Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
................George Orwell

AUGUST 2008

HEADLINES

6 things the Palin pick says about McCain The selection of a running mate is among the most consequential, most defining decisions a presidential nominee can make. John McCain’s pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says a lot about his decison-making — and some of it is downright breathtaking.

World's Largest Gold Refiner Runs Out of Krugerrands Rand Refinery Ltd., the world's largest gold refinery, ran out of South African Krugerrands after an ``unusually large'' order from a buyer in Switzerland. The order was for 5,000 ounces and it will take until Sept. 3 for inventories to be replenished, said Johan Botha, a spokesman for Rand Refinery in Germiston, east of Johannesburg. He declined to identify the buyer.

Barack Obama Is Not a US Citizen On Aug. 21st attorney Philip J. Berg requested an injunction in Federal Court against the nomination of Barack Obama, citing evidence that candidate Barack Obama is not a US citizen, and "the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated."Berg argues that Barack Obama was born in Kenya in 1961 to an American woman, Stanley Ann Dunham, and a Kenyan man, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, as reportedly shown by a birth certificate from Mombasa Maternity Hospital. According to the law at that time, a parent could pass US citizenship on to a child born abroad if the parent was at least 19 years old. Obama's mother was only 18.
No hospital birth certificate has been produced to show Obama was born in Hawaii, only a certificate of birth registry after the fact, which forensics experts have denounced as a forgery.

Biden, Iraq, and Obama's Betrayal Incipient Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s selection of Joseph Biden as his running mate constitutes a stunning betrayal of the anti-war constituency who made possible his hard-fought victory in the Democratic primaries and caucuses

Financial Crisis Is Absent From Agendas of Parties, Candidates The U.S. is facing the worst financial crisis since the Depression. You would never know that from the Democrats' platform in Denver or its Republican counterpart, or from listening to Barack Obama or John McCain. While both candidates have bemoaned the ravages of the subprime crisis, they have yet to spell out steps for tackling it, such as using taxpayer money to shore up banks and housing. (so different from Kucinich' speech!.....get it folks????...like he says...WAKE UP!)

U.S. soldiers say they executed Iraqis on riverbank: report Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Sergeant First Class Joseph P. Mayo, the platoon sergeant, and Sergeant Michael P. Leahy Jr., Company D's senior medic and an acting squad leader, made sworn statements in January to Army investigators in Schweinfurt, Germany probing the incident, the newspaper reported on its website.

Making the World Safe....for Bankers International bankers live in fear. Not of starvation, disease or war. These are the concerns of children in the Third World. Bankers are terrified we might object to paying them billions each year in interest for money they create out of nothing, guaranteed by our taxes. (The Federal Reserve Board, a private cartel of mostly foreign banks, finagled this monopoly in 1913.)

Who makes the world's guns? The global trade in small arms is big business - 1,250 companies in at least 92 countries produce weapons, parts or ammunition. But who are the big players?

Biden in 2007 interview: I am a Zionist Senator Joe Biden, who was chosen by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to be his running mate in the upcoming US elections, has previously declared himself to be a Zionist. Calling Israel "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East," he also revealed a Jewish connection in an interview last year.

Naked, drunk, surrounded by sex toys - it's the Israeli ambassador As an Israeli ambassador, Tsuriel Raphael was accomplished at putting a gloss on delicate subjects, be it Tel Aviv's nuclear programme, the treatment of Palestinians or the invasion of Lebanon. When San Salvador police discovered him in his official embassy residence yard in the capital San Salvador, however, smooth talk was not really an option. For starters there was the gag and the rubber ball in his mouth. There was also the matter of being drunk. And naked. And bound. And surrounded by sex toys.

The AMA at its worst :Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime Suppressing cancer research. Harry Hoxsey's treatment for cancer was endorsed by senators, judges and even some doctors. Two federal courts upheld its therapeutic value and by the 1950s his clinics were found in seventeen states. It spite of this, the AMA targeted him and drove him out of business.
If a low cost, reliable treatment for cancer were discovered outside the medical establishment would the general public ever find out about it?
Bio-Medical Center (Hoxsey Clinic), Watch this film and find out.

Drug giants accused over doctors' perks UK Drug companies are spending millions of pounds every year on all-expenses-paid trips to conferences around the world for doctors and other hospital staff, in what critics say is a massive marketing exercise dressed up as medical education

Flames Seen For Miles After Train Derails A Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train derailed in a rural northeast Oklahoma County on Friday, sending a giant fireball into the sky and forcing evacuations within a half-mile of the area, local station KOCO-TV reported.

VACCINATIONS AT THE POINT OF A GUN According to Health Science Institute’s recent disclosure, the New York State Assembly is considering a bill which will, if enacted, require all children in the state to receive every vaccine that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends. Twenty vaccines – some requiring multiple doses are presently recommended.

The Depleted Uranium Threat "The DoD, the nation's biggest polluter, is now cleaning up 29,500 currently or formerly contaminated sites in every state and territory. California alone has 3,912 contaminated sites on 441 current and former DoD installations. Many of DoD's facilities have already contaminated groundwater sources of drinking water.... The cost to clean up toxic munitions contamination and unexploded ordnance at active and former military installations around the country may reach $200 billion." - The National Resources Defense Council, April 21, 2004.
"The Defense Department is refusing to comply with orders or sign contracts to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites, including one in Hawaii, and has asked the White House and Justice Department to intervene on its behalf." - The Associated Press, July 1, 2008

States throw out costly electronic voting machines The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers. (um, why can't we get our money back like on any machine that is purchased? Where is the warantee?)

55 men netted in 8-month Calif. child porn probe Authorities say a California sheriff's deputy and an attorney were among 55 men charged with possessing child pornography after an eight-month investigation

Operation Sentinel: The High-Tech Police State Takes Shape Operation Sentinel, a new program unveiled by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), would encircle Manhattan with thousands of surveillance cameras that photograph every car or truck entering and exiting the city across its network of bridges and tunnels.

NEPA Buzz Kill: Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information? RDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery. The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is withholding about the risks posed by pesticides to honey bees. NRDC legal experts and a leading bee researcher are convinced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has evidence of connections between pesticides and the mysterious honey bee die-offs reported across the country. The phenomenon has come to be called “colony collapse disorder,” or CCD, and it is already proving to have disastrous consequences for American agriculture and the $15 billion worth of crops pollinated by bees every year.

Obama veep announcement expected in coming days What to you think? Will it be someone who he thinks will help him win, or will it be someone who would stand up by his side and really want to re-vitalize and shift America?....tick-tock-tick-tock

Mike Jani Promises that Fern Gully and Nanning Creek Tree Villages Are Saved Can you believe it! Both current Humboldt County tree-sits are officially saved and protected. Yesterday I, other Forest Defenders, and a crew from National Geographic accompanied Chief Forester and President of the newly formed Humboldt Redwood Company, Mike Jani, to Fern Gully Tree Village, Freshwater, CA, and the grove around the tree known as “Jerry,” that has been a major part of the struggle. Earlier, activists also hiked Jani in the well known Nanning Creek Tree Village, headed-up by long time Forest Defender, Amy.

A steady diet of trash 'news' (excerpt) "Yet the media, the entity that is supposed to provide the news, is merely providing the public with a steady of what they gorge on at the trough everyday. The media stopped reporting news long ago and now reports on what many in this country want. Dirt, gossip, salacious details about who is sleeping with whom, who is the father of each new baby born out of wedlock or whether Britney is wearing underwear."

Butting heads at the border (excerpt) Last week a 10-year U.S. Border Patrol veteran shot and wounded a man in the left buttocks who assaulted agents at a violent stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border. Despite that the man was among a group who were trying to illegally enter the United States and were throwing rocks and concrete chunks at agents, officials at the Mexican consulate in San Diego are criticizing the agent and demanding the U.S. conduct a full investigation.

Bush admin. disconnected from reality The following is Press TV's exclusive full-length interview with former US treasury official Paul Craig Roberts.

US Mint Suspends Gold Coin Sales (excerpt) The U.S. Mint has suspended sales of American Eagle gold coins and is refusing orders from dealers, two coin and bullion dealers confirmed Thursday. The mint's suspension of gold coin sales follows its tight rationing of sales of silver eagle coins, begun in May, when sales to the public were terminated and sales to the mint's 13 authorized dealers were tightly limited

Dam breaks near Grand Canyon, forces evacuations (excerpt) An earthen dam burst Sunday morning prompting helicopter evacuations at the Grand Canyon and Supai, a village where about 400 members of the Havasupai tribe live.
The Arizona National Guard, the National Park Service and the Department of Public safety airlifted about 150 residents, campers and river runners.

CLIMATE STAFF URGE EPA TO COME CLEAN BEFORE CONGRESS (excerpt) “ Once again, Stephen Johnson has sandbagged his own staff,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, referring to Johnson’s recent well-publicized reversals of findings and recommendations by his technical and legal professionals. “It is more than a tad hypocritical for Johnson to cite decision-making ‘transparency’ as the reason for airing opposition memos while he is dodging congressional subpoenas.”

Blackwater guards get target letters (excerpt) Half a dozen Blackwater Worldwide security guards have gotten target letters from the Justice Department in a probe of shootings in Baghdad that killed 17 Iraqis, The Washington Post reported. The Blackwater guards are caught up in the investigation of shootings that took place last September when a Blackwater team arrived in several vehicles at an intersection in Baghdad where shooting erupted, leaving numerous Iraqis dead and wounded.

Texas Lawyer Takes On Bloodthirsty Cops (excerpt) The prospect of cops forcibly jabbing a needle into your arm and taking a blood sample on the side of a highway in suspected DWI cases is perhaps the most egregious portend of police state America in history, but one Texas lawyer has taken a stand to denounce the program as completely illegal.

Pelosi Clashes With Protesters Over Impeachment (excerpt) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's appearance Monday at a West Los Angeles college to discuss her recently published book was marred by dozens of protesters and several angry outbursts by audience members who demanded Pelosi immediately authorize a House committee to hold impeachment hearings against George W. Bush

Was 9/11 an Inside Job? from Mark H. Gaffney's forthcoming book, THE 911 MYSTERY PLANE AND THE VANISHING OF AMERICA, to be released in September 2008.

Russia, Georgia and the US.What really happened in Georgia? Some basic facts:
1. The citizens of South Ossetia have long expressed a desire to break away from Georgia and, in fact, declared themselves independent from Georgia in the 1990s.
2. On the first day of the 2008 Olympics, Georgia launched an all-out, "shock and awe" attack on numerous civilian targets in Tskhinvali, the capital city of South Ossetia
3. Russia, which shares a border and a long historical connection with South Ossetia, sent troops into the region to fight back the attacking Georgian military.
4. The arms for Georgia's attack on South Ossetia were largely provided by the US.
5. The US and UK news media have successfully managed to portray these events as a random, unprovoked and savage attack on Georgia by Russia.
In this video, Mikhail Gorbachev responds.
For another example of how the reality of a war was completely recast by the US news media, check out this site from the Brasscheck.com archives:

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
.............George Orwell

Putin Walks into a Trap (excerpt) The American-armed and trained Georgian army swarmed into South Ossetia last Thursday, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians, sending 40,000 South Ossetians fleeing over the Russian border, and destroying much of the capital, Tskhinvali. The attack was unprovoked and took place a full 24 hours before even ONE Russian soldier set foot in South Ossetia. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Americans still believe that the Russian army invaded Georgian territory first. The BBC, AP, NPR, the New York Times and the rest of the establishment media has consistently and deliberately misled its readers into believing that the violence in South Ossetia was initiated by the Kremlin. Let's be clear, it wasn't. In truth, there is NO dispute about the facts except among the people who rely the western press for their information. Despite its steady loss of credibility, the corporate media continues to operate as the propaganda-arm of the Pentagon

Felony Conspiracy Plea Confirms Investigation into Masonic Sub-group, Royal Order of Jesters (excerpt) An attorney and member of two Masonic sub-groups has pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiring to violate the Mann act after admitting to driving a prostitute across state lines so she could be sold for sex to members of the Royal Order of Jesters at one of their weekend stag parties.

DNC Warehouse "Concentration Camp(excerpt) " Uncovered By Reporters. A CBS news crew has uncovered a huge warehouse holding facility in Denver, consisting of steel cages topped with barbed wire, ready to receive thousands of protesters at this year's Democratic National Convention.

41 page rebuttal to "Obama Nation" by Corsi "UNFIT FOR PUBLICATION": Setting the Record Straight on the Lies in Jerome
Corsi’s “The Obama Nation”***** Now Pay attention folks , they attack Jerome Corsi by calling him a 'bigoted Fringe author. Quote:

"Of course, the lies in “The Obama Nation” almost pale in comparison to the bizarre, conspiratorial views that Jerome Corsi has advocated in his broader work. He believes that President Bush is trying to merge the United states with Mexico and Canada. He believes that there is a literally unending supply of oil beneath the ground. And in perhaps the gravest sign that his views can’t be trusted, he alleges a government cover-up of the 9/11 attacks and denies that airplanes were to blame for the towers’ collapse." What dos this do? They are also trying to use more propaganda and manipulation to keep us from finding out the truth of these things. This is a simple method of 'mind-control' techniques.

It really has nothing to do with "Obama" and whether the messages in his book are true, half-true, mistakes or lies.....but they cleverly combine those statements to disparage 'truthseekers' ....this methodology of attack, could make one distrust the "Obama" people even more.

"Here’s a newsflash for the New York Times and the mindless Obama cult members who think that questioning 9/11 is “controversial” and “undercuts credibility” - skepticism of the official 9/11 story is shared by the majority of Americans - according to the New York Times’ own poll on the subject!" Quote from: Prison Planet

Gwynne Dyer: Georgia's huge South Ossetia mistake(excerpt) The war in South Ossetia is essentially over, and the Georgians have lost. This was Georgia’s second attempt in 18 years to conquer the breakaway territory by force, and now that option is gone for good. So are the country’s hopes of joining NATO. Yet sections of the western media are carrying on as if the Russians started it and are now threatening to invade Georgia itself.

U.S. President George W. Bush has condemned Russia’s “disproportionate and dangerous” response. Much is made of Russian air attacks on targets inside Georgia, and especially of the inevitable misses that cause civilian casualties, but the vast majority of the 2,000 civilians allegedly killed so far in this conflict were South Ossetians killed by Georgian shells, rockets, and bombs. Some shooting and bombing will continue until all the Georgian troops are cleared out of South Ossetia—including the 40 percent they controlled before the war—but then it will stop

Gardasil vaccine doubts grow The safety and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine Gardasil as a preventive cervical cancer treatment for girls are questioned in a report.

The Lobby Like No Other Wants a War Like No Other (excerpt) "Having watched John McCain and Barack Obama resolutely pledge their allegiance – and their countrymen's lives and treasure – to the defense of Israel via AIPAC, the media, and personal meetings with Israeli leaders, it is worth asking what could possibly drive these men to so ardently commit America to participation in other people's religious wars. This question is particularly important today as the Bush administration and the Israel-firsters continue to push for an unprovoked U.S. attack on Iran."

Civilians perish as Georgian troops torch church (excerpt) The Regnum news agency is reporting that Georgian troops burned down a 10th century Orthodox church while terrified civilians perished inside. The agency quotes eyewitness accounts of the atrocity after all-out fighting in Khetagurovo, a small village near the republic’s capital Tskhinvali.

The day before 9/11 25%+ of all Pentagon money is unaccounted for. (excerpt) The Pentagon receives the lion's share of the US tax payer's dollars. 36% goes to current military expenses. 18% goes to what's called "past military" which includes veteran's pensions and medical benefits. The US spends more on its military than the following countries COMBINED: China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India, Brazil, Italy, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. Where does the money go? At least 25% - and some estimates are much higher - goes down a rat hole unaccounted for and never to been seen again. The above news report ran the day before September 11, 2001. The problem since then has become exponentially worse. You can see the numbers here: http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

The McCain Plan: Homer Simpson without the Donut (excerpt) On Tuesday, the presumptive Republican candidate descended into the colon of a nuke to declare we need to build 45 new nuclear plants - that this is the way out of our energy crisis. Nuclear power, declared the senator, is a “safe, efficient [and] inexpensive” alternative to oil.

McCain adviser got money from Georgia (excerpt) WASHINGTON - John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

The Bush Administration’s Plan To Make The Endangered Species Act Extinct (excerpt) Today, the AP reports on new draft rules being proposed by the Bush administration to gut the Endangered Species Act. This would be the biggest change to the groundbreaking legislation since 1988, and would not require the approval of Congress.

Bush 'Feeling No Pain' At Beijing Olympics. How Many Secret Service Agents Does It Take To Hold Up A Pink-Faced Drunk? (oh man...and we should be so red-faced ourselves!!!)

LOST SOVEREIGNITY OIL-RICH FUND EYEING FORECLOSED US HOMES (excerpt) There's a new land grab starting in America. Foreign money, which up to now has focused its attention on investing in iconic commercial real estate - like Barneys New York and the Chrysler Building - is now moving to scoop up tens of thousands of discounted foreclosed homes across the country.

Stamford Hill, London – Williamsburg Controversial Activist, Rabbi Rosenberg, Heckled, Flees To Get Police Protection.(excerpt) Rabbi Rosenberg is well-known for helping establish mikvaos all over the world over the past 20 years. His notoriety has spiked in recent months, however, due to his newly-adopted personal crusade against an internal communal problem which he claims goes ignored and untreated in the Orthodox community: molestation of children.

Georgia offers ceasefire as fighting continues (excerpt) Georgia offered Russia a ceasefire and peace talks on Sunday after pulling troops back from rebel South Ossetia's capital, and mediators began a mission to end the internationally condemned fighting. Russian troops and tanks took control of Tskhinvali, the region's devastated capital, early on Sunday after a three-day battle. Moscow said 2,000 civilians were killed and thousands made homeless in a "humanitarian catastrophe".

Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming PresidentThe blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

This is Horseshit You know, I don't care if it's not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: "horseshit." I don't care if it is not a good "tactic" to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horseshit anyway. I don't care if I get accused of being too "extreme" for bucking the (cyst)em by doing everything form camping in a ditch in Crawford, Tx to non-violent civil disobedience to, lately, running for Congress as (oh no!) an independent

Palestinians Unfairly Hit By Israeli Policy In Gaza Imagine if Chinese-Americans visiting relatives were prevented by the Chinese government from returning to America. Or if an American traveled to Iran and was then forbidden from reaching an airport to come home.

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed. Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Customs policy can be viewed at: http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/travel/admissability/
search_authority.ctt/search_authority.pdf. (now, don't you feel safer?)

Scientist’s Suicide Linked to Anthrax Inquiry After four years pursuing one former Army scientist on a costly false trail, F.B.I. agents investigating the deadly anthrax letters of 2001 finally zeroed in last year on a different suspect: another Army scientist from the same biodefense research center at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md.Over the last 18 months, even as the government battled a lawsuit filed by the first scientist, Steven J. Hatfill, investigators built a case against the second one, Bruce E. Ivins, a highly respected microbiologist who had worked for many years to design a better anthrax vaccine.

"HOW TO SAVE THE AIRLINES"

"Dump the male flight attendants. No one wanted them in the first place.

Replace all the female flight attendants with good-looking strippers! What the hell -- They don't even serve food anymore, so what's the loss?

The strippers would at least triple the alcohol sales and get a 'party atmosphere' going in the cabin. And, of course, every businessman in this country would start flying again, hoping to see naked women.

Because of the tips, female flight attendants wouldn't need a salary, thus saving even more money.

Muslims would be afraid to get on the planes for fear of seeing naked women. Hijackings would come to a screeching halt, and the airline industry would see record revenues. This is definitely a win-win situation if we handle it right -- a golden opportunity to turn a liability into an asset.

Why didn't Bush think of this? Why do I still have to do everything myself?"

Sincerely,
'Bill Clinton '

Judaism Discovered - A Desideratum The completion of my book Judaism Discovered gives me the satisfaction of knowing that I have accomplished one of the principal missions of my life. It is the actualization of thoughts and lines of inquiry which I have been pursuing for years.

Phew! Bush Dirty Diapers! As the bad news unfolds in the Caspian Basin that the US is being 'shut out' of its delusional Grand Chessboard scheme, there are other forest fires, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes erupting in the US and UK that may well spell the doom of BushCo and the Imbecile Great Decider at the helm. He is now expendable and vulnerable to both impeachment and possible war crimes charges. Pay attention to how expendable 'Gorgon' Brown suddenly has become. Bush is next as should be most of those in DC.

The Goldilocks Matrix An economic formula for fleecing the sheople, Financial statements disclose bank losses, consumer spending ready to drop off a cliff, dollar deterioration will bring an end to deficit funding, public debt becoming a never ending cycle for the US,

Rent-back schemes 'rob thousands of homes' Tens of thousands of vulnerable people are being forced to sell their homes at rock-bottom prices through controversial 'sale-and-rent-back' schemes to avoid repossession, according to a study by Shelter, the homeless charity. The schemes are part of an unregulated industry worth £2.5bn a year. Homeowners are typically offered a lump sum for their properties - usually between 70 and 90 per cent of its value - and told they can stay in their homes providing they keep up payments. But Shelter said most firms only allowed tenants to remain for a matter of months before insisting on selling

Death To Afghanistan America is going to do for the people of Afghanistan what it has already done for the people of Iraq. The United States, claiming to save them from evildoers, will kill many thousands more Afghans than it already has. Iraq is a political loser for Republican candidate John McCain, but the system demands constant feeding of the insatiable military industrial complex. Afghanistan fits the bill perfectly

Obama Backs Long-Term US Military Presence In Iraq Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama reiterated his support for an open-ended US military presence in Iraq over the weekend, further narrowing his professed differences with the Bush administration and Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Small Farming Is The Future Small is the future. We know indigenous farmers can produce more food using traditional farming methods. They have no need of genetically modified seed or chemicals. All they need is an end to wars and, as Frances Moore Lappe would say, “more democracy.” The World Bank and the G-8 need to let them make their own decisions and feed themselves.

Playing Progressive Hardball.(The Obama-Rama Marathon) The upside of a desultory presidential campaign in which platitudes and generalities pass for policy statements is that it give rise to hallucinatory episodes in which the mind slips the chains of reality and floats hither and yon in the cosmos of possibilities. What follows is one such hallucinatory experience born of a campaign that has become a wasteland as vast as it is grey; a wasteland into which a creatively bankrupt media vainly tries to inject color. There has been much talk about Obama’s move towards the center since he wrapped up the Democratic nomination. His supporters do their best to put a positive spin on it by dismissing it as a part and parcel of a winning strategy. His groveling before APIAC and his positions on gun control and capital punishment are dismissed as pragmatic political posturing on the same level as kissing babies and wearing Native American headdresses.

Our President Should Support More Direct Democracy. Representative government fails when corrupt politicians mostly serve corporate and other special interests. Then it is crucial for citizens to have direct democracy opportunities. This means having the right to place initiatives or referenda on ballots that can make new laws, amend constitutions, recall elected officials, or control taxes and government spending.

What Happened To The Anti War Movement Of The 1960's?Are we now trying to change things in the wrong way? What could be the right way to change things?Written in 1973, what he saw coming - the predictions of this man, J.G.Bennett, are frighteningly accurate.

How To Get A Job By Shooting Up A Church.Imagine being so angry that you couldn't find a job that you were able to decide, as a man in Tennessee just did, that the way to solve your problems was to attack liberals - the people who support (albeit ineffectively) workers' rights, union rights, and fair trade, who oppose NAFTA, oppose tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, support investing in job creation at home rather than wars abroad, and want to tax corporations and the super-rich rather than small businesses and working people.

BANK FAILURES GAIN MOMENTUM AS BUSH STAYS IN DENIAL The United States budget deficit will reach 490 Billion next year virtually tying the hands of the next President ~ but there is a Republican strategy behind this gift the Bush administration is handing the Democrats. They want to starve the big three entitlement programs which compose over 41% of the budget ~ Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Do remember that the projected 2009 deficit does not include the costs of the ongoing illegal occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan which is running between 10 to 12 billion dollars a month ~ so we are talking of a 2009 deficit of well over a half trillion dollars.

'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution. Scientists mimic essence of plants' energy storage system. Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing extra solar energy for later use is prohibitively expensive and grossly inefficient. With today's announcement, MIT researchers have hit upon a simple, inexpensive, highly efficient process for storing solar energy.

should all candidates for office be required to pass 6th grade tests and have physicals, which would be reported to the public?
	No, I just want to trust they are smart and well
	yes, we have a right to know
	yes, and they should not be allowed to run for office unless the pass all these tests
	yes, and those tests shoud include psychiatric exams

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