"It’s not often that goings-on in Canada interest the American news media, but a rather small decision by a relatively small government agency—the decision not to revoke a rule that bans lying on broadcast news—in Ottawa has made a pretty big splash.
It stems from the planned April launch of Sun TV, a Canadian analog to FOX News—i.e., a broadcast news outlet with a decidedly conservative perspective. Among its top executives is a former communications director to conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, evoking former Reagan/Bush adviser Roger Ailes’ role at the helm of FOX. That executive, Kory Teneycke, told the Toronto Star that Sun TV is “taking on the mainstream media [...] smug, condescending, often irrelevant journalism, we’re taking on political correctness [...] by bureaucrats for elites and paid for by taxpayers.”"
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"This is the one they said couldn't be done. The Democratic Party and United Wisconsin both passed on this opportunity, so one local citizen, Lori Compas of Fort Atkinson, started the recall against Fitz on her own." Daily Kos
For more go to recallfitz.com.
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Based on Mike Tompkins’ a cappella version of Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite”.
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On October 22, more than 100 Occupy Iowa activists gathered outside President Obama's campaign headquarters in Des Moines to protest his failure to stand up for the 99 percent. That same day, John Stauber, the founder of the corporate watchdog Center for Media and Democracy, suggested in a Truthout op-ed that the protest could be the start of something bigger. "In Iowa an Occupy Obama movement has real potential because it could choose to become a player in the Iowa caucuses in a way that is much more than symbolic," he wrote. "Occupy Obama activists could show up at the caucus meetings in January, for instance, and organize support for an Uncommitted slate of Occupy Obama convention activists." In other words, determined occupiers could inject some unexpected turbulence into Obama's glide path toward being named the Democratic nominee. Read More Here | Mother Jones
"The rule says that any time 4 or more people gather at an event in the state capitol not deemed to be "spontaneous", those people would need a permit. By last Friday, the DOA had been shamed into making some minor adjustments to the policies, exempting families and lobbyists from the permit requirements. Before the changes, though, I had already applied for a permit for my family for Sunday, December 18th, from 3:20 pm to 3:30 pm on the second floor of the capitol rotunda. I had filled in the "crowd estimate " at 4.
Under "proposed use" I had explained that it was a family gathering. We planned to take a family photo holding a sign that said "Merry Christmas from Wisconsin", and that we would say a prayer and videotape ourselves humming "Away in a Manger."" Read More Here | Daily Kos:
www.progressive.orgDespite Gov. Scott Walker’s edict that no more than three people can gather inside the capitol for a demonstration without a permit, about 1,000 people joined the Solidarity Sing-along at noon on Monday.
In the first study to examine cereal-buying patterns in homes in the United States, researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity found that African-American and Hispanic families are most likely to buy cereals that are advertised directly to children, which are also the least nutritious cereals. The study appears online in the journal Public Health Nutrition.
Researchers used data from the Nielsen Company to study cereal purchases by U.S. households over the course of a year. They looked at purchases by households with and without children and analyzed the families’ race, ethnicity, and income. Each cereal was given a score for its nutritional quality, whether it was advertised on TV, and whom the advertising targeted. Read More Here | YaleNews
With a month to go, activists trying to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker have collected more than 507,000 signatures in just a month's time, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin announced Thursday.
Walker foes need at least 540,208 signatures to trigger a recall election of the first-term governor. It's now obvious they'll easily surpass that requirement. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin, part of the coalition of groups spearheading the recall effort, say they hope to gather 720,000 signatures by the end of the two-month window. They say that's a large enough cushion to account for legal challenges and bogus signatures thrown out by recall activists and the Wisconsin elections board, which ultimately vets the signatures. Read More Here | Mother Jones
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ARIZONA IS CALLING FOR A DIVERSITY OF TACTICS TO SHUT DOWN THE UPCOMING ALEC CONFERENCE IN SCOTTSDALE, AZ ON NOVEMBER 30TH.
ALEC thinks they're meeting in Scottsdale, AZ this November...
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a massive non-profit
body that brings corporations and legislators together to draft "model"
legislation. For example, AZ Senator Russell Pearce and Corrections
Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest private prison firm,
have been members for years. ALEC finalized the model legislation which
became, almost word for word, Arizona's SB1070, aka "Support Our Law
Enforcement." It's the latest in the historical pattern of colonization,
slave codes, convict leasing, and the drug war, that CREATES crimes and
therefore criminals, for profit.
With British Petroleum (BP) and the Koch brothers as some of their
funders, ALEC has pushed for Three Strikes and Mandatory Minimum
sentencing, as well as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. More than 200
of ALEC's model bills became actual laws throughout the country over the
past year.
We're a group of people in occupied Indigenous lands, now called Arizona,
who demand the end of SB1070 and 287g, the criminalization—and then the
incarceration—of migrants, and the militarization of the border. We oppose
private prisons, detention centers, and security companies, not simply
because they are private, but because we are sickened by profiteering on
human misery. ALEC desires "free markets" and "limited government,"
which means they use the state to support profit-making, the continuance
of colonization, and neo-liberal policies (NAFTA, CANAMEX, etc.) that draw
lines, make laws, and build freeways and prisons to exploit labor and the
earth.
Whether maintained by the state or corporations, we're against all systems
of control. We are for freedom of movement for all people.
ALEC should know there are a million better things to do with their time
than plotting mass incarceration. But there's nowhere we'd rather be than
confronting their meeting. We're calling for four days of action here in
occupied Onk Akimel O'odham lands from November 29th -- December 3rd, 2011, with an emphasis for action on November 30th (N30!). We encourage a
creative diversity of tactics on N30, the 12th anniversary of the Seattle
uprising against the WTO. No matter the acronym, ALEC is no different
than all the other gangs of businessmen, politicians, and bureaucrats that
we've been resisting for over 500 years.
In solidarity with everyone locked up and locked down in AZ, and all
O'odham, Yaqui, Lipan Apache separated by the border, and anyone
dispossessed by the wealthy and powerful...
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