Tag: collateral news
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Collateral News: Reopening the Anthrax Case
It’s been a while, but we’re back. This week we look at the death of Bruce Ivins & the bullshit decision on the 2001 anthrax case.
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collateral news: home-grown terrorism
from collateral news: The department of defense wants to make protest an act of terrorism.
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collateral news: what if pro-choice people made ads?
from collateral news: This is our answer to the pro-life ad released by catholicvote.com.
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collateral news: shoulder to shoulder with israel?
from collateral news: Can the Israeli attack on Gaza be justified? This week we cut through the lies and dissembling and look at three prominent arguments supporting the attack.
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collateral news: dymond milburn
from collateral news: Three undercover police officers accosted a 12-year-old girl in front of her home in a case of mistaken identity. Three weeks later, she was arrested (!) for assaulting THEM. She’s scheduled to stand trial next month.
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collateral news: riot brigade
from collateral news: What happens, in these uncertain times, if social unrest were to become an issue in the United States? You may not have thought much about it, but the Pentagon has – planning to deploy 20,000 specially-trained soldiers stateside.
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collateral news: 10 steps to democracy
from collateral news: It’s the list-making time of the year 2008. So we’ve compiled a list of actions an Obama administration can do immediately upon taking power to diminish the damage the Bush administration has caused. (ed: i’m not sure if this is an intentional play on ’10 steps to fascism,’ but regardless, this is…
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collateral news: the bought election?
from collateral news: Who will win today’s presidential election? That’s easy. The candidate with the biggest war chest. But if outspending each other becomes the wave of the future, let’s say goodbye to any remnant of fairness in politics.
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collateral news: why whitey can’t vote
from collateral news: When a guy with an ‘obama monkey’ joins a McCain-Palin rally in Johnstown, PA and nobody addresses him you get an idea of what’s happening. The clip below shows a cross section of racist remarks throughout the american hinterland.
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collateral news: high noon in cook county
from collateral news: A sheriff’s office in Cook County, Illinois has refused to execute foreclosure orders indefinitely. Know where he got the idea? From citizens in his jurisdiction. Could it be a trend that spreads?
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collateral news: america’s next beauty queen? & under the radar
from collateral news: Last Friday Kathie Couric asked Sarah Palin what she thinks about the 700 Billion $ bailout. Her answer … oh well ! This may not be a very original idea but we couldn’t resist. collateral news: under the radar #1from collateral news: Here are 3 stories that received little or no press…
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collateral 60: wall street bailout – was that the rubicon way back there?
from collateral news: Now that their Wall Street scheming has threatened to bankrupt them, the big investment houses have come crying to Congress to bail them out to the tune of untold trillions of dollars of YOUR money (so much for the free market when it’s the rich who get soaked).
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collateral 59: history lesson for sarah palin
from collateral news: Sarah Palin likens her previous experience as small town mayor to that of community organizers “except that you have actual responsibility”. In a country with a strong tradition of community organizing we felt it necessary to point out what some of those organizers have accomplished … like founding this country.
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collateral 58: police state of mind
from collateral news: The FBI and local law enforcement ‘preemptively’ storm the homes of would-be protestors before the Republican National Convention, terrorizing the inhabitants and dragging people off to jail on the flimsiest of charges. Have we entered the realm of ‘thought crime’ in the US?
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collateral 56: the plastic vortex
from collateral news: (This is a rerun) Our addiction to single-use plastic is creating havoc in the oceans, graphically illustrated by the ‘great garbage patch’ in the Pacific – an area of floating trash twice the size of Texas.