tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-228126132012-01-27T06:37:31.621-05:00Truth from the Progressive side.Michael Kwiatkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088018250626648966noreply@blogger.comBlogger300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-69778323794860925622011-08-12T23:54:00.003-04:002011-08-12T23:58:34.977-04:00

This was a letter I sent to the webmaster of "The Free Republic" I guess the republic is free if you belong to the wacky right.Here's a link to ask them why they only run articles that agree with their viewpoint. http://www.freerepublic.com Dear Webmaster, I would like to know why my posting privileges were revoked. My belief is that logical, unemotional and intelligent discourse in a

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Earlier this spring, the Miami New Times published two articles about a teenage runaway who posed as a then-nineteen-year-old stripper from Nevada for Internet porn giant Reality Kings. According to news reports, last year the then-fifteen-year-old stole the identity of Tyler Chanel Evans, who had helped her out only to have her identification card — and her entire identity — stolen. The

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By Ellen BrownOn June 30, QE2 ended with a whimper. The Fed’s second round of “quantitative easing” involved $600 billion created with a computer keystroke for the purchase of long-term government bonds. But the government never actually got the money, which went straight into the reserve accounts of banks, where it still sits today. Worse, it went into the reserve accounts of FOREIGN banks,

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This isn’t goodbye; it’s just a “See you later”. You see I’ve had enough. I’ve been writing for over six years now and I feel like I just haven’t gotten my point across at all. I’ve tried to explain that there isn’t a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. At one time there was, but not today. The moneyed interests have co-opted the two parties that most Americans believe this

Timothy V. Gattohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150597872449657983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-28220310021055168022010-11-03T13:26:00.000-04:002010-11-03T13:26:40.909-04:00

A lot of Democrats are pondering why so many of their politicians lost to the Republicans last night, but the biggest "reasons" given — the base wasn't sufficiently enthusiastic about the party (which, while true, doesn't explain why it was unenthusiastic), voters are stupid, those damned Greens stole Democrat votes — do not reflect reality.I am here to tell you that you didn't lose for the

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Cross-posted from Progressive-Independence.org.From an article by John Browne at Asia Times:Last week, US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke faced congressional leaders with a reported forecast that we are "literally days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system". Apparently, the politicians were stunned into a long silence.If citizens across

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Here we are, all primed and pumped for the Republican Convention. This has given the Democrats lots to talk about and also an opportunity to skewer McCain and his new running mate. This doesn’t surprise me, nor does it anger me, every demeaning thing that is said about GOP has this writer’s endorsement, they couldn’t pick on a more deserving target. The only thing that bothers me is their total

Timothy V. Gattohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150597872449657983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-53534432740062074432008-08-31T09:11:00.005-04:002008-08-31T10:30:20.025-04:00

What exactly was the point of last week's announcements for vice presidential picks? On one hand we have a shell of a candidate promoting "change" but doing everything in his power to establish himself as an establishment candidate, picking a Washington, D.C. insider with a record of corporate whoring and unquestioning support for U.S. imperial policy. Small wonder Barack Obama is either

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Mr. Obama: As one of the relatively few people in this country who saw through your act early on, and for the right reasons, let me first say how utterly ashamed I am to call myself a registered Democrat. You are a disgrace not only to the party at large, but to the thousands — perhaps, dare I say, even millions of Americans who were and remain so desperate for someone to come and rescue our

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After reading cometman's entry about Kos Kop MajorFlaw, I thought a little explanation of the system at that web site might be in order. Most if not all of what I write next is common knowledge to PFFers and members of other blog sites, but it helps to have it all on record - just so the people at the Mediocre Orange Hype remember that we've got their number.The first crucial Thing to Remember

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Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic Party's nomination to run for president, and because this is a crucial election year it is only natural for Democrats to try to win over progressives -- especially the disaffected variety turned off by your candidate's hard right turns. If you plan to do this, choosing to ignore Obama's strategy of pandering to right-wing and bigot voters who'll never

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To read the Rude Pundit blow the Obamassiah in writing, only to complain about the senator's craven and cynical capitulation on FISA and telecomm immunity, is truly an exercise in tedium. I imagine it's like the Puritans back in the day, when they were hanging their neighbors on trumped up charges of witchcraft, whacking off on the witness stand with their left hands while using their right to

Michael Kwiatkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088018250626648966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-59772027702982911892008-07-04T19:33:00.001-04:002008-07-04T19:39:37.937-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW12_OscRZgThe above video was posted in a news article on the web site for the Boston Globe newspaper. Few publications can be counted upon anymore to cover stories like this. Of those that do, fewer receive the attention they deserve -- at least until it's far too late to do anything about it. The Globe is one of them. In 2000 and 2004, the paper reported on

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Naomi Kelin is complaining that the Most Holy Obamasiah has begun to reveal his true colors now that he has the nomination. Now is the time to worry about Obama's Chicago Boys and their commitment to fending off serious attempts at regulation. It was in the two and a half months between winning the 1992 election and being sworn into office that Bill Clinton did a U-turn on the economy. He had

Michael Kwiatkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088018250626648966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-55387990896714546492008-06-07T16:03:00.004-04:002008-06-07T16:52:00.924-04:00

Hillary Clinton has finally conceded in her fight to win the Democratic Party's nomination to run for president, but this means only that things are about to get really, really ugly. Trust me, this fight is about to go from being comparable to a train wreck to being comparable to the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the smoke finally clears, John McCain will be the new dictator and

Michael Kwiatkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088018250626648966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-37328273833776036052008-06-01T12:37:00.005-04:002008-06-01T13:49:42.346-04:00

I have an idea for a health insurance company, one that is sure to work really well. Here's the pitch:You pay me a fee every month—say, between $500 and $1,000—and I pocket the money. In return, in the event you need someone to cover your medical expenses, I'll tell you in so many words to go fuck yourself, you're on your own. I'll use any excuse to deny your claim, and if one of my employees

Michael Kwiatkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088018250626648966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-83003428485354842622008-05-26T10:02:00.004-04:002008-05-26T10:05:06.366-04:00

It seems everyone is in uproar over Hillary Clinton’s remarks about her staying in the race for the Democratic nomination to run for president through the month of June, and her ill-chosen example of Bobby Kennedy—the senator and brother of John F. Kennedy who, like his presidential sibling, was assassinated. The remarks were, of course, in the poorest of taste and they have received all the

Michael Kwiatkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088018250626648966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-42258907029396609352008-05-20T12:56:00.000-04:002008-05-20T12:57:11.462-04:00

The boy just can't seem to stop making an ass of himself, can he? John McCain, who can't even tell Iraqi resistance fighters from Iranians, can't distinguish between al-Qaeda and Iran -- because as far as he's concerned, they're all the same -- is criticizing Barack Obama for perceived foreign policy inexperience because the senator supposedly representing Illinois doesn't see Iran as a threat on

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If the electoral disaster of 2004 should have taught us anything, it's that our votes are wasted when cast for those candidates who represent the status quo and refuse to fight it. How many of you regret throwing your ballots away on John Kerry? How many of you did so, knowing in your hearts that you would much rather have voted for someone else, because you felt it was more important to try to

Michael Kwiatkowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15088018250626648966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-9519688964801363072008-05-13T21:40:00.003-04:002008-05-13T21:58:33.426-04:00

Black Agenda Report does a good job of showing where Barack Obama is getting his campaign money from. The DLCer who claims not to take a dime from Washington lobbyists is instead taking it in bundles from its wealthier employees and executives. Obama is not the kind of candidate Democrats should have put up this year. Instead, he is the GOP's dream opponent next to Hillary Clinton. No wonder

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I'm tired of the networks telling me what the news means. More importantly, if the news media would tell us all the news instead of what they want us to hear; we wouldn't need these mindless pundits telling us what it all means. This country had been around for 332 years without a King telling us what we need to know. The news stations leave out 90% of what is really going on in the world. We

Timothy V. Gattohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150597872449657983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-80309174199367161752008-05-13T08:26:00.001-04:002008-05-13T08:26:53.573-04:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24588813Volunteering on Frank Jackson's campaign for mayor of Cleveland in 2005, I was not surprised to hear a very unpleasant and vulgar word beginning with the letter 'n' used two different times. Still irritated, to be sure, but not surprised. Cleveland is a prime example of a town where racism still flourishes. This is why Obama's tossing of his former pastor under

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I am one American that is ashamed of what this nation has become. I am sick to death of watching my country invade other nations for their oil. I am ashamed of the people we wantonly attack in the “name of democracy”. I cringe when I see police officers kill citizens with impunity and beat people as if they the police were nothing but state sponsored gangs. I am disgusted with this so-called

Timothy V. Gattohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15150597872449657983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22812613.post-28335788863089654912008-05-07T09:49:00.004-04:002008-05-07T10:04:18.630-04:00

Thanks to Sarah Lane at EENR for supplying the links in this entry. When the Supreme (Kangaroo) Court upheld an unconstitutional poll tax last week that was passed in the form of a voter suppression law in Indiana, some people (like Injustice Antonin Scalia) were quick to dismiss the horrendous effects. But as that state held its primary yesterday, reports about voters being turned away because

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