Billary: FL and MI should be heard

"I think that the people of Michigan and Florida spoke in a very convincing way, that they want their voices and their votes to be heard. The turnout in both places was record-breaking and I think that that should be respected," she told reporters. However, Clinton was the only major Democratic candidate on the ballot in Michigan, as a significant number of people there voted "Uncommitted." And it's worth noting that Clinton never spoke this way about Florida and Michigan until right before the South Carolina primary, a contest she lost decisively.

Hillary: FL and MI should be heard - First Read - msnbc.com

To assert that Billary won the popular elections in MI and FL is... flimsy, at best. No other Democratic challengers were even on the ballot in those states. And many that did show up for the primary knowing that there would be no choice voted "uncommitted". That strikes me as a vote against the Clinton Machine.

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The Telecom Immunity Lie (Did they mean Impunity?)

"If the President seems to through the baby out with the bath water, it means that we can safely conclude that there is no baby."

It is not about saving American lives. It is about protecting criminals.

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People's Weekly World - A people’s surge that could reshape our country

A people’s surge is heaving its way across the country with unexpected force. And in doing so, it is confounding pundits, challenging conventional wisdom and reconfiguring our nation’s politics. Only one thing is for certain: it could well prefigure a triumphant victory for peace, economic security and equality in November.

People's Weekly World - A people’s surge that could reshape our country

I, for one, cannot understand why communists and socialists can see the flood of sentiment and support in the Democratic Primaries as anything but another fine example of the people being bamboozled into more corporate sponsored societal rape. It is simply a shell game that they keep playing on the people, and the people keep putting their money down on the table expecting anyone else to win but the house.

Wake up! Dumb ass...

Until the capitalists are quite literally jailed and silenced there can be little hope at all for the "good of the people" to prevail over the good of the privileged few.

DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, OR LIBERTARIAN! If you must vote capitalist, vote Green. However, my support will never again go for anyone that is not running as a socialist or communist. And if you research the various parties AT ALL my reason will be obvious.

But at the same time, we must listen to the bilge that spews forth from any of the mouth pieces. And this PWW article is a fine example. Why anyone would advocate pinning ones hopes on an election with nothing but capitalists being allowed center stage is the stuff that fantasies are made of.

From my perspective, nothing short of revolution will restore the true rights and power of the people. I make this declaration because you can rest assured that the money whores will not give up their strangle hold on the people with a fight.

nuff sed...

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This is What A Police State Looks Like, It's Here Now

This is What A Police State Looks Like

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McNamee Says Clemens Had More Injections

McNamee told baseball investigator George Mitchell that he injected Clemens 16 to 21 times with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998-01. McNamee also said that Yankees teammates Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch used HGH.Committee chairman Henry Waxman questioned the credibility of McNamee, a former New York City police officer, saying he lied to police seven years ago during an investigation of a possible rape. And he challenged the credibility of Clemens.

My Way News - McNamee Says Clemens Had More Injections

While I could personally give a fuck about "America's Pass time" , the important issue to note, in my opinion, is that McNamee is a former New York City police officer who admits to injecting illegal drugs into others and then lied about it.

Who's your friend? Certainly not ANY police officer. They are thugs, liars, and thieves that hide behind a gun, a badge, and quite often a Bible.

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It will get worse before it gets better

April 13, 2002 Venezuela failed coup d'état

Venezuela April 13
by Guarataro
We might learn something of honor from our Venezuelan brothers and sisters.

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Do I really have to say it: Don't Tase me Bro, Get used to it

Somebody's wife, mother, daughter,... Your tax dollars at work. Don't take it from me. Just wait, it'll happen to you or someone that you know and love. Just turn your heads and look the other way... ASSHOLE! YOU are allowing this. YOU! It is YOUR FAULT! YOU! YOU! YOU! It is all YOU!

Dumb ass pricks! Yeah, I said it! It's all YOU!

It might bare mentioning that this is the Sheriff Office of Canton, OH. But it really makes little difference. Every law enforcement agency across this once great nation waits with anticipation the moment that they will be in a position to use their (limited) training and intelligence against citizens. Think about it... That is what the police are for: use against civilians.

What... no one caught on at Ruby Ridge or Waco? Dumb ass!

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Like Hope, but different

Bomb, bomb Iran



You Ain't seen nothin' yet.

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Political Incorrectness

Economic uncertainty, enhanced interrogation, War on Terror, "what the definition of 'is' is", "off the table",...
I need a break! I do know the difference between lemon aid and piss.

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Gates: Iraq Drawdown May Be Paused (or halted?)

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday endorsed, for the first time, the idea of pausing the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq this summer.

"A brief period of consolidation and evaluation probably does make sense," Gates told reporters after meeting with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. Petraeus has indicated in recent weeks that he wants a "period of evaluation" this summer to assess the impact on Iraq security of reducing the U.S. military presence from 20 brigades to 15 brigades.

Honestly, who did not see this coming? Leaving Iraq is not an options for the "brown shirts".

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Albert Einstein and Civil Disobedience

I got some buttons, books and other stuff from the Socialist Party USA yesterday. I like the buttons and the book on Einstein, "Rebel Lives", is going to be a great addition to my library, though much of what is in the book is in a book I already have, "Idea's and Opinions". But the information is presented in a somewhat different context: that Einstein was a great progressive thinker on Socialism, pacifism and disarmament.

Interestingly, Einstein made a declaration at a speaking engagement in the U.S. in 1930 that if 2% of the citizens called to compulsory active duty would simply refuse to serve that there would be nothing that authorities could do about it because, by his reasoning, there would be no way that so many people could be incarcerated. This, in his mind, would be civil disobedience on the grounds of conscientious objection that could cripple the worlds' Military Industrial Complex and severely thwart their ability to wage war.

This prompted me to wonder about the assertions made in that statement. From my own experience with "Corrections" I am aware of the Capitalistic pursuit of monetary gains to be garnered from the warehousing of "criminals". Now, this is a phenomena that had not come to fruition in the time of Albert and I am sure that he would have been appalled by the growth of that industry.

According to recent statistics,  a record 6.9 million adults were incarcerated or on probation or parole in 2003, nearly 131,000 more than in 2002, according to a Justice Department study. Put another way, about 3.2 percent of the adult U.S. population, or 1 in 32 adults, were incarcerated or on probation or parole at the end of 2003. Think about that. Chances are that every time you leave your home, you will come into contact with a "criminal" in some manner.

I am quite sure that Albert would be shocked at these statistics. But more to the point, it is obvious that Capitalist Imperialism not only has the ability to incarcerate over 2% of American population but are also inclined to do so.

One of the prisons that I was in had a federally imposed maximum capacity of 850 men. During the great flood of 1993 several prisons in the state of Missouri were rendered inoperable due to flood waters. Over night the population of the institution in which I was housed jumped to over 1600 inmates. And they had no qualms whatsoever about violating the federally imposed maximum capacity mandate nor about the obvious danger to the safety of inmates and prison staff that was imposed on them all by the over crowded situation. And in spite of any federal sanctions placed upon them, they took two years to begin to address the unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

This experience highlights the ability and willingness of Capitalist Imperialism to DOUBLE their capacity over night! And the seemingly mind boggling figure of 2% of the American population is really just a drop in the bucket in their minds.

So, while considering Civil Disobedience one should keep in mind that despite the good company of some of the greatest thinkers that mankind has ever produced (Albert Einstein, Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., etc.), one should always bare in mind that the likelihood of incarceration for disobedience is greater than could once have even been imagined and is a probable inevitability.

But as many of these great minds observed, freedom is more a state of mind than a physical manifestation. And if we are true to our selves, our ideals and to humanity, incarceration in the name of "freedom to choose" is preferable to bowing to the will of the masters. And we must be prepared to stand in solidarity, even if in chains, if we are to overcome the will of the criminal Corporate Bourgeoise.

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The Battle For America Has Begun?

I must have missed something. All that I heard was, "Don't tase me, bro!"


And then some static over the air waves....

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Si Se Puede!

If only "hope" were still alive...
Aside from that little glitch, truly an awesome video!

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The Devil made him Do It

ODESSA, Texas (AP) - A man accused of killing his wife says he was trying to exorcise a demon from her when the devil entered his body and caused her to die, according to a police probable cause statement.

Jan David Clark, 60, was arrested Friday after authorities went to his home and found Susan Kay Clark's body wrapped in a bed sheet with a cross and sword on top of it.

That's just down the road from the Commander and Chimp's ranch in Crawford. I wonder if it's something in the water.

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Breakthrough in Striking Writers Talks

Feb 2, 5:55 PM (ET)

By LYNN ELBER

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A breakthrough in contract talks has been reached between Hollywood studios and striking writers and could lead to a tentative deal as early as next week, a person close to the ongoing negotiations said Saturday.

The two sides breached the gap Friday on the thorniest issues, those concerning compensation for projects distributed via the Internet, said the person, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Although work remains to be done on elements of the agreement, prospects for a deal appeared solid, the person said. The tentative agreement would have to be approved by a majority of guild members.

The Writers Guild of America, whose 3-month-old strike has brought the entertainment industry to a standstill, began informal talks with top media company executives Jan. 23 in an attempt to reach a new deal covering governing work for film, TV and digital media.

We can only hope that the Writers Guild holds out for all that they have coming to them. Sure, reruns are becoming a drag. But to be sure, Studios will stop at nothing to fill the void of the writers if they hold out long enough to threaten the viewers much needed attention. And the content of the programing that is forced down our eye sockets will suffer as a result.

But the power of the Unions and of the workers must be held over the Studio bank accounts to ensure that the workers value to the production chain is held to its appropriate level of import.

And it won't be long before all workers will stand together, as it should have been all along, to prove that people and nations can live and work together. Our world decays into murderous corruption when it is left to the hands of the privileged few to control international and even national rule. Power to the People.

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Welfare for Billionaires

Socialist: Federal Tax Relief Package is Welfare for Billionaires
"A Real National Rebuilding Program is needed"

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

 February 1, 2008

 The presidential candidate's debates, which are being hosted by the corporate networks, are basically media spectacles. Nothing is being addressed in these television debates, by the Democrats or Republicans, regarding how they plan to get this nation out of the mess that is presently destroying the lives of millions of Americans. They do not have a plan, or at least not one they dare reveal to the voters.

Socialists, who consider the needs for the people rather than the desires of the corporate rich, push for solutions that will provide for the needs of working people. Seventy five years ago the U.S economy was crippled.  Under heavy pressure from a growing socialist movement, some U.S. leaders decided to introduce various government programs that would put the nation back to work, initially part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). This was followed by the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of 1935.

 Within the first year of the program, over 3.4 million people were back to work and the government invested in work projects that provided jobs for the young and elderly. According to public records, the WPA focused on tangible improvements.  During its tenure, workers constructed 651,087 miles of roads, streets and highways; and built, repaired or refurbished 124,031 bridges, 125,110 public buildings, 8,192 parks, and 853 landing fields. In addition, workers cleaned slums, revived forests, and extended electrical power to rural locations.

 The Emergency Relief Appropriations Act was not the total solution for bringing an end to the Great Depression, but it was a good beginning. The program eventually put over 8.5 million people back to work and improved the lives of millions nationwide.

The Bush administration has introduced a stimulus package that will give millions of Americans a one time payment up to $600; this is an election-year act of desperation. It is for certain that the federal stimulus package will not significantly ease the current economic crisis the U.S. is presently facing, and it will only give millions of individuals false hopes as the nation slides deeper into the Bush recession. American retailers had a disappointing Christmas; the $150 billion stimulus package is a late Christmas present and a welfare check for the billionaire retailers, with many goodies thrown in for other wealthy corporations.  While some in the Senate are making a worthy effort to add some unemployment relief, and direct some of the money to those with too little income to pay income tax, even these positive effects will be minor.

 The stimulus plan we need today requires some bold moves.

First, we must end the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.  These wars, whose tremendous cost is not offset by taxes, are the immediate cause of the weakness of the dollar, skyrocketing oil prices, and the widening trade deficit, as well as being a pointless waste of precious lives.

 We must put an end to the present housing market crisis; action must be taken quickly, or the damage will spread quickly.  The federal government needs to take action to protect the millions of Americans that could lose their homes in 2008 and 2009, and shift the cost of this disaster from working people to the financial operators who created the problem.

An immediate change in tax policy must reverse the trend of the last thirty years of shifting the tax burden to those least able to pay.  Income taxes should end on individuals earning less than $30,000 annually and couples earning less than $60,000 annually, and increased federal taxes on those with incomes in the millions, who pay less proportionately than they have for a century, must replace this revenue.

A real national rebuilding program is needed.  The federal government must invest $3 trillion within the next five years and a total of $5 trillion over the next decade to rebuild the nation's utilities, communications, and rail infrastructure, refurbish public buildings, strengthen bridges, and repair low income housing across America.

The federal government must invest in constructing low income housing, providing jobs for low income families and providing good paying jobs for women and men.

The federal government must develop programs to relieve working people from the tremendous debt burden that modern capitalism constantly creates. We need universal health care, free education for college students, a universal basic income, and fully comprehensive assistance for the aging.

The laws that tilt the scales against union organizing need to be repealed or changed, freeing millions of workers to fight effectively for better wages, hours and working conditions.

To break the stranglehold of the big energy corporations and associated financial institutions on our government and economy, natural resources including oil must be brought under public ownership and democratically managed by the people, not controlled and owned by private corporations.

Public transportation and electric vehicles must be developed to meet the needs of our people in the 21st Century.  This will not be fully accomplished without public ownership under democratic management, as only in this way can the drive for private profit at the expense of society and the environment be defeated.

 President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal that began to release the nation from the grips of the Great Depression. America is now in the Bush Recession, and to implement effective economic solutions, it will be necessary to take a page from the socialists' book. One-time checks are not the answer, and the federal stimulus package is already doomed to failure.

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The Teaching of Buddha

My friends over at AAUM Center are making a pretty cool announcement. They are offering a Soft Cover copy of "The Teaching of Buddha", published by B.D.K. U.S.A. (The Society for Buddhist Understanding). All you need do is ask and provide a shipping address and they will send it to you free of charge. This offer is made primarily for low income seekers and any cost of shipping will be incurred by AAUM Center.  The book is also available for purchase at B.D.K. U.S.A.'s web site in Soft Cover $8.00 and Hard Cover $10.00. But they do send out free copies to those in prison and to those with low income also, free of charge. Visit AAUM Center for details of the offer.

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If Bush could tell the Truth...

Keith Olbermann on the number of lies Bush and Co. made in the lead up to the Invasion of Sovereign Iraq.

If Bush were to tell the truth...

In a CBS "60 Minutes" program interview, Saddam Hussein told interrogators who questioned the Iraqi leader that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to one of the FBI interrogators who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture.

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AIDS Inc. (Gary Null) (2007)

Gary Null
1 hr 54 min 9 sec - Apr 20, 2007
More than 200 million Americans are suffering from some sort of disease or medical condition at a cost of two trillion dollars per year. ... The conventional medical model shows no hope in curing, and little hope of improving, most of these medical problems. In fact, conventional pharmaceutical approaches to curing disease very often exacerbate the very problems they are supposed to cure, or create other new medical problems that were not there previously.

For more information visit www.garynull.com

DVD copies are available at www.garynull.com

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Economic Aid Package

Would someone please tell the Chimp and Nancy Reed (yeah, I said it) that if they want someone to SPEND money on consumer goods that they should give some to the people who need it the most and would HAVE to spend it on good instead of debt, i.e. the poor. But NOOO! They will give what little they are going to give to business first, and then to folks who still have a little (and a lot).

But truth be told, if they gave me any (which they won't) I would just as soon bury it in the yard and NOT spend it just to stick a finger in their eye! My middle finger!

Hell, just start another war! That always increases spending, not to mention that it is a good deterrent to population growth. And you can eliminate all of those pesky minorities and other "terrorists" in the process.

And it's one, two, three, four, what the hell we fighting for...

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Has the U.S. initiated biological warfare against Venezuala?

You can read the report on the web for yourself here.

The web site is in Spanish. If your Spanish is like mine, you can have it translated here.

According to The zuliano newspaper Panorama, Venezuelan Scientists have identified a new type of the more aggressive form of dengue fever, classified type 5, that presents/displays hepatitis complications in the patients causing the death.
"This is not of spontaneous origin. It is verified scientifically in the laboratories of LIGHT virology that it was a mutation of a technological manner and that it suggests a more likely experience of military biological engineering."

They go on to suggest that the strain was developed in laboratories in the United States.

The Bush Regime has been caught lying so many times to the American People that it is no longer amusing. And we all know how Neo-con fascists in the Western Hemisphere feel about Socialism and Communism.

Is World War III (or IV or whatever) already under way? Hold on to your hats folks, 'cause here we go!

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Fears of a US recession spilled over into Asian markets

21/01/08 "ICH" --- - On Monday, fears of a US recession spilled over into Asian markets sending stocks tumbling. Indexes were hammered across the board in what turned out to be the worst day of trading since 2001. In India, the Bombay Sensitive Index plunged 1408 points, to 17,605. In China, the Shanghai Composite dropped 266 points (or 5.5%) to 23,818, while in Japan, the Nikkei fell 535 points, to 13,325 points. The bloodletting stretched across the continent and into Europe where shares nosedived by more than 4% by mid-morning “putting them on track for their biggest one-day fall in more than four and a half years.”

The huge sell-off is a sign that global investors do not believe that the Fed's rate cuts or President Bush's $150 billion “stimulus package” can revive the flagging economy or breathe new life into the over-extended US consumer. After Monday's sharp downturn, the prospects for averting a deep and protracted recession are slim to none.

The present crisis is not the result of normal market forces, but price fixing at the Federal Reserve and the financial engineering of the main investment banks. If there had been sufficient regulation of the activities of the Central Bank, so that interest rates had not been kept below the rate of inflation for over 31 months straight (under Greenspan) than the trillions of dollars in low-interest credit would not have flooded the real estate market, igniting a frenzy of speculative home-buying and creating the biggest housing bubble in US history. Despite his feeble excuses, Greenspan's role in destroying the US economy is no longer in doubt. Even the far-right Op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal conceded Greenspan's culpability in Saturday's edition.

Thank You Very Much, Capitalism. Perhaps now the blissfully ignorant majority poor and middle class will stand up and put you in your place - all of the gulags that you have been building to house all of us malcontents. Good riddance you fascist pig bastards.

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Please pull forward and wait to be arrested

Grandmother, 75, Gets Cuffs, Not Fries

Really, who hasn't been told to "pull forward and wait for your order?" The 75-year-old grandmother of eight was arrested for disorderly conduct after she refused a police officer's orders to move her car while she waited for the coffee and fries she ordered at the drive-through window.

Just another example of the Fascist Police State being here now. I guess she should be grateful that he didn't tase her!

When will American's wake up and stand together against these bully tactics that are daily suppressing our right to live our lives in peace?

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Free Lunch:

How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense

Democracy Now! Audio & Transcript

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston joins us to talk about his new book, “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill).” Johnston reveals how government subsidies and new regulations have quietly funneled money from the poor and the middle class to the rich and politically connected.

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Who Are the American Fascists?

Chris Hedges, reporter, 2002 Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges explores the rise of the
Christian right in America, drawing parallels with the rise of fascism
in Europe prior to the Second World War. How does the vision of the
United States as a Christian nation relate to our Bill of Rights? Why
does Hedges identify the increasing political power of Christian
fundamentalism as a war against America?

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.

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Canada removes U.S., Israel from torture watchlist 19 Jan 2008

And we thought (rather, I hoped) that someone, anyone, would stand up for truth! Read about the back paddling cover up here. To quote a comment on one of my e-lists:

"And here you see the true nature of the canadian state:
trying to pretend, when they can get away with it, that they
are as civilized as any europeans -- except that when push
comes to shove, they quickly demonstrate to the entire world
instead that they are merely the usual slavish, boot-licking
toadies of U.S. imperialism as all the rest. And don't you
forget it, eh?

It was a crime for these canuck stooges to remove these
international state criminals from this torturers' list. So
let us not forget these bureaucrats and politicos who did
this dirty deed today. They now have somethig else they will
have to answer for."

Citizens for Legitimate Government said:

Gag me with a chainsaw! Canada removes U.S., Israel from torture watchlist 19 Jan 2008 Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured. Both nations expressed unhappiness [!] after it emerged they had been listed in a document that formed part of a training course manual on torture awareness given to Canadian diplomats. Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier said he regretted the embarrassment caused by the public disclosure of the manual, which also classified some U.S. interrogation techniques as torture. [See: Canada puts U.S. on torture watch list: CTV --Canada's 'torture awareness' watch list includes Syria, Iran, China, Afghanistan, the United States, Guantanamo Bay, and Israel. 16 Jan 2008.]


So much for that brief glimmer of hope for the world. And the parade of lies just keeps marching on...

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Canada puts U.S., Israel on torture watchlist -CTV

OTTAWA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - An official Canadian government document has put both the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners run the risk of being tortured, CTV television reported on Thursday.

Did anyone see this coming? So, someone has finally called a duck a duck. Our friends to the north are finally taking a stand on something... whether their government admits it or not. Thank you CTV!

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What ever happened to the Home Grown "Terrorists", the Liberty City Seven?

The prosecution couldn't even make its case to its own neo-con judge! Read about it here or here. You WON'T find the story on any main stream media. It's only reported on leftist web sites and news agencies.

To the U.S. ruling class, working-class men and women who become highly alienated from a society ravaged by exploitation, racism, and oppression of all types are deemed potential "terrorists." The so-called war on terror is a war on oppressed and exploited people across the world. Working-class people in the United States also are targets.

The Liberty City 7 case, and cases like it, are purely political in purpose and reason. The frequent "terror alerts" and prosecutions are necessary to justify Washington’s criminal policy toward the people of the Middle East.

So, what do they do with "terrorists" that they can't convict? Deport them. They just need to find a place to deport them to that will torture them for their... transgressions?

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How the American Media Enables Bush

Ayesha Ijaz KhanY wrote on Counter Punch:
"Perhaps it was this frustration with having to report in such a biased one-sided manner, a nearly obsessive form of self-censorship, that led some newscasters to abandon altogether any seriousness that naturally comes with debating important global issues, preferring instead to dumb-down news to a level of flippant comedy. Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Keith Oberman all seemed to disagree with the Bush administration's handling of foreign policy, yet instead of presenting serious critiques, pinpointing precise failings, they had resorted to comic relief at the expense of the establishment. It was better than nothing, and in my three month summer sojourn in New York, I watched Bill Maher regularly, but I could not help but feel that slapstick news was America's way of escaping the real problems rather than an attempt at solving them."

I would just like to point out that the crimes and treason that have been perpetrated against the American People and the World is so very sickening to me that parody is the only way I can personally stomach much of what I am forced to face each day coming out of D.C.

That being said, I hope that she understands some day that some of us here in the U.S. find what appalls her so just as appalling, sickening, embarrassing and deplorable. Helplessness and hopelessness are staples in my house, thank you very much.

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Iran President Says Bush Confrontational

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that President Bush sent a "message of confrontation" during his recent Mideast trip. Bush spent much of his visit to the region, which he wrapped up on Wednesday, rallying support among Arab allies for a strong stance against Iran - calling the country the world's top sponsor of terrorism.

"President George Bush sent a message to the Iranian people and all the nations worldwide," said Ahmadinejad during an interview in Farsi with Al-Jazeera television. "This message reflects his own conceptions and it is a message of rift, a message of sowing the seeds of division. It is a message of confrontation demeaning the dignity of mankind."

"They are in need of these statements for their presidential race," said Ahmadinejad. "However, these statements increase the sentiment of resentment of the Iranian people against the U.S. officials."

"They would like to deceive our people alleging that the nuclear capability would amount to a nuclear weapon," said Ahmadinejad on Thursday.

Ahmadinejad said the U.N. Security Council had no legal justification for focusing on Iran's nuclear program, claiming their sanctions were based on false information.

"If we pay close attention today, it is opportune time for the U.N. Security Council to rectify their false statements," he said.

The Iranian president said his country's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency meant that the IAEA should be the only U.N. body with jurisdiction over the nuclear issue.

If G.W. has his way, which I am sure he will, we will all be burning before he leaves office.

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Brian Moore on The Bleeping Truth

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Stewart Alexander - Peace and Freedom Party VP Candidate on Marijuana Law reform

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Ex-Lawmaker Charged in Terror Conspiracy

Ex-Lawmaker Charged in Terror Conspiracy
Jan 16, 3:42 PM (ET)

By LARA JAKES JORDAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists.

A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying - money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Siljander, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987.

He could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday, and his attorney in Kansas City, JR Hobbs, had no immediate comment.

The charges are part of a long-running case against the charity, which was formerly based in Columbia, Mo., and was designated by the Treasury Department in 2004 as a suspected fundraiser for terrorists.

In the indictment, the government alleges that IARA employed a man who had served as a fundraising aide to Osama bin Laden.

The indictment charges IARA with sending approximately $130,000 to help Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whom the United States has designated as a global terrorist. The money, sent to bank accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan in 2003 and 2004, was masked as donations to an orphanage located in buildings that Hekmatyar owned.

Authorities described Hekmatyar as an Afghan mujahedeen leader who has participated in and supported terrorist acts by al-Qaida and the Taliban. The Justice Department said Hekmatyar "has vowed to engage in a holy war against the United States and international troops in Afghanistan."

The charges "paints a troubling picture of an American charity organization that engaged in transactions for the benefit of terrorists and conspired with a former United States congressman to convert stolen federal funds into payments for his advocacy," said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein.

Siljander founded Washington-area consulting group Global Strategies, Inc. after leaving the government.

Hmmm. Singling one snake out of the many.

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Bush or Chimp?

If this question plagues your sleep, perhaps a lovely screen saver that addresses this question would be for you. A wonderful collection of pictures of the Commander and Chimp along side matching photos of primates with uncanny similarity to those of the leader of the free world doing what they all do best: monkey stuff. It has been my screen saver for almost eight years now and I never tire of it. I don't know where I got it or who made it. But I thought that I would pass it along. Download it here.

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HR 1955 - Demonizing 9/11 Truth

Why are HR 1955 and other repressive
laws becoming a necessity?

Because US citizens are getting too close
to the truth.

What can a corrupt government do when it
realizes that the people are catching on?

Demonize the truth tellers.

Right now, as you read this, the US government
is engaged in a sophisticated media campaign
to equate 9/11 research with terrorism.

Sound outlandish?

It's not.

It started with a Congressional hearing called:

"Using the web as a weapon: The Internet as a tool
for violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism."

At this hearing, 9/11 Truth groups were lumped
together with violent terrorists.

You can watch them do it with your own eyes.

This is an extremely important video to spread.

http://www.brassche cktv.com/ page/252. html

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Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch sees US 'falling into recession'

Goldman Sachs sees US 'falling into recession'

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 03:33:00 01/10/2008

WASHINGTON -- Investment giant Goldman Sachs said Wednesday the US economy is in recession or will soon be in a downturn stemming from housing and credit woes.

"The recent data suggest that the US economy is falling into recession," Goldman Sachs economists said in a research note. "We expect economic activity to contract modestly through late 2008, followed by a gradual recovery in the course of 2009."

Goldman's views came two days after Merrill Lynch said a recession was "a present-day reality" for the world's biggest economy.

I told you so? See Market Watch
I just wonder if we really need these organizations to tell us what we already know, whether we choose to admit it or not. I think most of us know deep in our bones what truth is and when we see it. Accepting and dealing with truth is another story, entirely.

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Can H.R. 1955 be used to silence the voices of dissent?

There is pending legislation in the US that would criminalize speech on topics the government deems "threatening. "

The law is called H.R. 1955.

It goes by the Orwellian name: "The violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention act."

It quietly passed the House by a 404 to 6 vote and at least one Congressman admits voting for it without reading it.

Language in this bill makes it theoretically possible for government agents to shut down sites like Brasscheck TV by claiming that the information we share *may* insight violence.

Few Americans even know of the existence of this legislation let alone know what's in it.

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VERMONT POLICE TRY TO ARREST SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE---STATE

Democratic Process Not So Easy For Minor Party Candidate Moore---Several Miles from New Hampshire Border Where Major Party Candidates Campaign Effortlessly

Socialist Party USA Presidential Nominee Brian Moore was threatened with arrest Sunday afternoon by Brattleboro (Vermont) Police officers for petitioning in a supermarket parking lot to qualify on the presidential primary ballot of the Liberty Union Party of Vermont. The primary is scheduled for March 5th.

The manager of Hannaford Supermarkets in Brattleboro repeatedly ordered Moore, in a hostile voice, to leave the large mall parking lot because it was private property and owned by the store. Moore and his three colleagues stood their ground and refused to leave claiming they had a constitutional right to participate in a democratic process in a public area so that he could be a qualified presidential candidate in Vermont.

Two City of Brattleboro police cars, containing a lieutenant and a Sergeant Mike Gorman, arrived on the scene within minutes and ordered Moore and three of his petition colleagues "to leave or they would get a trespassing order, and would arrest us if necessary," Moore stated. Peter Diamondstone, an attorney and a leader of the Liberty Union Party in Vermont, and one of Moore's colleagues doing the petitioning, informed the officers that they had a constitutional right for such actions.

The officers decided to telephone State Attorney Dan Davis's office to determine the proper procedure. The petitioners, at Moore's request, were allowed to continue seeking signatures while the police and store manager waited for the chief law enforcement office of Vermont to make a decision. A last minute return call from the State Attorney Dan Davis's office saved the day for the Socialist Presidential candidate and his team. The petitioners continued on and finished the weekend with close to 500 signatures---halfway toward their goal of 1,000 signatures of Vermont voters, which is due Monday, January 21st, 2008, in the Vermont Secretary of State's Office.

Many of the shoppers Moore spoke with in the parking lot were from New Hampshire, several miles away, and thus could not sign his petition. Democratic and Republican presidential candidates were campaigning simultaneously as the Moore group petitioned, as close as 7 miles away, in the Town of Moreland, New Hampshire, and Keene, NH, which is 14 miles from Brattleboro. Moore observed "How ironic that these closeby major party candidates are campaigning effortlessly, while minor party candidates face obstruction after obstruction, in many states, just to gain ballot access." Moore hopes to gain access to 20 state ballots for the November General election. Moore says "Our political system is undemocratic and unfair, and biased in favor of the status quo and a two-party system."

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Voters Excited Over ’08 Campaign; Tired of It, Too

Voters Excited Over ’08 Campaign; Tired of It, Too

By ADAM NAGOURNEY

Across the country, voters said the presidential race had become much too intense, much too soon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/us/politics/09voters.html?ex=1341720000&en=6

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Socialists Blast Corporate Media on Presidential Debates

Stewart A. Alexander
 Socialist Party USA Nominee for Vice President
 and candidate for nomination by Peace and Freedom Party

 January 6, 2008

In recent days, ABC in a debate of the candidates excluded Dennis Kucinich from participating in the national television debate of the Democrats while including Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. ABC-Disney is the same outfit that is seeking to destroy the lives and living conditions of the striking writers of the Writers Guild of America. These media monopolies are again showing their true colors.

On the other hand, the Fox News Channel "Fair and Balance" is excluding Ron Paul from the final debate among Republicans before the New Hampshire primary although he received 10% of the vote in the Iowa primary which was much larger that Rudy Juliani.

These corporate manipulated debate rules are yet another example about why the U.S. elections are being systematically rigged to benefit the corporate rulers. The Peace and Freedom Party and Socialist Party USA, both socialist parties, believes that all qualified candidates should get equal time on the television and radio networks and that this should be provided without any cost. The air waves are public resources and should not be used by the corporate rulers to continue their rigging of the U.S. election.

I also believe that the systemic problems in the U.S. electoral system will only be resolved when we have a mass working class socialist alternative that will equalize not only the election crisis but expose the fact that both the Democrats and Republicans are responsible for this criminal war in the middle east, the financial rip-off of millions of working people and the destruction of our education, housing and social system in the United States.

The people of the United States deserve a real choice not determined by union busters, profiteers and the corporate control media that is out of control.

For more information search the Web for: Stewart A. Alexander; Independent Voters Rejecting Democrats and Republicans.

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

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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.

Read more...

Watch the video...

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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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