Sayf al-Islam, a son of Muammar Gaddafi, has drawn a hard line against the protests there. In his internationally televised speech Sayf threatened the people with the spector of civil war and began to lay down the groundwork for a massacre of the protests there. For the most part the speech was nonsensical. He even claimed multiple times that drugs were fueling the protests.
More worryingly, Sayf made the rediculous claim that the protestors were armed with tanks and artillary that they stole...
Posted by David Katz on Feb 20, 2011 | 0 comments
Sayf al-Islam, a son of Muammar Gaddafi, has drawn a hard line against the protests there. In his internationally televised speech Sayf threatened the people with the spector of civil war and began to lay down the groundwork for a massacre of the protests there. For the most part the speech was nonsensical. He even claimed multiple times that drugs were fueling the protests.
More worryingly,...
Posted by Michael Tedesco on Feb 16, 2011 | 1 comment
The Republican talking point of 2011 is, “we were elected to reign in out of control government spending.” Now, whether this is true or not – and many, myself included, would argue that it is not – the fact is that the GOP rode into office last November on a wave of voter discontent fueled by a major tectonic slip between anger and frustration due in large part to our horrific...
Posted by Michael Tedesco on Feb 15, 2011 | 0 comments
The Guardian has a story up today revealing that the man we all knew as “curveball,” the Iraqi defector who fed the Bush administration the crucial intel that led to our invasion of Iraq, has recently admitted to lying about the whole thing.
The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his...
Posted by Michael Tedesco on Feb 14, 2011 | 1 comment
As the spin machine begins to whirl out of control in response to President Obama’s $3.73 trillion budget proposal this morning I thought it appropriate to remind everyone why we are in this mess in the first place. You see, for all the talk of out of control spending by a Socialist President it was in fact the work of one man in particular that set this country on the path to financial ruin. My...
Posted by Michael Tedesco on Feb 10, 2011 | 1 comment
I saw this one in Digby’s feed yesterday and couldn’t resist looking. Now I know I have said this repeatedly in the past but this video shows the effects of deliberate anti-Obama propaganda on the Republican electorate. Honestly, this is a terrifying clip as it clearly shows a group of Americans that have been so brain-washed by the right-wing misinformation that they are frothing at the...
Posted by Michael Tedesco on Feb 9, 2011 | 0 comments
On the way into work this morning I received an unexpected laugh while listening to the BBC World Service Business Daily. The full podcast can be found here, just fast forward to 13:55 and enjoy. If you would rather read it here is the full article penned by comedian and writer Colm O’Regan entitled, “Divided Attention Disorder? Log off and read a book.” It begins like this…
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Posted by Michael Tedesco on Feb 9, 2011 | 0 comments
Much is being said about the unexpected plot twist that took place yesterday in the House of Representatives where 26 House Republicans bucked their party and successfully killed an extension of expiring provisions of the PATRIOT act. Rachel Maddow dedicated a segment of her show to the phenomenon positing that this may signal a split between the Authoritarian and Libertarian wings of the Republican...
Posted by matttbastard on Feb 8, 2011 | 2 comments
So. You’ve all no doubt heard about the $315m dollar acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL (and, no doubt, already made the T&A CD-ROM coaster joke on Twitter). With $315m in your coffers, one would think that calls for Arianna and her new corporate overlords in Silicon Valley to finally — FINALLY — start compensating their unpaid writers (approximately 6000, according to MSNBC)...
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