Wednesday, August 20:

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 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.

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Anti-immigrant hatred breeds discrimination, mistreatment, harassment and death 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? 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?

Bernard Weiner: Lies and Criminality About Justice Department and Georgia -- "So?" The aggressive, in-your-face tactics of the CheneyBush Administration are evident with regard both to excusing law-breaking in the DoJ, and in how it's trying to gin up a new neo-con, oil-related confrontation with Russia over the South Ossieta region of Georgia. Dangerous and scary.

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? 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.”

Tuesday, August 19:

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

Rob Kall: My energy car dream. (8 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.

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

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

Betsy L. Angert: America is One of Three

Mike Kuykendall: The REAL John McCain John McCain as described by a fellow Naval academy student and eventual prisoner of war- a real eye opener for anyone still sitting on the fence!

"Caroline: Pull a Cheney!" by Michael Moore (2 comments) An Open Letter from Michael Moore to Caroline Kennedy (head of the Obama VP search team). Aug. 19, 2008.

Paul Jacobs: Individual, Inc. A columnist in a conservative county questions why the words of Ronald Reagan run counter to the deeds of the Republican movement.

Patrick Buchanan: Who started Cold War II? The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO. If the Russia-Georgia war proves nothing else, it is the insanity of giving erratic hotheads in volatile nations the power to drag the United States into war

Olga Bonfiglio: A Place Where Beauty Matters

The US missile defence system is the magic pudding that will never run out (2 comments) Missile defence, according to the Pentagon, will "protect our homeland ... and our friends and allies from ballistic missile attack"; as long as the Russians wait until it's working before they nuke us. The good news is that, at the present rate of progress, reliable missile defence is only 50 years away. The bad news is that it has been 50 years away for the past six decades.

Kevin Gosztola: Affecting the Outcome of This Election (10 comments) Progressive participation required.

McCain: Does being a jerk work? McCain seems to have glided through the Senate without even bothering to learn very much at all about fiscal and economic policy, healthcare, social policy (which is an umbrella rubric covering a dozen different things) and a lot of other topics. His campaign, and his partisans, accuse Obama of being a lightweight. But in truth, McCain is the policy lightweight.

The War Within: Bob Woodward's Iraq War Book Title Announced According to Simon & Schuster, Woodward's book "takes readers deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq.

Washington's Hypocrisy : Confronting Georgia's Misguided Nationalism Russia's ambassador to NATO writes, "Does that mean that the United States and NATO can use brute force where they want to, and Russia has to abstain from it even if it has to look at thousands of its own citizens being shot? If it's not hypocrisy, then what IS hypocrisy?"

Ron Fullwood: McCain's Cabal of Nation-Builders and Money Grubbers (1 comments) What is it that John McCain wants to 'win' in Iraq? Is his open-ended support for keeping our troops bogged down there tied to his foreign policy guru Scheunemann's profit-taking and deal-making?

mikel weisser: Tax-Avoiders are Un-American (9 comments) Forget what you think your greedy little pocketbook is telling you. Not paying taxes is so very not-cool. If you are not doing your daily best to make America work, the least you can do is pay on your tab. Paying taxes is doing your part to show you actually care about America more than the $2.50 you spent on that yellow ribbon you bought a couple of years ago which is now so sun faded it's unreadable.

Richard Volaar: NSA Security Officer: We Should Just Kill These People (5 comments) When somebody within your own government calls you out, do you show up? How do you handle it?

Ed Tubbs: Obama is getting creamed. (1 comments) Let me put this in the form of an analogy of a foot race between the two contestants. Both weigh the same, however one of them, John McCain, is burdened by carrying a couple hundred pounds of extra baggage. If the best Obama can do, under these circumstances, is to be a little bit ahead it is completely impossible to suppose the race is close.

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:

Dave Lindorff: Huffing and Puffing at the Pentagon (3 comments) It's almost funny to hear Gates complaining that Russia is becoming authoritarian and that it bullies its neighbors. Almost.

Linda Milazzo: Pelosi Gets "Booked" & Confronts Her Own Past (45 comments)

Rob Kall: Did McCain Cheat At Saddleback? (35 comments) maybe there's a reason McCain was so well prepared for his chat with Rick Warren at Saddleback.

Grant Lawrence: Bush Tours Disaster Area (3 comments) "The Nightmare is Almost, You Know, Over," Bush Reassures Survivors. See this Onion News Network VIDEO.

Elizabeth Ferrari: The Bruce Ivins Anthrax Case coverage, not so good. (6 comments) The print media fails us again and spectacularly. Don't worry -- it's just anthrax.

Kevin Gosztola: Why Did Obama Win the Nomination? (20 comments) If we do not answer the question of why Obama won the Democratic nomination collectively and respond to that answer with action, McCain will win in November. More importantly, repugnant Bush Administration policies will continue after the election is over for sure.

Meryl Ann Butler: My Dream VP (18 comments)

Joe Trippi: Why no matter what happens at Saddleback this weekend may spell disaster for the GOP over the long term (2 comments) Rick Warren's Efforts to Realign Religion May Realign Politics

James Vega: How to AttacK John McCain-- What Would Rove Do? (3 comments) a "TDS strategy memo" from William Galston, Stan Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira on suggests how Democrats can fight back.

The Plot Against Liberal America Building a majority coalition has always been a part of the program, and conservatives have enjoyed remarkable success at it for more than 30 years. But winning elections was not a bid for permanence by itself. It was only a means. The end was capturing the state, and using it to destroy liberalism as a practical alternative.

Swift Boat Economics Tarred with the most dismal record of job creation and income growth of any president since the Great Depression, it would be reasonable to expect McCain would be defensive on the economy; but not in Swift boat America. Instead McCain is filling the airwaves with commercials telling the public Obama's tax increases will slow growth and cost the economy jobs. It's pretty scary stuff to anyone who takes it seriously.

Paul Krugman: It’s the Economy Stupor Al Gore found a new populist fervor in August 2000, and surged in the polls. A comparable surge by Mr. Obama would give him a landslide victory this year. But it’s up to him. If Mr. Obama can’t find the passion on economic matters that has been lacking in his campaign so far, he may yet lose this election.

Lord Stirling: Wars and Rumors of War (2 comments) Wars and rumors of wars. All this talk of war is getting old, but sad to say there is apt to be fire underneath all this smoke.

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Wednesday, August 20:

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 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 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 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 (3 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!!! (2 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.

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.

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 (1 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.

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 (8 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.

Roger Shuler: Case of the Fired Blogger: Why Did University Resort to Thievery? (2 comments) Why would a university resort to thievery in the case of an employee it fired for writing a blog--on his own time? Does this indicate that someone external to the university--federal law enforcement officials perhaps--are behind the firing?

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

Musharraf to Resign as President of Pakistan Under Pakistani law, the chairman of the Senate will become the de facto head of state until party elections for a new president can be held. The current Senate chairman, Mohammedmian Soomro, 57, a member of Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, was governor of the southern province of Sindh from 2000 to 2002 before he was later elected to the Senate in February 2003. A former banker...

Sunday, August 17:

Justice Dept. Moves Toward Charges Against Contractors in Iraq Shooting Federal prosecutors have sent target letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, indicating a high likelihood the Justice Department will seek to indict at least some of the men. The guards, all former U.S. military personnel, were working as security contractors for the State Department.

U.S. banking giant switches billions in debt to Britain to avoid paying corporation tax for 50 years (1 comments) Investment bank Merrill Lynch may not have to pay UK tax for decades. The Wall Street giant, which employs 5,500 in the City of London, could be eligible for a tax holiday of more than 50 years after making billions of pounds of losses on 'exotic investments.'

Dem Cave-In: House to Rethink Drilling, Pelosi Says (2 comments) In the weekly Democratic radio address, Ms. Pelosi criticized Republicans as focusing too narrowly on offshore drilling as a solution to high gasoline prices, but said she would bow to demands that the House revisit a drilling ban that has been imposed annually since the 1980s.

Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine (1 comments) Within hours of the 9-11 attack, McCain, the Vietnam War hero and famed straight talker of the 2000 Republican primary, had taken on a new role: the leading advocate of taking the American retaliation against Al Qaeda far beyond Afghanistan. In a marathon of television and radio appearances, McCain recited a short list of other countries said to support terrorism, invariably including Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Russia seizes US arms cache in Georgia Russian forces have seized a large cache of US-made weapons in the western city of Senaki in Georgia. "In Senaki, we seized a large arsenal of weapons including 664 US-made M-16 rifles" and a number of M-40 sniper rifles, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told a news conference in Moscow.

Russia considers nuclear missiles for Syria, Mediterranean, Baltic (2 comments) Moscow's planned retaliation for America's missile interceptors in Poland and US-Israeli military aid to Georgia may come in the form of installing Iskandar surface missiles in Syria and its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad.

JGideon: 'Daily Voting News' For August 17, 2008 a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issue

Hundreds evacuated from Grand Canyon as dam breaks About 400 members of the Havasupai tribe live in the town of Supai. The village was flooded but not submerged after the Redlands Dam broke

Obama-cans Unite: "Republicans for Obama" (1 comments) Led by a former Bush fund-raiser and a former U.S. Senator who bolted the G.O.P. several years ago, a group of current and former Republicans disenchanted with Senator John McCain and supportive of Senator Barack Obama are banding together to start a "Republicans for Obama" effort.

North Dakota - Road, river crossing causes stir (6 comments) Controversy over cutting off miles of commute or treading on historic site has North Dakotans in a national dispute. "Teddy Roosevelt would be going nuts over this," said Wayde Schafer, a North Dakota spokesman for the Sierra Club. "It's going to alter the whole feel of the area if this road goes through."

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?

George Staropoli: Obama, McCain oblivious to 20% Americans in private HOA governments Democrat Obama and Republic McCain preach democracy abroad while 20% of Americans live in authoritarian HOA regimes.

Taking on terrorists: Is military force the best means to defeat terrorist groups? RAND Corp finds "Not in most cases" MANY studies have asked how terrorist groups are born; relatively few have described how such groups are best put out of business. A recent effort to do the latter, by RAND Corporation, an American think-tank, is therefore welcome. It considers the fate of some 650 groups (defined widely), between 1968 and 2006, asking in particular what put an end to them. In the process it casts some useful light on a hoary old question

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? (11 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, July 19:

Xanadu Zinnia: How to Save the World? (9 comments) Given the current state of our planet, what should we focus on to save the world?

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:

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:

On this Day: 19th Amendment Gives Women Right to Vote (2 comments) On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified after decades of struggle by women's rights advocates. The 19th Amendment was first introduced to Congress in 1878, passed both houses of Congress on June 4, 1919, and sent to the states for ratification. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify it, giving it the 2/3 majority needed. On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified.

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

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) (3 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 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) 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 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?

Cell Phone Cancer Risk Debated University of Washington researchers Lai and Singh warned of a possible cancer risk ten years ago, when their research turned up DNA breaks. They describe a heavy-handed industry spin campaign to discredit them and suppress further research. A number of other people interviewed on both sides of the issue.

Saturday, August 9:

Mark Sconce: AZ Reflections (1 comments) apolitical thoughts about Arizona

Many people report symptoms of electromagnetic radation sickness, WHO (17 comments) While America falls apart at the seams, I've been reluctant to post on the seemingly unrelated topic of electromagnetic radiation. Journalist Franz van Velden has uncovered an agenda to suppress knowledge of the damage to human health. Perhaps greed is the prime motivator, but perhaps making people too ill to resist could be another motivation in facilitating a transition to tyranny.

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Wednesday, August 20:

Ferdinand: The Path: a Poem

Mac McKinney: Pravda Hammers Condoleeza Rice (4 comments)

Tuesday, August 19:

Drew Terry: Constitutional Democracy is an Illusion (1 comments)

Darren Wolfe: Attempt Made to Limit Voter Choices in Pennsylvania

Mr M: Good-bye Cruel World

George Washington: The FBI Admits It Has No Case Against Ivins

Drew Terry: 9/11 Without Tinfoil Series