Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Even when it’s not out of sight) by Dahr Jamail

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by Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail’s Dispatches
August 8th, 2010

Since BP announced that CEO Tony Hayward would receive a multi-million dollar golden parachute and be replaced by Bob Dudley, we have witnessed an incredibly broad, and powerful, propaganda campaign. A campaign that peaked this week with the US government, clearly acting in BP’s best interests, itself announcing, via outlets willing to allow themselves to be used to transfer the propaganda, like the New York Times, this message: “The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.”

Resistance is Fertile by Cindy Sheehan

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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
August 08, 2010 (SOAPBOX #67)

Cindy interviews Ethan McCord, who became an unfortunate star of the Wikileaks “Collateral Murder” video, seen in the video carrying the wounded children from the bullet riddled van and Jud Newborn, PhD, co-author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, a companion volume to the recent Oscar-nominated German film, “Sophie Scholl: The Final Days.”  (There’s a fascinating PDF Afterword to the book available here.)  As the recent and newest Wikileaks revelations fade into undeserved obscurity – accepted and ignored by what was once an anti-war community – I feel I need to yell “WAKE UP” once again.  So we’ve elected a new wearer of the Imperial Purple (mainly by virtue of NOT being George W. Bush).  That doesn’t mean we can go back to sleep, and just wait for our problems to get fixed.  The murder of civilians hasn’t stopped, the looting of our nation’s wealth by corporate arms-merchants hasn’t stopped, and the criminalization of dissent proceeds apace. 

Our Ordinary Hell

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Sent to DS from Hakim in Afghanistan.  Thank you, Hakim.  Love and peace to you and all the children and families in Afghanistan.  ~ Lo

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Lights out in America by Bruce Gagnon

by Bruce Gagnon
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Organizing Notes
Aug. 8, 2010

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While I was working at my table at the Peace Fair yesterday in Brunswick Peter Woodruff came up to me and handed me a copy of the New York Times. He pointed out two articles on the front page. One was entitled “Nation Lost 131,000 Jobs As Governments Cut Back” and the other was called “Budget Ax Falls, and Schools and Streetlights Go Dark”. The latter one began with:

Murder, Spies and Voting Lies: Rigged elections exposed

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Croniicbo0o | Jul 29, 2009

Whistleblower Clint Curtis spills the beans to journalist/blogger Brad Friedman (Bradblog.com) about the election fraud associated with George W. Bush’s first presidential ballot. Beautifully shot, in a style described as “60-minutes-noir”, Patty Sharaf’s acclaimed film has been called the “Alfred Hitchcock of election fraud movies”. Friedman pokes at the seamy side of democracy, uncovering the story of computer programmer Clint Curtis, who recounts being asked before the 2000 election by a prominent Florida legislator to create vote-rigging software for electronic voting machines. The vote-rigging scandal devolves into a murder mystery, with Friedman shaking down the facts. With electronic voting machine companies aggressively selling all over the globe, the implications for democracy worldwide are profound.

Are We Crazy? By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
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Aug. 8, 2010

I have a friend who is a conservative. He watches FOX News and is a very old school type of fellow. He really doesn’t understand me politically, believing that because I despise FOX and the rabid right, that I must be a Democrat. Since he is staying at my house for the week, we are together most of our waking hours and as hard as we try, the subject of politics always rears its ugly head.