Showing posts with label collateral news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collateral news. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Thursday, January 01, 2009

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.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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 more foolhardy optimism from the left who still haven't had their 'oh shit' moment. they won't change shit & you voted for it...)

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

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.

Friday, October 24, 2008

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.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

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?

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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 #1
from collateral news: Here are 3 stories that received little or no press coverage due to the current turmoil. Vote for the one that bugs the most and we'll make it a full length story in the coming weeks.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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).

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

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?

Sunday, August 24, 2008

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.

collateral 55: 10 steps to fascism

from collateral news: (This is a rerun) A summary of America's descent into fascism as described in Naomi Wolf's book 'The End of America: Letters of Warning to a Young Patriot'.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

collateral 54: real wars, fake triggers

from collateral news: What happens when the media doesn't report a proposal by the Vice President's national security team to purposely kill Americans in order to provoke war with Iran? - What happens is, the proposal stands a better chance of becoming reality.

Monday, August 04, 2008

collateral 53: untaxed to death

from collateral news: How exactly did we get into the economic mess we're faced with? According to a prominent economist, it stems from our succumbing to anti-tax snake oil salesman. The next crisis to hit our sinking ship of state may be a pension fund debacle that, had we stuck to a sensible tax policy, could have been avoided.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

collateral 52: stealing the future, every day

from collateral news: History is full of examples of affluent societies experiencing hard economic times. But according to a growing number of independent analysts - ones whose jobs do not depend on painting a false picture of reality - the economic convulsion the U.S. is headed for may far surpass the Great Depression in terms of raw misery.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

collateral 51: courting disaster

from collateral news: If there's another Katrina-like disaster, says John McCain, he'll use the private sector as a model to make sure emergency supplies get where they're needed. Why not privatize disaster relief altogether, John?
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