Sh*t Politicians Say? Americans Elect is Saying the Same Sh*t

It’s a clever video, slickly produced. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s funny. It’s hilarious, even. But the next time Americans Elect produces a viral video criticizing the “Sh*t Politicians Say,” it might want to check its own …

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A Biological Brown Bag on Angels, Putti, Dragons and Fairies

University College London December 9 2010 Prof. Roger Wotton Seriousness descending into silliness.

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Americans Elect, FOX News and a Goat? It’s a HuntsmanRothschildPalooza

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What do Jon Huntsman, Americans Elect and a Goat have in common? None other than Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Cue cameras.

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Vermin Supreme Challenging Barack Obama for President

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Controversy in this Democrat’s presidential campaign: He has been accused of flip flopping to a pro-zombie position. “Zombies are not just to run away from any more,” he says. In order to solve the energy crisis, he proposes hooking up zombies to giant turbines, so that as they stumble and shuffle, they can generate electrical power for American cities.

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Americans Elect Officer Stages Promotional Videos with Buddy Roemer

Americans Elect is not supposed to be in the business of communicating or acting in favor of any presidential campaign. But the corporation just can’t help itself. Its latest act is to stage a fake video q-and-a session with Republican Buddy Roemer, asking questions to which it and Roemer already know the answers.

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Unusually Warm Weather Makes Non-Winter Across The North

From New England to Michigan, normal winter weather is absent from our nation’s north. We’re not hearing many jokes about the absurdity of the idea of global warming this winter.

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What Liberal Republican Establishment Is Newt Gingrich Talking About?

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Newt Gingrich says we should be afraid of -the liberal Republican establishment- What is that? Is the liberal Republican establishment a collection of congressional aides who, when the Republicans in Congress tried to shut down the federal government this year, asked if it would be possible to allow a room of five child laborers in India to remain open as a federal government call center?

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Video Urges White Supremacists To Donate To Ron Paul, Urges Violent Revolution

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The audio in this video is from Edgar J. Steele encouraging other white supremacists to give money to the Ron Paul 2008 campaign. The photograph from which this video is animated is the mug shot from when Steele was arrested for the attempted murder of his wife and mother in law. Steele was convicted of the crime this year and is now in prison. White Supremacist groups like Stormfront are gathering money to support efforts to get Steele out of prison. They assert that there was some kind of international Jewish conspiracy to frame Steele of the crime. Stormfront members are also organizing in support of Ron Paul 2012.

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Jill Stein Campaign In Talks With Rocky Anderson

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An audience member asked her whether Jill Stein would consider running on a unified presidential ticket with Rocky Anderson. Stein gave a positive answer, indicating that the Stein for President campaign has already been in cooperative talks with the Rocky Anderson for President campaign.

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Upstate New York Balmy Winter So Far

The mint in my garden is still growing. I have poppy seeds that I sowed in October that have sprouted and are now an inch high. The moss is still growing on the trees in the woods, full and lush like it usually is in springtime.

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The Liberated Consciousness of Occupy Ithaca

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To overcome the might of these armies, the Buddha merely touched the ground beneath him, the territory his source of witness to the insight of his vigil. Is that what the Occupy Ithaca protest has in mind with its low-key vigil, or are the Occupy Ithaca demonstrators waiting for King Ulysses to finally come back home, and rid the house of Ithaca of usurping squatters?

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Americans Elect Voting System Still Broken with <5 months to the First Ballot

Americans Elect is a corporation that wants to run its very own national online vote to nominate a president in less than five months. Is the Americans Elect online voting system ready to perform as any voting system must? Is …

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A Day in the Life of Freedom Plaza: Occupy DC Time Lapse Video for October 8 2011

A little subterfuge goes a long way. Before I went out and about yesterday on the ground with the Occupation of Freedom Plaza next to the White House in Washington DC, I slipped a camera of mine into the window …

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The Occupy Wall Street Anthem, Sung by Occupy Nation Oct. 8 in DC

Pete Seeger, eat your heart out. This group took to the stage in occupied Freedom Plaza in the early afternoon on October 8, 2011 as part of the extended Occupy DC protest in Washington, DC.

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Camp Casey, Freedom Plaza, Occupy Ithaca and Occupy Wall Street

Bring together Camp Casey, Occupy Wall Street, Freedom Plaza and a small protest in Ithaca, New York, and do you get a political movement?

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DC Occupation takes Freedom Plaza Drone Protest to National Air and Space Museum, with a Pepper Spray Coda

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This image shows the tail end of a march down E Street this afternoon from Freedom Plaza by the White House, down the National Mall, and over to the Air and Space Museum. At the head of this march is …

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A Peaceful Midnight Occupation of Washington DC, October 7 2011

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Following J. Clifford a day later, I’m down in Washington DC to be part of the October 2011 Coalition’s occupation of Freedom Plaza, just to the east of the White House. I just got here at midnight, and it’s a …

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Video of the Freedom Plaza Protest Against The Chamber Of Commerce

A video of the protest against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday, plus reflection upon the connection of that experience with the recent occupation protest in Madison, Wisconsin.

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