tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15481557440378536342012-02-22T11:12:47.501-08:00Comments and Articles on some of the important issues of our times from a bottom up perspective. We're all stakeholders. We're all in this together. Ashes to ashes, mud to mud.The Mud Reportnoreply@blogger.comBlogger477125Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationThe Mud Report Comments and Articles on some of the important issues of our times from a bottom up perspective and written by many bits of lucky mud from many places. 'We're all in this together'. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548155744037853634.post-1747022715366036902012-02-22T11:10:00.001-08:002012-02-22T11:12:47.513-08:002012-02-22T11:12:47.513-08:00

So many topics, so few fingers to type with. The Arizona debates-the Enbridge pipeline-slaughter in Syria-Greek default-the BC budget-nukes in Iran?, just to mane a few. But instead today The Mud Report is going to take on the limits of social media as a platform for organizing effective resistance to the status quo. There's no doubt that social media has played a huge and vital role in the '

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Rick's rapid rise in the polls is because the anybody but the mudslinger Moneybags Mitt contingent finds him 'likeable'. As Tony Norman's article today says "he's a principled culture warrior  who doesn't believe in evolution, man-made global warming, sex for purposes other than having children, separation of church and state...and that he'd would like to see doctors who perform abortions

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Today's reading uncovered an article-'How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street'-that says perfectly what The Mud Report has been stumbling to say recently concerning the themes of the Greek crisis and the Ron Paul revolution. It clearly explains how the $32 trillion market in credit default swaps [CDS] has everyone's economic life tettering on the brink of destruction. The author, Ellen Brown, has

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The establishment-GOP and otherwise-and the lamestream media belittle him and call him a threat. So why has Ron Paul been able to build such an impressive organization of enthusiastic supporters, nickamed the Paulistas, young and old? Why does he have such a strong 'ground game' especially in rural areas and college towns? If Ron Paul is a threat, who is he a threat to? As Ron himself says, "

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Various groups are participating in an international day of solidarity with the Greek people today [Feb. 18th]. The show of solidarity is in response to the "dictatorship of the financial markets and the troika: EU, ECB and IMF, who have imposed austerity measures and a non-elected government on the Greek people." Demonstrations are planned throughout Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain,

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Below is a copy of my comment today at The Tyee to their article BC Government Killing Forest Industry: Auditor General - Scathing report says failure to replant enough trees puts future harvests at risk When did BC sustainably manage its forests?Certainly never in the 43 years i've lived here. If we denounce Alberta as a petro-state we must accept that BC is lumber baron-state. every government

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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty got the desired results in the report on fixing the province's projected budget deficit from former TD economist Don Drummond by forbidding any recommendation of tax increases. "Absolutely the balancing of this province's books is a priority. It's something that is extremely important. But recklessly scrapping programs that people rely on while at the same time

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Today the heads of Greece’s two biggest political parties, New Democracy’s Antonis Samaras and Pasok’s George Papandreou, will meet a second demand by supplying written pledges to enact the cuts, no matter who takes power in elections in coming months, a government official in Athens said. If this actually happens it means the end of the world's oldest democracy-Greece. During this morning's

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First off, i'm a father and a grandfather who loves his kids and grandkids, who's never gone to a porn site-let alone a child porn site-in his life. i totally reject the statement that because i disagree with Harper's latest fascist policy to destroy my civil liberties that i in any way am siding with child pornographers. Authoritarians like Harper and his mouthpeice Vic Toews always hide behind

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Apparently M.I.A.'s risque gesture first appeared in 419BC when the playwright Aristophanes puns in his comedy 'The Clouds' about dactylic (finger) rhythm, with a character gesturing first with his middle finger. The Romans had their own name for it: digitus impudicus. And in 4th Century BC Athens the philosopher Diogenes told a group of visitors exactly what he thought about the orator

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"Enough is enough!" said 89-year-old Manolis Glezos, one of Greece's most famous leftists. "They have no idea what an uprising by the Greek people means. And the Greek people, regardless of ideology, have risen." Glezos is a national hero for sneaking up the Acropolis at night in 1941 and tearing down a Nazi flag from under the noses of the German occupiers, raising the morale of Athens residents

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Most economists, those who aren't mouthpieces of the bankster mafia, say that when Greece eventually defaults and leaves the eurozone, its new drachma currency would dive in value and allow the Greek economy to become internationally competitive. Exactly the same scenerio played out ten years ago in Argentina. The IMF screamed bloody murder and warned the world of impending doom if Argentina

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Today the lamestream media will be full of articles denouncing Obama as a flip-flopper because of his new healthcare contraception policy. But in order to agree or disagree with that assessment folks first gotta be able to agree on the defination of what a flip-flopper is. When talking about flip-flops here we're not talking about the Jimmy Buffet kind that blows out just before stepping on a

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Yesterday's decision by the U.S. District Court in San Diego dismissed a lawsuit brought by PETA against SeaWorld which sought to free five orca whales held by the amusement park company. The U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller wrote in his ruling that the lawsuit had no standing because the 13th amendment of the US consitution does not protect the right of 'non-persons'. "The only reasonable

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Canada's Public Safety Minister Vic Toews secretly told CSIS in December 2010 that the Harper government now expects the spy service to "make the protection of life and property its overriding priority" Including the use of information based on torture. The Harper government is arguing that the ends justify the means. Canada signed the UN Convention Against Torture which has an absolute

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Yesterday Obama said in an interview that Assad is 'feeling the noose tighten' . Obama is well skilled in rhetoric and symantics, he chooses his words very carefully, perhaps it was just bluster-but it was chilling. Again, yesteday i saw a bit of video of Hillary Clinton speaking about Assad and Syria. In this case it wasn't her words but how it appeared she'd aged 20 years in the last week or so

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The lamestream media here in North America continues to parrot remarks by Hillary Clinton and others about the UN Security Council's vote on the Arab League's motion about Syria. Hillary called it "Disgusting," "Shameful," "Deplorable," "a Travesty," and it is. But is the Russian-Chinese veto any different than 241 vetoes since 1972 on resolutions that were not beneficial to the US's own foreign

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The Sagebrush Nation is as much a state of mind as a place of open spaces, suspicion of government regulation and a stronghold of mustangs. The far flung human residents of the Sagebrush Nation believe in exercising their civil liberties and aren’t shy about letting folks know it. Today the American media's spotlight will shine on the caucuses in Nevada and by days end Moneybags Mitt will have

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Yesterday two important pieces of the Harper regime's plan to build the Gateway Pipeline, regardless of public opposition, became public. That Harper and his cronies are owned and operated by the multi-national oil oligarchy is hardly news, but these two issues outlined below clearly show that this is about more than jobs or the environment, it’s about our rights and the future of democracy in

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Science is a relatively modern system that uses a particular type of logic, deductive reasoning, in an attempt to explain reality. Logic says that: IF A+B=C, AND D+E=C, THEN A+B=D+E. Which works perfectly when debating mental constructions in a fixed, non-relativity based, world, to bad that world only exists in classrooms. For instance, many non-modern cultures based their weather predictions

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Yesterday's winner in Florida, Moneybags Mitt, calls himself a venture capitialist. During the Republican primaries his opponents Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have alternated between calling him a vulture and a vampire capitialist. Now the Vulture and Vampire Anti-Defamation League is up in arms. In an attempt to understand the angst of our distant cousins a couple of definations might be a good

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Hundreds of media outlets are parroting their corporate owners spin of the Catalyst Paper financial situation with their one sided anti-union perspective. The fact is that there are two groups who must agree to endorse the changes being demanded. One is the union locals the other is the bondholders who had to have over 2/3 in agreement for the recapitalization deal to move foward. The company

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It's Moneybags Mitt in the lead, Newt fading fast in second with Rick the righteous and outsider Ron Paul in a dead heat for last heading for the wire in Tuesday's Republican primary in Florida. The sucking sound you're hearing is the sigh of relief coming from Mitt's fellow vampire capitialist buddies on Wall St. Money talks and bullshit walks as the old saying goes. But the 'real' story, IMO,

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Between mid-Janurary and mid-Feburary is the best time to clear-temporarily-blackberries here in Cascadia. mr. mud has been slowly trying to build a perimeter fence around the hideout here in Blackpoint. The point of this fence building exercise isn't to exclude 'others' but to be a greater service to the animal rescue-especially dog rescue-people in the area. Since moving to the Powell River

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Yesterday Canada's facist in chief delivered his red meat loaded agenda to the assembled choir of billionaires in Davos Switzerland. For one thing Harpo touted Canada's strong economic condition within the developed world's economies, which is true. But, of course, he trumpted his government's actions as the major factor in Canada's position when in fact it's a combination of relatively strong

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