By: Frank Tissle Editors note: Shared from The New York Times - Please consider the following insert while reading this piece... "The Republicans hoped to prove that the Solyndra loan was a political favor to wealthy investors with Democratic ties, chiefly George Kaiser, An Oklahoma billionaire. They have not…
Just a heads-up - This is a very disturbing and emotional video. What would you do? Here's a few of the blog replies to this one: - Why are they putting the children in fucking POLICE CRUISERS? - The children here in this video are being put in police…
Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine expressing his support for The December 12th West Coast Port Shutdown. The shutdown is a co-ordinated response by the Occupy Wall Street movement to the brutal, co-odinated repression of OWS by the 1%. It is also in solidarity with the longshoremen's struggle…
A spiritual shift is occurring. Many people around the world have found themselves on the verge of something vast, and their experiences can't be explained. This film introduces the awakening and illustrates the unprecedented number of lives affected by this shift. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OB0LuvtYU http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QfxkFMKVAz8#!
By: David Winston About six months ago, it became increasingly clear who would win the bid for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential elections: Mitt Romney. While many of the other contenders have surged in the polls intermittently, Michele Bachmann earlier this year, then Rick Perry, then Herman…
By: Jack Herer The average lifespan in the United States is 76 for a man and 78 for a woman. But if you smoke pot morning, noon and night, you will live an average of two years longer than if you don’t. People who smoke pot but don’t smoke…
By: Gina Volpe Like most people, I’ve worked jobs I hated. I know what it’s like to rack your brain thinking of the least conspicuous liquor to slip into your coffee (hint: vodka) only to wimp out at the last minute because getting caught and being unemployed might actually…
By: Bernard Falis We've all heard how diametrically opposed capitalism and socialism are, and whenever a pundit really wants to insult someone they disagree with nowadays, especially in America, they just call them a socialist, e.g. FOX News and Obama's Administration. But are they really that dissimilar? To break…
By: George Hince Amory Blaine could possibly be the original Occupy Wall Street protestor. While This Side of Paradise is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's lesser known works—due primarily with grammatical and spelling errors not corrected by the publishers (Fitzgerald and Hemingway were infamously known as horrible spellers) and…
By: Tom Hastings @ Hastings On Nonviolence The US military is the largest polluter on Earth, so large that they can't seem to pay to clean up their own messes, even when they get as much money every year as all other militaries of the world combined. It is…