Saturday, August 8, 2009


08-08-09
  • Republican Party - Nothing Left But Far-Right Extremists and Over-the-Top Nutjobs:
    • Paul Krugman: The Town Hall Mob (nytimes) "well-heeled interest groups are helping to organize the town hall mobs. Key organizers include two Astroturf (fake grass-roots) organizations: FreedomWorks, run by the former House majority leader Dick Armey, and a new organization called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights"
  • MIC - Cheney - CIA - High Crimes and Misdemeanors:
    • US Assassination Squad revealed (rt video) "'Targeted assassinations were part of the [US] ‘Defensive Intervention’ program,' says investigative journalist Wayne Madsen, referring to details of an alleged JSOC Assassination Ring revealed by Pentagon officials."
  • These Fascist States of America - We Have Indeed Arrived:
    • Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism? (alternet) "We've arrived. We are now parked on the exact spot where our best experts tell us full-blown fascism is born. Every day that the conservatives in Congress, the right-wing talking heads, and their noisy minions are allowed to hold up our ability to govern the country is another day we're slowly creeping across the final line beyond which, history tells us, no country has ever been able to return."
  • No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
    • Diamonds in a Cloudy Sky (apod)