SPUN-employment: Networks twist unemployment reports to boost Obama, bash Bush
By Dan Gainor Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:24 PM EDT Spinning the Numbers When Conservatives in Charge: During the year leading up to the 2005-06 mid-term elections, the economy was strong and unemployment never went above 5 percent. That wasn’t how the media reported it. Negative reports and stories spun negatively accounted for 58 percent […]
London Fog: The mother country offers a glimpse of our near future
By Dan Kennedy Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:22 PM EDT I have just returned from a week in London. The food was gray, weather grayer, and their economy bleak, dark and foreboding. Their coalition government’s hastily cobbled together “austerity program” became a big U.S. news item while I was there, but our news doesn’t do […]
Blair’s Sister-in-Law Now a Muslim
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, Lauren Booth, has converted to Islam after a trip to Iran. The 43-year-old broadcast journalist, who works for Iran’s English-language Press TV, said she had a “holy experience” while visiting the Fatima al-Masumeh shrine in the city of Qom, a “shot of spiritual morphine.” Upon her return to […]
Anti-Muslim Feelings Propel Conservative Support in Europe
On the heels of an election that stunned many in this famously progressive land, Kent Ekeroth and his peers marched through the castle-like parliament doors this month on a mission to combat what they call Sweden’s greatest problem: Muslim immigration. The 20 Swedish Democrats – the first national lawmakers are working to impose a moratorium […]
Wikilinks: Iraq Did Have WMD
There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after all. The massive cache of almost 400,000 Iraq war documents released by the WikiLeaks Web site revealed that amounts of chemical weapons were found in Iraq and continued to surface for years after the 2003 US invasion, Wired magazine reported. The documents showed that US troops […]
This ad encapsulates everything that is at stake on Capitol Hill
We wanted to highlight a terrific ad put together by Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog of out of control spending in Washington. In just 60 seconds it encapsulates everything that is at stake on Capitol Hill next week, and why Americans need to band together and help end the cycle of endless spending and […]
Hollywood’s James Cameron Chips In to Kill California Jobs
By Meredith Turney 10/19/2010 Millions of people around the globe have flocked to movie theatres to see director James Cameron’s hit films such as “Titanic” and “Avatar.” But in order to have the money to pay for those movie tickets, viewers had to have a job. Such is the irony in Cameron’s latest political activity, […]
Union axes worker for wearing ‘Bush’ shirt, hat
Posted by James Richardson A California union stagehand was abruptly terminated Friday for wearing a “George H. W. Bush” sweat shirt and hat while constructing a stage to be used for a get out the vote rally featuring President Barack Obama. Duane Hammond says his clothes were not a political statement, rather a sign of […]
NPR Cans Juan Williams for Addressing Reality
by David J. Rusin • Oct 22, 2010 at 9:34 am “Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality.” Those apt words were spoken by journalist Juan Williams on the October 18 edition of Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor, during a segment on how to discuss the jihad. Moments […]
Dollar at Risk of Becoming ‘Toxic Waste’
The dollar’s slump could get far worse if the dollar index takes out last year’s low, Robin Griffiths, technical strategist at Cazenove Capital, told CNBC Monday. “If the (dollar index) takes out the low that was made roughly a year ago I really think that will not only encourage more sales, it will cause a […]
Home Prices Double Dip in “Sudden Dramatic Drop”; 20% More to Come
TRUCKEE, Calif. – Clear Capital , is issuing this special alert on a dramatic change observed in U.S. home prices. “Clear Capital’s latest data shows even more pronounced price declines than our most recent HDI market report released two weeks ago,” said Dr. Alex Villacorta, senior statistician, Clear Capital. “At the national level, home prices […]
