The rally against the Kochs represented a dent in their stature and power and a validation of the unity and power the other 99% in this nation can have. With it, they can indeed take their democracy off the auction block.

Over the weekend Charles and David Koch, the Tea Party’s silent financial backers, threw their annual confab. We were there in opposition!

11:11 am: Hey, waiting for the panel to begin. Bob Reich is ill and won’t be attending. Had a pre-panel meet with bloggers from a variety of sites and Van Jones, Bob Edgar of Common Cause and Lee Feng of ThinkProgress. The thrust of the meeting and today is about [...]

Tune in to this post to watch the Uncloaking the Kochs rally live! (Image of the oily Koch can is courtesy of Oil Watchdog)

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Everything is underway with this Sunday’s protest against the Koch cabal in Palm Springs. The media is building as are the images, here are just some of them.

Having fun with Purpose

Come here to see and post updates on Egypt and the Middle East following the Tunisian revolution.

When I was ages ten through thirteen, my dad would take me to the bullfights in Tijuana. My parents were long divorced then and my father had probably run out of ideas of what to do during our weekends together.

Watch President Obama’s SOTU speech tonight right here while chatting in real time with fellow members.

Because the US and California put off doing today what can be done tomorrow, 45% of the nations’ fruits and vegetable is now gone and most of California’s water supply – contaminated.

KQuark : Just wanted to say hi. Wifey and i having a lovely holiday. Cya next week. javaz : having trouble reading the screen but hello to all javaz : Hiya! KB723 : “??????” kesmarn : Did they mean $200, b’ito? Tonight, when I make soup, I’m gonna remind myself [...]

The Koch cabal is meeting this weekend in Palm Springs to plot their next steps to buy and control our democracy. Join an alliance of Progressives and moderates in exposing and protesting their destructive agenda.

In 2009, the director of the Northern Idaho Human Rights Education Institute was forced to move from Coeur d’Alene about 35 miles west to Spokane because white supremacists kept hassling her. Then in Spokane, she found a noose on her lawn.

“At one point, my son had $7,000 in a CD and I had to break it. That really hurt. I was saving that money for his college. I put $2,000 back but it’s hard.”

You are invited to add your name to this petition to join a boycott MSNBC for their cancellation of Keith Olbermann’s show.

Oh, the angst. Keith Olbermann leaves MSNBC. Well, he left “by mutual consent,” which is a euphemism for getting the sack. And people expostulate. That’s right. The Left mourn the loss of one of their own, their voice, their conscience. Spare me. A multi-millionaire Leftwing television presenter who couldn’t abide [...]

Kalima : SP’s, where did that big “S” come from? Kalima : Ok, one for the road then. Have to rush, I’ve borrowed SP’S broom. bito : Just one more, make it a double. Kalima : Look guys, I hate to mention this, but I’m here to sweep up. If [...]

Friday! Time to Play!

If you don’t know you’re in a war, you’ve already lost and corporations are counting on that.

For everyone who watched Keith Olbermann’s show last night and saw his and Arianna Huffington’s wanton and deliberate misrepresentation of President Obama’s opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, then you need to know that this is exactly the abject s-h-i-t-e, about which I ranted in my last blog: the [...]

Last week, I watched the return of Real Time with Bill Maher. I always approach each episode of that show with trepidation, because I never know whether Bill’s actually going to show up and give us a provocative hour of good common sense observations or whether he’s going to phone [...]

We now have what amounts to another debate on HCR and we need to be better prepared for it this time.
Let’s make this argument be based on facts and reality.

Where did all the money go during the financial crisis? Every day– X trillion dollars lost… Lost where? Turns out, money isn’t real at all—it’s fiction. The fictional quality is inherent in the very idea of money, as opposed to bartering goats for cloth.

On this day of tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King, a consideration of how a new campaign for social and economic justice is greatly needed today.