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I usually see this cartoon as hit on the democrats… I like...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:33 -0400

I usually see this cartoon as hit on the democrats… I like this version better

Spotted on Broadway and Howard

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:10:00 -0400

Spotted on Broadway and Howard

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Wall Street Bubbles;-Always the Same” by Puck cofounder...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:12:00 -0400

Wall Street Bubbles;-Always the Same” by Puck cofounder Joseph Keppler, appeared in the May 22, 1901, edition of the magazine, the chromolithograph featured a caricature of John Pierpont Morgan as a bull. He’s blowing bubbles labelled “inflated values” with eager investors reaching for them.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-7880

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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:18:51 -0400

Study finds tumors in rats fed on Monsanto’s GM...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:27:00 -0400

Study finds tumors in rats fed on Monsanto’s GM corn

“(Reuters) - In a study that prompted criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumors and multiple organ damage.

Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen and colleagues said ra]ts fed on a diet containing NK603 - a seed variety made tolerant to dousings of Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller - or given water with Roundup at levels permitted in the United States, died earlier than those on a standard diet.

Experts not involved in the study were highly skeptical about its methods and findings, with some accusing the French scientists of going on a “statistical fishing trip”.

The animals on the GM diet suffered mammary tumors, as well as severe liver and kidney damage. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and presented at a news conference in London.

The researchers said 50 percent of males and 70 percent of females died prematurely, compared with only 30 percent and 20 percent in the control group.

Monsanto was not immediately available for comment but the group has in the past repeatedly said its products are safe and there is no credible evidence of any health risk to humans or animals from consuming GM crops.”

Of course Monsanto and company are saying this discovery is suspicious and fake! This is a company who is willing and able to manipulate the people, the media and skew everything around them that portrays them to be as criminal and ill-intentioned as they are.

Prison food vs. school lunches: any difference? School lunch is...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:14:17 -0400

Prison food vs. school lunches: any difference?

School lunch is a lot like prison food, only worse. An infographic created by Good Magazinecomparing the average detention grub with the average elementary school fare shows a very similar tray breakdown.

Both offer a calorie count of around 1400, and both cost little more than $2.60 per person per day. The big difference, according to their research, sourced from national statistics, is that prisoners get a little more bang for the buck.

The average prison meal and the average elementary school lunch both consist of one bread item, one starch item and one beverage. But kids get an ounce less meat and they’re usually skimped on either veggies or fruits. Overall prisoners have more options and a little more heft to their meal.

It’s not the first time school and prison food have gone head to head. Institutional food, be it prisons or schools, often share the same mass distributers. (Aramark is one of the biggest food service providers for both prisons and schools.) They’ve also shared the same grub. Last month, the Massachusetts Department of Education donated thousands of cases of expired school lunches to prisons, from fruit and cheese to chicken. Much of it was rejected by prisons since it had passed the expiration date. But the only reason it was being offered to prisoners in the first place was because schools were under fire for feeding students the same past-due food.

Thanks to several national campaigns school food programs are under pressure to expand their healthy options for kids, but some initiatives take a correctional approach to curbing obesity. In San Antonio, school cafeterias are installing surveillance cameras that will snap photos of the contents of each student’s tray to increase awareness about what kids are eating. Here’s an idea: skip the cameras and just watch a marathon of “Locked-Up”. With the cash saved, go buy students some veggies.

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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:52:00 -0400

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:39:02 -0400

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters #4

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:35:06 -0400

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters #3

“I have a very good team of extraordinarily experienced, highly successful consultants, a couple of people in particular who have done races around the world. I didn’t realize it. These guys in the US—the Karl Rove equivalents—they do races all over the world: in Armenia, in Africa, in Israel. I mean, they work for Bibi Netanyahu in his race. So they do these races and they see which ads work, and which processes work best, and we have ideas about what we do over the course of the campaign. I’d tell them to you, but I’d have to shoot you.”

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:33:21 -0400

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters #2

At the dinner, Romney often stuck to familiar talking points. But there were moments when he went beyond the familiar campaign lines. Describing his family background, he quipped about his father, “Had he been born of Mexican parents, I’d have a better shot of winning this.” Contending that he is a self-made millionaire who earned his own fortune, Romney insisted, “I have inherited nothing.” He remarked, “There is a perception, ‘Oh, we were born with a silver spoon, he never had to earn anything and so forth.’ Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you can have: which is to get born in America.”

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:25:59 -0400

SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters #1

During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly thinks of all the voters who support President Barack Obama. He dismissed these Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don’t assume responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of them. Fielding a question from a donor about how he could triumph in November, Romney replied:

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Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:16:00 -0400

7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits From Greg Palast’s new...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:42:00 -0400

7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits

From Greg Palast’s new book:
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits:
How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps

1. Don’t Don’t DON’T Mail In Your Ballot

For those of you who mailed in your ballot, please tell me, what happened to it? You don’t know, do you? I can tell you that in the last election, half a million absentee ballots were never counted, on the flimsiest of technical excuses. And when they don’t count, you don’t even know it. Worse: Tens of thousands of ballots are not mailed out to voters in time to return them - in which case you’re out of luck. Most states won’t let you vote in-precinct once you’ve applied to vote absentee. Every time I hear of a voter going “absentee” to avoid computer screens, I want to “go postal.”

2. Vote Early – Before the Ballot Bandits Wake Up

Every state now lets voters cast ballots in designated polling stations and at county offices in the weeks before Election Day. Do it. Don’t wait until Election Day to find out you have the wrong ID, your registration’s “inactive,” (9.9 million of you) or you’re on some creep’s challenge list. By Election Day, if your name is gone or tagged, there’s little you can do but hold up the line. Demand a paper ballot.

3. Register and Register, then Register Again

Think you’re registered to vote? Think again, Jack. With all this purg’n going on (13 million and counting), you could be x’d out and you don’t know it. So check online with your Secretary of State’s office or call your County Board of Elections. Then register your girlfriend, your wife, your mailman and your mommy. Then contact the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote and commit to a couple of days of door-to-door registration, especially at social service agency offices. In Florida, that means you’ll get arrested. I’ll send a file in a cake.

4. Vote Unconditionally, Not Provisionally

In 2012, they’ll be handing out provisional ballots like candy, a couple million to Hispanic voters alone. If your right to vote is challenged, don’t accept a provisional ballot that likely won’t get counted no matter what the sweet little lady at the table tells you. She won’t decide; partisan sharks will. Demand adjudication on the spot of your right to a real no-BS from poll judges. Or demand a call to the supervisor of elections; or return with acceptable ID if that’s the problem. And be a champ: defend the rights of others. If you’ve taken Step 1 above and voted early, you have Election Day free to be a poll watcher. You’ll need training and credentials, either from a voter group or, in some states, a designation from a political party. Then challenge the challengers, the weird guys with Blackberrys containing lists of “suspect” voters. Be firm, but no biting.

5. Occupy Ohio, Invade Nevada.

The revolution will not be podcast. Let go of that mouse, get out of your PJs and take the resistance door-to-door - to register the vote, to canvass the voters, to get out the vote. Donate time to your union (if you’re not in a union, why not?) or to the troublemakers listed here. This may seem a stupendously unoriginal suggestion, but I know of no other method more effective for confronting the armed and dangerous junta that would seize the White House.

6. Date a Voter

Voting, like bowling and love, should never be done alone. As our sponsor, the Rev. Jesse Jackson says, make a date to ‘Arrive with Five.’ And keep a copy of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits in your holster, our website on your iStuff (we’ll have help lines on our site), and a photo ID that matches your registration name and address. And Bobby, make sure your ID says, “Robert F. Kennedy JUNIOR” – or your vote is toast.

7. Make the Democracy Demand: No Vote Left Behind!

I have this crazy fantasy in my head. In it, an election is stolen and the guy who’s wrongly declared the loser stands up in front of the White House and says three magic words: “Count the votes.” You can have all the paper ballots in the world, but if you don’t demand to look at them, publicly, in a recount, you might as well mark them with invisible ink.

Democracy requires vigilance The Day After. That’s when you check in at www.BallotBandits.org one more time.

Who are these masked men? Who are the Ballot Bandits?

Find out: Get your own copy of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, out on September 18. You can pre-order Billionaires & Ballot Bandits from Barnes & Noble,Amazon or Indie Bound. Or donate to our investigation and get a signed copy.

This guide is published by the not-for-profit non-partisan Palast Investigative Fund.

To get updates - and to download the movie, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits to go BallotBandits.org

Join the fight on facebook.com/GregPalastInvestigates.

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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:24:41 -0400

Gay Veteran talks to Mitt Romney - ABC News

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:13:44 -0400

Gay Veteran talks to Mitt Romney - ABC News

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