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• Michael Winship: New Yorks Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Michael Winship If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do. Thats probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years ago (as opposed to Washington, DC, where I once got one too many tickets and was sent to pedestrian school). ...
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• Maria Allwine: Waiting to Die in the Good Ole USA, An Angry Workers Call to Action

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Maria Allwine What if we all just stopped working? All of us -- just stopped going to work and started living the lives we talk about and long for? What if we all just stopped getting in our cars and driving through the horrific traffic that leaves us angry and spent before we even get ...
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• Nikolas Kozloff: Blackout in Brazil, Hydropower and Our Climate Conundrum

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Nikolas Kozloff Its everyones worst nightmare: being caught in an underground subway in the midst of a power outage. Yet, that is exactly what happened recently when Brazilian commuters in the city of São Paulo were trapped inside trains and literally had to be pulled out of subway ...
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• Bill Berkowitz: 2012 -- Religious Right Leader Excoriates His Own for Aiding and Abetting End Of Times Hype and Hysteria

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Bill Berkowitz Move over Nostradamus, "Rapture" kings and queens, "End Times" prophets, and Y2K hucksters. Here comes the real "end of days" brought to you by the Mayan calendar: Not! In its first weekend, the film "2012" was a box office sensation; it took in $225 million -- $65 ...
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• Michael Winship: In a Chilly London November, War and Remembrance

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Michael Winship In Great Britain, Remembrance Sunday falls on the second Sunday of November, the one closest to November 11, the anniversary of the end of the First World War in 1918.  Once, the world called November 11 Armistice Day. Now, here in the States at least, it is Veterans ...
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• Martha Rosenberg: Pig Hell at Wal-Mart Pork Supplier Captured On Video

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Martha Rosenberg "When he bolted her the first time, she didnt die. She just stood there looking stunned as blood trickled from her forehead. She then got her bearings and tried to turn and run." "The gas cart was filled to the brim with pigs today, a total of 39, including 9 large ...
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• Nikolas Kozloff: Holding the Global North Responsible for Climate Change

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Nikolas Kozloff If Lord Bertrand Russell were still alive today, the Global Norths glaring inaction on climate change would most likely appall him. One of the 20th centurys most eminent philosophers, Russell was also an outspoken critic of war and irrationality. In 1966, just as the ...
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• Off-season filler

  
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  Stat geeks dont like the Giants 2010 offense. Big surprise, eh? Check out BaseballProjection.com and click on the Giants hitters . Theres also a projection for Free Agents . OK, since I know you wont follow the links, here are the highlights: GIANTS: Sandoval .312/.356/.502 FSanchez .281/.319/.396 FA: ...
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• Andrew Lehman: Can You Tell Were in the Middle of a Powerful Democratization Surge?

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Andrew Lehman In the United States, there have been three powerful democratization surges in the last 100 years. Each featured an experience by participants of feeling part of something larger than themselves. It continues to astonish me how the one we are experiencing now is almost ...
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• Outrage is too mild a word

  
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  Ryan Zimmerman of the Nationals beat out the Giants Pablo Sandoval for the 2009 Silver Slugger Award for National League third basemen. Managers and coaches vote. Ryan Zimmerman .292/.364/.525 .888 OPS 133 OPS+ Pablo Sandoval .330/.387/.556 .924 OPS 142 OPS+ Im sure Mr. Zimmerman is a fine fellow and ...
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• Against The Grain - A Labour Recovery?

  
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  A Guest slot by Jack W (PBers in their quiet, contemplative moments will no doubt worry how a PB Titan spends his reflective moments after having polished his betting halo, plotting the next Jacobite Rising and single handedly erasing the balance of payments deficit by stint of fine pie exports alone. You need ...
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• Jacqueline Marcus: Obama and War Advisers Miss Obvious, Afghanistan Is THEIR country! U.S. Is the INVADER

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Jacqueline Marcus The New York Times reports "that the United States ambassador in Kabul has expressed written opposition to deploying more American troops to Afghanistan , baring the fierce debate within the Obama administration over the direction of the war, even after weeks of ...
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• Martha Rosenberg: Carrie Prejean Sets Limits

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Martha Rosenberg Martha Rosenberg is a Chicago-based cartoonist and freelance writer.
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• Bill Berkowitz: Evangelical Christian groups spar over immigration reform

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Bill Berkowitz   If you think that the debate over health care reform has taken some decidedly nasty, and often unexpected, turns, just wait until the issue of immigration returns to the spotlight on Capitol Hill. Imagine rowdier Town Hall meetings and a slew of anti-immigrant tea ...
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• Carl Finamore: San Franciscos Palace Hotel Says, Let Them Eat Cake

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Carl Finamore In exactly one month, San Franciscos proud, illustrious Palace Hotel will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its 1909 reconstruction after the citys devastating earthquake three years earlier. At the time of its original construction in 1875, it was considered the ...
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• Jeff Fleischer: Election 2009 -- What Have We Learned?

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Jeff Fleischer Any good statistician will preach the value of "sample size," of making sure there are enough relevant results before proclaiming a trend. Its why pollsters require a certain number of respondents and why good sportswriters know not to get too excited when a young player ...
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• Bill Berkowitz: Americas First All-Christian Prison May Be Coming Down the Pike

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Bill Berkowitz If Bill Robinson gets his way, Wakita, Oklahoma, a small town near the Kansas border consisting of 380 residents, will be the home of the first all-Christian prison in the U.S. Robinson, who runs a Dallas-based outfit called Corrections Concepts Inc. (CCI), hopes to have ...
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• ProPublica: What Health Care Reform Means For: Small Businesses

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by  Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce of ProPublica Using results from a questionnaire we did with American Public Medias Public Insight Network   , were looking at how the proposed health care reforms will actually affect people facing common health care coverage ...
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• Bill Berkowitz: Shakeup at Rev. Moons The Washington Times

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Bill Berkowitz The Rev. Sun Myung Moon-owned The Washington Times fired three top executives on Monday, November 7, "amid reports that the papers top editor might also be leaving," The New York Times reported. However, despite billion dollar losses, a series of editorial shakeups over ...
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• Richard A. Stitt: Will Republican Lies and Pornography Lead to Their Taking Back Control In 2010?

  
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  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Richard A. Stitt   The charge by all too many Republicans that Barack Obama is a Muslim justifies the hatred that spews from their racist, right-wing, paranoid mob of teabaggers and birthers. It feeds into the vitriol that keeps the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq going on precisely because ...
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