sunny sunday again

Crap-O-Day !

(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: chrysics, tranchis)

Net Neutrality and Broadband Access: A Civil Rights Issue

"Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reigns, all are unequal."
- Whitney Moore Young Jr.

Max Eternity, Truthout: "The term really refers to the 'gap between those who benefit by the digital economy and those who do not' ... defining what's become known as the digital divide and prompting Nelson Mandela at the Telecom 95 event to say, 'The capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right,' and add that, 'eliminating the distinction between the information-rich and information-poor is also critical to eliminating economic and other inequalities.'"

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"Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why"

Thom Hartmann, Truthout: "This is not the budget deficit that everybody is so hysterical about in the press, and which would go to zero over the next six years if the Obama administration simply let the Bush tax cuts expire in their entirety. Instead, Fletcher is talking about the trade deficit, the difference between what we buy from the world and what we sell to the world."

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a long exhaustive thursday

Crap-A-Con-Cussion !!!



Michael Moore | A Boot to the Head
Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Blog

Michael Moore begins: "There she was, thrown to the pavement by a Republican in a checkered shirt. Another Republican thrusts his foot in between her legs and presses down with all his weight to pin her to the curb. Then a Republican leader comes over and viciously stomps on her head with his foot."
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Crap-O-Torture-N-de-Human-Experimentation !!

(Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t)

The Bush administration’s torture program went beyond “waterboarding” and sleep deprivation. The macabre reality is much more terrifying. Truthout has now documented an unprecedented human experimentation program which appears to have been officially sanctioned by top officials in the Bush Department of Defense.

Wolfowitz Directive Gave Legal Cover to Detainee Experimentation Program
Thursday 14 October 2010
by: Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report

In 2002, as the Bush administration was turning to torture and other brutal techniques for interrogating "war on terror" detainees, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, an apparent recognition of legal problems regarding the novel strategies for extracting and evaluating information from the prisoners.

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saturday again

Crap-O-Day ! O - Soul-Sisters-N-Brothers !

Michael Moore speaking at San Jose State, 10/15/10. (frame: Student Video/YouTube)

'In the Souls of the People'
By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Blogs
16 October 10

This is video of Michael Moore's acceptance speech, given at San Jose State University, of the John Steinbeck Award. Mike's talking revolution here. Non-violent of course.

Videos (YouTube):

Part 1

Part 2

monday monday

Crap-O-Small-Spender !!!

President Barack Obama speaking on the economy in Ohio, 09/08/10. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Paul Krugman | Hey, Small Spender

Paul Krugman, The New York Times

11 October 10

Paul Krugman: "But if they won't say it, I will: if job-creating government spending has failed to bring down unemployment in the Obama era, it's not because it doesn't work; it's because it wasn't tried."
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blue and grey thursday

Crap-A-Con-Gress!

Chris Smith carries out his family's belongings during eviction from his foreclosed home in Adams County, Colorado, 02/02/09. (photo: John Moore/Getty Image

Obama's Courageous Stand on Foreclosure
By Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
07 October 10

President Barack Obama today made good his pledge to use the power of the Oval Office to help American homeowners. Obama refused to sign legislation specifically crafted to protect lenders involved in record numbers of home foreclosures, and stymie efforts by homeowners and their attorneys to challenge documents in those foreclosure actions.

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grey sunday

Crap-O-Slaughtering-Cove!

Dolefins being led into a cove for slaughter in Taiji, Japan. (Photo right: Elora Malama)

"Red October"
Sunday 03 October 2010
by: Elora Malama | A Teenage Activist... This Girl's Soapbox

Elora Malama, A Teenage Activist... This Girl's Soapbox: Truthout is publishing a daily blog by 16-year-old high-school student Elora Malama, who is in Japan covering the annual dolphin slaughter. Each year the sleepy little town of Taiji becomes home to a horrific secret: Dolphins are rounded up and those not chosen for a life of captivity are brutally slaughtered and their mercury laden meat sold to the public. The issue became the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary, The Cove. Moved by the film and her love of the oceans and dolphins, Elora decided to accompany her father (Scott West of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) to Japan to bear witness to this practice and document it on her blog, A Teenage Activist... This Girl's Soapbox. (Read More)

friday night fever

Crap-O-Double-Standard-Talk !!

(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: sunilgarg, kzappaster, ~Brenda-Starr~)

Obama Targets Iran for Human Rights Violations and Shields Bush Officials for Engaging in Same Abuses
Friday 01 October 2010
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis

What a stunning display of hypocrisy.

"The United States is strongly committed to the promotion of human rights around the world, including in the Islamic Republic of Iran," the White House said in a news release following the issuance of the executive order. "As the President noted in his recent address to the United Nations General Assembly, human rights are a matter of moral and pragmatic necessity for the United States."

(ReAd mORe)

Crap-A-Dem-Crash!

(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Eduardo Nasi, spanaut)

Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off the Mother of All Upsets
By Michael Moore
Today's OpenMike blog

The election is one month from tomorrow and, yes, it looks hopeless. November 2nd -- the day the Dems are expected to crash and burn.
Sadly, it's a situation the Democrats have brought upon themselves -- even though the majority of them didn't create the mess we're in. But they've had over a year and a half to start getting the job done to fix it. Instead, they've run scared ever since they took power. To many, the shellacking they're about to receive is one they deserve.

But if you're of a mindset that believes a return to 2001-2008 would be sheer insanity, then you probably agree we've got no choice but to save the Democrats from themselves.

(rEAd MorE)

Crap-De-American-Values!

(Historian Susan Reverby who unearthed the 1940s U.S. Public Health Services STD experiments in Guatemala | Courtesy: Wellesley College.)

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/10/01/101473/us-admits-it-infected-guatemalans.html#ixzz11AwcYOAa

US Admits It Infected Guatemalans With Syphilis in 1940s
Friday 01 October 2010
by: Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers | Report

Friday’s acknowledgment sheds new light on US medical experiments that included the infamous “Tuskegee” syphilis study in which scientists observed, but didn’t treat, hundreds of African American men with late-stage syphilis in Macon County, Alabama. (Photo: National Archives and Records Administration)

Mexico City - Exposing a dark page in its history, the U.S. government acknowledged Friday that its scientists had infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis in experiments conducted from 1946 to 1948 in “appalling violations” of medical ethics.

Under the experiments, U.S. scientists sent prostitutes infected with syphilis into a Guatemalan prison, mental health hospital and army barracks to test possible cures.

(reaD mOre)