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Joe Stack’s Letter
By Escape The Illusion on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

Here at ETI we do not know if this is Joe Satck’s actual letter, but we thought we should share what we found. If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The wri...
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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...
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Texas Suicide Flyer Had Real Populist Grievances
By Escape The Illusion on February 21, 2010 | No Comments

Joseph Stack’s suicide screed chafes and exposes a raw wound this country does not know what to do with. Liberals are dismissing Joseph Stack’s rant as a brutal anti-government battle cry — “Tea Party on steroids.” Conservatives are dismissing it as the petulant whine ...
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Totally Corrupt TV: Corporate Lobbyists Pose as Disin...
By Escape The Illusion on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

Covert corporate influence-peddling is taking over cable news. President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the state’s former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC’s Hardball With...
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Profiting From Immigration Injustice
By 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...
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UFOS BY THE SUN
By butlincat on February 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

A BRITISH stargazer has taken an amazing video of a UFO crossing the face of the sun. Malcolm Park was taking a series of photos of the huge star through a specially filtered telescope when a strange object began to drift across it. Malcolm, of South West London, said: “I was recording activit...
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FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
By Escape The Illusion on February 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes. FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Intern...
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Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s Wounds
By Escape The Illusion on January 23, 2010 | No Comments

Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions. With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate of 196 prisoners. As...
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A boost to the search for extraterrestrial life
By Escape The Illusion on January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments

HAT CREEK, Calif.—The wide dishes, 20 feet across and raised high on their pedestals, creaked and groaned as the winds from an approaching snowstorm pushed into this highland valley. Forty-two in all, the radio telescopes laid out in view of some of California’s tallest mountains look otherworld...
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Unemployment: The 2010 Time Bomb
By Escape The Illusion on January 11, 2010 | No Comments

New figures show jobs were lost in December at ten times the expected rate. American employers eliminated 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and sent unemployment soaring into double digits for the first time in more than a quarter century. Since the fall of last year, the official jobless rate has been over...
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