Senator John Kerry Wants U.S. to Get ‘L.O.S.T.’

It appears Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) wants the United States to get “L.O.S.T.”  Today, he’s pushing for quick passage of the controversial United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty....

MSNBC: Pentagon may have been ordered to cover up investigation

"Last year, The New York Times revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon program which used retired officers who served as military analysts on television news programs to disseminate Bush administration talking...

NYT Insists "Race" Exists, But Human Genome Project Disagrees

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and the American Journal of Color Arousal.A New York TImes story today by Susan Saulny, entitled "Voices Reflect Rising Sense of Racial Optimism ", uses variants of the word "race" twelve times, including the root word "race" in the...

It's Repugnant When the Media Describes Torture as Merely "Harsh"

The most disgusting and omnipresent cliché in journalism right now is "harsh" as a word to describe "torture, as in "harsh interrogation" (WaPost)and"harsh methods" (NYT).Look up the phrase"harsh interrogation"and you'll find it 247,000 times at Google. Look up "harsh...

New York Times Nets Five Pulitzer Prizes

The New York Times has won five Pulitzer prizes for its journalism, the second most in the paper's history. The Florida-based St Petersburg Times also won two awards, one for the fact-checking website Politifact.com. " The Times won the prize for breaking news reporting,...

Financial Crisis, War & the Rise of National Socialism in America

The corporate owned mass media, has vocalized loudly about an apparent "shift to the left" in the United States. This includes decries from veteran CNN Harvard University educated Lou Dobbs, who has cried out...

Scholar on Extraterrestrials warned of a Global Financial Crisis

In the report entitled "Typology of Extraterrestrials", Dr. Michael Salla in 2004, extracted excerpts from Alex Collier's book Defending Sacred Ground (1997) about the predicted future "destruction of the world economy". LINK He then alleged that this transformative context...

1999 NY Times Article Foretells Current Economic Meltdown

This is a blog post I wrote after coming across an article the New York Times had published in 1999, just after the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which Republocrats are trying to avoid talking about, but...

Inhofe Slams Obama’s Cap-and-Trade ‘Scheme’

“There is nothing in it for taxpayers, consumers or the climate," said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) while speaking about President Barack Obama's cap-and-trade tax scheme on the Senate floor this morning. "If it...

After Only 7 Years Of Torture: Guantanamo inmates claim 9/11 plan

Five men held in Guantanamo on charges of planning the September 11, 2001 attacks have filed a document accepting responsibility and expressing pride for their action, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The document, filed with the military commission at the US naval base...

Infantry level Soldier serves 18 yr for following DIRECT ORDERS!

PFC, Corey Clagett, a U.S. Soldier in the infantry devision is now serving an 18 year prison sentence in Ft. Leavensworth, KS. for following Direct Orders from the infamous Col. Steele, whom you may know from acting in the movie "Black Hawk Down".   Corey along...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

This is a story told by Death. An interesting point of view perhaps, but as it is set in Germany during World War II, perhaps it is entirely appropriate. It is also a story of a young girl, who in spite of having a life that no one would wish on anyone, still manages to have...

Three weeks to say goodbye by C. J. Box

If you listened to John Bedford Lloyd's narration of Box's previous novel, Blue Heaven, you know you're in for another splendid reading with Three Weeks to Say Goodbye. If you overlooked Blue Heaven, don't miss this one!... Ack and Melissa McGuane are an honest, hardworking...

GITMO Detainees Likely to Thank MLK, Allah

If President Barack Obama succeeds in shutting down Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within 12 months, he will be tempted to describe himself as an emancipator in the mold of Abraham Lincoln.  Unfortunately,...

US Rabbis Urge Obama to Push for Gaza Ceasefire

Democracy Now reports that a group of American Rabbis have demanded that the world do something about the Gaza Crisis and that incoming U.S. President Barack Obama actually do something concrete about the...

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