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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Neda is Farsi for Photoshop
Does this image look Photoshopped to you? US and Israeli advisers in Tehran are still trying to pull a page from the Rachel Corrie playbook, even though world outrage about the American activist crushed by an Israeli bulldozer didn’t ultimately … Continue reading
Posted in Sight-Bites
Tagged Iran, Israel, Neda Agha Soltan, Neda Soltani, Photoshop, Tehran
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DMNS refutes allegations of data misuse
NOTMYTRIBE received this response from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to our post: IS THE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE GATHERING PRIVATE DATA FOR HEALTH INSURERS? In the July 26 article I outlined concerns that medical data specialists … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged Denver, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Health, Surveillance Society
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Is healthcare not a Human Right?
This is how Americans are going to get national health insurance, by demanding it. In Colorado Springs we’re still passing around petitions to support President Obama’s health insurance company stop-gaps. The Des Moines Catholic Workers find themselves charged with criminal … Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged Des Moines, Des Moines Catholic Workers, Frank Cordero, Health, human rights, Wellmark
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Jason Zacharias
“You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both.” –John Ruskin, 1853, The Stones of Venice— “Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and … Continue reading
Posted in Obituaries
Tagged Art, Colorado Springs, Jason Zacharias, John Ruskin, Optical Reverb
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Th-Th-Th-Th-That’s all folks, in lipstick
Full text of Alaska Ex-Governor Sarah Palin‘s poetic address, wherein she explains that her contract with the voters of Alaska has a “lame duck” escape clause, stuff about a God-given right to despoil, some veiled threats to shoot gun-control revenuers, … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Alaska, Media, Miss South Carolina, Sarah Palin, SNL, William Shatner
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Edmund Burke and the prevalent evil
Everyone wants to quote Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” I just heard it evoked by NPR, raising the alarm about a rash of albino murders in Tanzania, ostensibly … Continue reading
Is the Museum of Nature and Science gathering health data for insurers?
DENVER- At the Denver Museum of Nature and Science the most popular exhibit this summer is called “Expedition Health” and features high-tech diagnostic kiosks where visitors can gauge the general state of their health. Judging by the long lines, you’d … Continue reading
Posted in Local News
Tagged China, Denver, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Health, Health Insurance, Insurance, Kaiser Permanente, Media, medical care, Met Life, Microsoft
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End the illegal US blockade of Cuba
JULY 26 marks the start of Fidel Castro’s six year struggle to throw out the US dictatorship in Cuba. The JULY 26 MOVEMENT became the name of the Cuban forces, commemorating the martyrs of 1953. July 26 is the International … Continue reading
Lessons from antiwar antecedents
I have for several weeks been submerged in the writings and poster art of the revolutionary sixties, and I’ll catch my breath to say this to the Antiwar Now from the Anti-Imperialists Then. We won no victory with the fall … Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged Afghanistan, genocide, Imperialism, Islam, Militarism, Revolution, US-Islam War, Vietnam, War on Islam
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Last veteran of the War to End All Wars
IS THAT RICH? UK’s oldest living veteran of the Great War died this weekend at age 111. Machine-gunner Harry Patch who survived Ypres and nearly not Passchendaele, was eulogized by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles who explained “The Great War … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, That's Rich
Tagged Gordon Brown, Great War, Harry Patch, Headlines, Prince Charles, United Kingdom, Veterans
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Cronkite and Mays, confidence men
HOW ABOUT, for a tribute to Walter Cronkite’s much lauded integrity, the media honor the news giant by EMULATING HIM? How cynical of corporate news peons, and of their audience nodding along, to revere Cronkite’s hindsight truth-telling, and lament alas, … Continue reading
National Assembly is antiwar exclusively
Reports are emerging from July’s National Assembly, the vital effort to unite antiwar forces into a common movement. Delegates from the major peace organizations hammered out a strategy to address Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine. Missing from the consensus? Nonviolence, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged Antiwar Movement, Egypt, Gaza, Honduras, Iran, Iraq War, National Assembly, Pakistan, Palestine, Pittsburgh, Vietnam
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Reprising the call to end Obama’s Wars
COLORADO SPRINGS- Intersection of Austin Bluffs and Academy Blvds, 4pm-6pm, all corners. Join Coloradans For Peace in their high-visibility every-other-Thursday rush-hour antiwar vigil, to END OBAMA’S WARS.
Tea-Baggers plan another silly-ass costume party for 9/11
Actually that’s their staging date. The heavily funded by un-named Corporate Big-Pig sources, so-called “Grass-roots” movement against the Corporate Big-Pigs finally being forced to pay the bills they ran up over the past 2 centuries but ESPECIALLY the past 30 … Continue reading
Burn your uniforms…
All those who sat and watched and cheered when the Colorado Springs Gestapo beat elderly and disabled persons for the non-crime of participation in a parade, and still say after two and a half years that you’re “fighting for Freedom”. … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
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Fascist cops nationwide still pissed over Drs. Churchill and Gates refusal to grovel
Some on the right are howling for “justice” meaning their silly-ass demand that Dr Churchill and Dr Gates apologize for stepping out of line, they (and by extension everybody else) are supposed to say “Yassuh, Boss, we-uns is so sorry … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Churchill, Colored, cops, Fascist, Gates, Judges, Justice, pigs, prosecutors, Rove, USA, White
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Workers create wealth, they have rights
Posted in Found Art
Tagged Capitalism, Immigrant Rights, immigration, Wealth, working class
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Afghan Taliban set high POW standard
There it is. The Afghans have captured a POW, we’ve been sent his image in RGB with a personal message to the American public. US military spokesmen are calling the video a violation of the laws of war. Secretary of … Continue reading
The US – Islam War nears halfway mark
I have to do more research, but I’m pretty sure October 7, 2009 should mark the HALFWAY POINT of the US-ISLAM WAR. I realize the Pentagon brass are calling for fifty years more of insurgency suppression in Afghanistan and Iraq, … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Afghanistan, Cambodia, genocide, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Laos, Palestine, US-Islam War, Vietnam, Vietnam War, War on Islam
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Problem solving by U.S. assassination
Word is out, confirming Seymore Hersh’s alarming report of last year, about the Cheney/Bush special forces tasked with assassinating terrorism suspects. Where others do it, such paramilitary raids are called “death squads.” While their existence is being admitted, Congress is … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines
Tagged Assassination, death squads, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Interrogation, SOTU, State Terrorism, Terrorism
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Al Franken in the house bada boom
Al Franken has no sooner reached Washington, that he’s fulfilling his comedic promise, no small thing. At the Judge Sotomayor confirmation hearing, Franken framed his parting question thus: he too was a Perry Mason fan, could Judge Sotomayor name the … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged Al Franken, Confirmation Hearings, Patrick Leahy, Perry Mason, Senate, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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Cheney ordered CIA to conceal operation from Congress.
Not from the People, that part would be a “gimme”, but from the People’s Representation. Now the Right Wing is trying to spin it that the operations in question were “The (miserably FAILED) Hunt for Osama bin Hidin’ ” and … Continue reading
Right wing Simpletons, Call Home!
The heavily funded campaign for Right Wing Simpletons to call their Congressmen and tell them how afraid they are of Health Care Reform is ramping up, I just heard their Hate Speech commercial from the other room. It’s like the … Continue reading
Posted in Perspective
Tagged 1%, AIG, ALF, Art, BOA, Campaign, CIA, Congress, coup, Energy, Environment, Fun, GIs, Grass Roots, hate speech, Health, health care, Health care reform, legislation, Levin, Parade, population, Protest, Radio, reform, Right Wing, Stupid, Uprising, USA
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