By Shoq, on March 11th, 2010
Rob Johnson, from Roosevelt Institute, says the 300 TRILLION dollar derivatives bomb hasn't even begun to detonate yet. Few people have this much knowledge of this complex and dangerous issue as Johnson. He was working for George Soros before the meltdown, and claims they all saw it coming and steered clear of them. True or
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By Shoq, on March 10th, 2010
By Shoq, on March 10th, 2010
U.S. Chamber Builds Political Operations
Thinkprogress.org writes:
The LA Times reports today on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s growing “large-scale grass-roots political operation” that is being “funded by record-setting amounts of money raised from corporations and wealthy
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By Shoq, on March 8th, 2010
New America Foundation's Barry Lynn (author of Cornered), has a very important article in Washington Monthly called:
"Who Broke American Jobs."
In my view, all of our problems, from campaign financing, to media consolidation, to the government dysfunctionalism and hyper partisanship that is breaking down anything that ever made American a worthwhile
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By Shoq, on March 6th, 2010
Please do sign-up for this…
So you get all the hilarity of their planning missives, as Michael P. Leahy lures all the suckers into one big marketing tent for his goofy Saul Alinsky books with their make-believe history.
Oh, and it may also help screw up AFP/David Koch's bus-buying and booking plans for the big
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By Shoq, on March 6th, 2010
Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World
Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.
Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been
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By Shoq, on March 4th, 2010
Sunlight Foundation comes through again with another great data exhibit. This time one that demonstrates just how much, how often, and how intensely the Republican party will lie about anything to control the narratives, no matter how evident and easily discoverable are the facts.
Look at all the red bars (#GOP) moving past 50 votes
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By Shoq, on March 2nd, 2010
As the US Postal Service will no doubt be this week's target of Right and Left wing noise machines, and assorted partisan nitwittery, and Glenn Beck is sure to attack it as another wing of ACORN, I felt a short reader was called for.
As always, if
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By Shoq, on March 1st, 2010
The Fox wingnut soap opera 24, has cast a middle east suicide bombing terrorist character (with an American mother… who won't arouse suspicion) who curiously enough, bears a very strong physical and facial resemblance to DailyKos founder, Markos Moulitsas. The actor's name is Rami Malek.
Oh, and funny thing: The character's name is "Markos." Must be
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By Shoq, on March 1st, 2010
Back in the summer of 2007, Josh Silver's FreePress.org, and the Center for American Progress published a very important, and little discussed report called
The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio
It found that:
In the spring of 2007 of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top
five commercial station owners reveals that 91 percent of the total
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