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Dozens of cancer victims settle tainted groundwater suit in Florida.
More than three dozen former factory workers have settled their multimillion-dollar five-year legal battle against Siemens Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. over trichloroethene and other toxic chemicals they allege the companies carelessly dumped into drinking water, causing them to develop cancer.
98 Advertisers Pull Ads from Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh
Saturday, March 10, 2012 Politicususa By: Jason Easley The toxic environment that right wing talk radio has created is now destroying it as Premiere Networks is circulating a list of 98 advertisers who don’t want their ads to appear on Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh. Taylor on Radio-Info had this note that Premiere Networks is circulating: To all Traffic Managers: The information below applies to yo
Is Washington so Bad at Strategy?
The always readable and insightful Robert Haddick has a post up at Foreign Policy's website that keeps the fires burning on the perennially interesting questions of strategy, policy and civil military relations. His post cites a nicely crafted piece by Mac Owens in the Spring 2012 Naval War College Review that should also be read in its entirety. I've thought long and hard about the subject
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Blast shakes restless volcano in remote Aleutian Islands
ADN Explosion likely shot ash into sky, which could affect air travel. By CASEY GROVE Anchorage Daily News Published: March 8th, 2012 11:38 PM Last Modified: March 8th, 2012 11:38 PM A restless Aleutian volcano exploded Wednesday night and may have blown off a slow-growing lava dome that was building for months in its summit crater, volcanologists say. Cleveland Volcano, 940 miles southwest of An
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Japanese Regularly Eating Food Containing Radio Nuclides Such As Cesium
By Richard Wilcox PhD Exclusiive to Rense.com 3-8-12 “Nuclear power? We don’t have a hope. These people are so far off the track they should be classified as stark raving lunatics. The population is not out on the street demanding the removal of all the lunatics? They must all be lunatics too (1).” - Tony Boys, nuclear crisis archive: http://candobetter.net/node/2603 Damnably unstable atoms have
The religious right and their traditional family of lies
From the Texas Patriots' Tea Party web site. No, of course they aren't promoting a theocracy. The phrase “traditional family values” is the sheep’s clothing of the religious right, their thinly veiled attempt to disguise their aim to remake America into a fundamentalist theocracy in which their religious beliefs and preferences are encoded into law. Which raises a few questions. The religious rig
Politics and the party of god
In my formative years, the struggle between the Democratic and Republican parties was in essence that between a Democratic party wishing a more active role for government (whether on issues like civil rights, in social programs or in even in the common pursuit of scientific or other goals – see NASA and Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon “before this decade is out”) and a Republican party
Somebody’s taking liberties, and it isn’t Obama
If Obama is re-elected, your liberty is at risk. That’s the recurring electoral mantra of the right. He’s got plans both overt and covert to turn America into some kind of Marxist state where Washington will make all your decisions for you. And, as too often is the case come election time, the ass that brays the loudest and the longest on any issue ends up owning it. Vast swaths of this nation now
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Dozens of cancer victims settle tainted groundwater suit in Florida.
More than three dozen former factory workers have settled their multimillion-dollar five-year legal battle against Siemens Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. over trichloroethene and other toxic chemicals they allege the companies carelessly dumped into drinking water, causing them to develop cancer.
98 Advertisers Pull Ads from Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh
Saturday, March 10, 2012 Politicususa By: Jason Easley The toxic environment that right wing talk radio has created is now destroying it as Premiere Networks is circulating a list of 98 advertisers who don’t want their ads to appear on Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh. Taylor on Radio-Info had this note that Premiere Networks is circulating: To all Traffic Managers: The information below applies to yo
Is Washington so Bad at Strategy?
The always readable and insightful Robert Haddick has a post up at Foreign Policy's website that keeps the fires burning on the perennially interesting questions of strategy, policy and civil military relations. His post cites a nicely crafted piece by Mac Owens in the Spring 2012 Naval War College Review that should also be read in its entirety. I've thought long and hard about the subject
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Blast shakes restless volcano in remote Aleutian Islands
ADN Explosion likely shot ash into sky, which could affect air travel. By CASEY GROVE Anchorage Daily News Published: March 8th, 2012 11:38 PM Last Modified: March 8th, 2012 11:38 PM A restless Aleutian volcano exploded Wednesday night and may have blown off a slow-growing lava dome that was building for months in its summit crater, volcanologists say. Cleveland Volcano, 940 miles southwest of An
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Japanese Regularly Eating Food Containing Radio Nuclides Such As Cesium
By Richard Wilcox PhD Exclusiive to Rense.com 3-8-12 “Nuclear power? We don’t have a hope. These people are so far off the track they should be classified as stark raving lunatics. The population is not out on the street demanding the removal of all the lunatics? They must all be lunatics too (1).” - Tony Boys, nuclear crisis archive: http://candobetter.net/node/2603 Damnably unstable atoms have
The religious right and their traditional family of lies
From the Texas Patriots' Tea Party web site. No, of course they aren't promoting a theocracy. The phrase “traditional family values” is the sheep’s clothing of the religious right, their thinly veiled attempt to disguise their aim to remake America into a fundamentalist theocracy in which their religious beliefs and preferences are encoded into law. Which raises a few questions. The religious rig
Politics and the party of god
In my formative years, the struggle between the Democratic and Republican parties was in essence that between a Democratic party wishing a more active role for government (whether on issues like civil rights, in social programs or in even in the common pursuit of scientific or other goals – see NASA and Kennedy’s promise to put a man on the moon “before this decade is out”) and a Republican party
Somebody’s taking liberties, and it isn’t Obama
If Obama is re-elected, your liberty is at risk. That’s the recurring electoral mantra of the right. He’s got plans both overt and covert to turn America into some kind of Marxist state where Washington will make all your decisions for you. And, as too often is the case come election time, the ass that brays the loudest and the longest on any issue ends up owning it. Vast swaths of this nation now
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“Guerrilla Grafters” Seek to Bear Fruit on Streets of San Francisco
Food Vigilantes Take on City Prohibition on Sidewalk Fruit Trees
A Year After Fukushima, US Nuclear Plants Still Vulnerable, Says Report
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Slow at Implementing Safety Measures to Protect Reactors Against Unprecedented Disasters
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Gas Prices: Obama Strikes Back At GOP Critics On Fuel Costs
By ANNE GEARAN 03/10/12 06:03 AM ET WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hitting back at Republican criticism of his energy policies and his role in controlling gasoline prices. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to underscore his administration’s work to develop alternative energy sources and increase fuel efficiency. “I’m going to keep doing everything I can to help y
Sarah Palin Says President Obama Wants America To Go Back To The Way It Was Before The Civil War
March 9, 2012 Addicting Info- By Stephen D. Foster Jr. During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity that President Obama wants America to be as it is was before the Civil War. This comment was part of an overall conservation about the not-so controversial “secret” Breitbart tape of a college age President Obama introducing Professor Derek Bell at a Harvard rally.
Tom Hanks Narrates Pro-Obama Film, Trailer Released
The Huffington Post | By Sam Stein Posted: 03/ 8/2012 8:50 am Updated: 03/ 8/2012 12:10 pm The Obama campaign on Thursday morning released the trailer for the 17-minute-long infomercial/biopic that it will unveil later this month. The trailer doesn’t reveal much, save that the film — directed by Davis Guggenheim of “An Inconvenient Truth” fame — is narrated by Tom Hanks and features a wide cast
Obama to Romney: Make Your Case For War With Iran Or Quit Talking About It
March 07, 2012 05:00 PM Crooks and Liars- By karoli Mitt Romney’s pathetic efforts to stain the President’s track record when it comes to foreign policy ring hollow and are actually dangerous, or could be. During his news conference yesterday, President Obama addressed Mitt Romney’s irresponsible comments about war with Iran in recent days. Here’s a sample: “Yet, the current administration has pro
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Episode 221 – Reclaiming Skepticism
Skeptics are those who advocate taking a provisional approach to all claims and carefully evaluating all the evidence before coming to a conclusion. In other words, the very process that The Corbett Report is engaged in every week, right? Well, not according to the self-professed “skeptics,” many of whom are content to skewer others for their logical fallacies yet frequently deploy logical fallaci
Corbett Report Radio 086 – Political Assassinations
With the death of Breitbart still attracting attention, it begs the question: have political assassinations happened before? The answer, unfortunately, is a resound “yes” and on tonight’s edition of Corbett Report Radio we dip into the archives for interviews and information about the mysterious “suicides” of such people as Gary Webb, the DC Madam, Terrance Yeakey and David Kelly. Works Cited: Epi
DVD, GooTube and Japanese Fireworks
James explains about the 2010 Video Archive DVD and presents a video of fireworks from Japan from 2010.
Interview 477 – Stratfor and the Future of Spying with Russ Tice
Russell Tice is a Former NSA Intelligence Analyst who helped spark a national controversy in 2005 over claims that the NSA and the DIA were engaged in unlawful and unconstitutional wiretaps on US citizens. Today he joins us on the program to discuss the Stratfor leak and what it tells us about the present and potential future of intelligence collection. We also discuss the government’s own snoopin
Corbett Report Radio 085 – Breitbart, Stratfor, and Food World Order
Tonight on the broadcast we go over the continuing, puzzling saga of Andrew Breitbart’s death, look into the Stratfor email embargo, and take your calls. In the last half of the show we’re joined by James Evan Pilato for our weekly Food World Order update. Works Cited: Breitbart’s Obama college video turns out to be a dud, sparks race debate Breitbart: “Wait ‘Til They See What Happens March 1st” B
New World Next Week – 2012/03/08
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Joseph Kony Viral Video Campaign Clouded In Controversy http://ur1.ca/8khpo ‘Get Kony’ Goes Viral: Questions Raised About Charity’s Social Media Blitz http://ur1.ca/8khpq Joseph Kony Is Not In Uga
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The Negro Pseudo-intellectual and Social Media Activism
“That Kony2012 video is one of the most effective pro-imperialism, pro-militarism pieces of propaganda ever produced.” Anson Asaka “It’s a sad commentary on affairs when white people are the ones constantly and consistently advocating for the safety and security of African children and all “Negroes” can do is criticize their efforts. Instead of having and sprouting pseudo-intellectual and hyper-m
Byts and Bytes
Blogtalkradio: The Promotion of Homosexuality in Africa Farm life of African family in Russia is “beyond bad dream” The Great African Scandal Kiva: Loans that change lives
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Bits and Pieces - March 10, 2012
Seeds from plants that survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb will be planted in the Irkutsk University Botanical Garden. Keep us posted on their progress, Viktor Kuzevanov!I'm wondering, as does Frank Munger, whether these atom-bomb shelters were intended for short-term use only. I was in the Silmet plant's shelter in Estonia, and it was quite spacious, with rollaway cots, ventilators that could be h
Bits and Pieces - International Women's Day Edition
We don't make much of International Women's Day here in America, and from the last barrage of invective, legislation intended to humiliate women, and defunding of women's health services, it's easy to see why. Maybe when we all give up our shoes and independent voices and don the veil, our men will deign to celebrate our proper behavior.Which is unfair to those men who haven't joined the Republica
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There Will Be Paranoia
Lengthy screeds featuring the dangers and hypocrisy of the New Right are common fare in progressive publications. Although I tend to agree with the screeds, I find them tiresome and sometimes counterproductive. By bestowing so much attention on the haters who have formed the Tea Party movement and largely co-opted the Republican Party, the authors of the screeds flatter those who would oppress t
A Welcome Return to Basic Standards
During his long career as the most famous talk radio host in modern history, Rush Limbaugh has only rarely apologized for his rhetoric--so when he does, it's worth pondering the contrition's deeper meaning. Was his apology last week for calling a Georgetown University student a "slut" just a shrewd move to undercut a potential defamation lawsuit? Was it a frightened response to an intensifying bac
What Rush Has Wrought
On February 29, Rush Limbaugh said something sexist, and feminists were outraged. This time, unlike the last few thousand times this has happened, he actually paid a price for it. Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke have been endlessly cycled and recycled throughout the Internet: He called her a "slut" and a "prostitute," alleged that she was "having so much sex she can't afford her own birth
The Second Coming of El Papa to Cuba
On March 26, Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in Cuba for a two-day whirlwind of religious ceremonies and meetings with the Castro brothers and other political leaders. Fourteen years will have elapsed since John Paul II became the first pope to visit the country in 1998. Yet Benedict's visit will have a very different meaning than John Paul's. Then, the Cuban Catholic hierarchy was in the initial st
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A reappraisal of the Power of Nightmares.
Not to keep banging on about Adam Curtis or anything, but it's about time that the Power of Nightmares was reappraised. Broadcast on BBC2 in 2004, it was broadly welcomed (as his films in general are) on the left and criticised by the right. As set out in his introduction to the first film, his thesis was that the threat posed by al-Qaida had been massively exaggerated by both politicians and th
Lying about Afghanistan.
Politics and lies go hand in hand, always have, always will. On rare occasions we are lied to for "good" reasons, with the media voluntarily going along with it: see the role of the D-Notice committee. More often the lies are simply to avoid embarrassment, such as David Cameron (or his office) denying that he had ever gone horse riding with Rebekah Brooks as was claimed by Peter Oborne, only for
Wading knee-deep through the jihadist media sewer.
I don't pay anywhere near as much attention as I once did to jihadist media. This is for a number of reasons: English sources for it have almost completely dried up, with the main site I used to find it on long gone; the insurgency in Iraq, similarly, essentially no longer exists, and so the insight the propaganda of the groups there provided into how the occupation was going and into jihadist st
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Central America Looks to Sustainable Development
Central America, a narrow tropical isthmus flanked by the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, suffered 259 extreme weather-related events between 1930 and 2009, while the cumulative effects of innumerable smaller-scale events have not even been recorded.
Rio+20 Summit: A Moment That Must Be Seized
The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe.
Caribbean Looks Ahead to Stave Off Fresh Water Scarcity
Two years after a severe drought wreaked havoc with a number of Caribbean countries, some are now adopting new strategies in a bid to prevent a repeat of a situation where countries were rationing water and imposing strict restrictions on residents.
PHILIPPINES: Women Weather Climate Change
As the world commemorates International Women's Day today, women around the globe are speaking out on various issues that affect them. In light of recent natural disasters and calamities in the Philippines, women are increasingly citing climate change as one of their most pressing concerns.
Mesoamerican Coral Reef on the Way to Becoming a Marine Desert
Scientific studies show that global warming is causing irreversible damage to the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the world's second largest coral reef, yet efforts to protect this biologically and economically vital ecosystem remain insufficient.
Green Economy Seeks to Maintain Growth Threatened by Disasters
There is every indication that major disasters could be the new midwives of history. Seeking to prevent them, the green economy aims to reduce "environmental risks" and "ecological scarcities" while improving human well-being and social equity.
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WWF proposes China-Africa cooperation for green economy
Beijing – Africa and China can work together towards the common goal of sustainable development, says WWF, the global conservation organization. The upcoming China-Africa Ministerial Conference, in July 2012, presents a key opportunity to make China’s trade and capital flows a driving force for global footprint reduction and green growth in Africa a possible future. Ahead of the Conference, WWF
Poland’s coal addiction chokes EU climate policy
Brussels - Earlier today Poland blocked the Environment Council from recognising a Commission analysis indicating the necessary low-cost milestones for achieving the already-agreed level of 80% greenhouse gas reductions in 2050. If passed it would have supported rescuing the ailing emissions trading system. Jason Anderson, Head of EU climate policy at WWF said: “This is the time for European l
International Women’S Day Feature
Sabita’s Journey with WWF-Nepal Sabita Malla, 27 years of age, is WWF-Nepal’s Senior Research Officer. With a Master’s Degree in Wildlife Sciences from Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun, Sabita has made significant strides as a young female conservationist. Her professional career started with WWF-Nepal in 2010 as Research Officer for the Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) Program; she was promoted
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Syrian Pound at 90 per Dollar as Government Intervenes
The Central Bank has managed to bring the Syrian pound back down into a manageable trading range. It had plunged to an exchange rate over 100 pounds to a dollar. It is now below 100 to a dollar. How did it do this? Reports are that the central bank sold only 2 million dollars. Yes, only 2 million dollars in order to calm the market. One friend reported paying 113 pounds for a dollar in Aleppo on W
Sunni Deputy Minister Defects; Panetta Pushes back against US Involvement
Syrian deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameddin announced his resignation from the Syrian government in a YouTube video, becoming the highest-ranking civilian official to join the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Hussameddin had worked for the Syrian government for 33 years, and had served as deputy oil minister since August 2009. “I am joining the revolution of the people who reject injustic
“Syria’s Currency Plunges, Raising Fears of Economic Chaos and Poverty,” by Joshua Landis
The exchange rate of the Syrian Pound has reportedly plunged to the 103 range against the dollar at mid-day Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 in Damascus. This is a loss of over 50% since the beginning of the uprising. Over the last month, the pound has begun to weaken significantly which has received little attention. The 100 mark is an important psychological barrier. Syrian businessmen are taking larg
Is Aleppo Slipping out of Government Control?
A friend from Aleppo wrote me over the weekend that he believes that the northern suburbs of Aleppo are falling out of government control. In particular, the poorer towns of Azaz, Hreitan, and Anadan, which are on the road to Turkey, have been taken over by opposition groups. On February 27, a number of local residents were killed by the military, setting off protests and violent confrontations wi
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your lagniappe Friday open thread
by liberal japonicus Lagniappe is a fun word from New Orleans, which originally meant something that the merchant would throw in as an extra. Mark Twain says in the New Orleans chapter of Life on the Mississippi that We picked up one excellent word -- a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word -- "lagniappe." They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is
Is not teaching about rape pedagogical malpractice?
by Doctor Science Khiara Bridges teaches Criminal Law at Boston University. She says:This week, I began teaching the unit on sexual assault to my Criminal Law class. I – untenured, female, and in my second year of teaching – walked into my classroom and wrote “carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will” on the chalkboard, thus beginning a two week exploration of the law of rape. Am
The heart of a saint open thread for Monday
by liberal japonicus A start of the week open thread. If you aren't interested in cutting up nations into smaller geographic chunks, let's talk about carving up saints into smaller, more mobile bits. The Guardian opens up with this poetic line: Irish police are hunting for a thief who stole the heart of a saint. No, really. The burglar sneaked into Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin on
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Ousted Bronx Principal Asks Racists to Support his Libel Suit
Frank Borzellieri is making a “desperate appeal” to supporters of the academic racist group American Renaissance to back his legal defense fund. Borzellieri was fired last August from his post as principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in the Bronx after his connection to American Renaissance and his racist views were made public [...]
New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movement Explodes
The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups grew at an astounding pace last year, as it has in all three years of the Obama presidency, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) annual count of extremist groups, released today. The number of these groups rose from 824 in 2010 to 1,274 last year. This dramatic expansion [...]
Nativist Lawyer Kris Kobach Plays Dumb About His Employer’s Racism
Anti-immigrant law drafter extraordinaire Kris Kobach continues to play dumb about the racist organization bankrolling his efforts, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and its founder John Tanton. In a piece published by Salon yesterday, Kobach, who is also the Kansas secretary of state, was quoted claiming that he is “not familiar with [Tanton’s] [...]
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Science Fiction and the Probe
Physicist Al Jackson, who is the world’s greatest dinner companion, holds that title because amongst his scientific accomplishments, he is also a fountainhead of information about science fiction. No matter which writer you bring up, he knows something you never heard of that illuminates that writer’s work. So it was no surprise that when the subject of self-replicating probes came up in these pag
Intelligent Probes: The Spread-Spectrum Challenge
Let’s imagine for a moment that John Mathews (Pennsylvania State University) is right in theorizing that space-faring civilizations will use self-reproducing probes to expand into the galaxy. We’ve been kicking the issues around most of this week, but the SETI question continues to hang in the background. For if there really are extraterrestrial civilizations in the nearby galaxy, how would we tra
SETI and Self-Reproducing Probes
It was back in the 1980s when Robert Freitas came up with a self-reproducing probe concept based on the British Interplanetary Society’s Project Daedalus, but extending it in completely new directions. Like Daedalus, Freitas’ REPRO probe would be fusion-based and would mine the atmosphere of Jupiter to acquire the necessary helium-3. Unlike Daedalus, REPRO would devote half its payload to what Fre
Robotic Networks Among the Stars
Imagine a future in which we manage to reach average speeds in the area of one percent of the speed of light. That would make for a 437-year one-way trip to the Alpha Centauri system, too long for anything manned other than generation ships or missions with crews in some kind of suspended animation. Although 0.01c is well beyond our current capabilities, there is absolutely nothing in the laws of
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Nigeria
I was going to entitle this blog post “The Trouble With Nigeria”, but that would require a book not a blog. Probably several volumes. I spent four years of my life in Nigeria, and one reason I seldom blog about it is that I do not wish to upset my many Nigerian friends, who tend to find my views unpalatable (and it is their country, not mine). It is only in recent years that I have come to the vi
NHS Privatisation
An excellent posting here on the “lawmakers” who stand to make money out of turning over the NHS to private profit. Is it fair to call this privatisation? The NHS will continue to be funded by taxpayers, but the primary motivation of those supplying the medical services will no longer be care or public service but private shareholder or partner profit, and the percentage of the taxpayers’ money
Pointless Death
There is something extraordinarily pointless about the death of six British soldiers today at the fag end of a war which we have lost, the purpose of which is long since vanished. Of course Afghans die daily in this war, which is not meaningless for most of them as it involves ridding their country of an extremely unwelcome and alien occupying force. Each death is a tragedy, but we can be forgiv
Heartsick
Sometimes the horror of the abuse of power in the world just seems to close in, and I want to run away from the toil of blogging against it. To rage against the dying of the light is indeed noble; but also energy-sapping, and the light dies anyway. Where do I begin? Not content with giving over the entire NHS budget to be plundered for private profit, the police service is now being privatised.
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China puts the brakes on GE rice
A raging public controversy over genetically engineered (GE) rice in China captured media attention in recent months, and has culminated in a surprising win. A few weeks ago, the country’s State Council released a new Draft Food Law1 that, if passed, would protect the genetic resources of China’s food crops and restrict the application of GE technology in its main food crops. This is significa
GMO labeling momentum builds
The call for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods continues to grow louder. The Just Label It campaign — with more than 500 partner organizations — is well on its way to collecting one million comments urging the Food and Drug Adminstration to mandate GE (or GMO) labeling. Members of Congress are joining the groundswell of concerned citizens by signing onto a bicameral letter to FDA s
French scientists say fewer pesticides needed
A new study by French scientists demonstrates that pesticide use can be dramatically reduced — maybe even by half — without impacting crop yields or farm income. And the French government is acting on the findings, pledging to cut chemical inputs in the country's agricultural fields in half by 2018. Why not, if it means spending less while maintaining yields and reducing risks of exposure
Connecticut's 'pesticide-free schools' under attack
In 2005, Connecticut passed a landmark law prohibiting the use of hazardous pesticides in schools. And ever since, the state has been successfully ensuring that children are exposed to fewer chemicals where they learn, play and grow. Now this historic program is under attack.
A proposed state law — supported by the pesticide industry — would reverse Connecticut’s strong stance on keeping sch
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Edinburgh Council Threatens Arts
Last Thursday, along with my Pirate Party colleague Stephen Bathgate, I went to a public meeting about change to public entertainment licences and how they will affect the arts. Currently, while large arts events have had to be licenced, small ones do not. The change is due to legislation by the Scottish government, which give local government the power (but not, in my opinion the obligation) to l
Edinburgh Pirate meeting, Saturday 10 Mar at 3:30 pm
There will be a Pirate Party meeting in Edinburgh, this Saturday (10-Mar-2012) starting at 3:30pm. The venue is the Cameo Bar, 38 Home St, EH3 9LZ (map) Anyone wishing to be involved in the Edinburgh local election this May should attend, as should anyone interesting in joining the party, or just curious about who we are and what we stand for. I will be there as will our candidate in Southside/New
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An #M5 Occupy Education Report
UPDATE 4: In relation to my post last Thursday, I haven't been able to find any posts or dairies at firedoglake about the Occupy Education actions that took place in California and New York yesterday. The total number of occupiers arrested in Sacramento yesterday was 76.UPDATE 3: 72 arrests reported at the state capital last night after the capital building closed at 6pm. Prior the arrests, stude
Goodbye, Dennis the Menace
Kucinich, out of Congress after being redistricted into a tough primary fight with Marcy Kaptur that he lost. Good riddance, although Russell Simmons is no doubt heartbroken. It is tempting to say that he was thrown onto the trash heap of political has-beens despite providing a progressive fig leak for the neoliberal policies of Obama and Pelosi when the Democrats controlled Congress during the 2
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