tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106708032011-09-10T06:26:49.540-04:00'Take no guff, when you strut your stuff' * http://tmars.iwarp.com/guerrilla_campaignTom Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15148097772668305736noreply@blogger.comBlogger7461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10670803.post-4807550098182303582010-12-13T16:20:00.000-05:002010-12-13T16:22:06.991-05:00

By Sheila SamplesDecember 13, 2010"The time is always right to do what is right" - Martin Luther King, Jr.Whew. Nasty. That was one hell of a campaign season; one hell of an election. Democrats emerged, bruised and broken, yet their mindset seems to be -- hey, we survived Bush, how bad can it be? Sadly, the grim truth they refuse to face is -- we didn't survive Bush...The radical right-wing,

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It's Like Tipping the Rich for Being Richthe Rude Pundit11/30/2010http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2010/11/federal-wage-freeze-its-like-tipping.htmlsee also:Obama imposes pay freeze on 2.1 million federal workershttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/fede-n30.shtmlUnemployed and Unnoticedhttp://pr.thinkprogress.org/2010/11/pr20101130/index.htmlLet us not argue for a moment the economics of

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By Sheila SamplesOctober 17, 2010"History will repeat itself -- only if we let it"~~Mike MalloyHardly a day goes by that we are not inundated with demands to attack Iran. Our media, our Congress -- packs of neoconservatives -- have been howling for war on Iran for years. And years.This reckless axis has been relentless in its orchestrated effort to manipulate and influence public opinion. And, if

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by Mary PittSeptember 19, 2010　It seems that the Statue of Liberty has lost its meaning and so might as well be razed and the island on which it stands can be put to better use, something like another huge amusement park for the enrichment of Disney or some other large entertainment corporation. If you doubt that this is true, try reading and really thinking about the words that are inscribed on

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by Mary PittSeptember 7, 2010My middle-American heart swelled with pride in January, 2009, as our new President took his oath of office: pride in an America that could choke back two hundred years of prejudice and go to vote for a young, untried man to lead us out of the swamp in which the last holder of that seat had stranded us; pride that we had survived with sufficient strength that we could

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Right-Wingers Are Conspicuously Silent on the Hurricane Katrina Anniversary:by the Rude Pundit8/31/2010http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2010/08/right-wingers-are-conspicuously-silent.htmlMichelle Malkin, whose Shih Tzu yips of desperation for relevance have grown hoarse of late, puts the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in context for us all: "[D]on't expect any of these

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Iran's nuclear standoff: who is the loser?Kourosh ZiabariJuly 25, 2010It's more than 8 years that the world's newspapers are filled with miscellaneous news, reports and commentaries concerning Iran's nuclear program. Controversy over Iran's nuclear program has spanned through two administrations in Iran: ex-President Mohammad Khatami's government and the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's

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By Sheila SamplesJuly 5, 2010"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress...but then, I repeat myself." - Mark TwainMuch has been written -- argued heatedly by ideological TV pundits -- over the past several years about the inability of members of Congress to agree on anything. Republicans stomp around like elephants in a china closet, shouting "No! No! Hell No!" no

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by Mary PittJune 22, 2010　After the national outpouring of support which thrust Barack Obama into the presidency in November, 2008, one would suppose that he had a solid majority of Americans behind him and would have little trouble in making the changes which he had promised. Immediately faced with an opposition minority who declared intentions to make sure that he would fail, the new President

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By Bill Van Auken5 June 2010http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/spec-j05.shtmlThe Obama administration has sharply increased the use of US Special Operations forces in secret military interventions around the world, according to a report Thursday by the Washington Post.The Post reports that the administration has increased to 75 the number of countries where these elements, including US

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Kourosh ZiabariMay 7, 2010From the Guardian and New York Times to the Washington Post and Reuters, I've submitted several op-ed pieces and articles to the world's mainstream media outlets and newspapers over the past years. All of my submissions were responded identically: "Rejected"!Intrinsically, it's an ambition of every journalist to reach out to a greater audience, achieve more exposure,

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Congress Pushes Surge in Ongoing War Against IranWritten By Chris FloydSaturday, 24 April 2010 22:59http://chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/1960-waste-management-congress-pushes-surge-in-ongoing-war-against-iran.htmlThere was a striking story in the papers on Friday: "Congress OKs Surge in Undeclared War against Iran!"Well, that wasn't exactly the headline – but it was the truth behind the

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by Tim WisePosted by Sara and Brian Brandsmeieron Thursday, April 22, 2010http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.htmlLet’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in

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By Sheila SamplesMarch 22, 2010 Change is the process by which the future invades our lives - Alvin Toffler, "Future Shock"Each time it appears that Republicans can't get any nastier, any more bereft of morality, they wrap themselves in the flag, grab their guns and Bibles, and manage once again to hit the bottom of the ethical barrel. A good example is Ben Smith's recent startling revelation

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By Mary PittMarch 21, 2010　The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin Delano RooseveltToward the end of the reign of the Bush regime, Mr. Bush began to consider the "legacy" of his presidency, setting up a library to hold his papers and to assure that this nation would never forget his term in office. However, there is no way that the real legacy of his two-term rule would ever be

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Seven years ago, yesterday, the war criminal bush launched the US invasion of Iraq.Today, there is no doubt, or denying, that his administration knew that there was no justification, in neither US law, or international law, for the invasion.Today, there is no doubt, or denying, that the US war criminals will not be prosecuted for their crimes. In fact, the bushistas are busily rewriting the

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by Mary PittMarch 15, 2010As the Liberals in Congress struggle against the Party-of-No Republicans and the Blue Dog DINOs, the people in the lower economic level are being picked of the last flesh on their living bones by the circling vultures. After they have lost almost everything they possess by the too-big-to-fail banks and investment companies, bled by the co-payments for essential medical

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by Mary PittMarch 10, 2010　While our president is involved in dealing with the many emergencies in which our nation is now foundering, he fails to see the most urgent one.The dead numbered 137,000 per year through the years of 2000 to 2006, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and, as the depression continues to worsen, the numbers will climb even higher on an

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to 'Tired Out and Staying Home'by Joseph PalermoPublished on Monday, March 8, 2010 by Huffington Posthttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/08-4There's been a lot of commentary about President Barack Obama's failure to construct a winning "narrative" for the elections of 2010. In 2008, there were millions of people "fired up and ready to go." But after a year plus of the Beltway-Rahm Emanuel

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A Brief Imperial Tour d'HorizonWritten By Chris Floyd Tuesday, 02 March 2010 14:24http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1936-chilly-scenes-of-winter-a-brief-imperial-tour-dhorizon.html1. Occupational HazardsAs'ad AbuKhalil's headline on his brief post says it all: "Tragic accidents happen – every single day." He is referring to the latest killing of civilians by

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1 March 2010Patrick Martinhttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/pers-m01.shtmlInaction by the US Senate last week will result in the cutoff of extended unemployment benefits and COBRA health care coverage to more than one million workers. The cutoff, which began to take effect Sunday night, demonstrates the unbridgeable social gulf between the working class and the denizens of Capitol Hill,

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by Mary PittFebruary 28, 2010　"I've got yer clean sheet of paper right here!" This is the message that should be sent to the Senate Republicans by everyone who wants and needs the passage of the Health Reform measure which the House and Senate have proposed and it's a message that we can afford. We get appeals daily for contributions of money on behalf of one political agenda or another and we do

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Bush takes shot at Carter for accusing him of tortureBy Agence France-PresseSaturday, February 27th, 2010 -- 3:49 pmhttp://rawstory.com/2010/02/bush-takes-shot-carter-accusing-torture/Former US president George W. Bush told a group of his White House aides at a breakfast Friday that he is "trying to regain a sense of anonymity," an event attendee confirmed to AFP.Bush also told the group that he

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by Mary PittFebruary 14, 2010When we read reports of polls, we find that the "Independents" in the United States outnumber the declarents for either of the established political parties. In discussing this, the pundits assume that this indicates that most voters are in the "middle of the road" between the Democrats and the Republicans. This is not the case. The number includes members of small

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Jack Straw, Colin Powell and the Smoking Guns of War Crime Written by Chris Floyd Tuesday, 09 February 2010 16:20 http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1922-the-carp-of-truth-jack-straw-colin-powell-and-the-smoking-guns-of-war-crime.htmlYour bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of

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Obama Surge Driving Thousands From Their Homes Written by Chris Floyd Saturday, 06 February 2010 18:32 http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1921-annals-of-liberation-obama-surge-driving-thousands-from-their-homes.htmlBarack Obama's Bush-like "surge" in Afghanistan has not even reached its full strength yet, but it is already driving tens of thousands of

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By Sheila SamplesFebruary 6, 2010I know you need your sleep now,I know your life's been hard.But many men are falling,where you promised to stand guard. - Leonard CohenMy friend Bernie says he's suffering from Afghanistan information exhaustion. "During all those months that Obama was dragging his feet about escalating the war in Afghanistan, did you ever get the impression," he asked, "that

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The sports media's love affair with Tim Tebow's "courage" is excusing propaganda for a right-wing organization with creepy connections.February 5, 2010Dave Zirinhttp://socialistworker.org/2010/02/05/super-bowl-ad-hypocrisyIN OUR 5,000-channel, tweeting, shouting culture of constant distraction, there are precious few annual events that unite the national gaze. In fact, there is really only one:

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By Sheila SamplesNovember 24, 2009If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. - Thomas S. Szasz, The Second SinSeveral months ago, CNN published the results of a couple of disturbing polls about Americans and their religious beliefs. The first found that more Americans are rejecting religion and thus, according to CNN, America is becoming "less Christian."

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By Sheila SamplesNovember 1, 2009Is there anything scarier than the New York Times' Halloween treat entitled, "Documents Detail Conditions Found at Secret C.I.A. Jails"?Pardon my Palinese, but -- You betcha! You damnbetcha!For starters, the "conditions" the Times mentions only briefly are, in reality, depraved, corrupt, immoral, inhumane torture. According to the Times..."F.B.I. agents who

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October 27, 2009Mack answers questions about Obama visitnews-press.comhttp://www.news-press.com/article/20091027/OBAMA/91027025/1075Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, held a phone conference this morning to answer questions about his position on President Obama’s visit to the DeSoto County solar power plant. He said the president is on a sales pitch to increase his popularity on the taxpayer’s dime.

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by Mary PittOctober 25, 2009　The Democrats are terribly worried about their ability to gain the sixty votes required for cloture in order to vote for passage of their health plan in the Senate. There are many of us, particularly on the Progressive side who see the benefits of bringing the bill to the floor regardless of the pre-vote count and let the speeches begin!The Republicans are griping

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By Sheila SamplesOctober 12, 2009I didn't know Van Jones. I didn't know Van Jones was a friend of mine -- at least not until the stench billowing from the Fox Hate Channel became so foul I was forced to take a closer look at this terrifying creature. No -- not Jones, whom President Obama wisely had hired as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality -- but the sobbing,

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Dry Heaves and Sucker Ploys: Written by Chris Floyd Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:03 http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1847-dry-heaves-and-sucker-ploys-the-great-new-iran-qcrisisq.htmlThe new "Iran crisis" is such a sickening concoction of stupidity and lies that it almost defies comment. It certainly defies contemplation; even to think about it for thirty

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[…]We are living through a profound global financial crisis. That crisis has many proximate causes in the governance and deregulation of Wall Street. We have seen the astounding bailout of Bear Stearns using $30 billion plus in public money—Bear Stearns – an investment bank, an enterprise that prided itself on being in the business of cowboy capitalism, business without a safety net.But the real

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by Mary PittJuly 29, 2009While the Congressional "elephants" are straining at the gnat of Obama's health care plan, the Blue Dogs are busily gorging on the poisonous fat being spread before them by the voracious and monopolistic insurance and pharmaceutical companies, the citizens for whom they were chosen to protect are continuing to be victimized and destroyed.The handwriting is on the wall to

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by Jeff Huberhttp://www.atlargely.com/atlargely/2009/07/cheneys-inferno.htmlI tend to regard Dick Cheney the way most of us divorced folks probably think of our ex-spouses. The ex-spouses are going to hell and revenge is already ours, so why waste our breath on them? It’s likewise with Cheney. He’s out of power, his next political post will be as Vice-Prince of Darkness; is he worth wasting a

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By Sheila SamplesJuly 19, 2009If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers - Albert CamusThere is no subject more restricted nor more controlled in the United States than a critical discussion of Israel. Balanced argument is ignored

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by Mary PittJune 13, 2009Don't look now but your base is slipping! You may ask anyone involved in the Katrina disaster how important those few little grains of sand sliding off to the side can be. Nobody seemed to notice when the levees that held back the waters of Lake Ponchartrain began deteriorating but we all now know that they were the precursers to calamity.In the same way, a few of your

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by Mary PittJune 6, 2009We, the people, are sick and tired of hearing that "single payer is off the table" in the same breath with "health care reform". Attempting to "repair" a broken-down old vehicle without considering the possibility of a replacement as an alternative simply makes no financial sense. The same is true with trying to repair our broken health system.We are besieged on all sides

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by Mary PittJune 1, 2009One may hear much speculation as to the future of the Republican Party as that once-august group find their following at a historic low and they have to turn for leadership to radio commentators and historic losers from their past. The most-asked questions in the television fora is, "Where is the future of the Republican party?"The future of the Republican Party may be

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By Sheila SamplesMay 9, 2009 I have learned over the past decade if I want to know what's really going on in the United States, I have to cruise through the foreign media to see what's creating a furor or causing a stink. So, while searching for the status of Spain's on-again, off-again criminal proceedings against six Bush Administration war criminals, this headline in Der Spiegel caught my eye

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Pakistan Counts the Toll of the Bush-Obama Drone WarWritten by Chris FloydApril 11, 2009http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1738-death-by-the-numbers-pakistan-counts-the-toll-of-the-bush-obama-drone-war.htmlAs we all know, the Terror Warriors in the White House (of whatever political stripe) don't do body counts. They just kill people, make unsupported claims of "clean hits" on "

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Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawlingby Johann HariMonday, 5 January 2009http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.htmlWho imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the

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March 23, 2009Posted by Jeff Huberhttp://www.atlargely.com/2009/03/the-long-war-generals.htmlIf you’re not cheating you’re not trying.--Anonymous U.S. military officerAs a naval aviator pal of mine once remarked, cadets in our military academies spend the summer before their freshman year learning an arcane honor code and spend the next four years learning how to violate it without getting caught

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by Laurence M. VanceMarch 20, 2009http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance167.htmlAs of today, March 20, it has now been six years since the United States invaded Iraq. Yes, the United States still has tens of thousands of troops in Iraq, although we don’t hear much about the war any more. What happened to the war?The war should have been an issue in the election. It wasn’t. And thanks to the

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009by Juan Colehttp://www.juancole.com/2009/03/cheneys-mission-accomplished.htmlDick Cheney: "I guess my general sense of where we are with respect to Iraq and at the end of now, what, nearly six years, is that we've accomplished nearly everything we set out to do...."What has Dick Cheney really accomplished in Iraq? - An estimated 4 million Iraqis, out of 27 million, have

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still no lessons learned.

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by Mary PittMarch 2, 2009I have been watching the news reports about the appointment of Kathleen Sebelius to the position of Secretary of Health and Human Services. There was a time when she was considered a possible candidate for the job of Vice-President and there is no reason why those who write the news for television should not have done their homework on her qualifications. However, after

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By Sheila SamplesMarch 2, 2009Sometimes it's hard to come to grips with the truth -- especially if that truth is about our own country, and is in direct opposition to everything we've been taught since childhood. Patriotism is in our genes, and through the years it has been a national conviction that, if our country needed us, serving in the military to protect our freedom was not only the right

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by Mary PittFebruary 15, 2009Just three weeks after Barack Obama was sworn in, we are barraged with complaints because he has not yet wiped out all the vestiges of the Bush administration from the environs of Washington, D.C. We are daily confronted by newspaper items, editorials, and blogs telling us of his shortcomings and failure to correct all the bad Department of Justice decisions, all the

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by Mary PittFebruary 8, 2009As the spouse of a working man, often in remote areas and long before you would find an H&R Block firm within easy driving distance, the job of filing the annual income tax forms fell to me. As the rules changed, it was necessary to study the instructions every year to remain current and legal. While that may seem difficult to many, a bit of initial concentration

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by Leonard Cohen It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that this ain't exactly real, or it's real, but it ain't exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's

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by Mary PittSunday, January 18, 2009Waddya gonna do when you've gone about as far as you can go? You want to open a window and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" But, where you live there is nobody to hear you. Go ahead, yell your fool head off but there are none to hear and, if anybody does, they don't care.The preachers will tell you, "The Lord will provide" but, in

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by Mary PittJanuary 15, 2009The greatest problem as the new President and the Congress attempt to enact remedies to the very real problems of the poor, the disabled, and the laboring class, (not the much-broader "working class"), is that they do not know or understand exactly what it is that they are trying to "fix". With the exception of the President, none of them have ever wanted for food,

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History's Clear Answer to the Torture DebateWritten By Chris Floyd January 13, 2009http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1680-head-cases-historys-clear-answer-to-the-torture-debate.htmlThere has been much throwing about of brains on the subject of "what to do" about the Bush Administration's unabashed and openly confessed use of "interrogation techniques" that are, without question

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by Mary PittSaturday, January 10, 2009With an economy that is sadly in the tank, a stock market that cannot get its feet back under it, with record and growing unemployment, and with working class and poor people suffering with too little income and too many expenses, the economists and politicians are quarreling over what will be required to heal the ills of our nation.One "stimulus" has been

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Pictures of sufferingPictures of deathSome say this is holy Some say this is goodWomen burned aliveChildren without headsand heaps of corpses on the ground

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by susan abulhawaHow can anyone watching Gaza burn escape the bitter realization that history repeats itself? Many have compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Apartheid South Africa. But not in their cruelest hour did the Apartheid regime wreak such wanton murder and destruction. Let us stop mincing words. What is happening to Palestinians now whispers of Warsaw and Lodz.Schools,

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Jan 2, 2009 12:53 pmThousands of shoes tie up Miami freeway traffic Thousands of shoes were dumped on the Palmetto Expressway causing significant traffic delays in Miami, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)MIAMI (AP) -- State troopers are looking for a charity to take thousands of shoes that were dumped on a Miami expressway, tying up rush hour traffic. Lt. Pat Santangelo says the Florida

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Let's hope the new year is better.

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Shock, Awe and Lies:The Truth Behind the Israeli Attack on GazaWritten by Chris Floyd Monday, 29 December 2008http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1666-shock-awe-and-lies-the-truth-behind-the-israeli-attack-on-gaza.htmlHere is a simple, stone cold fact. You cannot read or hear the truth about what is happening in Gaza from any corporate media in the United States. The only thing

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by Mary Pitt12/22/08The whole country is agog with the news of the Madoff Ponzi scheme and the billions he scammed from big investors, but nobody appears to realize that it is only the tip of a huge iceberg. There are other so-called legitimate institutions afloat in the private sector that are profiting from similar scams with the heartfelt approval of the raging capitalists in government as

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by Mary PittTuesday, December 16, 2008The Republicans are already indicating their intent to use the same tactics that they used in the past two years in the minority to block many of the programs that are vital to the plans of President-elect Obama. They cling to the "sixty-vote cloture" rule as if it were the Holy Grail and intend to exercise it at every turn in the deliberations of the

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I'm tellin' ya. Livin' here's a trip.Hendry Sheriff Sells Car To Georgia TownTransferring Assets To Keep New Sheriff From Getting Them Says StoryDon BrowneThursday, November 27, 2008http://swflorida.blogspot.com:80/2008/11/hendry-sheriff-sells-car-to-georgia.htmlLABELLE, FL. -- A news story in the Cordele Dispatch in Georgia says Hendry County Sheriff Ronnie Lee is selling his 2007 Dodge Charger

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By Sheila Samples11/28/08Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!Sail on, O Union, strong and great!Humanity with all its fears,With all the hopes of future years,Is hanging breathless on thy fate! - Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe recent blowout election that gave us President Barack Obama resulted in a flood of emotion that engulfed both parties. The one thing they had in common was that neither

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Well, Johnny, (I can call you Johnny, right?) Anyway, don’t feel too bad. I got danced on Election Day too. You and Sarah (I can call you Sarah, right?) should do what me and Lumpy did.We looked at each other at 3am, and said, “Well, that’s it. Let’s go get a banana”And we did. Then we fell asleep on the pillow. And when we woke up, it was another day.We’d like to congratulate President-elect

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:-) and, as they say, the rest is history

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by Mary PittThe most memorable points made in the McCain/Obama debate, from my lowly viewpoint, was the plight of poor old Joe, the Plumber The story was that Joe has worked for a plumbing company for twelve years, 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Now he wants to buy the company and "give jobs" to other men. He is worried that, should he do well and earn over a quarter of a mil a year, he may

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Let’s take a look at this two clips, shall we? And then we’ll have a quiz.Congressman asks Justice Dept. about Qwest wiretap chargesBy John GodfreyLast update: 6:45 p.m. EDT Oct. 15, 2007http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/congressman-asks-justice-dept-about/story.aspx?guid=%7BE944A27D-75C3-4D12-8CA4-2C22302AB947%7D[…]Once-classified documents that were unveiled in the insider-trading case of

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The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult Written by Chris Floyd http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1627-the-god-that-failed-the-30-year-lie-of-the-market-cult.html Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash -- or rather, by the reaction to it -- is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at

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by Mary Pitt10/08/08I was watching the candidates as they deplaned for the debate. First, Obama skipped down the steps alone and galloped over to shake the hands of the flight crew. When the McCains arrived, Cindy walked down the steps first. Only the polite thing to do but something looked different. She walked slowly with her back against him and her hands braced on the rails as if to prevent

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Sure, Barack Obama knows somebody who was a radical 40 years ago when Obama was 8. We all do, even you, john. But, you, john, were a traitor during that time. Remember those anti-American propaganda movies you made for the Vietnamese while you were a POW? Hey, don’t give me any crap about being tortured. There were a whole lot more of your fellow POW’s who stayed true to their country, while

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Palin hits Obama for 'terrorist' connection10/4/08http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/04/palin.obama/index.htmlENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama's political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating "with terrorists who targeted their own country."Palin's attack delivered on the McCain campaign's announcement

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by Mary PittFriday, October 03, 2008 11:18 PMAs a small voice from the back of the room, I have one question regarding the discovery of the illiquidity of all the huge corporate conglomerates who have taken over the finances of this ostensibly democratic nation. When is somebody going to jail?Now, I don't profess to truly understand the ins and outs of our financial system and I have absolutely

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Paulson's Reasons for Delaying Day of Reckoningby Jonathan Weil10/3/08http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_weil&sid=aMaWyNFImi4oOct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- If you think this bailout is expensive, just wait until you see the next one.The $700 billion rescue plan approved by the U.S. Senate won't fix the core problem with the nation's ailing financial institutions. And it

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By Sheila Samples9/26/08We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men ~~ George OrwellSo here we sit, our heads jerking back and forth so rapidly most of us are suffering severe whiplash. Will the US attack Iran? Will Israel attack Iran? Or will the two war-mongering bullies join forces and "bomb, bomb, bomb" that belligerent twit-nation

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Spies Warn That Al Qaeda Aims for October SurpriseIntercepted Messages Asking Local Cells To Be Prepared for Imminent InstructionsBy ELI LAKE, Staff Reporter of the Sun September 22, 2008http://www.nysun.com/foreign/spies-warn-that-al-qaeda-aims-for-october-surprise/86326/WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of two major terrorist attacks on Western targets, America's counterterrorism community is

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by Mary Pitt9/21/08(on behalf of all the poor and near-poor who "litter our streets")So Wall Street is in a panic! So the trillion-dollar corporations are in danger of going broke! So the big-time investors are in danger of losing their silk shirts! So what?We have been told for years that we must not be cry-babies who go bawling to the government for handouts to help us through the bad times; we

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So. Once again the workers, you know, the people who actually produce things, have to bail out the financiers.That certainly explains why there isn’t any money to help people who are losing their homes, or have lost their jobs. Certainly explains why we can’t have universal health for every citizen, or why we can’t keep our infrastructure from collapsing, or our schools full of books.The bastards

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by Mary Pitt9/13/08This comment may seem to come from far left field but, when you stop to consider it, the perfect sense of it will become apparent. First, Senator John McCain was all set to prove his "bipartisanship" by naming his colleague and good buddy, Senator Joe Lieberman, as his running mate. His Republican advisors vetoed that idea and told him he needed to choose someone to bring

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War isTerrorismToo

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

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Atrocity in Azizabad:More Child Sacrifices on the Terror War AltarChris FloydMonday, 08 September 2008http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1601/135/Every day, the shame mounts, the lies grow more brazen and more brutal, and the dishonor spreads and deepens -- ineradicable, like a white garment soaked with blood.The atrocity in Azizabad, an Afghan village hit by an American airstrike on the

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In case you haven't been paying attention, tonight, mcsame is scheduled to give his acceptance speech. This is after Gustav played with the start of the convention.In case you haven't been paying attention, tonight, the New York Giants (the superbowl champions) are playing the Washington Redskins in the NFL season opener on ABC.Guess which one football fans will be watching.

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Oscar came to live with us in February 2004. He came from a small dog rescue place after being abandoned in Texas.He died today of cancer. We buried him in the gazebo.

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Sunday 31 August 2008by William Rivers Pitthttp://www.truthout.org/article/the-hollow-man Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. - H. L. Mencken In this election, it is the character of the candidate that will matter the most. That, and pretty much that alone, has been the core campaign message Republican candidate John McCain has been peddling to all and

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- by Stephen Lendman8/18/08From July 21 - 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast in the North Atlantic. Its purpose may have been to prepare for a naval blockade of Iran. Initial reports after its completion were that participating ships were deployed to Persian Gulf and Arabian and Red Sea

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by Mary Pitt8/15/08This morning, August 18th, the news was blaring from CNN and MSNBC: Donald Trump Bails Out Ed McMahon! The story that followed told us that poor ole Ed had fallen ill, was having a hard time financially and was in danger of losing his home. Now, I do not lack for sympathy for this poor man who had such an illustrious and munificent career and who can, even now, be seen on

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At 11:02 a.m., at an altitude of 1,650 feet, Fat Man exploded over Nagasaki.

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John, do you know how long a person making minimum wage has to work to be able to afford a pair $520 Ferragamo Loafers like you wear? At $6.55 an hour, that’s more than 79 hours. Actually even more, because of the payroll taxes that would be taken out. And that’s only if that person has no other expenses except for wussy shoes like you wear.So, old man, except for the few males around who think

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