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Why is Chuck Turner in Handcuffs?
by John Andrews
[Updated from original release on 8 December 2008]
Why is Chuck Turner in Handcuffs?
The Boston media used a grainy photograph released by the FBI to conclude that Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is guilty of extortion. But the accompanying FBI affidavit, when shorn of speculation and irrelevancies, is a decidedly unconvincing document that fails to provide a legitimate law enforcement justification for the targeting of Turner. Could it be that Chuck Turner’s history as an outspoken critic of the FBI had something to do with his being targeted?
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Social Collapse Best Practices
by Dmitry Orlov
The following talk was given on February 13, 2009, at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, to an audience of 550 people. Audio and video of the talk will be available on Long Now Foundation web site.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for showing up. It's certainly nice to travel all the way across the North American continent and have a few people come to see you, even if the occasion isn't a happy one. You are here to listen to me talk about social collapse and the various ways we can avoid screwing that up along with everything else that's gone wrong. I know it's a lot to ask of you, because why wouldn't you instead want to go and eat, drink, and be merry? Well, perhaps there will still be time left for that after my talk.
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All Of Them Must Go
by Naomi Klein
All Of Them Must Go, February 5th, 2009, Reposted from naomiklein.org
Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles back in 2002: "You are Enron. We are Argentina."
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Opinion: Violence and extremism about more than public health care option
by Arthur Conquest and Merelice
Brookline Tab, Sep. 23, 2009
What could be more disturbing than having Congress and President Obama discard single-payer universal health care from consideration? Seeing gun-toting, death-threatening opponents, along with obscenely high lobbying dollars, go unchallenged by most Democrats, Republicans, and good-willed Americans alike.
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