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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media. Check out his platform at RobKall.com He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com more detailed bio: Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project. Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years. Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment. To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article. For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years. Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript. . To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here. Follow Rob on Twitter & Facebook. His quotes are here Join the conversation: On facebook at Rob Kall's Bottom-up The Connection Revolution and at Google Groups listserve Bottom-up Top-down conversation OpEdNews Member for 884 week(s) and 2 day(s) 2710 Articles, 5356 Quick Links, 6967 Comments, 527 Diaries, 3 Petitions, 130 Series, 106 Polls
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![]() A Conspiracy Conspiracy Theory Don't be fooled. Don't make a meal of conspiracy messages that are spawned by new news. Consider that they are themselves part of a conspiracy to get you to imbibe conspiracies aimed at twisting the way you see the world-- in ways that benefit ideologies or interest groups. Series: Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories (5 Articles, 91349 views) ![]()
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![]() Debunking Hillary's Specious Winning the Popular Vote Claim The claim that Hillary is winning the popular vote is one of the most deceptive, specious claims the Hillary Clinton campaign and her surrogates are making. The mainstream media is echoing and giving a total pass on this egregiously dishonest claim.
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![]() Terrifying Video: "I Don't Need a Warrant, Ma'am, Under Federal Law" Six law officers enter and search a woman's Bakersfield CA home without a warrant, saying federal law allows it. Series: Police Gone Wild (17 Articles, 125117 views)
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![]() Ray McGovern Discusses Brutal Arrest at Secretary Clinton's Internet Freedom Speech On Tuesday, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke on issues of free speech at George Washington University, 71-year-old former CIA analyst Ray McGovern was assaulted, dragged from the room and double handcuffed with metal cuffs causing profuse bleeding. What had he done to elicit this treatment? He stood in "silent witness." ![]()
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![]() Hillary's Disingenuous Claim That She's Won 2.5 Million More Votes is Bogus. Here's why Hillary claims that she has 2.5 million votes than Bernie Sanders. That claim is deceptive and disingenuous.
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![]() Cindy Sheehan Bugged in Denver Cindy Sheehan returned to her Denver hotel room today to find the door unlocked and ajar. She walked in to discover a man working on her phone, screw driver in hand.
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![]() Libertarian Legacy? Ron Paul's Campaign Manager, 49, Dies Uninsured, Of Pneumonia, Leaving family $400,000 Debt What a testament to the Libertarian creed, which abhors the idea of universal health care. ![]()
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![]() John Kerry's Odd Symptoms-- Eyes and Tongue John Kerry is looking a bit different lately, and people are talking about it. His eyes are looking different and he's doing an odd thing with his tongue. It is making me and a lot of other people wonder. What do you think? ![]()
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![]() What's the Connection? Al Franken's Accuser Leeann Tweeden and Sean Hannity Here's some added perspective to the Al Franken / Leeann Tweeden narrative. Leeann Tweeden has accused Franken of forcibly kissing her. Franken has apologized and she accepted his apology. But there's more to this story that the MSM is not showing. Tweeden is not a neutral party, politically. She's been a repeat guest on the Sean Hannity show. ![]()
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![]() Sanders Crushes in EVERY Post Debate Poll -- 7 Different Poll Results Bernie Sanders simply crushed Hillary Clinton in every post debate poll I could find-- seven of them, and for most, he averaged 74% or better, while Hillary averaged 20% or less.
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![]() Interview: McCain Fellow Hanoi Hilton POW & Naval Academy Dorm-mate; Why He Won't Vote For McCain expect four more of the last eight years-- in the Neo Con thinking; the insulated decision making; not listening to the members of the Cabinet; listening to an insulated, closed group of right-wing, politically oriented Neo Conservatives. I would expect him to be bellicose to other countries like Iran, I would expect him, if he took a notion, to launch missiles if something irritated him or something ticked him off. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() How To Help Jill Stein Hit 15% in Polls To Make the Debates Here's how to increase the chances Jill Stein can participate in the presidential debates.
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![]() Methane Bubble Earthquake Volcano in the Gulf? There's a viral message spreading over the web that there's a life and earth threatening methane bubble in the gulf, caused by the gushing well, which will explode and even cause an earthquake and a real volcano, in some versions of the story. Things are bad enough in the gulf. There's a real, genuine disaster of historic proportions. We don't need new tin-foil hat conspiracy theories.
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![]() Who Is Jared Lee Loughner shooter of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords a federal judge and over 13 others. He is now in custody ![]()
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![]() WI Governor Scott Walker Shunned; Asked to Leave Restaurant The other day, a blogger reports, Wisconsin fascist governor Scott Walker went to a restaurant and the people in the restaurant raised such a ruckus, yelling at him, that the restaurant's management asked him to leave. I'd liken that to shunning. ![]()
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![]() One Terrorist, A Million Psychopaths, Eight Million Sociopaths This morning, I found a little green caterpillar crawling on my arm, in bed, as I was waking up. I took it outside so it could become a butterfly or moth. If it had been a mosquito or tick, I would have killed it so it wouldn't hurt me or my family later. One shoe bomber terrorist inspired the US to invest billions in airport security, required hundreds of millions of shoes to be removed. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Attending CPAC; A Visit To the Belly of the Beast It was an almost biblical experience, somewhere between a whale's belly and Sodom and Gomorrah, one way or another, in the belly of the beast, where Rush Limbaugh proudly declared he hoped Obama would fail. And he is not alone. There were thousands of people at this event who choose ideology and single issues over America. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views) ![]()
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![]() 135 Arrested For Civil Disobedience at White House; 40 Sec. Video and Ray McGovern Interview Protesting War, Defending Wikileaks attempting to wake up the rest of the nation and get civil disobedience activism ramped up across the nation. ![]()
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![]() Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana. Neither Barack Obama or Michael Phelps are out in the streets protesting for the legalization of Marijuana use, but let's face it, when the most gold medal winning human and the most popular president in decades both have cannabis use in their history, it's hard to argue that weed is bad for you and will f*ck you up. When ultra-achievers have a record of inhaling, it turns the whole "evil marijuana" narrative upside down.
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![]() "Occupy" Participants Beware: Agents Provocateur Like The One at Air Space Museum Are Threat It's become clear that besides pepper-spray wielding police there is another threat to the "Occupy" movement-- agents provocateur. An agent provocateur admitted perpetrating actions at the protest at the National Air and Space museum. There was another person who engaged in a violent act-- who the other protesters quickly stopped and challenged. Discussion of the dangers of these kinds of people for the Occupy movement.
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![]() Gulf News; From Bad to Worse Sit down. Get ready. Your life has begun to change. It will never be the same again. This gulf disaster is changing everything.
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![]() Gulf of Mexico worst Case Scenarios-- Listing the Players and Possible Terrorist or Nuke Tie-in It's worse than they're saying, will probably be worst in history and could hit EUROPE if it reaches the Atlantic's Gulf Stream, which is likely. My article details the well, the players, the conspiracy theory, the potential use of a nuke... It includes Haliburton, the release of unprecedented geologic forces and a potential world wide catastrophe. Is there a N. Korean connection? Will a nuke be needed to shut the well? ![]()
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![]() The Specious, Stupid Arguments Against Gun Control I am calling out all the gun control opponents with empty, unsupported, vaccuous, specious and flat out ludicrous arguments. Get real and get solid arguments already. Your lame, weak excuses for arguments probably don't even convince your fellow gun ownership advocates.
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![]() Book Review The LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch The first and only book that made me cry through half the chapters. Randy Pausch is dying of cancer. As is traditional at many universities, he gave a "last lecture" which is usually given by elder, retiring professors. But Pausch's last lecture because an internet youtube phenomenon. And now, after a book he did is out, it is a huge, runaway bestseller, so hot, they literally can't keep the books in stock in bookstores. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views)
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![]() Feds Send Swat Team To Break Down Door, Grab, Arrest Man Over Alleged Student Loan Default It not only CAN happen here, it IS HAPPENING here. The US Department of Education sent a SWAT team which roughed up and arrested a man, holding him prisoner for six hours. Why? His estranged wife had defaulted on her student loans. Series: Police Gone Wild (17 Articles, 125117 views) ![]()
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![]() Coming Soon-- Riots in America? The Guardian reports that "Britain is preparing for a summer of rage." Has President Obama failed to reinstate Posse Comitatus because he is expecting and preparing for riots in the USA?
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![]() Transcript : Former Catholic Priest Matthew Fox on Ratzinger, Opus Dei and the Broken Catholic Church Matthew Fox was first stopped from teaching Liberation Theology by Cardinal Ratzinger, then defrocked. He has since lived an extraordinary life. But he also brings a unique point of view on Pope Benedict, the next pope the college of cardinals will choose and today's Catholic Church. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Blame the DNC if Serious percentage of Bernie Sanders Supporters Will Not Back Hillary Clinton Don't Assume Bernie Sanders Supporters Will Back Hillary Clinton If She's The Nominee. The DNC has poisoned the well, especially for the next generation.
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![]() CBS's Spoiled Poodle Dean Reynolds Bites Obama-- Reports his Plane Smells a leak in the facade-- a mainstream media whiner doesn't get the lap-journalist treatment the right wing gives their primped and trained pups, so he gets nasty and kinda racist with Obama ![]()
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![]() McCain's Snivelling On Letterman The Last Straw? John McCain is a gambler. So he took a gamble and went on the David Letterman show last night. It should be the final straw that pulls the support out from under him. The gamble was a huge failure-- a massive error in judgment. It is clear that McCain failed to assess he depth or risk of the gamble-- just how much he could be hurt, how bad he would look in so many ways. ![]()
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![]() Patterns of Psychopaths/Sociopaths; The "Psychopathic Bond" These people are predators. They don't feel emotions like other people. They don't feel empathy or compassion. Researchers study callousness as a parameter of their emotional makeup. sychopaths have a predatory pattern of interaction they use to take advantage of and use people-- to form "the psychopathic bond." Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Conyers Tells Rob Kall: Impeachment Not Off the Table; A You Tube Video Rob Kall interviews John Conyers-- and uber blogger Matt Stoller video recorded it. Youtube link, transcript included. And Conyers says, on tape, Impeachment is NOT off the table, and more. ![]()
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![]() Real Reason Trump's Being Treated Like He's Crazy for Refusing to Accept Election Results The mainstream media and the duopoly corporate parties-- both Republican and Democratic-- have gone into full force attack on Donald Trump for his refusal to accept the election results, which he has repeatedly said are rigged. It's time a candidate who has been the victim of a rigged election speaks up. Series: Technologies (1 Articles, 34691 views) ![]()
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![]() Trump and Republicans Staging a Hayes/Tilden Coup; They Don't Need to Win Lawsuits, Just Stall Donald Trump and the leadership of the Republican party are aggressively staging a coup, inspired by the 1876 Tilden Hayes election, and the Democratic Party and their mainstream media surrogates, CNN and MSNBC have not yet caught on. They are laughing at a situation that must be aggressively addressed with dire urgency. Mainstream Pundits are smarmily laughing at Trump, when it is they who are the clueless ones. Series: Trump/Republican Refusal To Acknowledge Biden Victory (4 Articles, 15773 views)
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![]() BP and Halliburton's Role in the Gulf Oil Disaster-- Well Casing Horror Story there's a Halliburton connection at the core of the gulf oil catastrophe and fresh information on how BP's decisions to cut costs made this disaster happen... and further info on just how bad prospects are. ![]()
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![]() Chomsky Talks about Psychopaths and Sociopaths In my latest interview with Noam Chomsky, after talking with him about Billionaires, Wealth Inequality and How Aristotle and Madison Dealt With Them, I referred to some words he'd written about caring. Psychopaths and sociopaths don't care. It's a key part of their makeup that enables them to operate as heartless predators, exploiting everyone around them. Here's the transcript of our conversation: Series: Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction Days of Revolt Interview (3 Articles, 31855 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Paul Craig Roberts on Ukraine/Russia, Psychopath Nazi Neocons, The End of the Dollar Reserve, Monsanto, , Part one of a two part interview done with PCR in June. We cover some interesting ground. Series: Paul Craig Roberts Summer 2014 Interview and transcript (2 Articles, 25816 views), Monsanto (4 Articles, 34379 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) (View All Series)
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![]() "De-billionairize" the Planet Billionaires are too big. The power they command through their wealth is too dangerous to be allowed in the control of any flawed human. The economic influence they wield produces warps in the capitalist space-time-economic dimension that prevent capitalism from operating in a free, natural state, as strange attractors change the dynamics in chaotic systems. Time to talk about then take steps to eliminate billionaires. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views)
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![]() URL Shorteners are For More than Shortening URLs whether for twitter, phone calls, books, printed literature, print ads, billboards or signs on trucks, shortened URLs are valuable. It seems most people don't know much about them or the added features many URL shortening sites offer. This tutorial will help you get up to speed. Series: Tips (14 Articles, 34911 views)
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![]() Traitors in America; Packs of Benedict Arnolds Some trusted, valued institutions and people are no longer trustworthy. Some of them have become outright traitors as the world experiences a bottom up revolution. The traitors are top down feudal lords fighting to hold on to their keeps and castles. Series: Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views) ![]()
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![]() Shame on Elizabeth Warren; She Betrayed Progressives She betrayed progressive Americans. She screwed the middle class. She's certainly lost me as the huge fan I was for years. Remaining silent in times of great hardship, when you can make a difference is a form of cowardice.
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![]() The Most Evil Corporations, Industries and Orgs Lately, we're having more conversations about corporations whose behaviors have been outrageous, shameful, even criminal. These conversations sometimes lead to people saying this or that company is the worst, the most evil, the most murderous, the most corrupt or corrupting, the most destructive, most exploitive. Series: Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views) ![]()
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![]() Transcript Exclusive Chris Hedges Interview; The Template for Harvesting America, Sacrifice Zones and Blood In this interview, Chris Hedges talks about the template being used to harvest America-- at the expense of the middle class, the sacrifice zones feeling the most pain, and the blood price we've paid for the rights they are trying to take away. We discuss these subjects through the context of Chris's latest book, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-authored with Joe Sacco Series: Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction Days of Revolt Interview (3 Articles, 31855 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() What makes a hero? The term hero has been diluted and abused. A hero is not necessarily someone who survives being in a war, or who happens to pull someone out of a car wreck. We call the former a survivor and the latter a brave person. Series: Framing, Language, Buzzwords (11 Articles, 54107 views) ![]()
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![]() BP Insider: Massive Dead Zone Could Be Produced by Gulf BP-Congress Catastrophe A BP insider, providing information to OpEdNEws.com, reports that scientists and engineers, fearing the worst, have envisioned a worst case scenario, " It could very well be that the entire Gulf and the East coast of Florida could become dead zones, with no aquatic life at all." Article reveals details and background on catastrophe in new light
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![]() Yes, Hillary's Server Was Criminal, And The DNC and Obama Could Use it to Totally Subvert Democracy Attorney and Hillary supporter Dan Metcalfe has written, for the law blog, LawNewz.com, a particularly credible and persuasive article, Hillary Clinton's Emails Now Might Finally Take Her Down, which suggests a nauseating, yet terrifying possibility. It all hinges on FBI Director Comey doing his job, and, most important, when. ![]()
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![]() Why People Love Hit TV Series Featuring Psychopaths, like Breaking Bad and House of Cards There are good reasons why people love the most monstrous psychopaths in TV shows and movies. But it's important that the public learn from these shows and not be inspired by them. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() Awakener; My Occupation. And yours? today, when filling in a registration form on a website, I realized I had a new occupation to list, that encompassed many of the others I've listed in the past. I am an awakener-- someone who wakes up others. quotations on awakening at the end of this article Series: Awakeners (11 Articles, 29482 views) ![]()
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![]() Corporatism is Killing America Corporatism is waging war on the middle class, on the American dream and on most Americans. There is a massive difference between mega-corporations and small businesses. The big ones and their obscenely wealthy CEOs, owners and top execs are waging an all out war on the middle class. They are pushing for laws, legislation, regulations and de-regulations that will kill people. KILL PEOPLE. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views) ![]()
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![]() Thom Hartmann Leaves Air America; with interviews with Thom, AA CEO and more. Thom Hartmann is with a new radio syndicator, leaving Air America with a loss of over 60 radio stations in the prime time slot from noon to three PM EST-- the time Al Franken used to fill before Hartmann took the slot over. Includes interviews with Thom Hartman, Air America CEO and Hartmann's manager ![]()
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![]() Trump Will Soon Purge Stephen Miller From His Administration It has become clear that Stephen Miller is behind the despicable, immoral practice of taking children from their parents and putting them in concentration camps. It will cost him his job at the White House.
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![]() A Bottom Up Virtual Choir to Delight Your Heart and Milk Your Tears a choir composed of over 2000 videos, started by a silent video of a conductor, creates a virtual, bottom up choir that is quite extraordinary. Please take the 15-25 minutes it will take. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views)
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![]() The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin Close to 100 million Americans received mailers last week, or will receive them next week that will put the last nail in the coffin of the McCain Pailin campaign. ![]()
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![]() Red-states' Cult-like Obeisance to Trump Is Killing People Look at the ten states without full stay-at-home orders. Every one of them is a red state. But when CNN showed this map, they didn't point out that every one of them is a Republican dominated state with a Republican Governor. Their conservative values and cult-like obeisance to Trump is in the process of killing people. Oh, and by the way throw in Joe Biden. ![]()
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![]() Top DOJ People Blocked Clinton Fndtn Investigation Called For By 3 FBI Field Offices So, you thought that it was only a matter of time until the FBI's investigation of the Clinton Foundation would come to light. Surprise. The investigation was quashed from the top down at the Department of Justice. ![]()
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![]() Mainstream Media Fail: The Issues the MSM Should Be Covering Daily These issues may not have the sexy sizzle that Miley Cyrus and the Ted Cruz sponsored shutdown have, but THEY are the battlelines where the future of American justice and democracy are being fought. Series: Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views) ![]()
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![]() Police State In Republican Convention City Protesters in Minneapolis "preventively" targeted, handcuffed, some arrested, by teams of 25-30 officers. Computers taken. These people did nothing but plan to protest or protect other protesters by videotaping police. ![]()
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![]() Diagnosing Sarah Barracuda; Borderline? Bipolar? I'd like to see the complete medical and psychiatric history of Sarah Palin. Could be interesting. I'm particularly interested in her psychiatric background. You have to ask, what diagnosis would you give to a student nicknamed, "Sarah Barracuda." ![]()
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![]() Want to Boycott Bayer/Monsanto? Here are some of their brands Now that it's official that Bayer is buying Monsanto, you may want to start boycotting Bayer products. Series: Monsanto (4 Articles, 34379 views) ![]()
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![]() Anti Muslim Hate Video Goes Hyper Viral in 24 Hours The anti-muslim hate video that has set the Muslim world afire with protests has gone hyper viral, with a jump of almost 1.4 million views in just over a day and it could hit five, even twenty million views. It could become one of the most viewed videos on youtube ever. ![]()
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![]() Republicans Are Going to Remove Trump Soon It will not be long before Trump is out of the White House and off the 2020 presidential ballot. Series: Trump Removal/ Impeachment (5 Articles, 25901 views)
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![]() Blockbuster Avatar Delivers Massively and Offers Anti-War Activists an Opportunity for Street Theater Avatar could break records for attendance and box office-- and it's story lends itself beautifully to anti-war street theater that is incredibly easy. I did it. Avatar was sumptuously, deliciously, passionately satisfying. It is a fabulous movie that, in the opinion of this long-time Star Wars fan, could be the best science fiction/fantasy movie ever made. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views) ![]()
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![]() Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant? The results on what's really happening with the swine flue epidemic are not in. This could be a frightening situation with dire possibilities and the theories are flying. The comments section below is a great place to add your links, theories & facts to flesh out the full picture. OpEdNews.com is a bottom up media site where the members play an essential role in covering the full story. Let's really make it happen here. ![]()
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![]() Advertisers Encouraging Lying, Deception TV commercials and TV sitcoms are celebrating lying and deception, glorifying many of the characteristics of sociopaths. This is bad for our culture. Series: Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Why Trump Unconstitutionally Started a War with Iran To Serve Israel Why has Trump taken the US into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel? Because it is what two parties want-- the right wingers in Israel, led by Netanyahu, the only leader of a nation to support Trump's act, and right wing Zionist supporters in the US-- a relatively small group, and the 70-80 million Rapture-rabid Evangelicals who are drooling and salivating to see a full out conflagration of war in the Middle East. ![]()
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![]() Lawrence Wilkerson Interview Transcript-- The "Israelization of the USA, CIA lies, and; "It's not a Coup. It's Worse!" transcript of an hour interview with with the bold speaking former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell who is now an a adjunct professor of government at the College of William & Mary. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Lawrence Wilkerson Interviews and transcripts-- Blood in the streets, Predator Capitalism (4 Articles, 29758 views), Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() The Hundreds of Words Homeland Security Tracks Online The Department of Homeland Security has a long list of words it tracks online. Want to get in their radar? Use those words. Want to stay off their radar? You'll have to do a serious dance with your vocabulary. It's a long, very general list. Series: Framing, Language, Buzzwords (11 Articles, 54107 views), Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views)
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![]() Dem AZ Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Wounded, Shot In Head, Federal Judge Killed she has been seen at the hospital and the doctors are optimistic-- though she was shot through the brain.
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![]() "Books Banned by Sarah Palin" Email Is Urban Legend Don't forward that email you just got, or received three or five or ten times. It's bogus, even though the thought is dead on accurate.
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![]() Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? I woke up to a text message from CNN that Obama had won the Nobel peace prize. First thought-- "Why? What did he do to earn it?
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![]() Chomsky on Billionaires, Wealth Inequality and How Aristotle and Madison Dealt With Them I interviewed Noam Chomsky on Tuesday, on my Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show, covering a number of topics that I'll be breaking into separate articles. This one was on wealth inequality and the no-billionaires idea, or what I like to call de-billionairization. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Chomsky interviews and transcripts (6 Articles, 44141 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Todd Palin, Alaska's First Man some info from wikipedia on the spouse of Sarah Palin ![]()
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![]() Where the F*ck is Biden So, where the f*ck is Joe Biden. He should be showing what he is made of, showing us how he would be doing things. Biden should be on the air, talking to the American people every day, calling out the bullshit Trump and McConnell are spewing, calling out Nancy Pelosi when she rejected the idea of giving struggling people money, as Andrew Yang had described. But Joe is being hidden. ![]()
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![]() I'm Dumping the Democratic Party, Personally I'm switching my voting registration from Democrat to independent. I'm doing it to send a message to the democratic party that I'm not happy with the way they operate, not happy with their leadership and not happy with their pseudo-liberalism and the pro-corporatist policies that they have embraced. I'm changing to independent because the two party system is killing America and killing democracy. ![]()
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![]() What Would a Psychopath Do? Here are Five Things reading the rantings of one psychopath, I started wondering: if psychopaths could change the rules to their benefit, what would they do? Here are a few ways that you might expect psychopaths to try to shape the culture, the narrative and the rules. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() How Many People Have to Die Before Glenn Beck and Fox are Branded For Inciting, Aiding and Fomenting Domestic Terrorism Glen Beck has said on his show, "I'm going to be a progressive hunter..." and "drive a stake through the blood suckers." Beck has told his listeners, "they are taking you to be slaughtered." Isn't it time Beck and the Fox News network are branded by the appropriate government agencies as someone who is inciting, aiding and fomenting domestic terrorism?
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![]() How the width of a horse's butt determined the Size of the Space Shuttle sometimes the reasons we do things are based on a long series of connections that go Waaaay back Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views)
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![]() Forget SOPA and PIPA. Obama Signed ACTA, Rescuing and Weakening Congress Again Congress has handed President Obama more executive branch power, further damaging the "balance of power" that protects Democracy. This time he's signed ACTA, an international treaty that could make the worst fears about SOPA and PIPA seem minor. Series: Globalization, TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, WB, etc. (14 Articles, 52833 views)
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![]() Van Jones Resigns; Left To Hang By Obama For Cursing Republicans and Signing 9/11 Truth Statement? Van Jones called Republicans what most of the people who voted for Obama call them. And he signed a statement calling for further inquiry and explanation of 9/11-- the original 9/11 truth document. Was he left hanging by the Obama Administration for doing what scores of millions of Americans would also do?
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![]() Romney Demonstrates Frightening Diplomatic Incompetence In Face of Libya/Egypt Embassy Violence The Romney campaign demonstrated highly disturbing poor judgment yesterday, when they knee-jerk responded to rapidly unfolding events in the Middle east that led to the death of Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three others. ![]()
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![]() Snowden's Brilliant Answer to Those Who Say They Don't Need Privacy Right Because They Have Nothing To Hide Next time someone tells you they don't care about privacy rights because they don't have anything to hide, use this response from American hero Edward Snowden, which he gave in a recent interview with the Guardian.
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![]() G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing Take pictures. The police use photos and videos to craft false scenarios and lies. The best defense for protesters is to take still images and videos of police-- thousands of them. Get their faces, their shifting positions. This is one of the most powerful defenses when protesters are charged.
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![]() OpEdNews Reporter Arrested While Photographing Protest freedom of the press was abused by the Philadelphia police on saturday. A year ago, Cheryl Biren co-authored an article commenting on the arrest of Amy Goodman and others, saying, "" A free press where reporters can engage in their journalistic duties without threat of arrest must be respected. Take action." It is ironic that now, Biren is a victim.
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![]() Naomi Klein; an Interview with Rob Kall a 45 minute interview with Naomi Klein, on her book Shock Doctrine, on the elections, the bailout, the economic crisis... Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() FBI Puts Antiwar Protesters on Criminal Database; Canada Uses It To Ban Protesters From Entry "The FBI's placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies," says Colonel Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries. "The Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database as the criteria for entering the country." Series: Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views) ![]()
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![]() Interview with Naomi Wolf Naomi Wolf on the coup that took place on October 1, on participating in the revolution, on Obama, on the bailout... Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Will Christopher Dorner be a Victim of Obama's Drone Policy? If Chris Dorner is killed before going to trial, it may be because he's suicidal and forces a shootout, but it also may be that Obama's policy will have had a role in his being killed. And if not Dorner, then certainly others-- in the US and outside. Obama's drone assassination policy has changed the rules for a lot of people, even though those rules have not been ratified by any legislatures or courts. ![]()
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![]() Brazile Revelations Make it Clear. Obama, Hillary & DNC Cost Dems Senate, White House, SCOTUS There's no way to spin around the fact that the collusion of Obama, Hillary, the DNC and Democratic leaders cost Democratic voters and the world the White House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and maybe even the House of Representatives, not to mention scores of judiciary appointments. Donna Brazile has revealed that the Clintons basically bought full control of the DNC, with control over key appointments and decisions.
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![]() Socialist Green Bay Packers Win Superbowl Yep. Almost commies. Embrace that, teapartiers.
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![]() Mitt Romney's Psychiatric Symptoms some interesting symptoms
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![]() Breaking: Greek Coast Guard Has Stopped 2011 Flotilla/US Boat to Gaza (Ongoing) It looks like Israeli influence, and perhaps US influence as well, has reached Athens, where the US Boat to Gaza was stopped within 20 minutes of leaving dock.
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![]() Supreme Scumball-- Clarence Thomas-- More Ethical Issues Emerge First time I heard the word "scumball" was from President George Herbert Walker Bush-- the man who appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
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![]() CIA Firms Afghan Ally Relations With Viagra The challenge is how to arouse tribal leaders interests in cooperating with US forces. Cash handouts can cause showy displays of new money purchases that can ruin the value of an informant. Weapons gifts can easily end up in the wrong hands. So what's an anti-insurgency US military officer to do when faced with over-60 year old tribal leaders with three or four wives? ![]()
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![]() A Proposed Standardized Scientific Approach to Assessing Conspiracy Theories and Questions In science there are standards which are set to measure phenomena and facilitate discussion of what scientists are focusing upon. It would serve everyone well to develop a standardized, scientific collection of tools to raise questions about events that occur, so people, from the bottom up can assess those events, not necessarily accepting the explanations provided by the mainstream media or the government. Series: Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories (5 Articles, 91349 views) ![]()
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![]() Walmart Becomes #Brawlmart With Rampant Black Friday Fights On Twitter, they're calling it #Brawlmart, with many reports of fights of things on sale.
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![]() Not in My Jewish Name. I am a Jew and I am outraged and ashamed by the acts Israel has perpetrated. I am a Jew who knows right from wrong, who can see that the band of evil idiots in Israel who are making decisions are doing the wrong thing, doing things that are bad for the Jewish people. I stand up now to declare that Israel does not act in my name. AIPAC, the lobbying group for Israel does not act in my name.
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![]() Reporter And Occupy Wash Dc Protesters Pepper Sprayed At National Air And Space Museum Starting from the Freedom Square, Occupy Washington DC staging area, a group of 700-1500 protesters marched through Washington DC to the National Air and Space Museum to protest the US of drones to kill.
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![]() World War Three Is Under Way and YOU Are the Enemy There is a war that's been under way against the middle class. The war has been going on for at least 11 years. It's a world wide war-- a World War funded by multinational corporations and billionaires. YOU are their target.
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![]() OpEdNews Exclusive Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked Results Skewed Nationwide In Favor of Republicans by 4 percent, 3 million votes
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![]() Dunn and Bradstreet Credit Rating Blackmail? In times of war, companies who make excessive profits by exploiting the war situation are called profiteers. It feels like D&B is acting like an econonomic crisis profiteer. ![]()
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![]() FISA Judge Who Approved Massive NSA Spying Identified? The Judge who, all alone, decided that it was okay for the NSA and whoever else had access, to spy on ALL Americans. Series: Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views) ![]()
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![]() How Bernie Will Accomplish Amazing Things In Spite of a Republican Held House Bernie can get a lot done without the support of the House of Representatives, and it's almost certain that his coattails will help down ticket Senate candidates to take back the senate and reduce the Republican advantage in the House. That means that Bernie will have a majority advantage to get appointees authorized through the Senate.
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![]() Israeli Troops Kill Humanitarians on Flotilla to Gaza video, Israeli explanation... ![]()
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![]() Trump Unleashed Alt-Right Connected Capital Gazette Shooter #MAGA Trump Supporters desperate attempts to distance themselves from another white hater= Fail Ramos was empty talk until Trump's hate set him off to next level #jarrodramos #CapitalGazette
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![]() What to Blame for and Who's To Blame: Excoriate the DNC The combined machinations of the DNC, Superdelegates and the Hillary Clinton campaign have set back Democratic and progressive progress by 20 or more years. This article explores the damage done and who to blame. Series: Post 2016 Election (3 Articles, 9870 views) ![]()
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![]() Rob Kall Interview with Paul Craig Roberts: privatized big government, Antisemitism, Globalization, Identity Politics A wide ranging, fun conversation. PCR gets down to the bone and explains the root causes of some of the problems we're facing. ![]()
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![]() Mainstream Media Moves In For The Kill Of Bernie Sanders Campaign All the news media are now back to saying Bernie is toast, that he can't win. This is nothing new. This has been the message the mainstream media has been selling HARD for months. Did you expect that they would suddenly embrace a guy who is challenging the whole f*cking system? Did you think that with one tie and one win they wouldn't jump at the soonest opportunity to kick him, to do all they could to demoralize his...
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![]() US Lies About N. Korea Situation Every war is built on lies. That's the message of David Swanson's classic book, WAR IS A LIE. We're seeing it today as the situation with North Korea unfolds.
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![]() Obama's Gulf Eco-Catastrophe, Far Worse than Katrina, More Like a Hiroshima; Emergency Legislation Needed History will view Obama's response as too little, too late, too passive. New findings by a research vessel with a grant that ran out today show walls of oil-saturated death miles long & wide, depleting oxygen from ocean water. Obama must commandeer BP's resources, Pass immediate legislation ELIMINATING all limits on ALL corporate liability for damages, & fund at least a billion dollars of emergency research & science funding
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![]() Is Army Abusing Children With its Latest Experiment, the Army Experience Center? Protest of Army Experience Center charges army with child abuse. Seven protesters arrested. ![]()
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![]() How Evil Can the CIA and NSA Get? How to Restrain US Intelligence Agencies Just how evil have the CIA, NSA, the FBI, military intelligence and other agencies become? Let's start with the fact that their heads, Clapper and Alexander, have lied to congress, with the protection of the President and the heads of the intelligence committees. Series: Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views)
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![]() America Under Attack-- Today this is no joke. The attack has already hit millions and there is no sign the military or intelligence agencies are doing anything to protect America from the growing threat.
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![]() Is the US Military America's Biggest Security Threat? We have a problem. First step is to face it. That's what this article is about. The US military is the number one threat to US security. Its leaders are part of the problem. ![]()
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![]() Cheers to a New Year: Quotes on Cheer-- Alcohol, Drinking, Beer-- and Getting High I put this list together for a friend who just got out of the hospital-- not for drinking-- but he wanted some ammunition. Anyway, it kind of fits with this evening. So have a night of good cheer-- and don't overdo it. ![]()
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![]() Superdelegates WILL Switch To Bernie. Here's Why Bernie is going to win the July convention. That's because polls already are and will even more dramatically show that Hillary will lose to Trump, but not just the White House. She will cost the Democrats a majority in the Senate, the Supreme Court and a stronger position in the House.
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![]() youngbillymays tweets; "My dad didn't wake up this morning..." a poignant, plaintive tweet that will surely be heard around the world. ![]()
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![]() How Dare They Spend Trillions on Corporate Welfare, Without...? They're spending over a trillion dollars to rescue doddering, failed companies that deserve to die. How dare they-- the congress-- allow the Fed and the Whitehouse to spend so much without oversight. In times like we are experiencing tough, visionary leadership is needed and we're not seeing it.
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![]() We Get Hate Mail a sample of the hate mail I get routinely, for you to comment on.
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![]() Howard Zinn's Advice to Obama On August 20th, I interviewed Howard Zinn on a wide range of subjects. This article covers his Advice to Obama on how to win. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() How to Use Twitter Hashtags to Blast Your Reach and Build Your Follower Base You can easily use hashtags to reach many more people and build your follower base faster. Series: Tips (14 Articles, 34911 views), Bottom-up Promotion (4 Articles, 38985 views), Writing and Story to Change, Wake Up The World (22 Articles, 69222 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Casey Anthony Walked Thanks to Grover Norquist & His Anti-Tax Congressional Minions It was Grover Norquist and his minions of Republican members of Congress who signed his no taxes commitment that let Casey Anthony walk. ![]()
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![]() And the Winner of the Golden Globes is... The MIIC Last night the Golden Globes gave out their awards for Movies and TV shows. The winner was the CIA, or more the Military Intelligence Industrial complex (MIIC)-- comprised by the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, Military Intelligence, black Ops, TSA, Fusion Centers, the ever increasingly militarized local police, the prison system... a sprawling, malignantly growing collection of agencies,,, ![]()
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![]() Have Right-Wingers Hacked the ACA/Obamacare/Healthcare.gov Website... and is it a Freedom of Speech Issue? There's talk that the healthcare.gov website has been hacked and subjected to Denial of Service DDOS attacks.
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![]() Alan Grayson is Running and Why He Will Kick Ass This Election Alan Grayson says he's in, he's running. And he told me something when I interviewed him two weeks ago that makes me confident this liberal lion is going to kick ass in the next election.
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![]() Osama Dead, Killed Open Thread-- What's Your Take? a space for OEN members to comment and discuss this landmark event. ![]()
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![]() Trump Will be Out by January 1. Here's Why Republicans will definitely remove Donald Trump from the White House and probably remove him from the ballot by January first. Series: Trump Removal/ Impeachment (5 Articles, 25901 views) ![]()
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![]() Transcript: 70 Minute Interview with Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate This is a rush transcript of my August 7th interview with Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate. She discussed her recent arrest, her platform, lesser-of-two-evils voting, Rocky Anderson and the Justice Party, Ralph Nader, her life and more. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Which of These Progressive Positions Are Extreme Left? The word is that Obama is a pragmatist, that he won't pander to the far, extreme left of his party. Instead, he will hew to the center. The word is that the progressives on the left are expecting too much, that their positions, issues and stands are too extreme. Are they? Here's a list of some progressive positions. Which one is extreme? Series: Progressive visions ,values, philosophies (21 Articles, 33865 views) ![]()
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![]() The Food Industry-- Your Every Day Poison Delivery Source Is it possible to eat food that is not poisoned today? If you buy 98% of the items in a grocery store they are processed foods with all kinds of preservatives and other chemicals added. Even if you buy food labeled organic, there's a possibility that a percentage of the food is problematic. Series: Conscious Eating as Activism, Vegetarianism, Veganism, Letting go of meat (5 Articles, 19941 views), Monsanto (4 Articles, 34379 views) ![]()
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![]() The Left is Moving Right. What to do? The left has been moving further and further right and it has to stop. Here are some thoughts.
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![]() Joe the Plumber-- the Parasitic Leech Joe the plumber talks like your average right wing libertarian. He doesn't want to pay his way. Joe talks like corporate polluters have historically acted-- avoiding paying for the damage they've done by dumping or spewing.
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![]() The Big Stupid in Cambridge was it racism, or two stubborn men with too much testosterone?
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![]() Is The Word "WHORE" Offensive? Is it a dirty word? let's discuss this. I think there is a different perception for men and women and would like to sort it out and understand it better. Series: Framing, Language, Buzzwords (11 Articles, 54107 views)
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![]() Dodd Frank Financial Reform Legislation-- Watered Down, Diluted, Loaded with Loopholes-- The Obama/ Democratic Congress We've been stabbed in the back again. . The "financial reform legislation" is another case of Dems and Obama selling out we-the-people in favor of big corporations and lobbyists. Time we take a stand
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![]() Get Ready for The Nuclear Energy Spin Assault The tragedy in japan will quickly produce an army of PR flacks, fighting to protect the interests of those who have a stake in the building and maintaining of nuclear reactors and related nuclear energy facilities.
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![]() A World Damaged by Psychopaths and Narcissists-- Ian Hughes Interview Transcript Part 1 Ian Hughes says a small proportion of people with dangerous personality disorders are responsible for most of the violence and greed that scars our world. We talk about his ideas on psychopaths, narcissists and related disorders-- what they do and how to deal with them Series: Ian Hughes Psychopaths, Narcissists, Disordered World (2 Articles, 7769 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() What Do We Do Now That the DNC Rigged & Stole the Primary What Do We Do Now That the DNC Rigged & Stole the Primary. That's the big question. I comment on this then include video's from Glen Ford, Kshama Sawant, Jill Stein and Nina Turner. ![]()
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![]() Movie Review: Cloud Atlas-- Superb Movie with Strong Political Values Message Cloud Atlas is an extraordinary, revolutionary movie, the best one I've seen since Avatar, a truly different approach to movie-making. And the message it sends could make the right wing hate it, so don't be surprised to see really negative reviews. Some will be based on politics. Strictly entertainment-wise, it had me literally sitting on and gripping the edge of my seat.
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![]() Progressive Rabbi Michael Lerner on Israel/Gaza Interview transcript What's a progressive Rabbi's take on the history and current situation between Gaza and Israel? Transcript and link to MP3 of interview Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Major Facebook Hack: This is Sick!! A warning and heads up on what looks like a major hack of Facebook.
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![]() Chris Hedges Interviewed by Rob Kall, on the dying media, the Middle East, Rebellion in America and more Hedges talks about the dying media, the importance of print, that it time for rebellion... "I think we have to begin to understand that there's been a kind of coup d'etat in slow motion on the part of corporations and they've won and we've lost. And then we have to begin to build resistance movements based on that knowledge." Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Open Thread: Stephen Miller Has Covid-19 tephen Miller has Covid-19. What are your thoughts? For me, Miller is the most detestable, despicable person after Trump, maybe even worse, since Trump is so stupid, it has taken Miller to come up with some of the most diabolical evil, heartless and cruel things Trump has put into effect. ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Anti-Social Personalities-- interview with Psychiatrist Donald Black I interviewed psychiatrist Donald Black, M.D., author of Bad Boys, Bad Men, on May 6, 2013, discussing anti-social personality disorder, sociopaths and psychopaths. This is part one of a tw Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Exclusive Interview With Giffords' Rabbi Debunks Rumors An interview discussing the Loughner family's connection to Synagogues, between Rob Kall and Gabrielle Giffords' rabbi
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![]() Murdoch Meltdown: News Corp Imploding; Raising Questions about Corporate Personhood The recent developments unfolding at News Corp challenge the idea of corporate personhood and whether justice can really be served when corporations are given the privileges of personhood. There are also the aspects of accountability that come with being considered a person. The events at News Corp Are raising some very thorny questions.
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![]() Want To Find the Worst Anti-Semitism? Ugly Anti-Women's Rights Policies? Go to Israel It's looking more and more like Israel has its own brand of intolerant, fundamentalist "Taliban" extremists, bullying the majority of the Israeli people and now, re-defining what it is to be a Jew, so most American Jews are not Jews and most American rabbis are not rabbis. It is even illegal for women to carry a torah at the wailing wall. We know that taking away rights starts small and creeps to bigger and bigger things.
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![]() Ames Straw Poll Winning Bachmann's Problem With Reality The Tea Party has a reputation of unwillingness to compromise. But who knew that this inflexibility would extend to reality. Michele Bachmann proves, on CNN, that she's unwilling to accept reality. You can't do president without that capacity. ![]()
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![]() 34 Days Before the DNC--Trying to Make Things Happen There are five weeks until the democratic convention and I'm doing all I can to make sure that Hillary Clinton does not become the Democratic candidate. ![]()
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![]() Is Ukraine Crisis Neocon Payback To Putin For Syria and Iran Interventions? Neocons, Obama, Israel, Iran, Putin and ... TPP and globalization one world corporate planet people... Oh My!! ![]()
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![]() DNC Revealed as Un-democratic, Top-Down Authoritarian Election Rigging Fiefdom Run By Hillary Insiders The top two headlines today show growing evidence that the DNC-- the Democratic National Committee -- is not democratic, and not a committee. It is an authoritarian fiefdom being run by Hillary insiders, headed by serial liar Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views)
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![]() Top-down blowback; The GOP Discovers that the Grassroots Bites Back What happens when a top-down organization which has exploited the grassroots finds that the grassroots won't take it any more and starts to bite back, to take control? Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views)
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![]() McCain VP: Sarah Palin, AK Gov. Help Build a profile on her Help Build a profile on her in the comments section. ![]()
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![]() Bernie Didn't Win New Hampshire. No Joke. Huge crowds, Huge winning margins don't matter if the Democratic Party rigs the election. If the Democratic party's superdelegate system is not ended, the Democratic party will not be a viable part of the future.
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![]() Made In America; Real Monsters-- Corporate Personhood We need to end corporate personhood. It is at the root of the problems facing and threatening social justice, even democracy itself in the US and beyond. Invented in the US as a malignant interpretation of the 14th Amendment-- the one meant to give blacks equal rights-- corporate personhood is a blight upon the US and humanity. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views)
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![]() Bob Ney (R-OH): Prosecuted for Not Playing Ball with Bush Administration "They've taken bloodsport to a whole new level in this administration" ![]()
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![]() Blame Obama, Warren, DNC, Superdelegates, Hillary Primary Supporters,for Trump, Senate, SCOTUS There are people and groups to blame. The truth is that if the people and groups named below had not operated as they did, Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic primary, then would have won the general election with his coattails sweeping the Democrats to a victory in the senate and maybe even the house, with Democrats picking up seats and power in state government as well. Series: Take Back the Democratic Party and America (7 Articles, 23218 views)
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![]() On Being Brave, Having Courage Today, a researcher interviewed me. He was looking for people who thought they were brave. Well, in some ways, I've considered myself to be a coward, but then, others have told me I have big cojones, so I volunteered. It was an interesting conversation that got me thinking more about bravery and courage.
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![]() Biggest Threat to America-- It's our Immoral Military-- With A Leader Who Thinks It's Fun to Kill Afghans Beneath the mantle of defender of the realm, the US military has mutated into a massive parasitic, immoral tumor that is leeching the lifeblood from the US economy and destroying the good will the US earned over past decades.
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![]() A Resounding Bottom Up NO on the Bailout-- From the Entire Progressive World The voices are unanimous on the left, rejecting the Paulson bailout. Before the start of the Iraq war, there were millions of Americans who KNEW the WMD claims were false and the war was a terrible idea. But the Dems in congress didn't listen. Let's force them to listen this time. And let's hope Obama hears us too and makes the right choice this time too. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views)
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![]() Wingnut Murder Spree or Are WE Part of the Problem? imbalanced extremist wingnuts are being "activated" into murderers by extremist activators in the media and on the web. Expect a lot more.
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![]() How Angry Are You? Time To Channel and Say It Smartly Our nation is at risk of being destroyed by corporate forces and moneys from within and multinational corporate influences from without. We cannot sit still and accept, as good sports, that we lost in fair elections. The elections were run based on an obscenely corrupted Supreme Court. We cannot allow women to lose access to birth control and the counsel of Planned Parenthood.
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![]() Transcript of Podcast Interview with Paul Craig Roberts Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() American Justice is At Risk. What Are You Doing About it? While the health reform debate is roaring, as it should be, with the yellow back dems, including Obama, in full spineless coward mode, except for a handful, there's another important situation that must be covered-- the failure of Obama and AG Holder to remove the Bush appointed toxic prosecuting attorneys-- the ones who have criminally engaged in prosecutorial misconduct. ![]()
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![]() Lying General Keith Alexander-- Bad For America General Keith Alexander lied to congress. That was reason enough to fire and prosecute him. Now, he's gone further, calling for stopping the press. This is bad for America and bad for democracy and press freedoms everywhere. Series: Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views) ![]()
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![]() Reject Schumer, Make Bernie Senate Minority Leader Schumer represents the exact thinking that led to the Democratic loss of the White House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the House of Representatives. It is time for the Democrats to start thinking about the future, not the jobs they're going to be gifted by corporations and plutocrats after they leave office. Bernie Sanders is by far the best candidate to lead the Democrats in the senate.
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![]() Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter-- Interview; Details How Insurers Screw Insureds Wendell Potter, who last week testified before Congress about a duplicitous health insurance industry, tells us they shouldn't be trusted, how they are screwing the insured. ![]()
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![]() What if We Always Called Mitt Bishop Romney? It Could Be a Game Changer Anyone who has a question about the effect of Romney's having been a Mormon Bishop for over ten years should refer, should ALWAYS refer to him as Bishop Romney. It could be a game changer because it will make the majority of voters who are unaware of this aspect of Bishop Romney's background think through the implications and possibilities. ![]()
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![]() Paul Craig Roberts Transcript; Part 1-- The Biggest Economic Disaster in History, Globalism, the Undoings of the West I wanted to start off citing a little bit from your new book. You say in it, "The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the rise of the high speed internet have proved to be the economic and political undoing of the West." That's a big deal! I'd like you to dissect each of those a little bit. I thought that collapse of the Soviet Union was a pretty good thing. Why are you saying it's so bad for the US? Series: Globalization, TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, WB, etc. (14 Articles, 52833 views), Paul Craig Roberts Podcasts and 2 part transcript-- The Collapse of the Banking System, and After (2 Articles, 14090 views) ![]()
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![]() Who's a Psychopath? Walt on Breaking Bad? Obama? Politicians? Corporate Execs? Wired magazine has a new article: Test case: is Breaking Bad's Mr White a psycho? The story looks at Walter White's evolution over five seasons and finds that indeed, Mr. White does become a psychopath drug maker, dealer and killer, according to the criteria by Robert Hare, the man considered the world's expert on psychopaths. So I applied a similar approach to Obama, Politicians, and Corporate Execs. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() Photo Essay; The Occupy Movement As Evolving Community: A Beautiful Phenomenon When the right attacks the Occupy movement, and suggest that the Tea Party is better, or that the people of the Occupy movement are not of the best class-- you know they are either lying or ignorant. There is no comparison between the two. The Occupy movement is profoundly more kind, more evolved, more deep and nurturing than the Koch funded tea party. ![]()
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![]() Baumgartner Jumps from 25 Mile Altitude; Gets You Thinking... A successful jump reminds me of the hopes and dreams of the space program back in the sixties. We need to get back to that head and heart space.
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![]() Surveillance State USA; Wholesale War on Dissent In America At a town hall in Philadelphia , the explosion of surveillance organizations and the development of a wholesale war on dissent was described by ACLU attorneys, a civil rights attorney and an antiwar activist who was victim of recent FBI raids. The town hall introduced a chilling mountain of information describing how, since 911 and the introduction of the patriot act, regulations preventing abuses of power... Series: Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views) ![]()
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![]() Learning About Energy Conservation From Brazil I've only been in Brazil a few weeks but in that short time it's become clear to me that Americans could massively reduce their energy use and consumption if we followed some of the examples set by Brazilians and other nations.
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![]() Police Kettle Occupy National Gathering (#Natgat) Protesters With Bikes; 28 Arrested Reports are sketchy. There is a youtube video that clearly shows police fencing protesters in by holding their bicycles in front of them. Series: Protests, Actions (12 Articles, 29521 views)
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![]() HBO's Newsroom Kicks Ass, Scares the Hell Our of Right Wingers and Probably the MSM right wingers and the MSM will trash it but this movie is brilliant and WILL make a difference. Kudos to HBO- Series: Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views) ![]()
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![]() Why Hillary Would Lose to Trump, Cruz or Kasich Trump will shift gears and tone down, clean up his bellicosity and re-invent himself for the general election, moving to the center and acting more well-behaved, making him far more tolerable to millions of Bernie supporters and independents. He's already begun doing that. He's a marketing genius and will get twice or more air time than Hillary, just like he did in the primaries.
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![]() 700 Arrested in NYC, Dozens Arrested Among Thousands Protesting Bank Of America in Boston at Citibank The people who have showed up at Occupy Wall Street are succeeding, inspiring people all across America. Photos from Brooklyn Bridge and Boston Series: Protests, Actions (12 Articles, 29521 views)
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![]() Dennis Kucinich Interview Transcript: on Libya and Obama's Impeachability I talk to Dennis Kucinich about Obama's actions in Libya and factors to be considered regarding constitutionality and impeachability. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Kucinich, Other Progressives Stand Ground Against Attacks I interviewed congressman Dennis Kucinich and other progressive leaders in health care reform to get his response to recent attacks and to find out his motivation and what would move him to change his vote. While Markos "Kos" Moulitsas attacks Kucinich, with name-calling, I and other progressives see him as a hero and saint.
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![]() Interview with David Ray Griffin on the Rob Kall Radio Show An interview about 911 Truth with author David Ray Griffin, author of "New Pearl Harbor Revisited," on the Rob Kall Radio talk show, with co-host Jon Gold
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![]() Get Ready for Digital False Flag Attacks The US has a history of false flag attacks being used as excuses to start wars. The problem is, to be effective, false flag attacks require bombs, blood, death... Now, the Wall Street Journal reports in a top headline article, that the US is working on developing a policy that defines cyber attacks-- hacks, computer sabotage-- which cause damage or death, including damage to our economy, as acts of war. ![]()
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![]() Calling Out and Challenging Evil... While We Still Can Even in the early days of Nazi Germany, there were good people who called out the evil. They were purged, jailed or killed, or they fled the country. Here in the USA, we call people who call out evil whistleblowers. The current Department of Justice-- Obama's DOJ-- has become the worst, most dangerous enemy of the canaries in the coal mine-- the whistleblowers, ever in history. This discusses what we need to do Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), Whistleblowing, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks (16 Articles, 96721 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() The DNC leadership just demonstrated, in Kansas, how they will lose in 2018 The DNC leadership just demonstrated, in Kansas, how they will lose in 2018. By doing the same failed thing they've been doing. ![]()
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![]() Greenwald: Every Phone Call is Recorded and Stored-- A Globalized System Designed to Destroy Privacy, includes video Glenn Greenwald, in a skyped in talk to the Socialism 2013 Conference, told the audience, for the first time, about his experience going through the process of encountering and working with Ed Snowden. told the audience that a bombshell he would soon be releasing was that "NSA can redirect to its storage one billion cell phone calls every thing day. They are storing every call and have the capability to listen to them... Series: Surveillance, Intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS (15 Articles, 80131 views) ![]()
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![]() Questions About and Lessons From Joan Rivers' Death Could Save Lives Rivers death raises a lot of questions about whether profit motive contributed to risk factors, whether having it done as an outpatient procedure contributed. I hope that the questions her death raises may make potential future patients for GI and other outpatient procedures requiring anesthesia smarter consumers, and that they may give River's death some meaning, in terms of preventing future deaths.
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![]() Trump is Rigging His Cabinet to Prevent Invocation of 25th Amendment Removal From Office It's becoming clear that Donald Trump is filling his cabinet with sycophants who will protect him from being removed for incompetence, mental illness, corruption, being a traitor or for criminality.
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![]() Police, Mayors... Use "Safety" to Excuse Worsening Violence, Like Pepper Spraying Peaceful UC Davis Students Across the nation a "safety" meme is emerging as the excuse police chiefs, Mayors, etc. are using to justify intensifying, brutal levels of violence against peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters. Many have speculated that the fingerprints of the FBI and Homeland Security are behind the pattern of assaults and evictions of OWS locales and protesters. To me, that suggests President Obama is allowing, perhaps even encouraging.. Series: Police Gone Wild (17 Articles, 125117 views)
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![]() Election Theft; An American Plague Spreading Around the World I have this theory that election theft is becoming more and more rampant throughout the world. I blame the members of congress who have intentionally neglected to pass tight legislation banning un-recountable electronic voting. The US is now setting the standard for crooked elections around the world. Shame on the congress.
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![]() Interview with Steve Hildebrand; Steve, Did you tell Progressives to Shut the F Up? A couple days ago, Steve Hildebrand, Deputy National Campaign Director for the Obama Campaign, wrote an article-- Message to Obama's Progressive Critics. It raised such an uproar that it was discussed in all the major news outlets, it got talking heads and pundits talking about it. So, I invited Steve Hildebrand on my radio show to talk about it, starting with the question, "Did you tell progressives to STFU? Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Conversation Between Noam Chomsky, Paul Craig Roberts and Rob Kall part 1-- the future of capitalism This is part 1 of the transcript of my interview with Paul Craig Roberts and Noam Chomsky on the future of capitalism. More parts will follow in the coming days. Series: Chomsky and Roberts Conversation Moderated by Rob Kall (2 Articles, 21081 views), Chomsky interviews and transcripts (6 Articles, 44141 views)
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![]() Will A Majority of Americans Doubt Bin Laden's Death? This report from Obama-- that Bid Laden was tracked, killed, then buried at sea-- may satisfy some, but it will leave millions very unsatisfied. I can't imagine an explanation for ditching the evidence that will be satisfactory.
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![]() Multiple Israel False Flag Ops and How Supporters of Palestinians Fall Into the "Jewish" Word Trap Mark Perry goes beyond what he reported in his Foreign Policy article to discuss multiple Israeli False flag operations and how supporters of Palestinians fall into the languaging trap, using the words Jews and Jewish.
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![]() Will Supreme Court Kill the Obama Health Care Reform Plan? CBS reports that Idaho Will Sue If Health Care Bill Passes. The Virginia attorney General has similar plans. The rogue five right wing radical extremists who are running the reputation of the Supreme Court into cesspool territory could decide on whether the congressional vote on Health Care goes into law.
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![]() Will Casey Anthony Acquittal Lead to Attack On the Right to A Jury Trial The response from the "execute Casey" advocates on the right has been vicious, vilifying the jury as stupid, incompetent, and overly influenced by CSI. My fear is that the acquittal will lead to the mobilization of forces similar to those which were mobilized successfully to destroy another right we thought was part of the fabric of American justice-- the class action lawsuit.
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![]() Susan Rice for Secretary of State? VERY Bad For Liberals and Progressives It looks like momentum is building towards Susan Rice being the next Secretary of State. And a lot of liberal people, particularly in the media, are reacting to opposition by John McCain and LIndsay Graham-- getting behind Rice because she's being attacked by right wingers. That is a bad idea. Rice will be simply awful, from a progressive, anti-war, pro-environment point of view. Imagine combining Dick Cheney & John Bolton
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![]() Obama Keeps Shrinking Those "Little brain" White Male Penises First, he, a black man, was elected president. That started the penises of millions of white Americans shrinking, causing them to feel less superior to millions of blacks. ![]()
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![]() The Most Dangerous Threat to Humanity-- Not Ebola Not War At the root of the world's problems you will find giant monsters. ![]()
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![]() Four Bankers Sentenced to Death for Fraud... In Iran Last month, Iran did something that Obama and his neutered puppy Attorney General Eric Holder should be doing. They sentenced four bankers to death based on fraud charges. ![]()
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![]() What Are the Biggest Lies and Delusions That Keep People Voting Against Their Own Best Interests? This world is being handed over to a few hundred billionaires and transnational predatory corporations gorging themselves in an economic bloodfeast that leaves billions dead or damaged. Yet many of those people continue to vote for corporatist politicians in both major parties in the US, or abroad who vote against their best interests. Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), American Dynasties and Dynasty Taxes (6 Articles, 18948 views), Awakeners (11 Articles, 29482 views) (View All Series)
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![]() NYPD Cops Fudged Crime Stats in Compstat Model Program Now Used in 100s of US Cities A new survey of over 100 retired NYPD captains and senior officers found that they believed that statistics were manipulated to portray lower crime rates for the compstat program that calculates crime rates. Compstat needs much greater scrutiny and review. It shows great potential to be abused in ways that endanger both the public and justice.
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![]() Wishing Limbaugh Dead except for the Sarah Factor So, is it wrong to wish that the little, never properly functiong walnut of a cardiological biological aparatus in his chest-- I won't call it a heart, which has positive metaphorical connotations-- just heaves, shrivels up and stops cold...er? ![]()
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![]() Clinton Tim Kaine VP Pick Scores "F" Progressive Rating As should be expected, Hillary has chosen a running mate who's about as conservative as you'll find in the Democratic aisle, with an "F" rating in terms of his Progressive Score. ![]()
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![]() Don't Depend on Bernie to Take Back the Democratic Party and America Bernie Sanders can't make the changes we need happen for us. Love and honor him as a progressive hero, but listen to what he's told us. WE have to do it from the bottom up. Series: Take Back the Democratic Party and America (7 Articles, 23218 views) ![]()
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![]() Duped Progressives, Democrats and Right Wingers I'm tired of progressives-- and I mean people I am certain are progressive-- helping to amplify and blast out right wing echo chamber messaging, because they've been duped. And it's not just the progressives and the left who are being duped. It's also right wingers. Surprise. Both the neocon right and the neoliberal left political parties are both happily engaging in despicable behavior that deserve our contempt.
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![]() Bloodbath; The USA Repudiates Obama, Emanuel, Bluedogs, The DLC, DNC, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd... Good Riddance! Republican red. This represents the Democratic bloodbath." The American people have spoken. They "rightly" repudiated failed leaders, corporate cronies and arrogant centralized, top-down politics. ![]()
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![]() Good Idea?-- Allowing an Ebola Patient Into the US? Two American health care workers who have contracted the so-far uncurable Ebola virus are coming to the USA-- at least one going to a supposedly safe facility at Emory University in Atlanta Georgia. I just don't get the thinking that would allow such a disease through our border.
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![]() Gibbs Just Did His Job... Told America What the White House Thinks of Progressives; So here's what we have to do... Gibbs reflected the conversations he's hearing inside the White House. He reflected what Obama, Emanuel and the other DINO lying corporatist, bankster-suck-ups are saying behind closed doors. We got a brief glimpse into how they truly think. With the defeat of Colorado's Romanoff, the White House's attitude that the progressives are un-necessary may have been reinforced. We have to get organized and exert our power! ![]()
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![]() World Economic Forum Explores Earth Shaking Risks to World, Including ETs There are five different huge possible developments that could have earth-shaking effects upon our world, including discovery of alien life on other planets, according to a report generated by Nature for the World Economic Forum's (WEF) discussion of Global risks.
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![]() PA Protest Against School District Refusing to Show Obama Speech In a suburb outside Philly, a school district has banned the Obama speech. Local actvists and community members showed up to the tune of over 100 protesters, to demand the speech be shown. ![]()
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![]() Who Will Replace Trump as the 2020 GOP Presidential Candidate Trump is in big trouble. There are multiple reports that the honchos at FOX News are discussing what to do in a post-Trump world. That includes the highest levels of leadership there. That includes Paul Ryan, former House Majority Leader. If Fox decides to throw Trump under the bus, then there will be a Republican primary. So, who will enter the fray as candidates. Series: Trump Removal/ Impeachment (5 Articles, 25901 views)
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![]() Andrew Breitbart-- Major Right wing Echo Chamber Architect and Voice You might think that Andrew Breitbart, involved in fraudulent, unethical faux journalism efforts attacking ACORN and Shirley Sherrod, is simply a small-time, ethically impaired lowlife-- pond scum. You would be wrong. Andrew Breitbart is, scum-metaphor-wise, BP grade, ocean destroying, gull oil well destorying major scum. Breitbart is no lone wolf. He is not an unethical oddball faux journalist doing weird projects.
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![]() No Anti-Right Wing Shout-outs, But the Progressive Message Won Big at Oscars The two movies that won the most Oscar Gold in last night's Academy Award Ceremony were movies that annoyed the right.
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![]() Traitors in the Supreme Court Erased Our Most Precious Security It has become clear that the Citizens United Supreme Court decision went beyond free speech. It was a betrayal of American security that opened the gates to an assault on American Demcracy. It would have been easy and simple for the Supreme court to include in their decision that allowed unlimited funding of advertising by companies and organizations to forbid funds from foreign nations, individuals or entities.
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![]() Transcript Part II: Former Catholic Priest Matthew Fox on Ratzinger, Opus Dei and the Broken Catholic Church Part II of my interview with Matthew Fox-- on the likely candidate to replace Ratzinger, on Papalology, Creastion Spirituality, standing up to power, the problems of the Catholic Hierarchy, the emerging possibilities for a bottom up Catholic Church, the men's movement, Patriarchy, chaos theory, Goddess and the war against the Feminine, Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Memo to Congressional Democrats: Obama Screwed YOU too It's become clear to progressives that Obama stabbed us in the back, lying, betraying us, breaking campaign promises. It's become clear to independents that Obama was no change maker. But, in spite of Robert Gibbs acknowledgment that YOU are screwed in November-- that the Republicans could win the house, and others' observations that the senate is now at risk, you haven't figured out that Obama is not on your side ![]()
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![]() Who Is Steve Bannon I've simply curated a batch of tweets about Steve Bannon, somewith links to articles, most with comments.
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![]() Birther Army Lieutenant Refuses to Obey Orders Until Obama Produces a Birth Certificate In an apparent birther-mentality induced career suicide, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, an army Physician who has been in the US Army 18 years, is refusing to obey orders from commanding officers, including Barack Obama.
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![]() Arianna Huffington Interview Transcript; Discussing Third World America My guest tonight is Arianna Huffington. Arianna was just featured on the cover of Forbes magazine as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, Technorati ranks her website, Huffington Post, as the number one blog in the world, Mediarite ranks Arianna just second under the editor of the New York Times as the most influential editor. Welcome to the show Arianna. We talk about her new book, Third World America Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Fukushima 3X Worse Than Chernobyl-- Japanese Government Cleanup Takeover Implications With the amount of Cesium sitting in endangered storage tanks at three to four times what was in Chernobyl, and risk of leaks rising, the Japanese government has taken over the clean-up of the Tokyo Electric Power Company ( TEPCO) reactor site, at Fukushima. ![]()
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![]() NSA Whistleblower: NSA Is a Corrupt, Broken Institution NSA is one of a number of spy agencies which do not have to be subjected to audits. That makes them extremely vulnerable to corruption. Whistleblower and former high level NSA 30 year employee William Binney says that corruption at NSA is rampant. Series: Whistleblowing, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks (16 Articles, 96721 views)
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![]() Rigged DNC and DWS Played Major Role in Defeating Keith Ellison The DNC is designed to be rigged to protect the power of the top down insiders. And it shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone that DWS probably played a major role in the defeat of Keith Ellison and the rejection of reinstatement of Obama's Rule banning lobbyist cash.
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![]() How To Deal With Pirates (American, not Somalian) we need to face facts. A criminal class is pirating America.
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![]() The World Breathes a Sigh of Relief as America's Light Goes Back On America has become, again, a beacon, a light that illuminates and energizes the hopes of humanity, making what is best in us shine brighter. ![]()
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![]() 21st Century American Slaves In the time before abolition, slave owners would cut the hamstrings of slaves so they couldn't run away. In a way, American workers who are in jobs they hate, that they are forced to stay in to keep their health insurance, are also hamstrung. They can't run away either. Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), Healthcare, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Hospitals, Health Insurance, Medical (1 Articles, 7076 views) ![]()
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![]() Part 2; Transcript Exclusive Chris Hedges Interview; The Template for Harvesting America, Sacrifice Zones and Blood This is part two of a two part transcript that's over 5000 words. In this interview, Chris Hedges talks about the template being used to harvest America-- at the expense of the middle class, the sacrifice zones feeling the most pain, and the blood price we've paid for the rights they are trying to take away. Series: Chris Hedges: Days of Destruction Days of Revolt Interview (3 Articles, 31855 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Book Review: Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters by Andrew Kreig Read "Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters," a book just published this week by OpedNews contributor Andrew Kreig. and you'll learn a lot more than you could have imagined, and you'll start seeing the world, politics, and the justice system in a very different, clearer, smarter way. This book exposes the puppet masters who pull the strings of leading officials in both major U.S. parties, including Obama
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![]() Loughner Jewish? Member Same Synagogue as Giffords? An attempt to sort through the sources and facts on claims about Jared Loughner being Jewish, belonging to the same synagogue as Congresswoman Giffords and that the synagogue is hiding this secret (accusations on White Supremacist sites.)
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![]() Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen; according to viewers of all news networks except Fox News Viewers who favor any other news source but Fox believe,by as much as 70% to 24%, that the 2004 Election was stolen. This article explores who Fox Viewers are in Detail based on the latest OpEdNews/Zogby People's Poll Series: OpEdNews Sponsored Polls (18 Articles, 25642 views)
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![]() Did Hillary Do A "Man Thing" Dukakis Moment? first there was dukakis in a tank, then Kerry going hunting, and now, there's Hillary, belting down shots and beer. ![]()
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![]() Billionaires Are Dangerous to Humanity, Dangerous to the Earth -billionaires are freaks of nature. In nature, giants are bizarre, freakish anomalies, and they don't survive long. Billionaires should be treated the same way. They are malignant symptoms of civilization. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() Supreme Court Traitors Sell Out America Again With McCutcheon Decision Today the five Supreme Court psychopathic scum who vote together for corporations and against people, for big money and against democracy vomited out a decision that could be the one that irreversibly puts the nail in the coffin of American democracy and the middle class. ![]()
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![]() Rob Kall Interview with Chris Hedges on Gaza, Hamas, AIPAC and more I interviewed Chris Hedges, in depth, on Hamas, Gaza, Israel, AIPAC and more. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Is NATO Member Turkey Aiding and Abetting ISIS/DAESH Turkey seems to be one of the biggest factors in the abetting, empowering, even training and funding ISIS. Why is the MSM ignoring this? Why are members of congress ignoring this. At Least Joe Biden has talked about it.
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![]() Congress Finally Votes for Impeachment... But... The House of Representatives unanimously votes to impeach, but the NY Times gives it on paragraph on page 12-- at least it's section A. ![]()
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![]() Clinton Foundation Scandal: Laundering Foreign Money-- Ken Silverstein Interview Transcript An interview with investigative reporter Ken Silverstein, who blisteringly eviscerates the Clintons and their foundation. Series: Clinton Foundation Laundering Foreign Money: Podcast and Transcript (1 Articles, 4335 views)
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![]() Congressman Weiner Should Stay Congressman Weiner has been an idiotic fool, a classic exemplar of the John Dillinger myth, with his penis drawing away all the blood from his brain. Pure idiocy. We can't afford to just throw away the strongest voices we have, the people with the guts to take the stands and fight the fights we need fought... and there is a campaign to eliminate ALL of the strongest liberal voices.
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![]() Coverup? Govt Denies Any Oil in Loop Current or Florida. Tar Balls Found In Florida Keys too little too late, obama must clean up the ocean, shoreline and regulatory agencies... and drastically increase the transparency
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![]() Rough Times for Whistleblowers I'm attending three days of whistleblower conferences and activities. Why? Because a few years ago, when I was naive about the state of whistle blowing in the U.S Series: Whistleblowing, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks (16 Articles, 96721 views)
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![]() Are Progressives Being Duped by a Megacorporation's Disinformation Attacks? Can you imagine a multibillion transnational corporation wants something big-- legislation that will change the way business is done in a way that's a quantum leap better than it currently is? Can you imagine the company using distraction and disinformation techniques to attack activists who oppose the bill? ![]()
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![]() Tragedy Parasites/Vultures Descend on Boston Yesterday, at the first press conference in response to the Boston Marathon bombings, the first question asked came from an Infowars person-- who most tweeters characterized as a crazy-- asking if the bombs were a false flag event by the government, with the aim of taking away people's guns. Series: Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories (5 Articles, 91349 views)
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![]() Netanyahu-- Liar, Fraud, Cheney Mini-Me-- Trying to Influence US Presidential Election Netanyahu is a liar, pretending to want to attack Iran or, worse, trying to get the US to attack. And he's using this ploy to intentionally influence the US presidential election.
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![]() Ground Zero Mosque Sensitivity and Terrorism: Mosque Opponents Good For Terrorism, Bad for America The game the right and their corporate media enablers are playing goes like this. "We support religious freedom but these nasty Muslims are not being sensitive to the feelings of the 911 survivors. But there's another sensitivity that the media, which are blasting this trumped up issue totally out of proportion, are totally ignoring. ![]()
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![]() How Did a Malignant Narcissist Psychopath Become the Most Powerful Person in the World? The question is, how did a malignant narcissist psychopath become president-- not just president but a horrific monster who is intentionally destroying the protections that have made Americans and America save from the predations of the worst corporations and his fellow billionaire psychopaths? And what should we do about it. Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Civilization and Indigenous cultures and comparisons (18 Articles, 65304 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Rumsfeld's Mind: If 9/11 Worked, Why Not Try it Again Call me a conspiracy theorist. But when Donald Rumsfeld spoke, in late 2006, to the pentagon propagandists the NY Times recently exposed, he, in opining the loss of both houses of congress to the Democrats, suggested that "the US could benefit from another terrorist attack,"- Jason Linkin reports. ![]()
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![]() Conspiracy Theory As Distraction From Reality It takes all kinds. There are some people who are just flat out full of sh*t and some who are batshit crazy and some who have more malevolent intentions. Some are gullible addicts for the craziest theories. Some are very aware of the reality that the government lies and does do evil things that we only find out about one or two generations later. Series: Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories (5 Articles, 91349 views)
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![]() Questions for My Dem Congressman after His Health Care Town Hall, where he pointed me out as a liberal he disagrees with My congressman points me out in the crowd as a liberal he disagrees with. I call on using right wing talking points to attack single payer. He's not a bad guy, but he used me personally and got things really wrong on single payer. ![]()
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![]() Is Trump The Most Hated Person in Human History? Trump is the most hated person in human history. This thought came to me as I covered and participated in the #WomensMarch2018 and I thought it would wonderful to get a hashtag trending that Trump would inevitably and repeatedly see: #TrumpMostHatedInHistory
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![]() Chomsky answers Occupy Wall Street OWS Critics I asked Noam Chomsky, "What's your take on the criticism that Occupy Wall Street people don't have demands, don't have leaders, are not clear on what they stand for?" He replied. ![]()
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![]() Open the Debates to 3rd Parties: Time to Call out the Fraud Perpetrated by the Commission on Presidential Debates The Commission on Presidential debates has set an arbitrary 15% polling level requirement for candidates to be included. This is a pathological symptom of the take-over of the democratic process by the corporate owned mainstream media. The truth is, the current presidential debate system is a fraud in many ways. ![]()
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![]() Occupy Wall Street Metamorphosizes-- And it's Beautiful and Fun a powerful, visionary, exciting, FUN gathering of representatives from close to 100 different Occupy locales. The encampments are gone. So be it. The future of occupy is in the people already in it and those who discover it and who the current people awaken, who will act as catalysts, moving the people of the world from a top down culture of dinosaurs to a bottom up, horizontal, direct democracy world ![]()
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![]() The System: Deserving Contempt, Resistance and Undermining-- Are you a part of the revolution, the resistance, the fight for humanity's future or are you a part of the system. There are things you can do you haven't thought of, steps you can take that you haven't considered-- some legal Series: Activism, Protest, Civil Disobedience (29 Articles, 145351 views) ![]()
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![]() Are Republican Governors Ready to Kill Tens of Thousands to Placate the Tea Party? Kill is a strong word. It's my word, not the word of a source or researcher. But it's the word that came to mind when I read reports of a Harvard study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study reported that there was a greater than six percent decline in death rate in states that expanded Medicaid.
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![]() The USA Needs a New Party-- 'N'? 'D2.0'? We need an Apollo-like program to create a new political party that represents the people the Duopoly-- Republican and Democratic parties-- fail to represent-- a majority of Americans. D2.0? Or, based on the song by John Lennon and the words of Black caucus co-founder Ron Dellums, the "N" party?
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![]() Was it a Non-Violent Flotilla or Intentionally Violent, Even Military Action The action was supposed to be non-violent. Something went wrong. This article explores the possibilities.
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![]() We Are So Screwed-- So Let's Not Take It Lying Down Time to Face Some Tough Reality and to Stand Up To the Right and to Liberals
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![]() Real Vampires, their Human Cattle and Supreme Court Capos: time to declare war on corporate personhood Are there vampires that "farm" humans for profit? I say that we have them living among us, and the five supreme court justices who just reversed decades of election spending reform are some of their "capos" enabling their evil.
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![]() Is Comcast Finally Killing The Liberal Content On MSNBC? It seemed inevitable; once Comcast bought MSNBC, it would not last as the liberal news forum it had been. That inevitability is becoming a reality. ![]()
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![]() Meet The $700 Billion Bailout Czar There is a new Czar in America""the man who will be running the $700 billion budget bailout/rescue program-- assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs-- Neel Kashkari. ![]()
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![]() Bigger Implications of Detroit's Water Shut-off For Up To Half Its Population This article takes a look at some of the not so obvious factors involved in the Detroit water shut-off. Think about predatory capitalism and the Shock Doctrine, for starters. ![]()
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![]() Framing Protesters and Media as Terrorists It is only a matter of time when people who challenge the corporatocracy are legally defined as terrorists. Series: Framing, Language, Buzzwords (11 Articles, 54107 views), Protests, Actions (12 Articles, 29521 views) ![]()
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![]() Malia Obama Caught on Video Smoking Pot Malia Obama actually appears to have smoked a joint. This is making Twitter go wild. what do you think? ![]()
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![]() Hoax Portrays Fox News VIewers as Having 80 IQ sorry, but the reports of evidence of the stupidity of Fox News viewers are a hoax. ![]()
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![]() Could Bernie's Coat-Tails Take Back the House and Senate Majorities Could it be that when Bernie wins the Democratic primary his coat-tails will help take back the senate and maybe even the house, in spite of the massive gerrymandering in Republican controlled states. ![]()
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![]() Who's Supporting or Opposing Ahmadinejead or Mousavi? This is complicated stuff with different stakes for a diverse range of groups. OEN is seeing different perspectives on what's happening in Iran from different writers. I try to lay out some analysis of the analysis and I ask a LOT of questions to get beneath the mainstream media and the easy reflexes in a situation that is, in someways crystal clear and some ways highly nuanced. ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Robert Whitaker Author of Anatomy of an Epidemic; How Psychiatry Failed and Betrayed America, Killing 1000s Here's how I described my reaction to Whitaker's book: " within moments I was transfixed by it because this is a book that should get you a Pulitzer...I have to say it -- this is just an incredible, uncovering of information that's been readily available that you've tied together that's just mind blowing" Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Psychiatry, Psychiatric Drugs, ECT Electroshock Therapy Flaws and Dangers (4 Articles, 15097 views), Robert Whitaker Author of Anatomy of an Epidemic; How Psychiatry Failed and Betrayed America, Killing 1000s; interviews and transcripts (2 Articles, 6433 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Republicans Released Ad Attacking Dems For Passing Bailout-- Before Vote Failed Republicans planned to use bailout vote against dems. What a surprise.
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![]() The Most Sophisticated Cyberweapon Ever Deployed is Changing Warfare The Stuxnet worm, designed by a collaboration of the US and Israel, and used to destroy 10-20% of Iran's nuclear centrifuges. This kind of attack on a an industrial installation has, historically, been considered an act of war.
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![]() Local Alaskans See Sarah As Potent Asset But Vulnerable What do local Alaskans think about Sarah Palin? That was my approach, wanting to get past the pundits and Washington insider takes on McCain's new partner. So I started calling people I thought would give me a clearer perspective-- Democratic party leaders in Alaska. ![]()
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![]() What Makes Trump Supporters Tick? Can You Say Narcissism and Authoritarianism? It starts with Trump's flaming, traumatizing narcissism Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Trump Will Not Be On the 2020 Ballot: Considerations for Stakeholders Trump will be out of the White House and off the 2020 ballot by the time the Iowa primary comes around. So, a lot of people and organizations need to start thinking about a number of things. Series: Trump Removal/ Impeachment (5 Articles, 25901 views) ![]()
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![]() Obama Picks a Clarence Thomas for the EPA another betrayal by Obama, in the form a of a minority appointee-- female, latina, but look at hear history. Do we have a Clarence Thomas for the environment? Obama came talking about change but the change we've seen is HIM looking more like the do-nothings in congress on both sides of the aisle... except what they do for corporations and lobbyists. ![]()
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![]() The Dangerous Role the Intel Community is Playing in Trump's Demise It's likely that by 2018 Donald Trump will have been deposed and replaced by President Pence. But I fear that the process which leads to Trump's removal from the White House will be a demonstration of deeper, darker malevolence which American and the world must face-- a dangerously interfering, manipulating intelligence community that is willfully influencing elections and balances of power.
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![]() Secret Service Issues New Policy: Bloggers to Go Shoeless The Secret Service has ruled that bloggers must go shoeless when attending political events. After the flack raised by Secret Service critics who questioned why President Bush found himself at the mercy of an Iraqi journalist's size tens, the security org took a preemptive position, requiring that all bloggers, journalists and hosts from Air America, PBS, NPR and MSNBC would be required to remove their shoes before... ![]()
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![]() Paris Thoughts-- on open carry, false flag and revenge Here are some thoughts on the Paris bloodbath. What do you think?
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![]() Obama Team Blaming Jewish Vote for Loss of Weiner House Seat Dems Held for 88 Years It looks like Obama's political leadership team is going to try to spin the loss of Anthony Weiner's NY District 9 seat on Tuesday as a local anomaly primarily due to a large Jewish population. Don't buy it. EVERY demographic is going to run away from Obama and his reverse coat-tails. ![]()
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![]() Interview Transcript: Greg Palast: The War Between the Billionaires, And Election Theft part one of a transcript of my interview with one of the best investigative reporters in the world, Greg Palast, about his newest book, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits. And we got into something very interesting-- that there's a war between two kinds of billionaires-- The vampire squids and the Vultures. And yes, this affects the elections and the nine ways they are going to be stolen and corrupted. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views)
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![]() Rob Kall Interviews Sibel Edmonds Rob Kall interviews Sibel Edmonds, discussing Jane Harmon, Turkey, Dennis Hastert, Edmond's being silenced... Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Impeachment Won't Oust Trump and Pence. Here's What Will There's a chance that, if the Democrats stop being really stupid, and start representing their constituents instead of corporations and the wealthy, both Donald Trump and Mike Pence could have their asses thrown out of Washington D.C.. But impeachment won't Be the way it gets done. ![]()
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![]() What Comes After "It's Okay to Kill Americans and jail them indefinitely without counsel."? President Obama has made it clear that it is okay to kill Americans without a judge or jury and congress passed a law, NDAA, which allows people to be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely without legal representation. This is the tip of a spear. It has opened a wound in the constitutional protections of Americans that will deepen, become infected and will continue to expand its manifestation in other nations.
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![]() A Congress of Cowards Congress is punting again, this time on the tax cut extension. This pattern, which has led to the lowest approval levels since measures of approval were taken, has become chronic. It's really about the bulk of the members of congress being cowards who are intentionally destroying the balance of powers between legislative, Judiciary and Exectutive, so they can save their jobs.
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![]() MMS Director Fired the head of the failed MMS has been removed ![]()
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![]() Noonan and Murphy Caught on Tape Discussing Palin: "Cynical", "Gimicky," "Political Bullshit. ""It's over." transcript or see it on youtube
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![]() The Obama-Clinton Cabinet? We Voted for CHANGE, Not Recycling Please, president-elect Obama, keep your promise, starting with your cabinet and bring change to this nation, not re-cycling. ![]()
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![]() Exclusive to Opednews: Alan Grayson Talks About TPP, GLobalization, NAFTA and Obama I interviewed Alan Grayson on my radio show on March 18th. The link to the podcast is here. This segment of the transcript of the interview covers our discussion of TPP and globalization trade deals. It's not pretty. Series: Globalization, TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, WB, etc. (14 Articles, 52833 views), Alan Grayson 2014 Interview: TPP, Corporate Psychopathy, Foreign Money In Elections, Electing More Progressives (4 Articles, 13354 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Occupy Wall Street SHOULD Be International and Hyperlocal The same people and entities that have corrupted the three branches of US government so they are no longer accountable to the people are also waging class war on Europe and the rest of the world. The Occupy Wall Street movement IS going international and well it should. The conversation is about opposing corporate personhood, as it should but it should also be about opposing globalization and international trade deals.
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![]() There's Something Happening-- BIG!! Are You In? People are coming out into the streets because going into voting booths has not helped them. People are joining "occupation" protests because they've realized that things are getting so bad that they have to do something. ![]()
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![]() McConnell will stop Pelosi from continuing impeachment hearings into 2020 The worst thing Nancy Pelosi can do is move the impeachment to the Senate. But Mitch McConnell will probably prevent her from doing that. Yes, there's a way that he can stop Nancy Pelosi.
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![]() Interview Transcript: Thom Hartmann on Corporate Personhood and How the Supreme Court Justices Have Become Kings Corporate personhood is one of the biggest issues for Occupy Wall Street. Thom Hartmann, who wrote THE book on it, discusses it and related issues as they relate to Occupy Wall street, Citizens United and the current state of affairs. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() India Elects Modi: Is the world's largest democracy entering its most sinister period since independence? India's newly elected prime minister is bad news. He evokes nationalism as though inspired by Hitler. He was banned from the US because of the murders of many Muslims allowed under his watch as leader of the Gujurat State. His ascendence to power has been bought by giving away or selling/privatizing national resources. HIs allies have silenced dissenting journalists. Wikileaks revealed a negative US State Dept assessment:
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![]() Is McCain Campaign Interfering In Alaska Troopergate Investigation of Palin? It looks like supporters of John McCain are taking aggressive actions to kill an investigation of his running mate Sarah Palin, to prevent an October Surprise-- adverse findings that would cast a negative light on her character and leadership
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![]() Acetaminophen Tylenol Brand Substitute Found to Have Metal Pieces in Pills Should you throw out the acetaminophen in your medicine cabinet? ![]()
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![]() Scott Brown Reveals His Inner Extreme Right Wing, Anti-Abortion, Corporatist Self Amazing how one answer in a debate may put the nail in Scott Brown's election coffin ![]()
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![]() Regarding Trump Derangement Syndrome Accusations: GTFO, Like Whoopi Says That's right. Don't tell me about Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS.) My take on this bullshit term is that it is a combination of two things. Series: Framing, Language, Buzzwords (11 Articles, 54107 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Attacking Psychopaths and Sociopaths from The Bottom and the Bottom-Line Up There are some positive ways to deal with evil and psychopaths that use bottom up approaches that bring out the best in people. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() Corporate Psychopaths, Transcript of Interview with Clive Boddy, Author, part 1 a transcript of my one hour interview with Clive Boddy, author of the book, Corporate Psychopaths. We talk about sociopaths, psychopaths, bullies, etc, and the massive costs and damages they inflict upon businesses. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views), Corporate Psychopaths and Bullies, Interview with Clive Boddy (2 Articles, 7467 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Did Police Pepper Spraying of Occupy Wall Streeters Cost Billions On Black Friday? Did police use of pepper spray on OWS protesters "prime" the woman who pepper sprayed Walmart shoppers this morning. If so, and people avoid shopping the box store melees, those police actions could have led to losses of hundreds of millions if not billions in Black Friday sales.
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![]() Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND talking about the neurobiological and mythic bases for the Fundamentalist Mind Series: Religion (12 Articles, 34509 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Trump is Now the Leader of White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis Through winning the presidential election, president Donald Trump is head of the Republican party. Through his words, actions and inactions, he has become the leader of American White Supremacists and neo-nazis. Series: Donald Trump (3 Articles, 7202 views)
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![]() Conservative Radio Host/Pundit Michael Smerconish Endorses Obama Michael Smerconish, early morning drive time talk host for Philly's conservative Big Talker Clear Channel radio station, who is followed on the station by Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, then Sean Hannity, has endorsed Barack Obama. ![]()
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![]() Monuments Men, Gestapo Generals and Billionaires The movie Monuments took my thoughts to unexpected places, tying gestapo general art plunderers to Billionaire narcissists and sociopaths. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), Small is Better than Big; small acts, world, economics, lifestyles, solutions, activism (21 Articles, 50693 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Interview with Rocky Anderson- Justice Party Presidential Primary Candidate full transcript of my hour interview with Rocky Anderson Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Trump's Attack on Net Neutrality-- A Step Towards Feudalism Let's be clear. The plan to end net neutrality is not about the just the net. The internet is the biggest power leveling factor in modern western industrial world history. The attack on net neutrality is an attempt to claw back all the power that the Bottom up nature of the internet has given to individuals, groups and non-state actors. Series: Social Media, internet, Web, Smart Phone (1 Articles, 23901 views)
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![]() Obama is Behind the Militarization of America's Police Forces; Radley Balko Intvw Transcript Part 2 Bill Maher did a short interview with Radley Balko last week. This is the transcript of my 75 minute interview with him. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Police Gone Wild (17 Articles, 125117 views), Warrior Cops-- Hyper-militarized police in America-- Interview with Radley Balko (2 Articles, 14728 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Does GOP Cocaine= Koch-Cain? Are Koch bros Buying GOP Pres Nomination by Supporting Herman Cain? Could the Koch brothers be buying the Republican presidential nomination with a Koch-Cain (pronounced like cocaine) campaign? They've been funding Cain as their mouthpiece for a long time. ![]()
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![]() Bill Cosby-- Predatory Psychopath? What We Can Learn I conclude that Bill Cosby is a narcissistic psychopath-- and there are lessons to learn from this-- that people who seem like really nice guys are not always what they seem. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() Was Israel Punked by Hamas? Are Progressives Supporting Palestinians Being Punked too? If you are one of those who simply vilify Israel, you are helping the right wing Israelis who want to keep the perpetual state of war going. They use your comments and postings describing your hate and vilification of Zionism and Zionists to prove that their approach is right. ![]()
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![]() What is the Opposite of Psychopathy? There's a psychopathic continuum from full-blown psychopath, having all the traits and characteristics, to some characteristics to having a few. Perhaps we should consider the full spectrum-- all the way to people who are the most opposite of psychopathic. What would such a spectrum look like? What would all the traits, characteristics and parameters look like, all the way to the most positive aspects of being human. Series: Positive : Psychology, Kindness, Compassion, Empathy, Warmheartedness (19 Articles, 41715 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() Meeting Revolutionaries Today I met fresh batch of revolutionaries- people who just months earlier had braved the wrath of tyrants, risking life and limb-- cycled on and off the stage, I found myself smiling, excited, enthusiastic, occasionally eyes tearing, leaning forward at the edge of my seat. Remember. I was at a conference, not some thriller movie. But this was better.
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![]() Positive Psychology-- Throwing out the Baby With The Bathwater My hope, in writing this article, in response to Jason Leopold's article on the Army's Spiritual Fitness test is to get you to see Positive psychology as a tool and science like most, that can be used for good or evil. My personal experience with it has led me to believe it offers much good, not only in the realm of mental health and sports performance, but far beyond. Series: Positive : Psychology, Kindness, Compassion, Empathy, Warmheartedness (19 Articles, 41715 views)
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![]() Why Holder and Obama have not fired the Bush Appointed, Rove-Vetted DOJ Attorneys It's an unprecedented outrage. There are scores of attorneys-- partisan, engaging in serial prosecutorial misconduct, like the cases of Gov. Don Siegelman and Cyril Wecht, and these Bush-appointees are still on the job, doing damage to the US, to justice and innocent victims. I offer a theory why this breach of trust by Obama, why he has failed to do what every president before him has done.
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![]() Progressive Criticism of Arianna Huffington's AOL Merger Deal and Her Response With so many progressives criticizing Arianna Huffington for selling the Huffington Post to AOL, I wrote to her, asking for a response to Progressives' concerns. She responded. ![]()
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![]() Obama Goes Union Buster, Forces striking Philly transportation workers Back To Work Obama has busted a union strike, siding with a Republican governor.
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![]() Obama's Failure; Gulf Spill Cover-Up and Incompetence Hits Flack; Where are the Marines? again, OEN has been days ahead of the NY Times. Watch today's MSM report what OEN readers knew days or even weeks ago.
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![]() Diagnosis and Treatment of Right Wing Little Dick Syndrome Like the dumb souls, called "little heads" in the movie, Defending Your Life, I see "little dicks" as dumb white men who use their support of pseudo-macho Bush and his stupid war and the whole range of right wing causes to feel more manly. There is a cure.
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![]() Metamorphosis Time for Occupy Wall Street; Witnessing the Eviction of Occupy Philly I witnessed the waning of Occupy Philly's encampment, but also saw what looks to me like a pattern of energy and development that suggests that occupy evictions will lead to a Metamorphosis of the Occupy Movement to something that not only walks but flies, that is more beautiful, more powerful than anything we have seen so far.
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![]() Obama's 10,000 Troop Spit In The Ocean-- Not Even Close to Good Enough What we are witnessing is one more example of failure of leadership, failure to stand up to the people Obama is supposed to be commanding. Instead, he is, as people now expect him to do, "listening to the Generals." That's not what Obama was elected to do. He was elected to make hard decisions. We must face the reality that military leaders are like crack addicts, totally unable to cut down on troops... ![]()
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![]() Yes, NRA Member, You DO Have the Blood of 20 Children on Your Hands letters from some NRA supporters... and my responses
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![]() Bush and Rove Broke Law; Office of Special Counsel Concludes-- But OSC and DOJ Not Acting On Findings George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman and others repeatedly broke the law, violating the Hatch Act, a new report concludes... and they are going to be allowed to get away with it. ![]()
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![]() The Linchpin Tipping Point to Reverse Centuries of Top Down, 1% Power and Privatization? I took the words "public banking" out of the title because it's so not sexy I thought it would turn people off. But I hope you'll read through this article and see how and why I believe that Public banking could be THE intervention that begins the extinction of the Top Down powers of the one percent class. I have become a Public Banking hyperenthusiast Series: Banking, Public Banking (1 Articles, 25222 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views)
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![]() Incredible Video of Democrat and Republican Leaders in Secret Caucus This is what it really looks like. I think you'll agree that this is extraordinary demonstration is not really surprising.
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![]() Former CIA Veteran Ray McGovern Discusses Brutal Arrest at Secretary Clinton's Internet Freedom Speech On Tuesday, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke on issues of free speech at George Washington University, 71-year-old former CIA analyst Ray McGovern was assaulted, dragged from the room and double handcuffed with metal cuffs causing profuse bleeding. What had he done to elicit this treatment? He stood in "silent witness."
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![]() Gaza and Tijuana; What if Rocket Bombs Were Launched from Mexico Into California What if rocket bombs were rained on southern california soil from mexico? How would US citizens and legislators respond? How would peace-loving citizens cope?
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![]() The Lying Thomases I titled this article, "The Lying Thomases" because now, we have two Thomases who lie.
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![]() Whatever You Think of Rahm Emanuel-- That's Probably What You'd Think of Obama, If you Got Past the Charisma Hate Rahm Emanuel? Maybe you should look a step further
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![]() Kill Patients With Death Panels-- The Republican Answer to State Budget Woes Arizona patients are dying because of Death Panel decisions made because of Republican legislation that went into effect the end of October. ![]()
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![]() Impeachment by Christmas Equals Democratic Party Top-Down Insanity If Nancy Pelosi decides to end the impeachment hearings by Christmas, as has been discussed, she will be engaging in one of the worst acts of political malpractice and stupidity in modern history.
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![]() Photo Essay: Heroes Fighting for Single Payer Arrested in Philly For Civil Disobedience All across America, protesters are ramping up the fight for real, solid healthcare reform-- single payer-- by protesting and engaging in civil disobedience. Over 100 have been arrested in the past weeks. I witnessed and documented the protest and arrest of 13 demostrators at the Philadelphia Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in center city Philly. Series: Photo Essays (4 Articles, 10316 views)
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![]() Ohio Needs International Election Observers The 2012 election, like the 2004 election, will come down to Ohio. Ohio has a criminal history of stealing election. Criminal!! It is essential that many, many international election observers come to Ohio to observe elections, particularly in areas where there are many African Americans and students. Sign the Petition to bring International Election Monitoring to the 2012 Ohio Elections ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Problems With Psychiatry's DSM-5; A Conversation with Allen Frances, M.D., There are major problems with the soon to be released DSM 5 Psychiatric diagnostic manual. There's a tremendous overdose of psychiatric medications-- societally. We've turned a very bad corner where the drugs you get from the doctor can cause you more harm than the drugs you get from the street corner pusher. There will be many more people who qualify for mental disorders under the new DSM5. Series: Psychiatry, Psychiatric Drugs, ECT Electroshock Therapy Flaws and Dangers (4 Articles, 15097 views), Brain, Mind, Neuroscience, Psychology (7 Articles, 26766 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Guns For Killing Cops and Soldiers? armed rebelled, violent revolution in the US? I don't think so.
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![]() Democratic Presidential Bush Enablers Rehabilitate Criminal Bush It's just about a year. Obama, after using Clinton's former chief of staff John Podesta to fill his administration with Clinton administration DLC DINOs, has followed in Clinton's footsteps, failing to prosecute a former president Bush for the horrific crimes he committed. ![]()
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![]() Corporate Psychopaths and Bullies, Transcript of Interview with Clive Boddy, Author, part 2 the second half of the transcript of my one hour interview with Clive Boddy, author of the book, Corporate Psychopaths. We talk about sociopaths, psychopaths, bullies, etc, and the massive costs and damages they inflict upon businesses. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views), Corporate Psychopaths and Bullies, Interview with Clive Boddy (2 Articles, 7467 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Only 16% of Americans Believe Scientific, Secular Evolution Theory While belief in Creationism is at a new low, that still leaves 78% of Americans believing that God guided or caused the creation of man. Sixteen percent believe in the strictly secular scientific explanation. ![]()
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![]() Election Day Open Thread What are you seeing in your locale? How are the lines? What's going on? What are you doing today? ![]()
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![]() Beware the Deadly Palinflower While little is know of the rare and dangerous palinflower, this brief photodocument details the developmental phases of this rare and deadly flora known to wipe out whole cultures and to destroy political parties ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Paul Craig Roberts-- Capitalism, Snowden, Regulations, Impeachment, Net Neutrality, GMOs, This is part two of a two part transcript of my interview with Paul Craig Roberts Series: Paul Craig Roberts Summer 2014 Interview and transcript (2 Articles, 25816 views)
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![]() Wall Street Journal Reports On Health Care Rationing By US Insurers Right wing health reform opponents would have you believe that Obama's health plan or single payer health care will bring rationing to health care. They suggest that the big, bad Obama plan and the nasty Democrats want to institute health care rationing that will kill granny. The truth is health care rationing is a usual and customary part of the current health insurance system in the US.
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![]() Obama's Newest Strategy Will Fail; Here's How to Turn The Tide Against the GOP The new White House strategy is to show how Republicans are the party of no, by showcasing their answers and comments on poll-friendly issues. This is not going to work. They may feel good, making Republicans look bad, but the main strategy that this tactic is based upon is a loser. The American people are justifiably furious that they gave their trust to Obama and the Democrats and that confidence was betrayed. ![]()
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![]() Marina Sitrin: Alternatives to Democracy: Communal Councils, Encuentro, Zapatistas, Autogestion, Todos Somos-- Part 2 My guest tonight, a returning guest is Marina Sitrin. She's a leading thinker for Occupy, I shouldn't say was, she still is. She's been an author of multiple books on Horizontalism, and now, she is a co-author of the new book, They Can't Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Marina Sitrin Interviews and Transcripts: Horizontalism, Alternatives to Democracy (4 Articles, 10836 views) ![]()
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![]() Billionaire Sentenced to Five Years in Prison yes, it happens. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() DNC Comes Out of Closet-- Goes Public, Handing Reins Over to Clinton Campaign The DNC has allowed Hillary Clinton to replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the practical head of the DNC with someone of her choosing, finally coming out of closet, showing their collusion openly.
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![]() Pollution as Theft: Accounting for Systemic Externalities We leave things out. Sometimes it's an innocent, unintentional omission. We leave out key ingredients, factors, considerations, in the things we do, the things we make. Science has done just fine with that for a long time, and for simple stuff, this can work out nicely. But when things are more complicated, when things are built within more complex systems... this omission is unacceptable. It's theft from the commons. Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), The Systems View of Life; Fritjof Capra Interviews, Book Review, related articles (6 Articles, 22256 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() The Israel Gaza Spiral; Who Lets This Happen? It is useless to continue to engage in the finger pointing blame game. We must rise above that and ask, "Who lets this happen?"
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![]() Get Out In the Streets And FIGHT for Universal, Single Payer Health Care A family member's brutal beating by a gang has me extra pissed. Time to get out in the streets to demand universal health insurance like every other first world nation has. There are too many horror stories affecting too many Americans. ![]()
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![]() Clinton Foundation Donations Crashing-- Evidence They Were Given To Buy Influence The Clinton foundation has crumbled, with donations crashing, strong evidence that the donors were not giving to support charitable causes, but instead, were buying influence. ![]()
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![]() Speculating on Bernie Running Third Party, with numbers There's speculation that Bernie might run as a third party candidate, possibly as a Green. Is this a crazy idea? Let's think about this.
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![]() Hell is Other People-- or the Other Party; A Dip into hell with the help of Dante and Sartre People on the right now feel they're in the depths of hell. We on the left may soon be re-entering the depths of hell. This article explores Dante's and Sartre's views of hell and how we might relate ![]()
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![]() Transcript 2: Conversation w Paul Craig Roberts, Noam Chomsky & Rob Kall: Climate Change and Suicidal Russia Policy The second and final part of the transcript of my conversation with Paul Craig Roberts and Noam Chomsky Series: Chomsky and Roberts Conversation Moderated by Rob Kall (2 Articles, 21081 views), Chomsky interviews and transcripts (6 Articles, 44141 views) ![]()
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![]() Will Romantic e-mails between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour Maria Help or Hurt Him? Received a month ago, but not published because they were unsubstantiated-- romantic email exchanges between Stanford and his paramour, Maria. ![]()
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![]() "Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs!" --Daily Show Billboard Greets Republicans In Minnesota Drivers in Minnesota are enjoying this Billboard welcoming the Republicans who will be nominating John McCain as their presidential candidate.
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![]() Bipartisan Betrayal of Main Street, Bailout Hands "Victory" to Bush As expected, the Democratic leaders of congress are selling out Main Street, handing the real plums of the bailout to Republicans, putting lipstick on this bailout pig. But that's the way Pelosi's 110th congress has always worked. This Democrat is not impressed. ![]()
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![]() Noam Chomsky Interview transcript part 1-- On Media, healthcare, Economics, Jobs, Dangers of Human Intelligence Transcript of the first half of my interview with world-renowned political activist, linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher author, MIT Professor emeritus Noam Chomsky. Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), Chomsky interviews and transcripts (6 Articles, 44141 views), Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Afghanistan as Sports Event, Sexual Fantasy and Detour From the Hero's Journey Sports, sex, the hero's journey mind all play a role in America's perception of our relationship to Afghanistan. President Obama can pander to our baser instincts, as he's been doing or seek a higher road that takes America home to a higher level as a better nation.
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![]() Egypt's Revolution May Not Produce Democracy; Updated All across the US and the world, people are gathering to demonstrate to support the Egyptian people. This is good. But we need to also come up with ways to help the Egyptian people so their revolution fulfills their hopes and dreams, so it is not stolen from them by another totalitarian regime, possibly one that is worse than the existing one. ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Interview M.E. Thomas Author, Confessions of a Sociopath. This is the transcript for the first part of my two part interview with M.E. Thomas (a pseudonym) the author of Confessions of a Sociopath (in her book she reveals that she was tested and confirmed to score as a psychopath.) Series: Confessions of A Sociopath-- 2 Part interview with ME Thomas & Transcripts (1 Articles, 11221 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Trump's Fascist Invasion and War Against Portland We've known the potential was there. We've known that as the election became closer and closer, psychopath malignant narcissist Trump would get more desperate and abuse his powers more, in dangerous ways. Now we're seeing it, with his storm trooper BORTAC Border Patrol swat team agents invading Portland, literally attacking citizens, against the will of the Mayor and governor.
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![]() Obama's Choice; Pull an LBJ or George Herbert Walker Bush Obama Will not Win a Second Term. The question is, will he go the path of LBJ or Bush 41? ![]()
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![]() So... Bill O'Reilly Despises Progressives, But He's Okay with Liberals... Progressive Leaders Comment O'Reilly said, literally, "I despise progressives." He then went on to say something, and this in not necessarily the literal quote, "but liberals are okay." So I asked leading progressives what they thought about it. ![]()
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![]() An Occupy Wall Street Eyed Review of The Avengers Movie and the Future of Movies I had to go see the movie, THE AVENGERS, in 3D Imax And it was entertaining. But having been through the past year's Occupy Wall Street experience gave me new eyes. And what those eyes viewed brought me to an epiphany. Superheroes serve the 1%. They serve the top down powers that are waging a massive war with the 99%-- we on the bottom. Series: Change Without Top-Down Heroes-- bottom-up, Occupy Narrative/Story Approaches (2 Articles, 11460 views), Writing and Story to Change, Wake Up The World (22 Articles, 69222 views)
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![]() Fighting For Justice, For Freedom Of the Press in Philly, Where Police Arrest Journalists he more I talk to people the more I am convinced that this was an intentional effort by the police to silence the press. From the reports I've received, what happened to Cheryl Biren was not the normal way things are done. Series: Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views)
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![]() Supreme Court: Enemy of Democracy The supreme court has shown, with it's overturning of a 100 year old Montana law preventing corporate intervention in elections that it is systematically making elections in the US meaningless. When corporations can outbid the people in buying media coverage, when the richest candidate can buy his way into a primary, as Romney did, when foreign money can flood into elections, the SCOTUS has become an enemy of democracy ![]()
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![]() Hillary's DNC Platform Committee People Prove She Lies If Hillary wanted her people to oppose TPP, they would oppose it. It's that simple.
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![]() Blame Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi for Coakley's Defeat DINO centrist Dems in the Democratic leadership are to blame for this loss and the massive bloodletting in the November primaries that is very likely to follow. ![]()
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![]() Movie Review: Elysium; It Will Make Your Blood Boil I watched Elysium last night. It was successful. It made my blood boil and my teeth clench. The movie delivers a powerful message. We are already living in a hellish world where the elite and powerful are living lives of luxury off the backs, off the deaths of the 99.9 percent. It's no wonder that this movie has been panned by so many mainstream critics.
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![]() Swedish Justice: Assange Charged With Rape, Then Charges Dropped WIkileaks founder Julian Assange was charged with sexual assault and then, hours later, the charges were dropped. ![]()
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![]() 14 Sellout Democratic Senators-- more reason to take back the Democratic Party Here's one of many reasons we on the real left need to take back the Democratic Party. 13 Democratic senators just nominated themselves for replacement by screwing the American people. They voted against Bernie Sanders' and Amy Klobuchar's bill that would have allowed importation of lower cost pharmaceuticals. This bill would have passed if they'd supported Sanders and Klobuchar, since a dozen Republicans voted for the bill Series: Take Back the Democratic Party and America (7 Articles, 23218 views)
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![]() Tell Congress to Go To Hell With their Current Health Reform Just thinking. The current legislation that the Democrats have celebrated in the House is a pile of shit, an incredible insult. People are dying. People are enslaved in jobs they hate, abused by employers, because they can't afford to leave because they'd lose healthcare coverage. ![]()
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![]() Capitalism's Psychopathic Core Challenging capitalism requires a recognition that it is much more than simply an economic model. It is an enabler of psychopathic individuals and corporations which is empowered by some of the most powerful religions and it has become deeply enmeshed in people's core beliefs about themselves and their culture. It can be changed or replaced, but first it must be recognized for what it is. Series: Capitalism and its alternatives (6 Articles, 17310 views), Civilization and Indigenous cultures and comparisons (18 Articles, 65304 views), Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Official? Have Economists Declared that Longterm Unemployment For Millions is the New Normal, To Be Accepted A new article suggests that liberals are wrong on wanting more employment. I say the economic model is wrong. Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views) ![]()
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![]() Finally, Worst Attorney General in US History Resigning The White House has announced that Eric Holder will be leaving as soon as his replacement can be secured. Holder has established a record that will be difficult to beat, as the worst corporate interest server in US Attorney General history-- a fabulous success at allowing corporate criminals to escape prosecution, while keeping good people, like Don Seigelman, in prison. Series: Police Gone Wild (17 Articles, 125117 views)
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![]() Movie Review: Waiting for Superman; Are Teachers Unions Education's Big Problem? After hearing about it from many sources, including, in my interview with Arianna Huffington, I decided I needed to see Waiting For Superman. When it comes to movies, I want to entertained. So I tend to resist paying to see documentaries. I'm glad I did go to see this one. It made me cry... a lot. It is touching, heart wrenching, infuriating. You must see it. then act. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views) ![]()
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![]() Hillary Clinton's (& the DNC's,) Hopefully Final Top Down Failure Hillary Clinton's and the DNC's Top Down, domination campaign, disrestecting the grassroots, was key to the Democratic disaster. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views) ![]()
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![]() Ten Ton Meteor Hits Russia, 1000 injured, 3000 Buildings Damaged-- No Connection to Looming Asteroid Flyby a meteorite slammed into a town 1500 miles east of Moscow, injuring 1000, damaging 3000 buildings, Video and photos
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![]() The Stupid $425,000 Per Person instead of Bailout AIG for $85 billion Email There's an email for dummies going around. Don't forward it, please. ![]()
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![]() Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road; A liberal's perspective An old friend sent me something like this, but clearly written mostly with a right wing slant. So I rewrote some of the people's explanations, deleted some and added a bunch. All the ones below were created by me. Series: Progressive visions ,values, philosophies (21 Articles, 33865 views)
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![]() Time To Declare War on BIG; America Needs Giant Killers In the real world, biological limitations prevent bigness from getting out of control. Sure, whales are big, but humans can't grow too big or they die young, if they survive at all, whether we're talking about gigantism or profound obesity. Corporate gigantism is also deadly-- but for humans, not for corporations. Series: Small is Better than Big; small acts, world, economics, lifestyles, solutions, activism (21 Articles, 50693 views)
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![]() Invisible Artist Liu Bolin Liu Bolin is an artist who is brilliant at being invisible, even though he wants his work to be seen. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views) ![]()
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![]() There's Something in the Air hope, with photos Series: Photo Essays (4 Articles, 10316 views) ![]()
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![]() Obama's DOJ Perpetrates Injustice for Tens of Thousands of Prisoners Alec Karakatsanis is a civil rights lawyer and co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law .His recent article in the NY Times, President Obama's Department of Injustice, inspired this interview which discusses how tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly black, are being forced to serve longer sentences than they should. ![]()
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![]() Lawrence Wilkerson Interview Transcript part 1 Predatory Capitalism, Oligarch Parties He talks about Predatory capitalism, Dual Oligarchic parties, blood on the streets, socialism in capitalism, death of unions, secession of California, New England, southern parasite states, climate change, destabilizing mass migrations north, population explosion, the "Scramble" scenario, Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), Lawrence Wilkerson Interviews and transcripts-- Blood in the streets, Predator Capitalism (4 Articles, 29758 views)
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![]() Right Wingers Trolling for Jews as MSM Turns the Corner on Calling Out Right Wing Israeli Leadership The right wing echo chamber is attempting to create a narrative which casts Obama, Democrats and worst of all, progressives, in a negative, anti-semitic, anti-Israel light. Fortunately, the American MSM is finally turning a corner, talking about other ways of viewing Israel that are more critical of its immoral behavior
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![]() The August Gulf Oil Gusher Scenario-- Solutions in and out of the water predictions and calls for action for August. If the alternate wells fail, then a nuke is the only option left, but there are many other things Obama should have done by then. Will he do them? ![]()
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![]() This is What a Leader Looks like I saw this photo of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden wearing a hijab. It gave me chills
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![]() Those Who Say Occupy Wall Street Movement Should Go To Washington Don't Get It Cain doesn't get why his "go to the White House" admonition is the exact opposite of what the Occupy Movement is all about. There's a lot of work yet to be done by the Occupy movement. Like a fresh tapped oil well, the energy is gushing and not yet fully harnessed. But it will be soon and when it is, look out. Changes are going to happen, in spite of the powers at the top. This is a truly bottom-up movement. ![]()
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![]() America IS Exceptional And That Needs to Be Cured Americans are among the most duped and deluded people in the world-- by our politicians, our economic system and our mainstream media. Series: Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views)
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![]() Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood? There are no nations in the world with a constitution that gives corporations the right of personhood. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views)
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![]() Obama's John Yoo Moment-- Cherry Picking Lawyers to Break a Major Law Bush and Cheney searched around until they found an attorney who would vet torture. Now we have the news that Obama did the same thing to start an illegal war. He rejected the legal advice of the DOJ's office of legal counsel and Pentagon attorneys and cherry picked lawyers who would tell him what he wanted to hear.
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![]() Movie Review: The Master-- a disappointment Some great strengths, with brilliant acting, characters and cinematography that will get it a lot of Oscar nominations, but I walked out disappointed. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views)
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![]() Did McCain Cheat At Saddleback? maybe there's a reason McCain was so well prepared for his chat with Rick Warren at Saddleback. ![]()
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![]() Iran's 3rd Revolution: 7 Protesters Killed, Journalists Threatened with Arrest if They Report Street Protests things are moving fast. Perspective on how events could lead to a third Iranian revolution
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![]() Movie Review: Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1 not recommended, even if you've been a fan of past movies. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views)
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![]() Dennis Kucinich Interview Transcript III: GLobalization, Wikileaks and Bradley Manning he transcript of my interview with Dennis Kucinich continues, covering wikileaks, Bradley Manning and his treatment, and, separately, the broader issue of globalization and tariff and trade agreements Series: Globalization, TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, WB, etc. (14 Articles, 52833 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Whistleblowing, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks (16 Articles, 96721 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() The DNC Superdelegate Rule Change Is Not Enough YES, the new rule is a positive step. But unless the superdelegates are given a rule that declaring their backing of a candidate before the second convention vote will cost them their superdelegate status, the mainstream media will act exactly as they did in 2016 and the new DNC policy will be toothless and ineffectual. ![]()
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![]() If Bill and Hillary Clinton Had Been Handled In 1996 Like They Would Be Today... If leaders respond strongly and appropriately, this #MeToo emergence could powerfully affect the power of patriarchy and authoritarianism Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views) ![]()
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![]() "The Process Worked" Jeb Bush on Tamir Rice "The process" is a system that routinely preempts justice with power and plutocracy. The process is a key part of a system that has been so corrupted it is literally a laughing joke.
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![]() Skinning Americans Alive: Republican and Libertarian Policies Cause Jump in Unemployment to 9.2% The psychopath corporatists in congress and the Whitehouse are doing all they can to skin and harvest the members of the middle class. Unlike hunters who kill their prey first, the members of congress, the banksters and their enablers in the Whitehouse-- they flay their prey while still alive.
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![]() GOP Cantor's Crass Reasons for Congressional Closing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has said he is shutting down the house of representatives, in response to the attack on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others. I'm taking a guess, but I believe the motivation is ugly and crassly exploitative. ![]()
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![]() Fine Tuning Authoritarianism Trump is fine-tuning 21st century authoritarianism. Certain authoritarian, top-down institutions are inconvenient for corporate authoritarians, like big government and even some iterations of religions. Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Civilization and Indigenous cultures and comparisons (18 Articles, 65304 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Spineless Dems or a Dem-Trifecta Driven Filibuster-Proof Congress and a Media Carrot It is a great gift, an extraordinary honor to be handed great power. Failure to wield the power with courage and integrity may be one of the worst failures of character, perhaps even a mortal sin. ![]()
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![]() The Small Silver Lining to Bernie Sander's Suspended, NOT Ended Campaign There's a difference. Bernie Sanders name will stay on the ballot in the remaining state primaries. That way, he will still earn delegates who can influence policy for the Democratic Party Platform and for future DNC policies. It's a small silver lining a ![]()
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![]() The Lesser Evil Won, Now Get to Work, Set an Intention and Deal with The Cancer On Democracy We Are Living With Sure, you're happy, thrilled, overjoyed. Of the two evils you felt you had to choose from, the one who was the lesser of the two evils, by whatever parameters you measured, has won. Let's be clear. having chosen the lesser of two evils, we've moved towards more evil. It's not all your fault, having participated in the process. It's a dirty, ugly, broken system.
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![]() Post Apocalyptic America-- NOW! I've been watching TNT's Falling Skies, based on the idea that aliens have attacked Earth, killed most humans, destroyed all major cities, and a rag-tag band of survivors struggling to stay alive as they deal with human-size, bug-like aliens and their elephant-sized battle robots. I got to thinking that in some ways, we're actually facing a reality that has some similarities. ![]()
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![]() Transcript 2: Robert Steele-- Spy, Revolutionary-- Calling for Open Source Everything one of the things that I believe is that we're going to have a revolution in the USA. I did my first graduate thesis on predicting revolution and I published a graphic of preconditions of revolution that shows in red, all of the preconditions that exist in the United States of America today. What we're missing is a precipitant -- our Tunisian fruit seller, our soccer mom that torches herself on the steps of Capitol Hill... Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Robert Steele Spy, Open Source Everything (2 Articles, 8404 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Time For the Left To Declare Bloody, Ugly War BACK The right is at war with the left. We need to identify who our enemy is, determine their goals and targets, then begin long term planning for war against them-- target them, target their resources and set goals for conquest, what success looks like and what strategies to get there. They must be big, resolute, bold and courageous. ![]()
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![]() "Secret Win" & Multiple Evidence of How Clinton Team Manipulates and Colludes with Media There is evidence that the Clinton campaign has been colluding with the mainstream media. ![]()
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![]() Treating Extreme Wealth As a Disease I'm partially playfully and partially seriously offering some potential diagnostic categories for the very wealthy. I've saved the best diagnosis for last, since it would explain the insane behavior of the largest number of people. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() The Mental Health Danger of Supporting Hillary's Can't-Do-Ism Imagine a pop psychology guru whose message was "You can't do it, and that's okay" or "settle for less, that's all you're going to get." Or how about, "set your dreams and goals low, then you won't be disappointed," or, "Be afraid, it'll keep you from getting in trouble." He'd be a guru for losers. But I'd guess that there would be people who are so beaten down in life, or depressed or damaged they might actually embrace
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![]() Walk Away From the Health Reform Bill House progressives should simply walk away from this bill. People who say accept what we've been offered don't have the negotiator chops to make the call.
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![]() Time to Turn the American Economic Model Upside Down? Consider alternatives to consumption and growth It's time we re-evaluate the kind of economy we have. Do we still want and need an economy based on consumption and growth? If we're going to consider that possibility, we need to think about the alternate options, if any. Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), Small is Better than Big; small acts, world, economics, lifestyles, solutions, activism (21 Articles, 50693 views) ![]()
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![]() Bernie Sanders Should Stand Up To The DNC and Debate Republicans NOW Tell the DNC and it's pathetic leader Debbie Wasserman Schutz to pound sand.
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![]() Dear President Obama: Steps You Must Take to Prevent BP Oil Disaster From Making You A One Term President So far, Obama has responded to the Gulf Oil disaster as though he has a kindergartner running his PR. I'm no expert, not a scientist, but this list of steps seems so obvious. I may be off here or there, a bit, but there are so many things the Obama administration could be doing to demonstrate it is in charge, operating with real leadership. ![]()
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![]() Replace DNC Chair Donna Brazile Immediately She not be heading the DNC for another day. And while we're at it, remove failed leader Nancy Pelosi. ![]()
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![]() How Are You Feeling About Obama After He's Called Progressives And E. Warren Liars? I'm curious how you're feeling about our president, Barack Obama, lately. Me, I have found that my contempt for him has risen even higher. His recent attacks on Elizabeth Warren and progressives regarding TPP-- and the blatant, despicable lies he's telling-- have given me reason to despise him even more.
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![]() Interview With a Tea Party Leader Who Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement Last night I covered a Trenton City council meeting where Occupy Trenton was being discussed. There, I met Trenton Tea Party president, Darrell Brooks, who has been supporting and participating in Occupy Trenton and the Occupy movement in general. We talked about his support for the movement and how that gibes with the Tea Party and we discussed corporate personhood. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Who Will Win The Election? FBI, NSA, CIA! In a TV interview today I was asked, considering the new FBI revelations about Hillary's emails, who would win the election. I replied that the FBI would be the winner, that the USA's intelligence agencies would be deciding who would win-- an outrageous, traitorous situation.
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![]() Jon Stewart Comments on "Pope Joe Paterno" Jon Stewart brings his inimical irony and wit to the explosive Penn State Paterno story.
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![]() Labor Day as Memorial Holiday; Middle Class R.I.P. The time to celebrate labor day is over. It's time to use the paid time off to fight for fellow workers and for your own job. We should have been doing that for years, but now, the writing on the wall is so clear, we need to be sure next year is the first year that Labor Day is known as a day of strong protest.
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![]() Cindy Sheehan's Revolution Journey Cindy's new book on revolution against the robber class takes her on the next stage of her heroic journey Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views) ![]()
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![]() A Weird, Crazy Idea: Make Extreme Wealth an International Crime It's time to start aiming to create international laws that make extreme wealth not only as despicable as war crimes and the worst heinous abuses, but to also make it illegal. It might be a far off vision that some call crazy, but the big solutions this planet and the 99% of humanity need are going to be labeled crazy. Series: Small is Better than Big; small acts, world, economics, lifestyles, solutions, activism (21 Articles, 50693 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() The World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Group and its Leader The world's most dangerous terrorist group is a threat to life on the planet. It has killed millions and excited about killing hundreds of thousands if not millions more, in attacks it envisions that could kill hundreds of thousands within hours. Those visions could lead to the end of modern civilization. This recent development puts humanity and earth's precarious ecosystems in great danger. Fortunately, there is some hope Series: Capitalism and its alternatives (6 Articles, 17310 views)
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![]() A Time To Kill the Killers, A Time for Outrage It's time to kill the most horrific mass murderers and family destroyers in America of the last decades-- health insurance companies.
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![]() Assassination by Lapse In Security There have already been security-lapses in protection of Obama. An intentional security lapse is probably the most likely means that will be used in any assassination effort. Series: Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories (5 Articles, 91349 views) ![]()
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![]() Ten More Words For Florida to Ban, Besides Climate Change and Global Warming Banning words puts you on a slippery slope. Once you start banning words, who knows where it will go. Here are some speculations on words and phrases that the right wing fill-in-the-blanks who have banned Climate Change and Global Warming might be inclined to ban next: ![]()
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![]() Savages, Billionaires and Healthcare For All Even indigenous people-- authoritarian, religious types call them savages-- even savages provide healthcare for all. Series: Civilization and Indigenous cultures and comparisons (18 Articles, 65304 views) ![]()
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![]() Did Trump Accidentally Declare War on North Korea? Today, North Korea says that the US has declared war against it. This is not surprising. A competent, responsible leader exercises restraint in discussing relations with nations where there is friction. A stupid piece of sh*t leader mouths off with zero consideration of repercussions. ![]()
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![]() God Narrates New Obama Ad One of the new ads from the Obama campaign has a former god as narrator. Oh, and he's also a former president-- of two countries... and a murderer.
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![]() Dalai Lama: "I Love President Bush... but... Lack(s) Understanding of Reality" yesterday, in Philadelphia, the Dalai Lama commented on Bush, the war in Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Series: Religion (12 Articles, 34509 views) ![]()
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![]() Is the USA Attacking Wikileaks.org With Denial of Service Attacks? It has been reported that Wikileaks.org was taken down because of massive denial of service attacks. This raises the question, "Who is coordinating these attacks?" Some experts have speculated that some hackers who were annoyed by Wikileaks unleashed these attacks. I don't buy it. There's something more interesting going on here. I think the US government may be involved and that raises a lot of questions. ![]()
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![]() Oligarchs, Billionaires, Uber Wealthy are Killing Capitalism-- They Are Dangerous The detour capitalism has take that has led to the development of ultra-wealthy individuals could be a dead end-- a dangerous detour that could disrupt capitalism as the world has known it. This may be a message we, the ninety-nine percent can use against the billionaires, ultra-wealthy and the transnational corporations mutating capitalism to something that threatens the planet. Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views)
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![]() House Passes Weak Public Option Health Care Bill, Selling Out Women's Rights. Includes Democrats Who Voted Against Bill Giving a $1.2 trillion gift to the health insurance industry, betraying women's rights, the House gave the White House what it wanted. The question is, will the Democrats wake up with a hangover in 2010, facing a public enraged that the bill has strengthened the very industry that is causing economic pain to families, death to tens of thousands annually and damage to our nation's industries' ability to compete.
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![]() How The Occupy Wall Street / OWS Movement is Like the Space Program The Occupy Wall Street movement is freaking out leaders on the right. Fact is, they are not scared or worried enough. The OWS movement is a huge, explosive development, with bigger more profound implications than they can imagine, just like the US space program had a much greater affect on every occupant of the planet. ![]()
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![]() Military Blocks Marine's Testimony That Torture Derailed Terrorist's Prosecution Can Bush block any person from testifying before congress? Will congress back down on this and give up even more of the power that balances our system of government?
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![]() Independence Day? Perhaps it's time we revisit the idea. Are we still independent? The revolution was against a nation that imposed massive corporate parasitsm upon us.
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![]() Occupy Washington DC Report and Photos Thousands, maybe tens of thousands showed up at Freedom Square in DC on a perfect, sunny day. The big themes were the ten year anniversary of the Afghan war and getting corporations out of government. ![]()
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![]() Drudge Poll Results: Trump Kills, Fiorina Builds, Five or six die. Pundits Fail DrudgeReport.com has a poll running that has over 600,000 votes cast at the time of this writing. Keep in mind that most of the polls we see are based on 450 to 1500 people. ![]()
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![]() Movie Review: Hunger Games . The theater was filled with teenagers, but to me, Hunger Games is more than a hot movie. It's a media phenomenon, fueled by sales of over 26 million copies of the first three books in the series. I was not to be disappointed. First, though I tried, the Imax version of the show was sold out. So I had to see the old fashioned 2-D version. It was still worth it Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views)
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![]() Supreme Court Strikes Down Campaign Finance Regulation-- Sets Back Election Reform Decades The supreme court ruled that corporations could not be restricted in the money they spend on elections. This will also unleash unions to spend more than ever.
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![]() Obama Appoints Berkeley Prof Christina Romer to Chair Council of Economic Advisers she wrote the chapter on the great depression for Encylopedia Britannica ![]()
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![]() Transcript: Jeremy Scahill-- Obama's Legacy; to legitimize assassination as an essential Component of US foreign Policy in a riveting interview, I talk with Scahill about Obama's murders, his assassination diplomacy, Training troops for repression in foreign lands, Murder Inc., the more dangerous aspect of the Obama presidency, Liberals on shaky ground, being killed for what you might become-- a "grotesque form of pre-crime. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Huffpo Aol Merger A Left-Leaning Answer to Murdoch's Fox Empire? My gut reaction to the merger of the Huffingtonpost and AOL is that it's a very good thing for the left. Arianna will now run an operation with over ten times the reach of the Huffington Post, and she's proven her lefty loyalties. Series: Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views)
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![]() Phila DA withdraws criminal charges against OpEdNews.com Managing Editor While covering a protest at the Army Experience Center in Philadelphia, PA, Cheryl Biren, on assignment for OpEdNews.com was arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy and failure to disperse while she was taking photographs of protesters being arrested. On January 13, 2010, four months after the arrest, the Philadelphia District Attorney's office withdrew all charges.
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![]() Get to Know Ben Marble, an Interview with the Guy Who Told Dick Cheney to Go Fuc* Himself. an in depth interview Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() The Tie Between Bullying and Mass Shootings-- Interview Transcript; Jessie Klein Author Jessie Klein wrote an article, "Latest Conn. School Massacre Reminds Us Again to Transform our Bully Society into More Compassionate Communities," noting that "Many of the school shooters since 1979 have been described as 'brilliant' and 'remote.' Repeatedly they had left notes or testimonies about how they were called 'nerd' or 'geek' of even more often, 'gay. We discuss the implications Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Fortune 100 Adjustment to the Shrinking of the Middle Class Big corporations will not be hurt by the death or dying of the middle class. They'll change their product mix.
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![]() Obama's Latest Gaffe-- Further Signs of Weak, Failed Leadership We must face the reality that Barack Obama is a wimp, a smart guy, even a nice guy, who just doesn't have the spine to be as tough as the people of the United States and the rest of the world need. This gaffe should lead to the firing of whoever orchestrated it for Obama, and whoever failed to nix it and that includes the withdrawal of Barack Obama as a candidate for the 2012 presidency. ![]()
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![]() Welcome to the Koch Congress-- Giving Credit for The Democratic Disaster Let's start giving credit where it's due-- on why the 2014 elections went the way they did-- so very, very badly for the Democrats. The Koch brothers, Mr. and Mrs. Adelson, the Waltons-- a handful of other billionaires-- they bought this contemptible election (or fill in your choice of expletive.) How is this a contemptible election? Let me count the ways. But let me assure you. This is not over. ![]()
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![]() Kill Liberals-- The TN Unitarian Church Murderer's Motive (with poll) The 58 year old killer who entered a Unitarian Church in Tennessee was set on killing liberals. Article includes poll ![]()
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![]() Interview Transcript: Frans de Waal: Primates, the Evolution of Morals, Top-down and bottom up Morality My guest tonight is Frans de Waal, he's a Dutch-American biologist who has been named among Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People," He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory U. dept. of Psych. His research centers on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. Series: Frans de Waal Interview; Primate Evolution of Morals, Fairness, Kindness (2 Articles, 7470 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() The power and danger of complexity and secrecy Corporations and the wealthy use complexity and secrecy combined to operate under the radar. This is a big deal-- an approach and system that was a real shock to me. Imagine-- a bank with thousands of subsidiary operations. I'm not talking about branch outlets for the public. I'm talking about subsidiaries created to hide what is being done by whom and what. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views), Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views)
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![]() 2012 Movie Review Expect sold out theaters for this flick-- for good reason. It's not deep, but it is highly entertaining. Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views)
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![]() Breaking: Occupy Philly Cleared By 100s of Police. Occupy LA Cleared by 1200 Police Police have taken over the Dilworth Plaza where Occupy Philly has been. Occupiers marched to Rittenhouse Square, a small park in center city Philly surrounded by expensive condos. In LA the police have been reportedly gathering at Dodgers stadium in preparation for clearing Occupy LA. Live feed reports over 500 people there. ![]()
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![]() Christie's Apology and Firings Are Not Good Enough-- Prosecute Perps Chris Christie's has fired key people and apologized. That's not good enough. It's not good enough because Christie put the people who conspired to punish political opponents into power. Christie gave them the free rein and trust to operate independently. He should be calling for an independent investigation and should order state police to arrest the perpetrators.
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![]() Hell has Frozen Over and I Agree with Ann Coulter Coulter has questioned the wisdom of our military presence in Afghanistan.
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![]() Obama Looking for "Whose Ass To Kick" Tip: Start Looking at Your Own Appointees It's time for President Obama to throw out the corpo-whores, incompetent advisors Clinton DLC DINOs he started his presidency with and replace them with people who will watch the backs of the American people first. It just might save OBAMA's ass. ![]()
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![]() Republicans Come Out of Closet as Murderers for Capitalism The murderous homicidal nature of conservative capitalists has come out of the closet. It started with a handful of them, including Trump, saying that the best way to deal with the virus was to let it "wash through" the populace. ![]()
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![]() NSA 30 Year Veteran, Whistleblower William Binney on Corrupt NSA-- the Inside Story-- Transcript The transcript of my interview with Whistleblower Bill Binney, an American Hero in my mind. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Whistleblowing, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks (16 Articles, 96721 views)
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![]() "We Have 51 Senate Votes for Public Option" Adam Green to Ed Schultz Adam Green, of the progressive change campaign committee, told Ed Schultz yesterday that he counts 51 votes in the senate for the public option, and cites details on senators who have not yet signed the letter, but who have clearly publicly stated that they will vote FOR the public option if they get that bill from the house. ![]()
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![]() The Power of Charisma-- It Can Actually Inhibit Higher Brain Function in "Believers" Thoughts on the power of charisma in and out of religion-- and effects on culture, love, evolution. A recent study shows that people who believe a person is a charismatic religious leader actually inhibit their higher brain functioning. Series: Brain, Mind, Neuroscience, Psychology (7 Articles, 26766 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views) (View All Series)
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![]() China Buys Hummer Brand-- Further Evidence of a Shock Doctrine Assaulted America? Naomi Klein described, in her breaktrhough book, Shock Doctrine, how a nation is attacked, shocked and torn apart, destroying the middle class. It looks like the GM sale of Hummer to a wealthy Chinese investor, probably with the help of Morgan Stanley, is an example of how it's happening in the US. ![]()
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![]() Occupy's Metamorphosis Includes Visions For an Occupy Future On July 4th, over 250 of the delegates to the Occupy National Gathering spent a good part of the day discussing their visions for the future of Democracy. The process is described below. ![]()
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![]() Christie Could Face RICO Charges-- Says Blagojevich Defense Attorney Sam Adam Jr.-- Interview Transcript On Sunday, January 19, 2014, I interviewed attorney Sam Adam Jr., ranked one of the top 100 defense attorneys in America, who defended Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in his first corruption trial. This is the interview transcript of the radio interview : in which Sam Adam Jr. Comments on Chris Christie's situation and compares Christie's case to Blagojevich's. Series: Christie Could Face RICO Charges-- Says Blagojevich Defense Attorney Sam Adam Jr.-- Radio Interview and Transcript" (1 Articles, 3063 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Thoughts on Anti-Corporatist-Duopoly Ways to Approach the 2012 Election my take on ways to consider voting this election season Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views)
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![]() WMDs and Financial Meltdown-- RelatedThreats? Related Dem Congress Failure? Have you seen the reports of the shocked faces of the leaders of congress when Bush's economic czars Paulson and Bernanke informed them of the deadly threat of financial meltdown the US, even the world economy faced if something dramatic was not done immediately. So they come out, shaking in their boots, telling the nation how awful things were, how close to the abyss we've come. Sounds too much like a WMD story to me
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![]() The Extinction of Right Wing Neanderthals; The Rising of Bottom-up Intelligence I'm getting a feeling for what it might have been like for modern mankind to experience the dwindling disappearance of the Neanderthals. I hesitate to use this analogy, because it is an insult to Neanderthals, but I DO get this funny feeling that we are seeing a similar phenomenon""the dwindling disappearance of right wing, stupid, bigoted, intolerant, xenophobic right wing extremists and the rise of bottom-up intelligence. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views) ![]()
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![]() Walker Victory: Democrat Fail and Wisconsin Crazies my take on Walker's victory, the craziness in Wisconsin, and implications for the Fall elections. ![]()
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![]() SCOTUS Neanderthals Hand Win to Hobby Lobby but Unions Scrape By SCOTUS results ![]()
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![]() What would a world look like where we win, where the system is seriously changed? What will the world look like when we win and create our own new system. I list ten bottom up dimensions of the new system. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Progressive visions ,values, philosophies (21 Articles, 33865 views) ![]()
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![]() The people who need to wake up the most in the US America is in deep trouble. I believe many or most Americans have lost hope. We must wake up the people who think they are being represented, when in reality they are being played. ![]()
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![]() The Selling Out of the Middle Class is No Accident: Interview transcript part 1, with Donald Bartlett and James Steele the selling out and betrayal of the middle class is no accident. It's intentional. I interview America's two most honored investigative journalists about the details of that betrayal. Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Reprint from 7/08: Libertarian Legacy? Ron Paul's Campaign Manager, 49, Dies Uninsured, Of Pneumonia, Leaving family $40 For at least the past week, my 2008 article on Ron Paul, Gawker just discovered, Center for American Progress reports following Gawker, Truthout is now reporting-- what Opednews reported in July 2008, how Ron Paul's loyal campaign manager died penniless. Kinda like Paul described in the debate the other day. Guess his campaign manager was the irresponsible type.
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![]() Bottom Up Democracy at PDA, Top-Down at DNC the future of civilization is a move from top-down hierarchical leadership and process to bottom-up participation with a new kind of leadership. the DNC had better wise up to this or they will be left behind as history moves forward. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views)
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![]() Obama's Most Progressive Act Yet; Solidarity With the Chicago Factory Worker Sit-in There may be a time, not too far down the road, when the the Republic Windows and Doors Factory protest will looked at as a tipping point event that woke up the American people. If that happens, it will be because YOU were inspired and did something locally in the next two or three days.
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![]() Tamerlan-- Namesake for a Sociopathic Narcissist Mass Murder? Imagine a mass murderer who killed people to make a point... This monster wannabe was attempting to re-enact the role of a previous monster/mass murderer... I"m talking about the man Tamerlane Tsarnaev may have been named after. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() Obama-- Failed President, Failed Leader-- Could Still Save the Democrats... but he won't I grit my teeth thinking about the profound levels of incompetence, failed leadership and betrayal that we the American People who elected Obama and the House and Senate majority for the Democrats have been victim to. Obama's experiment in "a gathering of rivals" has proven to be a suicidal, massively destructive political disaster that WE are the innocent victims of.
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![]() Transcript: Interview with a Psychopath Neuroscientist Entrepreneur The first half of my interview with James Fallon, a university neuroscientist with a 150+ IQ-- who discovered that he fit the profile of a psychopath and has had the courage to talk about it. Series: James Fallon Author Psychopath Inside-- podcast, transcripts (2 Articles, 7458 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Mega-Psycho; When The Most Successful, Smartest Psychopaths Go Bigger-- Think Pyramids The smartest psychopaths almost never get caught, and when they do, they are often so ensconced behind the barriers of wealth, power and influence that they are untouchable-- too big for jail. Perhaps they are so big that their actions are not even seen as psychopathic. They are often rewarded and honored, their ruses are so effective. Series: Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Stop Supporting Right Wing Messaging and thus, Strategies I'm writing this article to explain to readers what my thinking is. OpEdNews has been and will continue to be a very open site that allows a lot of room for discussion and questions. But I'm taking a top-down approach and cracking down on right wing rooted conspiracy theories and the very specific language associated with them.
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![]() Right Wing Israeli Leaders Meddling in US Politics, Targeting Democrats, Obama? We know that AIPAC meddles in US policy, exerting huge influence on congress. I have no doubt that any member of congress who attacks US policy of blindly supporting Israel will be targeted to be primaried. Could it get any worse? Maybe it can. Maybe Israeli leaders are literally taking actions, talking war, operating a playbook with the intention of influencing the 2012 presidential elections.
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![]() House Dem's Placebo HealthCare Reform The House Dems have offered a placebo in the place of REAL REFORM in their first, outrageous, totally unacceptable draft at health care reform. It deserves only rejection and a loud outcry demanding better. Unfortunately, co-opting centrist dem enablers, like HCAN, Moveon, ACORN will probably go along with it. HCAN is already trying to help sell this piece of trash. ![]()
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![]() Redneck Rampage: Tennessee Judge Orders Baby's Name Change From Messiah to Martin Jaleesa Martin, of Newport Tennessee, went to court with her husband in a dispute over their child Messiah's last name. They left the court having a baby with a new first name, because the "judge" didn't think the baby deserved such a special name. ![]()
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![]() Jill Stein Gives 42 Million Reasons Why She Can Win"-- text and video Jill Stein says she can win the election. How? There are 42 million with student loans. ![]()
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![]() A Black and White Allegory in a 1999 Movie, Pleasantville I just caught about half of the movie, Pleasantville. It made me cry, especially watching it today, the day after the Zimmerman acquittal.
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![]() Interview Transcript 1; FBI Expert on Psychopaths Mary Ellen O'Toole Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD. She spent her career studying the criminal mind. She was one of the most senior profilers of the FBI until her retirement in 2009. She has helped capture, interview, and understand some of the world's most infamous people and she is recognized as the FBI's leading expert in the area of psychopathy and psychopaths Series: FBI Expert on Psychopaths Mary Ellen O'Toole (2 Articles, 11960 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() What to Expect from Trump's Circle Jerking Narcissist Psychopath Team Trump has surrounded himself with a team of brutal, callous, heartless fellow narcissists and psychopaths. Narcissists don't do anything for others. They do things for themselves, except, when they want people to believe they are good. So, what happens when you pool together a team of narcissist psychopaths and give them immense power? Here's a list of what to expect Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() VP Possibilities to Run With Bernie: All Women I've been thinking about candidates who Bernie Sanders might choose as his running mate. I'd really like to see him select a woman, so I'll start with good possibilities and then discuss less likely ones. ![]()
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![]() Obama Calls ISIL "Barbaric Terrorists" Is ISIS/ISIL a terrorist organization? Or is it being labeled as one so Obama and congress can avoid constitutional and legal requirements to authorize war? ![]()
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![]() Breaking: Conflicting Accounts on Christopher Dorner's Death CNN reported, around 10:15 PM EST, that Christopher Dorner, the former policement turned killer was been found dead in a cabin where he was believed to be holed up that the police had earlier set on fire. Now, police are saying that people have not yet gone into the burned cabin so no body has been found. ![]()
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![]() Bad Billionaires-- The Most Dangerous Predators On The Planet criminal, predator billionaires Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() Did Bill O'Reilly's Words Kill the Abortion Doctor? No blood on his hands, but check out his lips. ![]()
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![]() Hell Has Arrived, With the Help of Sociopaths and the Eleven Percent a long, rambling rant about the state of America, Democrats, Liberals, corporations, congress, sociopaths, cluster B personality disorders, and the future of humanity and democracy. I left out the kitchen sink Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() Rob Kall: Keith Olbermann Terrorized and Gov Tries to Hide it Olbermann sent white powder in mail, silenced by Gov, detained in Hospital... ![]()
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![]() Looking At a Bigger Picture: Criminals and Rogue Organizations Within We have, deeply ensconced within our power infrastructures, institutions, organizations and job categories where there are gross violations of the law, of the constitution, of the rights of citizens. These organizations and the people who operate freely as perpetrators of crimes and abuses of the constitution are protected by the power hierarchy that is supposed to supervise them and hold them accountable. Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Steps To Remove Billionaires There are more and more people saying that billionaires should not exist. I've been saying it since 2012. One question that I get is HOW? How do we make it so billionaires don't exist? This article provides details. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() Delegating Power to Generals? Trump's Historic Cowardice and Abrogation of Presidential Responsibility Trump has made it clear that he has handed decision-making over to his generals. His supporters probably frame this as the hallmark of a strong leader and great manager. But military actions are not business decisions. I would frame it differently.
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![]() Discontinued; My Saturn Auto and My Medicare My car brand was discontinued and Paul Ryan and the members of congress loyal to health insurance are trying to discontinue the health insurance I will be using in five years. There are similarities-- similarities I'm not happy about with either situation. I'm wondering if all those seniors who are relieved that the Ryan policies ![]()
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![]() Courtesy of the USA; Rape and Torture of Heroes of Democracy Recent US laws and policies don't just affect potential terrorists and "enemy combatants." They affect the bravest heroes and heroines the world is seeing nowadays.
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![]() Cowboy McCain Makes Cowboy Bush Look Like A Genius McCain comes riding and farting into Washington on his blind donkey, pressuring congress to rush things that are already being rushed too much so the debate will proceed. He politicizes negotiations, because if the house doesn't show that things were NOT settled, then McCain looks even more like an impulsive fool who wasted a lot of time & bluster rushing to DC. So his house Republican enablers rescue him by killing any deal
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![]() New Zogby/Reuters Poll: Obama Down 5, in an Almost Perfect Storm Obama may be hitting a perfect storm of bad news this week-- a warning of where things could go in late October
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![]() Ways the Corona Virus Will Affect Our Lives-- My take and yours Corona virus is a massive earthquake that has set off a series of tsunami waves rippling through the world, producing massive effects and disruption. It's going to affect all of us, very soon, in different ways. How has it affected you? How will it change the way we live?
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![]() Manchurian Catholic Democrats and JFK's Speech about Religion Manchurian candidates have been characterized as plants, put into positions of power, so they can do their work for the entity that plants them many years earlier. In some ways, I am feeling like some of the many Catholics in government now have blossomed as Manchurian plants, particularly when we look at the unfolding attack on the right to access to birth control the Catholic Church seems to be systematically orchestrating
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![]() 911-- They Won Eleven years after the attack, the US has clearly become far worse because of the attack-- far worse than was necessary, far worse than it could have been.
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![]() Time for Spring Cleaning the USA; time to put out the right wing policy trash When you do a spring cleaning, you look where you haven't looked, with more light than usual, and you clean a lot more and throw out a lot. The USA needs to do that. We need to get rid of old habits and "spruce up" our democracy. Here are some "dusty corners" that need freshening up. ![]()
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![]() Are Conservatives Dumping Sarah Palin and Throwing Her UNDER the Bus? sure looks that way. ![]()
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![]() Don't Impeach Trump. Don't Take Away His Twitter Account I don't believe all this talk of impeachment has been thought through. While I detest Trump and hate what he's done, in terms of appointing people set on destroying ecological, educational, worker and social justice protections, policies and laws, I think we need to hold off on impeachment. Trump is the best weapon against Republicans, right wingers and their brand and reputation that the world has seen in a century. ![]()
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![]() Proposal: The Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Research Project A first attempt to outline an ambitious, serious proposal to do something about the problem of predatory personalities-- psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists, anti-social personalities.... My hope that this project will be taken as seriously as, an funded as ambitiously as the Apollo Moon Landing program and the more recent projects to understand the genome and the brain. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Who Would Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Prosecute and Jail? I want to know. Who would Bernie and Hillary instruct their Attorney General, their Department of Justice to investigate, prosecute and jail? ![]()
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![]() Specter Supports Single-Payer, Sort of, At Teabaggered Town Hall With Sebelius Specter announces that he sort of supports single payer, amidst a teabaggered cacaphony opposing any healthcare reform
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![]() The Beauty of Pollination This is an extraordinary youtube video, already viewed over 7 million times.
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![]() Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Positive Psychology Pioneer, Intvw Transcript part 1 MC talks about his early work and experience that led to his ideas about flow, also, his initial exposure to psychology was an accidental meeting with one of the most famous psychologists of all time. Series: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Interview and Transcripts (1 Articles, 2886 views), Positive : Psychology, Kindness, Compassion, Empathy, Warmheartedness (19 Articles, 41715 views)
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![]() Those Who Call Obama A Muslim This morning, I received an email from someone who called Obama a Muslim.
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![]() Double Standards and Disingenuosity On Bellowing Townhall Disruptors liberal protesters who did not attempt to disrupt political events have been treated very differently than the right wing disruptors. The right wing echo chamber, pundits and their MSM enablers are engaging in incredibly disingenuous reporting and interpretation of the protests. Time to bust these loudmouths and straighten out the media-- and for Dems to get the job they were hired to do-- pass a serious healthcare rehab bill.
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![]() How Republican Philosophy and Bush Policy Killed Victims of the New Orleans Levee Flood
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![]() End Dynasty Welfare. Start the "Dynasty Tax" It is time for the congress to stop giving "dynasty welfare" to the richest Americans. America is not a land of dynasties. It should never have allowed their formation and it should actively work to prevent them from developing. It is time to fight back with word engineering that reframes the tax breaks to wealthy inheritors as welfare for the rich and the tax on estates as a "dynasty tax" Series: American Dynasties and Dynasty Taxes (6 Articles, 18948 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views)
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![]() Is Occupy Wall Street Fetishizing The Public Square? Is the Occupy Wall Street movement fetishizing the spaces that they occupy? Are they defining the movement based on place rather than the many, many other powerful elements and symbols the movement has developed as it has birthed and evolved?
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![]() The "Pre-Saturday Night Live" Republican 2011 Iowa Debate one of the most entertaining, funny debates I can ever remember seeing. Over and over again it felt like I was watching Saturday night live. ![]()
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![]() Google Trends: Bernie Did Better in 2015 Against Hillary than Obama did in 2007 Using Google Trends to Compare Bernie Sanders' to Obama's Performance Against Hillary, it looks like Bernie Sanders out-performed Obama in 2007.
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![]() Obama, Saying We Need Education to Win the Future, Cuts Pell Grants $100 Billion Pell grants, financial aid for low income students, will be cut drastically. ![]()
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![]() Thoughts on Bottom up as a Form of Intelligence My thinking on bottom up has evolved from a pretty simple idea that involved grassroots and crowd related stuff to the idea that bottom up is a kind of intelligence, just as Howard Gardner has described, in his multiple intelligences model, Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views)
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![]() Will Colbert and Stewart's Mitt The Serial Killer Ad Make Corporate Personhood a Presidential Election Issue? Corporate personhood has not been an issue that's been on the table in terms of presidential campaigns or debates. That was until the superpac Stephen Colbert just transferred to Jon Stewart, Americans for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow, created an ad that pulls together a quote from Romney, affirming that corporations are people, with the idea of executing corporations. Is "Mitt the Ripper a Serial Killer? Read on.
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![]() My Take on Covering Potentially Taboo Topics Like Bristol Palin's Baby on OEN my take on OEN's coverage of topics you may not think OEN should be covering. I believe that this article, for the most part, represents the senior editorial team's position at OEN, but I've invited them and, of course, YOU, to comment, to put in your two cents worth... or more. ![]()
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![]() A Plague of Billionaires-- The Most Dangerous People on the Planet Billionaires are the most dangerous people on the planet, no matter how nice, charismatic or well intentioned they are. Their power is far too great. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() So I asked Bernie Sanders about Bottom-up... Back in July, 2013 I did a radio interview with Bernie Sanders. I asked him about his thoughts on bottom-up. Here's the relevant portion of the transcript. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Interview: Sen. Bernie Sanders; On Privacy, NSA, Progressives, Public Banking, Whistleblowers, Decentralizing... 2013 (2 Articles, 7390 views) ![]()
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![]() Dem Leader Sanders Freakout is Not About Politics. It's About Power The DNC Leadership and the leaders of centrist organizations raising an hysterical fuss about Bernie Sanders current and imminent lead in the Democratic party is not, mostly about politics or electability. I ![]()
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![]() The Democratic Party Must Go Through Truth & Reconciliation The Democratic party is at a dangerous low point. The 2016 elections were a horrendous disaster for the Democrats, the United States and the whole world. This disaster was caused by a series of policies and decisions that the Democratic party leadership must fully own, take responsibility for and apologize for. It is essential that the Democratic party literally go through the process of truth and reconciliation. Series: Take Back the Democratic Party and America (7 Articles, 23218 views) ![]()
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![]() A Bottom-up Exercise in Understanding Top-Down, Hierarchy. Domination and Predators a request for a bull session on the connection between hierarchy, domination, predators and top-down systems, cultures and biosystems. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Still Supporting Obama, As He Wipes Out Press Freedoms? WTF are you? Are you still supporting Obama, even after it has become completely clear that he is an enemy of the press and transparency-- a more dangerous enemy than any recent president? That doesn't make you a liberal. That makes you a supporter of fascism. Series: Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views)
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![]() NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake Transcript: Obama's NSA Policy, Benghazi, 911, Problems with NSA... Thomas Drake returns to my show to discuss Snowden, NSA, Obama, Benghazi, 911 and more Series: Thomas Drake, Whistleblower-- 2014 Interview and transcript (2 Articles, 8904 views), Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Whistleblowing, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks (16 Articles, 96721 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Brazil, The Brightest Shining Economic Star in the Western Hemisphere, Elects A Marxist A Marxist Guerilla has been elected president of one of the largest economies in the world.
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![]() Vampires in America Americans seem to be transfixed with blood sucking undead beings. And why not. There are many bloodsuckers walking the halls of the corporate world-- people who heartlessly and soullessly have sucked the life out of the American economy. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views), Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views) ![]()
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![]() What's Next? #POSPOTUS Trump Bypasses Senate, Appoints Koch to Supreme Court? Today, Donald Trump removed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and appointed David Koch to replace her, bypassing previous laws and the process of senate approval. Okay. That hasn't happened yet. But we're creeping towards that situation with Trump bypassing the Dodd Frank legislation which made it clear that there was a succession path for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB.) Series: Fascism (1 Articles, 2779 views)
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![]() An Interview with David Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World On corporatism, the bailout, how the world would look post-corporation, post contemporary capitalism. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Needed: A Science, Economics and Lifestyle of SMALL-- It's Time to Face Reality-- Too BIG is Too Dangerous-- Too big is not just about too big to fail banks. Nature abhors just about anything that is too big. Giganitism is an abnormality that, in humans and most life forms, leads to pathology or death. The same is true about things humans create-- companies, government, political and economic systems, megastores, megachurches, the 85 billionaires. who own as much as half of the seven billion planetary inhabitants. Series: Small is Better than Big; small acts, world, economics, lifestyles, solutions, activism (21 Articles, 50693 views), Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Now, Trump-Encouraged Rightwing As*sholes Might Kill You By Rejecting Covid-19 Safety Rules Now, rightwing a**holes might kill you by rejecting C-world (my name for Corona Virus/Covid-19 world we live in today) safety rules.
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![]() Biden-Palin Debate: Discipline and Heart Beat Fluff, No Stuff Joe Biden was the surprise winner of the debate. Here's why. ![]()
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![]() The New American Theocracy; Moonies, Catholics and the Bottom Up Responses to Them; Part 2 of the F. Clarkson Interview fundamentalism, top-down marriage, Moonie owned institutions, visa abuse, comparisons between Moonies and the Catholic Church, historic and contemporary theocracies, how they're evolving and the bottom up responses to them Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Religion (12 Articles, 34509 views) ![]()
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![]() "Burn This sh*t Down!" Some random thoughts on last night in Ferguson. similarities to Occupy failure to track killings by cops cameras on all cops past history between Brown and Wilson ![]()
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![]() Right Wing Whining Drama Queen Gaslighters So, after the Kavanaugh shitstorm, with its fake FBI investigation, the drama queen Republicans are now throwing a hissy fit because poor white boys might be at risk of being accused of sexual assault. ![]()
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![]() 20 Iconic #BaltimoreRiots Protest Signs, Images and Tweets I've gone through hundreds of tweets of images and curated 20 that represent different takes on the riots. Series: Activism, Protest, Civil Disobedience (29 Articles, 145351 views) ![]()
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![]() "Little Brother" Taken Alive, AFTER and Because of Police Lockdown Lifted thoughts at the end of a long day.
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![]() Will OWS Protesters Target Brookfield Properties, Zuccoti Park Owner Forcing Cleanup Brookfield Properties, the company which owns Zuccoti Square, has ordered that it be cleared and cleaned, with new rules that prohibit laying down or using sleep bags to follow. The question is, will activists in the many cities where Brookfield Properties rents office and retail space, launch actions against the company that seems to be launching an attack on the Occupy Wall Street movement. ![]()
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![]() What Could Still Happen Before Hillary Is Enthroned at the Dem Convention It is still not over. There are 18 days before the Democratic convention. A lot can still happen. ![]()
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![]() Obama is Making Government Bad Gov. Real Progressives must stop apologizing for Obama and His Bad Government Yesterday, NSA whistleblower said, "Our own government is a clear and compelling danger to our form of democracy." He pointed out that the American revolutionary war was fought to overcome oppressors, saying, "Who would have thunk that 200 some years later, our own government would become the oppressors." ![]()
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![]() Answers and Thoughts on Wealth Re-distribution and Distribution I've written a series of articles calling for changes that would lead to wealth re-distribution, such as eliminating billionaires, making it a crime to become or be a billionaire, drastically reducing the amount of money and assets allowed to be bequeathed to heirs. Wealth redistribution is a category that always comes up. This article attempts to answer some of the questions and reframe the conversation Series: American Dynasties and Dynasty Taxes (6 Articles, 18948 views), Civilization and Indigenous cultures and comparisons (18 Articles, 65304 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Big Bankers Blink; Paulson's Unprecedented Power; Shock and Awe Hints at the Good and Evil We May Soon Face Paulson wields extraordinary power. We all need to think about what further uses it can or may be put to. ![]()
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![]() Thank Hillary Supporters & the Democratic leadership for De Vos and Sessions... and of course, Trump I posted a brief comment on Facebook. It's brought quite a few comments and likes: Thank the Democratic leadership for De Vos and Sessions. If the Dem leaders hadn't corrupted the primary, Bernie would have run against Trump and destroyed him, and he'd have delivered the Senate too. ![]()
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![]() Michael Moore Finally Meets Wendell Potter-- the Healthcare Exec Designated as Sicko "Hitman" Who Turned Whistleblower On June 30th, Michael Moore met Wendell Potter, the former Cigna Director of communications who was designated to attack and marginalize the message of Moore's movie, Sicko.
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![]() Interview With Pro-Bono Civil Rights Defense Attorney Paul Hetznecker The day after over 80 protesters, many of them OpEdNews.com contributors, were arrested in front of the White House, it seems like a good time to publish this interview I did a few weeks ago with Paul Hetznecker, who defends protesters as part of his life work. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Desperate Bush Attack Dogs Accentuate the Rights Descent
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![]() Lying Traitors vs Economic Cowards What kind of person sells out his or her country for gain? Most would call them traitors. What kind of person lies and distorts for gain. Most would call them liars. I'd call them Palin supporters, starting with John McCain. ![]()
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![]() Hold Strong, Keep Up Your Hope For Bernie Tonight was rough. Anything can happen between now and the Philly convention. ![]()
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![]() Checking Out the New Al Jazeera America AJAM News Network my first day checking it out, with more info from wikipedia on the new Aljazeera America Series: Journalism, Media, FOIA, Investigative Journalism (30 Articles, 100085 views)
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![]() Did Bush Admin Order Tillman Murdered to Silence Him? Tillman, a courageous, patriotic pro football hero was coming out against the war. If he spoke out to the media, attacking the war and the Bush administration it would have been devastating to US support for the Iraq war and the 2004 campaigns of George W. Bush and his Republican supporters. If Tillman returned home from his tour of duty, opposing the war and supporting Kerry, his voice could have changed the 2004 Elections. ![]()
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![]() Contemplating Reparations and Punishments After We Win The Class War It may be of value to consider how, after "we" win the class war, we punish the enemy and take retribution. And it may be of some value to consider how the Allies handled their enemy-- the Germans, for some ideas. Series: Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views)
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![]() We Are All Flintites Flint should become the rallying cry for an awakening to the reality that it is standard policy for the federal government, states, counties and cities to pollute directly and to allow corporate and military polluters to poison the populace. Standard policy. We have become so numbed to this reality that we accept it. ![]()
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![]() Not Even Cowards-- Zombies There are cowards, and there are heroes, like whistleblowers, as I'll talk about later in this article. But this article started out because I began thinking about how so many people are not even able to be cowards. ![]()
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![]() Consider Clinton's Experience... at Lying, Spycraft, Corruption As Secretary of State and as a neocon resident of the White House for 8 years, Hillary learned a lot about how to corrupt, distort and disrupt-- governments, regimes, media. Certainly Hillary was involved in spycraft that was used to manipulate political outcomes around the world. That's what the CIA does-- usually at the behest of the president. We know that the Clinton presidency was blemished with lies. This is the H ![]()
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![]() Conservatism as Top-Down Culture That Leads to Parasites and Psychopathologies Conservatism is built around core values and ways of seeing and being that are very much top-down. This can, when taken too far, manifest as psychological disorders or psychopathology. Series: authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Bernie Sanders Opens Conference Bridging Politics and Spirituality at Sister Giant The Sister Giant conference, founded and organized by Marianne WIlliamson brings together politics and transcendance/spirituality. It's a different kind of spirituality-- not tied to any one religion-- more tied to the transcendance, metaphysics and higher consciousness movement. Bernie Sanders opened the conference as the first speaker, ![]()
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![]() US Should Repudiate Netanyahu-- and Israel, if He's Re-elected Why should the US support an extreme right wing, war mongering Israeli administration? It is time for the left to speak out and make it clear to Obama and the Democratic leadership that the old AIPAC playbook is no longer acceptable. ![]()
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![]() Bernie Sanders Says What Hillary & the DNC Must Do To Get His Support Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks TYT video had Bernie Sanders on as a guest. Cenk asked Bernie if he would support Hillary if he loses. Bernie replied, ![]()
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![]() DNC Stabs Sanders and the Other Presidential Candidates in the back With Bloomberg-Favoring Debate Policy Change The DNC is doing as most Bernie Sanders supporters expected-- they are rigging the game to hurt Bernie and help their pick for candidate, who now, with Joe Biden falling fast, looks to be Mike Bloomberg.
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![]() Rahm Emanuel Removed From Chicago Mayoral Ballot By Court; includes Video of Emanuel Response Rahm is booted off the Chicago mayoral primary Ballot. ![]()
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![]() Obama Chooses Sonia Sotomayor, A Latina SCOTUS Nominee!! Obama will be announcing today that he is appointing Sonia Sotomayo, a 55 year old Puerto Rican judge as his replacement for David Souter, according to Politico. ![]()
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![]() Facilitating a Disruptive Emergence To Replace the Existing Elite System Running the Planet We need to find a solution to the current elite, toxic world system. Would that solution be a revolution, a system revision... or the facilitation of a disruptive emergence that replaces the current system? Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views), Changing the World (4 Articles, 22126 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Insurance Exec Reid Comes Out of the Closet with Fellow Senate Criminals It is impossible to accept the possibility that any real democrat, with any allegiance to democratic values, would accept the legislation as written, with so many gifts to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and to the right wing. This is a massive sellout and the democratic party, if Democrats pass this, deserves to be voted into oblivion-- as well as the Republican party. ![]()
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![]() 48 Days From CA Primary to Philly Convention; What Could Happen? From June 7 to July 25 there are 48 days. Forty eight days, seven weeks from the California and New Jersey primaries until the first day of the 2016 Democratic Party convention. Forty eight days could be an eternity in terms of possibilities, and reasons why Bernie absolutely MUST stay in the race, no matter how many Hillary surrogates say otherwise. ![]()
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![]() Trump Appoints Billionaire Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director; Sean Spicer Resigns It looks like Trump has added another utra-wealthy member to his White House team. Scaramucci's theme is "fake it 'til you make it," which fits perfectly with #POSPOTUS Donald Trump's view of the world. ![]()
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![]() Putin Apologists NATO was bad, so it's okay for Putin to kill babies? I can see criticizing the US for what it has done. I can see and understand being disgusted with the USA's imperialistic foreign policy. But if you are defending Putin, or cheering for him and the Russian Army and its "achievements, its hypersonic missiles, then you are a Putin apologist. ![]()
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![]() Chicago March Against Monsanto 2014 Photos, Video images and videos from the Chicago 2014 March against Monsanto Series: Monsanto (4 Articles, 34379 views)
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![]() Explaining How Stolen Elections Keep Obama From Being a Sure Win to a Friend in Tribal Area Pakistan The world is hoping for an Obama win, but they may not realize just how ugly things will get on voting day and afterwards.
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![]() More Hate Mail; Now, I'm Deranged What's despicable is that you're mentally deranged for accusing the conservatives of wanting to maintain the values of our founders and keep our Constitution in tact while lying about our actual motives. You want the country to move backward when all the rest of the world is proving to us daily that your socialism DOESN'T WORK! ![]()
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![]() Fast Track Trade Traitors Murderers and Enemies The title includes strong words. It's time we start using them-- traitors, murderers and enemies. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views), Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Chuck Collins -- Wealth Inequality. Billionaires and Psychopaths; Interview Transcript He discusses an important new report on wealth inequality. Then we discuss billionaires, psychopaths and their threat to humanity Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), Economics (25 Articles, 107752 views), Interviews: Bottom-up and Top-down (2 Articles, 206362 views) (View All Series) ![]()
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![]() Continuing Clinton's War/Suicide Idiocy, Obama Levels Sanctions on Russia For "Election Hacking" As punishment and in response to the alleged hacking of the US elections by Russia, President Obama has levelled serious sanctions against Russia-- sanctions that will escalate the friction between the two countries. ![]()
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![]() Blocking Contraceptive Coverage-- Does Sotomayor Join the Right Wing SCOTUS Catholics? Late yesterday Obama Supreme Court justice appointee Sonia Sotomayor granted a temporary exemption to a small group of nuns, so they would not have to provide contraceptives.
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![]() Emerging from the Bush/Cheney Cloud to Face PPPTSD and Learned Helplessness After eight years of the dark cloud and litany of abuses cast by the Bush/Cheney administration, many of us are dealing with PPPTSD-- political, partisan PTSD and learned helplessness. There are some answers that could probably help anyone adversely touched by the last eight years.
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![]() OpEdNews.Com/ Zogby People's Poll Casey Plummets When His Positions are Known, Santorum Loses to All Democratic Candidates, Paper Ballots Soar, Privatized Vote Gets Big No, Impeach Bush if He's Guilty... lots more. Series: OpEdNews Sponsored Polls (18 Articles, 25642 views)
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![]() It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario David Brooks describes a dark, depressing future that is best seen through the eyes of right wingers who don't have faith in America, Americans and transparent, open, fair, rational economics. Like night dwellers reveling in stygian "safety", the fear the world that clean government and regulations will create. Those nocturnal capitalists may very well face doom-- and it is well deserved. But a new business model is rising. ![]()
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![]() Murder By Automobile-- Legalized Domestic Terrorism-- and their enablers What happened in Charlottesville VA is murder. If a Muslim was driving the car, it would be called terrorism. But since it was a white male Christian driver, the mainstream media call it a "clash." I say this is legalized because a number of states are in the process of attempting to pass laws that protect drivers who crash their cars into protesters. Series: Bigotry, Racism, Hate, Intolerance (1 Articles, 2649 views) ![]()
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![]() How will YOU De-colonize our world? Colonization is invasion and subjugation of indigenous people, and includes Genocide, says, Michael Yellowbird, Ph.D., co-author of For Indigenous Minds Only and Decolonizing Social Work, a professor and director of the Tribal Indigenous Studies program at north Dakota State University. "Colonization means loss of culture, lands, rights, marginalized status, being forgotten in national narrative. Series: Civilization and Indigenous cultures and comparisons (18 Articles, 65304 views), Food, Nutrition, Diet, Farming, Vegan, Vegetarianism (1 Articles, 2645 views)
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![]() Polls Indicate Not Much Hope Of Obama Becoming More Progressive In A Second Term Even among more mainstream Democrats, there's not much hope that Obama will start acting more like a democrat and move to the left if he wins a second term.
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![]() Supreme Court Okays Corporate Death Penalty They weren't focusing on it. They were focusing on the immigration aspect-- that Arizona's law allows shutting down corporations that are repeat offenders at giving work to undocumented aliens. But there's no doubt, The Supreme court decision, with votes along party lines, has handed some potential opportunities that they may not have intended. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views)
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![]() Putting Down Our Dog and Thoughts on Scott McClellan Spending the morning with our 14 year old Yellow Lab and finally, having the veteranarian put her down today has me thinking a bit differently about things, including Scott McClellan ![]()
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![]() Breaking: Boston Marathon Suspects in Shootout-- One Killed, One On Lam, Boston On Lockdown Breaking two suspects face off with poiice, use more bombs, one suspect killed, one still on loose after creating a warzone-like firefight in Watertown MA ![]()
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![]() Good Riddance Thatcher and Other Thoughts on Dead Vile People There's an attitude that you don't speak ill of the dead. I don't agree. Sorry. But I don't really feel sad that Margaret Thatcher is gone, dead.
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![]() Observations the Day After; winners, loser, demographic analyse... lots of exit poll stats, conclusions to be drawn on who won, who lost, who was effective... who wasn't.
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![]() Who Are the Failures Surrounding Obama? Who are the close advisors to Obama who have failed to advise him, because I don't think "allowed," as in, "allowed him to make such bad choices," is the right word, who have failed to influence him to be a better man, a better president, a leader of any kind. Who has sat there watching him fail as a leader and become a man who breaks promises? Who has encouraged him to be weak and ineffective by giving up on negotiation
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![]() Rob Kall Interview Transcript: Noam Chomsky on Martin Luther King Jr. Noam Chomsky talks about Martin Luther King, citing his role in history as an example of bottom up activism. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Chomsky interviews and transcripts (6 Articles, 44141 views)
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![]() Gold in Them Thar Afghan Hills... that the army just happened to find and announce now Next week, they'll announce that they suddenly discovered a full sized replica of the Brooklyn bridge ![]()
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![]() It's the End of The World As We Know it-- How It Is Changing I've been thinking how Covid-19 will permanently change things. ![]()
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![]() Noam Chomsky Interview Transcript Part 2. America in Decline, America Blocking Democracy, and Thoughts on Gaza CHomsky discusses America in decline, how the US literally has a standard game plan to block democracy, some thoughts on civilization, and on Gaza how to reply to people who try to defend Israel's actions. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Chomsky interviews and transcripts (6 Articles, 44141 views) ![]()
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![]() Book Review: The Systems View of Life; A Unifying Vision It's been a long time since I've been so excited about reading a non-fiction book, let alone a text book. But this one has captivated my interest by pulling together so many ideas and threads of scientific knowledge and wisdom. The core message of this book is that it is time to replace the mechanistic, atomistic model of science with a botom-up, systems view, both for science and as a cultural metaphor. Series: Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), The Systems View of Life; Fritjof Capra Interviews, Book Review, related articles (6 Articles, 22256 views) ![]()
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![]() Take-aways From Clinton's Reporter Roping and Segregation There are a number of worrisome takeaways from the news that Hillary Clinton is roping of the press when she engages with the public-- a story that has gone viral on twitter in the past day. It seems reasonable to predict that Hillary will be bad news for the press, press freedoms, whistleblowers and government transparency. ![]()
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![]() Transcript-- Ray McGovern on His Arrest and What he Wanted to Ask and Say to General Petraeus Here's the transcript of my conversation with Ray McGovern, on Friday, the day after he was arrested for trying to attend a talk by General Petraeus. He goes into some great detail on what he wanted to ask and say to Petraeus.
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![]() Cautioning Progressives on Ron Paul? How About Comparing Paul to Obama? a response to an article critical of Ron Paul, not that it is off the mark entirely, but that it ignores the ways that Obama is as or close to as objectionable. ![]()
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![]() Paul Craig Roberts Interview Transcript a wide ranging discussion, starting with 911, going into government corruption, the changes in the Republican party, the media Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views)
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![]() Suicide Bombing; OEN Exclusive On-Site Witness Report of Attack on Peshawar Press Today, a suicide bomber attacked the Peshawar Press Club, where long time OEN writer Muhammad Khurshid is not only a member and regular attendee, but also a presidential candidate. In interviewed him by gmail chat for over an hour. ![]()
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![]() How to Actually Drain The Swamp Trump promised to drain the swamp. instead he expanded and further polluted the swamp, feeding all of its vile denizens. Here are some ideas on how to actually drain the swamp. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change? I'm a quotation addict, so this was an excuse to create a file of quotations on CHANGE. So here's a big batch, wherein you get to read what a few hundred some wise folk say about change-- Series: Writing and Story to Change, Wake Up The World (22 Articles, 69222 views) ![]()
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![]() Expect The MSM to Rain A Sh*tstorm of Negativity Down on Bernie Sanders Expect, today, tomorrow and Tuesday, that the MSM will distort Hillary's minor, relatively inconsequential, totally predictable win to be a huge victory, a major step towards winning the primary election.
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![]() Fake Liberals Neera Tanden and Howard Dean Attack Tulsi Gabbard Neera Tanden, Hillary Surrogate and president of the Center For American Progress, a fake progressive organization founded by Hillary surrogate John Podesta, along with Howard Dean, are attacking Tulsi Gabbard They're advocating for her to be primaried, using this tweet by Gabbard to attack her. If it wasn't clear to you before, these two DLC, Hillary Democrats are anything but liberal or progressive. They are fakes
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![]() Hire Suggestions for Glenn Greenwald and Pierre Omidyar's Media Venture Ebay billionaire Pierre Omidyar has announced that he's funding a journalism project with Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras & Jeremy Scahill, starting with $250 million bucks. Omidyar reportedly intends to create something that brings together some of the best writers who have followings. Here's my list of progressive journalists who'd fit Omidyar's criteria & who I would be excited to see hired and provided with a staff
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![]() Did Lincoln Steal the Arkansas Election A party Democrat run commission reduced polling locations in a county that went for Halter from 42 to two. That raises questions.
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![]() Ohio Lawsuit to Reinstate hundreds of thousands of Purged Democratic Voters to be Filed Fri or Monday "The Ohio elections may have already been won," says Ohio voting rights activist and attorney, Bob Fitrakis, responding to reports of massive voter purges in Democratic precincts.
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![]() Wake Up Time for the "Stupid White Man" the strongest supporters of the right wing are white males. They need to be reconsidered as voters who can wake up and vote on the left. The fact is, they have long been victims of right wing policy. The Dems would be smart to figure out how to reach them.
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![]() United Airlines Is A Metaphoric Symptom The landscape of the USA is filled with similar situations, where corporations use the police to assault and abuse innocent citizens, or assault and inappropriately abuse suspect citizens.
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![]() Nuke The Well 1000 Feet Below the Sea-bed It's easy to say what is risky and there's no doubt that it's risky to use a nuke. But doing nothing and waiting for an iffy solution that will take months and allow massive volumes of oil continuing to destroy not just the gulf but possibly the Atlantic, the gulf stream and who knows how many ecosystems, endangered species and hundreds of thousands or millions of people's jobs and ways of life-- ![]()
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![]() Digital Gaslighting and Domestic Abuse Come To A Home Near You You think you're going crazy. Your lock no longer opens for you or it opens and stays open. The temperature plummets to freezing or rises to sweltering temperature. Music starts randomly blasting at all hours, or bizarre music is played. The TV starts playing disgusting or annoying content. These are all ways that remotely o thermostats, audio, locks, and cameras are being used for domestic abuse and gaslighting Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) ![]()
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![]() Part 2 Lawrence Wilkerson Transcript; Military Power-- More Dangerous, Worse Than A Coup That's how we perceive the world now, is nails, and the Pentagon is the hammer. That's what I mean by an insidious takeover of power that is not even recognized the way a coup would be, the way Musharraf, took over in Islamabad. No , this is something that just happens, and it directs American policy towards war, in an increased and ever dangerous manner and we wind up one day with no money left, no economy... Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views) ![]()
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![]() Good Riddance; Ratzinger Resigns-- First Pope in 719 Years to Voluntarily Leave This pope is one of the worst if not THE worst of the popes of my lifetime. Considering the hierarchy that now exists, it is no likely that the church will find a leader who embraces the light of social justice, women's and gay's rights, who sees the threat of corporatization to humanity and earth's soul. Let us pray that the man the cardinals choose will not be worse than Ratzinger, as hard as that is to imagine.
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![]() Obama Will Spend over $3 Trillion on ECONWAR! Fire and Penalize the Bank Oligarchs Call me crazy if I don't accept that these failed CEOs are STILL getting tens of millions in pay instead of being fired and replaced. Call me crazy if I see our financial system as one that allowed the US to be looted. Yes, when companies are so big they can't be allowed to fail, and when they demand 100s of billions from we-the-people, then our nation is being looted by-- what do you call them? Pirates? Financial terrorists?
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![]() State By State Funding Details for the Economic Stimulus Bill find out the how much money your state is getting and where the funding is going. And find out how much red states with senators who voted against the funding are getting. ![]()
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![]() Bensalem PA Special Election Shows Sadly Wrongheaded Top-down Democratic Leadership in a Microcosm There's a special election taking place soon in Bensalem PA that reflects, in my opinion, in a microcosm, how the the Democratic Leadership acts at many levels within the Democratic party.
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![]() End of the Illusion; Waking Up To a New Dawn Remember when Dorothy and her motley crew drifted into the field of flowers that put them into a soporific sleep. Well, we've been there and now we're coming out. The anaesthetic is wearing off. That can be painful, but it's part of the recover process. That's right, recovery. We're waking up to a harsh reality that, if we'd faced in 2008, we could have done a lot more about. Series: Cui Bono? Who Benefits? (4 Articles, 7835 views)
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![]() Health Care Slavery in America Slavery that consisted of humans being owned by other human beings was abolished by Abe Lincoln. But there's still another form of slavery which afflicts more people than were enslaved at the time of the Civil war. Our current health insurance system is perpetuating it. ![]()
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![]() Fractal Revolution: A Systems, Non-Linear View of Change How does change happen? What affect does anger and repeated ranting have upon progressive hopes and visions? I just read a brilliant book that has really changed my thinking-- The Systems View of Life-- by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi. It's changed my thoughts on bottom-up and top-down and expanded my way of viewing change. It ties in non-linear dynamic/Chaos theory Series: Activism, Protest, Civil Disobedience (29 Articles, 145351 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), The Systems View of Life; Fritjof Capra Interviews, Book Review, related articles (6 Articles, 22256 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Department of defense to block troop access to Myspace, Youtube, MTV, Blackplanet , photobucket and more sites Military further blinds our already abused and betrayed troops ![]()
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![]() Right Repudiated; Romney, Aiken, Allen, Billionaires, Mourdock, McMahon, Walsh Defeated In what looks like close to a sweep, Right wing, anti-woman, anti middle class candidates have been defeated. Some of the people who won show promise of being more progressive than the incumbents they've replaced. The results are not all in. Please add your comments to fill in the details of what could be wins Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views) ![]()
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![]() Building the No Billionaires/ Debillionairize Campaign We can change the world. We can pass laws and policies that make billionaires like the dinosaurs-- extinct, so they no longer exert their toxic influences on the economy on government on our culture. Wealth is fine. Capitalism is fine. But nature limits everything. It is natural to put limits on wealth too. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views)
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![]() Judith Miller, Shamed Former NY Times Bush WMD Propagandist, Attacks The Wilsons and "FAIR GAME Miller suggests, in more words, that Plame was not as important as the movie claims, did not have to quit the CIA, did not do or have involvement with many of the things the movie says she did and that there are many inaccuracies or false elements in the movie. Series: Cui Bono? Who Benefits? (4 Articles, 7835 views) ![]()
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![]() Face Down The Antifa and Alt-Left Framers The antifa and alt-left labels are bogus frames based on the same approach corporate media use to create false dichotomies on issues where there really are not two sides.
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![]() What's the Biggest Event or Thing that Happened This Year? Chris Matthews just asked his guests on his Sunday show the question, "What's the Biggest Event or Thing that Happened This Year?" Guests mentioned the shooting of congresswoman Gifford, the economic mess in Europe, the Killing of Bin Laden. ![]()
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![]() GE-- Telling Us We're Stupid, as Well as Avoiding Paying Taxes GE is running a new ad that seems to offer the message that most people are ignorant and stupid.
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![]() Apology to Keith Olbermann after a well intended error, OEN apologies to Keith Olbermann for posting an article without permission. ![]()
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![]() Question Civilization, Question Authority, Teach Children to Question Everything We live in paradigm-breaking times when old ideas are routinely disrupted, broken, overturned and replaced. A responsible culture will teach its children to develop skills in challenging any assumptions, questioning authority, questioning existing power structures and paradigms. That is the ideal way to prepare them for a future that is changing at an accelerating rate that is faster than ever before in the history of humanity Series: Changing the World (4 Articles, 22126 views), Bottom-up, Top-down (107 Articles, 342411 views), authoritarianism Patriarchy Hierarchy (22 Articles, 66089 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Taking On AIPAC: How to Support Palestinians AND Israel and Peace and Justice Supporters of the Palestinian people need to start thinking smart tactically as well as strategically. Simply demonstrating against the Israeli invasion, occupation and abuses has proven to be a failed tactic for helping the Palestinians. The answer must include taking on AIPAC and providing a way for legislators to support Irael AND peace and Justice
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![]() Murdoch Attempts to Put Lid on Oozing Scum-- To Shut down Paper-- News of The World Fox news has announced it will shut down the paper that has been riddled with accusations that its staff hacked the phones of parents of a dead child, parents of victims of the London Subway bombings. ![]()
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![]() What Does Trump's Pardon of Sheriff Arpaio Signify? Trump has assaulted the system of justice in the United States. Series: Justice, Prison (1 Articles, 9240 views)
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![]() Are the Mainstream Media Trying to Kill Their Competition? Or are Neocons Trying to Silence Critics? There's a threat to the future of Democracy, which I believe is highly dependent upon alternative media casting light on truth and challenging the Top Down establishment's lies, distortions, false claims and omissions. That threat is manifesting as a fake news perpetrated by the mainstream media, which claim to be fighting fake news and propaganda ![]()
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![]() Will Trump's Firing Comey Lead to President Pelosi? it could be that the Democrats, if they can take back the House and Senate, could impeach both Trump and Pence. ![]()
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![]() A USA Digital Dirty Nuke Exploded, Hitting 150 Nations We've always feared the possibility of terrorists stealing a nuclear weapon and using it in a terrorist attack. Well, we were right to be concerned about a weapon being stolen and used on a mass scale. We just had the kind of weapon wrong. It ends up it was not a nuclear weapon, it was a digital one. ![]()
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![]() Out of Control, Hyper-Militarized Local Police-- Radley Balko Intvw Transcript-- Part 1 Radley Balko has written a brilliant, powerful book Rise of the Warrior Cop, documenting the terrifying militarization of America's police forces. Series: Rob Kall Interview Transcripts (103 Articles, 341952 views), Police Gone Wild (17 Articles, 125117 views), Warrior Cops-- Hyper-militarized police in America-- Interview with Radley Balko (2 Articles, 14728 views) (View All Series)
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![]() Is Biden's Prediction A Gaffe Joe Biden says that within six months of Obama being president, he will be tested with a manufactured international incident which he will need help with. Right wing pundits call this a gaffe. But it also has the potential to strengthen Obama's image
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![]() Who to Blame When Dems Lose Big in November The Democrats are going to lose big in November, possibly really big. It's probably too late to do anything about it. Here's a partial list of the guilty parties who caused the Democratic party to fail. ![]()
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![]() Thoughts on Covid, Vaccines and Anti-vaxxers an update on my thoughts on crazytown people who try to scare others from getting the vaccine jab. ![]()
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![]() The Bogus Black Congressional Caucus Endorsement. It's a Scam The Black Congressional Caucus did NOT endorse Hillary Clinton. The message the mainstream media sent with its huge coverage of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC endorsement amounts to a big scam and media malpractice serving Hillary Clinton. The truth is, the PAC is a rats nest that gave $11,000 in donations out of over $425K spent in the 2016 cycle.
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![]() The New Republicans... and Hope Some of you tell me we have no other choice. Some say he'll get better. How deep must Obama sell the middle class into third world status to the corporatists before it becomes clear he is the new Republican? The words of Howard Zinn can give us some hope.
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![]() Stocks Crash Following Scott Brown Win The stock Market's response to the GOP win in MA suggests that the Dems and the Obama administration really were in collusion with the insurance and Pharmaceutical industries, as the stock market plunged in the three days following Brown's win, producing the worst week in almost a year. ![]()
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![]() Obama's Big Speech Interrupted-- And How the Media Blew It Obama gave what the pundits are calling one of his major speeches. And one of America's leading activists interrupted it brilliantly. ![]()
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![]() An Evening With Arundhati Roy notes and quotes from a 90 minute talk by Arundhati Roy. Wow. What a courageous, strong woman. ![]()
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![]() Protests or Terrorists-- Bundy Spawn Invade, Take Over Federal Building These people are terrorists. They should be treated as such.
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![]() Banning some words HERE on This Website we've set a policy of banning some words that tend to be abused for hate. Mention any high traffic progressive websites that allow as wide a discussion, including postings of articles and blogs on the middle east as OpEdNews. Most block all discussion or only allow or encourage articles and blogs on one side or the other-- Pro-palestinian and anti-Israel, Anti- zionist or Pro-Israel. Before crying censorship name a site.
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![]() Of Cannibals and CEOs and the 99.999% We need to build on this meme-- that CEOs taking huge paychecks are pigs, are psychopaths, are traitors to America, loyal to transnational, soulless nations. This is a very aggressive label to put on these people. It's best that we, the 99.999% know who our real enemies are. They are no better than cannibals, and actually, just as bad or worse.
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![]() Accelerating to Third World America: One Third of Home Occupants Rent and Eighteen Percent of US Homes Vacant The economic and housing crises have wreaked massive changes in how Americans live, as we accelerate our slide into third world status ![]()
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![]() What Trump and Sanders Have In Common Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have one thing in common--
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![]() Trump's Narcissist and Predator Administration We're seeing the strange fruits produced by the most despicable, corrupt, indescribably horrific substitute for a president the world has ever seen. Series: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views)
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![]() 15 Playbook Strategies Corporatists and Conservatives Use to Strip Mine America and Erode Democracy There is a playbook with a collection of tools and strategies conservatives use to erode democracy and strip mine the treasures, assets and strengths of the USA. They are almost always masked as changes aimed at serving democracy, the constitution, rights or capitalism. They are not separate. They are not coincidental. Series: Corporatism and Corporate Personhood (20 Articles, 110859 views)
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![]() Guaranteed; Initial Senate Bill Will Not Have A Public Option It's just about a 100% certainty that the draft of the senate bill that goes out to the floor for a vote, first facing filibuster, will not include the public option.
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![]() Thoughts on Killed Humanitarian Mission Members Obama and his generals are failing to understand that hard power is not what it used to be. Soft power-- the connection created by kindness and positive values-- that's what will win the battle for freedom and justice, for democracy and a peaceful future.
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![]() Occupy-Wall-Street Actions Bloom All Over-- Post Your Reports and Images on Opednews Actions are showing up all over the world. Opednews wants YOU to report on ones near you-- in comments or articles or diaries. Become a part of the action. Become a citizen journalist today.
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![]() So My Congressman Calls Me In Response to Yesterday's Article... at 9:00 AM sharp, my congressman called in response to the article I wrote about our interaction yesterday. ![]()
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![]() The Class War's Front Line Should be Eliminating Billionaires From the Planet The brutal class war shows up every day in our headlines. So does climate change. What do they have in common? Billionaires-- people who should not be allowed to exist. It is far too dangerous to allow any one person to have the power that billionaires wield. Series: The No Billionaires, De-Billionairize the Planet Crusade (39 Articles, 134677 views)
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![]() Do You Really Think BP is Trying to Save the Gulf Environment? Or that the Oil volcano is only 5000 barrels a day? an update on what we know suggests that BP has only minor interest in saving the environment and is mostly interested in saving its well and the oil reserve it taps.
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![]() Book Review: Hero With a Thousand Faces One of the Top 100 Most Important Books of the 20th Century, Joseph Campbell's book is a treasure trove with a map inside that can help you understand some of the most important stages and journeys in your life. Or, you can use its ideas to write better stories or plan for changes, planned or unexpected, in your life, your work, your relationships... Series: Reviews: Books, Movies (61 Articles, 131416 views), Writing and Story to Change, Wake Up The World (22 Articles, 69222 views) ![]()
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![]() Hillary Would Be A War President Hillary would be a war president. She has been a war woman her whole career. She voted for the Iraq war. She was a leading influencer in supporting the destruction of Libya. She will be a conflict encourager in the middle east. It's what neocons do. ![]()
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![]() Who are the Leading, Top Progressives? Who do you think of as progressive leaders? And how are progressives different from liberals?
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![]() America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying The bloom is off the rose, though, with some audacious gardening, it could return.
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![]() Creationist Evangelicals Kindred Spirits With ISIL, See Antiquity Destruction as Hopeful Sign Evangelicals are kindred spirits with with leaders of the Islamic State, also know as ISIS. Look at their opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution, their efforts to reject ancient human history, and how rapture ready end-times Evangelicals are embracing ISIS' destruction of antiquities as a hopeful sign ![]()
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![]() Obama's Betrayal Moves Forward-- Eleven Nations Agree on TPP The TPP Trans Pacific Partnership is a betrayal of voters and the 99% throughout the world, not just the USA. Big business supporting neoliberals are cheering Obama, saying this cements his legacy. I agree, but it is a shameful legacy that condemns Obama to the garbage dump of history. The next step is fast track approval of this despicable deal in congress. Will legislators attempt to sell this ugly gift ? ![]()
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![]() Exclusive Interview: Alan Grayson on House of Cards, Foreign Money in Elections, NSA, Snowden, Greenwald & Surveillance This segment of the transcript of the interview covers our discussion of the TV series, House of Cards, foreign money in US elections and NSA, Snowden, Greenwald and how the US has become a surveillance state. Series: Evil Psychopathic corporations (18 Articles, 67982 views), Alan Grayson 2014 Interview: TPP, Corporate Psychopathy, Foreign Money In Elections, Electing More Progressives (4 Articles, 13354 views), Psychopaths, Sociopaths and Narcissists (64 Articles, 376477 views) (View All Series) ![]() ![]()
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![]() Evil "Educators" and Pulled Heartstrings I'm watching Freedom Writers on Netflix. It's an incredibly powerful story well worth watching-- again, in my case. I decided to write this because I saw evil monsters, and they were educators-- a teacher, an English Department head, a principal and the main character's husband (well, the husband may just be an a**hole. . And the damn movie is one of the touching, heartwarming movies I've ever watched.
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![]() Full Jefferson Quote-- "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots" Paul Craig Roberts mentioned Jefferson's quote in my recent interview with him (podcast here.) Then forwarded me this full source of the quote. It was the first time I'd seen it, so I thought it might be of interest to others. Rob Kall ![]()
(184 comments) SHARE ![]() Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul Even if progressives don't vote for Ron Paul, there are some great reaso |