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  • September 6, 2010

Media

Shocking video shows Brietbart’s true allegiance: Al-​​Qaeda

July 26, 2010
By Jules Siegel

In this truly revolting video, Andrew Breitbart's own words reveal that he is a cynical traitor who revels in ridiculing honest Americans while he embraces Al Qaeda. These are his own words, people. There's no way to explain them away.
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FactCheck exposes FedEx’s phony UPS ‘bailout’ attack ads as union-​​busting propaganda

July 23, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By DAn­gelo Gore (FactCheck) Last month, FedEx launched a multimillion-​​dollar online cam­paign against long­time rival United Par­cel Ser­vice over a Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion reau­tho­riza­tion bill mak­ing its way through Con­gress. FedEx says a pro­vi­sion of the bill, as passed in the House, amounts to a “bailout” for UPS. But that’s an abuse of the term. The...
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Newspapers’ new business plan: mimic RIAA

July 23, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By David Kravets (Wired) Steve Gib­son has a plan to save the media world’s finan­cial cri­sis — and it’s not the iPad. Bor­row­ing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledg­ling Las Vegas-​​based Righthaven has begun buy­ing out the copy­rights to news­pa­per con­tent for the sole pur­pose of suing blogs and web­sites that re-​​post...
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Unedited Shirley Sherrod video shows why you should never trust right wing media

July 21, 2010
By Jules Siegel

It wasn’t racism. It was an epiphany. Fir­ing of USDA offi­cial high­lights larger polit­i­cal prob­lems involv­ing race By Karen Tumulty and Kris­sah Thompson (Wash­ing­ton Post) A video of the full speech — which runs more than 45 min­utes — shows that Sher­rod was try­ing to make a very dif­fer­ent point from the one her crit­ics...
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Fox News attacks libraries as a waste of tax money

July 1, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By Anna Davlantes (FOX Chicago News) — They eat up mil­lions of your hard earned tax dol­lars. It’s money that could be used to keep your child’s school run­ning. So with the inter­net and e-​​books, do we really need mil­lions for libraries? There are 799 pub­lic libraries in Illi­nois. And they’re busy. Peo­ple bor­row...
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Happy Bloomsday! Apple censors ‘Ulysses’ webcomic on iPad/​iPhone

June 15, 2010
By Nyc Labrets
Happy Bloomsday! Apple censors ‘Ulysses’ webcomic on iPad/​iPhone

On, 'Bloomsday', June 16th, the day that the events in James Joyce's book 'Ulysses' takes place, (a book that was once banned in the United States for being deemed 'obscene'), Apple users will be able to read a censored version of it on their iPads.
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Tags: 1984, Corporate Over-Reach
Posted in Big Brother, Fail, Fascism, Featured, Feminism, Mac sucks, Media, NSFW, Religion, Sex, Social Studies, Why Try? | No Comments »

Col. Blimp defends BP against mean Americans who call it British Petroleum

June 13, 2010
By an Editor

By Wal­ter Brasch (Spec­trum) America’s Num­ber 1 ally is upset that Amer­i­cans are blam­ing BP for that nasty lit­tle oil spill in the Gulf. You know, the one where as much as a 1.7 mil­lion gal­lons of crude oil a day has given us new species of no-​​flight pel­i­cans and black-​​skinned dolphins. The Brits’...
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Lindsay Lohan not chosen to play porn star in “Lovelace”

May 12, 2010
By Jules Siegel
Lindsay Lohan not chosen to play porn star in “Lovelace”

The direc­tors of the new Linda Lovelace have dis­missed the rumors that they have signed with Lind­say Lohan to play the role of famous porn star in the film. Recent reports sug­gest that Lohan had been lined up for the lead role and the con­tro­versy with the film direc­tor Rob Epstein for the next...
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Media ignore Muslim immigrant who alerted Times Square bombing

May 5, 2010
By Jules Siegel

The UK’s Times Online reports that Aliou Niasse, a Sena­galese Mus­lim immi­grant who works as a pho­to­graph ven­dor on Times Square, was the first to bring the smok­ing car to the police’s attention: Aliou Niasse, a street ven­dor sell­ing framed pho­tographs of New York, said that he was the first to spot the car...
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Was South Park threat a false flag operation?

April 24, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By Scott Creighton For years on end no Mus­lim group, “rad­i­cal” or oth­er­wise, has threat­ened Matt and Trey or Com­edy Cen­tral about the image of Muham­mad that has been avail­able for all to see every sin­gle day. All of a sud­den last week a group called “Rev­o­lu­tion Mus­lim” threat­ened vio­lence against Com­edy Cen­tral if they...
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Antidotes

Petraeus condemns Florida church’s plan to burn Korans

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosen­berg (WSJ) KABUL—The top U.S. com­man­der in Afghanistan said the planned burn­ing of Qurans on Sept. 11 by...
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New study shows immigrants boost wages and productivity

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Andrea Christina Nill (LAPro­gres­sive) Tues­day, the Fed­eral Reserve Bank of San Fran­cisco released a report essen­tially debunk­ing the right wing myth that immi­grants...
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From Canada to Mexico on one tank of diesel

Posted by Jules Siegel

(Jalop­nik) Craig Hen­der­son drove from Blaine, Wash­ing­ton to the Mex­i­can bor­der — a dis­tance of 1,478 miles — with­out stop­ping to refuel. He burned...
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The fallacy of ‘Zombie’ Japan — the U. S. should have it so good

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Steven Hill (LA Pro­gres­sive) Dur­ing and before the cur­rent eco­nomic cri­sis, few coun­tries have been vil­i­fied as an eco­nomic bas­ket case so much...
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