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DEFAULT CATASTROPHE! To get to the bottom of what's really going on with the U.S. debt "crisis" we turn to Professor Michael Hudson: Mr. Obama’s Scare Tactics to Get Democrats to Vote for His Republican Wall Street Plan (nakedcapitalism.com) Usually a crisis is needed to create a vacuum into which these toxic details are fed. Wall Street does not like real crises, of course – except to make quick computer-driven speculative gains on the usual fibrillation of today’s zigzagging markets. But when it comes to serious money, the illusion of a crisis is preferred, staged melodramatically to wring the greatest degree of emotion out of the audience much like a good film editor edits a montage sequence. Will the speeding train run over the girl strapped to the tracks? Will she escape in time? The train is debt; the girl is supposed to be the American economy. But she turns out to be Wall Street in disguise. The exercise turns out to be a not-so-divine comedy. Mr. Obama offers a plan that looks very Republican. But the Republicans say no. There is an illusion of a real fight. They say Obama is socialist. Democrats express shock at the giveaway being threatened. Many say, “Where is the real Obama?” But it seems that the real Obama turns out to be a Republican Wall Street imposter in Democratic clothing. That is what the Democratic Leadership Committee basically is: Wall Street Democrats. This is not as much of an oxymoron as it may sound. There is a reason why today’s post-Clinton Democrats are the natural party to undo what FDR and earlier Democrats stood for. A Democratic Senate never would stand for such giveaways to Wall Street and double-cross of their urban constituency if a Republican president would propose what Mr. Obama is putting before them. ... It’s the same story in Britain, where the Labour Party is called upon to finish up the job that the Conservatives start but need New Labour to subdue popular opposition to privatizing the railroads and a Public/Private Partnership financial giveaway for the London tube line. And it’s the same story in France, where a Socialist government is supporting the privatization program dictated by the European Central Bank. That's basically the gist of it: the ILLUSION of CRISIS fed by the DLC Wall Street "Democrats" (not to mention the Koch-Korporate-ALEC Tea Partiers). Nobel Laureate PAUL KRUGMAN thinks it's The Cult That Is Destroying America. And he's not talking about Ian Astbury and the boys: Watching our system deal with the debt ceiling crisis — a wholly self-inflicted crisis, which may nonetheless have disastrous consequences — it’s increasingly obvious that what we’re looking at is the destructive influence of a cult that has really poisoned our political system. And no, I don’t mean the fanaticism of the right. Well, OK, that too. But my feeling about those people is that they are what they are; you might as well denounce wolves for being carnivores. Crazy is what they do and what they are. What all this means is that there is no penalty for extremism; no way for most voters, who get their information on the fly rather than doing careful study of the issues, to understand what’s really going on. (And they might even have to pay $30 to get an ID to PROVE who they are and where they live in order to vote! See BradBlog Brad on KPFK: GOP Photo ID Restrictions & Video Revealing Hurdles to 'Free' ID at WI DMV uh huh. -Ed. Back to Krug.) You have to ask, what would it take for these news organizations and pundits to actually break with the convention that both sides are equally at fault? This is the clearest, starkest situation one can imagine short of civil war. If this won’t do it, nothing will. Yes, Professor, yes yes! But some think it's all the fault of country club memberships! Hunter for Daily Kos Labor reports I do believe Paul Broun (Regressive-GA10) may in fact be a a bit of an idiot

    A conservative member of the House warned that one consequence of the a weak economy is declining membership at country clubs. "When someone is overextended and broke they don't continue paying for expensive automobiles, they sell the expensive automobiles and buy a cheaper one. They don't continue paying for country club dues, they drop out of the country club," Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) said Wednesday on MSNBC.
Yes! Won't somebody please think of the country clubs! What kind of monsters are we, if in this jobless so-called recovery, full of pain and misery and people who haven't been able to find a new job in 99 weeks and so therefore are dumped into the sarlacc pit, if the end result is declining country club memberships! FORE! Where's Al Czervik when ya need him? "Hey, that kangaroo just took my ball!" Ian Millhiser at ThinkProgress finds out After Signing Law Disenfranchising ID-less Voters, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Closes 10 DMV Offices One Democratic lawmaker said Friday it appeared the decisions were based on politics, with the department targeting offices for closure in Democratic areas and expanding hours for those in Republican districts. More ThinkProgress! Alex Seitz-Wald posted from ThinkProgress Economy GOP Leaders Voted For Three Of The Biggest Debt Drivers, Costing $3.4 Trillion! ...But Boehner and Cantor, along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) have all voted for some of the biggest contributors to the debt — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush tax cuts, and President Bush’s Medicare prescription drug plan — which helped to double the debt over the past decade .... Together, a Bloomberg News analysis shows, these initiatives added $3.4 trillion to the nation’s accumulated debt and to its current annual budget deficit of $1.5 trillion. ... The analysis shows the wars have cost $1.3 trillion since 9/11, the Bush tax cuts cost $1.7 trillion in lost revenue over a decade, and Medicare Part D costs $369 billion over a decade. The recession has also been a major contributor to the debt.... But this analysis shows that the very same people leading the GOP in Congress today helped contribute to the problem they are now blaming on anyone but themselves. George Washington posts at zerohedge Will a "Super Congress" Gut the Constitution - Just Like the Federal Reserve? Indeed, the Founding Fathers' vision of prosperity has been destroyed - and we've gone from the "wealth of nations" to the "debt of nations" - at least in part because our political system has been subverted by non-Constitutional committees and entities. and commentor DavyJones remarked Faster than a speeding mullet, more powerful than its loco motives, able to leap tall principles in a single bound, Look, up on The Hill, It's a bird dropping, it's derranged, NO IT'S SUPER CONGRESS! Here's Ryan Grim's story at HuffPo/AOL Super Congress Moves Forward Despite Tea Party Opposition Nevertheless, separate proposals put forward by Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday each included versions of a Super Congress -- referred to on the Hill as a Super Committee -- that would write laws that could not be amended by the regular Congress, only voted up or down. In Boehner's version, the debt ceiling would be raised a second time if Congress approved the cuts decided on by the Super Congress. ... The Super Congress amounts to an institutionalization of the gang structure that exists informally in the Senate, where a small number of lawmakers write legislation behind closed doors and then announce it to the public. Legislation written by the Super Congress would be extremely difficult for individual members of Congress to stop. UPDATE: MoveOn's Justin Ruben sends the following statement firmly opposing a Super Congress that would be able to cut Social Security or Medicare: "Republicans want a Super Congress so they can push through unpopular cuts to Medicare and Social Security. MoveOn members, and the vast majority of Americans, oppose benefit cuts, and Democrats shouldn't give Republicans a vehicle to make it easier to cut them. MoveOn members oppose the idea." It may be too late but here's MoveOn's ACTION PAGE. From the New Yorker's Enviro desk Elizabeth Kolbert finds some good news in Bloomberg Spends Big Against Coal These days, there isn’t much good news to report about the effort to combat climate change, so when some comes along, it’s worth taking note. Today’s is that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is donating $50 million to the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign. The campaign’s aim is to stop the construction of new coal-burning power plants and to shut down—or to use the more polite term “phase out”—up to a third of the coal plants now in operation. Coal produces more carbon dioxide per unit of energy than any other fuel, so any reduction in coal use means a reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement is significant for several reasons, some of them obvious, some of them less so. Read her entire post at the New Yorker! Jason Leopold posts at truthout Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics of Launching Nuclear Weapons The United States Air Force has been training young missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons by citing passages from the New Testament and commentary from a former member of the Nazi Party, according to newly released documents. ... The Air Force documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and provided to Truthout by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), a civil rights organization. MRFF President Mikey Weinstein said more than 30 Air Force officers, a majority of whom describe themselves as practicing Protestants and Roman Catholics, have contacted his group over the past week in hopes of enlisting him to work with the Air Force to have the Christian-themed teachings removed from the nuclear weapons ethics training session. [Full disclosure: Weinstein is a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.] Included with the PowerPoint presentation are more than 500 pages of other documents pertaining to a missile officer's first week of training, which takes place before they are sent to one of three Air Force bases to guard the country's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) arsenal and, if called upon to do so by the president, launch their nuclear-armed Minuteman IIIs. Read it all then Listen to Jason Leopold discuss this story on The Nicole Sandler Show (mp3) Then BOB KINCAID explains it all only the way Bob can in this week's PRAYER MEETIN' WEDNESDAY: "It's okay to roast the planet." So the Sunday Talkies will have lots of hand-wringing, posturing and misinformation as the debt ceiling extension drop-dead date comes on Tuesday. Watch Meet the David where PAUL KRUGMAN tells GROVER NORQUIST his atr.org just lost its non-profit tax status! And it goes downhill from there with the WH Limo dropping off DAVID PLOUFFE to MTP &This Anampout with GENE SPERLING on State of the Candy & FAKE SNOOZE while MITCH "The Man with No Neck" MCCONNELL takes on CHUCK SCHUMER on State of the Candy & Face the Bob. Plenty of Brick targets for your Sunday enjoyment! The Brick TeeVee Crew found out its lone pickup truck's frame is shot with rust holes and a leaky gas tank - unrepairable and nearly undriveable. Our roadtrip to Dayton to find a replacement came up empty as it had puddles of automotive fluids under it so the search continues! The Crew took in a Tribe game last Monday to see some 9th inning heroics, got no-hit on Thursday and last night Matt LaPorta stunned the Royals with a walk-off 3-run dinger! Check out the Tribe on ESPN Monday from Fenway Park! The Crew also has the Left Turn League on its rader for the Brickyard 400 on the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Speedway today. The garden is out of control with 6' high tomato and tomatillo plants and cukes galore. We hope your gardens are doing well too. Have a great week!


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CHANGE.ORG The First Cause: A Plan to Claim Food As Food We're losing the right to manage our own health. Even the right to choose our food is being stolen. We can stop it, but only by ending the basis on which it's being done—not by addressing each action. Heidi Stevenson, Gaia Health: We've been focused on each incursion as it's brought to us. But we haven't looked at the overall picture. Even if we win a large percentage of these battles, we will still lose the war. The foes of health freedom will keep coming. When they lose one battle, they come back from a slightly different direction. ... We need to address the tricks being used to force these disastrous rulings on us. We must stop them from claiming powers that they do not have. Therefore, I propose that we start by addressing one of the most significant claims being made in both the US and the European Union. Both the US's FDA and the EU have been redefining terms to allow them to regulate foods, vitamins, and herbs as if they were drugs. The FDA is now labeling foods, vitamins, and herbs as drugs, and then regulating them in the same manner that pharmaceutical drugs are regulated. Just making a health claim for a food has, according to the FDA, literally turned it into a drug! That would, of course, be absurd—if it weren't so frighteningly effective. ... As a result of these absurdities, the FDA, along with its EU equivalents, has deemed that Cheerios cereal, walnuts, marmalade made from Seville oranges, and even Marmite, may be regulated as drugs.
The First Cause: A Plan to Claim Food As Food: We can't end this destruction of our rights simply by protesting each incident. By the time these limitations are pushed on us, it's too late. We must address the bases on which these rules are made. We must insure that, at a minimum, laws are enacted that remove the ability to limit our access to natural products. Food must be recognized as food, not treated as drugs. To this end, I'm starting two petitions, one in the US and one in the EU, to address this concern. However, these petitions are not the usual sort. They will form the basis of many actions. People who sign are asked to be part of the movement to claim back our health rights. We need to let politicians know that we're serious, we're organized—and we're growing. People who sign are asked to also send letters or e-mails to their representatives in congress or parliament, thus sending a constantly increasing stream of messages to keep the issue in front of them. A new website has been set up to allow people to post responses from politicians, along with their own articles: Free Choice - Health Defining food as food is not the only issue that must be tackled, but it's a key one. As it gets rolling, we'll start others. We are literally in a battle for our lives!
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(Ed. sez go read Michael Pollan's FARMER IN CHIEF -Ed.)
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    Rami Khouri July 26, 2011: Rami Khouri, internationally syndicated political columnist and author, discusses his article “It Sure Looks and Smells Like Apartheid” in Lebanon’s Daily Star; the starkly different competing narratives on Israel’s origin; making protest boycotts illegal within Israel; the Arab world’s broad acceptance of a two-state plan based on 1967 borders – despite rhetoric that they want to “push Israel into the sea;” and how the Israeli state’s version of Judaism has abandoned social justice in favor of Zionist racism.
    Jeremy Sapienza July 28, 2011: Jeremy Sapienza, Senior Editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the twisted MSM reporting on Somalia, such that most Americans have no idea the US is at war over there; how al-Shabaab grew out of the Islamic Courts Union’s youth movement to control most of the country; why Somalia’s famine is so severe (not from heat and drought) and who’s to blame; and the inevitability that someone in the “history began yesterday” media will advocate US intervention in Somalia to save the children from starvation.
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Throw Pies! By now you've seen the shaky vid of Rubert getting pied. The Brick TeeVee Crew reminisced when pies were a regular occurrence during the Tribe's 2007 campaign. Here's Tribesman Ryan Garko continuing his TV interview after getting a pie in the face following an Indians' win over Chicago back in 2007 garko-pie So Who threw the first pie? It's impossible to say, though a rudimentary form of the dessert -- some sticky honey and nut concoction -- was around when Cleopatra, the original pop tart, was logging time with Julius C. and Marc Anthony. (While there are no hieroglyphics depicting an ancient pie-ing, scholars caution it would be wrong to assume a slave never dreamed of pelting a pharaoh with the gooey treat.) Still, it was silent film director Mack Sennett, founder of Keystone Studios and a master of slapstick comedy, who catapulted the pie-in-the-face into the annals of modern culture. ... Why is it so funny? It's hard to say, though watching another human being sputter and spit as she wipes chocolate cream out of her eyes seems to tickle the same adolescent part of the brain that responds to Whoopie cushions and fart jokes. More significantly, when used to cut the pompous, the powerful or the self-important down to size, it is positively hi-LAR-ious. Unless of course, you are the pie-ee. Haha! Poor Rupert! Poor Mrs. Rupert! Much more fun than watching Mrs. Sammy da Fish breaking down in faux tears back in 2006 during Alito's Senate confirmation hearing! Despite the huffing and puffing of Murdoch's agents then claiming some wild-eyed liberal conspiracy despite the FACT it was during comments by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) that Martha-Ann Alito broke down in tears (thanks thehollywoodliberal.com & mediamatters.org) This wild-eyed claim still echoed in FAKE SNOOZEDOM as late as 2009: During the May 19 edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, co-host Megyn Kelly claimed that during Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s confirmation hearing, his wife, Martha-Ann, was “crying hysterically after [Sen.] Ted Kennedy [D-MA] made her cry, because he was suggesting Sam Alito … is a racist.” They sure could've used some pies back then! Remind you of Orwell's "Those that control The Present control The Past" a just a bit? Eh? You'll need a scorecard to keep track so Alternet offers up "an incomplete guide to the villains in the drama that threatens to take down the Murdoch empire" The 12 Nastiest Villains in the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal. Good Item! In case you were wondering if Rupert's illegalities are lapping the shores of the U.S. he's "lawyered up" already per the GuardianUK Rupert Murdoch assembles US legal team over phone-hacking scandal Rupert Murdoch is assembling a team of US lawyers with expertise in fighting large federal criminal cases, suggesting he is readying himself for a bitter legal battle in America as a result of the phone-hacking scandal. At the centre of the team is Brendan Sullivan, one of America's most experienced lawyers, who over 40 years in litigation has acquired a reputation for taking on difficult and sensitive cases. He represented Oliver North, the US marine corps officer, in congressional hearings over the Iran-Contra affair. ... The appointment of Sullivan – revealed last week by the New York Times's Dealbook blog – is being seen as an indication that Murdoch is preparing for the worst. NPR adds FBI Begins Investigation Of News Corp NPR's Carrie Johnson: That team includes former New York U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Mark Mendelsohn, who made his name collecting billion dollar settlements in foreign bribery cases at the Justice Department. Legal experts say that signals News Corp knows it could be in for a long investigation and that it's determined to come out ahead. We need more pies! Our intrepid msgeaux has two pie-throwing videos for you to watch Who is Rupert Murdoch? - Gordon Duff on Press TV and American WEALTH DESTRUCTION explained by Catherine Austin Fitts – An Economy engineered to make and keep people poor while jen adds Alternet's Joshua Holland who explains Why the Wealthiest Americans Are the Real 'Job-Killers' The top 1 percent takes in more than twice the share of national income today than they did 30 years ago, and that's a big reason why consumers are tapped out. That the wealthy are “job creators,” and therefore have interests that must be defended by the public at large, is a talking-point that, however facile, is so popular it slips effortlessly from the lips of conservatives every day. It can be deployed for any purpose – not only in calling for more tax breaks for the rich, but also when opposing public interest regulation, consumer litigation and worker protections. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, even used it to deflect attention from the "gay rehabilitation" services her clinic allegedly offers. When asked about it by ABC News, Bachmann merely acknowledged, “we do have a business that deals with job creation.” When pressed, she stuck with it: “As I said, again, we’re very proud of our business and we’re proud of all job creators in the United States.” It's also complete nonsense; the opposite of the truth. Sure, the wealthy create a few jobs – people who offer exclusive services or sell them high-end goods. But the overwhelming majority of jobs in this country are “created” by ordinary Americans when they spend their paychecks. Consumer demand accounts for around 70 percent of our economic output. And with so much wealth having been redistributed upward through a 40-year class-war from above, American consumers are too tapped out to spend as they once did. This remains the core issue in this sluggish, largely jobless recovery. The wealthy, in their voracious appetite for a bigger piece of the national pie, are the real job-killers in this economic climate..... Let's see, 30 years ago...uh...who was pResident? Wanna watch a conservative's head explode? Ask 'em what part of "Trickle-Down" economics actually created jobs! BOOM! Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman throws a few pies himself in Green Sky Economics Jonathan Schwarz at A Tiny Revolution – which I should read more often — notes that both of the friends of Bacchus dining with Paul Ryan the other day were proteges of Chicago’s Eugene Fama. This reinforces my point that the nonsense Republicans are talking on economics comes not from uneducated ignorance but from highly educated ignorance: they’re getting their fallacies from eminent academics, not the man in the street. And not just fallacies: people like Fama confidently proclaim the truth of facts that, well, aren’t Clearly, it’s all mutually reinforcing: the closing of the Chicago mind both reinforces and is reinforced by the patronage of the mega-wealthy. And the end result is a completely hermetic system, into which contrary evidence cannot penetrate. Krugman continues with The Lesser Depression These are interesting times — and I mean that in the worst way. Right now we’re looking at not one but two looming crises, either of which could produce a global disaster. In the United States, right-wing fanatics in Congress may block a necessary rise in the debt ceiling, potentially wreaking havoc in world financial markets. Meanwhile, if the plan just agreed to by European heads of state fails to calm markets, we could see falling dominoes all across southern Europe — which would also wreak havoc in world financial markets. We can only hope that the politicians huddled in Washington and Brussels succeed in averting these threats. But here’s the thing: Even if we manage to avoid immediate catastrophe, the deals being struck on both sides of the Atlantic are almost guaranteed to make the broader economic slump worse.....Let’s talk for a moment about why our economies are (still) so depressed. .... On Thursday, the “heads of state or government of the euro area and the E.U. institutions” — that mouthful tells you, all by itself, how messy European governance has become — issued their big statement. It wasn’t reassuring. For one thing, it’s hard to believe that the Rube Goldberg financial engineering the statement proposes can really resolve the Greek crisis, let alone the wider European crisis. But, even if it does, then what? WHAT INDEED Professor. On top of ALL THAT BTV correspondent ljm exclaims "Holy moly, batman!!! The fed loaned $16.1 trillion to the usual suspects on Wall Street and banks abroad. It's a long GAO report if someone needs to stay awake with dry reading" RAW STORY Audit: Fed gave $16 trillion in emergency loans Of the $16.1 trillion loaned out, $3.08 trillion went to financial institutions in the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium, the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) analysis shows. Additionally, asset swap arrangements were opened with banks in the U.K., Canada, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Norway, Mexico, Singapore and Switzerland. Twelve of those arrangements are still ongoing, having been extended through August 2012. Out of all borrowers, Citigroup received the most financial assistance from the Fed, at $2.5 trillion. Morgan Stanley came in second with $2.04 trillion, followed by Merill Lynch at $1.9 trillion and Bank of America at $1.3 trillion. The audit also found that the Fed mostly outsourced its lending operations to the very financial institutions which sparked the crisis to begin with, and that they delegated contracts largely on a no-bid basis....The Fed agreed to "strongly consider" the recommendations, but as it is not a government-run institution it cannot be forced to do so by lawmakers. DOH! That's TRILLION, boys and girls, with a "T" and NINE ZEROES! Let's do the math, shall we?

  • As of June 29, 2011, the Total Public Debt Outstanding of the United States of America was $14.46 trillion (wiki)
  • The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (not a government-run institution) gave $16.1 trillion in emergency loans to foreign sovereign states
while governments around the world (including the U.S.) claim "austerity measures are needed" when there seems to be all kinds of money! Right. But NO MONEY for the rabble and their "social safety net" or pensions or universal health care or pollution controls or public infrastructure or teachers' salaries. It's all ELEPHANT TALK, isn't it? JUBILEE ANYONE? Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 75 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the definitive cancellation of crushing debts to fight poverty and injustice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Jubilee calls for a definitive cancellation of international debts and the restoration of right relationships between nations. By now you might be asking Would We Be Better Off If John McCain Were President? Fred Branfman at AlterNet.org explains A President McCain may have at least triggered a true progressive fight. But McCain’s election would have produced a major political difference: It would have increased Democratic clout in the House and Senate. First off, there would have been no Tea Party, no “don’t raise the debt limit unless we gut the poor,” no “death panel” myth, no “Obama Youth” nonsense. Although there would have been plenty of criticism from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, the fact remains that McCain, a Republican war hero, would never have excited the Tea Party animus as did the “Secret-Muslim Kenyan-Born Big-Government Fascist White-Hating Antichrist” Obama. Glenn Beck would have remained a crazed nonentity and been dropped far sooner by Fox News than he was. And Vice President Sarah Palin, despised by both McCain and his tough White House staff, would have been deprived of any real power and likely tightly muzzled against criticizing McCain’s relatively centrist (compared to her positions) policies. Voters would almost certainly have increased Democratic control of the House and Senate in 2010, since the Republicans would have been seen as responsible for the weak U.S. economy. Democrats might even have achieved the long-desired 60 percent majority needed to kill the filibuster in one or both houses....Most significantly, if McCain had won, not only would Democrats be looking at a Democratic landslide in the 2012 presidential race, but the newly elected Democratic president in 2013 might enjoy both a 60 percent or higher majority in both houses and a clear public understanding that it was Republican policies that had sunk the economy. He or she might thus be far better positioned to enact substantive reforms than was Obama in 2008, or will Obama even if he is re-elected in 2012. Thanks Fred for the reality check! Last week we told you about ALEC EXPOSED that is the American Legislative Exchange Council. John Nichols of The Nation has been pouring over these leaked documents and talks about it with Teri Gross on NPR's Fresh Air Who's Really Writing States' Legislation? Go listen! Nichols points out the remarkable similarities of State legislative law proposals nearly IDENTICAL to ALEC initiative wording now making their way through GOP-controlled State Houses and how "The Left" has no effective counterpart! Make sure you click over to the rebuttal part National Chairman Of ALEC Responds To Report by Troglodyte Louisiana State Rep. Noble Ellington (R-20) where he stammers repeatedly to Teri's simple and obvious inquiries. It really is precious! And it makes you wonder why anyone would continue to vote R if they knew about ALEC's hard-right corporate agenda aimed at destroying their states. More Nichols below on Ring of Fire Radio. Sadly the U.S. media is wholly owned by deep-pocket transnational right-wing corporations and the voting public at-large is too lazy (or stoopid) to question ANYTHING "It was on the teevee so it must be true" BIG LIES spun 24-7 on U.S. media. Which brings us to the SACKING of Young Turk Cenk Uyger by MSNBC. Max Keiser reports Great Video: We get asked, ‘Why are Max and Stax not on US MSM?’ Cenk’s experience mirrors our experience with various broadcasters around the world. We deliver ming-boggling superior ratings, but that’s not what they’re looking for. Also, if you want to know why there is no hard left shows in the U.S., this is why. They get bought off or shut down. Rachel Maddow, the NYT, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart, (and even The Young Turks) are right of center. Amy Goodman is center. Alex Jones is left of center (whether he thinks of himself as such or not is not important) – and he does an amazing job of sustaining a really big audience – and attacking the people that need to be attacked. If he (or we) were on US MSM – we’d all deliver SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER ratings and profits for these networks. But again, that’s not what it’s about. Fox and the rest hate free markets. They hate free speech. They hate competition. They have contempt for anyone who is not genuflecting at their feet. Oh, and shame on Howard Stern for refusing to get political. Why can’t guys like JFK or MLK get hit with cream pies instead of bullets? Well said Max, well said. We concur. So you know what to expect from the Sunday Morning Funnies this week. The WH Limo shuffles TIMMY GEITHNER to Fake Snooze, This Amanpout & State of the Candy to explain the depth and breadth of the coming tea-bagger-caused U.S. debt default while White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley tries to stifle complaints of The Great O! selling out the New Deal programs on Face the Bob where you can THROW PIES & BRICKS at Gang of Six leaders SAXBY CHAMBLISS and MARK WARNER. Watch This Anampout as Fox Business Network senior correspondent Charlie Gasparino takes The Fifth aka the Sgt. Schultz "I know NOTHING" defense about wrongdoing at FAKE SNOOZE and NEWS CORPSE. And have a nice big pie (and brick) for JOHN "Crybaby" BOEHNER on Fake Snooze! Much more info and interviews at our regulars below! The Brick TeeVee Crew has been melting in the Midwest Heat Dome, though we've has a few good showers (that took out electricity in many neighborhoods) and no relief is in sight. But hey it's summer! Garden is on the up and up too with hot peppers and tomatoes beginning to pop out. Band Camp is here too so summer is already half way over! Get out and enjoy it while you can and have a great week!


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    • PBC Live! Weekly on KGO PBC Live! Weekly on KGO Your humble host has been remiss in keeping you apprised of his other media activities. Since February, I’ve been hosting a regular weekly show on KGO, the leading San Francisco talk station with a huge coverage area–at night, you can hear it anywhere on the West Coast. TFN (till further notice), you can hear me every Friday night–or, more precisely, Saturday morning, from 1-5 am (PDT) on 810-AM or streaming at www.kgoradio.com. If you’d like to be alerted each week, sign up on Facebook as a fan of “Peter B. Collins Show” or you can follow me on Twitter, @pbcsf
    • PBC Podcast 270 Boiling Frogs: Journalist Russ Baker Journalist Russ Baker is our guest in this Boiling Frogs interview, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. Baker joins us to discuss the case of the former Israeli Spy Chief Meir Dagan, who contends that Israel’s top leaders lack judgment, considers a military attack on Iran “a stupid idea”, and criticizes Israel for having failed to put forward a peace initiative with the Palestinians by foolishly ignoring the Saudi peace initiative promising full diplomatic relations in exchange for a return to the 1967 border lines. He talks about the Obama administration’s harsh and hawkish stand on Iran, the evidence pointing to a plan to create an “Arab Spring” for the Good Old Boys—CIA, banks, and oil companies, the poor journalism by the mainstream media in covering Libya and the alleged crimes committed by Qaddafi as a part of a larger disinformation effort of the sort that has always been part and parcel of war, and more!
    • PBC Podcast 271 NSA Expert James Bamford on Thomas Drake and the US War in Yemen Journalist and author James Bamford, the acknowledged expert on the National Security Agency and other intelligence subjects, returns in this Boiling Frogs interview, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. Due to vacation, our next podcast will be about August 4.
    • PBC Podcast 272 Outrage: DHS Whistleblower Endured Reprisals for Doing Her Job! Journalist and author James Bamford, the acknowledged expert on the National Security Agency and other intelligence subjects, returns in this Boiling Frogs interview, co-hosted with Sibel Edmonds. Due to vacation, our next podcast will be about August 4.

  • Ring of Fire Radio
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    Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder
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    This Week on Ring of Fire! July 15, 2010
    • This week on Ring of Fire: Congressman Bruce Braley will be joining us to talk about why we need to get out of Afghanistan.
    • Documentary film director Susan Saladoff will be joining us to talk about her new film “Hot Coffee,” which talks about how corporate America spun the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit so out of proportion that it convinced millions of Americans that our court system is broken.
    • Mary Bottari from the Center for Media and Democracy will join us to talk about the 800 different bills that members of ALEC have been pushing in states across America.
    • Investigative reporter John Nichols will tell us how members of ALEC are trying to steal elections in America.
    • And John Scott, AKA “Truthteller”, from the Shred of Truth website will stop by to tell us why Orrin Hatch hates the middle class.
    • VIDEO! Papantonio: Climate Change Deniers Watching The World Burn The Republican response to climate change, even in the face of extreme weather, never ceases to amaze me. We have record-breaking tornadoes, floods, droughts, snow storms, and heat waves, and all they can say is “Oh well, that’s just how weather works.” They completely ignore the fact that global climate change is not only real, but we’re experiencing the effects of it on a daily basis in America. Mike Papantonio talks about why we should be concerned about the weather, and even more concerned about the climate change deniers, with author Paul Loeb.
    • VIDEO! Papantonio: Murdoch’s Attorney Exodus Mike Papantonio talks with criminal defense attorney Leo Thomas about what it means for Rupert Murdoch now that his trusted legal team has completely bailed on him.
    • VIDEO! Papantonio: The Murdoch Criminal Defense Mike Papantonio appears on The Ed Show on MSNBC to assess the Murdochs’ testimony before Parliament this week. What we saw from the Murdochs was the same type of denial and blame-shifting that has become the standard for white collar criminals.
    • Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the “Podcast” tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up!
    Ring of Fire Radio Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm (4 pm on XM 167) featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."

  • Majority Report with Sam Seder Streaming LIVE weekdays 11:30 am et @ Majority.fm!
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    Ari Berman of The Nation on Elizabeth Warren & the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [07•21•11]
    Cliff Schecter gives up on President Obama [07•22•11]
    Cenk Uygur on his Departure from MSNBC [07•22•11]
    MORE Podcast Interviews at majorityreport.official.fm!

  • On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
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    "HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"
    WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts “The Truth About Markets” on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s “People & Power” series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
    • VISIT PirateMyFilm.com!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!
    • VIDEO! The Official Silver Liberation Army! See SilverLiberationArmy.com !
    China is now the sixth-largest official holder of gold READ The Global Physical Gold & Silver Reserves Race is the New Nuclear Arms Race zerohedge
    Downgrade of US debt ‘baked into the cake.’ READ S&P Says Likelihood US Is Downgraded To AA As Soon As Early August Is 50-50 zerohedge
    The powers-that-be have used the “Shock Doctrine” to pass anti-American, fascist legislation while the public was in a state of shock READ Debt Crisis Being Used as Shock Doctrine to Steal More Money from the American People to Give to the Richest .1% zerohedge
    • VIDEO! Dr. Michael Hudson – RenegadeEconomist Series
    • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Debts and Ratings
    • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Ideas for Revolution (E166)
    • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM1208] The Truth About The 95 Theses Against Bankster Occupation. Download mp3 HERE Donations to ResonanceFM here.
    • ON THE EDGE On the Edge with Gonzalo Lira July 23, 2011

  • ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
    antiwarradio.jpg LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
    Listen at antiwar.com/radio
    Jacob Hornberger July 23, 2011: Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses America’s decline from shining beacon of freedom to torture-loving police state; how libertarianism helps people break through nationalist propaganda and public school indoctrination; why Americans should make haste toward limited government before another terrorist attack marks the end of the republic; and the many non-Muslim groups around the world with serious grievances against the US.
    Nima Shirazi July 23, 2011: Nima Shirazi, creator of WideAsleepinAmerica.com, discusses the summer surge of “blame Iran” talking points – the marketing strategy to sell Obama’s seventh war to Americans; how Iran’s nonchalant response to threats of an Israeli solo attack ruffles feathers in Washington and Tel Aviv; and how the US justifies an extended Iraq stay by pointing to increased Iranian influence (without acknowledging that the US destroyed Saddam’s Sunni government and helped install the current pro-Iran Shia regime).
    John Tirman July 23, 2011: John Tirman, Executive Director and a Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s Center for International Studies, discusses his article “1 Million Dead in Iraq? 6 Reasons the Media Hide the True Human Toll of War — And Why We Let Them” at AlterNet; the reputable studies done in Iraq to arrive at the approximately 1 million “excess death” toll; why the media consistently low-balls with a “tens of thousands” figure; and the powerful argument (to some) at stake: that at least Iraq is “better off now than under Saddam.”
    Many more interviews at Antiwar Radio!

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    • Speaker of the House John Boehner

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