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Fox News scrambles to discredit CPAC after Ron Paul w...
By Escape The Illusion on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
Remember the big conservative conference Fox News has been hyping over the past 10 days? The Conservative Political Action Conference’s presidential straw poll, a key marker of the mood among conservative voters, apparently didn’t mean anything to the network. And if it did mean somethin... -
Profiting From Immigration InjusticeBy Escape The Illusion on February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
When an architect named Norman Pfeiffer designed the Evo DeConcini Federal Courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., he claimed to have been inspired by its natural surroundings. “From afar,” Pfeiffer told Architecture Week, “the desert tells little of what it knows. … But upon closer scrutiny it rev... -
Endangered Species on the Grill: The US’s Shock...By Escape The Illusion on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
Millions of fork-twirling gourmands — many of them in the U.S. — are eating endangered wildlife trafficked by international criminal networks. Can shellfish cry? Ask the 4,756 abalone bagged by smugglers and confiscated in a single recent raid on a house in Cape Town, South Africa. It... -
Is Pot Legalization Push in California a Trend That W...By Escape The Illusion on February 8, 2010 | No Comments
San Francisco – It’s almost a cliché these days that this city and its sister to the east, Oakland, stand as the primary incubators of some of California’s infamously wacky but later transformational social and political ideas. From the Silicon Valley to Oakland and Berkeley to th... -
Obama Confidant’s Spine-Chilling Proposal to &#...By Escape The Illusion on January 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
Source: Alternet.org In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups and websites — as well as ... -
A new approach to ChinaBy Escape The Illusion on January 12, 2010 | No Comments
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. Howev... -
While U.S. debates gay marriage, Uganda considers dea...By Escape The Illusion on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
KAMPALA, Uganda – Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals. Gay rights activists say the... -
One Day We’ll All Be TerroristsBy Escape The Illusion on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal... -
Catholic Bishops Put Sex Obsession Ahead of Mission t...By Escape The Illusion on November 16, 2009 | 4 Comments
First they threatened to take down health-care reform over abortion coverage. Now they’re threatening services to the sick and poor of Washington, D.C., over same-sex marriage. They lead a church that claims to stand on the side of the sick and the poor, the meek who shall inherit the earth. B...
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Who’s Really Behind Organic Food Brands Like Am...By Escape The Illusion on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
Over the past decade many small organic food brands have been snapped up by giant corporations. Clearly, this can be bad for standards and quality. http://www.alternet.org/story/143647/who%27s_really_behind_organic_food_brands_like_amy%27s_and_odwalla?page=entire ...
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