Is Occupy Bigger Than Jesus?

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Judging by global search trends, the Occupy Movement is not bigger than Jesus, but for a time it was bigger than Lady Gaga: But in the news Occupy was definitely bigger than Jesus this summer and fall, at least until …

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Americans Elect finally reveals Reason for keeping Donors’ Names Secret: Americans would Talk about Them

At long last, the privatized presidential nomination called Americans Elect has explained why it is keeping the names of its big money donors a secret from the public. Their reason: if the public knew their names, Americans might say something …

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Anti-Consumerist Video, With Advertisements By Sensodyne

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There’s this video I was just directed to, by a YouTube user working under the name “ReligiousAntagonist”. The video purports to be a protest against consumerism, but right across the bottom for the whole thing is a string of revolving advertisements for consumer products like Sensodyne toothpaste.

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Americans Elect Press Secretary: Y’all Haven’t Read the Rules and Bylaws I Can’t Keep Straight

In 4 months and 3 days, Americans Elect will hold its first vote in the nation’s first-ever corporate privatized online-only presidential nomination. In a press release dated yesterday, Americans Elect Press Secretary Ileana Wachtel chastised two of Barack Obama senior …

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What is My Habit?

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What you see to your right is the entire, uncropped advertisement for My Habit, which offers “up to 60% off coveted brands.” Brands of what, though? Can you guess? And how does this advertisement relate?

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Christine Todd Whitman Goes on TV and Promotes Jon Huntsman a Sixth Time, Violating Americans Elect Bylaws

She’s done it five times before; this is the sixth. The Americans Elect bylaws are very specific, as an Americans Elect Director, Christine Todd Whitman is not supposed to “communicate or act in favor of or in opposition to any …

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Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Americans Elect, Jon Huntsman and No Labels

“A not-for-profit organization, called Americans Elect is establishing ballot access in all 50 states for the candidates for president and vice president in 2012 who will be nominated directly by the people in an online nominating process. The sophisticated website …

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After Buddy Roemer Announces, who’s listening to whom? Americans Elect Twitter Network, 12-2011

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Time 1. Buddy Roemer makes an appearance at an Americans Elect promotional event. Time 2. Americans Elect presents its finding that Buddy Roemer is the American politician who has the best “National Match” with the will of the American people. …

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James Delingpole: Once, Twice, Three Times a Liar on Obama, Gore and Carter

Conservative gadfly James Delingpole sent out an blast e-mail yesterday seeking to score points against Democratic occupants of the White House for, oddly enough, having not been George Patton: 336th Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Force them to sit down …

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Americans Elect Leader: Mitt Romney doesn’t have Big enough Balls

Americans Elect says it doesn’t “support or oppose any particular candidate” for President in 2012. But Americans Elect Leader Mark McKinnon just went on MSNBC to declare that Mitt Romney is lacking in the testicular department. What do you call that?

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Americans Elect COO Elliot Ackerman Fibs Twice on National Television

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Last week, Americans Elect Chief Operating Officer Elliot Ackerman appeared on Chris Matthews’ national show Hardball to talk up his billionaire father’s corporate presidential election system. But Chris Matthews and guest David Corn had a few questions for him: Through …

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Petition for Vapid Obama Response: Who’s Signing? Will it go Over the Top?

In October, I noticed the White House’s new “We The People” website feature in which American citizens are encouraged to post petition signatures online and the President promises to post a response if the number of signatures surpasses some threshold. …

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Book Review: Vultures’ Picnic by Greg Palast

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I’d like to be able to recommend Greg Palast’s latest book to you; I agree with its tone of outrage and many of its conclusions. But the book’s substance is so poorly substantiated, and so overwhelmed by the mission of promoting the character of Gumshoe Greg Palast, that despite its righteous tone it is nearly useless to a critical reader. For these reasons I can’t recommend Vultures’ Picnic to you. When Greg Palast decides to start acknowledging and sharing his sources, we’ll all be able to evaluate his work more transparently and his words will have greater value.

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… But It Will Have More Bicycles

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The Freeway Blogger doesn’t appear to have been active for a few years, but some of those signs are timeless:

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Interpreting Academish

It’s got Marx, and symbols, and psychoanalysis… but what the heck does it mean, and why does it matter?

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Breaking News: Americans Elect Leader thinks Americans Elect is a Great Idea

In its latest piece of press release “news,” the 501c4 corporation to nominate a presidential candidate called Americans Elect shares the considered analysis of one Mark McKinnon, described by Americans Elect as a “Columnist” and a “political media strategist”: But …

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How to Help Re-Stock the Occupy Wall Street Library

The Occupy Wall Street Library is Dead. Long Live the Occupy Wall Street Library. Help the library re-stock after the NYPD literally trashed their 5,000+ book collection early this morning. Send your books to The UPS Store Re: Occupy Wall …

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Bloomberg and NYPD shut down Free Press to shut down Assembly and Dissent in New York City

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Journalist Ryan Devereaux of the radio news show Democracy Now! has been reporting on the forcible clearing and trashing of the occupation of Zuccotti Park early this morning in New York City. According to Devereaux, the NYPD not only has …

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