Blindman's Buff #231
by JOHN ROSS

MEXICO CITY (Dec. 2nd) - The fiery November 4th crash of a private Lear jet here not a mile from Los Pinos, the Mexican White House, that killed President Felipe Calderon's closest collaborator Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino was largely buried by the U.S. press, coming as it did on Election Day USA and the subsequent eruption of Obamamania.

December 1st, 2008
by William Blum
www.killinghope.org

Okay, let's get the obvious out of the way. It was historic. I choked up a number of times, tears came to my eyes, even though I didn't vote for him. I voted for Ralph Nader for the fourth time in a row.

Bob Maschi posting to the Blog for Peace and Freedom writes:

President-Elect Barack Obama continued his absorption of the former Clinton administration today by appointing Bill Clinton President of the United States. This development comes after Obama named a majority of former Clinton administration people to his transition team including Rahm Emanuel, Jacob Lew and Carol Browner. Fully 2/3 of his appointees, so far, have past connections to the Clinton administration including Hillary Clinton (recently named his Secretary of State).

Gallery 25 ArtHop Dec. 4th -
"Affordable Art" G25 Fundraiser and "Artist In Residence/Armenian Exchange". A G25 fundraiser for the month of December will have affordable art work for $100.00 or less. Also, G25 will have an "Artist in Residence/Armenian Exchange" who will be artist Hrach Vardanyan from Armenia. His work will be displayed along with the artist drawing during gallery hours. In exchange a G25 member will travel to Armenia respresenting the "Artist in Residence" from G25.
Exhibition Date: Dec. 4th - 20th 2008
ArtHop Reception: Dec. 4th from 5-8p.m.

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

November 26, 2008
PART 2 - IN PRACTICE

The Observer Smears Climate Activism

Despite the fine words of the ’Living Our Values’ audit, the Guardian and the Observer are part of a corporate system that is determined to prevent the public from interfering with the maximisation of profits.

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

November 25, 2008
PART 1 - IN THEORY

Hectoring And Censoring - And Climate Catastrophe

"I wanted my guitar to sound thin, clean and clanky. Not chunky. distorted and mach. My philosophy at the time being that this puny sound was in the true nature of this instrument...the first truly modern instrument. The first scientific industrial instrument...clean, metalic, precise, yet funky and African...the first instrument to embody our young culture, not the modern culture of Europe with its international aesthetic, but "American" cool-African-futuristic-trash-aesthetic.

– By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA ~ NY Times.

SAN DIEGO — Over the last two years, some of this city’s darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.

By JACQUES STEINBERG - NY Times.

When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago — claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a “60 Minutes” segment about President Bush’s National Guard service — the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it derided as “old news.”

So far, Mr. Rather has spent more than $2 million of his own money on the suit. And according to documents filed recently in court, he may be getting something for his money.

by Ramzy Baroud

There are a few buzzwords that every American politician, aiming for high office must utilize, even if disingenuously, to have a reasonable chance at getting elected.