Right story, wrong reaction - The Center for Public Integrity

Seeded on Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:23 PM EDT (The Center for Public Integrity)

Typically the consumptive bottom-line cheating-culture corporate MSM is missing the point & the story: instead of investigating the details of how the FBI infiltrates its innards, it has opted to focus on the sensationalism of putting a face to a name, even at the expense of actu …

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Lawyers Overcome County's Opposition to Win a Neglect Finding for a Mexican Abuse Victim

Seeded on Fri Apr 1, 2011 10:10 AM EDT (New York Law Journal)

A heartwarming victory is only marred by the situation itself: one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S.

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Immigration Impact Â» Blog Archive Â» New Report Highlights Economic Destructiveness of S.B. 1070-Style Laws

Seeded on Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:33 AM EDT (Immigration Impact)

"The fans of anti-immigrant laws such as Arizona's infamous SB 1070 often claim that they are trying to save the jobs and tax dollars of average, hard-working Americans.

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Video by @PuenteAZ: Arizona 101 | Freedom From Fear Award

Seeded on Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:56 PM EDT (Freedom From Fear Awards)

This is a phenomenal video of the immigrant rights community in southern Arizona & their battle last summer against Governor Jan Brewer's draconian legislation regime....

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Police Chiefs Frustrated over Local Immigration Enforcement | Deportation Nation

Seeded on Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:52 AM EDT (Deportation Nation)

Another report from police chiefs denigrating the ACCESS programs' inevitable results of destroying all the trust which they have spent years building with the immigrant community & driving that population underground into a world of fourth-class citizenship!

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Immigration Impact Â» Blog Archive Â» Report on Birthright Citizenship Low on Facts, High on Fantasy

Seeded on Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:05 AM EDT (Immigration Impact)

Go figure that when a CIS report's author feels that they need to use a pseudonym that that report is going to be full of hate speech and vitriol! Why can't they just face the facts? Because the facts are not on their side!

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Mexico drug war: U.S. agents short-staffed and under the gun in Mexico - latimes.com

Seeded on Tue Mar 8, 2011 11:59 AM EST (The L.A. Times)

The crucial part of this article comes towards the end where Rene Jaquez states the obvious conclusion that LEOs are not going to go even if the U.S. government affords the ATF the desperately needed resources to actually conduct its operations - we can't protect them!

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Children in Immigrant Families: Ensuring Opportunity for Every Child in America | First Focus

Seeded on Tue Mar 8, 2011 10:39 AM EST (First Focus)

This latest report by Wendy Cervantes and Donald J. Hernandez of First Focus shows that we cannot afford to ignore the needs of the children of immigrants.

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ThinkProgress Â» As Subprime College Industry Ramps Up Lobbying, Phony Letters Attack Reform Proponents

Seeded on Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:53 AM EST (Think Progress)

I can already hear the same old lame questions like: "Why don't people just avoid anything labelled 'sub-prime'?" A more important question might be: "Why can't We The People have a lobbying power to rival that of the financial titans in Congress?"

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Mitch Daniels faces tea party heat - Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com

Seeded on Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:34 PM EST (Politico)

It's comforting to know that at least some Republicans are standing up to the newly-established orthodoxy, as Daniels here shows by calling for a "truce" in the culture wars so that government can deal with the financial crises we are all facing....

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Murder Trial in Tucson Shows Rift in Minuteman Border Movement - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:46 AM EST (The New York Times)

An overview of the trial of Shawna Forde in Tucson tells us little we don't already know.... I kept missing the fact that she was a beautician....

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Pax Christi Summit: Financial Gain from Federal Immigration Detention Contract Will Not Outweigh the Human Cost

Seeded on Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:54 AM EST (paxsummit.blogspot.com)

A fascinating overview of the issues surrounding the expansion of immigrant detention in Essex County, New Jersey, & around the country....

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Military's 'Restricted Reporting' Draws Fire | Womens eNews

Seeded on Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:11 AM EST (Women's E-News)

How can anyone justify threatening rape victims with a Bad-Conduct Discharge if they dare to speak out about their assaults? I'm just dying to hear the argument, if you've got one!

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Arizona lawmakers don't vote on citizenship bill

Seeded on Wed Feb 9, 2011 10:42 AM EST (The Arizona Republic)

The show at the Capitol yesterday sounds hysterical alright: everyone from the most ardent advocate of children's rights to the most extreme right-wing nativist! The only thing to which I can imagine comparing it is the endless array of comments at the end of the article....

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â��The Police Took Mommyâ��: How Reporting a Crime Nearly Resulted in Deportation for Florida WomanÂ |Â Florida Center for Investigative Reporting

Seeded on Mon Feb 7, 2011 10:58 AM EST (Florida Center for Investigative Reporting)

Rick Scott says that he's going to focus on jobs, education, and the rule of law; but Gary Borders is running Lake County like his own personal mafia! And the governor is instead involved in promoting an Arizona SB1070-copycat bill - I guess that's his definition of rule of law!

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Postville documentary criticizes sentencings | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com

Seeded on Mon Feb 7, 2011 10:20 AM EST (The Des Moines Register)

Apparently, Tony Leys of the Des Moines Register has finally discovered this incredible documentary by Luis Argueta of the ICE raids at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa & the impact which it had on that midwestern town & the families involved.

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PERRspectives: The Triple Legacy of Ronald Reagan

Seeded on Sun Feb 6, 2011 8:10 PM EST (Perrspectives)

Another quality critique of the Glib Dipper! Remember that famous slogan that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts?

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Egypt through the US media lens - Inside Story - Al Jazeera English

Seeded on Sun Feb 6, 2011 7:07 PM EST (AL JAZEERA)

Fascinating debate about the MSM's power or lack thereof over the outcome of the revolution on the streets of Cairo....

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Christine Assange demands apology from PM

Seeded on Sun Feb 6, 2011 2:35 PM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)

I would also appreciate an apology.... Anyone?

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Mubarak Mobs and Street Vendors: Welcome to Egypt

Seeded on Sun Feb 6, 2011 11:10 AM EST (Reader Supported News)

An interesting little tidbit of on-the-ground coverage by my dear friend Medea Benjamin - of CODEPINK & Global Exchange helped me remember that I forgot to include the most obvious & important in the ranks of the counterrevolutionaries: the police!

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2 Reporters Saw Egypt Secret Policeâ��s Methods - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sun Feb 6, 2011 10:56 AM EST (The New York Times)

If you were fascinated by the treatment of Couric & Anderson, you should be mesmerized by the way the rest of the foreign press is being handled by the Mukhabarat - though not surprised as they have been trained & funded by the CIA for decades!

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Mubarak's Hired Thugs: Rural Poor Paid to Attack Opposition Supporters - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Seeded on Sun Feb 6, 2011 10:22 AM EST (SPIEGEL ONLINE)

Typical dictatorial tactics on display here in Cairo & Alexandria: import the poor, migrant workers and combine them with the corrupt bureaucratic officials who have become the nouveau riche through the dispensation of the regime & employ them at critical junctures to counter the …

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Five myths about Ronald Reagan's legacy

Seeded on Sat Feb 5, 2011 5:10 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Contrary to what I'm sure you're going to hear this weekend: Reagan was not one of our most popular presidents, both during his reign & for the first decade after it (how quickly we forget!);

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We fought a war on lies, and lies won - Joan Walsh - Salon.com

Seeded on Fri Feb 4, 2011 10:24 AM EST (Salon.com)

A crucial reminder that myths are precisely that: halfway between fact/truth & lies/falsity! As Joan says:

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The Super Bowl of Sex Trafficking

Seeded on Fri Feb 4, 2011 9:47 AM EST (Newsweek)

Words from the street in Cairo echo in my mind, "It's time for change!" We need to legalize prostitution so that we can regulate it and protect children from being exploited!

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