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LifestreamTurns out the US Empire is keeping an eye on Twitter (Yahoo). Perhaps an inadvertent slip, but listen to the wording for an idea of what gives the Empire the heebie-jeebies presently: "Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and [...]
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One of the best graphical representations of the outrageous military-related spending in the USA (Wallstats). "Death and Taxes:2009" is a representational poster of the federal discretionary budget; the amount of money that is spent at the discretion of your elected representatives in Congress. Basically, your federal income taxes. The data is from the President’s budget [...]
As a Swedish citizen highly critical of the USA, I’d thought I’d offer some perspectives on the US presidential election. It is a tad redundant but it had to be done. The way I see it we come down to the same issue of military versus economic imperialism to borrow Chalmers Johnson’s terminology from "Sorrows [...]
I can just note in passing that this year’s parole hearing went pretty much like the 2005 hearing. The fear and hate mongering, the blood thirst, the public spectacle. The Helbush daughters demanding their pound of flesh. From what I’ve gathered, Annika once again didn’t grovel and demean herself in the way that was expected [...]
September 13: Free The Cuban Five The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are in U.S. prisons, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being arrested in September 1998 and wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami in 2001. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René [...]
We all knew that the U.S. was slipping in natural science, but it would seem they can no longer do even the most basic mathematical computations. Historically, professional commentators both inside as well as outside the US have been mostly interested in counting gold medals. This is the IOC standard as well. But this year, [...]
Political cartoon by Matt Davies (blog) via Cagle.
Old news by now, but apparently not a joke. Article intro says it all: Flint residents now have to watch their butts because Police Chief David Dicks is on the lookout.
Some images are just priceless. Especially with some war criminals wanting to be spick-and-span. Found on Reddit and Digg.
Or "why America is fucked". A modernized version of the IWW Pyramid of Capitalist System. Found on Reddit.
