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Tom Toles | Curtains / assets.amuniversal.com

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:15 — Dave Culver

 

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Google Earth GIFs, 'Timelapse' Project, Show Startling Impact Of Humans On The Planet

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:05 — Dave Culver

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Columbia Glacier Retreat

05/09/13 | Google has released some stunning time-lapse images of our changing planet, highlighting some of the most startling impacts made by humans.

The project, called Timelapse, was undertaken in conjunction with Time, NASA and the United States Geological Survey. Satellite images taken by the Landsat Program from 1984 to 2012 have been compressed from trillions of pixels into small GIFs and a zoomable map.

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Martin Luther King And The Call To Direct Action On Climate, Joe Romm and Van Jones, Climate Progress, Think Progress

  • As King explains, time “can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will.” We feel the same.
  • It is past time for many more to speak out, and for many more to join direct action.

 

 
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Obama Did It for the Money

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 16:02 — Dave Culver

  • The president has chosen to fill two key Cabinet positions dealing with business practices with people who specialized in financial rip-offs.
  • Robert Scheer on Penny Pritzker

Robert Scheer, Truthdig

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President Obama looks to longtime fundraiser Penny Pritzker after announcing her nomination to run the Commerce Department and that of economic adviser Michael Froman, left, as the next U.S. Trade Representative. AP/Carolyn Kaster

May 7, 2013 | The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money. Her money, not his, financed his rise to the White House from less promising days back in Chicago.

“Without Penny Pritzker, it is unlikely that Barack Obama ever would have been elected to the United States Senate or the presidency,” according to a gushing New York Times report last year that read like the soaring jacket copy of a steamy romance novel. “When she first backed him during his 2004 Senate run, she was No. 152 on the Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans. He was a long-shot candidate who needed her support and imprimatur. Mr. Obama and Ms. Pritzker grew close, sometimes spending weekends with their families at her summer home.”

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US Genocide

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 17:22 — Dave Culver

Americans Against the Tea Party

 

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David Horsey | Imprisoned at Guantanamo / www.usnews.com

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 11:36 — Dave Culver

 

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Noam Chomsky Compares Right-wing Media to Nazi Germany

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 10:53 — Dave Culver
  • Linguist Noam Chomsky expresses concern that American listeners are consuming the “crazy content” broadcast by right-wing media outlets as “substantive” — answers to why the rich liberals running the country do not care about people in the flyover states.
  • The Corporate Media As Accomplice to the Iraq War

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Oct 14, 2009 | Linguist Noam Chomsky expresses concern that American listeners are consuming the “crazy content” broadcast by right-wing media outlets as “substantive” — answers to why the rich liberals running the country do not care about people in the flyover states.

What comes to mind, Chomsky says, is late Wiemar Germany. “There were people with real grievances…the Nazis gave them an answer.”

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The Corporate Media As Accomplice to the Iraq War, Matthew Rothschild,  The Progressive

It shouldn’t be too much to expect Rumsfeld, Bush, and Cheney to be tried for their crimes. The fact that it is says a lot about how lawless our nation has become, with the corporate media acting as an accomplice.

 

 
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The Housing Market Recovery Is ‘A Complete Hoax’

Tue, 05/07/2013 - 11:47 — Dave Culver

Five Star Institute economist Mark Lieberman has shown that banks are keeping more than 7 million homes off the market in this manner in order to “reduce listings, create the illusion of ‘scarcity,’ and push up prices,” Whitney reports. The housing market recovery, then, is “a complete hoax.”

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May 3, 2013 | Homeownership is at its lowest level in 18 years, but housing prices are rising. Why? Because banks are creating real estate scarcity by buying up homes and selectively stalling foreclosures.

CounterPunch contributor Mike Whitney reminds us that in recent years the Federal Reserve has kept lending rates low. This has allowed Private Equity firms to buy up lots of homes with money they have to pay very little to borrow. The result is the appearance that Americans are buying again. But as the homeownership rate shows, they’re not. Investors are, and this is keeping prices artificially high.

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How the Rich Benefited From the Recovery, Les Leopold, AlterNet / Truthdig 

  • (While Most of Us Got Nothing)
  • Austerity debunked

 

 

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The Death of Truth

Mon, 05/06/2013 - 18:03 — Dave Culver

 

The use of vast global resources against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks presages a dystopian world where anyone who exposes corruption, lies and crimes of power will be branded a terrorist. This Dig, centering on Chris Hedges' interview with Assange in the London embassy where he has found refuge since last June, also includes an interactive timeline of events surrounding the WikiLeaks disclosures, a sidebar of reader resources, sound bites and a partial transcript stemming from the interview, and an illustration by the acclaimed cartoonist Mr. Fish. The interview is a joint project of Truthdig and The Nation.

 

Chris Hedges, TruthDig

 

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Mr. Fish

 

May 6, 2013 | A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting its founder, Julian Assange, appears outside the red-brick building on Hans Crescent Street that houses the Ecuadorean Embassy. Assange, the world’s best-known political refugee, has been in the embassy since he was offered sanctuary there last June. British police in black Kevlar vests are perched night and day on the steps leading up to the building, and others wait in the lobby directly in front of the embassy door. An officer stands on the corner of a side street facing the iconic department store Harrods, half a block away on Brompton Road. Another officer peers out the window of a neighboring building a few feet from Assange’s bedroom at the back of the embassy. Police sit round-the-clock in a communications van topped with an array of antennas that presumably captures all electronic forms of communication from Assange’s ground-floor suite.

 

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), or Scotland Yard, said the estimated cost of surrounding the Ecuadorean Embassy from June 19, 2012, when Assange entered the building, until Jan. 31, 2013, is the equivalent of $4.5 million. 

 

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Bill Day | Hand Sitting / media.cagle.com

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 15:09 — Dave Culver

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Martin Luther King And The Call To Direct Action On Climate

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 13:13 — Dave Culver

  • As King explains, time “can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will.” We feel the same.
  • It is past time for many more to speak out, and for many more to join direct action.

Joe Romm and Van Jones, Climate Progress, Think Progress

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Climate Progress Editor's Note: Van Jones and I have an op-ed in “The Miami Herald” and many other McClatchy newspapers. I will have more on the moral dimensions of climate change in later posts.

Apr 14, 2013 | “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” wrote Martin Luther King Jr. from a Birmingham jail on April 16, 1963. “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”

The Atlanta-based King was explaining why he was in prison for nonviolent demonstrations so far from home, responding to a critical public statement by eight Southern white religious leaders. His words are timeless and universal in part because King was a master of language but primarily because he viewed civil rights through a moral lens.

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SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site, Kristi Eaton, Associated Press  / Philly.com

 

Tribal members and descendants have reached out to President Barack Obama to make the site a National Monument, which would better guard it against development and commercialization.

 

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