By Mark Sumner (DailyKos) When Rush Limbaugh blames the BP disaster on “eco-terrorists,” I don’t believe he really thinks this is in any sense factual. When Newt Gingrich compares Muslims to Nazis, I don’t believe he does it out of ignorance. When Glenn Beck says that President Obama will force doctors to perform abortions and [...]
Aug 212010
All-purpose TV news clipCharlie Brooker does a metaview of the typical BBC TV news story in a video parody that sums up every used up cliché in 1.59 minutes.
August 21, 2010
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By Chris Rodda (Talk To Action) On May 13, 2010, about eighty soldiers, stationed at Fort Eustis while attending a training course, were punished for opting out of attending one of these Christian concerts. The headliner at this concert was a Christian rock band called BarlowGirl, a band that describes itself as taking “an aggressive, [...]
August 19, 2010
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By Mercian (HM Treasury) In Victorian times, prisoners had to walk a treadmill or turn a hand crank before they were fed. Nowadays these devices could be made to generate electricity. This would save money by saving electricity bills for the prisons, and possibly even selling someback to the Natioanl grid. It would also make [...]
August 19, 2010
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Aug 192010
By James Lamont in New Delhi and Joe Leahy in Mumbai (FT) Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country’s largest business process outsourcing company. High unemployment levels have driven down wages for some low-skilled outsourcing services in some [...]
August 19, 2010
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By David Weigel (Slate) One reason that opponents are going to have trouble legally preventing Park51 from building its Muslim cultural center is that, in 2000, a Republican Congress passed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The goal of the legislation, supported by a coalition of religious groups, was to respond to the [...]
August 17, 2010
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By Sonali Kolhatkar (Alternet) Lured by the promise of greater production, farmers are pressured into mortgaging their farms to purchase genetically modified seeds, pesticides, and fertilizer from American companies like Monsanto. Since GM seeds are patented by Monsanto, their repeated use each year requires constant licensing fees that keep farmers impoverished. One bad yield due [...]
August 14, 2010
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By Sarah De Heer (SlashFood.com) Just when we thought Times Square had it all — Pop-Tarts introduces Pop-Tarts World, a 3,000 square-foot sugar metropolis, which opened Tuesday. The store has Pop-Tarts merchandise, a custom T-shirt creation station, the “varietizer” machine and a Pop-Tarts Cafe. The centerpiece of the store, the Cafe, lists about 30 menu [...]
August 12, 2010
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If the rich really wish to create a better world, they can sign another pledge: to pay their taxes on time and in full; to stop lobbying against taxation and regulation; to avoid creating monopolies; to give their employees better wages, pensions, job protection and working conditions; to make goods and use production methods that don’t kill or maim or damage the environment or make people ill.
August 8, 2010
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