 2010 with a singular eloquence. Thanks to krishnadas. “There will be a huge UFO […]
Read MoreI was hoping for just such an on the spot, on the job piece from this morning’s Mumbling Murdoch Melodrama with the British parliament, and, to compound the deliciousness of it, the the author’s covering of the covering of the same by Fox News. Thanks to SueM for alerting me to this hilarious truth-out op-ed […]
Read MoreI just registered for the adbusters newsletter. Goes well with anonymous. Both organizations moved by a similar spirit of tech-savvy, wildly creative, nonviolent revolution. Thanks to Doug Hanvey for the tip on adbusters coming action on Wall Street. Alright you 90,000 redeemers, rebels and radicals out there, A worldwide shift in revolutionary tactics is underway […]
Read MoreBelow: a 13-minute video that funnels us as in the direction we are already moving in. “It is time we start becoming our own legends.” Register at www.whatis-theplan.org A year-long plan with three phases. Phase One, started June 15, 2011: become familiar with the corruption in your part of the world and spread this video […]
Read MoreI present below two views of Murdoch, which connect dots in slightly different ways, but in both cases showing how thoroughly one man and his media empire may have dominated both events and the atmosphere within which they take place, not just in Britain, but in the hegemonic U.S., and therefore, globally. John Nichols of […]
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