I suspect this may be old news for those of you with cable, but I just happened across this recent episode of the Daily Show dealing with the media’s evolving (and hypocritical) coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and thought that I’d share it. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full […]
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The Occupy Wall Street movement, why it’s not being treated like the Tea Party in the media, and why it has a better chance of success than the anti-globalization campaign
Posted in Corporate Crime, Media, Uncategorized Also tagged Capitalism, Daily Show, Federal Elections Commission, G8, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Jon Stewart, Naomi Klein, Occupy Wall Street, Plutocracy, police brutality, protests, Sarah Palin, Seattle, tea party, Wall Street, World Trade Organization, WTO 17 Comments
According to a source, I was right about 7-Eleven and Starbucks considering Ypsi
Remember how, a couple of days ago, when talking about the new retail development taking shape on Cross Street, right across from Eastern Michigan University, I said that I thought that it was likely the developer, O’Neal Construction, was already in negotiations with Starbucks and 7-Eleven? Well, if I’m to believe this email that I […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Ypsilanti Also tagged 7-Eleven, Bryant Simon, coffee, Cross Street, Eagle's Market, Eastern Michigan University, economic development, EMU, Everything But the Coffee, franchises, globalization, indy retail, La Fiesta Mexicana, O'Neal Construction, retail in Ypsilanti, Starbucks, Sweetwaters, Tower Inn, Trenta, Ugly Mug 56 Comments
“See, the Democrats are violent too!”
With the news that a mentally ill man in Pennsylvania had threatened the life of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, conservatives everywhere have begun jumping up and down, waiving their hands around wildly (imagine Arnold Horshack trying to get Mr. Kotter’s attention), and claiming that this definitively proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Democrats […]
Posted in History, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism Also tagged anti-government, Arnold Horshack reference, Bill Ayers, Christian soldiers, constitutionalists, death threats, domestic terrorism, Eric Cantor, Eugene Robinson, Hutaree, militias, Norman Leboon, Oklahoma City, Patricia Hearst, political violence, potential for violence, rhetoric of violent revolution, Symbionese Liberation Army, tea party, teabaggers, teabaggery, the nonexistent leftist threat, Timothy McVeigh, violence, violence on the extreme right, white supremacist 40 Comments