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Radio host suspended for airing anti-Palin protesters' numbers
Posted on Mon, Sep. 15, 2008
Radio host suspended for airing anti-Palin protesters' numbers
Julia O'Malley | Anchorage Daily News
last updated: September 15, 2008 08:13:55 PM
Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke has been suspended for a week for broadcasting the phone number of women involved in organizing a protest against Sarah Palin.
The women later ( Read more... ) -
I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't, I'll lend you mine
14/09 : "I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't, I'll lend you mine." And other quotes of the week.
Political Quotes Of The Week
Political Quotes Of The Week
“Although Obama is not a crackpot like Palin, his experience is the equivalent of Palin’s.” - Edward I. Koch, on why he endorsed Barack Obama.
"They [Republicans] cannot win on ( Read more... ) -
Israeli lobby groups in dispute in UK
Posted: 2008/09/13
From: MNN
The British Israel Communications and Research Centre `Bicom` was reported Friday to be in dispute with the US-based Israeli Project over lobbying information to the UK media.
According to the Jewish Chronicle, Bicom was "angry" that the Israeli regime is working closely with their US counterparts over what was called " ( Read more... ) -
Top pollsters caught fudging with Presidential Race numbers
Busted!: Gallup, CBS, USA.Today, etc. Tinkers With Party ID Again
by Excelscior1
Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 03:45:38 PM PDT
The Huffington's Post, Seth Colter Walls, wrote a blockbuster article today, highlighting the fact that most of the major polls that are currently freaking out Obama supporters are the result of questionable Party Id shifts (some polls ( Read more... ) -
The MSM's Silence On Post-Gustav Louisiana
Sept 9 2008
I wish I could say that Hurricane Gustav refocused more national attention on Louisiana's issues including vanishing barrier reefs and wetlands as well as the following, which I learned about this morning from a fellow Kossack living in the NOLA area who had evacuated when Gustav was on the way. Maybe it did--for only a few minutes.
For ( Read more... ) -
Israeli Palestinians: The Unwanted Who Stayed
by Jonathan Cook
October - November 2008
The Link - Volume 41, Issue 4
Among the images of Israel’s 60th Independence Day celebrations to be found on the internet is a photograph of CNN reporter Ben Wedeman being kicked firmly on the behind as he tries to run from the boot of an armed policeman. All around him, as other photographs reveal, journalists ( Read more... ) -
The Political Economy of Secrecy
September 7, 2008
by G Lloyd Rowsey
Introduction. Information is power. In a society organized according to principles of rationality and justice, information will be universally available and widely diffused, permeating the social order with power. In a society organized according to capitalist principles, information will be concentrated in ( Read more... )
