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worth checking out in october: usa-peace haters "socialist" scandis kicking us ass free press '06 kevin tillman's letter the hipster mustache comes to dc the gop hate evangelicals "sean hannity is far-right" what do swedes think part II

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Crying baby, crying man, crying armpits

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Funniest headline this week...
(and it's only monday)

"Bush accuses Democrats of lacking plan for Iraq" Reuters

"If you listen carefully for a Democrat plan for success, they don't have one. Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, yet they don't have a plan for victory," he said.

Hahahahahahahaha

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The MPAA strikes again (part III)

Once again the lobby group have chosen to act alone in Sweden (proper channels and lobby groups just don't mix). This time it's 100 students from Vaxjo University that have been banned from using school computers (network) after tips from "Hollywood".

"Students get network ban over file sharing" The Local

DN.se (in Swedish)

In other Swedish-US news...

The Ark are cancelling tour dates in the US after lead singer "joked" about a plane that flew over the bands gig at the opening of the new Swedish embassy in DC might be heading for the White House.

Appearently a lot of Americans didn't find the "joke" as fun as frontman Ola Salo did, and the band have receive some death threats.

DN.se (in Swedish)

Original story "A Swedish Star's Rock-and-Rile Words" Washington Post

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Peace Haters?

we eat rotten fish but fear team Cheney-Rumsfeld

A kinda stupid poll taken by usually smart polling company Temo shows that the Swedes views the US as the biggest threat to world peace.

SVT.se (in Swedish)

Out of a thousand people asked, 29% said the US is the biggest threat with North Korea coming in a close second with 28%. Poor Iran had to settle for third with 18%.
The (most) stupid part was that the people asked could only select one out of the three countries above plus China, Russia and Israel. No Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan or San Francisco!?!

It was mostly the lefties that said they saw the US as the biggest threat (suprise, suprise), but also 20% of the people who said they belonged to conservative parties the Moderates and the Christian Democrats had the US as number one.

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Bill O'Reilly is still a lying (or stupid) little weasel

O'Reilly on Letterman
OneGoodMove

Bill is still pushing the false narratives that everyone thought Saddam had WMDs and that Al Qaeda were operating in the north of Iraq with Saddams approval (the 9/11-Saddam connection).

What's it gonna be this time?

a) He's lying

b) He's stupid

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Bill O'Reilly flip-flops
World no longer black and white

The latest Letterman appearance by former newsman and current sailor is to air tonight.
Amongst other things, the funnyman is set to explain that the world isn't just black and white.
That doesn't sound like the O'Reilly we know (and love).

"Humorless Dave rips O'Reilly" NY Post

"Let me ask you a question - was there more heinous, more dangerous violence taking place [before America invaded] Iraq, or is there more heinous, dangerous violence taking place now in Iraq?

"Oh, stop it," O'Reilly scolds the host. "Saddam Hussein slaughtered 300,000 to 400,000 people, all right, so knock it off . . . It isn't so black and white, Dave - it isn't, 'We're a bad country. Bush is an evil liar.' That's not true."

Appearently Bill had a problem with Saddam during the 80's (when he slaughtered a lot of those 300,000 to 400,000 people), which is very suprising since "ten years ago, nobody had even heard of Iraq".

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Michael J Fox does more in 7 min and 21 sec for stem cell research than any political pundit ever could have. The "celebrity victim" even gets a few punches in on the other "celebrity victim".

Fox interviewed by Couric OneGoodMove

Watch the entire interview at CBS News

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This just in!! (sorta)

Someone who used to work for Karl Rove uses racism in political ad. Shocking.

"Rove Protégé Behind Racy Tennessee Ad"
CBS News

And, as if that wasn't enough...

Howell is no stranger to controversy. He was media consultant for Sen. Saxby Chambliss when his campaign ran an ad showing a picture of then-Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, alongside Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

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The Bubble that is Rush Limbaugh

Keith Olbermann have Sam Seder on to talk about Limbaugh and the "victimizing" of Michael J. Fox back in '04 when Fox campaigned for Republican Arlen Spector. Well, not really.

C&L (video)

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Sweden - Heaven and Hell

Brilliant trailer for an old Italian mondo movie. Surely there must be more than a few Geraldo's out there ready to jump on this story.

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Who supports the troops?

There are interest and then there are "special" interests you have to take into consideration when voting for what's best for the men and women serving in the armed forces.

"Congressional ratings" IAVA

Each IAVA Congressional Rating is based on a given legislator's voting history on issues that affect US Troops, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and military families.

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Scandis kickin' American ass?

voodoo, voodoo, voodoo

"The Social Welfare State - beyond Ideology
Are higher taxes and strong social "safety nets" antagonistic to a prosperous market economy? The evidence is now in"
Scientific American

Income per working age population
($ in purchasing power)
English Speaking Countries: 48,500
Nordic Countries: 50,700

Unemployement rate
ESP: 5.2
NC: 6.3

Budget balance as % of GNP
ESP: 0.2
NC: 4.2

Poverty rate
ESP: 12.6
NC: 5.6

R&D spending as % of GNP
ESP: 1.8
NC: 3.0

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Britney interviewing Dubya

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The Swedish king is in DC for the opening of the new embassy/House of Sweden and found some time to hang out with his American counterpart.

"Washington welcomes the
House of Sweden" The Local

Today sees the climax of a three-day official bash to celebrate the inauguration of the House of Sweden, which houses the new Swedish embassy, in Washington DC. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia are on location in Georgetown to provide the pomp, while glam poppers The Ark will camp it up on the shores of the Potomac River.

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Freeeeee, freee faaaalling

"Press Freedom Index 2006"
RSF (Reporters Without Borders)

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Tell the World

"Top 10 Ways To Tell The World You Hate George W. Bush" Flumesday.com

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Kick Ass Lib Songs Of The Day

Tony and Noel kickin' it at 10 Downing

COOL BRITANNIA
Out with the old and in with the new, and Tony. Here's a whole set of kick ass liberal songs to get your monday swinging.

Oasis "Live Forever"

Blur "Parklife"

Suede "Animal Nitrate"

Pulp "Common People"

The Verve "Bittersweet Symphony"

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"You know what Nostradamus.
Why don't you sit this one out"

Bill Mahers New Rules deals with our favorites, clueless think tanks and the people they employ.

OneGoodMove

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"Somehow"

Kevin Tillman writes about his brother and America.

"After Pat’s Birthday" TruthDig

Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.

Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.

Somehow this is tolerated.

Somehow nobody is accountable for this.

In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don’t be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that “somehow” was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.

Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat’s birthday.

The Pat Tillman Foundation

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War - Occupation - War

"Shiite Militia Seizes Control of Iraqi City"
NY Times

The Shiite militia run by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized total control of the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Friday in one of the boldest acts of defiance yet by one of the country's powerful, unofficial armies, witnesses and police said.

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The CIA is coming for us

The Danish free press-government (during the cartoons) are not interested in investigating this one.

"The government ignores opposition
calls to investigate CIA ghost flights"
Copenhagen Post

Dozens of planes linked to the CIA's rendition of terror suspects landed regularly at Danish airports, according to information the Ministry of Transport recently presented to parliament.

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NASA x 2

"NASA and NOAA Announce Antarctic Ozone Hole Is a Record Breaker" NASA

"From September 21 to 30, the average area of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million square miles," said Paul Newman, atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. If the stratospheric weather conditions had been normal, the ozone hole would be expected to reach a size of about 8.9 to 9.3 million square miles, about the surface area of North America.

Also, Swedish astronaut Christer Fugelsang is to be the first Swede in space on the STS-116 mission with launch at the earliest December 7th. Good for him, he has been preparing for about 15 years.

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Hand grenades flying over your head
Missiles flying over your head
If you want to survive get out of bed
You're in the army now
Oh, oh, you're in the army now

Note to tough guy O'Reilly (from us boys who actually did military service).
You don't "...go in with a hand grenade", you wait outside.

"O’Reilly on Blogosphere: I’d Go in With A Hand Grenade" ThinkProgress (video)

O’Reilly said that he knew “for a fact that President Bush doesn’t know what’s going on in the Internet.” O’Reilly then said, “I have to say President Bush has a much healthier attitude toward this than I do. Because if I can get away with it, boy, I’d go in with a hand grenade.”

So much anger, so few Soros-conspiracies.

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Real Grassroots =

...using a handheld video camera to film Ned Lamont when he is on TV and then putting it up on YouTube.

From Ned's debate against millionaire Joe Lieberman (and that other Republican).

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A Gay Ol' Time

"Senator Larry Craig.... What's with
the gay bashing?" BlogActive

Every election year, these party leaders make what many of us see as anti-gay appeals to religious conservative voters who object to what they disparagingly call the "homosexual lifestyle." What these party leaders don't tell these voters is how many of them actually lead secret lives which include sexual encounters with members of the same sex.

Ken Blackwell hints opponent is gay
The Enquirer (Cincinnati)

"O'Reilly wonders why he can't
be a gay role model" SJIHBO

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We still can't decide how to refer to Newt Gingrich.
We used to call him "firepants", cause he's a lying little weasel (plus it's his WWE name), but lately "intern ~~fucker~~ shagger" seems more appropriate. Anyway...

"Newt vs Nancy" Glenn Greenwald

Newt Gingrich argued yesterday that Republicans should remind the electorate that "Republicans are right to favor traditional American conservative social values, and the left is completely wrong to put San Francisco left-wing values third in line to be President by electing Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) to speaker of the House."
...
In 1981, Newt dumped his first wife, Jackie Battley, for Marianne, wife number 2, while Jackie was in the hospital undergoing cancer treatment. Marianne and Newt divorced in December, 1999 after Marianne found out about Newt's long-running affair with Callista Bisek, his one-time congressional aide. Gingrich asked Marianne for the divorce by phoning her on Mother's Day, 1999.

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Kick Ass Lib Song Of The Day

Jarvis Cocker "C**nts are still running the world"

Former Pulp frontman and... God, Jarvis returns with this little sing-a-long tune.
Don't like foul language. Don't listen.

Well did you hear, there’s a natural order.
Those most deserving will end up with the most.
That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top,
Well I say: * floats.
If you thought things had changed,
Friend you’d better think again,
Bluntly put in the fewest of words,
* are still running the world,
* are still running the world.

Now the working classes are obsolete,
They are surplus to societies needs,
So let ‘em all kill each other,
And get it made overseas.
That’s the word don’t you know,
From the guys thats running the show,
Lets be perfectly clear boys and girls,
* are still running the world,
* are still running the world.

Oh feed your children on Cray fish and Lobster tails,
Find a school near the top of the league,
In theory I respect your right to exist,
I will kill ya if you move in next to me,
Ah it stinks, it sucks, it’s anthropologically unjust,
But the takings are up by a third, Oh So
* are still running the world,
* are still running the world.

Your free market is perfectly natural,
Or do you think that I’m some kind of dummy,
It’s the ideal way to order the world,
* the morals, does it make any money?
And if you don’t like it? Then leave.
Or use your right to protest on the street,
Yeah, use your rights but don’t imagine that it’s heard, Oh no no,
* are still running the world,
* are still running the world.

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One World One People

In the service of mankind, to help destroy the borders that keep us tied down, we present a Jon Stewart interview with.... Borat

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Once a blue, now a red
In our hearts you are dead

Millionaire Lieberman speaks.

"Lieberman: Dems must change
the tone in Washington" CNN

Liz Dupont-Diehl, a spokeswoman for Lamont, said the three-term senator isn't taking responsibility for helping set the tone in Washington. Lieberman has called for an end to partisan politics, but Lamont has criticized him for siding too often with Republicans and President Bush.

"It's certainly hard to tell from Sen. Lieberman's comments that he's the incumbent," she said. "It seems that he's trying hard not to own up to the fact that he's been there for 18 years."

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Damn Google commies

"Google to convert HQ to solar power"
Yahoo (AP)

The Internet search leader announced what is believed to be the largest solar project undertaken by a U.S. company during a solar energy conference in Silicon Valley on Monday.

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David Kuo on 60 Minutes - OneGoodMove

Favorite quotes: "This is not a initiative to gain political gain" and "The president is not king, he had to work with the congress"

The 60 Minutes interview touched on this. To get the base pumped up and ready to fight, you need a fight. Charlie Savage talks about how the Bushies were more interested in finding cases where white christians men had been discriminated than other minorities or religions.
"We're under attack!!"

Savage on NPR (.mp3)