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Yearly Archives: 2008
Sisters, This Is an Election We Can’t Sit Out
Senator Barack Obama with Oprah Winfrey in Des Moines. Photo by Jason Reed / Reuters. The visceral, gut-wrenching pain expressed by Clinton’s supporters is real, and at least in my case, has caused me to confront my own response, not … Continue reading
The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili
Georgia president Mikhail Saakashvili.‘Saakashvili was deliberately placed in power in one of the most sophisticated US regime change operations’By F. William Engdahl / August 12, 2008 The controversy over the Georgian surprise military attacks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia on … Continue reading
Austin and US 290 E : You Can’t Get There From Here
A little historical foreplay: 1971 Plans for the US 290/2222 interchange. Proposed toll road: ‘The public hearing was set up and designed as an exercise in intimidation’ By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / August 13, 2008 The conduct … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Environment, Texas, Toll Roads, Transportation, TXDot
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Old Glory, Oh Lordy! American Flag Flip-Flopped by Our President
Whoops! Photo by Ezra Shaw / Getty Images. ‘Is Dubya using the flag to make a political statement?’ By Christine / August 12, 2008 George W. Bush seems happy as ever as America’s cheerleader-in-chief at the Beijing Olympics. Too bad … Continue reading
Gentle Rage: Clyde Bellecourt Remembers the Birth of the American Indian Movement
Clyde Bellecourt, one of three founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968.‘We had to create our own institutions. Even today, we can do that all across America.’By Brenda Norrell / August 13, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO — Clyde Bellecourt … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, American Indian Movement, Direct Action, Indigenous People, Native Americans, Sixties, Social Action
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Berkeley Scientists : World In ‘Mass Extinction Spasm’
Amphibians are dying even in remote Sierra Nevada.Scientists: Humans To Blame ‘Behind all this lies the heavy hand of Homo sapiens’ By John Boitnott / August 12, 2008 “There’s no question that we are in a mass extinction spasm right … Continue reading
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Tagged Amphibians, Eco-Systems, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Fauna, Mass Extinction, Science
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Pastors Go Postal : The Tacky Trial of Diva Osteen
Victoria Osteen and mega-church televangelist husband Joel. Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown told jurors that she could tell Victoria Osteen was “headstrong” during the December 2005 incident that led to Brown’s lawsuit against Osteen. Photo by Steve Ueckert / … Continue reading
By Bending Light, Researchers Appear Closer to Creating Invisibility Cloak
The fantasy-like technology offers practical uses, like making computer chips even smallerBy John Johnson, Jr. / August 12, 2008 Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they … Continue reading
Warrior John McCain : Far More Dangerous Than Bush
John McCain at Forward Operating Base Warrior in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo by Staff Sgt. Margaret Nelson‘McCain can see no alternative to military victory, no matter what the cost’By Steve Weissman / August 12, 2008 During the hottest days of the … Continue reading
BORRRRING : Republicans Just Can’t Get it Up for Convention
Enthusiasm gap: All the excitement’s in DenverBy Richard T. Cullen / August 11, 2008 While excitement is building for a Democratic Party convention capped by Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech before a sold-out, 75,000-seat football stadium, the GOP convention the … Continue reading
Drawn and Quartered
Mike Keefe / Denver PostThe Rag Blog / Posted August 13, 2008
BOOKS : Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society
‘Read Small Schools to get angry and radicalized’By Jill Davidson Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society by Michael Klonsky and Susan Klonsky (Routledge, 209 pages, $26.95) Mike and Susan Klonsky’s Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the … Continue reading
