Thursday, August 21:

Grant Lawrence: Are You a NeoCon? Take A Simple Test

Jim Miles: Canada's Harper serves as Bush's mouthpiece Canada's Prime Minister Harper again speaks on bended knee in support of Bush's foreign policy.

US falters on NATO's failure On the US's part, instead of applying the arithmetic of political realism and coming to terms with the sources of Russian anger, that is, at NATO's unwelcome, intrusive and threatening expansion near Russian territory, the US is now seeking to augment Russia's insecurity by pushing more aggressively for NATO's role and influence in the region and beyond.

Roy S. Carson: East/West? Obama/McCain? It's about time that the gringos understood that Venezuela is for Venezuelans... The 'clash of cultures' has taken a compass swing to an off-kilter West (loosely seen as anglosaxon America, Europe and some former imperial colonies) and the East -- now represented not only by some sectors of the former Soviet and Asia, but South and Central America as well as the North American hinterland to the south of the Rio Grande and other non-British, Spanish-Portuguese-speaking former coloni

Laura Stein: A New Focus for Progressives The successful Neo-Con attack on our democratic institutions must be countered. In fact restoring power to bodies representative of the people is the only way to achieve our more traditional goals. A case is made for four doable measures.

Lisa Johnson: Commiting Political Suicide? (1 comments) Is the Democratic Party commiting political suicide yet again? Where are the Democratic Party leaders? Why aren't we hearing from them?

Wednesday, August 20:

Republicans Have Handed Democrats a Winning Election Issue The GOP is holding the renewable energy industry hostage to its demand that Congress not reduce the existing subsidies to oil companies, hedge fund managers and foreign corporations. It is a bizarre linkage, but so far the Republicans are getting away with it.

DC Rapier: *Three Pots Calling the Kettle Black A brief but exuberant review of three truly impressive performers on the international stage.

The Most Dangerous Man in America (1 comments) There is only one thing he cares about, and that is building an altar to Mars. War is the one fixed star in the McCain universe. You will find no flip-flopping or prevaricating there.

Video: Inside the Neocon war lobby Reality TV? - American News Project's Davin Hutchins attends pro-Israel think tank events to interview advocates of a preemptive attack on Iran. He finds they don't worry much about worst-case outcomes.

Jim Bush: Who Is A Real American? What Do We Really Hope For? And What Should Obama Do? Response to a self-proclaimed Ultra-conservative, statement about where we stand, and what, I think, Obama should do.

Georgianne Nienaber: Louisiana's Landrieu to Bush: Your veto threat cut $157.5 million for six New Orleans area hospitals (2 comments)

Russian Foreign Minister: America Must Choose Between Georgia and Russia To begin down the road of cooperation, it would not be a bad idea to do a very simple thing: Just admit for a moment that the course of history must not depend entirely on what the Georgian president is saying. Just admit that a democratically elected leader can lie. Just admit that you have other sources of information—and other objectives—that shape your foreign policy.

Presidential Campaign: Pastor Rick's Test (1 comments) At the risk of heresy, let it be said that setting up the two presidential candidates for religious interrogation by an evangelical minister -- no matter how beloved -- is supremely wrong. It is also un-American.

Anthrax Investigation: 'Spore on the Grassy Knoll' Congressional hearings and a commission probe about the anthrax attacks are likely to mean many more months of investigation and a concomitant investment of taxpayer money. Given the skepticism surrounding the FBI's investigation, that is not too much to ask to try to get definitive answers about one of the country's most traumatic episodes in recent times.

Joe Lieberman Will Speak At GOP Convention (2 comments) Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now an independent who is one of John McCain's strongest supporters, will speak at the Republican National Convention. Not only has Lieberman campaigned for McCain, he has criticized Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

McClellan's next step: Changing D.C. (2 comments) McClellan says there’s much to be gained from thoughtful, candid and probing self-examination-and that requires an honest look at what happened. But when asked what advice he would give to a President Barack Obama or Democratic Congress on the matter of handling former Bush officials, McClellan says there are perils in probing the past. Too divisive. Just move on. Nothing to see here.

Jack Cafferty: Is McCain another George W. Bush? McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy. I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin's eyes and see into his soul. I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like Bush.

Jerome Corsi and Mary Matalin team up for an old-fashioned swift boating The fact is, the book is marketed as a political attack job. Corsi told The New York Times that he wrote the book for a very specific reason: "'The goal is to defeat Obama,' Corsi said in a telephone interview. 'I don't want Obama to be in office.'"

James Brett: Gorbachev Again With One Side of the Issue (6 comments) Mikhail Gorbachev's view of the Georgian crisis is incredibly wrongheaded.

Why I will not vote for McCain, by Phillip Butler (2 comments) As some of you might know, John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is a man I respect and admire in some ways. But there are a number of reasons why I will not vote for him for President of the United States.

Dave Lindorff: Loserville: Obama Is Channeling Kerry and Gore (18 comments) It's not McCain or his campaign's attacks. It's Obama himself, and his loser advisers, who are to blame for Obama's slide in the polls. If he doesn't throw them out and campaign as a progressive, anti-war candidate, he'll be the Democrats' third strike out in a row.

Kevin Gosztola: Why is This Election So Unnervingly Close? (17 comments) The base that coalesced behind Obama earlier in this election providing a burst of energy that ultimately boosted Obama's campaign to the top has become extraordinarily limp lately. Whether this is indicative of the character of the progressive movement and its leaders or not, the moral fortitude to put forth an agenda that makes Obama more different than McCain is necessary.

Gorbachev Exposes Bias in Reporting of Georgian War The planners of this campaign clearly wanted to make sure that, whatever the outcome, Russia would be blamed for worsening the situation. The West then mounted a propaganda attack against Russia, with the American news media leading the way.

Debunking anti-Obama e-mails Sentence by Sentence The first e-mail attacks the candidate's wife, attempting to paint Michelle Obama –- and by extension, Barack Obama -- as an America-hating black separatist radical. Democratic pollsters say many voters don't know much about Michelle Obama. A second, more recent e-mail, received just a few days ago, shows that the spurious but very durable belief that Obama is a Muslim. These two circulate widely.

Should Obama Have Trademark His Name? Should You? Last year Barack Obama's campaign tried and failed to take over a MySpace page created by a once ardent supporter. In this article Stephanie Paul explains how celebrities and ordinary people can easily and legally protect your name from "cyber squatters".

George Bush Has Stolen $2,300,000,000,000.00 From U.S. Tax Payers (7 comments) This was announced 1 day prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks in the U.S. Why has there been no mention of the massive amount of the taxpayers money gone missing? It is as though after the 9/11 tragedy it was forgotten. I don't know about the other citizens of the United States but I would like to know where $2.3 TRILLION dollars has gone. I believe when we as taxpayers give our hard earnings to the government...

The Fall of Bush's Man in Pakistan It is a measure of the Bush administration's broken foreign policy that the departure of the corrupt, longtime military dictator of Pakistan, is provoking fears in Washington of "instability." Despite Bush's warm embrace, Musharraf gutted the rule of law in Pakistan, including sacking its Supreme Court, and attempting to do away with press freedom.

General Strike 9/11 Now in Canada Truth groups from all across Canada will march from Montreal to Ottawa to show support for their petition to Parliament demanding a Canadian investigation into the events of 9/11. While Truth groups in the US shut down Ground Zero.

do you know this? News clips you may have missed.

Anti-immigrant hatred breeds discrimination, mistreatment, harassment and death (7 comments) Remember when others worldwide regarded our nation as a beacon of light, a place where those persecuted could come to seek a better life, free from religious and ethnic persecution? Remember when you, perhaps, regarded our nation in that way? "The Mother of Exiles," as Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus called her, was how America was viewed by those seeking a better life. Yet such a warm welcome has not awaited many.

Marc McDonald: Whatever Happened to the Anger On the Left? (7 comments) The past three decades have been a Right-Wing wet dream for America. The Republicans have gotten their way on virtually every single issue while the Democrats have meekly rolled over. Which raises a question. Why are the Republicans so angry these days? And why are the Democrats so cheerful?

Half of Poles Fear Russian Attack As NATO ministers gather in Brussels to discuss how tough to get with Russia after the Georgian crisis, an opinion poll shows one in two Poles fear an attack by Russia. Eastern European countries are unhappy with the response of the West.

Russia's Return Bites the Neocons' Grand Energy Scheme in the Ass The feeble American response to Russia's assertion of power in the Caucasus was appropriate, since our claims of influence in that part of the world are laughable. The US had taken advantage of temporary confusion in Russia, during the 10-year-long post-Soviet-collapse interval, and set up a client government in Georgia, complete with military advisors, sales of weapons, and even the promise of NATO membership.

Why are Corporate Media Giving Fat Paychecks to Former Bush Aides? (1 comments) Former Counselor to President Bush, Dan Bartlett, has joined CBS News as a political analyst. Bartlett will provide on-air analysis on a variety of political issues, “including at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and beyond.”

Michael Hayes: What Are Our Laws Worth Anymore? What will the long term effect on our country be of a government that persistently ignores and breaks the laws of our nation.

Deb Della Piana: Our Hypocritical "Environmental" President While George Bush spends his days helping his oil drilling buddies, he hangs out in Crawford in a completely outfitted, environmentally sound ranch. Just another dose of hypocrisy from the anti-environmental president as he pressures the cave-in Democrats to lift the offshore drilling ban.

Jonathan Leigh Solomon: End the War in Iraq - A One Minute Film A one minute film montage of U.S. Military returning home and the sentiments of one celebrated soldier who should know better... - See link within text - If you are moved, inspired, disgusted, entertained, sadly entertained, or otherwise find "Bring the Troops Home," worth passing along, please send the link along to family and friends in the progressive community

Mike Folkerth: War, Oil and Lies: The divisiveness lies spread by our two party system will destroy America within. That is if our preoccupation with world war doesn't kill us first.

JC Garrett: Condi's Cognitive Dissonance: Redux (6 comments) Condoleezza Rice, on her way to a NATO meeting yesterday, showed once more her penchant for jaw-dropping hypocrisy.

Allen L Roland: *OBAMA DESCRIBES IDEAL VP / STAY TUNED Obama describes his ideal VP which I feel should be a working and respected Governor who Obama likes and trusts ~ that leaves either Sebelius, Richardson or Kaine but not another Senator and certainly not Hillary Clinton: Allen L Roland

Tuesday, August 19:

Richard Cook: Stagflation is Here, and It is a Weapon of Mass Destruction This article explains that the US has entered a period of stagflation potentially worse than during the 1970s. Stagflation is likened to a weapon of mass destruction.

Robert McElvaine: Obama v. "Oh, Bomb 'Em" (5 comments) Republicans and "Christians" love John McCain's "crisp, forceful" response to Pastor Rick Warren's question about how to deal with evil: "Defeat it!" But it is the opposite of what Jesus taught we should do in the face of evil.

James Murtagh: *Patients and Doctors Demand Protection for Truth-Tellers (6 comments) Patient advocacy groups and Doctors groups have joined in an unprecedented cooperation to protect medical quality, safety, cost and efficiency. T

Rob Kall: My energy car dream. (9 comments) For years, I'd dream it was the last day of finals and I'd missed so many classes I didn't know where the final was going to be. Finally, I outgrew it. Apparently, a lot of people have dreams like that. Then, I started having electric car dreams.

Jane Stillwater: Report from Iraq # 11: Wherein 25 Iraqi journalists invade my bedroom & I meet an admiral In the Green Zone, I interviewed an Iraqi journalist (he said Maliki must do what the Americans tell him to do), met an Iraqi admiral & a Brit captain -- who I think said the British navy is responsible for protecting oil interests. I also had to ride the Rhino again & got bug-bite advice from a conservative journalist -- who I then gave advice about the dangers of corporate welfare. Then we argued about Georgia and the Surge

James Murtagh: *Join Campaign to Protect Truth-Tellers now! •T Whistleblower Protection Act ("WPA") for the federal civil service as the strongest free speech law in history, on paper. Unfortunately, the law has been functionally overturned by a series of increasingly hostile case decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which holds a monopoly on judicial review of whistleblower cases. In practice it has become a rubber stamp retaliation

Michael Moore: "Caroline: Pull a Cheney!" An Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy (head of the Obama VP search team) (2 comments) Go for it, Caroline!

Mary Lyon: The Purpose Driven Cheat (2 comments) The Saddleback Forum may wind up shaking the McCain campaign's honesty, and Rick Warren's reputation.

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Thursday, August 21:

Iran plans Iraq fuel exports Iran has agreed to export one million liters of fuel to Iraq to help feed the war-torn country's power plants. Iran is now Iraq's third most important trading partner. Iran has also provided a $1 billion loan to Iraq to fund its reconstruction projects.

Allen Rees: Collapse of Building 7 News Conferences Thursday, August 21. Both Broadcast Live on No Lies Radio. Coming up Thursday, August 21st -- 2 Live News Conferences on Collapse of WTC7 - Building 7 8am Pacific - 11am Eastern - 15:00 GMT -- N.I.ST News Conference - Final Report on Building 7 9am Pacific - 12 noon Eastern - 16:00 GMT --- AE911Truth.org News Conference - Response showing flaws in the N.I.S.T report Repeated Saturday, August 23rd at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern - 18:00 GMT Will be archived here after the broadcasts.

The Magic Pudding Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 18th August 2008

Wednesday, August 20:

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For August 20, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issue

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Shall We Indict The Oil Profiteers And Nationalize All Necessities? (2 comments) record oil prices again? I say never again. I say cap oil, retroactively.Bush likes retroactive guarantees. I say Give him one, rebate retroactively all profits in a lump sum check to each citizen based on their use of fuel for the last seven years, and then indict the oil profiteers and their enablers!

Roger Shuler: Do Liberals Control Higher Education? Not Hardly A progressive getting fired from a university for blogging on his own time? And he's not even the first progressive in his office to get in trouble for blogging? Who says liberals control higher education?

Bush Administration Rule on Pollution Struck Down A federal appeals court yesterday struck down a Bush administration rule that prevented states and local governments from imposing stricter monitoring of pollution generated by power plants, factories and oil refineries than required by the federal government.

Senior House Democrat Wants Ban on U.S. Oil Exports The head of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming is calling on the White House to halt all exports of U.S. oil. "Sending America's vital energy resources overseas during our time of need should stop," wrote Edward J. Markey , D-Mass., to President Bush on Tuesday. The US exported 1.806 million barrels a day in May.

Tubbs Jones in critical condition at Huron Hospital Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who campaigned for Hillary, is dead. A yahoo alert just came in Wednesday afternoon. Sending this from Plain Dealer to describe why.

Jonah Goldman: *Help to Sponsor the Election Protection Hotline THE NEW YORK TIMES on Election Protection:"...an effort that anyone who cares about democracy should get behind."Everywhere you go, everyone you talk to, there's buzz about this election. New voters are registering by the hundreds of thousands. Every expert predicts record-breaking mobilization on November 4.That's the good news. The bad news is: our rusty election infrastructure isn't ready for it.

Mary Ann Gould: Moles in the Garden:Vendors Undermine US Elections on Voice of the Voters 8/20 How Dependent are we on vendors to run our elections?What have we lost?What are some election officials doing to reclaim our elections?What can both election officials & citizens do in time for 2008 to limit vendor dependency & reclaim PUBLIC ownership of elections.Ellen Theisen looks at the depth of vendor-dependency,some repercussions, and election officials who are resisting corporate control of our elections.

Obama, VP choice to campaign together Saturday Obama strategist Anita Dunn sidestepped the question of whether the event would be Obama's first appearance with his vice presidential pick,....possibilities, meanwhile, is believed to be down to Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine

Martha Rosenberg: Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania? (3 comments) In his latest book, Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder (the John Hopkins University Press) David Healy, author of Let Them Eat Prozac, looks at the historic roots of our current "medicalized distress" in which half the population is said to suffer a mental illness at some point in life and babies are diagnosed in utero as bipolar.

VICTORY! -Tree Sitters Descend; Old Growth Won't Be Cut on Old Pacific Lumber land Eureka, CA-Community residents and forest activists from the redwood region and far beyond Humboldt County in Northern California, were relieved and elated as news spread of an unprecedented commitment by Humboldt Redwood Company owners of what was Maxxam/PL land to spare the Nanning Creek and Fern Gully ancient groves where tree-sits have been keeping chain saws at bay. The message was delivered directly to tree-sitters...

Large U.S. Bank to Collapse This Year: Worst is Yet to Come (3 comments) The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world's biggest economy hits further troubles. We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper, a big investment bank or huge bank go under. The U.S. Federal Reserve was wrong to cut interest rates because that will lead to hyper inflation.

BBC NEWS | Business | Brazil's farms see quiet revolution "Without any arrogance or self-importance, we Brazilians need to confront what for others is a crisis, as an extraordinary opportunity to truly transform ourselves into the granary of the world, as many people have long predicted."

Anti-Regulation Aide to Cheney Is Up for Energy Post (1 comments) A senior aide to Vice President Cheney is the leading contender to become a top official at the Energy Department, according to several current and former administration officials, a promotion that would put one of the administration's most ardent opponents of environmental regulation in charge of forming department policies on climate change.

Iraqis buy billions in U.S. arms (1 comments) Iraq is fast becoming one of the United States' top customers for military sales. Since January 2007, Iraq has spent $3.1 billion on U.S. weapons. That number looks likely to grow exponentially as Iraq uses its vast unspent reserves of petrodollars to develop its army into a force capable of defending its borders against hostile neighbors.

Tuesday, August 19:

Robert Yourell: US Campaign Group Calls For General Strike (4 comments) VoteStrike.com is calling for people to participate by refusing to shop, go to work, go to school, and instead to non-violently protest and engage in acts of non-violent civil disobedience nation-wide.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For August 19, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issue

Maddow Mania!!! (3 comments) Yay!!!!!!!!!

Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks free digital textbooks are starting to take off. "Publishers have broken an implicit contract with academics, in which we gave our time and they weren't too greedy," Free digital text author McAfee wrote on the web page for his book. McAfee said many publishers, going for the lowest common denominator, were making some books too simple.

Telegraph Confirms What Progressives Have Known: McCain Gets Free Ride Surprise: McCain gets a free ride on gaffes.

Center for Constitutional Rights: Antiwar Activists Win $2 Million Settlement from New York City in Major Victory for Free Speech Rights (6 comments) Activists announced a $2 million settlement in their lawsuit against the City of New York. The activists were illegally arrested on April 7, 2003 while protesting against the Iraq war in front of a military contractor's offices in midtown. The settlement follows the dismissal in 2003 of all criminal charges brought against these individuals and 4 costly years of delays by the City in negotiating an end to the lawsuit.

McCain Voted for Bear Study From Factcheck via Digg

John McCain aide's dual roles intersect Randy Scheunemann operated for years deep inside Republican foreign policy circles, a burly, bearded lobbyist with powerful patrons, neoconservative credentials and little public profile. Georgia's pro-Western government in Tbilisi has paid $830,000 to Scheunemann's two-member lobbying firm, Orion Strategies, since 2004, according to records at the Justice Department's foreign agents registration office.

Sherwood Ross: How Jack Goldsmith Gave Torture Green Light (2 comments) Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith when head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel wrote or accepted opinions permitting torture and the transfer of prisoners out of Iraq for torture.

Nato meets as US demands EU allies apply sanctions (2 comments) Washington is pressing its European allies to deliver initial sanctions against Russia by deciding today to freeze the six-year-old Nato-Russia council. Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, arrived in Brussels last night for an emergency meeting of Nato foreign ministers at which the Americans are demanding that the alliance punishes Moscow for its operations in Georgia.

McCain tells war veterans victory is in sight (2 comments) "Though victory in Iraq is finally in sight," McCain told the 109th convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, "a great deal still depends on the decisions and good judgment of the next president. ... The lasting advantage of a peaceful and democratic ally in the heart of the Middle East could still be squandered by hasty withdrawal and arbitrary timelines."

Viewers of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Test High for News Knowledge (3 comments) Home bad is our news media? A poll shows viewers of "fake news" score higher on simple tests of news knowledge than consumers of network TV, news magazines, or daily newspapers.

John Michael Spinelli: Ohio Election Officials Whistle Past the Graveyard of 2004 (3 comments) We may never really know what happened in Ohio in 2004 when Bush squeaked by his Dem opponent in what some hardboiled, unyielding election advocates say was an election full of irregularities that should have been investigated by now but haven't, but the message conveyed by the SOS and AG is that hidden in the new mantra of preparing for success in November is the ghost that whistles past the graveyard of the mysteries of 04.

How Wind Farms May Really Replace Coal Mining West Virginia knows ravages of energy companies. This led a local community group, Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW), a band of mining watchdogs, to forsake years of defensive tactics against Massey and take the offensive. In a bid to trump the company's plans, the group is working to substitute wind power on Coal River Mountain for strip-mined coal as an energy source.

NIST to Release Report on B7 via Public Webcast - Thurs, Aug 21st | 911blogger.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 18, 2008 CONTACT: Ben Stein (301) 975-3097 NIST to Release Report and Recommendations from Investigation of World Trade Center Building 7 *** Agency Will Hold Public Webcast on August 21 ***

Presidential Election Maps, 2008 Republican/Democratic or leaning one way or the other. Click on a state and read basic history of past elections and trend over time. Editorial narrative to back up their predictions.

Monday, August 18:

Israel to treat Gaza peace boats 'like pirates' Peace activists planning to land two boats on Gaza's shores are no better than "pirates" and will be turned back by the Israeli navy, officials have warned. On board are about 40 protesters campaigning against Israel's economic sanctions on the Palestinian territory, including an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor and Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of Tony Blair, who is the international special envoy to the Middle East.

Journalist says U.S. target was Al-Jazeera After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world, a thorn in the side of most Arab governments - and, by most indications, a target of deep hostility from the Bush administration.

Did Washington waste millions on faulty voting machines? (2 comments) Meantime, computer scientists at several universities, some of whom had been hired to test voting machines for the states of California, Ohio, Connecticut and New York, reported finding security and performance flaws in virtually every system, spurring the push for a paper audit trail.

GOP leader seeks to push Barr off Pa. ballot The Republicans are up to their usual dirty tricks here in Pennsylvania. Trying to get the Libertarian Party thrown off the ballot for doing things the way the law requires and how its always been done.

Chris Lugo: Former Congresswoman, Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney Makes Campaign Stops in TN (1 comments) The Green Party of TN is honored to host Ms McKinney as she visits 4 communities across the state this week. "From community problems like landfill issues in Dickson to community solutions like the Biofuels plant in Memphis and community gardens in Nashville Ms McKinney will get to talk to people who are impacted and those with community-based solutions, a Green Party Key Value", said Katey Culver.

Ashin Mettacara: *Myanmar: UN envoy arrives in Burma for his brokerage UN envoys are brokers

Edwin Rutsch: Video: Rallies & Protests in SF as McCain and Obama Rake in the $$

Skeeter Sanders: Corsi May Face Libel Suit Over False Claims in Anti-Obama Book (9 comments) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama -- already making history as the first African American presidential nominee of a major American political party -- may make history again in a way he'd rather not like to make it: As the first presidential candidate to take an author to court

PEW Study: Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources Net Newsers are younger, Integrators are older, Traditionalists are oldest, less income and less education

Sheila Casey: FBI sweeps anthrax under the rug The DOJ-FBI news conference on August 6, 2008 was a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the secret anthrax weaponization projects by pinning the crimes on a dead man. So far the DOJ-FBI have succeeded in covering up the real perpetrators of the crime, concealing the illegal weapons program, and persuading many that it is time to close the investigation.

Tony Elliott: Russia Military Operation No Surprise Explains why there should be no surprise to anyone that Russia used it's military in Georgia, since we have been doing the same thing since 9-11.

Some Prisoners Declared Innocent, but Not Free Former Black Panther Albert Woodfox, convicted of murdering a prison guard with two other inmates, has spent the last 35 years in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Last month, Woodfox's conviction was overturned by a federal judge. However, despite being cleared of charges, Woodfox remains incarcerated, as the Louisiana attorney general's office persists in challenging the judge's decision.

Kenneth Briggs: Mental Health Etcetera notes Talk therapy falling by the wayside;The do's and don'ts of taking prescription drugs.

City defends 'secret jail' built for DNC DENVER - Activist groups say the converted warehouse poses a threat to civil liberties. The city maintains the facility is needed in case of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention. The makeshift holding center, dubbed "Gitmo on the Platte" by activists, is located on city-owned property near Steele Street and 38th Ave. New security cameras guard the exterior, chain-link fences and barbed wire form cells inside.

McCain protests NBC coverage McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis asked Sunday for a meeting with Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, to protest what the campaign called signs that the network is "abandoning non-partisan coverage of the Presidential race."

As Obama runs, money rolls home T-shirts, TV adds, travel and plenty of rent and personnel. Through the first 17 months of his campaign, more than $45 million in expenses have been paid to companies and individuals with Illinois addresses, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis of campaign finance records.

Martha Rosenberg: Like Many Food Suppliers, Whole Foods Beef Company Was a Repeat Offender (1 comments) Scratch the surface of a food offender whether they abuse the environment, workers, animals, the public trust or public funds and you usually find they are repeat offenders.

U.S. Not Ready for Georgia-Style Computer Attacks While Internet attacks continue in Georgia, security experts say the U.S. is not prepared for similar attacks that could steal confidential data and wreak havoc on U.S. computer systems. National intelligence officials earlier this year told a Senate committee that unlike the U.S. military, the federal government and private sector are not prepared for cyber attacks and pointed to China and Russia as threats to consider.

Luke Ryland: Sibel Edmonds Case: FBI files "formal complaint" with Sunday Times (8 comments) Sibel Edmonds Case: FBI files "formal complaint" with Sunday Times

Sunday, August 17:

alan17b0: Streaming Ad at Top of Main Page (11 comments) What do you think of the streaming ad at the top of the OEN main page?

Saturday, August 16:

Edwin Rutsch: Will the progressive movement eventually implode and 'eat their young'? (22 comments) In my interview with Gavin Newsom, calls for inculsivity and warns against the progressive movement 'eatting it's young'.

Thursday, August 14:

DrTruth: How will you defend America and your freedoms? (12 comments) Are we only a nation of sheeple, or are we sick of the games and crimes, and willing to do something to stop this madness?

Darren Wolfe: Who Do You Believe? (14 comments) The question is, do you believe the government's figures that show growth and no recession or the private economist's figure's that show contraction and recession?

Sherwin Steffin: Do articles have an effect on your vote? (9 comments) This poll seeks to determine the effect, if any, that posted articles will have on your vote in this Presidential Election. What do you plan to do?

PeterJ: Do We Really Have Any Control Over Our Current State (27 comments) Can we control our own destiny or is it "In God's Hands"? Is this a problem created by man that can be fixed by man or are we powerless, at the mercy of greedy, evil people who have attained so much power we can have no affect on them? Should we boycott, should we revolt or should we just pray until our knees are bloody? How you feel is going to affect the final outcome. Will you bring us to Armageddon?

Richard McGinn: Would President Washington continue to warn against party faction and foreign influence? (6 comments) Washington's 1796 Farewell Address to the nation emphasized the need for a unified federal government and warned against party faction and foreign influence. If he were alive today, what is the likelihood that our first President would change his mind about those two things?

Donald Rankin III: When Might You Vote For a Political "Outsider"? (19 comments) When do the potential benefits outweigh the risks of voting for Nader, McKinney, Barr etc.?

Wednesday, August 13:

Rob Kall: Which rating system will you be more likely to USE on OpEdNEws (29 comments) in the spirit of bottom-up participation OpEdNews encourages, please voice your opinion on the two possible rating systems we're considering.

Rob Kall: Should McCain or Obama Be Speaking to the Georgian President? (22 comments) SHould either candidate be talking to Georgian President Shakashvilli

hal smith: Is the conflict in Georgia a pretext to WWIII (31 comments) Do you know the truth?

Gene Cappa: Did Bush Comply With "Authorization to Use Military Force"? (8 comments) Did Bush comply with the "Authorization to Use Military Force" Resolution when he attacked Iraq without UN Security Council approval?

Rob Kall: Do You Support Equal Rights for Third Party Candidates? (20 comments) Do you support a federal law requiring equal treatment for all political parties, in terms of rules for registering candidates and getting them on the ballot, including petition requirements and participation in debates?

Monday, August 11:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Why Isn't Obama Closing McCain Out? Putting Him away? (22 comments) In the wake of the most unpopular Presidents in history who leaves an economy on shambles, millions in foreclosure, almost as many out of work or under-employed, the clone of Bush-McCain with the same platform as Bush is not going away and is persistently, though slowly, closing the deficit between them. WHY? IS THAT?

Sunday, August 10:

John Wood Sr: Poll: Follow up to "Should Obama Use Bush's Powers to Restore America?" (2 comments) If this was our last, best chance, would you support doing these things?

Rob Kall: Should Iraq Start Paying for it's own reconstruction? (36 comments) Iraq is projected to see over $75 million in revenues. Should they start paying their own way.

Friday, August 8:

Rob Kall: Should OpEdNews Have Posted News of John Edwards Affair? (39 comments) Now that the news about John Edwards affair is out, now that he's admitted it and told ABC news, now that the major news shows are saturated with reporting on it, did OpEdNews make the right decision posting a link to an article reporting on Edwards scandal?

Richard McGinn: Congressional Apology to Muslims imminent in the anthrax terrorism case? (2 comments) Although few of the details are known, it is already patently clear that the 2001 anthrax mailings were an inside job and a false flag operation intended to lay the blame on uncooperative Arabs, and to frighten the rest of the world into waging war against "the enemies of civilization" in the Middle East.

Gene Cappa: Should Congress Go Into Special Session For Impeachment Hearings? (20 comments) Should Congress be called into Special Session for Impeachment Hearings?

john de herrera: The Article V Convention? (14 comments) In regards to change, America's Supreme Law offers each and every citizen one of two choices: Congress or Convention.

Mark E. Smith: How Many Votes Does Obama Need? Does the popular vote have any impact on a candidate's decision whether or not to concede?

Thursday, August 7:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Would you vote for Nancy Pelosi? (26 comments) Nancy Pelosi has steadfastly refused to consider impeachment of the war criminals in the White House. Will, or should, the democrats re-elect her? If you lived in San Francisco's 8th District, would you vote for her again?

Wednesday, August 6:

John Wood Sr: Should Obama Use Bush's Powers to Restore America? (19 comments) Would you support a president Obama if he were to use the Executive powers Bush grabbed and abused to enable America to realize its constitutional ideals? WHY, OR WHY NOT?

Tuesday, August 5:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: POLL: FOR WHICH WOULD YOU VOTE IF AT ALL? (28 comments) My Poll Litmus Test: A)-WOULD YOU VOTE FOR MCCAIN IF HE WAS A DEMOCRAT, SAYING THE SAME THINGS HE NOW IS SAYING? YES, NO B)-WOULD YOU VOTE AGAINST OBAMA IF HE WAS A REPUBLICAN, SAYING THE SAME THINGS HE NOW IS SAYING? YES, NO

Monday, August 4:

Ben Kall: Do you support racists and propagandists, I mean big media? (14 comments) do you still subscribe to cable TV

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Should The USA Ban Private Contractor Armies? (23 comments) Private armies in America? Blackwater says it wants to rent the largest private armies in the world to American Corporations. To do what hunt down people who return toxic goods they buy at department stores or slaughter private citizens in Banana Republic Nations which protest land grabs? Vote now!

Rob Kall: Votingwise, Are you Sane or Psychotic? (33 comments) voting to end Eight Years of Shock Doctrine Presidency or Deludedly Supporting McCain, by voting for Him or any Third Party Candidate?

Sunday, August 3:

Mary Neal: Treatment or Prison for Mental Patients? (20 comments) Poll to determine if Americans favor prison or treatment for the mentally ill.

Saturday, August 2:

Gene Cappa: Is Bush Guilty of Nuremberg War Crimes? (40 comments) Could Bush be guilty of the very same war crimes that got the Nazi war criminals convicted on in 1946?

Robert N Smith: Petition the Government (15 comments) Would a mass petition of the government instead of a demonstration work better?

Richard McGinn: Suicide or assassination? (19 comments) The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks -- Bruce E. Ivins -- died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. The underreported implication is that the anthrax attacks were an inside job, and a false flag operation as well, because Muslims (and Saddam Hussein in particular) got the blame, and the Iraq war was the result.

Thursday, July 31:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Should The USA Nationalize The Oil Industry? (8 comments) Record Profits on DECREASED production of oil this quarter near $12 Billion in profits for three months and on target for $45 billion for the year! What is wrong with the above picture when Russian oil companies are selling gasoline at the pump for $1.00 a Gallon, Venezuela for $00.12 a gallon, in Iraq before the war at $00.05 a gallon and other Mid-East oil companies at between $00.14 gallon to $00.30 a gallon, today?

Ed Martin: Can George Bush's crimes be prosecuted after he leaves office? (16 comments) Can George Bush's crimes be prosecuted after he leaves office?

Wednesday, July 30:

DC Rapier: Contemptuously yours, Karl Rove (3 comments) Aye or Nay on issuing a warrant for the arrest of Karl Rove

Tuesday, July 29:

Gustav Wynn: Poll on the Government's Terror Alerts (6 comments) Weigh in on the government's terror alerts. What do they mean to you in 2008?

Monday, July 28:

Rob Kall: Did Right Wing Hate Radio Influence the Tennessee Unitarian Church Killer? (34 comments) Did the hate spewed by toxic right wing talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and Glen Beck plant the seed of the idea to kill liberal Unitarian church members?

Georgianne Nienaber: Is it Ethical to Manage Baboons in South African Pine Plantations by Culling? (10 comments) For the third consecutive year, I will be attending a baboon management workshop in South Africa. I need something more than my own opinion, which has changed over the past three years.

Sunday, July 27:

Cathy Garger: Can Cindy Sheehan Beat Nancy Pelosi? (17 comments) Do you think Cindy Sheehan can beat Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Congress?

Allen Lee: Automated Tellers and Bias (3 comments) This poll is an attempt to learn whether person who use automated machines in public do so to avoid racial or gender bias from a human service provider.

PeterJ: What Do You Believe Is The Number One Problem Plaguing Our Nation? (69 comments) The economy "experts" think that they have the answers,the wannabe "generals" tell us how to run a war,immigration crowd wants to build a fence and shoot Mexicans. Now,there are a growing number of people who recognize the "Establishment",the industrial-military complex of the ruling class elite as the vampire sucking our country dry. How do you believe we should begin rebuilding this nation? From outside in or inside out?

Edwin Rutsch: Is Bob Barr correct that conservative values have failed? (10 comments) Is Libertarian Presidential Candidate Bob Barr correct that traditional conservative values have failed?

Saturday, July 26:

Mark Adams: Do you think that impeachment is newsworthy? (18 comments) Do you think that impeachment is newsworthy?

Friday, July 25:

Kevin Gosztola: Who do you believe gave the most valuable testimony at the "impeachment" hearing today? (33 comments) The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Executive Power and the Bush Administration today. It was a result of a groundswell of support for impeachment in America.

Rob Kall: Should Clean Energy Alternatives Be Fast Tracked? (17 comments) this approach was used to build the border security fence. Should it be used to expedite development of clean energy alternatives?

Ty: What is the best economic system? (16 comments) Economics, Economic Systems

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Can The Bush Family Wealth Be Seized Under The Trading With the Enemies Act? (21 comments) Are the Fascists who escaped in WW II secretly, and without their knowing affecting the campaigns of Both McCain and Obama? If so how can we stop them? I propose we indict Prescott Bush Post-Humously, freeze and then confiscate all current Bush wealth under the Ricoh Act, as having been seeded. sourced by Prescott Bush''s Trading With the Enemy Act Violations in 1941-1951. What do you think?

Thursday, July 24:

Paul Kruger: Test for Congress (27 comments) Should you have to take a test to be a member of Congress?

karmacounselor: Which broken immigration policy would you fix first? (11 comments) Broken immigration parts Which to fix first?

Gene Cappa: Should John Conyers Hold An Impeachment Hearing in August? (19 comments) Should John Conyers forgo his August vacation break to hold a hearing on the 39 "privileged" pending Articles of Impeachment presented to Congress by Rep Dennis Kucinich?

Wednesday, July 23:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: If They win, Will Dems Do What is Right? (23 comments) This poll chronicles a 10 of items many people think should be legislated. Check those you think will actually be enacted

Tuesday, July 22:

Gabe Shames: Is there a North American Union forming, and why? (27 comments) The Security and Prosperity Agreement (SPP) signed in 2005 by Bush, then-Presidente Fox, and the then-Prime Minister of Canada, has sparked waves of fear across the continent. Many are concerned it's not just an "agreement" but the start of the removal of all three countries sovereignty to form a continental superstate. Could this be true or will it just be a "community," or is it in fact just an agreement?

Bill Samuel: Can We Defeat Terror by Escalating the War In Afghanistan? (43 comments) Escalation of war in Afghanistan is a major campaign position of Barack Obama. Do you agree his assumptions are correct.

Monday, July 21:

Amy Fried: McCain Surrogate: "The Muslims have said either we kneel or they're going to kill us." (8 comments) McCain's surrogate - on a campaign conference call - implied that the status of our national security boils down to a struggle with all Muslims. McCain did not challenge the statement. How does that reflect on his fitness for the presidency?

Sunday, July 20:

Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo: Poll: Cindi Sheehan or Nancy Pelosi? (25 comments) We want to know if you live in San Francisco's 8th District, or if you lived there, would you vote in the upcoming election for Cindi Sheehan or Nancy Pelosi?

Saturday, March 15:

Sponsored by www.worldproutassembly.org: "Building a New World" Conference The deep longing for positive, lasting change is the bedrock upon which this conference is based. How do we fix our country and our world? And how can we form one mass movement to address the crisis? (Event Date: May 22, 2008)

Sponsored by ourfuture.org: Take Back America a meeting of progressives (Event Date: Mar 17, 2008)

Wednesday, December 31:

Sponsored by Freedom Ambassadors: Walk for Human Dignity A national coalition of over 50 local, state and national organizations are participating in walk from Tucson to Phoenix beginning May 2 to call for an end to racially fomented hate crimes. The ten-day peaceful walk will end with a rally in downtown Phoenix on Mother's Day, May 11, honoring mothers for teaching children to treat all human beings with equal dignity. (Event Date: May 1, 2008)

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Wednesday, August 20:

Sally Stride: *The Politics of Fluoridation Science never has shown that adding fluoride chemicals into water supplies is a safe and effective way to reduce tooth decay. Fluoridation was achieved through clever PR and persistence by special interest groups.

HEALTH: Bad New Air Pollutant Found (1 comments) LSU scientists report a new form of air pollution -- persistent free radicals. Each day, we breathe in 300 cigarettes' worth of the harmful molecules.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran launches satellite carrier Iran says it has successfully launched a rocket capable of carrying its first domestically built satellite.

Tuesday, August 19:

Georgianne Nienaber: Mr. Bill: "OH NO, Fix the coast you broke, Shell Oil!"

Key Photosynthesis Step Replicated: Scientists Learn From Nature To Split Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen (1 comments) [[IM1]] An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new method that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The breakthrough could revolutionize the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen – the clean, green fuel of the future – cheaper and easier to produce on a commercial scale.

Allen L Roland: *BUSH AND CHENEY IMPEACHED IN SAN FRANCISCO / SEE VIDEO A small group of San Francisco actors, including myself, and our fearless director have created, what Congress continues to resist, the successful Impeachment trial of George W Bush and Dick Cheney ~ watch the pre-release video, order a free copy and get involved by signing Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment petition : Allen L Roland

Monday, August 18:

It's starting in Canada (video) (4 comments) After 10,000 plus years of safe, effective, affordable botanical medicine, the federal governments of various countries have decided, with the "encouragement" of the white collar criminals in the pharmaceutical industry and government, to "protect" the Canadian public from herbs and food supplements. 70% of currently available natural health products will be removed from the market.

Smithsonian scientists discover new bird species Scientists have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community: an olive-backed forest robin (Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus). Their findings were published in the international science journal Zootaxa today, Aug. 15.

McCain: No Net Neutrality While many of McCain's proposals mirror his Democratic opponent Barack Obama's technology policy, a McCain presidency would sharply differ from an Obama presidency on the issue of network neutrality, which would mandate that broadband service providers treat all network traffic in a nondiscriminatory manner. "John McCain does not believe in prescriptive regulation like net neutrality," the policy statement declared.

New Video: McCain's McMansions (2 comments) John McCain is soaring to new heights of hypocrisy on his wife's personal jet. He flies around the country bent on duping the public into believing he's "one of them," a regular guy who can empathize with Americans facing an overwhelming economic crush. What's more, he disparages those who oppose his ridiculous policy proposals as "elitist." But who's the real elitist? The REAL McCain is...

Michael Dewey: Don't Get Me Started (2 comments) We ran into trouble scamming for oil. The whole Middle East is coming to a boil. While there is genocide in Africa. When we can't come to their aid, it just goes to figure there is no money for our powers that be to eat.

Sunday, August 17:

Obama, McCain discuss faith, issues at Saddleback Church (1 comments) The lead sentence in LA Times report: The presidential candidates were on stage together for just a moment, but John McCain and Barack Obama offered an arresting contrast Saturday night both stylistically and on sensitive issues, most sharply on abortion. Final paragraph deals with candidates' definition of "rich."

Allen L Roland: *THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATION / LOVE AFTER LOVE The ultimate celebration is the celebration of our true authentic self as it emerges, like the butterfly, from a dark cocoon of fear, self doubt and unworthiness into a world of light, freedom and celebration ~ and love is the vehicle for, in relationship, it brings us face to face with our deepest fears: Allen L Roland

Saturday, August 16:

Mark E. Smith: A Jew in Jalalabad (16 comments) In the early seventies when I went to live in Afghanistan for five years, I knew very little about Moslems but I had a vague idea that they hated and killed Jews, so I was very careful not to tell anyone that I was Jewish.

Steve Windisch (jibbguy): Are CFL's Designed to Make Us Pay More On Our Power Bills? (14 comments) Poor AC Power Factor and the billing practice of charging by "Apparent Power" add up to U.S. Consumers being billed nearly double for the use of Compact Flourescent Lamps... But this is just the tip of the iceberg when considering AC motors: Adding up to over $160 Billion annually in "over-billing" by the electric utility corporations, simply for want of a low-cost component that U.S. appliance manufacturers refuse to add!

Colorado Creating US's First Fossil Fuel-Free Community The latest trend in the green movement – other than EVs – seems to be greenhousing communities. Considering everyone needs a place to live, this is a perfect focus for injecting green technology into daily living. Arvada, Colorado is all over this concept, going farther than solar roofing, or LEED certification goals. They're setting up a community that will completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels.

7 Myths of Crowd Psychology 7 common myths about crowd psychology debunked

Eileen Fleming: Why I am the Left's Response to Coulter and NOT a "Pro-Palestinian Blogger" (3 comments) Coulter was quoted as saying that Jews should be "perfected" into Christians...and that Christians considered themselves to be perfected Jews. If ONLY Christians would look within their own imperfect hearts, focus on the work needing to be done there and doing what Jesus actually taught; we would all inhabit a very different world...

Rising ocean acidity slows marine fertilization | Environment | Reuters More finding for a troubles water planet. Small acidic changes in the ocean have significant impacts. Last year we learned shells soften with very small pH changes. Now we learn sperm reacts.

Suzana Megles: Blackout 2003 (4 comments) A large portion of NE Ohio, Ontario,Canada and the NE--including New York City experienced a Blackout in 2003. Those of us who did now have a new profound respect for the gift of electricity.

FDA to hold meeting on baby bottle chemical | U.S. | Reuters BPA is finally getting some coverage by the FDA. Although some can scoff at the small levels of contamination, babies are the most vulnerable to chemicals. Ignoring risks to them is inexcusable.

ALONE: Ashes to Memory or Commemoration As America gets older, it is called to deal with a national issue that involves local communities, individuals and families. More and more Americans--for a variety of reasons--are choosing cremation over buriel. How do americans remember and commemorate their parents? How do parents and others want to be commemorated? How little or how much? America currently has too many rules and laws on this matter,leaving uncertainty

GLloyd Rowsey: Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left, by Ronald Radosh (2001) (2 comments) A book review.

How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America Sad but true: Intelligence is a political liability in the US. Author of The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby explains why. The interview delves into difference between gaining knowledge for a job and education for thinking. Computers and TV are tools. It takes basic learning skills to use them to advantage.

Writing My Twitter Etiquette Article: 14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely As it turns out, you are one fascinating SOB, and people need to know what you're doing. You can almost feel the yearning. What are you doing? You already have a phone, an email account, a blog-but what about the moments too small to blog? (Snacking on pretzels.) Too insignificant to email? They're happening every second! How can you share the moments between the moments worthy of note? Enter Twitter.

Zogby Poll: Majority Want Libertarian Bob Barr Included in Presidential Debates Majority of Independents - 59% - also favor inclusion of Ralph Nader in debates this fall. More than half of likely voters nationwide - 55% - want Republican-turned-Libertarian Bob Barr to participate in presidential debates this fall, while nearly half - 46% - said they think Ralph Nader should be allowed into the on-stage fray, the latest Zogby Interactive polling shows.

Gene Cappa: *The 3rd Anti-Christ of Nostradamus Famed French Physician and Prophet Nostradamus (Our Lady) has predicted the rise of 3 anti-Christ villains who would be a scorge on all humankind.

Allen L Roland: *SEEING THROUGH THE HEART (1 comments) The great dawning and, I would add, inevitable realization of psychology, science and religion is that our separateness is an illusion measured by the state of our consciousness and that our ultimate reality, once again measured by the state of our consciousness, is the realization that we are all united and part of a loving and indivisible whole ~ and we resist it at our peril : Allen L Roland

Friday, August 15:

Under the Abbaya: Female Producers in Saudi Arabia Amy Teuteberg just got back from her first "No Reservations" road trip, and the number one question from friends, family and co-workers isn't about the food, the shoot, or how it was to work with Tony. "It's about what I had to wear. Of course, the question is less about the garment, than how far I had to go to conform."

Ancient Saharan Cemetery Reveals Lost History (1 comments) A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert. The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons in a remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations who lived there, 1,000 years apart, when the region was moist and green.

Michael Salla: UFO's Targeting Bush's Crawford Ranch? (9 comments) Was the Secret Service Overruled by an interagency national security team in the Release of FAA Radar Data on the Stephenville UFO?

Prince Charles warns GM crops risk causing the biggest-ever environmental disaster (2 comments) In his most outspoken intervention on the issue of GM food, the Prince said that multi-national companies were conducting an experiment with nature which had gone "seriously wrong".

Thursday, August 14:

Aurangzeb Qureshi: Non-Enemy Combatant The following is a poem about Omar Khadr, the only western national not to be repatriated by its host country from Guantanamo Bay. This is due to the utter incompetence and blatant disregard the current Canadian government has for its own citizens. Khadr was interned at age 15 and he is now 21.

Crusading ex-lawmaker takes in sex offenders (4 comments) It's temporary but neighbors complain. MARIETTA, Pennsylvania - A former tough-on-crime Pennsylvania lawmaker has adopted a new and unpopular cause, taking into his home three sex offenders who couldn't find a place to live.

Ocean dead zones become a worldwide problem (1 comments) WASHINGTON - Like a chronic disease spreading through the body, "dead zones" with too little oxygen for life are expanding in the world's oceans. "We have to realize that hypoxia is not a local problem," said Robert J. Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

GLloyd Rowsey: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, by Chalmers Johnson (2003) A book review. Sorrows of Empire.

Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps' 12,000 Calorie-A-Day Diet (2 comments) Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has an Olympic recipe for success - and it involves eating a staggering 12,000 calories a day. "Eat, sleep and swim. That's all I can do,"...

Wednesday, August 13:

Georgianne Nienaber: Former MN Senator Becky Lourey: Why Not Let Moral Principles Guide Governance? (9 comments)

Michael Salla: FAA Release of Radar Data Signals a new 'Openness Policy' on UFOs (6 comments) Significant support for the testimony of multiple witnesses of a UFO seen near Stephenville Texas on January 8, 2008 came in the form of radar data recently released by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA).

Tuesday, August 12:

mikel paul: The Real Olympics. We are in them. This is my vent. It rambles, but I hope you'll get the point. It's about WE. Not us and them. Most people are pretty cool with the concept of WE. Our leaders are not. People's lives are in the balance. All our lives. Got the connection? You think everything is broken? It never wasn't. Life is a series of attempting to fix stuff. Here's an alternative.

Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum (1 comments) Inflatable artwork blown from moorings and brings down power line

Georgia's volatile risk-taker has gone over the brink Lots of angles and perspectives before you figure out who the good and bad guys are.

C.L. Pagano: Aquarius Lunar Eclipse August 16, 2008 (2 comments) On eclipses and 8-8-8 and finding your own security in the midst of change.

Margaret Bassett: Count My Vote (11 comments) I'm not up on all the rules for effective voting in these 50 United States of America. So I bought a book!

Photography as a Weapon Using the doctored Iranian Missile photo, this blog entry presents a thorough review of the impact of imagery as a psychological weapon.

Giant Flying Dog Turd Electrocuted, Breaks Window- Breitbart (1 comments) Up in the sky! It's a Bush...it's a Cheney... No, it's an inflatable piece of art that was on display in Switzerland

Herbert Calhoun: A Re-Review of W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folks (1 comments) These essays, actually sketches and ruminations of DuBois', remain an enduring backdrop for the picture in which race in America is framed. At the end of each decade, they seem to continue emitting new pregnant meanings. It is worthwhile to review the book as well as those meanings.

Monday, August 11:

Michael Richardson: Robert G. Ingersoll's 175th birthday wish

Minn. baby born 8/8/08 at 8:08; 8 pounds, 8 ounces (3 comments) Should be a lucky child.

martinweiss: *George W. Bush and Wikipedia on Decadence (3 comments) The Bush dynasty perfectly fulfills the definition of decadence

Sunday, August 10:

In scientific first, Einstein researchers correct decline in organ function associated wi... ( (BRONX NY) As people age Proteins are recycled inadequate in aging individuals. Now researchers have found possible therapies which will increase the effectiveness of the liver to recycle proteins. Will better recycling slow aging?

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Thursday, August 21:

Mark E. Smith: Tijuana: Empires Slum?

Wednesday, August 20:

Mike Kuykendall: The Veepstakes aka "Fool's Errand"

George Washington: WTC 7 Solved: It Was Ivins!

Gene Cappa: *9/11 Sir Do The Orders Still Stand?