Study finds that veterans are a quarter of the homeless

Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Nov. 8.

And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job.

The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the current wars and says 400 of them have participated in its programs specifically targeting homelessness.

The Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit, based the findings of its report on numbers from Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau. 2005 data estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans.

In comparison, the VA says that 20 years ago, the estimated number of veterans who were homeless on any given night was 250,000.

This is a symptom of a much deeper problem in Amerika. The Ruling Class simply don't give a fuck about the people it kills, the ones it sends to do the killing, nor the working class in its own nation. " 744,313", almost one million people who are homeless in what used to be the wealthiest nation in the world!

And homelessness is an issue that comes before the Amerikan inability to provide adequate health care to its citizens. It is simply a disgrace!

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Spanish King Tells Chavez to 'Shut Up'

SANTIAGO, Chile — The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange that soured the end of a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."

Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.

"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.

Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.
Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"

The Venezuelan leader did not immediately respond, but later used time ceded to him by his close ally Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to answer Zapatero's speech.

"I do not offend by telling the truth," he said. "The Venezuelan government reserves the right to respond to any aggression, anywhere, in any space and in any manner."

In his speech to 18 heads of state gathered in Santiago, Chavez claimed that Aznar in 2000 asked him to distance Venezuela from Cuba and join "the club." Chavez, a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, said he'd refused.

Saturday's exchange between Chavez, Zapatero, and Spain's king overshadowed the conclusion of the three-day summit.

Leaders pledged to fight poverty and increase regional cooperation. They signed a landmark accord that will allow nearly 6 million migrant workers in Latin America, Spain and Portugal to transfer social security benefits between their nations. The leaders also vowed to fight "all forms of terrorism" and called on the U.S. to end its economic embargo against Cuba.

Isn't that the way it always is? Fascism seeks to silence any and all opposition. Way to go Hugo! You keep speaking truth!

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Documentary 'The Israel lobby - The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy

Do you REALLY believe that "most" Amerikan's are sympathetic to Israel? I can only speak for myself when I say, Bull Shit. Israel is the primary problem in the world today!

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America's Mayor has turned into America's Maniac

Torture, says Rudy Giuliani, is smart. He endorses the medieval practice of waterboarding, revived in CIA torture chambers after 9/11, in which a person is strapped to a board, tipped back and forced to inhale water to induce the sensation of drowning.

"It depends on how it's done," Giuliani said when asked about waterboarding and whether it is torture. "It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it." Giuliani used to be a federal prosecutor. Would he have used similar logic in the prosecution of an accused torturer?

The mayor-turned-monster even used a campaign stop in Iowa to mock the victims of sleep deprivation, long acknowledged by international law as one of the severest forms of torture. "They talk about sleep deprivation," he said. "I mean, on that theory, I'm getting tortured running for president of the United States. That's plain silly. That's silly."

Waterboarding causes pain, brain damage and broken bones (from the restraints used on struggling victims), and death. Survivors are psychologically scarred. "Some victims were still traumatized years later," Dr. Allen Keller, director of the Bellevue/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, told The New Yorker. "One patient couldn't take showers, and panicked when it rained."

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Tommy Chong - 2007 NORML Conference

Tommy Chong - 2007 NORML Conference

November 08, 2007, 05:15 PM

Comedian, Author and NORML Advisory Board Member, Tommy Chong entertains attendees at the Awards Banquet held on Friday evening, October 12, 2007.

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Nuclear Warheads in the White House

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Bush Broke the Law

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Bush Makes 'Dry Run' at Martial Law

Bush Makes 'Dry Run' at Martial Law

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - As a Proxy for George W. Bush in a study on World Reaction to the Suspension of Democracy through declaration of Martial Law, Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup and is also head of Pakistan's army, suspended the constitution on Saturday ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on whether his re-election as president was legal. He ousted independent-minded judges, stripped media freedoms and granted sweeping powers to authorities to crush dissent.

Police fired tear gas and battered thousands of lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the troubled Muslim nation. More than 1,500 people have been arrested in 48 hours, and authorities put a stranglehold on independent media. Police officers fire tear gas at lawyers inside the Lahore High Court, protesting against Pakistani... Police officers in plain clothes arrest a lawyer who was protesting against state of emergency...

Though public anger was mounting in the nation of 160 million people, which has been under military rule for much of its 60-year history, demonstrations so far have been limited largely to activists, rights workers and lawyers. All have been quickly and sometimes brutally stamped out.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington was reviewing its assistance to Pakistan, which has received billions in aid since Musharraf threw his support behind the U.S.-led war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

At a news conference in the West Bank on Monday, Rice urged Musharraf to follow through on past promises to "take off his uniform."

"I want to be very clear," she said, as a team of U.S. defense officials postponed plans to travel to Islamabad for talks Tuesday because of the crisis. "We believe that the best path for Pakistan is to quickly return to a constitutional path and then to hold elections."

Britain also said it was reviewing its aid package to Pakistan, and the Dutch government suspended its aid on Monday.

Musharraf reiterated to foreign ambassadors Monday that he was committed to complete the transition to democracy, though, under a state of emergency, elections scheduled for January could be pushed back by up to a year, according to the government.

Critics say Musharraf imposed emergency rule in a last-ditch attempt to cling to power.

His leadership is threatened by the Islamic militant movement that has spread from border regions to the capital, the reemergence of political rival and former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, and an increasingly defiant Supreme Court, which has been virtually decimated in the last two days.

Since late Saturday, between 1,500 and 1,800 people have been detained nationwide, an Interior Ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. They include opposition leaders, lawyers and human rights activists who might mobilize protests.

At least 67 workers and supporters of Bhutto - who has held talks in recent months with Musharraf over an alliance to fight extremism - had been arrested, said Pakistan People's Party spokesman Farhatullah Babar.

Lawyers - who were the driving force behind protests earlier this year when Musharraf tried unsuccessfully to fire independent-minded chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry - attempted to stage rallies in major cities on Monday, but were beaten and arrested.

Chaudhry was removed from his post on Saturday, just as the Supreme Court was preparing to rule on whether Musharraf's Oct. 6 re-election. Opponents say he should be disqualified because he contested the vote as army chief.

In the biggest gathering Monday, about 2,000 lawyers congregated at the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore. As lawyers tried to exit onto a main road, hundreds of police stormed inside, swinging batons and firing tear gas. Lawyers, shouting "Go Musharraf Go!" responded by throwing stones and beating police with tree branches.

Police bundled about 250 lawyers into waiting vans, an Associated Press reporter saw. At least two were bleeding from the head.

In the capital, Islamabad, hundreds of police and paramilitary troops lined roads and rolled out barbed-wire barricades on Monday to seal off the Supreme Court.

Only government employees heading for nearby ministries were allowed through. Two black-suited lawyers whose car was stopped by police argued in vain that they should be granted entry. They were eventually escorted away by two police cars.

A few dozen activists from hard-line Islamic parties gathered nearby, chanting slogans including "Hang, Musharraf, hang!"

As well as calling for protests, lawyers' groups have vowed to boycott all court proceedings held in front of new judges sworn by Musharraf.

Rana Bhagwandas, a Supreme Court judge who refused to take oath under Musharraf's proclamation of emergency orders, said he has been locked inside in his official residence in Islamabad and that other judges were being pressured to support the government.

"They are still working on some judges, they are under pressure," Bhagwandas told Geo TV in a phone interview.

Authorities have imprisoned or put under house arrest key Musharraf critics, among them Javed Hashmi, the acting president of the party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif; cricket star-turned politician, Imran Khan; Asma Jehangir, chairman of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan; and Hamid Gul, former chief of the main intelligence agency.

Pakistan's largest religious party Jamaat-e-Islami reported that more than 500 of its workers and supporters had been detained since Sunday, including its leader, according to senior members of the party and police.

Attorney General Malik Mohammed Qayyum said Sunday a new panel of Supreme Court judges would rule "as early as possible" on Musharraf's eligibility for a new five-year presidential term.

All of this is just a 'Dry Run' for the Bush Administration. And they would be wise to acknowledge the intolerance of the people to Musharraf's attempt to subvert true Democracy by Military Rule.

And Americans should take heed to the extremes that they may need to go to in the not too distant future if their leaders don't see the folly of their ways.

If the Bush Administration conducts a 'False Flag' Operation, or equally likely if we truly do have a national emergency, and declares Martial Law, there will be the same kind of Civil Unrest and 'the rounding up' of 'dissidents'.

Is EVERYONE prepared for this?

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Disparity Reporting of Israel

A guest on CNN's the Lated Edition at around 10:20 Sun, 4 Nov 2007 stated that the central issue in the middle east was the Golan Heights, or something to that effect. I think that more to the point, the unbridled genocide of the Palestinians by Israel is more pressing than the mere occupation of territory. Don't get me wrong, occupation by ANYONE, ANYWHERE is of major import. But I think that genocide tops the list, anywhere, anytime. Why is it that one can find the daily death tolls of innocent civilians anywhere in the world on the web, if you know how to look, yet U.S. Media never even mentions these sadistic acts of brutality?

Israel periodically mounts massive invasions into Palestinian communities, using tanks, helicopter gunships, and F-16 fighter jets. Palestinian fighters resisting these forces possess rifles and homemade mortars and rockets. A minute fraction strap explosives onto their own bodies and attempt to deliver their bombs in person; often they kill only themselves.

While the large majority of Palestinians oppose suicide bombings, many feel that armed resistance has become necessary - much as Americans supported war after the attack at Pearl Harbor. Nevertheless, only a small portion take an active part in the resistance, despite the fact that virtually all support its aim: to create a nation free from foreign oppression.

1,025 Israelis and at least 4,308 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000.

0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 4,170 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since September 29, 2000.

Israel currently has 223 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land.

(Statistics from: If Americans Knew.org/ )

The 911 Omission Report

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MARKET WATCH

"The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which carries out the central bank's open market operations, moved Thursday to inject $41 billion in temporary reserves into the U.S financial system. It came as part of ongoing efforts designed to ensure that the markets -- which have suffered through a period of turbulence over the last few months -- function smoothly. The cash infusion came in three separate operations.

A New York Fed spokesman said it was the largest single day of operations since $50.35 billion was pumped into the system on Sept. 19, 2001, following the terror strikes on New York and Washington. He declined further comment."

MARKET WATCH

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:18 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 13,710.12 -219.89
NASDAQ 2,823.76 -35.36
S&P 500 1,524.93 -24.45

Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:21 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 13,436.51 -224.43
NASDAQ 2,780.16 -45.02
S&P 500 1,493.32 -26.95

Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:08 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 13,183.45 -116.57
NASDAQ 2,678.31 -70.45
S&P 500 1,463.05 -12.57

Fri, 9 Nov 2007 15:30 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 13,042.74 -223.55
NASDAQ 2,627.94 -68.06
S&P 500 1,453.70 -21.07


My personal hopeful expectation: a crash. Simply a complete and total failure of the market and of the United States (puppet) Government. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Who knows, perhaps the (big) heartland earth quake that I have been waiting for will hasten the collapse of the market!

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:58 AM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,986.57 -190.22
NASDAQ 2,595.02 -42.22
S&P 500 1,434.97 -23.77

The DOW has fallen now 1000 points in roughly 4 weeks after a record high of over 1400 points. I anticipate a continued decline for the next 15 months at minimum. Though it may have brief recovery periods, it will continue to fall until George Dumbya Bullshitler and Company are removed from office. I have no idea at this time what that alone will do to world market investment confidence. (Could you imagine being THAT hated world wide?) But regardless of any reaction to a change of regime here in the United States, the declining trend will continue. The damage has been done. It will take 20 years or more for the World to recover from the arrogance and misdeeds done by the American Government world wide.

While the market has not closed at < 1300 as of this writing, it is coming. The trend will continue as the world writhes under the oppressive hand of fascism.
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,799.04 -211.10
NASDAQ 2,562.15 -34.66
S&P 500 1,416.77 -22.93
WOO HOO! To my friends whom this 'market crash' is hurting, I am sorry for your losses. But did you really think that the natural correction of society would come without pain? Take your remaining gains and invest them in survival equipment and supplies. It can only get worse before it gets better.
Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:21 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,980.88 0.00
NASDAQ 2,596.60 +34.45
S&P 500 1,440.70 +23.93
And Black Friday did nothing to restore investor confidence. Can I get a big "Awwwwwe".
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:15 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 13,264.82 -101.05
NASDAQ 2,652.28 -22.18
S&P 500 1,468.36 -10.13
Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:53 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 13,043.96 -220.86
NASDAQ 2,609.63 -42.65
S&P 500 1,447.16 -21.20
Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:22 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,800.18 -256.54
NASDAQ 2,504.65 -98.03
S&P 500 1,411.63 -35.53
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:25 AM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,589.07 -238.42
NASDAQ 2,440.51 -58.95
S&P 500 1,390.19 -25.99
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:15 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,501.11 -277.04
NASDAQ 2,417.59 -60.71
S&P 500 1,380.95 -35.30
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:18 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,099.30 -59.91
NASDAQ 2,340.02 -6.88
S&P 500 1,325.19 -8.06
The stock market world wide took a nose dive as Wall Street had the day off in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Let's see what tomorrow brings, shall we?

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:46 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 11,971.19 -128.11
NASDAQ 2,292.27 -47.75
S&P 500 1,310.50 -14.69
Woo Hoo! The day opened with a 460 sell off but rallied some of its losses by days end. Let's shoot for 10,000 now, shall we.

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:45
PM Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,270.17 +298.98
NASDAQ 2,316.41 +24.14
S&P 500 1,338.60 +28.12
Boo Hiss! Looks like someone is buying the lie. Certainly not me!

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:02 PM
I only just realized that I should be watching the value of the dollar a little more closely as compared to other currencies. Let's watch the value of the dollar drop worldwide...
US CAD EUR GBP CHF JPY AUD
1.0000 1.0099 1.4878 1.9921 0.9215 0.0094 0.8983

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:56 PM
US CAD EUR GBP CHF JPY AUD
1.0000 1.0073 1.4831 1.9738 0.9195 0.0094 0.9080

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:09 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,200.10 -65.03
NASDAQ 2,278.75 -30.82
S&P 500 1,326.45 -10.19
US CAD EUR GBP CHF JPY AUD
1.0000 0.9940 1.4632 1.9608 0.9122 0.0094 0.8944
Now, let's try this again. Come on <12,000 !

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:25 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,284.30 -142.96
NASDAQ 2,299.78 -27.32
S&P 500 1,342.53 -17.50
US CAD EUR GBP CHF JPY AUD
1.0000 0.9890 1.4821 1.9632 0.9190 0.0093 0.9193
Over the past two weeks the market has attempted to rally and fluctuated amid rumors and speculation over the economic stimulus package and its ability to have any effect. Today, the bubble busted. More to the point, the world economy along with political stability took a tremendous jolt today. Several world events have rattled the establishment to its foundation during the course of the past week. And more will follow. If this is not the beginning of the end, then the end is already well under way.

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:31 PM
Symbol Price Change
DOW 12,266.39 -315.79
NASDAQ 2,271.48 -60.09
S&P 500 1,330.63 -37.05
US CAD EUR GBP CHF JPY AUD
1.0000 1.0132 1.5171 1.9883 0.9603 0.0096 0.9291
For the past week the market has been trying to rally and recover its losses based on the false promises and "rose colored glasses" outlook of the Chimp in Chief and his minions. When will they get the fact that he is a liar and a thief? Anyway, today the market tumbled over 300 points. The fact that jobs are being sent out of country at an unprecedented rate, the underhanded faulty loans that were bundled into junk bonds, and the rest of the world has lost all faith in Amerika and its worthless legal tender is finally coming back to haunt the sheeple.

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 16:37
PM Symbol Price Change
DOW 11,893.69 -146.70
NASDAQ 2,212.49 -8.01
S&P 500 1,293.37 -10.97
US CAD EUR GBP CHF JPY AUD
1.0000 1.0099 1.5352 2.0130 0.9752 0.0097 0.9276
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Cleaning up the Nation's streets

FALCON 2007 continued to promote these important efforts, but took on a more focused, long-term approach by targeting twenty-seven cities and regions experiencing elevated levels of criminal activity. Working in conjunction with the Department of Justice, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and other agencies, the U.S. Marshals Service identified and targeted the communities most in need of assistance. The Marshals then reached out to their many partners in federal, state, and local law enforcement to coordinate a sustainable push designed to safely apprehend the maximum number of violent predators. Deputy U.S. marshals teamed with agents, investigators, detectives, officers, and deputies to form a powerful unit that located and arrested 6,406 fugitive felons, ensuring a greater level of safety on the streets of America.  

They're rounding 'em up and locking them away. Hold on to your seats!

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Ready for a Change?

Had enough yet? Are you sick and tired of 'Business as usual' in Washington D.C. ? Tired to death, as I am, of lawmakers pandering to big business and the Military Industrial Complex as our children get dumber and sicker from the complete and utter failure of 'No Child left behind' and the continued infighting over SCHIP?

"Stopping the war is our highest priority," he said. "More than a million Iraqis, including tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children, have died in this tragic and misguided debacle, not to mention more than 3,800 of our own men and women — and for no legitimate reason," added Moore."The wealthy have benefited tremendously from the recent boom in the financial markets, while the working poor in this country are struggling more than ever just to make ends meet," said Moore, whose party's economic program includes guaranteed jobs, housing, and health care for every American.

Why not consider Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander, presidential and vice-presidential nominees for the Socialist Party USA, and give change a chance.

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A Collection: Philosophers

I received an e-mail from a visitor to my blog a few weeks back that inspired me to a little project. The message read as follows:

Hello heartland. You asked for tips and here they are. You are a former Marine and Christian. Now you are a Buddhist and having trouble "practicing your faith." What you need to do is to read (translation: meditate upon until you know them by heart) various works. Here are some of them: Nietzsche, The Antichrist The works of Chuang-Tzu and Lao-Tzu. The Japanese Art of War by Thomas Cleary (you were a Marine.) Attack on Christendom by Kierkegaard. (Please find a translation that is easy to read. If Kierkegaard is obscure, it is the fault of the translator.) Buddhism is not a faith, it is closer to a philosophy (which it isn't either.) Don't "try" to practice it as a faith. The works of Alan Watts are a good ladder to get to where you want to go but if you forget to throw away the ladder once you get there, well, you might as well go back to being a fundamentalist Christian because the result will be better. I'm not looking for any correspondence from you, I'm just perpetrating a random act of kindness. You sound like a dedicated man of integrity and courage. We need people like you and I want to encourage you and push you along your path. Every one of the authors I recommended has a humorous and ironic side (except possibly

the author of the Art of War.). Don't forget the playful side of
things, even in the darkest times. It might be the most important
advice of all.

Yours with feet firmly planted in nothingness,

J.


This 'random act of kindness' inspired me to collect as many of these works, and others of import, as I could find in e-text and put them together into a single Library.For a package of must read literature, 'Philosophers' is a collection of works from such great philosophers as Aristotle, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Sun Tzu, and others packed in an application that allows you to add works to, rearrange, delete, or customize in any way you see fit. And the app also allows you to organize any other information and ideas in a hierarchical, tree-like structure. 'Philosophers' is a .gde file packed especially for use with 'The Guide'.'The Guide' is an application that allows you create documents ("guides") which inherently have a tree (which you can modify as you please) and text associated with each node of the tree. The text itself is of the rich-text variety, and the editor allows you to modify the style and formatting of the text (fonts, bold, italics etc). The Guide is available as an installable package for Microsoft Windows 2000 and upwards (XP, 2003, Vista). It should work (although not tested) on the 64-bit versions also. The binaries are also available as a zip file that requires no installation. The Guide is a 32-bit native C++ Win32 application (that uses MFC).You may get 'Philosophers' and 'The Guide' packed together by clicking here .

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Confronting the War President on October 27, 2007

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One might venture to say, on October 27, 2007, where ever you are, make a public statement against the war! Stop the insanity! Wear a black arm band, burn a flag, any act of defiance would be fine. Don't work. Don't go to school. Don't BUY ANYTHING, ANYWHERE!

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George Bush Hints of New (sic) Secret Weapon

"-we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
George Bush

The secret weapon that Bush & Co. has that destroys "knowledge" is The Church . Tithe regularly!

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Growing weary of the 'debate'? I am...

Nancy Pelosi, Meet Your Replacement!

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The plight of World Buddhism, "the American Way", and the Apathy of Mankind

In September 1949, Communist China, without any provocation, invaded Eastern Tibet and captured Chamdo, the headquarters of the Governor of Eastern Tibet. On November 11, 1950, the Tibetan Government protested to the United Nations Organisation against the Chinese aggression. Although El Salvador raised the question, the Steering Committee of the General Assembly moved to postpone the issue.

On November 17, 1950, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama assumed full spiritual and temporal powers as the Head of State because of the grave crisis facing the country, although he was barely sixteen years old. On May 23, 1951 a Tibetan delegation, which had gone to Peking to hold talks on the invasion, was forced to sign the so-called "17-point Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet", with threats of more military action in Tibet and by forging the official seals of Tibet.

The Chinese then used this document to carry out their plans to turn Tibet into a colony of China disregarding the strong resistance by the Tibetan people. What is more, the Chinese violated every article of this unequal 'treaty' which they had imposed on the Tibetans.

On September 9, 1951 thousands of Chinese troops marched into Lhasa. The forcible occupation of Tibet was marked by systematic destruction of monasteries, suppression of religion, denial of political freedom, widespread arrests and imprisonment and massacre of innocent men, women and children.

On March 10, 1959 the nation-wide Tibetan resistance culminated in the Tibetan National Uprising against the Chinese in Lhasa. The Chinese retaliated with a ruthlessness unknown to the Tibetans. Thousands of men, women and children were massacred in the streets and many more imprisoned and deported. Monks and nuns were a prime target. Monasteries and temples were shelled.

On March 17, 1959 the Dalai Lama left Lhasa and escaped from the pursuing Chinese to seek political asylum in India. He was followed by unprecedented exodus of Tibetans into exile. Never before in their history had so many Tibetans been forced to leave their homeland under such difficult circumstances. There are now more than one hundred thousand Tibetan refugees all over the world.

The following is from the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations:

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

While the Buddhist monks and civilians continue to be imprisoned and killed indiscriminately in Myanmar, the World continues to passively watch and do nothing about unmitigated aggression on fundamentally peaceful people.

So, I say without hesitation nor apology, that it is not JUST Americans that are asleep at the wheel while the war machine called Capitalism continues to trample the dead bodies of the peaceful. If you want to call everyone in America in general lazy, uneducated, bigoted bores, take a look in the mirror before you do. There is enough criticism to go around.

What there is NOT is enough people to stand together in unity against the machine of oppression and slavery of mind and body to make a positive change for the better for the world at large. When will I see true leaders emerge to unite the people of the world? Better yet, when will the people of the world strike down this concept of "us and them"?

We will all pay, indeed are already paying, for the general apathy associated with living in the contemporary model, of allowing the Corporations to dictate the fate of mankind. Their point of view is only short term, the exploitation of humanity and of world resources for monetary gain. It can only end in ruin for us all.

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Hard line: Debra Cagan stunned the MPs with her comments

What's with this chick(?) anyway? Is that REALLY a Maltese Cross she is wearing? Is Bush & Co. REALLY getting THAT brazen in their fascism to easily identify with The Third Reich? And the red leather jacket sets the ensemble to the tune!

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Fox News thinks SCHIP is an Immigration Issue

I'm glad this crap comes via YouTube so I don't have to watch Fox News at all! They really kind of make me sick.

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Anonymity & the Net

Forbes Magazine October 15, 2007 edition has an article entitled Anonymity & the Net  by Victoria Murphy Barret. " It started as privacy protection for the abused, the oppressed and the bashful. Now it shields creeps, criminals and malicious mobs. How to fix it?"

It tells of a harrowing experience by Christos Catsouras, and his wife Lesli, when their daughter Nicole died in an automobile accident and investigation photos were leaked by the California Highway Patrol that appeared on the web with unflattering commentary. The story goes on to describe their plight to get the "gruesome" photos removed along with the "jeering" commentary.

Now, Lesli says, "Nobody seemed to think it was a big deal, except for us." And, " I don't believe in anonymity, not in this country. We're too privileged to allow this to happen. Everyone will get hurt by this. Just watch."

We're too privileged?! WE are too privileged?! Don't EVEN speak for me, bitch. You know nothing about me!

The only reason that I can think of that Forbes Magazine is printing this article is that they, too, along with big business and Microsoft, believe that anonymity is a bad thing and should be curbed by (corporate bought) government interventions.

I feel for the Catsouras'. I really do. However, I don't think that effectively GAGGING everyone is the answer. After all, who caused the bad? CHP. Plain and simple. I must agree that there are a lot of mean 'people' (and I use that term loosely in this case) out here on the internet. I read a lot of mean spirited comments on message boards and it often causes me to NOT participate in the discussion. Isn't that the spirit of 'free enterprise'? If I'm not interested in a certain commodity, I refrain from consuming it! And no one has ever protected MY interests from public consumption.

But who the hell are you, or anyone else for that matter, to tell me what information I CAN view or comment on? I refuse to use GOOGLE, the parent company of this blog site, because of their complicity in the Presidential infringement on American Constitutional Rights by releasing user information. (I had begun this blog before Google's acquisition and am therefore stuck with a bastard step-parent.)

The article suggests that identity equals accountability. Well, from where I'm sitting, Big Money equals deniability and identity equals oppression. Do what you will, we will always remain free! Bad article and position, Forbes Magazine.

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But Then It Was Too Late

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security."

{Sound familiar so far? This next part is the part I really like!}

"And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."

"They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955 By Milton Mayer

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CHIP legislation

G.W.: The program increase will be paid for by raising taxes on the working class. (Paraphrase, near quote).

In actuality it will be paid for by a 61 cent tax increase on cigarettes which industry is dependent predominantly on the working class. In other words, it will be bad for the Tobacco Industry.

Say what you mean, man. Bad for workers hooked on a legal substance, but generally bad for big business as more people will quit using this destructive substance for survival reasons. The folks who use cigarettes will simply be less capable of affording them.

And as sales go down, hurting the profit margins of the elite, where, pray tell will the money come from then?

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Blackwatergate

"September 26, 2007
Breaking: DOD Team To Investigate Security Contractors
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a Pentagon investigation of security contractors in Iraq, CNN's Jamie McIntyre is reporting. The probe comes after a deadly gunfight involving Blackwater employees raised questions about oversight of foreign contractors in Iraq. Gates was unsatisfied with preliminary U.S. reports on the shooting, McIntyre reports. We'll update with details.

Posted at 1:28 PM Posted to: Bush Administration, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Robert Gates"

And as quickly as the investigation begins, the Stonewalling also begins.

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War is a commercial enterprise, and O'Reilly can Kiss my ass!

There was a time when I would have supported the election of Collin Powel for Commander and Chief. Of course, that was before he sold out to the money whores and bowed out in disgrace. I hope everyone notices the fate of Bush Administration officials who defy or even disagree with Dumbia and Darth Vader.

Watch this interview on Real Time...

Everyone made such a fuss about the President of Iran speaking at Columbia University calling him a liar (among other things) and comparing him to Hitler. My problem is that virtually everything that I heard said about him could be said about George Dumbia, yet no one dares say such truths about our peerless leader. Mainstream media certainly won't, or they would lose their corporate subsidies.

I was participating in an online discussion at beliefnet about a year ago where I identified as a Buddhist and I was complaining about current events and one of the participants told me that Buddhists weren't suppose to "worry about stuff like that". I quit participating on beliefnet. But the circumstance has nagged at the back of my mind ever since. Now, I see Buddhist Monks in Myanmar marching in the streets in protest of military rule and in favor of Democracy. So, I guess we do worry about these things. I guess it is like the Christian admonition to be in this world but not of it.

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The Downing Street "Memo"

Today is September 21, 2007, 869 days since congressional request for investigation. (maybe it has begun...). But I doubt it. The Downing Street "Memo"

Published by The Sunday Times on May 1, 2005 this document was the first hard evidence from within the UK or US governments that exposed the truth about how the Iraq war began.

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The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now

Carolyn Baker writes this stunning critique of Naomi Wolf's "10 easy steps" to Fascism. I can't add a word to either of these bold women other than "that's all I'm tryin' to say!". You can see Naomi's interview on The Colbert Report here. These articles are a must read for all American's!

In the "10 easy steps" outlined by Wolf, countries move from open to closed and repressive societies by devolving past certain markers, and Wolf makes a powerful case for the way in which the United States is following a similar pattern without any significant deviation. In each instance she compares and contrasts how America's adherence to the pattern compares or contrasts with the pattern in pre-World War II Germany. The 10 steps are:

1. Invoking an external and internal threat
2. Establishing secret prisons
3. Developing a paramilitary force
4. Surveiling ordinary citizens
5. Infiltrating citizens' groups
6. Arbitrarily detaining and releasing citizens
7. Targeting key individuals
8. Restricting the press
9. Casting criticism as "espionage" and dissent as "treason"
10. Subverting the rule of law

Watch the Colbert interview here.

Bush Administration Flooding Iraqi Black Market With Billions Of Dollars In Weapons

Think Progress?
Come on! And what, pray tell, did I say in my email that Jack Cafferty read?

G.W.: "The reason there is not instant democracy in Iraq..."

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 , at approximately 10:02 AM, the fascist imperialist George W. Bush said, "The reason there is not instant democracy in Iraq is because the people of Iraq have still not recovered from the brutal rule of Saddam Hussien."

Bull Shit!

They haven't recovered from the fact that their death tolls have increased over 400% since we invaded them! This fact is exposed in a report from CNN reporter Michael Ware.

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Terrorism: Insurgency: Patriotism

I was watching a CNN story about the Predator Drone Unmanned Fighting and Surveillance Vehicle. The drone was survialing the area around an Air Force Base in Iraq when it spotted a lone, un-uniformed man standing outside of his car just off the base perimeter. He had just set up a mortar and was dropping a shell into the tube. It launched. He dropped another into the tube which did not launch. He apparently decided not to attempt to disarm the dud shell and left the tube, got into his car and drove away. The drone then followed him, targeted his car, and blew it, with him in it, to smithereens. He was labeled an insurgent, terrorist.

Now, I have no particular aversion to firing back at anyone shooting at me. And I afford soldiers that same right. But they had no intelligence suggesting WHO this man was. So, why the label? Could he not just as easily be called an Iraqi Patriot? After all, he was not in any uniform nor identifiable as with any particular organization (save for the hardware). And he was shooting at an occupying imperial invasion force.

Which leads me to my next example. What, pray tell, is the difference between using a person or a car to deliver an explosive devise and using a million dollar missile guidance system? Does the actual cost of the missile delivery system define the difference between an evil bomb and a righteous bomb?

And what about "U.S. Security Contractors"? We used to call soldiers for hire, Mercenaries and they usually were hired by the CIA to work black operations. Now, these mercenaries are boldly hired and deployed by the U.S. Government and sanctioned, if not outright ordered by, the White House! They don't even care about deniable plausibility any more.

The current resident ot the White House and all of his minions and cronies are simply bad and evil men. There is little room for debate on the issue. And they are going to drag all of America straight to hell with them. Is your insecurity really so great that you will idly set by and give them free reign to spread fascist capitalism in the name of freedom as you freely allow them to erode and deny you your constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms?

Too late, you already have. And your patriotic civic pride that prevents you from even listening to anything that sounds remotely unpatriotic is your Achilles heel.

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Cafferty: Buying a gun?

At long last Jack Cafferty of CNN read one of my responses on his segment of the Situation Room, the Cafferty File. The question is regarding a proposed Maryland State initiative which would require potential gun purchasers to sign a release of information for their mental health records in a knee jerk reaction by lawmakers to the VA Tech massacre.
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Jack's question: What kind of restrictions should there be on gun purchases?
My response:
Jack,
I thought the free market premise is that if I have the money to buy something then it is good for everyone! After all, we as a nation have sold weapons to bin Laden, Norieaga, the Suni's, the Shia, Saddam, and a never ending list of criminals.I fail to see the free market rational for prohibiting sales to someone who merely had a bad 'month'.

I am proud that Jack and/or his team thought my comment worthy of reading on the air. I just hope that my sarcasm and criticism for free market ideas was not lost in translation.

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Republican quotes on war before they took charge

KY's Senior Senator Mitch McConnell said during a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
"Domestic terrorism is not a cause we have to fight or a project we need to fund. We are not interested in capturing bin Laden. Even though he has been offered to us. We are not the world's policemen. It's not our job to clean up other countries messes or arrest it's bad guys."


"You can support the troops but not the president."--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)
"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

"[The] President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)"

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."-- Governor George W. Bush (R)-TX

Uh, what was that, George?

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Iranian influence increasing in Iraq

We better nuke 'em before they fix what we broke!

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Oh my God, They're on to us!

Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists

Read it here: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/171006enemypropagandists.htm

And they said freedom of speech was dead...

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Anti-War protesters arrested and attacked with pepper spray

CNN has just reported (Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:53 PM) that Anti-War protesters arrested and attacked with pepper spray. They don't mention that Pro-war demonstrators are being given a wide berth to heckle and harass Anti-War protesters.

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UK Bank runs out of money, lines grow

UK Bank runs out of money, lines grow

As the US economic problems reach over the great pond, Britain’s 5th largest mortgage lender has been forced to ask the Bank of England for hard cash. Northern Rock has simply ran out of money for it’s customers to withdraw.

Link above

So, my dream is coming true! I've been saying for months that all I had to live for in the Heartland is natural disaster (hence, I closely monitor weather and the USGC). In recent weeks I have added the collapse of the American Economy to my 'reasons to live', as it is right around the corner, or as this article suggests, 'across the pond'.

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No one is above the law — guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

The Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution especially included an impeachment clause for high officers who violate the principles of the Constitution as stated in Article II Section 4 — 

“The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Alexander Hamilton asserted that an impeachment was warranted for "those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust… as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself." And James Madison at Virginia’s ratification convention stated: “A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.”

As fact after fact come forth revealing the truths of the Iraq War and a democracy turning into a tyranny behind the mask of wartime necessity, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney have continuously abused their powers, abused public trust, and violated the constitutional principles in an attempt to subvert the Constitution. The American people and the Congress can now hold the President and the Vice President accountable for their misconduct and unconstitutional actions against the United States of America.

Besides violating the Presidential Oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution (Article II Section 1) and violating his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed (Article II Section 3), George W. Bush along with Richard Cheney stand to be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and for violating the following Articles and Bill of rights of the United States Constitution:

1. manipulated intelligence and media so as to allege falsely a national security threat posed by Iraq

—    provided a forged document dated October 2000, describing the sale of uranium to Iraq by Niger to the International Atomic Energy Commission and used that sale in the State of the Union Address 

(TRUTH: CIA claimed that Bush knew beforehand that the document was bogus.)

—    justified war against Iraq by providing false information, including weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."  – Bush’s Address to the Nation (March 17, 2003)

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."  

– Cheney’s Speech at Veterans of Foreign Wars 103^rd National Convention (August 26, 2002)  

(TRUTH: No WMD)

—    misled the nation to believe Iraq was linked to the terrorist attacks of September 11th by Al-Qaeda

"He (Saddam Hussein) was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction against his own people. He was a threat because he was a sworn enemy to the United States of America, just like Al-Qaeda. He was a threat because he had terrorist connections — not only Al-Qaeda connections, but other connections to terrorist organizations."  – Bush (New York Times 6-18-2004)

“If we’re successful in Iraq…we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under the assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.”  – Cheney (Meet The Press 9-14-2003)

(TRUTH: Commission Investigation Report on Sept. 11 terrorist attacks found no “collaborative relationship” between Iraq and the Al-Qaeda terrorists. The only relationship was that Al-Qaeda contacted Iraq for support but was rejected. Al-Qaeda terrorists didn’t operate in Iraq until after the invasion by the U.S. military forces.)

2. deceived the Congress on the rationale for a war of aggression against Iraq and miscarried the action of the Congress

(Violation of the Federal Anti-conspiracy Statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371 and The False Statements Accountability Act of 1996, 18 U.S.C. § 1001)

—    submitted a false report and a letter (March 18, 2003) to the United States Congress on the reasons for launching a ‘pre-emptive attack’ on Iraq (Downing Street Memo, dated July 23, 2002, revealed that by the summer of 2002, President Bush had decided to launch a war against Iraq with the justification of terrorism and WMD based on ‘fixed’ facts and intelligence.)

(Violation of Article 1 Section 8)

(TRUTH: The Oct. 2002 resolution passed by the Congress gave Bush the authority “to take action in order to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States….” The resolution never granted the president authority to declare war on Iraq. In fact, only Congress can declare war for the United States.)

(Violation of Article II Section 3)

—    shifted money allocated by Congress for the war in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq. (President can only execute the laws passed by Congress.)

3. ignoring the executive duty to protect the American citizens and the country

—    failed as leaders in their dereliction of duty in preventing September 11 terrorist attacks

(Commission Investigation Report on September 11 terrorist attacks noted that the Bush Administration received heightened warnings of possible terrorist attacks in the summer of 2001 and a presidential daily briefing (August 6, 2001 – a month before September 11) regarding an imminent terrorist attack on U.S. soil.)

(Violation of Bill of Rights: Fifth Amendment)

—    denyingthe citizen’s constitutional rights for a fair trial

(ConfiningAmerican citizens without charges and denying their fundamental rights for due process of law.)

—    diverting military resources from pursuing known terroristsin Afghanistan 

(As the Commander-in-Chief, Bush diverted military resources from Afghanistan to Iraq. Instead of conducting an all-out effort in pursuing known terrorists, such as Osama Bin Laden who have repeatedly attacked the United States of America, the U.S. military forces were diverted to invade and occupy Iraq. To this day, Osama Bin Laden remains at large and still a threat.)

4. waging an illegal war in Iraq

(Violation of Article VI)

—    defied the decisions of the United Nations against attacking Iraq is a violation of the UN Charter

(Violation of Article VI)

—    committing a war of aggression is a violation of the Nuremberg Charter

(killing and injuring hundred thousands of civilians)

     (TRUTH: By violating the International Laws that the U.S. agreed to by treaty, Bush has violated the “supreme Law of the Land.”)

(Violation of Article VI and Article III Section 3)

—    authorizing the use of torture on detainees in prison camps, such as the infamous Iraq's Abu Ghraib and Cuba's Guantanamo Bay 

(As the Commander-in-Chief, Bush is accountable for the U.S. military personnel in violating the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Constitution against torture ratified in 1994.)

(TRUTH: Since Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished” at the end of Iraq war two years ago, the deaths and injuries of U.S. soldiers and Iraqis continue to climb every day. Despite a newly established Iraqi government, Iraq remains unstable and its future unclear.)

In the last thirty-one years, considering the two previous presidential impeachments — Richard Nixon charged for obstructing justice, abuse of powers, and unlawful refusal to supply material subpoenaed by the House of Representatives; Bill Clinton charged for perjury and obstruction of justice — George Bush certainly warrants an impeachment not only for his lengthy list but also for the severity of the impeachable offenses.

Although Cheney keeps a low profile, he has worked behind the scenes as one of the most powerful vice presidents, regarded as a driving force behind the Iraq war and the Bush administration’s energy policy, according to the White House insiders. He withheld the details of his energy task force meetings with energy industry leaders to help formulate the administration’s national energy policy. He denied that heplayed any role in awarding a billion-dollar business contract to Halliburton, where Cheney was chief executive from 1995 to 2000. Hehas shaped the administration's strategy in the war on terrorism. Undoubtedly, Cheney's shadow looms larger than Bush's presence in the Oval Office. 

Along with their own 2004 and 2000 elections under the suspicion of fraud, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney at the helm of the administration, have led this nation to an illegal and ongoing war, economic disaster, environmental decline, and international disgrace.

It's time for the American people to speak out. It's time for the Congress to do their duty.  It’s time for the American people, through the representatives of the Congress, to impeach the President and the Vice President of the United States. 

Copyright © 2005 UniOrb  

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By Diana Lee

UniOrb (Reality Check) (http://uniorb.com)

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General Petreaus' Credibility questioned?

I'm astonished by the "General Betray Us" add and all of the rhetoric calling his honesty into question. He DID only parrot everything our peerless leader has been saying for the past few months. But I don't really see how that is 'dishonesty' on his part. A quick look at the duration of the cluster fuck in Iraq should be sufficient to convince us that he is merely protecting his job by following orders. Every single other General and senior official on the Bush team who has ever disagreed with G.W. concerning foreign affairs has been summarily canned. My god, sheople have such short memories.

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So America is a Wealthy Nation?

Just check out these government agency reported statistics:

http://www.bea.gov/international/bp_web/simple.cfm?anon=71&table_id=20&area_id=3
and http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit

It's enough to curl your socks. I now have more than just natural disasters to look forward to! I can root for the collapse of the American Economy, too! Hell, it's right around the corner.

It strikes me as odd that the Fed will bail out corporations when they get into trouble, yet when virtually half of American home owners get into trouble the prez sez they shouldn't have gotten themselves into debt in the first place! Such a nice guy...

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"I Fell For That B.S.!"

6 Minute Video

Adam Kokesh spoke, on July 17, 2007, at a rally held in the Upper Senate Park, opposite the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kokesh is with the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) organization. He is a former member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18339.htm

"I took an oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic..."

I ask you simply, who is the greatest enemy to our Constitution, Islam or G.W. and his corporate cronies? HH

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Petraeus, Seeing Gains in Iraq as Fragile, Is Wary of Cuts

Petraeus, Seeing Gains in Iraq as Fragile, Is Wary of Cuts

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." : Texas Governor George W. Bush, April 9, 1999, on the US intervention in Kosovo

As a former Marine who worked in sensitive positions at Head Quarters Marine Corps, Atlantic I am anxious for someone to explain to me why we even need a professional soldier, a warrior, one with a vested interest in continuing combat with ANYONE, to explain to us, the people, why we should remain in a quagmire that even the most obtuse will admit has been a failure.

Don't piss on me and tell me that it is raining!

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Bush says Bin Laden tape is a reminder of a dangerous world

This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black! Every time G.W. speaks I am reminded of how dangerously stupid he is and of how dangerously stupid the sheople are for allowing him to remain not only free, but free to dig our graves deeper. I don't know who is the bigger moron. The dangerous idiot or the idiots that allow him to continue to be dangerous. He is our very own Taliban, our very own Saddam! Americans are straight up morons!

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Judge Rules Provisions of Patriot Act Unconstitutional

By Dan Eggen

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 6, 2007; 3:36 PM

A federal judge today struck down portions of the USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional, ordering the FBI to stop issuing "national security letters" that secretly demand customer information from Internet service providers and other businesses.

Read the full story here.

Woo Hoo! Appearantly not everyone is asleep at the wheel!

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"Bush didn't give a fuck about the intelligence."

The next day, Sept. 18, Tenet briefed Bush on Sabri. "Tenet told me he briefed the president personally," said one of the former CIA officers. According to Tenet, Bush's response was to call the information "the same old thing." Bush insisted it was simply what Saddam wanted him to think. "The president had no interest in the intelligence," said the CIA officer. The other officer said, "Bush didn't give a fuck about the intelligence. He had his mind made up."

Read the whole story here.

And all CNN can do is hype the possibility of Usama bin Laden making another earth shattering statement of "the same old thing."; that WE are liars and meddlers and theives.

Who is the liar? Turn off the Christian War Machine rhetoric...for Christ's sake!

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WMD's...Redoux

Alas, the chemical weapons, marked as such and stored in a file cabinet in the U.N. building in New York City, are reported to be common cleaning compounds. Was Saddam going to scrub us clean to death or is this just more misinformation? I'm getting to the point that I simply do not care. Can we really continue to trust our security to these bumbling boobs? In the words of "South Park" on comedy central, our choice in any election is between a giant douche and a turd  sandwich. Why should we continue to care?

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Shiva, the destroyer of Worlds

And just who IS the destroyer of worlds? Little Big Boy and his all Christian delivery crew?

Watch it here

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American ineptitude with weapons of mass destruction

First, we found Saddam's WMD's filed in a drawer in the United Nations building. Now, we are flying Nukes around the U.S. with pilots unaware of their payload. This is blatant evidence that we are indeed our own worst enemy and a genuine threat to all of mankind!

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Germany: Plot targeted U.S. facilities

BERLIN - Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" (emphasis mine) were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Read the full story here...

I find the wording in this article extremely suspect. The idea that they "hate" all Amercians is a sweeping statement that is generally speaking, untrue. What they hate is Capitalism and U.S. foreign policy that has traditionally oppressed their people and robbed their wealth. And inflammatory statements such as "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" are intended to make the reader fear for their own life while continuing to promote ignorance and misinformation.

And these people have centuries of reason to hate Capitalism and U.S. foreign policy.Christian programming never, ever ceases to amaze me! Hell, I hate Capitalism and U.S. foreign policy! We are the enemy!

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Retired UK general criticizes U.S. Iraq policy

Retired Gen. Sir Mike Jackson also singled out Rumsfeld for criticism, saying his approach to the invasion was "intellectually bankrupt," according to quotes excerpted from his autobiography and published by The Daily Telegraph Saturday. Read it here

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Dana Gould on abortion...

Watch it on Comedy Central

...and now you know!

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Neosho, MO Rampage

A suspect is in custody after a shooting in a church in the small southwestern MO town of Neosho. He was reportedly shouting that the parishioners were all liars. As he held the gun to one victims head he reportedly asked if anyone would trade their life for that one. When no one stepped up, he shot the victim.

He also shot and wounded five others and killed three.

Read the sanitized Christian version at http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/12/church.shooting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

What they won't point out is the irony that being Christian is to strive to be Christ like. And Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 . And no one offered his/her life for the one that was offered in trade. Not one.

Of course, this is an extreme case of "practice what you preach", however it is indicative of Christianity at large and in general.It's all good until it affects me personally. Crime, war, the buffoons who have trampled all over the constitution and repeatedly lied to the sheople... None of it really matters until the meat meets the metal.

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And they bicker against one another... Part Two

Oh Partha, those who are foolish reject the real meanings of the Vedas out of attachment to those ornamental statements which glorify the pursuits of celestial pleasures, but which yield only poisonous effects. They say there is no higher truth than these.

Srimad-Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 Sloka 42

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I am bemused as much as bedeviled by people who "believe" that by virtue of their religion that their truth is the only truth and that their interpretation of that truth nullifies the validity of any other scripture or perspective.

Let's face it. Most people become Christian, Vedantic, Muslim, or virtually any other faith simply because of the Geo-Social nature of their place of birth. They are raised to believe that their truth is the only truth, by and large. And when they find their voice, identity, self, the bickering begins. And anything that remotely suggests that they might be wrong is, in a word, "manure".

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All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Timothy 3:16

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I tend to believe that there is truth and instruction in all holy scripture. And that those who dismiss such instruction are exactly who prophets and saviors were warning against. "...they bicker among one another..."

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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mathew 5:9

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Mark 9:50

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Who is the most dangerous man on earth? It's the man who thinks that God is on his side.

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"I BELIEVE that God wants me to be president." George W. Bush

"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany," Hitler - Berlin March, 1936

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands. George W. Bush

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg held on 3 Oct. 1937

"freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." George W. Bush

"Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!" Hitler - Nuremberg Sept. 13, 1936.

Nourish continually the tree of your union with love and affection so that it may remain ever green throughout all seasons, and when God gives you sweet and lovely children consecrate yourselves to their instruction and guidance so that they may become the servants of the world of humanity.' [Bahá'í Prayers, London, 1951, pp 47-49 (paraphrase).] (William Sears, Thief in the Night)

Even if the thoughtless can recite many of the scriptures, if they do not act accordingly, they are not living the holy life, but are like a cowherd counting the cows of others. (Buddhist, Dhammapada - Sayings of the Buddha 2 (tr. J. Richards))

Even if the faithful can recite only a few of the scriptures, if they act accordingly,
having given up passion, hate, and folly, being possessed of true knowledge and serenity of mind, craving nothing in this world or the next, they are living the holy life. (Buddhist, Dhammapada - Sayings of the Buddha 2 (tr. J. Richards))

35,13 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to My words? saith the LORD. (Nev'im (Prophets), Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah))

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Manure? I think not. The stuff self-righteous wars are made of? Likely.

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