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Larry Piltz : Bush’s Final Jenga Surprise
Jingo Bush Pulls Out the Last Piece and the Tower Comes Tumbling Down By Larry Piltz / The Rag Blog / September 30, 2008 1st Jenga piece: The 9/11 Attacks – Bush, with his “9/10 mentality” and bring-it-on, laissez-faire national … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Bush Presidency, George W. Bush, Larry Piltz, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Retired Physician : Our Health Care System an Outrage
‘The insurance industry, and the Republican Party, over the years have sold the public a bill of goods’By S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog / September 30, 2008 I have been reading Vincent Bugliosi’s “The Prosecution of George W. … Continue reading
NUTRITION : The Pros and Cons of "Organic" Food Revisited
Yesterday The Rag Blog posted an article by Roger Baker in which he contended that the types of food you eat can be more important than eating food labeled “organic.” [NUTRITION: Are Organic Foods Just a Marketing Trend? by Roger … Continue reading
Bush’s Bailout Tanks; What Austin Thinks
Congress failed to pass the economic bailout plan today: the pundits are atwitter, the stock market has tanked, the politicos are pointing fingers, and the doomsday prophets are taking center stage. And George the Decider has added a final (one … Continue reading
How Fascism Happens : That Hoary Truism About Learning From History
Photo by basetree.Fascism: When bad things happen to good peopleBy Paul Fish / The Rag Blog / September 28, 2008 A good and recent read is John Dean’s Conservatives Without Conscience which is really a rather dispassionate and mildly scholarly … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Liberties, Fascism, History, Nazi Germany, Neocons, World History
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NUTRITION : Are ‘Organic’ Foods Just a Marketing Ploy?
Organic apple. Better, or just more expensive?Study shows what you eat is more important than whether the food meets the criteria to be called ‘organic’By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2008 Are “organic” foods really safer … Continue reading
Orlando Homeless Win Big Victory in Federal Court
City ordinance that limited size of homeless feedings linked to gentrification effortsBy Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / September 27, 2008 ORLANDO — The City of Orlando, in keeping with corporate dominance by theme park and other business … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Courts, Homeless, Human Rights, MDS, Orlando, Poverty, SDS
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Debate a Wash; Does Obama Lack Killer Instinct?
Obama ‘had two big chances to plant a large-caliber entry wound right between McCain’s eyes, and didn’t even try’ By Thomas Cleaver | The Rag Blog | September 27, 2008 I was really, seriously impressed with Joe Biden and what … Continue reading
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Tagged Joe Biden, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Presidential Debates, Sarah Palin
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The Sky Will Fall in on Them
Weathering the Coming CrisisBy Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2008 Before I share the articles, I’m listing what we are either doing or suggest could be done to further protest this unnecessary bail-out that serves only … Continue reading
Poor Dubya : So Many Lies, So Little Time…
Photo by Craig Owen / Oxfam. The lies and scare tactics just keep getting bigger and bigger. By Randy H. / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2008 There aren’t many left in the inventory, Mr. Bush. Hurry! There are … Continue reading
Bailout : Paulson Could Easily Throw in a Few Hundred Million of His Own Bucks
Henry (Hank) Paulson in 2004 when he was chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs. He left with full pockets. Photo by Graham Barclay / Bloomberg News.After all, Goldman Sachs left him in pretty good shapeBy Duncan Echelson / The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank Bailouts, Economic Collapse, Henry Paulson, Wall Street
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A World Premiere from Larry Piltz
Just Got Back (From Iraq and Nam) “Just Got Back”, an unprecedented Music Video, uses stunning unaired original photos from the Vietnam War, of Vietnam Veterans protesting 1972 Republican convention in Miami, of 1990s war-devastated Iraq, and of a modern … Continue reading
