Pittsburgh Police Challenged over Use of Sound Cannons During G-20 and for Wrongfully Arresting Students

Democracy Now!
October 02, 2009

Pittsburgh Police Challenged over Use of Sound Cannons During G-20 and for Wrongfully Arresting Dozens of University of Pittsburgh Students

Dozens of University of Pittsburgh students who say they were wrongfully arrested and subject to heavy-handed police tactics during the G-20 meeting last week are calling for an investigation into the police actions. Nearly 200 people were arrested during the protests last weekend. The vast majority of the arrests occurred last Friday night in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, where the University of Pittsburgh is located. [includes rush transcript]

Trailer: Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ + Profiting on Employees’ deaths

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August 20, 2009

‘CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY’ – In Theaters October 2nd

“It’s a crime story. But it’s also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it’s also a love story. Only it’s about an abusive relationship.

“It’s not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the thing that dominates all our lives — the economy. I made this movie as if it was going to be the last movie I was allowed to make.

“It’s a comedy.” — Michael Moore

Check back for updates at http://www.michaelmoore.com

It’s the End of the World as We know it And I feel Fine Season 3 Episode 16: What the Po’?

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October 2, 2009

What the Po’? at subMedia

This week:

1. G20 Riot Porn
2. L.A.R.D.
3. Go back to sleep America
4. 5 Cocksrings of Chicago
5. Those daring Danish
6. Chase dem crazy ballheads
7. UC Santa Cruz occupation
8. Atari Teenage Riot
9. What the Po’? with special guest Kristian Williams

Will Obama Have Veto Courage? by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.foavc.org
Oct. 2, 2009

Odds are pretty good that after some tortuous meetings and awful compromises by House and Senate bigwigs whatever health reform law is passed by Congress will not be close to what most thoughtful people want.  Especially not what progressives and liberals wanted from a Democrat controlled Congress.  Will President Obama act with integrity?

Whatever goes to President Obama for his signature will probably do very little to curb the countless excesses by the health insurance industry and, therefore, do next to nothing to curb personal and national health spending.  It will almost certainly impose some new taxes that ultimately will impact a large fraction of the population, possibly by taxes on health insurance benefits or through higher insurance premiums and/or copayments and deductibles, or even worse coverage.  Even if there is some type of government option, which does not now seem likely, it would likely be constructed so cleverly that few would take advantage of it.

Thousand Deadly Threats: Third Millennium NATO, Western Businesses Collude On New Global Doctrine by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
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Stop NATO
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/
October 2, 2009

Not content with expanding from 16 to 28 members over the past decade in a post-Cold War world in which it confronts no military threat from any source, state or non-state, and not sufficiently occupied with its first ground and first Asian war in Afghanistan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the world’s only military bloc – is eager to take on a plethora of new international missions.

With the fragmentation of the Warsaw Pact and the breakup of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 NATO, far from scaling back its military might in Europe, not to mention returning the favor and dissolving itself, saw the opportunity to expand throughout the continent and the world.

President Obama and the One-Term Democratic Presidencies by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

Submitted on Buzzflash

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted on TPJmagazine September 20, 2009
Oct. 2, 2009

Jimmy Carter was in the post-Watergate, post-Viet Nam flush of Democratic victory.  For the 1976 Presidential election, [if] it had not been for Chappaquiddick, Sen. Ted Kennedy would likely have been the Democratic Party’s nominee (if he had not already been such in 1972).

If it had not been for his bladder cancer, Sen. Hubert Humphrey might well have overtaken Carter in the later primaries.  But Kennedy had Chappaquiddick and Humphrey had cancer and the Democrats had no one but a highly inexperienced, very nice, one-term governor of Georgia (the last Democrat to hold that position, I believe).   Nevertheless, the Democrats were riding high.  The Nixon dragon had finally been slain.  The foreign policy front was relatively quiet, funnily enough due in major part to Nixon.  Kissinger’s détente with the Soviet Union was in place.  Nixon/Kissinger had opened the door to China.  Israel had conquered huge territories in the Six-Day and Yom Kippur Wars, but had not yet begun their policy of gradual annexation of the West Bank.

The IMF Catapults from Shunned Agency to Global Central Bank by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
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webofdebt.com
Oct 2, 2009

“A year ago,” said law professor Ross Buckley on Australia’s ABC News last week, “nobody wanted to know the International Monetary Fund. Now it’s the organiser for the international stimulus package which has been sold as a stimulus package for poor countries.”

The IMF may have catapulted to a more exalted status than that. According to Jim Rickards, director of market intelligence for scientific consulting firm Omnis, the unannounced purpose of last week’s G20 Summit in Pittsburgh was that “the IMF is being anointed as the global central bank.” In a CNBC interview on September 25, Rickards said, “They’ve issued debt for the first time in history. They’re issuing SDRs. The last SDRs came out around 1980 or ’81, $30 billion. Now they’re issuing $300 billion. When I say issuing, it’s printing money; there’s nothing behind these SDRs.”