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A convicted racist who burned a Koran in front of city centre shoppers has been jailed for 70 days after a judge described the act as “theatrical bigotry”. He is a member of the virulently racist and arguably fascist English Defence League. Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, who is Scottish and part of our weekly Polizeros [...] The vice chairman of SunFirst Bank, a small bank with four branches in southern Utah, was released from jail Monday after surrendering his passport. He will stand trial on federal money laundering charges for using the bank to process money from online poker sites in exchange for a $10 million investment in the bank [...] A diarist on Daily Kos, tmax, dared to suggest that Obama should start his own party, a Progressive Party, no less, one that would be free of party insiders and actually Get Stuff Done. He was of course forced to meekly apologize for his heresy in advocating for a third party. And here I thought [...] Walker Evans: Floyd and Lucille Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama. 1936 From the introduction to Rainbow Pie. A Redneck Memoir, by Joe Bageant. The United States has always maintained a white underclass — citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cushion national economic shocks through the disposability of their [...] Exelon City Solar is generating solar power in Chicago and was built on a brownfield. Rather then pay to clean up the site totally, the city simply put solar on it. Other cities are doing the same. Hmmm. But what about all the glop in the soil that will still be seeping into the [...] Scotland has the tidal power. This project will generate 8 MW and cost £40 million. Maybe someday, and not too far off either, Scotland will generate most of its power from tides and wind. Gov. Brown signed SBX1 2 into law last week. It raises the amount of renewable energy that all state utilities must use to 33% by 2020. Previously, it was 20% and only applied to some utilities. This is by far the most ambitious clean energy plan in the nation. But that didn’t stop Brown [...] Because both parties keep throwing money at endless wars, endless bailouts and a Ponzi financial system. The problem is not one party or the other. The problem is the capture and co-optation of the federal government by the military-industrial complex, the financial industry, and corporations in general. Our government is beholden to them not [...] The TBTF banks seem immune from criminal prosecution because the Fed has so many “investments” with them (AKA toxic garbage being kept on the books at phony prices) while major corporations pay zero income tax which means the rest of us make up the difference. Do we still have government of, by, and for [...] |  | ||||
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