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10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland, AlterNet - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.

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Want to Save Our Economy from Almighty Greed? Here Are 10 Crucial Fights and Key Fighters to Watch

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Zach Carter - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - There are no less than four federal regulators responsible for overseeing consumer protection in finance, and all of them are terrible.

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GOP Senators on Environment Committee Hit All-Time Low, Third-Graders Have More Maturity

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Tara Lohan - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - Their apparent gripe is that they want EPA to do more extensive modeling runs on the proposed legislation. But really, what they want is to make sure we never have a viable climate bill and most certainly not before Copenhagen.

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Was CNN Host Lou Dobbs Really Shot at? | PEEK

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Isabel Macdonald - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Another New Jersey police spokesperson, Julian Castellanos, noted that "it's a wide open area and there are hunters in the area." Castellanos explained that the bullet had hit the house in vicinity of the attic; it "hit the vinyl siding and fell to the ground" without penetrating the vinyl, he said.

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What's So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speech | Health and Wellness

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Martha Rosenberg - Oct. 28 (News) - "Agribusiness gets plenty of opportunities to preach its point of view at agriculture schools such as Cal Poly, where the likes of Monsanto and Cargill fund research," the Times wrote, calling the 800-acre Harris Ranch, near Coalinga, whose "smell assaults passersby long before the panorama of thousands of cattle packed atop layers of their own manure,"--"Cowschwitz." Ouch.

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Not Your Father's Chamber of Commerce: National Organization Is Now a Tool of the Radical Right

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - under the leadership of Thomas J. Donahue, it has become increasingly partisan, even reactionary, in its steadfast opposition to even modestly progressive proposals in Congress, including those that are in the apparent interests of some of its member firms.

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The Great Challenge of Our Time: Re-Creating America's Great Middle Class

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Marie Cocco - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - we face "hard political tasks. But being pushed further down is harder, still. Because no one knows where the new bottom lies."

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CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Roberto Lovato - Oct. 15 (News Analysis) - Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.

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Dick Gephardt's Fall: How a Progressive Stalwart Turned into a Spectacular Political Sellout

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sebastian Jones - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - In a town where everyone seemingly has a price, Gephardt has distinguished himself, selling his reputation as a pro-labor, pro-universal healthcare, pro-environment expert and advocate to his new corporate masters, giving their efforts to kill and maim reforms a familiar, friendly face in the Democratic establishment. As a result, Gephardt has become a highly sought-after and very effective lobbyist. He has also betrayed nearly every principle he once claimed to hold.

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Judge Finds Abusive Gitmo Interrogations Yield False Confessions, Bad Info

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Christopher Flavelle - Oct. 15 (News Report) - A few weeks ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released a declassified version of a judge’s ruling in the case of Al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti citizen who has been held at Guantanamo for seven years. The judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, found that the government could not credibly support its allegation that Al Rabiah was part of the Taliban or al-Qaida, and that the evidence against him wasn’t sufficient to justify his continued detention. She ordered the government to release Al Rabiah "forthwith."

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Obama Vs. Rupert Murdoch: Fox News' Blatant Transition into GOP TV |

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Eric Boehlert - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - Fox News has transformed itself into the Opposition Party of the Obama White House, which, of course, is unprecedented for a media company in modern-day America. That partisan embrace means the news media have to expand beyond typing up Fox News-ratings-are-up and the White-House-is-angry stories, and it needs to start treating the cable channel for what it is: a partisan animal.

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Republican Gomorrah: The Shattered GOP, Taken Over by Authoritarian Radicals, Is Incapable of Compromise

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Terry Gross, Max Blumenthal - Oct. 08 (Interview) - Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah, argues the right is incapable of anything but scorched-earth politics, and are trying to delegitimize the Obama presidency.

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8 Shocking Ways the Billionaires Have Schemed to Rob Us of Every Last $

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Mark Ames - Oct. 08 (Opinion) - American billionaires keep cooking up scheme after scheme to shake down Americans and plunder the national wealth, as if the last one was too easy and boring.

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Inside Gun Shows: Frightening New Investigation Into Illegal Guns Sales

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Digby - Oct. 08 (News Report) - it's still necessary to highlight the fact that guns are saturating our society and the natural consequences of doing such a thing. Mayor Bloomberg has conducted an investigation into illegal gun sales that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end:

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The Economic Revolution Is Already Happening -- It's Just Not on Wall St.

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Maria Armoudian - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - America is in the midst of a new revolution. But this revolution is quiet, incremental, nonviolent and traveling beneath the mainstream media's radar. The new American revolution challenges the current notions of dog-eat-dog capitalism -- through the building of a parallel economic system that shares, co-operates, empowers and benefits fellow workers and community members.

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Right-Wing American Terrorists Issue YouTube Threat

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - There is no universally agreed-upon definition of the word "terrorism." As I've often said, the reason it's next to impossible to define the term is that everyone wants it to mean: 'violent acts in the pursuit of political goals with which I disagree.' That aside, most agree that attempting to influence public officials through a threat of violence is an act of terrorism.

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Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Zach Carter - Oct. 01 (Opinion) - The standard partisan conflict between Democrats and Republicans doesn't capture the main source of tension on the panel. The real contest is between bankers and citizens. And if you include the 17 Democrats who are card-carrying members of the conservative Blue Dog and New Democrat coalitions, the banks hold a four-seat majority. If you add in the otherwise centrist or progressive members who routinely vote with the bank lobby, then the advantage increases to seven or eight seats. Big Finance wins.

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Police Use Painful New Weapon on G20 Protesters

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Allison Kilkenny - Sep. 28 (News) - This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an "anti-insurgent weapon" - it could easily be used as a torture tool.

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5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Paul Armentano - Sep. 23 (Opinion) - Writing in the journal Science nearly four decades ago, New York State University sociologist Erich Goode documented the media's complicity in maintaining cannabis prohibition. He observed: "[T]ests and experiments purporting to demonstrate the ravages of marijuana consumption receive enormous attention from the media, and their findings become accepted as fact by the public. But when careful refutations of such research are published, or when later findings contradict the original pathological findings, they tend to be ignored or dismissed." A glimpse of today's mainstream media landscape indicates that little has changed -- with news outlets continuing to, at best, underreport the publication of scientific studies that undermine the federal government's longstanding pot propaganda and, at worst, ignore them all together. Here are five recent stories the mainstream media doesn't want you to know about pot:

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James Lovelock: Schemes to 'Reverse' Global Warming Could Lead to Disaster

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By James Lovelock - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Better, perhaps, to let the earth look after itself than try to regulate its system through mirrors, clouds and artificial trees. ...

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Porn, Glenn Beck and Nudie Pics: Is Our Mass Culture Turning Kids Into Sex Crazed, Right-Wing Automatons?

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Branwyn Lancourt - Sep. 16 (Opinion) - The new generation is a different breed altogether. Kids today are being made to process an insane amount of sex, violence and stupidity in the form of reality TV, internet porn, and World Of Warcraft. In addition they’ve got all the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Becks aggressively spouting their righteous faux morality across the nation’s airwaves. This strange dichotomy must be far more stressful to try and make sense of, than what previous generations have had to contend with. It can only stand to reason that what might be waiting for us at the finish line could be a pretty mixed up bunch of sick puppies.

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9/12 Protest: Here's What Fox News Didn't Broadcast

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Max Blumenthal - Sep. 16 (News Report) - While Fox News cameras covering the so-called 9.12 Project on the National Mall lurched away from signs morphing President Barack Obama's face into Adolph Hitler's, I zoomed in. Histrionics and manufactured paranoia were hard to avoid at the massive September 12 anti-Obama rally orchestrated by Fox News host Glenn Beck and former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey's corporate lobbying front group, Freedom Works.

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4 Deadly Delusions About Afghanistan Held by Obama's Top Advisors

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy In Focus - By Conn Hallinan - Sep. 15 (News Analysis) - Delusion #1 In his address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Obama characterized Afghanistan as "a war of necessity" against international terrorism. But the reality is that the Taliban is a polyglot collection of conflicting political currents whose goals are local, not universal jihad.

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10 of the Most Obscenely Stupid Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories and Attacks Against the President

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tana Ganeva - Sep. 08 (Special Report) - thanks to the right-wing saviors of America's youth, a bunch of kids have been shielded from the president's dangerous message that learning things is good. Could this be the stupidest, most irrational way conservatives have tried to tear down Obama? Is it even possible to answer that question?

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Rep. Mike Pence, Who Led Witch Hunt Against Van Jones, Took $1,000s From Extremist Erik Prince

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Jeremy Scahill - Sep. 08 (News Report) - Rep. Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican whose name has been mentioned as a potential GOP presidential candidate (and who is not sure if he believes in evolution), led the witch-hunt to force the resignation of White House Green Jobs advisor, Van Jones, over comments Jones made years ago and a 9/11 "truth" petition Jones signed which he said he did not read in its entirety. Jones apologized for some of his comments, which were made before he took his job with the Obama administration and said the petition "certainly does not reflect my views now or ever."

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