<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:30:10.318-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Good News-Clips</title><subtitle type='html'>A place for interesting or revealing but not so good newsclips for those involved</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>51</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-8675157450147344090</id><published>2011-03-04T00:04:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T00:04:56.123-06:00</updated><title type='text'>A historic moment in the Arab world - Opinion - Al Jazeera English</title><summary type='text'>A historic moment in the Arab world - Opinion - Al Jazeera English</summary><link rel='related' href='http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113341535651130.html' title='A historic moment in the Arab world - Opinion - Al Jazeera English'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/8675157450147344090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/8675157450147344090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2011/03/historic-moment-in-arab-world-opinion.html' title='A historic moment in the Arab world - Opinion - Al Jazeera English'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-3638228611876290234</id><published>2011-02-04T02:03:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-04T02:03:31.145-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark Weisbrot, "Haiti Resists US Pressure, Announces Aristide Can Return"</title><summary type='text'>Mark Weisbrot, "Haiti Resists US Pressure, Announces Aristide Can Return"</summary><link rel='related' href='http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/weisbrot020211.html' title='Mark Weisbrot, &quot;Haiti Resists US Pressure, Announces Aristide Can Return&quot;'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/3638228611876290234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/3638228611876290234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2011/02/mark-weisbrot-haiti-resists-us-pressure.html' title='Mark Weisbrot, &quot;Haiti Resists US Pressure, Announces Aristide Can Return&quot;'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-388506485894590787</id><published>2011-02-03T19:25:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T19:50:45.322-06:00</updated><title type='text'>BACK INTO THE FRAY</title><summary type='text'>It's been some time since I've posted, but current events have been too important to simply stand aside and ignore. Facebook and Twitter are much like the 20 second news bites on TV. No real comment, and which could hastily be passed at any water cooler. Hopefully I will find the enthusiastic dedication to my blogs I had during the Bush era. No promises but should anyone read this I'll try, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/388506485894590787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/388506485894590787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2011/02/back-into-fray.html' title='BACK INTO THE FRAY'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-3529706767537138465</id><published>2011-02-03T18:57:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T20:26:25.561-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiti gets hit again</title><summary type='text'>In the midst of the revolutionary mid-east situations Hillary Clinton made a special fast visit to Haiti. No not because of the return of "Baby Doc" Duvalliere, the just as vicious son of Papa-Doc Duvalliere,the iron-handed Haitian dictator who the US supported for decades, but because of the threatened return from exile in Madagscar of the former elected President Aristeides, who had the </summary><link rel='related' href='http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/cepr030211.html' title='Haiti gets hit again'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/3529706767537138465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/3529706767537138465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2011/02/center-for-economic-and-policy-research.html' title='Haiti gets hit again'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-4540819880928728565</id><published>2007-04-24T19:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-24T20:20:44.456-05:00</updated><title type='text'>New world Order caught with it's Pants Down</title><summary type='text'>This article appeared in the Quarterly magazine of the War College of the US D.oD. in 1997.Evidently approved by the generals running the show. It's chilling perspectives are reflective of the "Parameters" advanced by the Pentagon today. Not often that one can access the reflections of one of the architechs of the machinations of this "New Century". You might not get to the meat simply by </summary><link rel='related' href='http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97summer/peters.htm' title='New world Order caught with it&apos;s Pants Down'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/4540819880928728565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/4540819880928728565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-world-order-caught-with-its-pants.html' title='New world Order caught with it&apos;s Pants Down'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-6237825483082243584</id><published>2007-04-23T13:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T13:20:15.658-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill Moyers. Back Into The Fray On PBS</title><summary type='text'>'Devastating' Bill Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming This Week</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003574260&amp;partnerID=60' title='Bill Moyers. Back Into The Fray On PBS'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/6237825483082243584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/6237825483082243584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2007/04/bill-moyers-back-into-fray-on-pbs.html' title='Bill Moyers. Back Into The Fray On PBS'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-6532500089090329529</id><published>2007-04-23T13:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T13:04:53.575-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Canadian Immigration Authorities. Flunkies of Bushisms</title><summary type='text'>Robert Fisk: Caught in the deadly web of the internet - Independent Online Edition &gt; Robert Fisk</summary><link rel='related' href='http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2469270.ece' title='Canadian Immigration Authorities. Flunkies of Bushisms'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/6532500089090329529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/6532500089090329529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2007/04/canadian-immigration-authorities.html' title='Canadian Immigration Authorities. Flunkies of Bushisms'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-115410644377468171</id><published>2006-07-28T12:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:26.361-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Israeli Missiles Rip Into Medics' Esprit de Corps</title><summary type='text'>The world has expressed outrage at the deliberate Israeli attack on an UN observation post, killing 4 UN Observers which seems to have achieved Israels aims as the UN decares it will close all it's posts in southern Lebanon. This allows Israel to hide the war crimes being committed by them daily as in this report from the LA Times not to mention the targetting of clearly marked refugee caravans.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14182.htm' title='Israeli Missiles Rip Into Medics&apos; Esprit de Corps'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/115410644377468171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/115410644377468171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2006/07/israeli-missiles-rip-into-medics.html' title='Israeli Missiles Rip Into Medics&apos; Esprit de Corps'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-115410477720629805</id><published>2006-07-28T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:26.240-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Writers Protest Israel's War on Lebanese</title><summary type='text'>A Letter to the Pressfrom 18 writers - including 3 Nobel Prize recipients.The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine beganwhen Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother,from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in theTurkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israelisoldier prisoner - and proposed a negotiated exchange </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/115410477720629805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/115410477720629805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2006/07/writers-protest-israels-war-on.html' title='Writers Protest Israel&apos;s War on Lebanese'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-115410326785324271</id><published>2006-07-28T11:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:26.103-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Grannies for Peace</title><summary type='text'>A new force in opposition to the Iraq war is spreading across the US.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2006/06/25615.shtml' title='Grannies for Peace'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/115410326785324271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/115410326785324271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2006/07/grannies-for-peace.html' title='Grannies for Peace'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-113976285073855127</id><published>2006-02-12T10:47:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:25.934-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Racist cartoons: Why Muslims have a right to be angry</title><summary type='text'>Like most western leftists I have been perplexed by the face the Muslim world often presents to the world. The fatwa threatening death against S.Rushdie and many muslim women who oppose the mysogymist treatment of women in the middle east, the recent case in Afghanistan where a christian convert was threatened by death under Sharia law. I support the just struggle of most people under threat of </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p24.htm' title='Racist cartoons: Why Muslims have a right to be angry'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/113976285073855127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/113976285073855127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2006/02/racist-cartoons-why-muslims-have-right.html' title='Racist cartoons: Why Muslims have a right to be angry'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112724822901410333</id><published>2005-09-20T15:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:25.721-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Hurricane Povertina</title><summary type='text'>From Left Turn: New Orleans Reports by Jordan FlahertyAs a new threat, Hurricane Rita, approaches the Gulf Coast, evacuations are once again suggested for those New Orleanians who had gradually been returning to the devastated city, and also those who had sought refuge in Houston.In a series of stunning articles, Jordan Flaherty, a native of New Orleans, chronicles the disaster and suggests more </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.leftturn.org/Articles/Viewer.aspx?id=683&amp;type=W' title='Hurricane Povertina'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112724822901410333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112724822901410333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/09/hurricane-povertina.html' title='Hurricane Povertina'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112620438635452714</id><published>2005-09-08T12:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:25.542-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Dubya's Mom puts her foot in it </title><summary type='text'> By E&amp;P Staff Published: September 05, 2005 7:25 PM ET updated 8:00 PM  Accompanying her husband, former President GeorgeH.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers inHouston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to thepoor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them." In a segment at the top of the show on the surge ofevacuees to the Texas city, Barbara</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112620438635452714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112620438635452714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/09/dubyas-mom-puts-her-foot-in-it.html' title='Dubya&apos;s Mom puts her foot in it &lt;p&gt;'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112541477039597423</id><published>2005-08-30T09:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:25.359-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Anniversary Little Muddy</title><summary type='text'>Damn ! A whole year went by in publishing these posts, and I even went thru a crisis of why I was doing this recently and whether I should continue. The Don Quixote complex again. But I've come through it and if YOU're reading this it's worth it to have a voice in this increasingly impersonal world. So happy anniversary Little Muddy, and may the Great Spaghetti Monster be with you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112541477039597423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112541477039597423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/08/happy-anniversary-little-muddy.html' title='Happy Anniversary Little Muddy'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112541163161440900</id><published>2005-08-30T09:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:25.225-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Theory of Human Origins | Bayosphere</title><summary type='text'>Yes, I know, It's on the "about" Blogger link, but in case you missed it, here is some of the humour I promised. May the Flying Spaghetti Monster be with you and in your everyday thoughts. IT is king and lord and cannot stand us. Understandably.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://bayosphere.com/blog/dan_gillmor/20050830/another_theory_of_human_origins' title='Another Theory of Human Origins | Bayosphere'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112541163161440900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112541163161440900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/08/another-theory-of-human-origins.html' title='Another Theory of Human Origins | Bayosphere'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112540710668677799</id><published>2005-08-30T06:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:25.037-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Pat Robertson and Religious Evil</title><summary type='text'>The airwaves have been full of Pat Robertsons advocating the US assassination of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan Prezident. Of course the elimination of Chavez has been at the forground of US strategic thinking long before they engineered the "coup" that deposed him as president for 24 hours until a massive popular revolt and the support of the army placed him back in office. His major crime was that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112540710668677799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112540710668677799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/08/pat-robertson-and-religious-evil.html' title='Pat Robertson and Religious Evil'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112412510286744400</id><published>2005-08-15T11:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:24.717-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Cindy Sheehan : No more Bushit</title><summary type='text'> Cindy Sheehan' blunt, take no prisoners approach has been remarkably successful and may even spark the Iraq War's first 'tipping point'.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/24049/' title='Cindy Sheehan : No more Bushit'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112412510286744400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112412510286744400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/08/cindy-sheehan-no-more-bushit.html' title='Cindy Sheehan : No more Bushit'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112300393799257807</id><published>2005-08-02T12:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:24.126-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Monsanto Pig (Patent pending)</title><summary type='text'>One way or another, Monsanto wants to make sure no food is grown that they don't own -- and the record shows they don't care if it's safe for the environment or not. Monsanto has aggressively set out to bulldoze environmental concerns about its genetically engineered (GE) seeds at every regulatory level.So why stop in the field? Not content to own the pesticide and the herbicide and the crop, </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto-pig-patent-111' title='The Monsanto Pig (Patent pending)'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112300393799257807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112300393799257807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/08/monsanto-pig-patent-pending.html' title='The Monsanto Pig (Patent pending)'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-112232392956409774</id><published>2005-07-25T15:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:23.894-06:00</updated><title type='text'>BONO, GELDORF, OXFAM, AND BLAIR -  THE LIVE-8 BOONDOGGLE</title><summary type='text'>Africa needs justice not charity  An excellent analysis of the G8 agreement.Casual readers of the newspaper headlines could be forgiven for believing that the leaders of the richest and most powerful countries have had a miraculous change of heart. If the papers are to be believed, the key decades-long demand of the global justice movement — debt cancellation — had been agreed to, thanks to an </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/631/631p28.htm' title='BONO, GELDORF, OXFAM, AND BLAIR -  THE LIVE-8 BOONDOGGLE'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112232392956409774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/112232392956409774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/07/bono-geldorf-oxfam-and-blair-live-8.html' title='BONO, GELDORF, OXFAM, AND BLAIR -  THE LIVE-8 BOONDOGGLE'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111824571005684547</id><published>2005-06-08T10:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:22.941-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mugging of the American Dream</title><summary type='text'>I seem to be posting more of Bill Moyers all the time, but he is one of the few US journalists not being simply a mouthpiece for the Bush administation. This is from a speech he gave on June 3 at the Take Back America conference in Washington DC. A profound transformation is occurring in America and those responsible for it don't want you to connect the dots. We are experiencing what has been </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.alternet.org/story/22163/' title='The Mugging of the American Dream'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111824571005684547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111824571005684547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/06/mugging-of-american-dream.html' title='The Mugging of the American Dream'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111807771399532346</id><published>2005-06-06T12:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:22.718-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Son of Antiwar State Senator Becky Lourey Killed in Iraq</title><summary type='text'>A poignant interview with Minnisota Senator Becky Lourey whose son died in Iraq 2 weeks ago. Senator Lourey had authored a resolution in the senate signed by 18 other state senators opposing the invasion of Iraq.I was reminded of a black US friend of mine whose brother was killed in Viet-Nam. When I expressed my concern to her about him enlisting, that black youths were only fodder for US </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/06/1328251' title='Son of Antiwar State Senator Becky Lourey Killed in Iraq'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111807771399532346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111807771399532346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/06/son-of-antiwar-state-senator-becky.html' title='Son of Antiwar State Senator Becky Lourey Killed in Iraq'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111654465388348238</id><published>2005-05-19T18:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:22.551-06:00</updated><title type='text'>How The Right-Wing Took Over Another Medium Of Dissent</title><summary type='text'>It seems that more and more I refer to Bill Moyers, one of the few remaining major journalists who hasn't succumbed to the Bush administration's shackling of the free press. Challenged by PBS in the docile corporate media coverage by most major media who obediently presented the Bush spin on events, the Republican "powers that be" moved to silence this opposition to their imperial power. Since </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/22021/' title='How The Right-Wing Took Over Another Medium Of Dissent'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111654465388348238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111654465388348238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/05/how-right-wing-took-over-another.html' title='How The Right-Wing Took Over Another Medium Of Dissent'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111579441298784153</id><published>2005-05-11T01:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:22.234-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The IRON HEEL's noose tightens</title><summary type='text'>gatesidThe right-wing Bush administration slipped a "security measure" into a military expenditure bill which was passed by the US Senate yesterday. Naturally few Senators would be seen opposing a Bill which would benefit "our boys in Iraq"The Bill authorises the US government to institute an internal passport reminiscent of the infamous "required papers" under the Nazi regime in Occupied Europe.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/10/real_id_passes_in_us.html' title='The IRON HEEL&apos;s noose tightens'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111579441298784153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111579441298784153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/05/iron-heels-noose-tightens.html' title='The IRON HEEL&apos;s noose tightens'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111579052381742207</id><published>2005-05-11T00:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:21.959-06:00</updated><title type='text'>US Democracy in Action</title><summary type='text'>Kevin SitesOriginally uploaded by Little Muddy. Kevan Sites is a freelance journalist who was "embedded" with US troops attacking the insurgents in Fallujah. He originally edited his video leaving out sensitive footage which he felt could enflame the event. He now regrets that decision and has released the full video coverage.Sites was on assignment for NBC on Nov. 13, 2004, and was following a </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4646406' title='US Democracy in Action'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111579052381742207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111579052381742207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/05/us-democracy-in-action.html' title='US Democracy in Action'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111578468816901155</id><published>2005-05-10T23:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:21.679-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Don Quixote</title><summary type='text'>     quijote I must confess to less than full dilligence to the duty of faithfully blogging the myriad of news items that have passed my outraged comments. I guess like life, it will go in fits and starts. The current state of affairs in the world is so depressing that it becomes difficult to single out any new hypocrisy with anything more than resignation.Mea Culpa. But I do continue, not even </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111578468816901155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111578468816901155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/05/don-quixote_10.html' title='Don Quixote'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111265028948896838</id><published>2005-04-04T16:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:19.383-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Shit Done Hit The Fan</title><summary type='text'>Captains Quarter Blog The Gomery Commission's investigation into the Liberal party's Adscam hit a new high the last few days. Jean Brault, the head of a Quebec advertising agency with close ties to the Liberals, and who is facing criminal charges, gave explosive testimony on which the Commission placed a publication ban.A conservative US blogger managed to get ahold of the details of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111265028948896838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111265028948896838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/04/shit-done-hit-fan.html' title='The Shit Done Hit The Fan'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-111023454986407987</id><published>2005-03-07T16:29:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:18.774-06:00</updated><title type='text'>View from the West : Canada</title><summary type='text'> Loyd Axworthy, a former Foreign Minister for the Chretien government and now President of Winnipeg University takes a gutsy stand on the Bush administration's Star Wars system. It reflects the views of most canadians. </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/westview/story/2610442p-3026695c.html' title='View from the West : Canada'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111023454986407987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/111023454986407987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/03/view-from-west-canada.html' title='View from the West : Canada'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110910567432602525</id><published>2005-02-22T14:54:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:18.592-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Mojtaba and Arash Day Feb 22</title><summary type='text'>      The Committee to Protect Bloggers was established to counter the increasingnumber of bloggers who are being subjected to arrest and harrassment world-wide.The Committee's first campaign is 'Free Mojtaba and Arash Day' to be held today. And it is getting a lot of publicity. "Overwhelming, between PRI's The World, BBC, Slashdot, BoingBoing, we have over twice as much traffic as usual, halfway</summary><link rel='related' href='http://committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com/' title='Free Mojtaba and Arash Day Feb 22'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110910567432602525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110910567432602525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/02/free-mojtaba-and-arash-day-feb-22.html' title='Free Mojtaba and Arash Day Feb 22'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110834182222687792</id><published>2005-02-13T18:43:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:18.368-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation</title><summary type='text'>In 1998, the World Bank's structural adjustment policies forced India to open up its seed sector to global corporations like Cargill, Monsanto, and Syngenta. The global corporations changed the input economy overnight. Farm saved seeds were replaced by corporate seeds which needed fertilizers and pesticides and could not be saved. As seed saving is prevented by patents as well as by the </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2004-02/19shiva.cfm' title='The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110834182222687792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110834182222687792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/02/suicide-economy-of-corporate.html' title='The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110827097789953514</id><published>2005-02-12T23:02:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:18.028-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Suicide Seed: Bombshell in Bangkok</title><summary type='text'>    Farmers-Struggle-Against-GMO  While the servile canadian press was strangely silent on the event, the internet was certainly abuzz with Canada's turnabout at a UN meeting in Bangkok where they attempted to overturn an international moratorium on the universally condemned "suicide seed" technology which prevents 2nd generation seeds from regenerating. The original leak came from the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110827097789953514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110827097789953514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/02/suicide-seed-bombshell-in-bangkok.html' title='Suicide Seed: Bombshell in Bangkok'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110773732402749461</id><published>2005-02-06T18:48:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:17.671-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Paranoid shift</title><summary type='text'>     paranoid.101   Michael Hasty makes a good case for your justified fears in this Online Journal article.By Michael HastyOnline Journal Contributing WriterJanuary 10, 2004—Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life. In the end, he had </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html' title='Paranoid shift'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110773732402749461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110773732402749461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/02/paranoid-shift.html' title='Paranoid shift'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110772866197479979</id><published>2005-02-06T16:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:17.408-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Who was the "ordinary" Iraqui Woman at The SOTU Session</title><summary type='text'>It seems the "ordinary Iraqui" woman pointed out by Dubya in his State of the Union speech, who held up a purple-stained finger, showing she voted, is a very important figure in the ruling elite and strongly linked to US hardline front organisations and possibly linked, like Chalabri, to the CIA.  Brings to mind the little girl whose tearful testimony about Saddam's troops throwing babies from </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/3/61911/26777' title='Who was the &quot;ordinary&quot; Iraqui Woman at The SOTU Session'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110772866197479979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110772866197479979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/02/who-was-ordinary-iraqui-woman-at-sotu.html' title='Who was the &quot;ordinary&quot; Iraqui Woman at The SOTU Session'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110722489019880250</id><published>2005-01-31T20:28:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:17.165-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Scoop: William Rivers Pitt: The Story of the Ghost</title><summary type='text'>"United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 percent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. A successful election has long been seen as</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0502/S00011.htm' title='Scoop: William Rivers Pitt: The Story of the Ghost'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110722489019880250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110722489019880250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/01/scoop-william-rivers-pitt-story-of.html' title='Scoop: William Rivers Pitt: The Story of the Ghost'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110721897792594789</id><published>2005-01-31T18:49:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:16.945-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Chuckman: Freedom on Steroids</title><summary type='text'>    chuckman-freedom%20marchJohn Chuckman is a former chief economist of Texaco Canada and an excellent journalist who has a different perspective than one could imagine from a corporate executive. His articles appear in dissadentvoice, yellowtimes, and counterpunch among others. He also has an ability with graphics which cut to the quick. Freedom on Steroids: John ChuckmanA writer at The NY </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Chuckman0126.htm' title='Chuckman: Freedom on Steroids'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110721897792594789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110721897792594789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/01/chuckman-freedom-on-steroids.html' title='Chuckman: Freedom on Steroids'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110715110287562995</id><published>2005-01-30T23:58:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:16.506-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Canada: A pawn of the US in Haiti</title><summary type='text'> Yves Engler, a Montreal-based jounalist recently spent time in Haiti and points out the yellow journalism of the Canadian media as it relates to the Canadian role in Haiti.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.rabble.ca/for_the_sake_of_argument.shtml?sh_itm=c74d2f38e72e0cbfbe173044f29b2dd5&amp;r=1' title='Canada: A pawn of the US in Haiti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110715110287562995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110715110287562995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2005/01/canada-pawn-of-us-in-haiti.html' title='Canada: A pawn of the US in Haiti'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110426581539015475</id><published>2004-12-28T14:30:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:15.101-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill Moyers-Global Environment Citizen Award</title><summary type='text'>Bill Moyers is still one of the most astute liberal journalists who hasn't succumbed to the cowardice of of corporate news-speak. Link to his acceptance speech at the Harvard Medical School's Global Environment Citizens Award. One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the oval</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1206-10.htm' title='Bill Moyers-Global Environment Citizen Award'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110426581539015475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110426581539015475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/12/bill-moyers-global-environment-citizen.html' title='Bill Moyers-Global Environment Citizen Award'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110314223301674287</id><published>2004-12-15T14:23:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:14.860-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Blacklisted Journalist</title><summary type='text'>Al Is Back An excellent site hosted by Al Aronovitch with other guest writers.Aronovitch was one of the most "Gonzo" of the cultural jounalistsof the 60's and a confrere of many of the top cultural icons.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/' title='The Blacklisted Journalist'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110314223301674287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110314223301674287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/12/blacklisted-journalist.html' title='The Blacklisted Journalist'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-110036776737063246</id><published>2004-11-13T11:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:14.432-06:00</updated><title type='text'>A Real View of the US Election Results</title><summary type='text'>wakeup_america_smI had contemplated putting up some of the many pages bemoaning the GOP victory in the US presidential victory. A front page from a UK paper totally in black with a small caption. "Are that many Americans so stupid"? Another black-page simulation of a Time Magazine cover with the caption "W'hy". Or one of the many commentaries of uplifting consolation to the US people. This </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.isreview.org/issues/38/Arundhati_roy.shtml' title='A Real View of the US Election Results'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110036776737063246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/110036776737063246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/11/real-view-of-us-election-results.html' title='A Real View of the US Election Results'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109864442388590374</id><published>2004-10-24T14:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:13.901-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Letter from a Minnesota Highway</title><summary type='text'>Bush and Company Have Already WonAs Ralph Nader points out in this article, the "Anyone but Bush" strategy adopted by US liberals,progressives, and peace activists has allowed the corporate agenda full sway in the coming election.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1023-01.htm' title='Letter from a Minnesota Highway'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109864442388590374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109864442388590374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/10/letter-from-minnesota-highway.html' title='Letter from a Minnesota Highway'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109812155600848221</id><published>2004-10-18T13:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:13.533-06:00</updated><title type='text'>AlterNet: Fight For Your Freedom to Read</title><summary type='text'>Another victory for creeping fascism in the US as the Congress denies passage of the "Freedom to Read Protection Act"</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20211/' title='AlterNet: Fight For Your Freedom to Read'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109812155600848221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109812155600848221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/10/alternet-fight-for-your-freedom-to.html' title='AlterNet: Fight For Your Freedom to Read'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109812416084581692</id><published>2004-10-18T13:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:13.716-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Yesss, But......</title><summary type='text'>US  Vice-Pres Debate </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109812416084581692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109812416084581692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/10/yesss-but.html' title='Yesss, But......'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109782028059064800</id><published>2004-10-15T01:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:13.360-06:00</updated><title type='text'>AlterNet: War on Iraq: Anti-feminists for Iraqi Women</title><summary type='text'>"I am pleased to announce that, as part of the Department of State's Iraqi Women's Democracy Initiative, we are awarding $10 million in grants to several U.S.-based non-governmental organizations to train Iraqi women in the skills and practices of democratic public life…These grants will…mobilize women across the land to build a secure, prosperous and democratic Iraq." – Secretary of State Colin </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20189/' title='AlterNet: War on Iraq: Anti-feminists for Iraqi Women'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109782028059064800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109782028059064800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/10/alternet-war-on-iraq-anti-feminists.html' title='AlterNet: War on Iraq: Anti-feminists for Iraqi Women'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109596387332426452</id><published>2004-09-23T13:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:12.992-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Freedom of Thought &gt; 1940's Propaganda Remixed | CafePress</title><summary type='text'>   A way-cool site for remixed World War II posters.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cafepress.com/warposter/379783' title='Freedom of Thought &gt; 1940&apos;s Propaganda Remixed | CafePress'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109596387332426452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109596387332426452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/09/freedom-of-thought-1940s-propaganda.html' title='Freedom of Thought &gt; 1940&apos;s Propaganda Remixed | CafePress'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109548349292012177</id><published>2004-09-17T23:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:12.790-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Journalism Under Fire - by Bill Moyers</title><summary type='text'>Address to the Society of Professional Journalists Saturday, September 11, 2004, New York City in which he announced his intention to retire in three months from active journalism, and his views of the state of the "Free Press".An echo of the "Free Press" toast of 1953 below.John Swinton, was the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print"). Called by his </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0917-02.htm' title='Journalism Under Fire - by Bill Moyers'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109548349292012177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109548349292012177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/09/journalism-under-fire-by-bill-moyers.html' title='Journalism Under Fire - by Bill Moyers'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109373653571140946</id><published>2004-08-28T18:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:12.586-06:00</updated><title type='text'>CNN.com - Canadian MP calls U.S. 'idiots' </title><summary type='text'> Lib. MP Carolyn Parrish continues to call it "like it is". A view shared by most canadians.</summary><link rel='related' href='http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/08/26/canada.us.reut/' title='CNN.com - Canadian MP calls U.S. &apos;idiots&apos; '/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109373653571140946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109373653571140946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/08/cnncom-canadian-mp-calls-us-idiots.html' title='CNN.com - Canadian MP calls U.S. &apos;idiots&apos; '/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109351042613131528</id><published>2004-08-26T03:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:11.778-06:00</updated><title type='text'>DUBYA's FOLLIES</title><summary type='text'>With Geoge Walker Bush as president, the US hoipolloi has accepted an ideology in which dumbness andvirtue play "Hide and Seek" and justice and moralityare ignored. Here's my contrbution of "Bushisms"DAILY DUBYA"'I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109351042613131528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109351042613131528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/08/dubyas-follies.html' title='DUBYA&apos;s FOLLIES'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109346519202816220</id><published>2004-08-25T15:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:11.390-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Tide ? or Ivory Snow ?  </title><summary type='text'>Public Power in the Age of EmpireBy Arundhati Roy Published: Sun August 29th, 2004 in AlternativesA brilliant speech by the 1997 Booker Prize winning author of "The God of Small Things"</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.alternatives.ca/article1389.html' title='Tide ? or Ivory Snow ?  '/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109346519202816220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109346519202816220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/08/tide-or-ivory-snow.html' title='Tide ? or Ivory Snow ?  '/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109337843047611529</id><published>2004-08-24T15:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:11.136-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Business Follows the Green</title><summary type='text'>By Jason Mark, AlterNet. Posted August 24, 2004.While big business fights to control your foodstuff andundermine the movement fot sustainable agriculture andhealthy food, they are not above plugging into consumersincreasing concern and interest in what they eat.link to "The View From Out Here" </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/19645/' title='Big Business Follows the Green'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109337843047611529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109337843047611529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/08/big-business-follows-green.html' title='Big Business Follows the Green'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109310799931120221</id><published>2004-08-21T11:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:10.952-06:00</updated><title type='text'>"Free" Press ?</title><summary type='text'> "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109310799931120221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109310799931120221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/08/free-press.html' title='&quot;Free&quot; Press ?'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109305213522710146</id><published>2004-08-20T20:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:10.719-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The new corporate Bandits                                   </title><summary type='text'>I ran across this little gem ina financial futures market site which inadvertently displaysthe modum vivendi of the packing giants. This of course ishow the big Canadian Packers,mostly US-owned, were able toproduce a windfall profit increase of 300% while smallranchers are in a crisis position. Control both supply and markets, and make out like bandits.LIVE CATTLE:Packers continued to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109305213522710146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109305213522710146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/08/new-corporate-bandits.html' title='The new corporate Bandits                                   '/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021900.post-109303843691635156</id><published>2004-08-20T16:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T15:42:10.505-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Asper reject</title><summary type='text'>Many well-meaning people have lauded the creation of a human rights museum in Winnipeg by the Canadian Media Giant, Global, which controls most news outlets in Canada, and exercises strict control over the content we receive, as dictated by the decidedly pro-Israel directors.EXCLUSIVE: The article the National Post refused to run.The Idea of a Canadian Museum of Human Rights  By Amos </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.adbusters.org/metas/corpo/canwestwatch/' title='Asper reject'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109303843691635156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8021900/posts/default/109303843691635156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://parklandclips.blogspot.com/2004/08/asper-reject.html' title='Asper reject'/><author><name>Little Muddy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17100766559707970006</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/img/18/1479/640/bigwalk.jpg'/></author></entry></feed>
