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• Sensei Obama: Back 'atcha?

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  Having been bottled up for a week by the Japanese and Chinese, the Prez -- in this otherwise tongue-in-cheek Korean Taekwon-Do photo-op -- offers himself as powerful action figure (see Myung-bak's hand) about to re-ingage in the homeland political martial [...]

  
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:56pm EST by Michael Shaw (The BAG)

• Dot Biz

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  Consumer culture -- the endless manufacture of desire -- is killing us. It knows no morality.
  And ultimately, the newswire photo just compounds the problem, establishing its value -- this clever, colorful piece of drive-by eye candy -- [...]
  
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:49am EST by Michael Shaw (The BAG)

• University of California: Adding Injury to Injury

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  The dirty shame, yet standard operating procedure of America Inc. -- especially after screwing it up -- has simply been to turn around and dump as much of it as possible -- in the abstracted form of paperwork, leg work, extra fees and surcharges, etc. [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:38pm EST by Michael Shaw (The BAG)

• When is Piper Next Going to Have a Normal Halloween?

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  I promised Piper that this time, I would keep my distance so I wouldn't disrupt the fun she has planned for herself and her friends. She's so good and accommodating. She puts [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:45am EST by Michael Shaw (The BAG)

• Afghanistan Leakers: (Or: Making Obama, Clinton Look Like Fools)

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  Rather than taking up the right wing's "dithering" or "what's taking SO long" meme when it comes to Obama's Afghan strategy (in a situation that some see as having no practical urgency) perhaps the better question to ask is, what's [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:55pm EST by Michael Shaw (The BAG)

• British Army Accused of Sexual Abuse of Detainees in Iraq

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  BAGnews is pleased to introduce Pete Brook, our newest contributor. This piece is cross-posted from Pete's superb blog, Prison Photography.
  
  

  Still from video shown to the Baha Mousa public Inquiry showing Corporal Donald Payne,

  formerly of the Queen's Lancashire [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:57am EST by Michael Shaw (The BAG)

• Are You Going To Believe Them, Or Your Own Eyes?

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  Somehow, this was read as a fireworks show.

  And then, even after witnessing this, much of America was spun into buying this.

  BAGnews is singularly dedicated to challenging the use of pictures for the purpose of sensationalism, oversimplification, infotainment or collusion by the shockingly over-concentrated corporate media.

  You [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:50am EST by Michael Shaw (The BAG)