3-minute video: CIA Director admits manipulating US news to Senate; CBS confirms

video also here. <iframe width=”640″ height=”480″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/5ED63A_hcd0” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> This “emperor has no clothes” conclusion is obvious upon inspection of what the six US mega-media corporations submit as “news” (here, here, here, among hundreds of independent writers’ works). Historic political and economic oligarchies have three components to transfer wealth from the 99% to themselves while […]

Judge Absolves NJ Christie Political Target

“This case hopefully will stand a long time for the proposition that federal prosecutors can’t come into a locality and selectively target local candidates — thereby disrupting local elections with a federal political agenda.”

Setting the Stage for a Jeb Bush Presidential Draft

Republicans face a drawn-out nomination fight that could shred the party’s chances even against a vulnerable President Obama and Democratic under-ticket. But to the rescue last week came former Alabama Congressman Artur Davis, a four-term Democrat who urges Republicans to nominate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Occupy your family holiday table? Incisive video survival guide!

source: Carl Herman Occupy has all the facts that the 1% “leadership” in the US have committed massive crimes centering around war and money. But how does one frame such an issue at the family holiday table? This brilliant 6-minute video addresses this challenge! Happy Holidays: may 2012 be your family and your best year […]

A New Year's Day Tradition That's Somehow Gone Unreported For 80 Years

by Peter Apanel As reported in the New York Times on November 28, 2011, the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is having to adjust to a dramatic decline in the sponsorship money needed to pay for all those very expensive, flower-covered floats. But there’s an interesting sidebar to this story that wasn’t covered […]

Who Are The Occupiers?

Portland, Oregon, is occupied. In the blink of an eye, Portland became a police state. Good cop became bad cop in the space of a day — specifically Nov. 13, when Portland’s formal downtown Occupation was rousted and the parks were fenced off. Since then they have been guarded 24/7 by gruff police in riot […]

The Cheddar Rebellion is about all of us.

“We need to live within our means,” I hear people say. And I always wonder, why can’t rich people live within their means? Their means are really great. They could actually make do with a lot less than their current means, and still have nice yachts and summer villas and trips to Bermuda or wherever the hell rich people go.

The Palin Will Always Be With Us.

Who was it? Who put all those big words in Sarah’s mouth? Were they spelled out phonetically on the TelePrompTer? We may never know. We may never care.

Politicians, Press Cheat Taxpayers By Whitewashing DOJ’s Wasteful Election-Season Witch-hunts

Washington Post columnist David Broder last week cited New Jersey’s freshman Gov. Chris Christie as a role model for Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett, who similarly boasts of a platform to limit government and fight crime. But Broder got the Christie story completely backward in his Sept. 2 column. The columnist described Corbett, Pennsylvania’s […]

How Rev. Terry Jones Could Save The World

Early on the morning of Friday, September 10, 2010, the Rev. Terry Jones hastily called a press conference on the steps of his church, the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, and emerged pale and shaken to read a short announcement to reporters from CNN, Fox, MSNBC, AP, the Daily Show, and all the […]