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POPSBill O'Reilly manages to Fail to learn a lesson about Hypocrisy When Bill O'Reilly was "accosted" by an independent reporter, out to get a statement from him on camera, he fought the polite and considerate man off with an umbrella, and then proceeded to assassinate that young man's character on his "news" program. O'Reilly waxed a "harmed innocent" stance on the situation, even though the assault camera teams he's sicced on people who were on vacation and with their children were much less polite than that young man was. Bill O'Reilly fails at learning from his own past; like a typical Republican, and gets our "Can dish it out, but can't take it" award.
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POPSJoe Klein likes Newt's idea to Violate Child Labour Laws As Paul Krugman says, Gingrich is a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like. Now that Newt has put forward the idea of putting poor kids to work as janitors in their schools, drooling brain-cramps like Joe Klein have stated that this blatant violation of Child Labour Laws is not only a good idea, but it should go further than that. I present to you Step Fifty-Eight in the process of the Rich Plutocrats turning everyone else in America into their own personal Serf class.
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POPSOh, Those Elusive "Millionaire Job Creators" After giving them days to produce at least one of these "Millionaire Job Creators" that they claim will suffer from a surtax on millionaires, neither the GOP Officials, nor the Millionaire-owned lobbyist groups could produce a single one of those hypothetical beings for NPR to interview. Why can't the Media in America do things like this every day?
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POPSPBS is telling us it's good to blur the lines between Business and Editorial? A truly shocking site called "Mediashift" is advocating that Business be given an strong influence in Editorial content; essentially saying that the news media should "stroke the egos" of businesses, and think first and foremost of what will serve businesses the most in their "critical" news articles. What kind of world are we living in when the media is in bed with the Plutocrats, instead of exposing the injustices perpetrated by the Plutocrats? If you're getting your news from any American news outlet, you are not getting the real news; you are getting business-friendly, consumer-depredating spin. Time to be paying attention only to International news sources like BBC, UPI and Al Jazeera (even Reuters seems to be succumbing to corporate bias these days).
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POPSRight-Wing Tax Spin goes Beyond the Pale With Republicans stealing copy from Democrats and repeating their words in situations where it makes no sense to say so, the Republicans find themselves wedgied by their maniacal drive to oppose all things Democrat-introduced, and have started crying out against a tax cut proposed by the White House — a tax cut that would actually be paid for (unlike the devastating Bush tax cuts). They've tried applying arguments Democrats have used against Republican-originating tax cut plans, and as a result, managed to make themselves look completely ridiculous. Are we ready to admit that there is no place for the Republican Party in 21st Century America now?
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POPSFox News Goes to the Middle (and other Fantasies) There's too much said in this article to clip everything relevant, so please read it at the source http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/12/06/fox-news-goes-to-the-middle-and-other-fantasies/ Apparently, allowing a New York Times (an increasingly right-wing rag) reporter into its recent Republican debate counts as " moving toward a centrist position". With Fox Lapdogs setting the bar for "impartiality" this low, it's little wonder that FoxNews has been able to hold onto its fictional "Fair and Balanced" tagline — the rest of the media is complicit by giving that source of yellow opinion journalism any credibility. Other news outlets need to expose FoxNews as the sham it is, and people need to stop granting access to their events for FoxNews "reporters" (read as "spin artists").
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POPSNewt Grigrich; Smartest Republican. And that is just so sad! The media likes to claim that current-15-minutes-of-famer, Newt Gingrich is "the smartest man in the room" when compared to the other Republican Clown College Candidates. The fact that he makes such absurd mistakes, even in his own self-professed specialty of History shows us that accepting that he is the smartest of those losers; he's still no more intelligent, nor informed than a typical 10 year old. These are the people that Republicans want to run the nation with the biggest Murder Machine (Military) in the world? At the very least, the right choice for president must be smarter than the typical voter, because otherwise, how do you expect him to deal with the very complex job of running America and dominating the world? If you're going to say an intellectually-retarded person, like Perry or Bachmann should be president, then that's the same as saying you want America to be represented by idiots.
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POPSAmerica is afraid to take responsibility for killing its allies This all started early in the Afghanistan war, when getting the Americans to admit that they had mistakenly bombed a group of Canadian Soldiers; violating standing orders by doing so. Those two navy pilots went on to get nothing but a slap on the wrist (an official reprimand and the loss of 1 month's pay). The families of those dead Canadian soldiers have still not seen justice done. Now, the US won't even commit themselves to say who is killing Pakistani troops; or even use their names when addressing the media. The American War Machine is out of control, and it needs to be shut down, HARD and with EXTREME PREJUDICE!
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POPSAmerican Media Spins US's Dangerous Stance on Cluster Bombs The New York Times committed a hatchet job on the news of the failure of an international treaty to ban the use of Cluster Bombs due to the long-lasting, devastating effect they have on civilians —especially children, who often curiously pick up the bomblets in fields and are killed. What the US Media doesn't tell you is revealed by respected international media — American push to regulate cluster bombs, not ban them outright. In other words, they still wanted to be able to use Cluster Bombs. 50 nations stood against America, and once again proved that America is the real Bad Guy in the world today.
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POPSThe Republicans have turned Americans into Paranoid little children A man dons a Frosty the Snowman costume and strolls downtown to raise Christmas spirit, and what happens? People call 911 to report him. This is what a decade of Republican Terrorism has done to Americans; they're scared of things that no sensible person would be afraid of. Americans are cowards now, all because Republicans kept up the constant drumbeat of "Be Afraid!" at them all throughout Bush's illegal reign. Americans need to decide today; are they going to keep being pathetic little cowards and live afraid of everything around them, or are they going to embrace the courage that saw them liberate themselves from England and spread out across the land to form a great nation? Are you going to be a Republican Coward, or a Democratic Hero?
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POPSBullying is still driving kids to suicide Apparently, the steps the government and schools are taking are not enough. A 15 year-old girl killed herself after a year of relentless bullying, rather than face another day of school. Parents need to be taught to recognize the signs of their kids being bullied, or being bullies themselves. What kind of society are we if our children are killing themselves out of despair?
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POPSWar: Even When the Cause is Good, It's Still an Abomination! Present-day Libya has seen the release of all the political prisoners Kadhafi was holding, but a leaked report shows that the Rebel Forces themselves have been guilty of much the same thing, illegally detaining people, apparently due to their origin. Abuses have been reported; the very least of which include women prisoners being held by male jailers, and children being detained aside adults. Given, Libya has a long road yet to go to rebuild their nation, but they're moving in the wrong direction if they repeat the actions of the evil dictator they deposed.
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POPSRepublican Sleaze-Jockeys distort Obama's comments Jumping on a statement where Obama suggested that government has been lazy in not promoting more business in America over the past decade, professional bad example and part-time cliché Rick Perry tries to spin that as Obama saying that Americans have been lazy. Even Mitt Romney has been misquoting that comment; at least during those times when he wasn't moonlighting as boring wallpaper.
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POPSDon't Commit Journalism at the National press Club Sam Husseini found himself suspended from the National Press Club for asking a question that people really wanted the answer to. Cited as violating prohibitions against "boisterous and unseemly conduct or language", it seems that being a real journalist is now forbidden by the National press Club
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POPSMedia blocked from reporting on #OWS Eviction, but NYT given a tipoff? I think this pretty much proves the New York Times' yellow journalism as the New York Police tipped them off about their dastardly middle-of-the-night eviction of #Occupy Wall Street (a violation of their First Amendment rights) so they could get exclusive coverage. It says something definitive about the biased nature of your reporting if the authorities invited you to cover something that they're arresting other journalists over to prevent them from covering it. The New York Times has conclusively been placed in the same category as FoxNews in being a source of nothing but Spin and Yellow Journalism.
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POPSMedia Blackout during #OWS Eviction Police arrested 10 journalists during the eviction of #Occupy Wall Street (done in the middle of the night, like thieves, rather than in the open), preventing coverage of this suppression of Free Speech. Only one NBC Affiliate covered the dastardly event.
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POPSThe Amazing GOP's "Tax Hike" Tax Cut In claiming that the recent bill rejected by the Democrats included an increase in tax revenue, the GOP have been bald-faced liars, because when one fully examines the bill, one sees that the bill would extend the Bush Tax Cuts permanently, costing America $4 Trillion over the next decade; utterly obliterating the the $300 Billion (actually, $3 Billion) the proposed "closing of loopholes" would have saved. The Republicans are governing with lies, trickery and base deception, constantly trying to push the agenda of prosperity for the rich, at the expense of the middle class in everything they do. This issue needs to be put off until after the 2012 elections, so that once the "Teabagger" Traitors are swept out of office, and the Democrats again have control of 2 of the 3 branches of government, they can show some balls and actually do right by the American people.
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POPSMichael Bloomberg; a Free Speech Hero? Somehow, by suppressing the Free Speech of the #OWS protesters by evicting them, Michael Bloomberg has been declared a Champion of the First Amendment . What kind of crazy world are Americans living in, where black is white, up is down and wrong is right? The #Occupy Toronto movement recently got a stay of eviction due to the fact that doing so would violate their rights to Free Expression (the eviction effectively bans the protest, and as such, is Unconstitutional). The #Occupy movements in America need to seize this example and prove that being evicted from public places violates their right to Free Speech because it functionally bans their protest.
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POPSBombs in Iran? Not so much The Washington Post put forward an audaciously spun story about Vyacheslav Danilenko, whom WaPo's Joby Warrick is accusing of being a Soviet Weapons Scientist. Danilenko is actually — has always been — a scientist who specializes in using explosions to create synthetic industrial diamonds, for use in oil drilling. All this ridiculous noise about Iran making bombs because they've created technology for accurately measuring the power and shape of explosions has perfectly legitimate, non-nuclear applications. Someone needs to hold the Commercial Conservative Media responsible for the Yellow Journalism they're passing off as news. It's no wonder so many Americans are misinformed about their nation, and the world; they're bombarded with lies from all sides. Shades of Brazil...
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POPSA Test Case: #Occupy Toronto Fights Eviction In a challenge backed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, #Occupy Toronto protesters have gotten a stay of eviction, unlike the city can prove there is a justifiable reason that can be proven for eviction. In this case, the city bylaws effectively ban the protest, which is Free Expression, and thus, are Unconstitutional. Perhaps with this case in their portfolios, the #Occupy protests in America can fight against the 1%'s attempt to evict them because doing so violates their First Amendment Rights.
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POPSOnce again, the Tories work for the Rich, not regular Canadians The Federal Conservative party unveils a "voluntary pension system" which is nothing more than RRSP's that make more money for the banks than they do for the clients. Like their heroes, the American Republicans, the Canadian Tories are catering to the rich, at the expense of the Middle Class. RRSPs are little used because most people can't afford to contribute. Giving them something else they can't afford to contribute to does nothing to help Canadians secure a pension. The Canadian Pension Plan needs to be expanded and funded more; that's the best way to secure the future for Canadians. Having richer banks doesn't help anyone but the 1%.
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POPSAmerican soliders murdered Afghan civilians; who's to blame? Read the entire article at site. The conviction of the leader of this "kill team" is just a symptom of the indifference that the US Military feels toward the people of the countries it invades. These soldiers openly referred to the people they were supposed to protect from the Taliban as "savages", and carried out their murders in broad daylight, rather than secretly by night as some have suggested. This is what the American Military teaches its members to do to human beings. Is there any better reason to dismantle such an inhuman, callous and base organization?
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POPSEEG shows awareness in some vegetative patients This could be the first of many steps toward opening up the world to people "trapped inside their own bodies". They suggest the only real practical and ethical use at the moment is to determine if the patient is in pain or not, although, I think they need to test a larger sample of subjects before this can be determined conclusively. It requires EEG machines to be able to give data in real time; something that still needs to be developed, but it's a much cheaper and more portable solution than the previous work using fMRI scanners. An EEG can be taken to the patient's bedside anywhere there's an electrical outlet.
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POPSNothing says Vain like Cain Could this be the soundtrack to Herman Cain's disintegrating campaign, or are the conservitards going to think this fraud is a legitimate candidate right up to Primaries, or beyond? It would be amusing if the conservatives are stupid enough to try to get this "performance artist" nominated; it would certainly knock them down a few pegs as the rest of America points out how simply ridiculous and scripted ever single aspect of his campaign is. I'll give Herman Cain some credit, though; he's a good actor. Personally, I wouldn't have been able to keep a straight face as I took two completely contradictory stances on abortion simultaneously with John Stossel.
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POPSPeople are finally getting it; Cain is nothing but a Stunt In this clip, all of the bullshit and blatant baiting Cain has been doing to try to get people to figure out his campaign is joke finally becomes clear to at least one person in the media. Rachael Maddow points out the positively ridiculous nature of the Herman Cain campaign, tying everything he does and says into Pop Culture. A Pizza exec? Quoting Pokémon at a debate? A tax system from a video game? Deliberate "gaffes" that throw back to earlier inconsistencies? Black Walnut? A campaign ad featuring "The Smoking Man"?. Rachael is being charitable and calling it Performance Art, but the truth is that Cain is just playing around, seeing how much money and how much popularity he can suck out of the gullible conservatives. Liberals are hoping that the conservitards don't catch on, though. This practical joker vs. Obama would be an even bigger landslide for Obama than Obama vs. Bachmann.
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POPSBill O'Reilly gives his ridiculous spin on #OWS He goes on to say: That's what George Soros, MoveOn, the SEIU and many far-left journalists want. And they are using the protests to that end. Moments later, O'Reilly was "interviewing" Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall, who mentioned the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers. That left O'Reilly visibly upset: O'REILLY: OK, well, you can believe anything you want, you're an American, but you made a statement that the Koch brothers were tied into the Tea Party financially. Can you prove that? MARSHALL: Well, the Koch Brothers (INAUDIBLE) such as Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. O'REILLY: Can you prove it. Wait. Wait, wait, wait, Leslie. MARSHALL: Yes. O'REILLY: Leslie, you're a Fox News contributor. You have a responsibility. Can you prove the Koch brothers are tied into the Tea Party financially? Can you? MARSHALL: With a check in hand, no. O'REILLY: OK. Thank you. Read the rest at source.
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POPSSpin! Spin the News, my pretties! Right-Wing Wicked Witch of Washington does mind-boggling editorial gymnastics to try to prove that Social Security — the system that can continue to pay out of its own fund for the next 30 years, even if it doesn't take in any more income — is "sucking money from the treasury". In their desperate attempt to prove what simply does not exist, the Right-Wing Media has conjured forth a new "socialist government entity" known as SocialSecurityandMedicare ; a monolithic, indivisible entity that only Commies and Serial Killers would ever want to consider apart from each other. So, are we still going to pretend that Americans are being informed by their capitalistic, conservative media industry, or can we finally toss all American Corporate Media into the trashbin of history, and get people watching BBCNewsNet instead for their American and World news — something that isn't subject to the whims of the corporate world.
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POPSNYT is desperate to "Martyr" Steve Jobs Citing just a few blog responses and a couple of opt-ed pieces, the New York Times bemoans the fictional persecution that Steve Jobs' legacy is "suffering". Considering that the vast majority of the criticism starts with admiration of the man, it seems that NYT is simply manufacturing fake news again for the sake of filling their dying newspaper. And as for whether Steve Jobs deserves criticism, people have long noted that while he was a definite visionary, working for him could never be described as easy. He expected a lot from himself, and he expected a lot from his employees. Read the whole story at source.
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POPSUsing a fake Lincoln quote to support fiscal inequality Once again, apologists are attacking a stance that no one is taking; that being: Make the Poor rich and the Rich poor. No one other than ridiculous radicals are saying that. All the people who are decrying fiscal inequality are saying is that they've had enough of there being Rich, Middle Class and Poor; they want everyone to be Middle Class (usually as per approx 1982 "Middle Class", since the current Middle Class has been hopelessly eroded). Why does there need to be anyone rich? Why can't everyone just be "prosperous"? Every dollar that a rich person has in excess of even exaggerated needs and desires is one less dollar a poor person has toward making ends meet. The whole modern concept of Capitalism creates Poverty by its very existence. Certainly, there were people who struggled to provide food for their families before there was Capitalism, but there was no Poverty.
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POPSA Tax Plan Favouring the Wealthy? That Would Never Fly Politically Reporter Karen Tumulty waxes ridiculous when she bewails the fact that a tax plan that favours the wealthy would never go far, politically. Apparently, according to Ms. Tumulty, the past 140 years never happened and the rich are so hard-done-by because people expect more from them simply because they have more.
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POPSNYT Misses the News; Makes its Own Conclusions The New York Times ran a poll that showed quite conclusively that the attitude of the Teabagging Republicans is not what America wants (2/3 oppose the Republicans' stance/actions), but the editors are NYT instead decide to headline the only thing that supports the Teabagger stance; that Americans distrust their government. When they do things contrary to what the people want (like giving tax cuts to the rich and corporations, and cutting essential programs), is it any wonder they don't trust government?
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POPSAlien Abductions may be Vivid Dreams Researchers have been able to reproduce "Alien Abduction" dreams in subjects by coaching them to take certain mental steps upon awakening or becoming lucid during the night, allowing them to experience Out-Of-Body Projection, leading to the mind forming "aliens" on its own. The study is far from conclusive, but it does suggest more hidden powers of the human mind and the possibility of there being actual "psychic" powers beyond OOB.
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