As early as tomorrow morning, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be ordering riot police into Zuccotti Park to forcefully evict the hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters who have set up their base of operation there. The official line is that sanitation workers need the protesters out in order to clean the park. The […]
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Our thoughts tonight, as we lay safe and warm in our beds, are with the people Occupying Wall Street, as they prepare for tomorrow’s confrontation with police
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Arab Spring, corporatocracy, Free Speech, hypocrisy, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Occupy Wall Street, police brutality, protests, threats to Democracy, Zuccotti Park 12 Comments
Obama’s press conference from earlier today, for the few of you who missed it because you still have jobs
So, did what he said change anyone’s mind, or are you all still of the opinion that this budget illustrates the complete and total abandonment of Democratic ideals? If you haven’t yet read the budget proposed by the administration, you can find the whole thing here.
Posted in Media, Other, Politics Also tagged 2012 federal budget, budget cuts, deficit, Deficit Elimination Plan, Egypt, entitlements, foreign relations, Medicare, Obama, press conference, social security 2 Comments
Bill Moyers on why facts matter
Bill Moyers, speaking a few weeks ago before a group of broadcasters on the importance of investigative journalism, had the following to say about the Freedom of Information Act and Wikileaks. The entire speech is worth a read, but I found this section to be of particular interest. …Here’s a sidebar: I remember vividly the […]
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 1966, Egypt, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, investigative reporting, Iran, John Moss, journalism, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reality deficient, Reza Alsan, Tunisia, weapons of mass destruction, Wikileaks 7 Comments