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For those who attended the forum on Saturday, this is how it happened. (The Supreme's decision)
Be sure to attend the rally/march at Freimann Park protesting the NDAA! Noon Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012
He's Ba-a-a-ck! Or will be this weekend. After a nearly two year hiatus, journalist Bill Moyers will return to television this weekend with a new show called Moyers & Company. His previous show, Bill Moyers' Journal, ended in 2010.
Welcome back, Bill. We have missed you! Welcome back!
Watch Bill on COLBERT NATION last night.
Obama loves playing GW - and then some.
Obama Signs New Iran Sanctions Into Law
While on vacation in Hawaii, he signed not only the dreadful NDAA, which puts Americans who dissent at risk, but then he signs a new law imposing new sanctions against Iran. This guy is out-Bushing Bush when it comes to creating a police-military state.
Christmas Is No Time to Talk About War and Peace
Christmas Cancelled as a Security Measure
Ellis Island - The three wise men were arrested today attempting to enter the country. The Iraqi nationals were carrying massive amounts of flammable substances known as "frankincense" and "myrrh." While not explosives themselves, experts revealed that these two substances could be used as a fuse to detonate a larger bomb. The three alleged terrorists were also carrying gold, presumably to finance the rest of their mission.
I WOKE UP ONE MORNING AND THE WAR WAS OVER
The Drone That Fell From the Sky: What a Busted Robot Airplane Tells Us About the American Empire in 2012 and Beyond
Whatever happened, that lost drone story hit the headlines in a way that allowed everyone their Warholian 15 minutes of fame. Dick Cheney went on the air to insist that President Obama should have sent Air Force planes into Iran to blow the grounded Sentinel to bits. (Who cares about sparking off hostilities or sending global oil prices skyrocketing?) President Obamaformally asked for the plane’s return, but somehow didn’t have high hopes that the Iranians would comply. (Check out Gary Powers and the downing of his U-2 spy plane over Russia in 1960 for a precedent.) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta swore we would never stop our Afghan-based drone surveillance of Iran. Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked that his country be kept out of any “adversarial relations between Iran and the United States.” (Fat chance!)
The Corporations That Occupy Congress by David Cay Johnston
Some of the biggest companies in the United States have been firing workers and in some cases lobbying for rules that depress wages at the very time that jobs are needed, pay is low, and the federal budget suffers from a lack of revenue. Read the dirty news here
It never ceases to amaze me that our "leaders", under the guise of "investigating" expenditures made by those who control taxpayers' money (in this case, Congress) make short trips to faraway lands we have subdued or conquered, and make rosy assessments of our bloody assaults.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN-3) recently made such a trip to Afghanistan. One of the governors with whom Stutzman met said "We’d like to see you here until 2025," and it's quite likely we'll be there at least that long, if we don't run out of cannon fodder and drones before then. Read more in the Journal
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in the poor small northwest Arkansas city of Bentonville is the creation of Alice Walton, the daughter of the late Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart Stores Inc. "Wal-Mart's female employees are paid less on average than their male counterparts, and are less likely to be promoted to management.
[One] employee of a Wal-Mart in Martinsburg, West Virginia, who was living in her car, in the Wal-Mart parking lot. This isn't an unknown phenomenon among Wal-Mart's nearly 1.4 million U.S. workers, who earn, on average, $8.81 an hour, according to Ibis World, a research company." Nothing like the rich flaunting their wealth, which they acquired on the backs of the working class, is there?
Both Indiana Senators joined 95 others to destroy the Constitution and make America safe for hypocrisy.
In yet another assault on American citizens' liberties, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted yesterday to pass the $662 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which is not a bill that simply funds the military; it essentially voids that little part in the Constitution that guarantees American citizens the right to due process -- under the guise of fighting terrorism. Is it no wonder the 99% is mad as hell?
Oh those silly Republicans! ."Talk-show host offers Newt Gingrich $1 million to drop out, and advised to "take the money and not run." What Savage doesn't get is that Newt can make much more money running the Empire
James Madison warned that "the means of defense against foreign danger historically have become instruments of tyranny at home."
Senators Carl Levin and John McCain are ignoring Madison’s admonition. The senators are defending the 2012 defense authorization bill, which would arm the military with the authority to detain indefinitely without accusation or trial suspected al Qaida sympathizers, including American citizens apprehended on American soil. Read more
Speaking today at a conference in Doha, Ekmeleddin Ihanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) pointed out that despite the rhetoric, there is still no evidence that Iran actually has a program aimed at developing a nuclear weapon. So why are so many in Congress (and the Pentagon) itching to go to war with them?)
Bill Maher Nails it - and Good!
Such a beautiful building. Too bad it's full of corrupt politicians! Click it to see a few of them.
Last year, 17.2 million households in the United States were food insecure, the highest level on record, as the Great Recession continued to wreak havoc on families across the country. Of those 17.2 million households, 3.9 million included children. More
The US Congress is considering America's first system for censoring the Internet.
Despite public outcry, the Internet Censorship bill could pass at any time. If it does, the Internet and free speech will never be the same. Read more and take action now!
Bush/Blair Convicted of War Crimes at Tribunal
George Bush and Tony Blair have been found guilty at the symbolic Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal of committing "crimes against peace" during the Iraq war. An initiative by Malaysia's former premier Mahathir Mohamad, the ruling came after a two-year investigation and four-day hearing. The tribunal is also expected to later hear torture and war crimes charges against seven others, including Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
"Unlawful use of force threatens the world to return to a state of lawlessness. The acts of the accused were unlawful." More.
Vision Statement released by OWS:
We Envision: [1] a truly free, democratic, and just society; [2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus; [3] where people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and participate in decision making; [4] where we learn to live in harmony and embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the differing views of others; [5] where we secure the civil and human rights of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments; [6] where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the privileged few; [7] where we provide full and free education to everyone, not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings; [8] where we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of living without which effective democracy is impossible; [9] where we work together to protect the global environment to ensure that future generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have enjoyed.
"We are not fighting for the right to occupy a park, but for justice..."
Nov. 18 -- Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Herman Cain are turning for national security advice to former warmongers in the George W. Bush administration, including some who pushed hardest for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The former officials include Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; and Robert Joseph, a White House National Security Council aide during Bush’s first term and later a State Department official. Read more
Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us as the water-soaked books, tents, sleeping bags, suitcases, food boxes and clothes that were tossed by sanitation workers Tuesday morning into garbage trucks in New York City. They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future.
Our decaying corporate regime has strutted in Portland, Oakland and New York with their baton-wielding cops into a fool’s paradise. They think they can clean up “the mess”—always employing the language of personal hygiene and public security—by making us disappear. They think we will all go home and accept their corporate nation, a nation where crime and government policy have become indistinguishable, where nothing in America, including the ordinary citizen, is deemed by those in power worth protecting or preserving, where corporate oligarchs awash in hundreds of millions of dollars are permitted to loot and pillage the last shreds of collective wealth, human capital and natural resources, a nation where the poor do not eat and workers do not work, a nation where the sick die and children go hungry, a nation where the consent of the governed and the voice of the people is a cruel joke. or click picture.
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From Occupy Washington DC
US and Israel using "international terrorism" on Iran as a ramp-up to war
Gray Panther Chapter forming in Fort Wayne. If you're interested, send us an e-mail.
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Amazing! The corporate press finally gets around to announcing ."1 in 3 vets sees Iraq, Afghan wars as wastes." My hunch is that it's probably more like 8 out of 10 for non-coms. In any event, after 10 years in Afghanistan it's way past time to bring the troops (and the money) home.
The Journal Gazette finally lets its readers know there is a movement that is happening! After 17 days, the Journal posted (on the front page, no less) that " . Wall St. Protest Grows"
Keep in mind that the "protest" as they call it, is a movement, and they and we are not doing it for the attention of the press. The Journal's posting from their AP feed didn't tell the whole story. For the complete article, written by Verena Dobnik, read the .AP article here
WATCH THE REVOLUTION LIVE ONLINE! (It will NOT be televised, or covered by the print media - they would get it all wrong, anyway))
Over 700 protesters arrested from occupy Wall Street by early this morning (10/2) at Brooklyn Bridge in NYC . #occupywallstreet So this is what democracy looks like?