Michael Collins I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me. There were some key lines left out of the speech. You may have had the same response. For the sake of clarity and fairness, I’ve tried to reconstruct the missing lines. I’m sure that the omissions were just an accident. That [...]
By Numerian posted by Michael Collins Two score and seven years ago the nation’s dispossessed thronged the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King define the struggle for African-American civil rights.(Image) Today it was the turn of the nation’s disenfranchised to gather at the same place, lamenting their lost supremacy as a superior race, and [...]
The Islamic Community Center and Terrorism Symbols: America’s Quest for Hypocritical Perfection By: Solomon Comissiong A substantial number of Americans seem to savor opportunities that will expose them for the barbaric hypocrites they are. As if it were simply not good enough to be mindless sheep non-critically responding to the drumbeat of the historically anti-democratic [...]
As elections for state and local offices are approaching, American politics is hitting a new low. There are huge issues facing US society. These include the expanding US occupation of Afghanistan as well as the failed occupation in Iraq, the Gulf of Mexico/BP oil disaster and its long term consequences, the near bankruptcy of many [...]
“1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it’s here at last.” “If you have the a cell phone in your pocket, then the government can watch you.” “Are Winston and Julia’s cell phones together near a hotel a bit too often? ….The FBI need no longer deploy agents to infiltrate groups it [...]
http://blip.tv/file/4002906 US Correspondent to the Zimbabwe Herald, Mr. Obi Egbuna, granted us an exclusive interview this week where he discussed some of the many contradictions US President Barak Obama has regarding Zimbabwe and the lifting of sanctions. Mr. Egbuna also professionally challenged Mr. Barak Obama to a public debate centered on the US sanctions on [...]
Michael Collins (Satire) White House Press Secretary, Robert “the mole” Gibbs, was outed last night for his lead role in throwing the 2010 congressional election to the Republican Party. The White House refused to return calls to comment on the charge or verify the outline of the carefully orchestrated plot. But a variety of off [...]
By Numerian The Federal Reserve, in announcing the results of this week’s meeting of the Open Market Committee, surprised the market by revealing it will begin purchasing US Treasury notes and bonds with the principal income it receives from its vast holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage securities. This practice – wherein the [...]
In today’s angry America, playing the Just Avenger sells, and the public is buying.
Several serious-minded bloggers and editors promptly followed up on my report in Nieman Watchdog July 26 about the Justice Department’s apparent whitewash of the U.S. attorney firings under George W Bush. But it was hard to find even a word about it in the traditional press. There wasn’t any reaction from the Justice Department or legislators either, as far as I could tell, although there’s nothing new about this kind of governmental response to press exposés.
