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Jill Stein could and has done a much better job addressing many of the most important issues than either the corporate media or the political establishment in the past. With the increased strength of the alternative media steadily growing we could have an opportunity/…

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The hardest questions have been effectively outlawed; while those that praise activities that can't be justified by any reasonable standard have also praised John Brennan.

Dianne Feinstein indicated that this is a serious matter; implying that the Code Pink protesters weren't behaving in/…

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Wal-Mart is, of course not the only corporation involved in unethical marketing to children but it is the leading retailer involved, as far as I can tell, and they have conducted some of the least ethical methods among retailers; and this has led other corporations to increase their… Read full post »

Thirty years ago when a pair of sneakers was approximately one year old I remember the shoe lace would typically break and I would replace it and wear it for a second year, or close to it.

Fifteen years ago after one year the entire sneaker would/…

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There are already plenty of other sites that have done an enormous amount of work to record the trouble that Wal-Mart has been in but most of them have limited resources and I believe they could use some help with their research and that by providing another one that/…

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I was watching the commercial media coverage for part of the day yesterday; obviously I had to constantly change the channel because it was so crappy so I didn’t catch all of it but if they followed the same pattern my best… Read full post »

Last year at about this time I wrote Spare the Child for Christmas; which discussed several issues that impact children in a negative manner despite all the talk about this being a holiday that benefits children and enables them to have a good time/…

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Current discussions about the “fiscal cliff” are misleading as usual and they distract many people from other problems that are just as important if not more important and they also put certain things off the table, as they say that have an enormous amount of political support f/…

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A recent report on CNN has been made exposing accusations of child abuse at a Fort Myers daycare center. This was initially reported no later than October 31 in the local news in the following report from an ABC affiliate.… Read full post »

Dozens of people including Scanner, Kate Flannery and me are fed up with the lack of attention to the spamming that is crashing the server. They have posted their comments and I agree with them. I won’t be breaking the boycott for the next month.… Read full post »

For those of you who haven’t noticed we now have a new ritual here in America; every year after Thanksgiving we have riots at stores for people that want to rush to buy things then we blame the people without trying to… Read full post »

Some of Barack Obama’s opponents have come to the conclusion that he may be preparing a modern version of Hitler’s Youth or perhaps something more subtle; this is almost certainly an exaggeration but there may be many things that deserve legitimate… Read full post »

 

There are going to be two final debates for the independent candidates on November fourth and fifth; the first hosted by Ralph Nader and the second by The free and equal Elections Foundation; then it is the final day to vote… Read full post »

Several of the alternative candidates participated in at least seven alternative debates and they received much more attention in the alternative media than any previous debate for alternative candidates have received in the past. This has also been accompanied by a fair amount of covera… Read full post »

Many of us were told as children that this is a democratic society where we all have an equal opportunity to prosper and anyone could even become the president of the United States. Condoleezza Rice repeated this claim at the Republican National Convention in the following… Read full post »

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both made a point to put some emphasis on some of the things that they agree on during the debate last week; and there are a lot more things that they agree on, although they would prefer not to discuss them. The following are…

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Yesterday I posted a blog about Censored at debates: Jill Stein, sincere candidates, issues; this was cross-posted at the Daily KO as Censorship partly prevented at debates: Jill Stein, Democracy Now! Present issues. When I attempted to sign in today to respond to/… Read full post »

Many of the most important issues will have been censored at the debate; and they can be expected to be censored from any other debate controlled by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In 1988 the Commission on Presidential Debates negotiated with the two major political parties… Read full post »

Quote Source: Journal of Discourses V. 14 P. 159

The Mormon Church is threatening to excommunicate David Twede, managing editor of Mormon Think, a web page which is run by mostly anonymous Mormons that have researched their own religion and expressed/… Read full post »

Springtown Texas has been in making national headlines because they’ve been allowing and even encouraging corporal punishment in schools and the debate has focused on whether or not an educator of the opposite sex should be allowed to administer the punishment. The following article… Read full post »

As many of you know Open Salon is now being dominated by blogs promoting sports that no one reads and it is often leading to technical difficulties. As I wrote this there didn’t appear to be technical difficulties but ironically when I went to post it they began timing out again… Read full post »

The coverage of the assassination or targeted killing of Osama bin Laden, Mark Owen’s book “No Easy Day” and the Benghazi attacks among other things provide social psychologists, psychologists and many other researchers with an enormous amount of opportunities to researc… Read full post »

 

Occupy Wall Street is celebrating its first anniversary today and they’re preparing for more protests. ABC News has reported that Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Protests Dwarfed by Police Presence; this may be/… Read full post »

 

The corporations and the two traditional political parties haven’t been paying attention to the will of the people for years; and they’ve been rigging the debates so that candidates that earn a spot on the ballot at the grass roots level instead of catering to the… Read full post »

Jill Stein appeared on Bill Moyers this week and the first thing she said she would do is to “fire Wall Street!”

Bill Moyers responded by saying that she can’t do that and that they can fire her!

This… Read full post »