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- Makers of Racist Obama Monkey Would Like to Transcend Racial Bias
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Magazine
  Photo: thesockobama.com We were happily cruising around the Internet yesterday when we stumbled upon a link on Andrew Sullivan's blog that gave us one of those moments Dave Chappelle joked about in Killin' Them Softly: "Have you ever had something happen that was so racist that you didn't even get mad? You were just like, 'Goddamn, that was racist." That's how we felt when we saw TheSockObama.com, a Website peddling an "Obama" monkey doll.
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- Party Crashing: How the Facebook Generation Does Politics
  Posted by Shemuses from Alternet
  Author Keli Goff on how today's youth -- black youth in particular -- choose their leaders. Hint: It's not by skin color or party affiliation. As John McCain begins to strategize how he might wrangle some of the youth vote from Barack Obama, and Obama -- for his part -- tries to hold on to his solid base of Americans under 30, we thought it would be interesting to talk with author and frequent television commentator Keli Goff.
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- Will Canada Last?
  Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
  What will it take persuade Canadians that if they do not act soon to reverse the course of their nation, there will be nothing left to save? I am talking, of course, about so-called "deep integration" and its official expression, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).
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- US-Iran Relations: The Fourth Option
  Posted by Shemuses
  Empower the People.Over the past three decades, American policy towards Iran has drifted from ineffectual to misguided while the Islamic Republic has remained an enigma for most western strategists. The regime's rule is defined by oppression at home and aid to terrorists abroad. It routinely threatens Israel and challenges American interests where and when it can. Yet, successive American administrations have failed to develop a coherent, decisive strategy to face-down the fundamentalist regime.
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- How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  An interesting and timely op-ed piece in the Times covers a phenomenon, known as source amnesia, that can lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true. With time, this misremembering only gets worse. A false statement from a noncredible source that is at first not believed can gain credibility during the months it takes to reprocess memories. The article presents the science behind the success of swift boat ads and other campaign lies.
  
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- Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
  Posted by theangryindian from Bloomberg
  June 24 (Bloomberg) -- The world's biggest financial firms may lose as many as 175,000 jobs by this time next year as Citigroup Inc. and other banks shed workers amid slowing revenue and billions in writedowns, executive recruiters say.
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- Beijing Detains Quake Critic
  Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
  In China it is known as Article 4, and it forms part of the "State Security Law of the People's Republic of China". This might not mean a lot to most people, but Article 4 is famous, no, make that infamous, amongst China watchers.
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Mercenary Outfit Send Mass Email Offering Positions in the Wake of Gustav

One of the many tragedies of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina three years ago was the fact that insurance companies used the event to systematically deny claims, leaving victims further in desperate straits. That shouldn’t happen following any natural disaster, and even though the immediate storm effects did not cause as much damage as predicted, there are sure to be plenty of claims for flood damages throughout the Midwest and along Gustav’s path. If you or someone you know has been denied an insurance claim related to Gustav: http://www.gustav-insurance-claim-denials.com/ that would be a site you should visit.

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7:44 am 9/05/08
koroth comments on:
Congress's Apology for Slavery Is a Good Thing—It's Just Not Enough

Agreed. Now that the apology has been made all can be forgiven and everyone should be happy. Lets get on with life.
BTW – Slavery wasn’t "just the evil doings of greedy Southern planters." Slavery was a 5,000 year old institution practiced all over the world (and still is in places.) Perhaps apologies should be demanded from a few of those places?

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10:21 am 8/04/08
theauthor comments on:
Congress's Apology for Slavery Is a Good Thing—It's Just Not Enough

Yes, good to know that our Congress is focused on such important issues while they completely ignore stupid things like the cost of energy.

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8:46 am 8/03/08
apraca comments on:
Castro urges Farc to free hostages

If there’s one thing that annoys me is to see Colombia spelt wrong. The day journalists learn to write Colombia (not Columbia) is the day when news from South America will be less biased.

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12:04 pm 7/17/08
Jeff comments on:
Is the New Yorker's Muslim Obama cover incendiary or satire? | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

It’s both. Right, it’s satire to the elitist New Yorker editorial board – oblivious to the incendiary impact of what they’ve done.

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11:03 pm 7/13/08
tigerkarn comments on:
President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

This isn’t funny. It’s pathetic. Tigerkarn

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4:24 pm 7/13/08
nathalie comments on:
Get Your Clinton

Yes she voted for that bill. I find the T-shirt message ominous.

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6:41 am 7/13/08

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Shemuses
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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognized Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats
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Damian is a former campaign worker for Ralph Nader and current delegate/precinct captain for Barack Obama . He is also a registered Independent voter. He's written columns for "Tabula Rasa" magazine as well as many music magazines around the globe. Whatever you do, don't offer him alcohol.
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