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Thursday, 24 May 2012
New stories: The Milehigh Man 7 by F_R_Eaky and Confusion Induction by irrcapt (hypno)
Budget
- How Bush-Fueled Deficits Continue To Haunt Obama
- Obama spending binge never happened--"Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s," despite what the Republicans have been lying about.
- CBO Report Says Deficit Reduction Will Cause New Recession
- GOP rookies buck Grover Norquist
- A New Politics That Rejects Austerity and Wars of Whim
Taxes
- Geithner: U.S. 'Can't Afford' Bush Tax Cuts for Wealthy-- WSJ
- Pelosi asks Boehner for immediate vote on middle-class tax cuts
- Harry Reid to Republicans: Give in on Bush tax cuts, gutting Medicare and maybe we can talk
- Windfall! Rich will get richer from new tax credit
- Hey Gov. Christie, New Jersey is over here
- After Slashing Funds For Health And Education, Ohio Prepares To Cut Taxes For Banks
- Grijalva Slams Arizona Governor For Using Foreclosure Settlement Funds To Balance Budget--She'd rather give corporate tax cuts.
Class War
- Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income
- Bill Clinton: How to Tame the Debt Without Screwing the Poor and Middle Class
- Obama: War savings should be devoted to middle class, debt
Military
- Behind Army’s $17,000 Drip Pan, Harold Rogers's Earmark NYT
- China fake parts 'used in US military equipment'
- Even more bloated than you think--"Ignore the GOP's budget cut outrage: National Security will still acount for a third of the projected 2013 budget." Salon
GOP
- Respected scholars: Frustrated with Washington? Blame Republicans
- Schwarzenegger: GOP, take down that small tent--"California's Republican Party used to work toward solutions. Now it's an exclusive club where members' ideological cards must be checked at the door."
- Jon Stewart on the Right's Cognitive Dissonance With Refusing to Give President Obama Credit for Anything
- GOP to modernity: Stop--"For House Republicans, the less we know about our country and our planet, the better." Salon
- Opinion: GOP faithful in a state of denial
Economic Sabotage
- House GOP Throws Out Entire Summer Of Debt Ceiling Negotiations In Less Than 10 Minutes
- Sabotage: The new GOP plan--"Paul Ryan and the Republicans' latest tactic is outright treachery: They want to break the government." Salon
- The GOP is Today's Know Nothing Party--"Their hyper partisanship is paralyzing Washington."
- Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?
- David Vitter Is Trying To Crush the Economy
Fucks News
- It’s Official: Watching Fox Makes You Stupider
- FCC urged to revoke Fox News' license
- Roger Ailes criticizes New York Times, AP during Ohio University talk-
- Roger Ailes: Jon Stewart ‘basically’ told me he was a socialist
- 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox 'News' Uses to Brainwash Americans
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
New story: The Phoenix 4: Learning to Fly Again by Londonboy
Birther Pains
- Arizona deputies in Hawaii seeking Obama birth certificate--Arpaio on wasting taxpayer funds: 'So what?'
- Hawaii Trolls Arizona's Presidential Birth Certificate-Seeking Secretary of State
- Bennett Backs Off Birther Threat, Apologizes To Arizona--He was planning to keep Obama off the ballot.
Elections 2012
- Is This the Most Boring Election Ever?--"Obama and Romney feels like a contest between two calculating centrists, fighting for the right to serve as figurehead atop a bloated state apparatus that will operate according to the same demented imperial logic irrespective of who wins the White House."
- With memo, race issue flares in campaign--Romney: "I'm actually — I’m not familiar with precisely, exactly what I said. But I stand by what I said, whatever it was."
- Is Mitt Romney really a job creator? What his Bain Capital record shows.
- Obama's Bain Capital mutiny--Says it's fair game.
- Who's winning the 2012 presidential money race?--"The assumption was that Obama would have a big fundraising advantage over Romney, but GOP-friendly super PACs are proving prognosticators wrong."
- Why Joe Biden Needs to Stay--"He isn't just vital to the White House -- he's been the most effective vice president in American history."
- Marco Rubio as vice president: the Bilderberg conspiracy
Citizens United
- 22 States Back Montana's Citizens United Challenge
- Corporate Lobbying Group Asks Supreme Court Not To Use "Empirical Evidence" When Reconsidering Citizens United
- How John Roberts sold us out--"Jeffrey Toobin's Citzen's United blow-by-blow leaves no room for doubt: The "moneyed interests" have won." Salon
Colbert
- Stephen Colbert Raises More Than PAC Backing Ron Paul
- Stephen Colbert inspires new fad across U.S. college campuses
- Stephen Colbert super PAC numbers pick up
- Stephen Colbert named among Maxim’s list of hottest 100 women--Wait, what?
- Stephen Colbert helps Reddit organize gift exchange for U.S. troops
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin's Recall
- Wisconsin Democrats Furious with Democratic National Committee for Refusing to Invest Big Money in Walker Recall--And the Republicans have the momentum. UPDATE: The DNC changes its mind.
- Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential Fraud
- Scott Walker’s politically suicidal exchange--"He tells a billionaire donor about his 'divide and conquer' anti-union strategy – on camera." Salon
- Gov. Walker Disregards Official Jobs Data Now That It Shows Wisconsin Losing Most Jobs In The Nation
Vote Machinations
- Pa. Supreme Court judge charged with campaign corruption in case that ensnared senator sister
- Julius Henson Convicted In Maryland Robocalls Case--"Henson's lawyers argued that 'dirty tricks' are a form of free speech."
- FACT CHECK: 'Non-Citizen' Voter In James O'Keefe's Voter Fraud Video Is Actually A Citizen
- Court Action May Lift Anonymity For Some Campaign Donors
- GOP in CA Hired 'Professional Con Artist' Who Turned in Thousands of Fraudulent Voter Registrations in $50,000 'Bounty' Scheme
Trayvon Martin
- Cops, Witnesses Back Up George Zimmerman's Version of Trayvon Martin Shooting
- In Defense of George Zimmerman--"How the gun lobby, conservatives, and right-wing media have rallied to defend the man who killed Trayvon Martin."
- Trayvon Martin gun range targets sold online--"Seller admits he wants to profit off controversy."
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
New story: The Power of Muscle by R Christopher Cooper
Patents
- Jury strikes down Eolas' 'Interactive Web' patent--Thank FSM this particular patent troll didn't prevail or it would have been the end of the web as we know it.
- Twitter introduces the Innovator's Patent Agreement
- Microsoft seeks patent on monetizing buttons of TV remote
- Oops! Yahoo blunders in Facebook patent squabble--"Yahoo claimed Facebook had fraudulently filed some of its patents, but Facebook hit back by proving Yahoo hadn't even checked the records to see if it was right."
- Uncommon Sense: Goliath v. David, AAC style
- Empirical Evidence Of Just How Much Patent Trolling Hinders Innovation
- Top judge: ditching software patents a "bad solution"--Is he out of touch?
Software
- Adobe backpedals, will now patch software for free--"Changes tune after customers, security pros condemned Adobe's advice to spend hundreds on upgrades to get fixes."
- Microsoft to charge customers $99 to remove OEM 'crapware'
- Australia to Investigate Software Price Disparities
Oracle vs. Google
- Oracle v Google Judge Is A Programmer!--Schools tech-impaired lawyer.
- Oracle and Google Agree to Copyright Truce (For Now)
- Oracle v. Google: the road ahead
Casebook
- Don't 'Like' This Post Or Your Boss Can Fire You
- Facebook Asserts Trademark on Word 'Book' in New User Agreement
- Woman sues over Facebook ads--"A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook in B.C., with a Vancouver woman alleging the social media giant misused her image — and those belonging to other members — in linking it to advertisements."
Hacking
- From Hackers to Slackers--"How a federal law can be used to prosecute almost anyone who uses a computer."
- Court Rebukes DOJ, Says Hacking Required to Be Prosecuted as Hacker
- Blast from the Past: With lawsuit settled, hackers now working with MBTA--This is what the MBTA should have done rather than denying the problem exists and having the courts muck up the issue of 'full disclosure', which they wisely cleared up.
Telco Bilking
- AT&T Argues That More Competition Is Bad For You & Leads To Higher Prices
- AT&T, Verizon look to further squeeze subscribers as earnings soar
- Verizon to kill unlimited data plans for existing subscribers--Only if they get new subsidized devices (NYT).
- Verizon's and Comcast's data caps: Who wins and who loses?--It seems that Verizon plans to raise its rates.
- FCC to Verizon: what's wrong with that spectrum you never built out?--"Verizon wants to sell spectrum it never bothered to use, and buy some more."
- Couple Dead After Bad Cellphone Connection Foils Chance of Rescue--After 9 dropped calls, they dropped dead. But will telcos actually spend to help those in need?
- Unconscious Carroll man found after 11-hour search--"It would have been nice if Verizon would have turned on his phone for five or 10 minutes, just long enough to try and find the guy. But they would only turn it on if we agreed to pay $20 of the unpaid bill. Ridiculous."
- BART defends mobile service shutdown to the FCC--"Digital rights groups, however, say the harms of a disruption of mobile service outweigh the benefits."
Monday, 21 May 2012
New stories: The Alpha Male 2 by Shade and At the Meet by irrcapt (hypno)
Prisons for Profit
- Private Prisons Are the Problem, Not the Solution
- The Unbelievable Brutality Unleashed on Kids in For-Profit Prisons--"Privatization of the youth prison industry handed soaring profits to GEO, but a history of brutal injustice to its incarcerated youth and their families."
- Louisiana is the world's prison capital
- Firm Leaves Mississippi After Its Prison Is Called 'Cesspool'
- Private Prison Corporations Are Slave Traders
- America's Top Prison Corporation: A Study in Predatory Capitalism and Cronyism
- Prison Industries: "Don't Let Society Improve or We Lose Business"
Injustice
- The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death--"Groundbreaking Columbia law school study sets out in shocking detail the flaws that led to Carlos DeLuna's execution in 1989."
- Time doesn't pay, wrongfully imprisoned find--"Alan Northrop served 17 years for a rape and kidnapping he didn't commit. He received no compensation for his time behind bars."
- Free After 25 Years: A Tale Of Murder And Injustice
- Romeo Phillion launches $14-million lawsuit for wrongful conviction--"Romeo Phillion, who spent 31 years in prison before his murder conviction was quashed, launched a $14-million lawsuit against the Ontario government on Thursday."
- Local girl lied about 2001 rape; father set free--"Baur said Cassandra Kennedy will not be prosecuted for her apparent lies about her father, partly because prosecutors do not want to discourage people in similar circumstances from coming forward." And this won't encourage so-called "victims" to lie since there apparently are no repurcussions?
Exonerations
- Largest compilation of exonerations ever finds over 2,000 falsely convicted over past 23 years
- Wrongfully convicted Texas trio exonerated in 1994 robbery
- Bennett Barbour exonerated of rape in Virginia: how the state is botching the DNA retesting and notification of old cases
Jail Tales
- Rikers Violence: Out Of Control. Shocking images back up what we've been reporting for years: New York City's jails are houses of horror
- Out of Step With the World: Juvenile Life Without Parole in the United States
- Hieroglyphics turn prisoner away from a life of crime
- The Naked Rambler: the man prepared to go to prison for nudity
- Breast cancer survivor handcuffed and thrown in jail over a mistaken $280 medical bill as 'debtor's prisons' return to the U.S
Law and Disorder
- Supreme court: immunity for witness grand jury testimony--"The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a government investigator who initiates a criminal case against a private individual and later lies to a grand jury still has immunity from a civil lawsuit over his testimony." Emphasis mine.
- Baltimore police search for suspect in video attack--"Baltimore police said Tuesday they are making progress in their investigation into an attack that left a man beaten, stripped and robbed on the street while onlookers laughed and did nothing to help." They probably haven't watched the Seinfeld finale.
- Think Before Stealing That Soda Refill--"While his charge is petty theft, because of previous petty theft convictions, the charge for drinking the unpaid-for soda was increased from a misdemeanor to a felony."
Judges
- Investigators: Tenn. Judge High on Pills in Court--"A Tennessee judge was so addicted to prescription drugs during his final two years on the bench, he was having sex and buying pills during courtroom breaks, at times purchasing from convicts he had previously sentenced...."
- Judge jailed entire court for phone interruption
- Report: Judges Collect More Than $1 Million In Traffic Fines By Calling Them 'Court Costs'
- Oregon judge rules bloggers aren't journalists
- No Contempt, No Jail for Spamming a Judge
Sunday, 20 May 2012
New story: The Cherry by Peterbilt
420
- Let's Be Blunt: It's Time to End the Drug War
- Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson: Legalize marijuana to reduce violence
- Pro-pot attorney general candidate wins Oregon primary--Congratulations to Ellen Rosenbaum.
- Colorado's Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol ad: "Dear Mom"
- The Anti-Science Streak in Federal Marijuana Policy--"The classification of cannabis as a schedule one narcotic is among the least defensible aspects of prohibition."
- The Drug Czar's False Statement About Marijuana and Hemp Should Be a Bigger Scandal
- Dutch government decrees that all cannabis cafes are off-limits to tourists--Protestors just say no.
Obama
- Why Nancy Pelosi is Right to Slam Obama's War on Pot
- Medical marijuana meets hostility from Obama administration
- Dr. Jill Stein: Obama Irrational On Marijuana, Medical or Otherwise
- Obama Lies About Federal Marijuana Law to Rolling Stone
- Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Marijuana Legalization At White House Correspondents' Dinner 2012--"Marijuana is something that real people care about," Kimmel said, addressing Obama directly.
Medical Marijuana
- Poll: 74 Percent of Americans, Including 67 Percent of Republicans, Want Obama to End Medical Marijuana Crackdown
- Poll: New Yorkers high on medical pot, split on fracking and fighting
- Connecticut Senate passes medical marijuana bill after lengthy debate
- A Sitting NY Supreme Court Judge With Cancer Makes A Plea For Medical Marijuana
- Marijuana relieves muscles tightness, pain of multiple sclerosis: Study--This is what Big Pharma wants to suppress.
War on Drugs
- Student in DEA custody forgotten without food or water for days
- US DEA Kills Innocent Civilians in Honduras -- US Media Silent--The DEA denies they did any shooting.
- Soap maker David Bronner: Hemp ban highlights absurdity of drug war
- Up In Smoke
- Moms Say, "No More Drug War!"--"Mothers throughout history have come forward for the sake of their children. We're coming forth today saying that the drug war has been more damaging to our families than the drugs themselves."
- Cannes 2012: Shia LaBeouf's 'Lawless,' parable for the drug war?
- FBI: Motorcycle Gang Trademarked Logo to Keep Narcs at Bay
Cui Bono: Who Benefits?
- Are All U.S. Politicians Drug War Profiteers?--Follow the money.
- 4 Industries Getting Rich Off the Drug War
- The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal
Mexico
- Mexico's Drug War: 50,000 Dead in 6 Years
- Thirty-seven dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway--Seems to gone up to 49.
- Numb to Carnage, Mexicans Find Diversions, and Life Goes On NYT
- Corruption flows freely along U.S.-Mexico border--"In one New Mexico town alone, the mayor, police chief and a city trustee were guilty of gun smuggling — and it's probably not an isolated case."
- Two Mexican generals detained for alleged drug gang ties
- Fast And Furious Investigation: House Committee Prepares To Cite Eric Holder For Contempt
- ATF: 70 percent of guns found in Mexico come from US
International
- India: Drugs ravage Punjab, nation's breadbasket state--"With drug-related crimes occurring at ten times the nation's average, locals say police and politicians are complicit in Punjab's narcotics trade."
- Drug War at Sea: Rise of the Narco Subs--"Over the past five years, drug cartels have increasingly been shipping cocaine by way of hard-to-detect semi-submersible vessels. And the next generation of narco subs may be even harder to spot."
- Latin America’s drug war evolution--"A policy advisor explains why leaders from Mexico to Argentina are pushing decriminalization and legal regulation." Salon
Saturday, 19 May 2012
New story: The Game by z119z (hypno)
Quebec
- Quebec student groups reject proposed tuition deal
- Quebec education minister quits over tuition dispute
- Quebec debates back-to-school bill
- Anti-protest legislation passes in Quebec
- Molotov cocktails launched in Montreal protests following legal crackdown
G20
- Toronto News: Byron Sonne not guilty on G20 explosives charges
- G20 aftermath: Blair accepts responsibility but doesn’t apologize
- G20 charges coming against Toronto police commanders
Protests
- Thousands in Spain revive May 15th protests to rail against cuts, government
- Police detain 400 "Blockupy" activists in Frankfurt
- Occupy Europe protests pictures
Greek Tragedy
- Grexit and Bank Run Prospects Continue to Weigh on the Euro
- Greece fails to form new government, going to elections
- Greek Politicians Debate the Debt Crisis and Election Issues--'If We Leave the Euro, Everything Will Be Worse'
- Nightmare foretold if Greece heads for euro exit
- Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras: 'It's a war between people and capitalism'
World News
- Briton imprisoned for reporting African massacre: 'How can this have happened to our son?' ask family
- 'Princelings' in China Use Family Ties to Gain Riches NYT
- North Korea 'executes three people found guilty of cannibalism'
Friday, 18 May 2012
New story: Thank You, Mr. Giggles by Wrestlr (hypno)
Fabrication
- Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I. NYT
- 'Underwear bomber' was working for the CIA--"Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged."
- How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
- FBI: Men unknowingly put fake bombs at Ohio bridge--"Their arrests that night marked the latest case in which FBI agents planned fake terrorism plots alongside targeted suspects, an indication it continues to be a top strategy for the government in preventing terrorism."
- The Case of the Missing Terrorists
War on Terror
- Federal court enjoins NDAA--"An Obama-appointed judge rules its indefinite detention provisions likely violate the 1st and 5th Amendments." Salon
- Ninth Circuit Presses Government Lawyer on Watch Lists: "What Would You Do?"--It can get rather Kafkaesque.
- Army Admits Re-Education Camp Manual "Not Intended For Public Release"--"[A]nd claiming that its provisions only apply outside the United States, a contention completely disproved by the language contained in the document itself."
- Pentagon instructor urged total war with Islam
- The American character--"Fareed Zakaria warns the war on terror will never end. Obama and Romney still won't debate our surveillance state." Salon
Torture
- US rendition 'torture' case heard--"Khaled al-Masri claims he was abducted in Macedonia in 2003 and flown to a US detention centre in Afghanistan, where he says he was tortured."
- 'Vomiting and screaming' in destroyed waterboarding tapes--"Secret CIA video tapes of the waterboarding of Osama Bin Laden's suspected jihadist travel arranger Abu Zubaydah show him vomiting and screaming, the BBC has learned."
- American seeks political asylum in Sweden, alleging torture, FBI coercion
"Over There"
- Why are we still in Vietghanistan?
- Afghan peace negotiator Arsala Rahmani shot dead
- Iran says nuclear inspector killed in car crash
- House Bill Shifting Red Line for War on Iran Passes Overwhelmingly
- Al-Qaeda is weaker without bin Laden, but its franchise persists
- Drone strikes in Yemen: US expert warns of anti-western sentiment
- US shadow war in Horn of Africa revealed by blogger
Military Might
- Republican plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs--Ain't a plan no longer.
- Fighter Pilots Claim Intimidation Over F-22 Raptor Jets
- The F-35 Shows Why the Pentagon Deserves a Smaller Budget
- Romney Will Increase Military Spending By $2.1 Trillion With No Plan To Pay For It
- Public overwhelmingly supports large defense spending cuts
- Defense bill passes House, faces veto
Your Rights Online
- Beyond CISPA: The cybersecurity bills you need to worry about right now
- White House will veto CISPA, Amendments not good enough
- FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now
- UK: 'Snooper's charter' web spying Bill announced--"The Queen has formally announced plans to greatly increase surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies and the police, in plans that are being labelled a 'snooper's charter' by civil liberties groups."
- Tim Berners-Lee urges government to stop the snooping bill
- How the Toews-sponsored Internet surveillance bill quietly died--The reports of its demise has been greatly exaggerated.
- The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police
- Surveillance State democracy--"As the FBI seeks full access to all forms of Internet communication, it is not voters who need to be convinced." Salon
- Court Rules NSA Doesn't Have To Reveal Its Semi-Secret Relationship With Google
- Google's eavesdropping technology: Going too far to sell ads?
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