Birth control to be used on Hollywood's...
Jul 31st
Let Sibel Edmonds speak!
Jul 31st
“It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it...”
— Ron Paul
— Ron Paul
Jul 31st
Fight The Justice Department's Copycrime...
Jul 31st
Watch
Homey D. Clown
Jul 31st
Watch
Tom Snyder interviews John Lydon and Keith Levene of Public Image Limited on the “Tomorrow...
Jul 31st
Watch
Tom Snyder Dead at 71
Jul 31st
“Google is spreading its bets, and sees global potential in...”
— Susan Crawford
— Susan Crawford
Jul 30th
“She “gets” the Internet better than any of the...”
— David Weinberger
— David Weinberger
Jul 30th
Map of the Day
Jul 30th
“As fantastic a tool the Internet has become and can be, it...”
— Who Will Be America’s...
— Who Will Be America’s...
Jul 30th
Watch
Did You Know 2.0
Jul 30th
Conservatives, Beware of Fred Thompson
Jul 30th
Iraq is facing a hidden healthcare and social...
Jul 30th
The World at Night
Jul 30th
American gestapo — Abuse of power by National...
Jul 30th
“It is not in Israel’s interest—or our own—to continue to...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Jul 30th
“There are arguments you can make against programs, like...”
— Paul Krugman
— Paul Krugman
Jul 30th
Duo of Google and Sprint could put AT&T in a...
Jul 30th
“The problem for much of the USA with immigration is not so...”
— Bill Fletcher
— Bill Fletcher
Jul 30th
Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy
Jul 30th
“What reinforces my feeling that we are at the vanishing...”
— Jim Kunstler
— Jim Kunstler
Jul 30th
Why do so many cruise ship passengers get...
Jul 30th
cagle.msnbc.com
Jul 30th
“What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Jul 30th
“What I want to know is this: how could someone who was...”
— Justin Raimondo
— Justin Raimondo
Jul 30th
“I want you to consider a movie made up of several short...”
— Andrew Tallman
— Andrew Tallman
Jul 29th
cagle.msnbc.com
Jul 29th
Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by...
Jul 29th
AMY GOODMAN: Do you see a replay in what happened in the lead-up to the war with Iraq -- the allegations of the weapons of mass destruction, the media leaping onto the bandwagon?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, in a way. But, you know, history doesn’t repeat itself exactly twice. What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn’t be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran.
I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” -- meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office -- “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, in a way. But, you know, history doesn’t repeat itself exactly twice. What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn’t be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran.
I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” -- meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office -- “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”
Jul 29th
“Whenever I have been in Gaza, I have been consumed by this...”
— John Pilger
— John Pilger
Jul 29th
Police in this Cincinnati suburb have turned...
Jul 29th
Futurist and inventor Kurzweil is working on...
Jul 29th
“With the euro, whose importance as a trade and reserve...”
— Michael Heinrich
— Michael Heinrich
Jul 29th
wulffmorgenthaler.com
Jul 29th
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the...
Jul 29th
truewestmagazine.com
Jul 28th
“We are asked, How are we going to keep our children safe on...”
— the cluetrain manifesto
— the cluetrain manifesto
Jul 28th
“The Republicans are scared of the internet. They are scared...”
— Jeff Jarvis
— Jeff Jarvis
Jul 28th
home.swbell.net
Jul 28th
“From the first days after the Abu Ghraib photos hit the...”
— BOVARD
— BOVARD
Jul 28th
Watch
Who owns you?
Jul 28th
“I hear so much from the right about how they love the...”
— digby
— digby
Jul 28th
iPhone+AT&T Bill=Uh-Oh
Jul 28th
Watch
Winners of Yahoo Hack Day London 2007
Jul 28th
penny-arcade.com
Jul 28th
Previously undisclosed documents detail how...
Jul 28th
Army's 'Debt Of Service' Leaves Vets...
Jul 27th
Final Moments Live as the News Helicopters...
Jul 27th
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
Jul 27th
azcentral.com
Jul 27th
“Reflecting the basic vision of the early Church, Athenagorus...”
— Greg Boyd
— Greg Boyd
Jul 27th
“The airwaves that carry UHF in the 700 MHz range will...”
— Bernie Sanders
— Bernie Sanders
Jul 27th
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq,...
Jul 27th
cagle.com
Jul 26th
“I am calling on each presidential candidate to pledge to...”
— Michael Moore
— Michael Moore
Jul 26th
Watch
Reflect, for a minute, on who America’s grandparents are being taught to hate: Americans who...
Jul 26th
cagle.com
Jul 26th
Slave Labor at US Embassy in Baghdad?
Jul 26th
Army medical examiners were suspicious about...
Jul 26th
“American contractors witnessing the plight of some of these...”
— Baghdad Embassy Bonanza
— Baghdad Embassy Bonanza
Jul 26th
Steve Jobs Hates Buttons
Jul 26th
Web Analytics Demystified: A Primer for...
Jul 26th
“The power cord is the last cord that needs to be cut....”
— John Pendry
— John Pendry
Jul 26th
“Republicans like to boast of their hard-nosed, no-nonsense...”
— John Dean
— John Dean
Jul 26th
“Is a cop job dangerous? Well, yes, and no. It’s not...”
— Matt G
— Matt G
Jul 26th
America’s Most Dangerous Jobs
Jul 26th
Inmate found guilty in masturbation trial
Jul 26th
Back in the 1930s a general by the name of...
Jul 26th
Watch
Hearing on US Embassy in Iraq: Mayberry’s Opening
Jul 26th
“Excluding insurance and educational benefits, senior pastors...”
— Affluent pastors use wealth...
— Affluent pastors use wealth...
Jul 26th
Money for Nothing — Don't fall victim to the...
Jul 26th
Your Friends Really Are Making You Fat
Jul 25th
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting...
Jul 25th
“..freedom has a twofold meaning for modern man: that he has...”
— Eric Fromm
— Eric Fromm
Jul 25th
The speech Bono delivered in honor of...
Jul 25th
When it comes to National Security, Democrats...
Jul 25th
“The CIA has failed badly, and it would be an important step...”
— Chalmers Johnson
— Chalmers Johnson
Jul 25th
“I think by far the most important bill in our whole code, is...”
— Thomas Jefferson
— Thomas Jefferson
Jul 24th
Watch
GET A LIFE ~ Zoo Animals on Wheels
Jul 24th
Becky Garrison: Can you give us a snapshot of what daily life is like for people living in Bethlehem?
Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb: The "little town of Bethlehem" is becoming more and more like a prison surrounded with a 25-foot high concrete wall. Once the wall is completed there will be only three gates leading in and out. The situation has a psychological impact on people living here. On the other hand, 75 percent of the people in Bethlehem live on tourism. In the last seven years, the situation for tourism was very difficult, which resulted in a very high unemployment rate (over 55 percent).
But daily life goes on as if it were normal in Bethlehem. Kids go to school, right now to summer schools. People go out shopping and dining, etc.
Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb: The "little town of Bethlehem" is becoming more and more like a prison surrounded with a 25-foot high concrete wall. Once the wall is completed there will be only three gates leading in and out. The situation has a psychological impact on people living here. On the other hand, 75 percent of the people in Bethlehem live on tourism. In the last seven years, the situation for tourism was very difficult, which resulted in a very high unemployment rate (over 55 percent).
But daily life goes on as if it were normal in Bethlehem. Kids go to school, right now to summer schools. People go out shopping and dining, etc.
Jul 24th
“Consider the tortured racial history of the War on Drugs....”
— Glenn C. Loury
— Glenn C. Loury
Jul 24th
Incarceration, Employment and Public Policy
Jul 24th
Watch
Royksopp - “Remind Me”
Jul 24th
George Bush, George W. Bush's first cousin...
Jul 24th
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war,...”
— President Bush
— President Bush
Jul 24th
azcentral.com
Jul 24th
Why I'm becoming a Mac person
Jul 24th
“God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and...”
— President George Bush
— President George Bush
Jul 24th
“As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, on...”
— Scott Horton
— Scott Horton
Jul 24th
Apple Inc. shares took a hit after AT&T...
Jul 24th
War Is A Racket
Jul 24th
farm1.static.flickr.com
Jul 24th
danzigercartoons.com
Jul 24th
Will we get fooled again?
Jul 24th
“The reality is that most air ‘Crashes” are in...”
— RYP
— RYP
Jul 24th
“With 18 months left in office and his presidency foundering,...”
— Stephen Lendman
— Stephen Lendman
Jul 24th
Watch
Printer Problem
Jul 24th
Watch
John Edwards - Hair
Jul 24th
“What most Americans probably don’t know is that over the...”
— Paul Krugman
— Paul Krugman
Jul 24th
I Was Gagged By The Patriot Act While The...
Jul 24th
“The result of Google and the prevalence of search means that...”
— Seth Godin
— Seth Godin
Jul 24th
According to a new American Research Group...
Jul 24th
“Sooner than later, Stern and his underlings need to be...”
— Adrian Wojnarowski
— Adrian Wojnarowski
Jul 23rd
RTFM
Jul 23rd
Six Ways to Fix America's Health Care System
Jul 23rd
Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead
Jul 23rd
“Few of the rosy futurists foresee anything but ever-greater...”
— Jim Kunstler
— Jim Kunstler
Jul 23rd
“As a matter of Constitutional law, there is simply no...”
— Russ Daggatt
— Russ Daggatt
Jul 23rd
When executive privilege becomes executive...
Jul 23rd
“Women today who marry older men are stigmatized as “trophy...”
— Rick Shenkman
— Rick Shenkman
Jul 22nd
Employer-provided health coverage declining for college...
Jul 22nd
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a brief...”
— EFF
— EFF
Jul 22nd
Football World Cup Simulation
Jul 22nd
Since 2001, defense stocks that make up the...
Jul 22nd
In defense of dangerous ideas — In every age,...
Jul 22nd
Jul 22nd
“The Great Depression was not the only factor that was...”
— Jacob G. Hornberger
— Jacob G. Hornberger
Jul 22nd
“Jesus was the ultimate liberal progressive revolutionary of...”
— Gary Vance
— Gary Vance
Jul 22nd
Watch
How to Create an Angry American
Jul 22nd
U.S. choppers kill ... who? Enemy or...
Jul 22nd
Javascript Gamer — Learn to Make Games in...
Jul 22nd
“I’ve made a number of documentaries about Cambodia....”
— John Pilger
— John Pilger
Jul 22nd
seattlepi.nwsource.com
Jul 22nd
“The government’s case includes evidence that Vick and...”
— Sports legal expert Lester...
— Sports legal expert Lester...
Jul 22nd
In Goldwater country, a woman makes her mark...
Jul 22nd
“The ONLY time the non-military US federal payroll, staffing...”
— David Brin
— David Brin
Jul 22nd
“Every major PRO-MARKET DE-REGULATION EFFORT, every major -...”
— David Brin
— David Brin
Jul 22nd
How to save your MacBook Pro hard drive
Jul 22nd
Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks
Jul 21st
Why I returned my iPhone
Jul 21st
Paris, France has adopted an innovative, yet...
Jul 21st
Megan Jaegerman’s brilliant news graphics
Jul 21st
home.swbell.net
Jul 21st
“As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers...”
— Lt. Col. Paul Yingling
— Lt. Col. Paul Yingling
Jul 21st
The largest corruption sting in the history...
Jul 21st
Belgrade Heatwave
Jul 21st
The Reich Wing: Bush-Era Conservatism as Reductio Ad...
Jul 21st
“I know the iPhone is like so last week, but I want to ask...”
— Why No Phoneless iPhone?
— Why No Phoneless iPhone?
Jul 21st
Web Trend Map 2007/V2
Jul 21st
How To Motivate Yourself
Jul 21st
The stalker in your pocket
Jul 21st
Billionaire denies building secret sex lair
Jul 21st
jefffarias.com
Jul 21st
In an apparent violation of the law, a...
Jul 20th
Watch
PERM Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards
Jul 20th
azcentral.com
Jul 20th
“It has been six months since the Democrats took over...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Jul 20th
Relatives of Colombia Death Squad Victims Sue...
Jul 20th
Number of Daily Attacks by Insurgents and Militas in Iraq
Jul 20th
Conventional crude oil supplies won't keep up...
Jul 20th
danzigercartoons.com
Jul 20th
“A big media lie is that members of Congress are doing all...”
— Norman Solomon
— Norman Solomon
Jul 20th
An analysis of Gallup Poll data collected...
Jul 19th
“Obama’s siren song to African Americans is of an...”
— Glen Ford
— Glen Ford
Jul 19th
What Giuliani showed following 9/11 is a...
Jul 19th
JUAN GONZALEZ: And, Scott Horton, obviously Al Jazeera has borne the brunt of a lot of these American attacks on the media. Could you talk about Al Jazeera, specifically, what it's undergone?
SCOTT HORTON: Well, that's right. I mean, of course, one of the Downing Street papers that came out was a minute of a meeting that occurred at Blair House between Prime Minister Blair and President Bush, at which Bush proposed to him that they bomb the headquarters of Al Jazeera. In fact, at that point Donald Rumsfeld, one day earlier, had given a speech in which he had attacked Al Jazeera. Frank Gaffney and other leading neocons had openly in publications advocated bombing and attacks on Al Jazeera. At around this time, although Blair talked Bush out of the assault on the Al Jazeera headquarters, there were a number of bombings and shootings directed at Al Jazeera personnel. So people were killed, and this is a result of, you know, decisions taken in the White House by the President to get Al Jazeera.
SCOTT HORTON: Well, that's right. I mean, of course, one of the Downing Street papers that came out was a minute of a meeting that occurred at Blair House between Prime Minister Blair and President Bush, at which Bush proposed to him that they bomb the headquarters of Al Jazeera. In fact, at that point Donald Rumsfeld, one day earlier, had given a speech in which he had attacked Al Jazeera. Frank Gaffney and other leading neocons had openly in publications advocated bombing and attacks on Al Jazeera. At around this time, although Blair talked Bush out of the assault on the Al Jazeera headquarters, there were a number of bombings and shootings directed at Al Jazeera personnel. So people were killed, and this is a result of, you know, decisions taken in the White House by the President to get Al Jazeera.
Jul 19th
danzigercartoons.com
Jul 19th
“All of this is, at most, tangential to the core question of...”
— Fred Clark
— Fred Clark
Jul 19th
Man beams 5,000 radio, TV channels with a...
Jul 19th
“This is not Vick’s first encounter with negative...”
— Vick is NFL’s latest PR...
— Vick is NFL’s latest PR...
Jul 19th
“When the President can take away your life’s savings...”
— Orcinus
— Orcinus
Jul 19th
azcentral.com
Jul 18th
Behind the Fiendish Complexities of Airfare...
Jul 18th
“In the minds of wingnuts, religion is intrinsic to being a...”
— The Mahablog
— The Mahablog
Jul 18th
MATTHEWS: Do you believe that we have waged an aggressive war in Iraq?
SHEEHAN: Well, I think that it was illegal and immoral. There were no weapons of mass destructions. There was no connection between Saddam and 9/11, and all evidence has shown, especially this week, that what we‘re doing is strengthening al Qaeda and strengthening hatred against us for occupying the country and destroying a country that was no threat to us.
MATTHEWS: Why do you think President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, the other hawks in this administration—why do you think they took us to war?
SHEEHAN: Well, I think it was a lot to do with oil. It was a lot to do with destabilizing that region, which they have done very thoroughly. The Iraqi refugee crisis has made the entire region compromised there. And I think it was for profit. I mean, it‘s for Halliburton. It‘s for Blackwater. It‘s for Standard Oil. It‘s for the war profiteers. And that‘s why war is usually waged.
SHEEHAN: Well, I think that it was illegal and immoral. There were no weapons of mass destructions. There was no connection between Saddam and 9/11, and all evidence has shown, especially this week, that what we‘re doing is strengthening al Qaeda and strengthening hatred against us for occupying the country and destroying a country that was no threat to us.
MATTHEWS: Why do you think President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, the other hawks in this administration—why do you think they took us to war?
SHEEHAN: Well, I think it was a lot to do with oil. It was a lot to do with destabilizing that region, which they have done very thoroughly. The Iraqi refugee crisis has made the entire region compromised there. And I think it was for profit. I mean, it‘s for Halliburton. It‘s for Blackwater. It‘s for Standard Oil. It‘s for the war profiteers. And that‘s why war is usually waged.
Jul 18th
Halliburton’s 5 year chart
Jul 18th
“Amazing as it may seem, as of June 2006, Beijing held over...”
— William N. Grigg
— William N. Grigg
Jul 18th
Google's Marissa Mayer on The Future of...
Jul 18th
If the Democrats really want to prevail over...
Jul 18th
Keen vs. Weinberger
Jul 18th
Pastor Reaching More People Through YouTube...
Jul 18th
Freeing the iPhone the legal way — Lawmakers...
Jul 18th
“In fact, while real house prices rose by more than 70...”
— Dean Baker
— Dean Baker
Jul 18th
cagle.com
Jul 18th
“According to polls, 36% of the American people disbelieve...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jul 18th
“The US Department of Labor just can’t keep up with the...”
— Suman Raghunathan
— Suman Raghunathan
Jul 18th
When is a filibuster not a filibuster?
Jul 18th
“Conservatives have to come to terms with the fact that...”
— Rod Dreher
— Rod Dreher
Jul 18th
Top 10 Headphones (reblogged from Marco)
Jul 18th
home.swbell.net
Jul 18th
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware...
Jul 18th
A single hydrogen atom has been snipped off a...
Jul 18th
“It is striking to see one of the nation’s most...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Jul 18th
Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo
Jul 18th
“The dirty secret of U.S. Wilsonianism, of course, is that...”
— Anthony Gregory
— Anthony Gregory
Jul 18th
The Progressive Apocalypse and Other...
Jul 17th
cagle.com
Jul 17th
“It’s going to be seen historically as an awful folly,...”
— Jim Bouton
— Jim Bouton
Jul 17th
America's 50 Most Influential Churches
Jul 17th
Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard:...
Jul 17th
“Thriller writers must have a code of honor that requires...”
— Geoffrey K. Pullum
— Geoffrey K. Pullum
Jul 17th
“Everybody knows that the big winner during the 1849 gold...”
— Seth Godin
— Seth Godin
Jul 17th
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will...”
— James Madison
— James Madison
Jul 17th
There is no “first blogger”
Jul 17th
“Allegedly, the U.S. is a free and open country with a free...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jul 17th
“In the 2004 election, John Kerry’s ability to speak...”
— Bill Poser
— Bill Poser
Jul 16th
ldc.upenn.edu
Jul 16th
“TutorVista is an education outsourcer; it serves many of...”
— Outsourcing Man Bites Dog
— Outsourcing Man Bites Dog
Jul 16th
The Best Climate Change Websites
Jul 16th
home.swbell.net
Jul 16th
“Throughout its existence the US government has staged...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jul 16th
What's Scary About the Anti-Immigration...
Jul 16th
“Whatever else is true, the Republican Party is not a party...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Jul 16th
“These two conditions — the gathering oil export storm...”
— Jim Kunstler
— Jim Kunstler
Jul 16th
According to a survey released Friday, the...
Jul 16th
Watch
Interview with a senior DBA who worked overtime in the WTC towers the weekend before 9/11
Jul 16th
The Iraq war has been an amazing success,...
Jul 16th
danzigercartoons.com
Jul 15th
“The CIA did not just try to assassinate Muhammad Husain...”
— Michael Schwartz
— Michael Schwartz
Jul 15th
In the 70's -- Dick Cheney was instrumental...
Jul 15th
An explosive new book by David Talbot,...
Jul 15th
I.F. Stone's lessons for Internet journalism
Jul 15th
The United States is paying around $ 100...
Jul 15th
“The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a...”
— Bomb-laden...
— Bomb-laden...
Jul 15th
Did Military and Media Mislead Us? Most...
Jul 15th
cagle.msnbc.com
Jul 15th
The Wealthiest Americans Ever
Jul 15th
“Republicans also have become significantly older. In 1997,...”
— LiberalDesert
— LiberalDesert
Jul 15th
“What’s more, it took five weeks for Tillman’s...”
— Tillman questions abound
— Tillman questions abound
Jul 15th
azcentral.com
Jul 15th
“Is it really possible for the average citizen to learn that...”
— Anthony DiMaggio
— Anthony DiMaggio
Jul 15th
“The ownership society has, as the kids say, owned you....”
— Rick Perlstein
— Rick Perlstein
Jul 15th
25 Hottest Urban Legends
Jul 14th
Lady Bird Is Gone
Jul 14th
Solar activity 'not the cause of global...
Jul 14th
Iraq-Bound Soldier Hires Hitman To Shoot Him
Jul 14th
“President Bush lives in a world where in effect it is always...”
— RYP
— RYP
Jul 14th
“Bees gotta bee, birds gotta bird, popes gotta pope.”
— Fred Clark
— Fred Clark
Jul 14th
Watch
Left Below?
Jul 14th
“The power of the Christian right rests largely in the fact...”
— Bill McKibben
— Bill McKibben
Jul 14th
“When George W. Bush says: “I don’t think...”
— TBogg
— TBogg
Jul 14th
America's First Fair Trade Town: Media, PA
Jul 14th
Sarah Cove: With the Internet, we Americans are beginning to see ourselves as networked to other human beings, but other cultures have been doing this for a long time and have seen it as obvious for a very long time. I was wondering if you have noticed this phenomenon and if you have any thoughts on it?
Douglas Rushkoff: The reason why it seems so radical in America is because we are capitalists and capitalism is about the monopoly of resources. So it's hardest for us to understand that this was something that pre-existed capitalism. But really, until the Renaissance, this was the way things were. In the late Middle Ages, towns had local currency. That's how cathedrals were built, that's how windows were repaired. We are living in a pocket that is dominated by the rules of investment capital and we accept this as the very foundational laws of reality and it seems that radically different to us to do something else. But sure. It's much more closely related to the ecological world of nature than to the economic model we built over nature.
Sarah Cove: Do you see a way to mesh the hierarchical style of capitalism with the emergence of Americans as collaborators in a network of other human beings?
Douglas Rushkoff: What we have to understand is that capitalism and centralized currency are very biased to accumulation of wealth and aggrandizement of a monopoly of power. A centralized currency favors a company like Wal-Mart over local markets. If we were able to introduce alternative value systems and measures of value into the overall ecosystem, not all production and consumption would be dictated by dollars, but also by a sense of reputation, family, and other forms of social capital.
The more we live in a society that values social capital over centralized currency, the more opportunity there will be to have not only giant, long-distance purchases and corporate-sized projects supported by a centralized currency, but also a local reality that won't totally be run-over by corporate behemoths. Right now, in America, we have become such a dollar-oriented society that the market has insinuated itself into areas of human interaction.
Douglas Rushkoff: The reason why it seems so radical in America is because we are capitalists and capitalism is about the monopoly of resources. So it's hardest for us to understand that this was something that pre-existed capitalism. But really, until the Renaissance, this was the way things were. In the late Middle Ages, towns had local currency. That's how cathedrals were built, that's how windows were repaired. We are living in a pocket that is dominated by the rules of investment capital and we accept this as the very foundational laws of reality and it seems that radically different to us to do something else. But sure. It's much more closely related to the ecological world of nature than to the economic model we built over nature.
Sarah Cove: Do you see a way to mesh the hierarchical style of capitalism with the emergence of Americans as collaborators in a network of other human beings?
Douglas Rushkoff: What we have to understand is that capitalism and centralized currency are very biased to accumulation of wealth and aggrandizement of a monopoly of power. A centralized currency favors a company like Wal-Mart over local markets. If we were able to introduce alternative value systems and measures of value into the overall ecosystem, not all production and consumption would be dictated by dollars, but also by a sense of reputation, family, and other forms of social capital.
The more we live in a society that values social capital over centralized currency, the more opportunity there will be to have not only giant, long-distance purchases and corporate-sized projects supported by a centralized currency, but also a local reality that won't totally be run-over by corporate behemoths. Right now, in America, we have become such a dollar-oriented society that the market has insinuated itself into areas of human interaction.
Jul 14th
“As their behavior in the Tillman case amply demonstrates,...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Jul 14th
Researchers Dream of Humanizing Androids
Jul 14th
danzigercartoons.com
Jul 14th
“It’s funny that the group of high profile business...”
— EJ Montini
— EJ Montini
Jul 14th
“Ironically, the last time Iraq was stable was when Saddam...”
— Charley Reese
— Charley Reese
Jul 14th
What Would Happen if the Administration...
Jul 14th
Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient
Jul 13th
seattlepi.nwsource.com
Jul 13th
All hail the prophetic gut!
Jul 13th
“What if you spoke regularly of “haji food,”...”
— Iraq on My Mind
— Iraq on My Mind
Jul 13th
“Overly narrow job descriptions produce artificial talent...”
— Nick Corcodilos
— Nick Corcodilos
Jul 13th
Five Incongruous Things About The iPhone
Jul 13th
Why I Don't Like Electronic Greeting Cards
Jul 13th
Writing for Reddit
Jul 13th
“Tucker Carlson was on CNN endlessly revelling in every last...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Jul 13th
If Soldiers Came From Another Country And Did...
Jul 13th
A man fell Thursday from an overpass onto...
Jul 12th
“In WoW China, you must activate an account through a website...”
— WoW China: My personal...
— WoW China: My personal...
Jul 12th
Velusion: MA Arco has vanished in the Radiance game. The game is far into the late game (turn 90+) and in a fairly decent position. Turns are on a 72 hour clock at this point.
Sensori: Sure, I'll take over. I'm gonna die in a bunch of games soon anyway!
Sensori: Sure, I'll take over. I'm gonna die in a bunch of games soon anyway!
Jul 12th
Road with 100 cameras is plagued by crime
Jul 12th
“And so, my gut feeling. The death toll from this...”
— Rick Perlstein
— Rick Perlstein
Jul 12th
1,000,000 Iraqis Killed In War/Occupation
Jul 12th
Mexico’s Oil Production is Collapsing
Jul 12th
Mexico's Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), a...
Jul 12th
The "liberal media" shibboleth redux
Jul 12th
“A dark force, however, has influenced Lucasfilm’s...”
— Lawrence Lessig
— Lawrence Lessig
Jul 12th
danzigercartoons.com
Jul 12th
“Bush’s and Cheney’s lies and assaults on the US Constitution...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
— Paul Craig Roberts
Jul 12th
Bin Laden says he wasn't behind 9/11 attacks
Jul 12th
The Ten Boxes of Heterodoxy, or Why Economics...
Jul 12th
“After it became apparent in Spring of 2003 that one of the...”
— Joseph C. Wilson
— Joseph C. Wilson
Jul 12th
“Actually, bombs are already being dropped in Iraq in 2007 at...”
— Tom Engelhardt
— Tom Engelhardt
Jul 12th
“How many more examples—beyond politicians like Gingrich,...”
— Rick Perlstein
— Rick Perlstein
Jul 11th
How to make a podcast that doesn't suck
Jul 11th
economist.com
Jul 11th
“Regardless of whether there was labor unrest or not, if they...”
— United Airlines pilot, who...
— United Airlines pilot, who...
Jul 11th
US Airways Group Inc. is reaping the benefits...
Jul 11th
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the...
Jul 11th
AMY GOODMAN: Does global warming cause hurricanes?
CHRIS MOONEY: It doesn't cause them. We would have them anyway. But clearly, global warming is going to change hurricanes. You're thinking about an atmospheric phenomenon that essentially runs upon heat and moisture, and global warming is going to change the heat content of the oceans. It's going to change a lot of other things. Hurricanes are going to change as a result. Precisely how? Debated. Likely, they’ll become more intense, among other things.
CHRIS MOONEY: It doesn't cause them. We would have them anyway. But clearly, global warming is going to change hurricanes. You're thinking about an atmospheric phenomenon that essentially runs upon heat and moisture, and global warming is going to change the heat content of the oceans. It's going to change a lot of other things. Hurricanes are going to change as a result. Precisely how? Debated. Likely, they’ll become more intense, among other things.
Jul 11th
“The next day we decided to go the Zoo and since we decided...”
— Noah Gift
— Noah Gift
Jul 11th
“Anything that doesn’t fit into the political...”
— Dr. Richard Carmona, who...
— Dr. Richard Carmona, who...
Jul 11th
11 Movies Saved by Historical Inaccuracy
Jul 11th
danzigercartoons.com
Jul 11th
Libby, Bush and the lapdog press
Jul 11th
Whatever became of Riverbend?
Jul 11th
Sicko: Michael Moore and Freedom from Fear...
Jul 11th
“It is always tempting to invoke the past to convey a simple...”
— Jeffrey Waserstrom
— Jeffrey Waserstrom
Jul 11th
Flight canceled!
Thank you for NOT flying US Airways.
Jul 10th
Sitting here at Pittsburgh Airport, flight back to Phoenix...
Jul 10th
IDG: What is Net neutrality? What's your position on it?
Berners-Lee: Net neutrality is the fact that when I pay money to connect to the Internet and you pay money to connect to the Internet, then we can communicate, no matter who we are. What's very exciting at the moment is that video is happening on the Web. YouTube gets a lot of attention, because they are delivering video over the Web.
Now suppose I'm in Massachusetts and I want to find a Brazilian movie. I go to the Internet to find my favorite independent movie and filmmaker. But then the cable company in Massachusetts blocks the transmission and says, "No, we won't let you do this, because we sell movies. So, yes, we do the Internet but on the other hand we will stop you from seeing Internet movies. We want to be able to control which movies you buy."
We've seen cable companies trying to prevent using the Internet for Internet phones. I am concerned about this, and am working, with many other committed people, to keep it from happening. I think it's very important to keep an open Internet for whoever you are. This is called Net neutrality. It's very important to preserve Net neutrality for the future.
Berners-Lee: Net neutrality is the fact that when I pay money to connect to the Internet and you pay money to connect to the Internet, then we can communicate, no matter who we are. What's very exciting at the moment is that video is happening on the Web. YouTube gets a lot of attention, because they are delivering video over the Web.
Now suppose I'm in Massachusetts and I want to find a Brazilian movie. I go to the Internet to find my favorite independent movie and filmmaker. But then the cable company in Massachusetts blocks the transmission and says, "No, we won't let you do this, because we sell movies. So, yes, we do the Internet but on the other hand we will stop you from seeing Internet movies. We want to be able to control which movies you buy."
We've seen cable companies trying to prevent using the Internet for Internet phones. I am concerned about this, and am working, with many other committed people, to keep it from happening. I think it's very important to keep an open Internet for whoever you are. This is called Net neutrality. It's very important to preserve Net neutrality for the future.
Jul 10th
Watch
IMPEACH DICK CHENEY
Jul 10th
Joshua Frank: So how can we change this political myopia?
Joe Bageant: Our involvement with politics, our political lives, are merely as spectators who listen to commercials for three years before the magical moment before we “cast our vote” by simply going shopping in the tiniest shopping space of all—the voting booth—with the most limited choices possible that can still be called a choice: two twin parties whose parents, the corporations, have to display them against different colored backgrounds so people can get a clue as to their difference. (“I am for fighting the war until the last dog is dead,” as opposed to “I am for pulling the troops out, but not until a few hundred thousand more dogs are dead. I don’t wanna be seen as weak on the dead dog thing.” Or my favorite, “We can’t leave now or there will be chaos?” What the fuck is it we have created there now?) Right now the owning class Westchester Country Club Democrats is offering us two flavors, Hillary Clinton (bitter vanilla) and Barrack Obama (Mocha hope.)
Soooo … What’s going on politically with the great beery redneck nation? Nothing. We don’t think about politics until the last half hour before time to vote. Then a sort of a heartburn grips our chests, and all the negative campaign ads, and the sound of Bill O’Reilly’s voice and last night’s beer and bratwurst and Hillary’s stern beady eyes drill in on us … preachers call down lightening bolts and fighter planes do a double roll over the desert … then suddenly an acidic clot curdles in our throat, we close our eyes and we projectile vomit all our fears and suspicions and prejudices and state injected messages in the direction of the party making the most noise right up until the last minute. That’s what we do down here.
Joe Bageant: Our involvement with politics, our political lives, are merely as spectators who listen to commercials for three years before the magical moment before we “cast our vote” by simply going shopping in the tiniest shopping space of all—the voting booth—with the most limited choices possible that can still be called a choice: two twin parties whose parents, the corporations, have to display them against different colored backgrounds so people can get a clue as to their difference. (“I am for fighting the war until the last dog is dead,” as opposed to “I am for pulling the troops out, but not until a few hundred thousand more dogs are dead. I don’t wanna be seen as weak on the dead dog thing.” Or my favorite, “We can’t leave now or there will be chaos?” What the fuck is it we have created there now?) Right now the owning class Westchester Country Club Democrats is offering us two flavors, Hillary Clinton (bitter vanilla) and Barrack Obama (Mocha hope.)
Soooo … What’s going on politically with the great beery redneck nation? Nothing. We don’t think about politics until the last half hour before time to vote. Then a sort of a heartburn grips our chests, and all the negative campaign ads, and the sound of Bill O’Reilly’s voice and last night’s beer and bratwurst and Hillary’s stern beady eyes drill in on us … preachers call down lightening bolts and fighter planes do a double roll over the desert … then suddenly an acidic clot curdles in our throat, we close our eyes and we projectile vomit all our fears and suspicions and prejudices and state injected messages in the direction of the party making the most noise right up until the last minute. That’s what we do down here.
Jul 10th
10 Funniest Simpsons Episodes Ever
Jul 10th
The former head of China's State Food and...
Jul 10th
Color Inspiration from the Masters of...
Jul 10th
cagle.com
Jul 10th
“Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed...”
— Joel Spolsky
— Joel Spolsky
Jul 10th
“As a longtime attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, I...”
— John S. Koppel
— John S. Koppel
Jul 10th
“You go up the stairs. You grab the man of the house. You rip...”
— Sgt. John Bruhns, who...
— Sgt. John Bruhns, who...
Jul 10th
The stranglehold of 2-party domination in the...
Jul 10th
9 Reasons Health Care is a Poor Candidate for...
Jul 9th
Vicious rioting broke out Wednesday evening...
Jul 9th
Swarm Behavior
Jul 9th
“To steal millions, you need a top team of armed robbers. But...”
— Greg Palast
— Greg Palast
Jul 9th
blog.lewrockwell.com
Jul 9th
A new report finds that the price tag for the...
Jul 9th