19 Nov 2011 MSNBC
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Robert Reich: super committee is super trouble
Robert Reich explains how the Super Committee could reduce the deficit by raising taxes on the 1% and create jobs, rather than making cuts that will hurt working families.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Bill Moyers on Plutonomy
Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix.
How to succeed through supercommittee’s ‘failure’
By E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Washington Post
16 Nov 2011 | Here is a surefire way to cut $7.1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. Do nothing.
That’s right. If Congress simply fails to act between now and Jan. 1, 2013, the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush expire, $1.2 trillion in additional budget cuts go through under the terms of last summer’s debt-ceiling deal, and a variety of other tax cuts also go away.
Knowing this, are you still sure that a “failure” by the congressional supercommittee to reach a deal would be such a disaster?
Read it here.
16 Nov 2011 | Here is a surefire way to cut $7.1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. Do nothing.
That’s right. If Congress simply fails to act between now and Jan. 1, 2013, the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush expire, $1.2 trillion in additional budget cuts go through under the terms of last summer’s debt-ceiling deal, and a variety of other tax cuts also go away.
Knowing this, are you still sure that a “failure” by the congressional supercommittee to reach a deal would be such a disaster?
Read it here.
The frightening thought
"No politician, regardless of what party he's in, wants the people to suddenly be in charge. For the power to shift from those who are the elected officials to the people who elected them, which is actually the way it's supposed to be, that's a frightening thought." - Michael Moore, 15 Nov 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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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Thursday, November 10, 2011
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.”
Mike Tyson impersonates Herman Cain in spoof campaign commercial
"The Tea Party loves crazy more than they hate black."
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
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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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
New documentary highlights Koch Brothers' influence on American politics
New documentary by Al Jazeera's Bob Abeshouse on the Kochtopus.
Monday, November 07, 2011
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:
Read it here:
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:
Read it here:
Sunday, November 06, 2011
American Apparently: "The American people" is a meaningless phrase | The Daily Show
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."
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
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