The Gut Reaction Journal

(4/5/2012)

Delays, delays, delays.  Sorry but sometimes we fall behind in our work. But Issue 107 is done and here it is.
First, I take far too much time talking about the Trayvor Martin case.  The shooting of a teenager by a Neighborhood Watch volunteer.  Ordinarily, we don’t even talk about these cases, but I have a different look at this one (hint: it’s nothing like what the media has been feeding you).
Next, a fun little quiz you might want to take. Then a little more on the push for war with Iran and the lies about the XL pipeline.
Plus, I tell you about an invasion of privacy case regarding a teenager, her school and her Facebook password.
Then, a little on my response to a Facebook poster about Occupy and why he thinks it’s their fault because the sheep don’t listen.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”– Edward R. Murrow

And the Good Guy is a computer charity.

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UPDATE: Apparently a lot of us were fooled (4/1) by the announcement that Keith Olbermann was moving to Russel Simmons’ Daily Grind website. I should have checked the calendar.  Sorry about that.

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(3/21/2012)

This weeks of outrages starts off with ISPs (with no governmental or legal oversight) policing the Internet against illegal downloads and threatening to shut down people who THEY say are illegally downloading copyrighted content.  But it looks to us like another likely backdoor effort to police the Web for anything they want.
dottech.org story on ISPs - C-Net story – The Majority Report/Sam Seder

How the Obama Administration is using the Patriot Act and how he is just continuing the overuse of that law (that passed with almost no one reading it) and how two Democratic Senators on the Intelligence Committee call the President out on it.
NY Times Story – The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur

Whistleblowers and how the government really sees them and how the President campaigned in support of them but changed his tune when he moved into the White House.  Salon article says Obama is just continuing the Bush Administration’s habit of secrecy.  Salon Article

Occupy News: How NYPD is asking Twitter to snoop on Occupy members and how that same Police Department illegally ejected the Occupy members from Zucotti Park on their 6-month anniversary.  “Occupied Wall Street Journal”
Firedog Lake story on the Occupy raid – Ana Kasperian of The Young Turks reports on the NYPD snooping on Occupy Twitter accounts

Snopes article on “bottle bombs” (works bombs)

This week’s Good Guy:  Some guy who made a couple of fairly decent movies.

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(2/5/12)
This week we start with a little on Rick Santorum, the presidential candidate who, in our opinion is the most ANTI-freedom, while acting as though he is the most PRO-freedom candidate in the bunch.
Then there’s some more on the XL pipeline and the scam the government is pulling on us over it.
After that we move into the business of the oil speculators who deliberately jack up our gas prices for more profit.
The “Occupy News” segment features a private intelligence company, a “shadow CIA” that is spying on Occupy for the government and an article called “Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it”.  If you support Occupy this is must read stuff.
This week’s Good Guy is John Pike, the head of a new group called America Wants You, a group devoted to securing jobs for the over 800,000 returning troops by working with employers to hire our vets.

Article on XL Pipeline & Political contributors from the energy industry
The New American on where the XL oil will go – Huffington on XL
Rolling Stone on Stratfor spying on Occupy – RT News on Stratfor spying  CNN/Rushkoff article on Occupy

This week’s Good Guy”  John Pike and America Wants You – Their Facebook Page

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(2/27/2012)
This week it’s all about oil.  Why the price is so high and who is driving it up and why.
The Good Guy is Larry Ellison, CEO and Founder of Oracle.  The one percenter  who is giving away billions.

Oil Speculators – More about Oil – Still more about oil

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(1/16/2012)
This week I take a look at the amendment to the much-needed Highway Bill that Senator Roy Blunt added to allow all employers to deny anything in their healthcare plan that they didn’t like.
Delaware’s Medical Marijuana bill can be shot down by the feds despite it being medically necessary for a lot of sick people.
How Andrew Breitbart got his ass handed to him by Keith Olbermann after Breitbart posted a story that said 17 rapes occurred at Occupy sites and the perpetrators were Occupiers themselves.  Olbermann show how every ONE of those charges were lies.
Also, Tea Party members, Militiamen and CPAC attendees AND Occupiers have a few beers down the street from the CPAC convention and they all find common purpose and agreement.
Plus, my guest appearance on Occupation Station, the Occupy Movement’s call-in talk show in Delaware.
And this week’s Good Guy is John and Laura Arnold, the 1%-ers who pledged to give away half their fortune.

The Delaware News Journal’s account of how the feds can overrule state law about medical marijuana
Keith Olbermann debunks Andrew Breitbart about rapes at Occupy sites.
The “Beer Summit” where Occupiers, Militiamen, Tea Party members and CPAC attendees have a beer and find they agree on a lot of things
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation
My guest appearance on the Occupation Station talk show

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(2/5/2012)

This week I talk about the unintended consequences of all the GOP Primary attack ads and how they may hurt whoever the nominee is.  Also, I try to make some sense of Newt Gingrich’s outrageous promise to put 13,000 people on the Moon.
Plus, the government’s continuing efforts to destroy the Occupy Movement and a little about Occupy Delaware’s new talk show.

And, this week’s Good Guy is Annie Leonard, host of The Story of Stuff and other stories.

Dismantling Occupy DC – Gingrich’s Moonbase ideas – The Story of Stuff
The Story of Citizens United vs. the FEC – Story of Stuff Project

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(1/10/2012)

This week I look at a few outrageous assaults on our freedom, or speech and our very citizenship.  A new bill will allow the government to strip the very citizenship from Americans, all in the name of “protecting” us from terrorism with the “enemy expatriation act.
The State of Montana might be facing a Supreme Court assault on a 100 year old law that stops corporations from shoveling money into political campaigns.
And a judge rules that the US Government can snoop into your Twitter account, as well as look at everyone you’ve ever contacted online.

Plus:  lousy cold…throat closing like a store next to WalMart, and technical problems forces abrupt end to show.

Wikileaks and Twitter - Montana and “Citizens United” 1 – Montana article2
Citizens United vs. FEC explained – Slate article on Montana
Enemy Expatriation Act – Comedy group-Temple Horses

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(12/23/2011)
This week we start with a couple of Christmas shoutouts and a look at Iraq after we finally left.  Few of us were saying that Iraq would start to fall apart after we left, and now they are with apparent sectarian violence just less than two weeks after our departure.  I’m thinking they’re gonna need those thousands of soldiers to protect our brand new, biggest in the world embassy over there.
Also, I look at food waste in this country and how so many poor Americans could benefit if we just tightened up on all this spoilage.
And new numbers now show that there are 1.6 MILLION children in American who are homeless.  This national disgrace means that 1 in 45 American children don’t have a home to call their own and to grow up in.  We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Finally, we look at Occupy Wall Street and all the other Occupy groups across the country and I find myself in the recruitment business for Occupy.  We are ALL invested in what Occupy is protesting and it’s time we showed it.

This week’s Good Guy is Brother Ronald Giannone, who started the Ministry of Caring here in Wilmington, Delaware.

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And to all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Forbes Magazine article on NDAA — Mother Jones article on NDAA 
BBC article on Iraq violence — Wasted food — Brother Ronald Giannone

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(12/11/2011)
This week I look at the low poll numbers and lack of trust in the whole government, from the President, Congress and the government as a whole.  That raises the question, why do we keep voting for these people when we almost universally hate them.  A recent Gallup poll has Congressional approval at the lowest number since Gallup started polling in 1958!
So, why is Congress filled with career politicians?

And we look at the poor, the very poor and the soon to BE poor in America.

Gallup ratings:  Congress   Obama  NY Times poll distrust government
EconomicCollapseBlog article on poverty in America
Charity Navigator: charities that assist the poor

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(12/6/2011)

This one has just a few of the many things I could talk about this week.  I start with insider trading.  What’s illegal for everyone else is OK for Congress.  100,000 jobs in November and what it really means, a bill in Congress that would allow the military to arrest and detain indefinitely American citizens (and apologies for the angry rant), how the Occupy Movement is the same as corporations, and a very low class way to make a buck off the President of the United States.

The National Defense Act – the National Defense Act pt2 – Unemployment #s
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America

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