"The Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture," Jameel Jaffer, Director of ACLU's National Security Project, said in a confere

Max Eternity - While Liberals and Progressives like filmmaker Michael Moore, media-mogul Arianna Huffing, author Naomi Klein and independent media giant Amy Goodman point out the clear and obvious contradictions and failings of President Obama, others seek to kill the messenger, protecting brand Obama at all cost.

American Prospect finds a number of factual errors in Matt Taibbi’s critique of President Barack Obama’s economic record. Indeed, it calls his piece in Rolling Stone “a factual mess.”

Max Eternity - Who would have thought one year ago that Barack Obama would become the new hero of the Republican right? High-profile Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin once called Obama a socialist, decrying his very presence as the downfall of America.

 12.10.09

Corruption is destroying the soul of US society, warns FBI agent

 "The worst day at work is still better than the best day in jail."

John Gillies attacks crooked officials, financial fraudsters and philandering sports heroes

Anyone know why the lights at the corporate baseball diamond are on tonight?

Who pays the electric bill at the Jake?

Matt Taibbi @ The Rolling Stone - Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008.

As Eternity remembers, John Lennon passed away 29 years and a few days ago. I remember exactly where I was when the news hit me he died... I was walking down Broadway, in New Orleans, on the way to class and I saw a sheet hanging across a shotgun porch with RIP John Lennon painted in large letters - a pre-Internet shout-out of outrage, remembrance and sorrow.

That was a moment when I realized, Tomorrow Never Knows... best ever, from the Beatles... Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream...

 thats why we love you norm

it isn't what one says - its how one  says it

tone of voice etc,

and norm says  it with humor class intell spirit etc,

the numbers aren't wrong -

many many  many more like love  how you say it norm  - evelyn

can we all imagine growing up in norms home

around the dinner table and around the home in the car etc.

how very lucky

i now have a home i never was lucky to have -

norm all you are my family that  i  can speak my truth

The flow of federal stimulus money into Cleveland makes me wonder why Mayor Frank Jackson and his merry elves at City Council need to burden residents with a garbage tax.

Norman Solomon for TruthOut - Eloquence in Oslo cannot change the realities of war.

As President Obama neared the close of his Nobel address, he called for "the continued expansion of our moral imagination." Yet, his speech was tightly circumscribed by the policies that his oratory labored to justify.

'Extremely Dangerous' Monster

Mystery Light Show Dazzles Web

by Claudine Zap

10 hours ago

http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2850&Itemid=76

Representative Dennis Kucinich wants Congress to end the war.  Take a look at his proposal.

Max Eternity - Bowing to pressure from the Chinese government earlier this year, President Barack Obama snubbed the Dalai Lama by refusing to meet with him while he was in town, visiting Washington D.C.  Now in a second show of indignance toward those who espouse peace, sources have learned that Obama will not be attending the traditional ceremonies of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee when he arrives in Oslo this month to pick up his Nobel Award.

Today's long journey...had some rewards...a prayer for peace.

Naomi Klein @ Mother Jones - The highlight of my first day at COP15 was a conversation with the extraordinary Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International. We talked about the fact that some of the toughest activists here still pull their punches when it comes to Obama, even as his climate team works tirelessly to do away with the Kyoto Protocol, replacing it with much weaker piecemeal targets.

Robert Scheer - Barack Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and when yet another one of those “we the people” e-mails from the president landed on my screen as I was fishing around for a column subject, I came unglued. It is one thing to rob us blind by rewarding the power elite that created our problems but quite another to sugarcoat it in the rhetoric of a David taking on those Goliaths. 

Please read this surprising article by John Prindle about Crocker Park's lack of recycling.  Then take action.  Let them know that this policy is unacceptable.

http://www.ecowatch.org/pubs/dec09/throwingitaway.htm