|
Chunk of Country Battered by Savage Storm |
| AssociatedPress | 27 October 2010 Fierce winds demolished homes and injured people in North Carolina and tornado watches were issued across the Southeast as a massive storm blew east after lashing the central U.S. (Oct. 27) |
| Date: 2010-10-27 18:21:12 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 745 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
| |
|
Thousands affected in Benin floods |
| AlJazeeraEnglish | 27 October 2010 West African nation of Benin struggles to cope with worst floods in 50 years that have hit two thirds of the country. |
| Date: 2010-10-27 18:05:10 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 756 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
| |
|
The Loaded Chamber: Secret Money and Shadowy Funders -The Watchdog Doesn't Bite |
| lauraflanders | 27 October 2010 The election is getting closer, and the money keeps on flowing. Today we\\\\\\\'re bringing you part two of Harry Hanbury\\\\\\\'s investigative series for GRITtv\\\\\\\'s new investigative series, GRITtv Digs. In part one, we looked at the Chamber of Commerce\\\\\\\'s contributions to the campaign cycle--now, we ask, who\\\\\\\'s watching the Chamber? Why does it get away with this? |
| Date: 2010-10-27 17:57:35 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 742 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
| |
|
MSNBC Cenk Uygur Attack: God & Government |
| 27 October 2010 Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) on his weekly Daily Rant segment on The Dylan Ratigan show on MSNBC explains the absurdity of popular tea party candidates who are against the separation of church and state. |
| Date: 2010-10-27 17:55:38 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 751 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 |
| |
|
David Cay Johnston, ecomomist and author of Free Lunch: Still-Growing Wage Gap |
| lauraflanders | 27 October 2010 (quote) A weak foundation cannot properly support a massive superstructure, as the leaning Tower of Pisa shows. The latest wage data show the disastrous results some of us warned about, although like the famous tower, the economy only lists badly and has not collapsed. That\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s from David Cay Johnston\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s latest piece, digging into the scary numbers on real wages in the U.S. Who\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s making money, and how much of it? He joins us via Skype to discuss the dirt--and the causes. |
| Date: 2010-10-27 17:42:01 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 807 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
| |
|
Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics |
| TYTInterviews | 26 October 2010 http://www.chomsky.info/ |
| Date: 2010-10-27 17:42:00 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 758 - Votes: 8 - Rating: 4.88 |
| |
|
GRITtv: Mike Papantonio on Florida's Senate and governor's races: It's not an election, it's an auction |
| lauraflanders | 26 October 2010 It\\\'s not an election, it\\\'s an auction, says Mike Papantonio of the corporate cash pouring into elections around the country. Papantonio\\\'s home state of Florida has seen both its Senate and governor\\\'s races attracting national attention, as Tea Party candidates in both races argue for cutting benefits and wages in the name of deficits, and ignore crumbling infrastructure. Papantonio checks in with Laura via Skype to discuss the elections, Florida\\\'s generation gap and its effect on Tea Party support, and of course, BP, the Gulf, and claims that the oil is gone. |
| Date: 2010-10-27 17:36:05 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 788 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
| |
|
GRITtv: War Spending -an election issue being ignored. |
| lauraflanders | 27 October 2010 Last week we spoke to Ethan McCord, who featured prominently in the first bombshell release from WikiLeaks. On Friday there came another massive revelation, documents confirming all our worst suspicions about the Iraq war. Iraq Veterans Against the War, of which McCord is a member, said \\\\\\\\ |
| Date: 2010-10-27 17:33:55 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 748 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
| |
|
'Dozens of races may be decided by less than 100 votes' Pr. Obama's David Plouffe |
| 27 October 2010 http://www.my.barackobama.com/GOTV Get Out The Vote |
| Date: 2010-10-27 17:19:49 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 759 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 |
| |
|
Canadian government's top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links |
| SEE FULL DOCUMENTARY: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2010-2011/enemiesofthestate/index.html FrederictonNews | 14 October 2010 At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation. The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to be Communist sympathizers. The CBC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Enqu?te investigative programs have unearthed troubling details about PROFUNC, which stands for PROminent FUNCtionaries of the Communist Party. ENEMIES OF THE STATE: Watch the full report on Radio-Canada\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Enqu?te at 8 p.m ET Thursday and on CBC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s The Fifth Estate at 9 p.m. ET Friday. The investigation has discovered that information gathered under PROFUNC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s mandate may have been used during the 1970 October Crisis, when Canada invoked the War Measures Act and suspended civil liberties to end escalating violence sowed by the Front de Lib?ration du Qu?bec, known as the FLQ. PROFUNC is believed to be one of the most draconian national security programs in Canada\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s peacetime history. First devised in 1950 by RCMP Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood, PROFUNC listed some 16,000 suspected Communists and 50,000 sympathizers who would have to be watched, and possibly interned, in a national security emergency. Under the plan, targets on the list could be detained indefinitely, subject to severe discipline, and shot if they tried to escape detention. The blacklist included prominent Canadian public figures ? men and women, and their children ? whose identities were kept hidden in sealed envelopes filed at Mountie detachments across the country. Files included personal details such as age, physical description, photos, vehicle information, and housing, even the location of doors to be used in potential escapes. The files were regularly updated until the PROFUNC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s demise in the early 1980s, prompted by administrative changes introduced by Robert Kaplan, Canada\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s solicitor general at the time. October Crisis suspects not just FLQ sympathizers CBC and Radio-Canada have learned that PROFUNC\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s blacklist may have been used to bolster the number of suspects rounded up during the October Crisis 40 years ago, many of whom had no connection to FLQ activities. Daniel Waterlot, who used to manage a Communist bookstore in Montreal, was arrested during the October Crisis.Daniel Waterlot, who used to manage a Communist bookstore in Montreal, was arrested during the October Crisis. (Radio-Canada)The October Crisis was triggered by a pair of political kidnappings orchestrated by two separate FLQ cells, British trade commissioner James Richard Cross, and, later, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, who was eventually murdered. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act on Oct. 16, in a bold attempt to stamp out the FLQ and resolve the kidnappings. With civil liberties suspended, police and army troops fanned out on the streets of Ottawa and Montreal to restore order. Retired Lt. Julien Gigu?re was head of Montreal police\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s anti-terrorism squad at the time. \\\\\\\\ |
| Date: 2010-10-27 13:57:20 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 797 - Votes: 7 - Rating: 5 |
| |
