14 5 / 2013
The DOJ investigation of AP is a serious threat to Freedom of the Press
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRZqpW4n46c&w=640&h=390]The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press. The news cooperative filed a letter of protest on Monday calling…
13 5 / 2013
CO2 Levels Reach Record High, Scientists Concerned
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq1O6g1YLEE&w=640&h=390]Scientists in Hawaii have measured carbon dioxide levels higher than 400 parts per million for the first time in three to five million years.
13 5 / 2013
New Fatal Coronavirus, a SARS-like Respiratory Virus Infects Two in France, Likely Spreads Person-to-Person
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2h7bMgK-c&w=640&h=390]“A deadly new strain of Coronavirus, a SARS-like respiratory virus, has now spread to France, where it has infected at least two people. But it gets even more exciting. After the French…
07 5 / 2013
The Haircut - Cyprus Financial Crisis Documentary
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdfLNIHyPxQ&w=560&h=315]For the first time in the financial crisis, bank accounts are being raided and people’s savings are being seized. We look at the fallout of the EU’s cruel gamble, exposing the human cost…
03 4 / 2013
North Korea army says it has final approval for nuclear attack on U.S.
N. Korea is upping it’s rhetoric against the U.S. over sanctions imposed on it by the UN. The Whitehouse, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Hagel are taking the nuclear threat seriously, and are moving missile defense system to Guam. N. Korea claims that war could be only a few days away.
“North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorized plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.
“The moment of explosion is approaching fast,” the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out “today or tomorrow”.
Pyongyang’s latest pronouncement came as Washington scrambled to reinforce its Pacific missile defenses, preparing to send ground-based interceptors to Guam and dispatching two Aegis class destroyers to the region.
Tension was also high on the North’s heavily fortified border with South Korea, after Kim Jong-Un’s isolated regime barred South Koreans from entering a Seoul-funded joint industrial park on its side of the frontier.” - AFP
About video: In the latest sign of escalating tensions with North Korea, the Pentagon said it will send an advanced ballistic missile defense system to Guam in the coming weeks, as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Pyongyang a real and clear threat.
31 3 / 2013
“President Barack Obama said Newtown changed everything.
But it didn’t change Washington.
Two days after 20 first-graders were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in what Obama has said was the worst day of his presidency, he took the podium at the memorial service with a simple message: Americans’ approach to guns was wrong, and it had to change. Too many children had died, and he wouldn’t let more follow them.”*
Why has Washington been so slow to enact any kind of meaningful change in gun regulation? We’ve gotten the excuse that tragic events don’t lead to legislation right away, but historically, that hasn’t been the case. So, what’s the issue? Cank Uygur breaks it down.
Read more from Politico: Oh guns, has Washington waited too long?
30 3 / 2013
International Cyber Police Agencies are investigating what is being called the largest cyber attack in the history of the Internet.
26 3 / 2013
The 50 Most Popular Liberal Websites Ranked
This is a repost: Ranked in Alexa.com Source of list: HERE.
1) CNN: 52 2) The Huffington Post: 393 3) Time: 553 4) NPR: 1,524 5) Slate: 1,569 6) Newsweek: 1,690 7) U.S. News & World Report: 2,408 8) Politico: 2,470 9) Salon: 2,455 10) Indy Media: 3,534 11) The Democratic Underground: 6,992 12) The Atlantic: 8,538 13) The Village Voice: 8,922 14) Daily Kos: 10,385 15) Eschaton: 10,496 16) New Yorker: 12,429 17) The Daily Beast: 12,512 18) Alternet: 15,763 19) Common Dreams: 18,144 20) Crooks and Liars: 19,337 21) Buzzflash: 19,423 22) TPM Cafe: 21,592 23) MoveOn: 21,786 24) Mother Jones: 22,277 25) Amnesty International: 23,807 26) Counterpunch: 23,841 27) The Nation: 24,552 28) Antiwar: 24,799 29) Think Progress: 25,168 30) Raw Story: 26,663 31) The New Republic: 26,867 32) Planned Parenthood: 28,207 33) Information Clearing House: 28,605 34) What Really Happened: 31,583 35) OpEdNews: 31,835 36) Bad Subjects: 33,120 37) Political Wire: 34,698 38) World Socialist Website: 35,122 39) ACLU: 37,195 40) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: 37,494 41) Media Matters: 37,650 42) Feministing: 38,376 43) Truthout: 38,809 44) Drudge Retort: 41,472 45) The American Prospect: 42,082 46) Harper’s Magazine: 42,659 47) Firedoglake: 42,836 48) TruthDig: 44,389 49) Wonkette: 45,704 50) AmericaBlog: 45,195 Honorable Mentions 51) FiveThirtyEight: 46,521 52) The Washington Monthly: 48,238 53) Michael Moore 48,918 54) Bartcop: 48,109 55) Air America: 54,928 56) Oliver Willis: 55,743 57) MyDD: 57,251 58) Center for American Progress: 58,713 59) The Brookings Institute: 61,302 60) Zmag: 65,741
26 3 / 2013
Obama tweeted this photo today in support of Same-Sex Marriage
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26 3 / 2013
Full transcript: Oral arguments in Proposition 8 Supreme Court case
A full transcript and audio of Tuesday’s oral arguments.
23 3 / 2013
The plan was only passed by a slim margin 50/49 and after 20 hours of debate, and it holds little chance for approval in the Republican House.
22 3 / 2013
“In 2012, European researchers visited a scrap metal site in Al Zubayr, an area near Basrah in southern Iraq. A local police officer told them that the site had at one time held military scrap metal from the bloody battles waged during the American invasion. A local guard told the researchers that children had been seen playing on the scrap during that time, and both adults and children had worked disassembling the military leftovers. At one point, the guard said, members of an international organization with equipment and white suits showed up, told guards that the site was very dangerous and “quickly ran off.”*
The depleted uranium usage in Iraq left lasting effects, on our own troops and in babies born with horrifying deformities in Fallujah and Basra. Is this the legacy of the war, and should people be paying more attention to these awful consequences? Ana Kasparian, Steve Oh (COO of The Young Turks), and Desi Doyen (Green News Report) discuss.
Read more from Truth-Out.
20 3 / 2013
“The NRA has won. Congressional leaders said Tuesday a proposed federal ban on assault weapons is all but dead, crushed by the powerful gun lobby.
Although anticipated, the move let down still-grieving loved ones of those massacred in Newtown, Conn., and more than 140,000 Daily News readers who petitioned for the legislation.”*
Are gun lobbyists more important than the American people? Unfortunately, signs point to yes. Polls show that citizens want universal background checks and tighter regulations, but politicians are letting Wayne Lapierre have his way instead. Why? Cenk Uygur breaks it down. Read more.
18 3 / 2013
“Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) is leading a small group of House Democrats in calling on President Barack Obama to release information regarding the Administration’s use of drone strikes.
In a letter sent Monday, Lee said a leaked Department of Justice memo showed an “increasing devolution of accountability, transparency, and Constitutional protections in U.S. counterterrorism operations.” The 16-page memo provided an outline of the Obama’s administration legal justification of targeted drone strikes against U.S. citizens.”
It takes a lot to challenge a president of your own party, but a group of progressive representatives are calling Obama out, demanding legal justification for deadly drone strikes. Cenk Uygur explains who the constitutional heroes are, and what they’re doing for transparency.”
Read more from Raw Story: House Democrats Demand Obama Release ‘full legal basis’ for Drone Strikes
