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Poor brown people pay to go to prison in Iraq 
(unknown author) via Corrente on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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McClatchy's top story today tells how a Kuwaiti subcontractor to our old friend KBR has been holding about a thousand men from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh in warehouses near Bahgdad for three months. These poor guys paid more than $2000 for the privilege of being treated this way.
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Beatings and abuse made Barack Obama’s grandfather loathe the British - Times Online
(unknown author) via www.timesonline.co.uk on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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Barack Obama’s grandfather was imprisoned and brutally tortured by the British during the violent struggle for Kenyan independence, according to the Kenyan family of the US President-elect.
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Candace Gingrich tells her brother Newt: ‘Stop being a hater.’
Faiz Shakir via Think Progress on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
Last week on Fox News, Newt Gingrich claimed that “there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.” Reacting to this hate-mongering, Candace Gingrich criticized her half-brother Ne
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I read the news today, oh boy....
(unknown author) via Balkinization on Sat, 22 Nov. 2008
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There is, however, another and more disturbing parallel between 2008 and 1932 — namely, the emergence of a power vacuum at the height of the crisis. The interregnum of 1932-1933, the long stretch between the election and the actual transfer of power, was disastrous for the U.S. economy, at least in part because the outgoing administration had no credibili
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Why Doesn't Costco Accept Food Stamps? [Recession Watch]
Meg Marco via Consumerist on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
The New York Times City Room blog asks an interesting question. Why doesn't Costco accept food stamps? Even farmers markets accept them! What's the deal, Costco? From the NYT: According to Mr. Gioia’s office, executives at Costco told the office
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The wrongheaded American belief that Barack Obama could only happen here. - By David Berreby - Slate Magazine
(unknown author) via www.slate.com on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
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The wrongheaded American belief that Barack Obama could only happen here.
People are still amazed he won. In a country where more than a few white folks would still say outright that one of "them'' shouldn't be in charge, here was a politician who didn't downplay his ethnicity, his foreign-sounding name, or his father who wasn't
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Huckabee Claims Civil Rights Of Gays Are Not Being Violated: They Aren’t Getting Their ‘Skulls Cracked’
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
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To suggest that a civil rights movement must meet some sort of violence threshold is an incredibly dangerous argument — not to mention blind to the serious violence gay people have already suffered. 16.6 percent of all hate crimes reported by the FBI in 2007 “resulted from sexual-orientation bias,” and the number of hate crimes directed against gays a
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Vice President Cheney and former Attorney General Gonzales indicted.
Faiz Shakir via Think Progress on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
A South Texas grand jury has returned multi-count indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the
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Fox News Blog Edits Out Homophobic Barney Frank Joke From Transcript Of ‘Red Eye’ Host’s Monologue
Matt Corley via Think Progress on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
In a “Greg-alogue” video posted today, Greg Gutfeld, the host of Fox News’ late-night show Red Eye, launched a frivolous attack on Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta. “If you believe in progressive ideas, you’ll believe in anything,
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Focus on the Family forced to make layoffs after spending $600,000 to defeat marriage equality.
(unknown author) via Think Progress on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
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I hope they feel vindicated.
Colorado Independent reports that Focus on the Family “is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today.” The layoffs come after the right-wing group
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Afghan article says US Bin-Ladin hunt phoney
(unknown author) via Informed Comment on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
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The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Persian Afghan press alleging that French troops were at one point close to capturing Usamah Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, but that American forces stopped them from doing so. It says that a forthcoming French documentary containing interviews with the French soldiers provides proof for the allegation. T
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Presidents’ Pay Rises Faster at Public Universities Than Private Ones, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com
(unknown author) via www.nytimes.com on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
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“It’s surprising that many public universities are raising their presidents’ salaries,” said Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, who has been prodding universities for more accountability in spending and greater commitment to affordability. “In these hard economic times, apparently belt-tigh
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Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama's Intelligence Transition Team
mail@democracynow.org (Democra via Democracy Now! on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
John Brennan and Jami Miscik, both former intelligence officials under George Tenet, are leading Barack Obama’s review of intelligence agencies and helping make recommendations to the new
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James Surowiecki: On how we created the food crisis.
(unknown author) via The New Yorker on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
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If the just-in-time system for producing cars runs into a hitch and the supply of cars shrinks for a while, people can easily adapt. When the same happens with food, people go hungry or even starve.
This spring, disaster loomed in the global food market. Precipitous increases in the prices of staples like rice (up more than a hundred and fifty
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Kay Steiger: Single Mothers Drop in College Attendance
(unknown author) via kaysteiger.blogspot.com on Sun, 16 Nov. 2008
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A new study shows (via Inside Higher Ed) that single mothers are dropping in college attendance in an era of welfare reform because education doesn’t count as work. In single mothers aged 24 to 49 with only a high school education, college attendance reduced by 20 to 25 percent compared with pre-welfare reform statistics. The researchers behind the study
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"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Hoover Institution Admits It's a Center-Left Nation
(unknown author) via Open Left - Front Page on Sun, 16 Nov. 2008
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"The decline of Republican strength occurs by having strong Republicans become weak Republicans, weak Republicans becoming independents, and independents leaning more Democratic or even becoming Democrats." This is a portrait of an electorate moving from center-right to center-left.
The Hoover Institution is one of the major conservative think
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Why is it OK that Obama's transition chief for intelligence policy, John Brennan, is pro-torture?
(unknown author) via Corrente on Sun, 16 Nov. 2008
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To me, Brennan is a classic example of WIBDI — What If Bush Did It. In that case, progressives would be, and have been, outraged.
See Glenn here. Progressives? Oh, progressives? Speak up, please!
Of course, Brennan is also for warrantless surveillance
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Top 5 Anti-Feminist Beatles Songs
Cara via The Curvature on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
I think Beatles fans who are honest with themselves will agree that The Beatles could be major assholes — especially towards women, and especially in the early days. There will be more on this later if I ever fucking finish those posts about Yoko Ono that I promised forever ago. Anyway, the misogyny, particularly but hardly exclusively John’s, often came out in their songs. What I per
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