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This week its Bunnatine Greenhouse’s neck on the corporatocracy’s chopping block.

Journalists may be metaphorically castrated at home but they are being actually murdered in Iraq. The latest victim was Reuters’ Waleed Khaled.
From Reporters Without Borders:
Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage at the fatal shooting of Reuters TV soundman Waleed Khaled by US military sniper fire in an incident today in Baghdad in which [...]

Sounds to me like George is loosing it.
From Capitol Hill Blue via The Randi Rhodes Show
Bush’s Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
By DOUG THOMPSON
Aug 25, 2005, 06:19

While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the [...]

There has been an exchange going on here on 12thharmonic blog. It’s been so good it deserves a posting.
Say hello to Jenifer. From what I surmise, an Ex-pat American living in Western Australia.
But first there was Doug. Someone who asked, “What’s Cindy Sheehan’s point?”
What is Cindy’s point? She wants to tell the President she is [...]

My favourite avenging angel is making a return visit to the states- from The Independent courtesy of Common Dreams:
George Galloway, the anti-war MP for Bethnal Green and Bow who rocked the US Senate earlier this year, is to be accompanied on a speaking tour of America by the actress and activist Jane Fonda.
Few things are [...]

All this war and killing for so called noble causes. The rightous and powerful speak of evil doers, terrorists, gays getting married, and other red herrings. The reality is. We are killing our planet. Which means we all die.
Wake up! The signs are large, neon, and flashing!
Sinking fast: Sea species dwindle to little notice
By [...]

img : Karikaturmuseum Krems
From the “California Nurses Association”

‘No Sympathy’ for Schwarzenegger at Rolling Stones Concert in Boston - RNs Protest Sticky Fingers for Corporate Cash

(Oakland, CA) There was “No Sympathy” for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sunday night as he sought to turn a Rolling Stones concert in Boston into a fundraiser only to be picketed by [...]

Courtesy of Raw Story, the lyrics we’ve all been curious about:
“You ride around your white castle, On your little white horse / You lie to your people, and blame it on your war of course
You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite / You call yourself a patriot, well I think you’re full [...]

“The Right Versus Cindy’s Truth”

From our friends at Brilliant!

Whilst we’re on the subject of 14 points, I’ve been thinking about Umberto Eco’s Eternal Fascism: 14 ways of Looking at a Blackshirt, specifically number 9 in regard to Cindy Sheehan’s question What noble cause? and the new newspeak Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism:
Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because [...]

From Kos.
Via Air America Place Daily Blog
A DJ’s wild account!
I don’t rave myself, but this is getting scary!
You must watch this video!
The helicopter dipped lower and lower and started shining its lights on the crowd. I was kind of in awe and just sat and watched this thing circle us for a minute. As I [...]

As heard on the Laura Flanders Show
Via The Pittsburgh Organizing Group

Video
More Images via Pittsburgh Indy Media
On Saturday August 20 2005 in Oakland, on Forbes Avenue in broad daylight just before noon, Pittsburgh police used tasers on protestors at a counter-recruting protest.
if you haven’t seen a taser in action before: the yellow [...]