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Category Archives: Passing Oceania
Passing Oceanea In Egypt
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Share the post “Passing Oceanea In Egypt”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailTo understand why Al Jazeera is important, you must first have watched countless hours of Arab state media prior to the satellite channel’s existence. I was subjected to those countless hours of state-sanctioned news … Continue reading
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Passing Oceania Again
Share the post “Passing Oceania Again”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailWikiLeaks cables draw the standard picture of oligarchy in decline: The country’s ruling family is described as “The Family” — a mafia-esque elite who have their hands in every cookie jar in the entire economy. … Continue reading
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Virtual Reality Living
Share the post “Virtual Reality Living”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailIt’s time for a bloody magazine; my bookmarks folder with the above title is bulging onscreen and begging for subcategorization. In case you have not heard, virtual reality can kill. From Australia, we learn that … Continue reading
Google Earth Helps End Mountaintop Removal
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Share the post “Google Earth Helps End Mountaintop Removal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is a great video about the power of open technology platforms to empower citizens. Plus I have met Lorelei Scarbro, and she is teh awesome. What’s happening in Appalachia is a … Continue reading
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Glenn Beck Passes Oceania
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Share the post “Glenn Beck Passes Oceania”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailShamelessly stolen from Bob Cesca, this pair of videos perfectly encapsulates the reason I reject Glenn Beck’s doom-bunker tinfoil-hattery: “Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. … Continue reading
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Judd Gregg Meets Gibson’s Law
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Share the post “Judd Gregg Meets Gibson’s Law”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSenator Judd Gregg, R-NH, says he will use hundreds of procedural objections to block health care reform if Democrats use the budget reconciliation rule. He told The Hill that he’ll fight against a … Continue reading
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Dear Lynn Jenkins
Share the post “Dear Lynn Jenkins”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailDear Lynn Jenkins, R-Whitehope: I was ready to give you the benefit of the doubt. When you apologized for saying the GOP needs to find a “great white hope” to take on the Democrats, I … Continue reading
Teabag Terror Becomes a Liability
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Share the post “Teabag Terror Becomes a Liability”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is how the Democrats will turn the Teabag Terror into a Republican liability: As I said in June: Faux Noise has created a monster. I call it “The Teabag Terror.” Shepard Smith … Continue reading
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Passing Oceania
Share the post “Passing Oceania”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI am writing this blog into a Firefox extension. For those of you unfamiliar with Firefox, it’s an open-source web browser that lets me add functionalities at will through extensions and add-ons — little bits of … Continue reading
