Money of course..lots and lots of it. From Glen Greenwald’s column at Salon:
Then again, AT&T is the second largest contributor overall to officials in Congress, having poured into the Beltway a total of $38 million in campaign contributions for the election cycles for which these records are available. Verizon is in [...]
Angels of light or rightwing hate mongers?
By Donatra
Are you sick and tired of Republican attack ads? Are you sick and tired of verbal assaults on twelve-year-old-boys and two-year-old-girls by rich, white fat men who share a basic contempt for change and who practice rhetorical savagery as a virtue? Yeah. I am too. And I think I [...]
HISTORY MAY BE REPEATING ITSELF:
PROPAGANDA THEN AND NOW
By PraetorOne and BibleBelted
Throughout the summer of 1938 the Nazi propaganda machine cranked out a steady stream of outright prevarications about Czech persecutions in the Sudetenland. “The German newspapers were filled with accounts of mass arrests of innocent men and women in the Sudetenland and there were the inevitable circumstantial stories [...]
Bushs approval rating at a new low: 24%
This makes the head fuckwit of our country in the same class as Richard Nixon. Per this writeup about the lastest Zogby poll linked above: “The Reuters/Zogby Index,” which measures the mood of the country, also fell from 98.8 to 96 — the second consecutive month in which it has dropped. The number of Americans [...]
DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM
When Right Wing Sadism Intrudes Into Our Every Day Lives
by Donatra
I will not, under any circumstances, vote for a candidate who does not support a single payer health care program. I have always said this, always believed it, but in the last few days events have unfolded which have brought the health care (and [...]
Great expectations, my black ass…
Another fine musing from The Angry Black Bitch, who now also writes for Shakespeares Sister! Please visit her blog for more of her thoughts on important issues.
Lawd, a bitch woke up this morning in the foulest of moods. I’ve narrowed the problem down to overexposure to trifling ass motherfuckers and not enough sleep.
What?
A lot of [...]
Subprime mortgages claim their first bank.
From this online writeup, we get the news that a bank..although just an online bank, but a bank none the less has collapsed due to their subprime lending practices:
FAILING sub-prime mortgages have claimed their first US bank — online lender NetBank was shut down by US Government regulators at the weekend.
Soaring defaults of home loans [...]
Blog for Burma Oct 4th..
Please note the new graphic on the right sidebar regarding the Blog for Burma day October 4th, this Thursday. Several of us here at Sirens will be participating and I will also do a post on my personal blog. There are plenty of countries where despots and military junta’s are murdering their citizens..Darfur comes to [...]
TAIL GUNNER JOE = REPUBLICANS 2007 Part 2
Part two in our series of Conversations with Uncle Abe, comparing the fear campaign of McCarthy to Bush’s fearmongering.
PART II
The Only Thing They Have to Spread is Fear Itself:
Repressive Legislation and Court Decisions
I specifically asked Uncle Abe if he saw any similarities between the Red Scare of the 1950s and what’s happening [...]
