Progressive Review

• Meanwhile, furthermore & on the other hand
  Chuck Brown and his friend, Eva Cassidy The curse of Camelot A psalm of baseball How to quickly peel a potato TED caves after censoring talk on income inequality Bill Cosby's wonderful description of learning how to play drums, inlcuding freezing up behind Sonny Stitt Some car makers now creating electric bikes Documentary on the UAW leaders, the Reuthe […]
• Passings: Chuck Brown and his friend
  Reading some of the stories on the recently passed DC go go god, Chuck Brown, we came across the fact that he had been taken by the work of a another singer, the young Eva Cassidy. Although separated in age by more than 25 years , the two produced memorable sounds on a 1992 album, The Other Side. Cassidy , with her skill and ability to sing a broad variety o […]
• Stats: The NYC police war on young blacks and latinos
  - In Brownsville, Brooklyn In 2009, 93 Out Of Every 100 Residents Were Stopped By The NYPD- - More Young Black Men Were Stopped By The NYPD In 2011 Than There Are Young Black Men in New York City - NYPD Will Stop You For 'Inappropriate Attire Off Season' Also, for visible bulges in your pocket. And, in 51.3 percent of the stops in 2011, cops cited […]
• Massive student protest in Montreal
  Common Dreams - Thousands of student protesters flooded the streets in Montreal after Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced a proposal for a new 'emergency law' in a bid to end the ongoing 14 week old student uprising and strike. The proposed legislation would halt the spring semester, push up the summer holidays, and restart classes in August. The […]
• The meaning of the growth in minority births
  Pew Research Center - The nation’s racial and ethnic minority groups—especially Hispanics—are growing more rapidly than the non-Hispanic white population, fueled by both immigration and births. This trend has been taking place for decades, and one result is the Census Bureau’s announcement that non-Hispanic whites now account for a minority of births in the […]
• Word: A Psalm of baseball
   Mark Thompson Baseball provideth me green pastures. It endureth no storms. It preserveth my youth. It accepteth my failure as average. It keepeth me in order. Baseball alloweth me chance after chance, despite my errors. It forgiveth my stealing. It encourageth my sacrifices. Yea, though I have taken all I can, I am able to walk. It alloweth me to lead. It s […]
• After Chicago: Bilderberg
  David Swanson, War Is a Crime - From May 31 to June 3, at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles Hotel, in Chantilly, Va., the Bilderberg Group is expected to gather behind closed doors. This exclusive club will rent the entire hotel, encircle it with armed guards, and keep everyone far away, including the media -- except for those special members of the […]
• Why you don't have to listen to Mitt Romney about capitalism
  One of the alternatives to robber baron capitalism is the cooperative. It gets little attention from the media or politicians, but this doesn't mean it doesn't already have a big impact on our economy. This from the Neighboring Food Co-op Association: The NFCA include 30 food co-ops and start-up initiatives across Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticu […]
• Well, at least he's still a Christian because he's not gay
  Smoking Gun - An Indiana pastor is facing a voyeurism charge for allegedly placing hidden cameras disguised as air fresheners in the women’s bathroom of the Lafayette church he had headed for the last decade. Robert Lyzenga, 55, was arrested last week by the Tippecanoe County Police Department on the felony count. He was freed from custody after posting $500 […]
• Obama & Duncan reviving the pauper schools that public education got rid of
  Paul Thomas, Truthout- [A report] from the Schott Foundation for Public Education [states]/; "This report will show that evidence of blatant disparities amount to apartheid-like separations that have been accepted in New York for far too long." The Schott study focuses on New York City, but the patterns exposed in the report are typical across the […]
• US cutting nuke plant drills, test evacuations
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• The curse of Camelot
  1963 - John F Kennedy assassinated 1964 - Plane carrying Teddy Kennedy crashes, killing aide and pilot and badly injuring Kennedy 1968 - Robert Kennedy assassinated 1969 - Teddy Kennedy drives his car off a bridge in Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary J Kopechne 1984 - David Kennedy, son of RFK, dies of a drug overdoes in a Florida hotel room 1997 - M […]
• Israel's apartheid not limited to Palestinians
  Haaretz - Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Wednesday that most of the migrants from Africa are engaged in criminal actions and should be placed in detention facilities. Yishai said that Israel is willing to provide financial assistance for migrants to leave._______________________________________________________ […]
• Orwellandia: British police to steal data from people's cellphones
  Computer World UK - The Metropolitan Police has rolled out a mobile device data extraction system to allow officers to extract data "within minutes" from suspects' phones while they are in custody. Ostensibly, the system has been deployed to target phones that are suspected of having actually been used in criminal activity, although data priva […]
• Meanwhile, furthermore & on the other hand
  Gary Johnson polls 7% in New Hampshire, 6% in North Carolina, 15% in New Mexico, and 8% in Montana USA Today investigation raises more questions about DC test scores New documantary film on the BP disaster Occupy directory_______________________________________________________ […]