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PublicSquare.net Presidential Debates

Socialist Party presidential nominee Brian Moore participated in two PublicSquare.net Presidential Debates last week with Republican  presidential candidate Daniel Gilbert of North Carolina and Libertarian presidential candidate Daniel Imperato of Palm Beach, Florida.  The note below provides a direct link to the two debates, lasting 51 and 37 minutes respectively.

In addition, this coming Monday, December 31st, Brian will be interviewed on XM Satellite Radio, based in Washington, DC.  The program is called POTUS LIVE '08, and the host is Tim Farley.  He will interview Brian at 11:35 AM, and the segment will last from six to eight minutes.  The program has 500,000 listeners per week, all of them are called "hard-core political junkies, as their target audience," according to the program's producer, Joanna Roufa Welch.

 Following is a note from the PublicSquare.net editor and link to the two
 debates.

 Debates in the  PublicSquare.net Presidential Debate Series are now ready for download
 here: http://www.publicsquare.net/content.php?pid=192

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Countries condemn Bhutto assassination (AP)

AP - From Moscow to Washington to New Delhi and points in between, dismay and condemnation poured forth Thursday over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, along with concern for the stability of the volatile region.

Prime Minister Bhutto was a sincere progressive socialist that the world will miss. Her death is symbolic of what the "extremists" of the world have in mind for all who would forge a better world for all. She may have been killed by a suicide bomber, but her death is the result of the ineffective policy and greed committed by the few against the many.

When it is so easy to kill good leaders, why do fascists like Bush, Hussien, and Musharif just linger on and on?

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Moore/Alexander MySpace

The Moore/Alexander MySpace is now online at:
http://www.myspace.com/votesocialist08

The Socialist Party USA nominations for President and Vice President now have their MySpace account open and the page up and running for all to interact with the candidates. Feel free to drop by, log in and meet up with Socialists all over the United States. Ask the candidates questions and express your concerns, hopes and vision for a new future for America.

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Happy Hollidays

Notice the top of the Christmas Tree. Since the War Monger and Chief usurped power and installed his self as Leader of the Slave World he and his accomplices have invaded at least two sovereign nations, criminally slandered and threatened several others, cut taxes on only the richest of the world, sold our own national sovereignty out to the new world order, cut ALL social programs to the quick, destroyed the education system (presumably in a concerted effort to 'dumb down' Amerika), and systematically violated and negated any and all individual rights, privileges, and freedoms that we ever enjoyed. Most of the damage he and his accomplices have done is permanent and irreparable.

So, come next election cycle go ahead and vote for your favorite corporate lap dog for it will make little difference. You have already been sold out and pushed down the river styx. Enjoy the scenery.

Happy Holidays.

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Santa Claus Delivers 37,000+ Copies of Constitution to President Bush

December 20, 2007, Washington, DC – This morning, Santa Claus (in the person of noted constitutional lawyer Bill Goodman) drove his sleigh to the White House to deliver thousands of copies of the U.S. Constitution to President Bush.

Americans from all over the country – more than 37,000 of them – asked that a copy of the Constitution be delivered to the President in their name and cordially requested that he make time in his busy schedule to read it.

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Major Labels Drop the Ax

On page 15 of the December '07 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, this article sites that the recording industry is taking a serious hit to their bottom line forcing an exodus of pink slip recipients back into the unemployment lines.

In the right sidebar to this site is a "Don't Buy Into It" icon that we have been promoting here at Surviving Christianity for several months. The general idea is to boycott the record industry for mistreating the public with poor talent and high prices. They are trying to control everything we listen to by making us pay repeatedly for every form of media with Digital Media Rights.

Some of the greatest musical masterpieces of all time came into being for free! Mozart died a pauper, just for instance. The maniacal reach for our precious dollars at every turn has become obsessive and only we can turn off the spout... by closing our wallets.

And it appears as if it is working. The record industry is collapsing under the pressure. Chances are, the big four labels will not even resemble their current structure a year from now.

If we could do this throughout the economy... just think of the power of the purse! We could cripple our own non-responsive, self-interested, self-absorbed government officials and bend them to our will...

if we would only work together to stop them from receiving any money. If everyone would just close their pocket for a week, or even a day, in concert they would get a message loud and clear that they only have the power because we give it to them.

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Top Quotes of '07

The Top 5 Quotes of 2007 were announced on CNN.

I think it bears mention that the most popular phrases being quoted for the year have a direct connection to the spread and rise of Fascism in Amerika today.

Number 5 was Alberto Gonzolez' now famous reiterated quip, "...I don't recall..."

But coming in at number one is the famous plea of Andrew Meyers, "Don't tase me, bro!" A good request to keep in the back of your mind any time you leave your home (or not).

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Protests erupt over New Orleans housing

Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren't allowed into City Hall for the vote.

At about 11 a.m., several protesters were dragged out of council
chambers after scuffles broke out among people who packed the room, and
members of the crowd booed council members and shouted insults at them.

Police Spokesman states that these people were clearly there to be disruptive and disobedient. And the new fascist government will quell any show of disobedience by force. Several protesters were taken away by ambulance after being tased and beaten by law enforcement.

I'm quit sure that these people were only there to be disruptive. They couldn't have been interested in saving their homes from ethnic cleansing, American Style, and capitalist expansion and oppression.

We are no longer allowed to speak up for ourselves and our own rights and privileges in Amerika. Rule by mandate and by force is the order of the day.

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Andy Mckee - Art of Motion - Guitar - www.candyrat.com

Andy Mckee - Art of Motion - Guitar - www.candyrat.com

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Judge asked not to see CIA tapes

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:54:08

The Bush administration has told a federal judge not to watch the CIA interrogation tapes and not to follow up the tapes' destruction issue. In court documents the government lawyers told the US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy that asking for information about the much disputed tapes would interfere with the present investigations by the Congress and the Justice Department. This is the first time the government has discussed the issue of the videotapes in court. Kennedy ordered the Bush administration in June 2005 to safeguard 'all evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and abuse of detainees at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.' Five months later the CIA destroyed the interrogation tapes. Government lawyers told Kennedy the tapes were not covered by his court order because the interrogations of the suspected terrorists, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, were not at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. The men were interrogated in secret CIA prisons overseas. They were later transferred to Guantanamo Bay and the tapes were destroyed. Attorney General Michael Mukasey declined to give any details to the congress about the government's investigation into the matter saying it would raise questions about whether the request was because of political pressure. NA/RA

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=35092&sectionid=3510203

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Socialists Want Stronger Ties with Mexico

Stewart A. Alexander - Peace and Freedom Party

As the 2008 Election year moves into high gear, most of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have adopted an anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican strategy for their campaigns. The message of the candidates is outlining an agenda that will increase border enforcement and supporting legislation that will restrict the rights of millions of immigrants.

This anti-immigrant rhetoric, coming from the two corporate parties, is helping to drive an anti-immigrant public phobia across America and is straining our political ties with Mexico. Just last week President Felipe Calderon of Mexico accused these candidates of being “swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican,” according to the Associated Press.

President Calderon also sharply criticized the U.S. Congress and government for taking measures to persecute, mistreat and restrict the rights of immigrant workers. Calderon has strongly denounced the U.S. immigration policy. The president has charged, “The insensitivity toward those who support the U.S. economy and society has only served as an impetus to reinforce the battle... for their rights,” according to the Washington Post.

Within the past decade, the general attitude of millions of Americans have become worst toward Mexico and Mexicans in the US, in large part due to a weakening U.S. economy and the failure of U.S. trade agreements, such as NAFTA.

US trade agreements in general do not benefited working-class people on either side of the US-Mexico border; these trade agreements only benefit the billionaires and capitalists in both countries. What has been evident is the basic standard of living has been lowered in Mexico due to these flawed trade agreements and poverty is ravishing that entire nation.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans are seeking work in the US only as a means of survival and to feed their families. Many Mexicans are braving treacherous borders and are risking rape, starvation, threats and death only to improve the well-being for their families.

The Bush administration and Congress are now constructing a 700-mile US-Mexico border fence that is only exacerbating the immigration issues between the two neighboring countries and straining relations; the border fence is also a senseless approach to deal with a complexity of issues that are rooted in solving the needs of working people.

The Peace and Freedom Party and Socialist Party USA are opposed to the direction that the Democrats and Republicans are leading millions of American; the presidential candidates, along with their parties are fueling a national attitude of ill-will and resentment toward Mexicans and Mexicans-Americans.

Socialist leaders understand that the two corporate parties are only using the issues of immigration as a means of diverting public attention from the Iraq War; a war that has caused over one million deaths. The two corporate parties want to divert public attention from an expanding national debt that is now approaching $10 trillion and a massive trade deficit that has become a burden on every working class family. The failing policies, of the two parties, has produced out of control inflation, a national recession, soaring gasoline prices, a crumbling housing market, unaffordable health care, failing senior care, smaller paychecks, and a fail foreign policy that has revealed that the Democrats and Republicans have failed in their responsibilities to the American people.

In the grand scheme of American politics, the immigration issue will exist until the needs of working-class people are met. Until the needs of working people are addressed, building political walls and border walls will ultimately prove futile and will cause more human suffering and deaths.

Peace and Freedom Party and Socialist Party USA fully support protecting the rights of working class people on both sides of the US-Mexico border and both socialist parties oppose building border walls. All the 2008 candidates, from the two socialist parties, favor strengthening ties with Mexico and developing policy that will benefit working people in both countries and worldwide.

For more information search the Web for: Stewart A. Alexander; Immigrants are Lost in American Politics; Border Fence - the Cost is Far too High; Iraq War, Many Diversions; Independent Voters Rejecting Democrats and Republicans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090200958.html
http://www.banderasnews.com/0702/eded-borderfence.htm
http://StewartAlexanderCares.com
http://www.vote-socialist.org/
http://peaceandfreedom-sjv.org/home/
http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/pres08.htm
http://www.politics1.com/p2008.htm

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Meet them at the gates...Veterans without services

Father of Spec. Tim Bowman wants the Veterans Administration to meet young veterans coming home from war to assess their medical needs rather than the veterans going in search for help at the V.A. when it is needed. Back home in Forreston, Illinois for just eight months, Tim shot himself with a handgun, in the office where he and his father worked as electricians after surviving the war in Iraq.

The problem as I see it, though, is the simple fact that the V.A. doesn’t want to treat the patients that DO find their way to the hospital doors. The idea that they will go out LOOKING for patients is ludicrous. Getting a prescription filled or refilled takes practically an act of congress and the nerves of a saint. Getting them to monitor existing conditions or diagnose new ones comes only on near death situations.

As long as they are working to protect “the bottom line”, they will be ignoring conditions that need to be addressed. Cost effectiveness equals “don’t spend” to the corporate America bean counters. One cannot even hope for lasting minor advances in care so long as their heads are up their collective asses counting the beans they ate for lunch.

Just forget it, Mr. Bowman. Too little, too late is the order of business.

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Colo. Church Gunman 'Hated Christians'

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The deadly shooting sprees at a megachurch and a missionary training school were believed to have been carried out by the same person - a 24-year-old suburban Denver man who "hated Christians," a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation, identified the gunman as Matthew Murray, the son of a neurologist who is a prominent researcher on multiple sclerosis.

Five people - including a gunman - were killed, and five others wounded Sunday in the two eruptions of violence 12 hours and 65 miles apart.

The first attack took place at a youth missionary training center in the Denver suburb of Arvata; the other happened at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, where the gunman was shot and killed by a security guard.

The law enforcement official said Murray was believed to be the gunman in both attacks. Murray did not appear to have a criminal history but "hated Christians," the official said. The official did not know Murray's religion, if any.

It is usually unprovoked Christians killing innocent bystanders. Kind of interesting to see the tables turned. Tragic, but interesting. When, oh when, will the west begin to understand how they are generally viewed?

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"You, Mr.. Bush, are a bald-faced liar."

Unfit To Serve

"You, Mr.. Bush, are a bald-faced liar."

8 Minute Video - Keith Olbermann

A Special Comment about the President’s cataclysmic deception about Iran.

MSNBC -  Broadcast 12/06/07

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Report: Drug War Disproportionately Targets Blacks in 97% of Large Counties

Washington, DC: A new report released Tuesday by the Justice Policy Institute states that 193 out of 198 counties studied imprison African Americans at markedly higher rates for drug offenses.

The report found that African Americans are ten times more likely to be imprisoned for a drug offense, despite the fact that whites and African Americans use and sell drugs at comparable rates. In addition, the report found no correlation between the rate at which people are sent to prison and the rate at which drugs are used in a given county. Instead, high county drug prison admission rates were associated with the size of county police and judiciary budgets, the proportion of the county’s population that is African American, and higher poverty and unemployment levels.

In 2002, over half of the 175,000 persons admitted to prison for drug offenses nationwide were African American, according to the report. African Americans make up less than 13 percent of the U.S. population.

The authors cite differences in availability of drug treatment for African Americans compared to whites, mandatory minimum sentencing laws, and disparate treatment by police and the courts as factors contributing to the racial disparities in drug imprisonment rates.

In response to their findings, the authors call for a de-escalation of the drug war, a comprehensive policy review and reform of current drug law enforcement practices that are focused in the African American community. They also urge increased funding in public services to help curb drug addiction. "Rather than focus law enforcement efforts on drug-involved people who bear little threat to public safety, we should free up local resources to fund treatment, job training, supportive housing, and other effective public safety strategies," stated JPI executive director Jason Ziedenberg.

Full text of the report "The Vortex: The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties," is available online at: http://www.justicepolicy.org/content.php?hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=69.

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Harsh Words for Yahoo

Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Tom Lantos had some harsh words for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. The comment came after Yahoo admitted helping communist China identify a Chinese dissident. This is what he said: "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies."

And that is why Anonymity and the Net is an issue.

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American Health Care Crisis

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Cafferty File

Jack Cafferty read another of my comments on his CNN Feature: The Cafferty File.
The Question:
What's the single most important task Congress must complete before adjourning for the holidays?
My response:
Accountability. Impeachment and prosecution of criminals for war crimes and deception of the public.
"Not on the table", I know. But then, my priorities and those of my legislators are rarely the same.
Call me cynical.

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Iraq War Funding- Bush Pressuring Democrats

Stewart A. Alexander
Socialist Party USA- Nominee for U.S. Vice President,
and candidate for nomination by the Peace and Freedom Party

December 4, 2007

 President Bush is attempting to pressure Democrats in Washington to give him $196 billion to continue the Iraq War. To enforce his position, the president is threatening mass layoffs of civilian employees at the Defense Department if Congress delays his war funding.

 President Bush chose to direct his threats against the civilian employees even though the Democratic-controlled Congress has already approved $50 billion in supplemental war spending that will finance the Iraq occupation into early March of 2008.

 The Democrats are now within one year of the 2008 General Election, and since the 2006 Mid-Term Election the Democrats have done nothing to fulfill the promises they made to the American people to bring our troops home. Instead the Democrats have given Bush more money to expand his war and brave soldiers continue to die in a needless war based on lies.

 Since the war began in March of 2003, Congress has approved nearly $500 billion in military funding for the war. The waste of dollars pales in comparison to the more than 3,880 brave American women and men that have died to enrich the big oil interests, even without considering the terrible toll on Iraqis.

 If the Democrats and Republicans give Bush the increased funding, the funds will continue to finance an occupation that is completely destroying Iraq for the benefit of a wealthy few in America and abroad.  Mass suffering in Iraq means high oil prices and record oil company profits. Approximately 4 million Iraqi refugees have fled the war-torn nation. Unfortunately, more than one million Iraqis will never return home after becoming the victims of this senseless war.

 During the early months of 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid charged that President Bush was pursuing a failed strategy that is endangering American troops; now the Senate leader is asking the President to adjust the war strategy, but basically going along with each presidential demand for money to pursue the war. It appears that the Democrats have fallen back from their rhetorical position against the war, and their compromising will cost the lives of more troops. While top Democratic presidential candidates admit that troops will remain in Iraq well into the next president's term, Democrats in Congress join with most Republicans in going along with the entire president’s funding demands to continue and expand the war.

 Many Democrats and Republicans are now conceding that the U.S. will remain in Iraq for years and it appears that Bush is making more progress with the Democrats, rather than the Democrats making any progress to end the war.

 The Peace and Freedom Party and the Socialist Party USA have opposed the war, even prior to the invasion of March 2003. Both socialist parties reject any additional war funding and any extension of timetables to bring American troops home.

 The U.S. military has all the necessary funds to bring American troops home and to end the occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a shameful display of weakness of the supposed leading party in American politics, Democrats appear ready to cave in as President Bush threatens to lay off Defense Department employees in an effort to keep Americans tied to a war that is so vehemently opposed by the vast majority of Americans and the world.

 For more information search the web for: Stewart A. Alexander; Independent Voters Rejecting Democrats and Republicans.
 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/iraq-d01.shtml
 http://banderasnews.com/0704/eded-countingthecost.htm


 http://StewartAlexanderCares.com
 http://www.vote-socialist.org/
 http://peaceandfreedom-sjv.org/home/
 http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/pres08.htm
 http://www.politics1.com/p2008.htm

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Man Takes Hostages in NH Clinton Office - Stated reason: No Health Care Coverage

(ROCHESTER, N.H.) — A man claiming to have a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office Friday and took at least two hostages, police and witnesses said. Clinton was not in the state at the time.

The man ordered the hostages onto the floor and then released a mother and her baby, said State Police Maj. Michael Hambrook. Two campaign volunteers were still being held, said Bill Shaheen, a top state campaign official.

The assailant claimed that the reason he did it is because he needed treatment for an alcohol problem and did not have insurance coverage for the treatment.

It sounds a lot like Mark Foley... wait, he had coverage before he committed his crimes.

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