Dan Siegel: Totally futile to try shutting down ‘Occupy’ protests | The Rachel Maddow Show

14 Nov 2011 | Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s legal adviser and longtime friend, Dan Siegel, explained to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday night why he decided to resign his post.

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Get ready for a passionless presidential race

Robert Reich | 14 Nov 2011

At this point neither the Republican right nor the mainstream media wants to admit the yawn-inducing truth that Mitt will be the GOP’s candidate. The right doesn’t want to admit it because it will be seen as a repudiation of the Tea Party. The media doesn’t want to because they’d prefer to sell newspapers and attract eyeballs.

The media are keeping the story of Rick Perry’s cringe-inducing implosion going for the same reason they’re keeping the story of Herman Cain’s equally painful decline going — because the public is forever fascinated by the gruesome sight of dying candidacies. With Bachmann, Perry, and Cain gone or disintegrating, the right wing-nuts of the GOP have only one hope left: Newt Gingrich. His star will rise briefly before he, too, is pilloried for the bizarre things he’s uttered in the past and for his equally bizarre private life. His fall will be equally sudden (although I don’t think Gingrich is capable of embarrassment).

And so we’ll be left with two presidential candidates who don’t inspire — at the very time in American history when Americans crave inspiration.

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Van Jones on Occupy Wall Street | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

9 Nov 2011 | Van Jones, co-founder and president of Rebuild the Dream, discusses the connection the Occupy movement is making with more Americans around specific issues. Referring to the continued resistance by Republicans to the desire by a growing percentage of the public that government intervene in the country’s wealth disparity, Jones says to them, “Please just keep saying you want America’s government to be AWOL in the biggest crisis to hit us since the Great Depression.”

Berkeley police beating Cal students before retreating

Mike Tyson impersonates Herman Cain in spoof campaign commercial

"The Tea Party loves crazy more than they hate black."

Rural farmers unite to feed Wall Street protestors

How rural farmers, an unemployed chef and a protestor named Heather are getting 1,000 dinners served at Occupy Wall Street every night.



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New documentary highlights Koch Brothers' influence on American politics

New documentary by Al Jazeera's Bob Abeshouse on the Kochtopus.

Paul Krugman: Here comes the sun

PAUL KRUGMAN | New York Times
6 Nov 2011

For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it. Moore’s Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months — has powered an ever-expanding range of applications, from faxes to Facebook.

Our mastery of the material world, on the other hand, has advanced much more slowly. The sources of energy, the way we move stuff around, are much the same as they were a generation ago.

But that may be about to change. We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, solar power.

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Walter Cronkite On Fox News: Beyond Conservative

NewsCorpse 18 July 2009 | There are really very few times when the phrase “the end of an era” is actually true. But in the case of Walter Cronkite, it could not be more appropriate. He presided over so many of the most significant events of the latter half of the twentieth century that it almost seems as if he were a part of them.

Cronkite represented a generation of television journalism that can never be repeated. The concentration of media to only three networks elevated their impact and influence. So when a dignified and experienced reporter rose to the position of anchor at CBS, it was just matter of time before his calm and confident delivery inspired a measure of respect that has never been matched. And if ever there were a time to heed his words, it is now:

Cronkite: It was quite clear when they founded the Fox network that they intended to be a conservative organization. Beyond conservative, a far right-wing organization.



It must have been comments like those above that led to Bill O’Reilly dismissing Cronkite as a leftist a couple of years ago:

“Just look at what Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers have done since they left CBS News; both men allied themselves with the far-left and are proud of it.”

But that’s nothing compared to what the Fox Nation community is saying about Cronkite today:

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Media reacts to Conan's same-sex wedding news

FDR: "I welcome their hatred."

American Apparently: "The American people" is a meaningless phrase | The Daily Show

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5 May 2010 | "The American people" is a meaningless phrase that should be struck from public utterance along with, "Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."

Sean Hannity Calls #OWS Protesters Un-American, Two Marines Set Him Straight

Matt Taibbi's take on Rick Perry's struggling campaign | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman and Truthdig blogger Chris Hedges on the Occupy Wall Street movement

Rick Perry ready to bail on stupid debates

Occupy Wall Street: Naomi Wolf calls attention to the disturbing involvement of Homeland Security in her arrest

21 Oct 2011 | Naomi Wolf, political activist and author of “Give Me Liberty,” calls attention to the enormous power that the federal government can wield to prevent constitutionally guaranteed rights. “History shows they start with the Other and it gets closer and closer and closer and someday they come for you.”

OWS: Will Bunch on Occupy Chicago arrests | Countdown

24 Oct 2011 | Keith and Will Bunch, senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily, discuss the 130 arrests during Occupy Chicago this past Sunday and that police officers seem to be unaware that their arrests and aggressive law enforcement amplify the movement: “The police have become kind of a stand-in for the 1 percent and the elites they seem to be protecting.”

Bill Press on the 'Super Congress'

Big banks complaining they are being unfairly targeted | Countdown | 19 Oct 2011