AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT – THE NEWS!

The Real Democratic Whiners
David Sirota, Oregon Live
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/10/the_real_democratic_whiners.html

The Two Americas
Nicole Colson, Socialist Worker
http://socialistworker.org/2010/10/01/the-two-americas

Telling the Truth vs the Election Game
Debra Sweet, World Can't Wait
http://debra.worldcantwait.net/2010/10/telling-the-truth-vs-the-election-game/

Barack Obama Accused of Exaggerating Terror Threat for Political Gain
Simon Tisdall & Richard Norton-Taylor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/07/barack-obama-terror-threat-claims/print

Progressive Dissent Is in the FBI’s Crosshairs
Lydia Howell, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/148428/progressive_dissent_is_in_the_fbi%27s_crosshairs

Corporate Hijacking of Our Elections is Well Under Way, with Foreign Companies Chipping in to Destroy Our Democracy
Joshua Holland, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/148427/corporate_hijacking_of_our_elections_is_well_under_way%2C_with_foreign_companies_chipping_in_to_destroy_our_democracy

Inside Job - Documentary about the cause and effects of the 2008 recession. At the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza

Director Charles Ferguson, working from a deep reservoir of anger at how the Washington/Wall Street nexus of greed and corruption brought on the current global recession, comes at his gripping movie like Michael Moore without shtick. Ferguson doesn't aim to entertain; he wants answers, and talks to many of the enabling weasels — pasty-faced economists in the pocket of big corporations, two-faced former members of the Federal Reserve, lobbyists who are bald-faced liars — and confronts them with facts before looking at how their actions have turned average Americans' lives into nightmares. A gripping tour through our country's broken system of ethics.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2010/10/08/2010-10-08_short_reviews_inside_job_tamara_dreweas_good_as_dead_nowhere_boy.html#ixzz11n3Pbcy6

Duchess Note: Many thanks to Judith in sharing many of these terrific, thought-provoking articles. Please, feel free in sharing with others.