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Hannity falsely claims Abdulmutallab was not interrogated

Hannity falsely claims Abdulmutallab was not interrogated

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001220052

Sean Hannity falsely claimed that alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was not interrogated, stating, "we have an underwear bomber that has information, that wanted to kill 300 Americans and we don't interrogate the guy and we let him lawyer-up." In fact, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the… Continue

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Hopeless: Fox News stands virtually alone in not airing Haiti benefit concert

Hopeless: Fox News stands virtually alone in not airing Haiti benefit concert

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001220051

On January 22, a wide variety of broadcast, cable, radio, and internet outlets, including CNN and MSNBC, preempted their regularly scheduled prime-time programming and aired Hope for Haiti Now, a benefit concert and telethon to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. But even after receiving criticism… Continue

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Jimmy Page Announces Free Concert, Wins U.N. Peace Award, Plots Solo Tour

Jimmy Page Announces Free Concert, Wins U.N. Peace Award, Plots Solo Tour
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is making news in a big way, and for once it's not because of unsubstantiated rumors about Zeppelin staging a reunion tour. Read More ...

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/jimmy-page-0118/

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WSJ latest to spread falsehoods about Abdulmutallab arrest to claim Obama's terrorism policy is "dangerous"

WSJ latest to spread falsehoods about Abdulmutallab arrest to claim Obama's terrorism policy is "dangerous"

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001220043

Accusing President Obama of "dangerous folly," The Wall Street Journal falsely claimed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, "told the Senate that by immediately handing [alleged Christmas Day attacker Umar Farouk] Abdulmutallab to the civilian justice system,… Continue

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Media conservatives accuse Obama of "raping," declaring "war" on banks by proposing regulatory reform

Media conservatives accuse Obama of "raping," declaring "war" on banks by proposing regulatory reform

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001220035

After President Obama proposed regulatory reform over the financial services industry in order to avoid "operating under the same rules that led to its near collapse," media conservatives have stated that Obama is "bash[ing]" or engaged in a "war" on banks. Rush Limbaugh stated… Continue

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Meet Obama's Eco-Warrior

The Eco-Warrior

President Obama has appointed the most progressive EPA chief in history — and she's moving swiftly to clean up the mess left by Bush

TIM DICKINSONPosted Jan 20, 2010 11:30 AM

When it comes to passing major legislation — reforming health care, reining in Wall Street, curbing climate change — the Obama administration is under fire from all sides for bowing to special interests and conducting government business behind closed doors. But there's one agency… Continue

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News Corp.'s support for combating climate change undermined by deniers at Fox News, WSJ

News Corp.'s support for combating climate change undermined by deniers at Fox News, WSJ

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001220027

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has stated that News Corp. "can set an example" and "reach our audiences" when it comes to fighting climate change, promising in 2007 to make all of News Corp.'s operations carbon neutral by 2010 and most recently commissioning pollster Frank Luntz to conduct a… Continue

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Beck's "shocking" and "disturbing" documentary caps month of suggesting progressives are prone to violence

Beck's "shocking" and "disturbing" documentary caps month of suggesting progressives are prone to violence

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001220026

In recent weeks Glenn Beck has promoted a documentary special titled "Revolutionary Holocaust" that he says shows "really disturbing and shocking stuff," purportedly to show "the dirty little secret" that progressives helped cause "some of the most horrifying outcomes in… Continue

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THE SUPREME COURT ABOLISHES DEMOCRACY?!?

THE SUPREME COURT ABOLISHES DEMOCRACY?!?

Last September, I wrote The Hightower Lowdown about how the Roberts' Court could throw out over 100 years of campaign finance law.

Remember their names: Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas.

Yesterday, from within the dark isolation of the Supreme Court, these five men pulled off a black-robed coup against the American people's democratic authority. In an unprecedented perversion of judicial power, this court cabal… Continue

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Austin unemployment rate holds at 6.9 percent

Austin unemployment rate holds at 6.9 percent

Area lost a net 2,300 jobs from December 2008 to last month, with the biggest cuts coming in manufacturing.…

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Tim Geithner's Wrong Again: We Need A Breakup

Tim Geithner's Wrong Again: We Need A Breakup

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on PBS late Thursday said that President Obama doesn't really want to break up the banks. But one of the authors of a report that looks at the impact of increased consolidation in the banking sector says that Geithner's resistance to breaking up the banks is wrong.…

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Justice Dept. fails to deliver justice at Guantanamo

Justice Dept. fails to deliver justice at Guantanamo

Late last night - on the eve of the date President Obama promised to restore justice to a busted Guantanamo detention system - a Justice Department-led task force released its outrageous recommendation to continue holding nearly 50 Guantanamo detainees indefinitely.1 We're stunned that the Department of Justice would act in such flagrant and direct violation of civil liberties, human rights, and a Supreme Court ruling in 2008 that… Continue

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 23, 2010 at 4:19pm — No Comments

Final Notice--Payment Past Due

Final Notice--Payment Past Due

Wall Street banks threw our economy into crisis. Bailing them out cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Now, with unemployment at 10 percent, those same Wall Street banks are planning to give six- and even seven-figure bonuses to the executives who created this mess.

It's time to say enough, and send the banks a final notice. Payment is past due on the harm they've done to the economy. Payment is past due on all the ways they've… Continue

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 23, 2010 at 4:10pm — No Comments

MLK's FBI Files May Soon See Daylight

MLK's FBI Files May Soon See Daylight

Talal Al-Khatib

By Talal Al-Khatib | Fri Jan 15, 2010 06:55 PM ET

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On Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, the United States will commemorate the achievements of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr.

While today we look at King with great respect and admiration, any student of history will know that this wasn't always the case.

King's efforts to end racial discrimination were seen as a threat by… Continue

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 18, 2010 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Inside Sarah Palin's brain

Inside Sarah Palin's brain

I've peeked at "Game Change," the new anonymous quotefest on the '08 presidential campaign by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Do I have to read the whole thing? I know it has saucy bits that we're supposed to gobble up, but some of them (like the dysfunction and discord within the John Edwards campaign) just make me wince.

Also, parts of it are maddening. John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin may have been a bold stroke that narrowed what… Continue

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And I Love Her

And I Love Her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aChUwN5LBao

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 11, 2010 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Superfly Productions and the Bonnaroo Festival | Fast Company

Superfly Productions and the Bonnaroo Festival | Fast Company
Sep 26, 2009 ... Superfly is (left to right): Rick Farman, Rich Goodstone, Jonathan Mayers, and Kerry Black, seen here on the roof of the Red Square building ...

www.fastcompany.com/magazine/105/superfly.html

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Michael Jackson & The Jacksons 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001) [part2]

Michael Jackson & The Jacksons 30th Anniversary Celebration (2001) [part2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjKhySx-YDM…

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Hidden agenda

Hidden agenda

ISN'T it great that David Limbaugh is psychic and can inform the public as to the motive behind everything the president does? I think it is high time Mr. Limbaugh gives widespread credibility to my little noticed thesis by publicly backing my view that the president is intensely promoting his Marxist-Leninist agenda when seemingly engaged in a harmless game of pickup basketball. For example, a presidential three-pointer is really a metaphor for peace, land and bread,… Continue

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Kansas Mudwrestling in Republican Swampland ... 'the letterhead affairs.'

Kansas Mudwrestling in Republican Swampland ... 'the letterhead affairs.'

Political wedgies for fuddie duddies with letters ...

Neighboring Leavenworth, Ks. has numerous conservative citizens experiencing an unusual wave of political wedgies, quite a number of fuddie-duddies in the population and on the City Commission had their underwear pulled up from behind by the Kansas Attorney General's office after the high office members of the most imprisoned population of the state,… Continue

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