30 September 2010

Ralph Nader "ONLY THE SUPER-RICH CAN SAVE US"


"UT shooting comes just as Austin campus debates concealed weapons law"


Sacre Blow! A Tale of Rachida Dati. (I don't see how this link could be NSFW; it's the BBC for Chrissakes...:^))


I don't know if this is disinfo, but it amazes me how much the establishment media is afraid of incurring right-wing wrath:"Was Sarah Palin Booed At DWTS? ABC Explains Mystery Jeering"


Apparently IOZ calls Matt Yglesias Wiggles. He does so apropos of this Marie Antoinette-ish piece of tripe. (Sometimes I have a hard time telling Wiggles and Ezra Klein apart, so the pet name helps.)


Speaking of purveyors of lefty received wisdom, occasionally Digby is useful: "Mission creep:the new surveillance state" (although I note she just takes the TSA to task and spares the administration.)



Andrew Reinbach, The Huffington Post, From Sydney, New York, population 5,993.
"Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery"

Two from Helena Cobban:
1. "23% of Israelis ready to leave Israel at any hint of problems?"

2."That all-American urge to punish"



"It Is Official: The US Is A Police State"
by Paul Craig Roberts, September 25, 2010

Monday, 7 June 2010

Asia Times, "We are all Gazans Now", Pepe Escobar


BBC[text and video link] "21 Miles Off The Coast of Palestine" (about 43 minutes)

Adam Curtis links to an early 70s documentary about the 1947 passage of the Exodus, which was also intercepted outside territorial waters. The Exodus, carrying Jewish refugees from a port in Marseilles, was intercepted by the British who were enforcing an immigration limit on Palestine. No, this is not the Hollywood film with Paul Newman.


CBS News(AP) "Many Gulf Federal Judges Have Oil Links"

More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows.

The Man Who Changed The World, parts 1 & 2

Part one (of six): The Man Who Changed The World: Iran & The West

via www.alisanaei.com

and, part two:

"The Man Who Changed the World" Parts 3,4,5 and 6

Parts one and two are here. Directly above is part 3 of "The Man Who Changed the World". Below are parts 4, 5 and 6, which are mainly about the American Embassy hostage crisis of '79-'81.

pt 4:



pt 5:



and finally, pt 6:

Hecklers vs. Lawrence Summers

I remember a while back the Associated Press putting out a sort of trial balloon regarding heavy-handed enforcement of their copyrights and wanting to limit passages of over five words(!) being quoted without explicit permission. Now they have a Youtube channel, and they aren't disabling the embed code, unlike the BBC's world news channel, although the regular BBC channel on Youtube is also unrestricted.

banned by the BBC

Possibly you've heard about how the BBC refused to air an ad by a UK-based relief agency asking for help for people in Gaza. (Ordinarily you might call them refugees, except they're blockaded as well being bombed, so they have no place to go.) The BBC discusses it briefly, here. Video link above courtesy Wampum, via Jay Taber.

cross-posted at Hugo Zoom.