It seems the US isn’t the only Western country losing its democracy. It is positively grotesque to see the Labour party, once the people’s party, systematically cheating people of their right to vote.
It brings to mind those 50s sci-fi b-movies in which a trusted character’s body gets taken over by aliens, only this [...]
The Observer has a new blog too. It’s nice to see that some journalists see blogging as a good thing. Perhaps the division comes down to which journalists have the flexibility to adapt to the trend towards a more dialogic paradigm and those entrenched in pronouncement style journalism, in which the pen is a [...]
The armies of the religious right are out with their pitchforks and torches in Scotland. On this occasion their chosen targets are cancer patients:
Glasgow Sunday Herald - Firing the opening salvoes of a campaign that looks set to rage for decades to come, last week they launched an attack that took Britain by surprise [...]
Robert Greenwald, the Producer/Director of Outfoxed, now has a blog.
Since the demise of the democratic media there is an urgent need to carve some new channels to restore the information flow. If there is a new media Robert Greenwald is at the forefront of it, and he is democratically inclined:
we are working at a [...]
When Bush found out that he would have to answer real questions from real people rather than the usual scripted pre-approved charade his tiny kajones deserted him altogether.
Der Spiegel - During his trip to Germany on Wednesday, the main highlight of George W. Bush’s trip was meant to be a “town hall”-style meeting [...]
At Common Dreams Thomm Hartmann reminds us that this weekend is a key date in the history we are seeing repeated:
This weekend - February 27th - is the 72nd anniversary, but the corporate media most likely won’t cover it. The generation that experienced this history firsthand is now largely dead, and only a few [...]
Hello valued readers,
What a week. All this Gannon stuff got us thinking….Gail came up with a musical “What if?”
Then this morning. While sitting in the reading room (the loo).
It hit me.
We put this together this afternoon.
Parody by Gail and I.
My appologies to Manfred Mann!
[audio:http://www.12thharmonic.net/audio/parody/Gannons Song_56.mp3]
Gannon’s Song (who did he do?)……128MP3
UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Smaller file
Gannon’s Song (who did [...]
From Unknown News via Norwegianity. This assertion is too new for me to have developed an opinion but it makes me mighty uncomfortable. I haven’t forgiven Kerry for conceding so soon and so easily in the face of very good evidence of widespread fraud, especially since he specifically promised that every vote would [...]
Pulled from LJ’s Blogarific.
We knew this was coming didn’t we.
Watch out. Prez Arnie might be next.
And you all thought they wouldn’t try this BS. Well it turns out that there is currently a bill trying to be pushed through congress that is attempting to repeal the 22nd Amendment.
For those of you not familiar with the [...]
