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  • Honduras Coup, Act VI, Day 6

    (The photo by elkrasture at Chiapas Indymedia is from the area around the Honduran Legislature. Graffiti say things like “Pig Plaza” and “Congresspuppets”. The caption of the relief engraving says, “Because Liberty has recovered Dominion of the Earth, 16 July 1841) The archive of the OAS meeting, via HondurasOye Luis Albor: The tiny [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:20pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Climate Change Deniers Funded By Exxon-Mobil

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    In news that will surprise absolutely no one who’s been paying attention, the “ClimateGate” people have been found to have extensive ties to Exxon-Mobil: The story details the nexus between the NIPCC, the Heartland Institute (recipient of $676,500 from Exxon-Mobil over the last 10 years), the Cato Institute ($125,000 from Exxon-Mobil [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:18pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act VI, Day 5

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    Update. Via Orlando Sánchez at Narconews, a link to an article by William Finnegan in The New Yorker: With the decision last night by the Honduran Congress not to reinstate President Manuel Zelaya, who was overthrown in a military coup on June 28th, to office, the humiliation of the Obama Administration was [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:52pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Friday Cat Blogging

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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 2:00am EST
    by MEC

  • “Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!”

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    There are days when only Wolfgang Pauli will do: – The Dallas Morning News takes a sledgehammer to the crumbling remnants of the Chinese wall between advertising and news. Gag. – Ben Bernanke wants to rob Social Security and Medicare for the same reason Willie Sutton wanted to rob banks: Because that’s [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:17pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act VI, Day 4

    Update 3: (Via RAJ) Now the regime is arresting poets and their kiddies. TeleSur reports that Rebecca Becerra was nabbed, and her eight year old daughter also taken, on the allegation that she took a document from the Ministry of Culture. Becerra has accused the Pretend Minister of Culture, Myrna [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 11:20pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Hagedorn: “The Only Good Indian Is A Dead Indian”

    You know, if the state and national Republicans really want to take back Minnesota’s First Congressional District from Tim Walz, they’re going to have to deal with the Clown Car Syndrome that has afflicted their candidates over the last few election cycles. First, they assumed that nobody would really be able [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:19pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act VI, Day 3

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    Update: Channel 36: The Supreme Court has recognized that there are charges against Zelaya, but that there are also “amparos de recurso” (petitions for stay) pending. So, they say restitution is an act for the Congress [this is correct]. The Public Minister argues that actually it’s a judicial issue. The Minister [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:39pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Drawing up a “living will” (if you’re a multibillion institution)

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    Patrick Jenkins and Paul J Davies of the Financial Times report that 24 shadow banks (including 5 American) and 6 insurers (none American) are on the watchlist for systemic risk. The regulators are asking them to prepare a “recovery and resolution plan” which is being dubbed a “living will.” Note [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:35pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 41

    Still mostly offline today. Update3: Now we have an explanation from Tiempo for why the TSE said that abstention was only 40%, while the exit polling firm said it was at least 52%: the TSE decided to elminate from its count all kinds of people. But this also suggests that the [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:29am EST
    by Charles II

  • Huckabee’s Hypocritical Pardon Patterns

    One thing that the right-wingers and their media allies lining up to take potshots at Mike Huckabee’s pardoning the guy who would go on to kill four cops in a coffee shop somehow neglect to discuss is the full story behind Wayne Dumond’s pardon — and the role of conservatives [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:33am EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act VI, Day 1

    Act I: The evil chancellor deposes the rightful ruler of Platania, Commander Cowboy Act II: The rightful ruler seeks refuge with the Empire of Justness and Freedom and Apple Pie with Whipped Cream and a Cherry. Reassured that “We’re right behind you,” he attempts to return to Platania, but is rebuffed. Act [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:16pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Stick A Fork In Mike Huckabee

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    He’s done: Washington authorities are seeking Maurice Clemmons, 37, for questioning in the slaying of four Washington police officers. Clemmons is wanted in Arkansas, where he has an extensive criminal record… My source says the man wanted for questioning is believed to be the same Maurice Clemmons as an Arkansas ex-con with [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:45pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 40

    Update2: Since the election is irrelevant, the spin adopted by the Western media is probably what matters. It looks to me as if they will ignore the police riot in San Pedro Sula and other examples of human rights violations. They’re ignoring turnout so far. For what it’s worth, Scoop [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:17am EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 39

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    (Image from Honduras Resists via HondurasOye) _________________________________________________________________________________ Update: I missed this. Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle has a piece, The joke and the jokers: Old Hawk Diplomacy and Multilateralism, in which he speaks frankly. He calls out the game that the US has played: Someone has to say it to the American people. The people [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:19pm EST
    by Charles II

  • This is where Republicans get their news

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    (From Barry Ritholtz, The Big Picture) [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:55pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 38

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    A very telling photo that Brother John brought to attention: (Image is from Wall Street Journal. Notice the woman’s heavily bruised leg ).   _________________________________________________________________________________________ Update2: RadioGlobo is now off the air, as is Channel 36. Tracy Wilkinson has a good article in the LAT (via HondurasCoup2009) Amnesty reports that: Luis Galdámez, a male journalist [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:54pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Friday Cat Blogging

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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:00am EST
    by MEC

  • The strange fruit of the Bush presidency

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    Robert Koehler, SC: In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children. This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in two military assaults in 2004, have begun [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:50pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 37,

    Number of comments: 2
    Update: Honduras Resists: 7am – Thurs 11/26 – University students have taken over the National Autonomous University and reached an agreement with the rector for there to be no more classes. The University was to be a center for voting and is now under control of the Resistance. _______________________________________________________________________ In my long [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:41pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 36

    Update. The pooch has been well and truly screwed. Reuters: Honduras’ Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that ousted President Manuel Zelaya cannot legally return to office, dimming the possibility of his reinstatement after a June coup, court sources said. _________________________________ There are now two parts of my work on Honduras up at Daily [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:37pm EST
    by Charles II

  • While The GOP/Media Idiots Were Babbling About Bowing…

    Number of comments: 6
    While the GOP/Media clowns were babbling about bowing, US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao were hammering out a climate-change deal in advance of the great Copenhagen climate summit. Because of this deal, President Obama is now able to go to Copenhagen with the following good news: The news that [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:17pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 35

    Number of comments: 4
    We’re live on Kos. Please recommend the diary. ________________________________________ Update: Al Giordano has a new post. Here’s an excerpt: Decree PCM-M-029-2009 “Due to growing internal threats,” the Armed Forces will be deployed, in support of the National Police, to guard polling places, the custody and transport of ballots (before and after they are utilized [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:56am EST
    by Charles II

  • Dean Baker Makes Sense

    Which is why you won’t see anything like this on your evening TV news anytime soon. [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:50am EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 34

    Update3: Radio Globo is available from http://www.radioglobohonduras.com/ The libreexpresion.tk link is dead, though. Music now. ________________________________________________________ Update2: Zelaya wrote a letter to fellow heads of state, whose translation is at Narconews. An excerpt: Appealing to maintain your firmness in the execution of the resolutions passed by the OAS and the UN and not [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:16am EST
    by Charles II

  • How To Stop A Massacre Before It Starts: Honduras Edition

    Number of comments: 4
    Charles notes a report by Narco News’ Tamar Sharabi that Andres Pavon, the head of CODEH, the Committee for Human Rights in Honduras and a key figure among those backing the lawfully-elected government and resisting the tyranny of the Micheletti coup, has been charged by the coup régime with “defamation [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:47am EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 33

    Number of comments: 10
    Update: Tamar Sharabi at Narconews has an update on the repression. Mostly more of the same, but Andres Pavon has been charged with “impeding the election” for daring to state that the coup planned to stage a mass murder and blame the resistance. Brother John has a nice piece. Excerpts: Last [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:15pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 32

    Luis Galdames at the Brazilian embassy, on Radio Globo: “Put on the bells.” They are hunting the leaders of the resistance and at ca. 8:40PM Eastern have captured two: Freddy Sanchez and Carlos Guzman in El Paraiso. Also Francisco Batres, a Spaniard of 20 years residence, has been expelled. Lisa [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:56pm EST
    by Charles II

  • While the teabagggers fiddle…

    Number of comments: 4
    While the far right disrupts America’s attempts to right itself by coming up with bizarre (and rather obviously fraudulent) attacks on Obama, the real story of America’s decline is more pedestrian: Via Paul Kedrosky, a scary piece by Paul Mason of the BBC on the role of rare earths such [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:22pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 31

    If you hadn’t guessed, more light blogging. According to EFE, quoting Esdras Amado Lopez, Channel 36 is off the air (via RNS at HondurasCoup2009). Lopez says the regime is jamming them by broadcasting porn and cowboy flicks over their signal. The State Department redefines that technical term in statecraft, “stupid;” QUESTION: [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:43pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Friday Cat Blogging

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:00am EST
    by MEC

  • Deep thought of the day

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    Elizabeth Warren says she prefers Coors Light to iced tea. Iced tea will get you drunk quicker. The linked article is worth reading. Warren is the one person of the Obama team I outright like. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:35pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 30

    Free and Fair Elections, State Department Style From Quotha. Light posting today. Channel 36: Micheletti takes a vacation from Nov. 25-Dec. 2 in the hope that this will legitimize the election. [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:44pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Guess What? Kyoto Works.

    Number of comments: 1
    It’s doing what it was designed to do –cut carbon emissions rather dramatically: According to new data from the European Environment Agency (EEA), all of the EU-15 members except Austria are now on track to exceed their Kyoto obligations. In fact, the group as a whole will likely slash emissions [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:31pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Way to go, A.C.E.: NOLA Plaintiffs Win Katrina Case

    Number of comments: 1
    Mark Schleifstein, New Orleans Times-Picayune In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers’ mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina. “The failure of the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:01pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Deep thought for the day

    “Is there really such a thing as cat addiction…?” –Deborah Huso, writing on AOL Health [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:58pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras, Act V, Day 29

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    Light posting. Tiempo doesn’t have a statement about why it was down, so I’ll assume it was software rather than goonware. I can’t get Channel 36, and Radio Globo has been dicey. Adrienne has two must read articles: A letter, transmitted by Jan Schakowsky to Barack Obama, from 300 Honduran [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:50pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Wednesday Morning News Roundup

    Number of comments: 3
    – Obama’s plans for Afghanistan include an “end game”. In other words, it sounds like he’s not buying the arguments of McChrystal or McChrystal’s Australian guru, Dr. David Kilcullen, that we need to stay in Afghanistan for fifty or a hundred years. – Frank Schaeffer discusses with Rachel Maddow how all [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:28am EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 28

    Number of comments: 2
    Tiempo remains down. Channel 36 is back, and Radio Globo remains up. [Later: Tiempo back up, but editorial section has vanished.] According to Vos el Soberano, Father Tamayo has left the Brazilian embassy in the company of the Salvadoran ambassador, desiring to go to El Salvador. In violation of international [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:28am EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 27

    Update: Tiempo is down. This is highly abnormal and I would guess probably represents coup suppression of the media. Cholusatsur went down (12:20 PM Eastern) and is still down at 12:40 PM. Radio Globo is up, but is broadcasting music. The Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubí will pursue anyone who [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:08pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Death can’t take a holiday

    Eli has de mostest of de bestest here. [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:54pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 26

    Number of comments: 4
    Update: In Tiempo, Micheletti proposes the theory that Venezuelans are flocking to Honduras to boycott the election. He (and the rest of the coup) just gets crazier. _________________________________________ TeleSur: The OAS InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights regards the restitution to power of the constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya as a non-negotiable point, [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:39pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 25

    Number of comments: 5
    Update2: An English language version of Andres Pavon’s allegations is available at Adrienne’s. There are three basic allegations: the coup is compiling hit lists, people are being murdered by the regime (police units COECO and DNIC and the army units Tesone and Battalion 14 +5) and the murders not properly reported [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:44pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 24

    Number of comments: 7
    RNS at HondurasCoup2009: “The commission of electoral crimes denounced Padre Andrés Tamayo and Zelaya advisor Rasel Tomé as criminals for having committed the crime of calling on the Honduran electorate to boycott the November 29 elections.” This is actually one of the most important stories of recent days: the criminalization [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:04pm EST
    by Charles II

  • This Is What Decency Looks Like

    Number of comments: 6
    Ten-year-old Will Phillips, in the West Fork School District in Washington County, Arkansas, did something very brave recently: There’s a 10-year-old lad, a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary, who decided he wasn’t going to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school anymore because there was no liberty or justice for all [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:56pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman

  • The financial crisis

    Number of comments: 2
    Christian Menegatti and Elisa Parisi-Capone have a very important article at RGE Monitor, which I’m unfortunately unable to share in any detail. However, the basic ideas have been discussed extensively in other fora. First, an alarmingly high number of banks are “zombies,” kept in business only through the bailout. (Via Naked [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:02pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Friday Cat Blogging

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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:00am EST
    by MEC

  • Honduras Coup, Act V, Day 23

    Number of comments: 6
    Someone did a translation of a piece by Juan Almendares, which is posted at Adrienne’s. RAJ posted a rebuttal to a comment made in a piece in The New York Times : At this point, the options are diminishing, said Shelley A. McConnell, an assistant professor of government at St. Lawrence [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:04pm EST
    by Charles II

  • A wonderful example of American Stalinist Art by Jon McNaughton

    Number of comments: 4
    Received from a friend: This is an incredible painting by Jon McNaughton. This painting represents McNaughton’s response to criticism of “One Nation Under God.” Read the explanation below the painting and then view the painting. You can move the mouse over any person and the right side of the screen gives a description [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:29pm EST
    by Charles II

  • Things You Don’t See Much In US Media

    A man in Germany murdered a pregnant woman in open court in front of her husband, who was himself stabbed and shot at by apparent accident when he tried to save his wife. Why was she attacked? Because she wore an Islamic headscarf. That reminds me: News accounts keep saying that [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:46pm EST
    by Phoenix Woman
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