Kirk James Murphy, M.D.

This Friday 134 million American lemmings with credit cards will clog roads, parking lots, and cash registers, scurrying and reaching and inching along together to take hold of dead stuff. Then they’ll all reverse course, dragging the dead objects with them. This Friday 134 million American lemmings with credit cards will clog roads, parking lots, and cash registers, scurrying and reaching and inching along together to take hold of dead stuff. Then they’ll all reverse course, dragging the dead objects with them. Most of the objects they’ll burn lots of carbon to acquire travelled to America in huge ships burning lots of carbon (and toxic bunker fuel): manufacturing these objects burnt more carbon.

How else can we spend this Friday?

How did 43% of America’s population end up doing synchronized Anthropocene fire dances on a dangeously warming planet?

The usual suspects: Freud’s nephew and the Philadelphia Police Department.

Tags: Black Friday, bunker fuel, Buy Nothing Day, Century of the Self, Edward Bernays, Global climate change, global warming, MOVE, Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Police Department

We activists have years to defeat corporatism: single payer is one front in that very long war. Many of the indigent patients I’ve seen these last years – like many of the other 40 million uninsured Americans – will perish during that long war. With a robust public option this year, most of these patients will survive.

Today four Northern California animal rights activists await Federal criminal trial for ghastly crimes including passing out leaflets, chalking slogans on pavement, and chanting. Oh, and using the internet to locate the indivduals they were protesting. Yes, the world’s only superpower can’t be bothered to defend us against banksters’ ursury or death from want of health care, but when it comes to leaflets, chalked slogans, and Google searches, they’re here for us. To shut us up.

Tags: ALEC, Animal Enterprise Protection Act, Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act, Barack Obama, CCR, CLDC, Department of Justice, Green Is the New Red, HLS, Huntingdon Life Sciences, Josh Harper, Lauren Regan, Representative Bobby Scott, SHAC 7, Will Potter

Last week, FOX pulled out all the teabags for their newest victim, a notorious water district in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Meet their victim of the month, Westside Water District: half the size of Connecticut, laden with farmers who get triple Federal subsidies (crop, water, electricity), and in hock to us all for $480 million.

Tags: Arnold, Bechtel, California Latino Water Coalition, Cochabamba, Contra Costa Water Distict, Dan Bacher, Fox News, Governor Schwarzenegger, Lloyd G Carter, Mendota, Paul Rodriguez, Peripheral Canal, Peripheral Conveyance, Professor Jeffrey Michael, Shock Doctrine, teabags, UFW, Westlands Water District

This week Blue Dog Congresscritters who rely on fossil cult campaign contributions bribes for their cushy lives bravely suggested that to keep their jobs, we roast a whole planet full of other peoples’ kids: Earth. Mass suicide: the “centrist” Democrats’ new love. You see, in order for today’s kids to survive into their senior years, we adults have to stop increases in global warming gases. Chris Van Hollen and the Blue Dogs want us to do nothing.

In January Amy Gooman’s guest Allan Nairn described to Democracy Now’s audience how in 1999 Admiral Dennis Blair, Obama’s Intel Czar pick, had repeatedly supported Indonesian generals commanding Indonesian death squads in Timor, rather than obey his Commander-In-Chief’s lawful orders to tell our client generals in the Indonesian military to shut down their death squads. Today the NY Times reports that last Thursday, as Obama released the torture memos and his Adminstration told us the torture failed to produce useful results, Admiral Blair told the intel community the exact opposite. Who does Dennis Blair serve – America’s elected leaders, or the torture and death squad operatives?

Tags: Admiral Dennis Blair, Allan Nairn, Amy Goodman, Barack Obama, church wall, CIA counterterrorist center, Col Joseph Blair, death squads, East Timor, entrails, General Prabowo, General Wiranto, Indonesia, Kopassus, Liquicia, Lt Col Tom Sidwell, machete, massacre, mock executions, Rose Team, SERE, Stapleton Roy, Suharto, surgical stapler, Timor, Torture, torture memos

Ohio pig isolates are the most closely related to the new Texas and California human isolates.

Yesterday PEER reported that President Obama asked a Bushie lawyer who spent years battling for mountain top destruction coal mining to run the Federal agency that regulates mountain top destruction mining. Change you can believe in? Yes – if you believe in hiring one of Steven Griles’ helpers and forever burying ancient streams and hollows under toxic coal mining waste in a mad rush to roast the planet.

Tags: coal, glenda owens, global warming, Ken Ward Jr., Mike Roselle, mountain justice summer, mountain top removal, mountaintop destruction mining, mountaintop removal, Office of Surface Mining, OSM, PEER, Sen Byrd, Sen Rockefeller, Steven Griles, West Virginia

The “torture memos” released Thursday show us how America’s gulags systematically and deliberately committed torture – a war crime – under explicit polcies of the Bush White House Office of Legal Counsel. President Obama’s decision to release the torture memos is a major step forward for the rule of law.

Tags: America’s gulag, Attorney General, Barack Obama, CIA, Daniel Coleman, Department of Justice, DOJ, Eric Holder, FBI, Frank Donoghue, Good Germans, Holder, Little Eichmanns, M.D., Manfred Nowak, Nuremberg Principles, Nuremberg Trials, Obama, Physicians For Human Rights, Renditions, Steven Miles, The Dark Side, Torture, UN Convention Against Torture, UN’s Special Rapporteur On Torture

It’s back! Remember the 50 billion the world’s greatest zombie-feeding station debate club wanted to give away to those nice folks who just can’t keep their nuclear waste to themselves? Remember how the nuclear pork had mutated into a part of the stimulus bill, and how the House/Senate conferees excised the whole thing in February?

Tags: Amory Lovins, Budget Act, Harvey Wasserman, Mark Jacobson, Mike Crapo, nuclear pork, nuclear subsidies, nuclear waste, nukesters, Price-Anderson Act, Senator Kent Conrad, Senator Mike Crapo, Three Mile Island