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Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:03:01 GMT

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WASHINGTON - November 6 - Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:

"Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?

"The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer's money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive.

"People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on Main Street.

"Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively little money to build things in the US.

"The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional $50 billion for war.

Opium, Rape and the American Way

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:46:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Truth from the women in Afghanistan:
(read the whole article for the real story)
"In eight years less than 2,000 Talib have been killed and more than 8,000 innocent civilians has been killed," she went on. "We believe that this is not war on terror. This is war on innocent civilians. Look at the massacres carried out by NATO forces in Afghanistan. Look what they did in May in the Farah province, where more than 150 civilians were killed, most of them women and children. They used white phosphorus and cluster bombs. There were 200 civilians on 9th of September killed in the Kunduz province, again most of them women and children. You can see the Web site of professor Marc Herold, this democratic man, to know better the war crimes in Afghanistan imposed on our people. The United States and NATO eight years ago occupied my country under the banner of woman's rights and democracy. But they have only pushed us from the frying pan into the fire. They put into power men who are photocopies o

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban. The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries are fictional. The uplifting narratives used to justify the war in Afghanistan are pathetic attempts to redeem acts of senseless brutality. War cannot be waged to instill any virtue, including democracy or the liberation of women. War always empowers those who have a penchant for violence and access to weapons. War turns the moral order upside down and abolishes all discussions of human rights. War banishes the just and the decent to the margins of society.

weapons of war do not separate the innocent and the damned. An aerial drone is our version of an improvised explosive device. An iron fragmentation bomb is our answer to a suicide bomb. A burst from a belt-fed machine gun causes the same terror and bloodshed among civilians no matter who pulls the trigger.

Activist's Message at USF: End Needless Waste of Food

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:31:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

JOLIET -- Vandana Shiva is giving new meaning to the old metaphor, "You reap what you sow."

"We have mastered the art of wasting the planet," she said. "Land and water are being misused, polluted and disintegrated by nonsustainable agriculture. We need to reclaim the ethics of the gift of food."

Shiva, a leader in the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, has spent more than 20 years examining agriculture and the environment and advocating on behalf farmers and the hungry around the world.

Less than 50 percent of crops harvested around the world are for human consumption, Shiva said. Of that food, 50 percent is wasted, which results in just over 12 percent of all the food produced on the planet actually being consumed.

"Couldn't we make sure that no one was hungry if that food wasn't wasted?" she asked.

"For every seed sold or planted anywhere, there's a royalty collected," she said. "If a farmer saves seeds or shares seeds, he's a thief.

Glen Greenwald interviewed by Bill Moyers

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:02:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Excellent job...Hat tip to Ratilfar.

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Bill Moyers interviews political commentator and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald. In part two of this three part web exclusive interview, Greenwald talks about how the Washington beltway elite see the world.

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Bill Moyers interviews Glenn Greenwald (3/3)

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Heroin invasion, cont.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:53:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obscenity, the CIA is your enabler.

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Really cheap, extremely pure, easily accessible snortable Heroin. New York, 75% increase in heroin deaths from 2007-2008.

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From Afghanistan--America's newest, cheapest, most pure snortable heroin ever to hit our streets.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:50:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Your tax $$ at work/war!

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http://www.druglibrary.org/...

I did a bunch of research to try to discern what our government has been thinking and doing. Enjoy the research and reach your own conclusions. I'd love to hear what you think.

Again, an emerging world-wide epidemic of cheap, dangerously pure heroin addiction is underway and the heroin is produced in the country we occupy.

According to the UN report, 98% of the country's opium is grown in just seven provinces where there are permanent Taliban settlements and where organised crime profits from the instability

http://news.bbc.co.uk/...

We recently learned that Karzai's brother may be allegedly, shall we say "affiliated with both the CIA and the drug trade in Afghanistan".

Reports link Karzai's brother to heroin trade
By James Risen
http://www.nytimes.com/...

The War on Drugs is beginning, in retrospect, to look more like War for Drugs as history repeats itself.

How many of our soldiers will come home heroin addicts?

6 Signs That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:55:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Funny, I've been saying this (out loud) for years. More of an interesting article:

"No one seems to be saying this out loud -- yet -- but let's put it bluntly: less than a year into the 15-year span of Global Trends 2025, the days of America's unquestioned global dominance have come to an end. It may take a decade or two (or three) before historians will be able to look back and say with assurance, "That was the moment when the United States ceased to be the planet's preeminent power and was forced to behave like another major player in a world of many competing great powers." The indications of this great transition, however, are there for those who care to look."

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Okay, now for the serious version of the above: In November 2008, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), an affiliate of the Central Intelligence Agency, issued the latest in a series of futuristic publications intended to guide the incoming Obama administration. Peering into its analytic crystal ball in a report entitled Global Trends 2025, it predicted that America's global preeminence would gradually disappear over the next 15 years -- in conjunction with the rise of new global powerhouses, especially China and India. The report examined many facets of the future strategic environment, but its most startling, and news-making, finding concerned the projected long-term erosion of American dominance and the emergence of new global competitors. "Although the United States is likely to remain the single most powerful actor [in 2025]," it stated definitively, the country's "relative strength -- even in the military realm -- will decline and U.S. leverage will become more constrained."

George Bush vs. Harry Potter

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:51:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh...WITCHES AND SORCERERS!!!! WOOOOOO...!

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These were the nut jobs
who were running the country

I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.

There are millions of these people in the US - their numbers are growing.

JK ROWLING was denied a top US honour because President George Bush's advisers believed her books "encouraged witchcraft", it was claimed last night.

A new book reveals the Scots-based Harry Potter author was nominated for a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

But White House officials objected because they said she promoted SORCERY in her boy wizard series, which has been made into smash-hit movies starring Daniel Radcliffe

So they stopped JK receiving the US's top gong for civilians who contribute to America, world peace or culture.

The claim is made in Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor, written by Matt Latimer, an ex-speechwriter for Bush.

He said "narrow thinking" led "people in the White House to actually object to giving the author JK Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encourage witchcraft".

The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex and the USAnian Empire

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:31:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very interesting series of videos-- see links

Clip Source: therealnews.com

The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt1

Larry Wilkerson: The beginning of the American "Imperial Rome" and Eisenhower's warning October 26, 2009

The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt2

Wilkerson: From US debt to the geopolitics of oil, the US empire will come to an end October 27, 2009

Will the empire end with good leadership or blood?

Larry Wilkerson: The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex Pt3 October 28, 2009

NY Times: Afghan Opium Kingpin On CIA Payroll

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:48:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What have I been sayin' for over a year? Just like in Vietnam the CIA is nose deep in the heroin trade--it's fuckin' OUTRAGEOUS and disgusting. Our people and innocent civilians die foe the obscene profits of Karzai and the Godamned CIA.

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A bombshell article in today’s edition of the New York Times lifts the lid on how the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a suspected kingpin of the country’s booming opium trade, has been on the CIA payroll for the past eight years. However, the article serves as little more than a whitewash because it fails to address the fact that one of the primary reasons behind the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was the agenda to reinstate the Golden Crescent drug trade.

“The agency pays (Ahmed Wali) Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home,” reports the Times.

An October 2008 report from the Times reveals how, after security forces discovered a huge tractor-trailer full of heroin outside Kandahar in 2004, “Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call from Ahmed Wali Karzai,

The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:56:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Chance was very troubled during his first tour of duty in Iraq, although he performed admirably by all accounts. At one point he was put on a suicide watch and had his ammunition taken away for a week. After Iraq, Chance declined a $27,000 reenlistment bonus and transitioned to the U.S. Army Reserves, hoping to avoid another deployment. He sought and was receiving treatment at a Veterans Affairs facility. Gregg said, “We sat down as a family, and we said, ‘President Obama is going to be elected, and President Obama will end this war, and you won’t have to go.’ ” But then his son’s orders to deploy came again.
the GI Rights Hotline, which advises active-duty soldiers on options for leaving the military, says outside psychological professionals can help suicidal soldiers obtain a medical discharge: “The military wants to know whether the patient can perform their duties without causing trouble, embarrassment or expense. His or her welfare is distinctly less important.”

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A scene from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself. He was just one in what is turning out to be a record year for suicides in the U.S. military.

Jannett told me: “Chancellor was recruited right out of high school, and this was something he was passionate about, joining the military. I wanted him to go to college, but he said that he wanted to be a soldier.” Gregg added: “We had doubts about him joining. ... When the war broke out in 2003, when many of us were trying to retreat, Chancy decided, ‘This is my duty.’ ... But once he did his first tour ... his marriage broke up during that deployment.”

The Pentagon admits to a mounting suicide crisis in its ranks. Numbers of acknowledged suicides have steadily climbed, from fewer than 100 in 2005, by one report, to nearly 200 in 2008,

The Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:23:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the short version .45--you had to be there in person.
"My soul's been psychedelicized!"

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I have no idea why I like this song, but I liked it when it was new and I still like it today. This is the single version that came out on Columbia way back when, and it was years later when I finally heard the full 10+ minute version. Now, whenever I hear this single edit version, I can clearly hear the edits all over this song. But I still like it.

Awesome !!!!!!! And it spans the test of time.

Drones and international law

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:09:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: See link for video

Clip Source: therealnews.com

Drones and international law

Erlich Pt2: In Pakistan US continues to assert right to attack sovereign countries without declaring war October 21, 2009

Attack on Syria cover up

Erlich: The US massacre at Al-Sukkariya, Syria in 2008 was a clear violation of international law October 21, 2009

Truth about the Fed - from a comedian

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:03:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Belzer is far more than a comedian.

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I think this it what happened.

The guys who created the Fed knew that they were involved in a massive criminal enterprise that would have been opposed by anyone who understood it.

So for the first two generations, critics were marginalized, sometimes violently.

This has been the way of central banks and other gangster organizations since the beginning of time.

But now, three/four generations later, the thing is so institutionalized and so arrogant, they've lost their edge.

Think of the slave trade.

When it was founded, it was an entirely "respectable" business. Eventually, when the original generation of psychopaths who started it and their descendants died off, common courage and justice finally prevailed.

The investment banks that nearly destroyed the economy are doing great now thanks to the trillion dollar plus "no strings" bail outs they received while the rest of the economy staggers and still appears to be heading off a cliff.

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:59:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Recalls the Chambers Bros. "Time has come today"--great psychedelic song.

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

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THE MAN dangles on a cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. Suspended in a harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo. And then it happens. The cable suddenly unclips and he plummets towards the concrete below.

Panic sets in, but he's been given an assignment and so, fighting his fear of death, he stares at the instrument strapped to his wrist, before falling into the sweet embrace of a safety net. A team of scientists will spend weeks studying the results.

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Perhaps the most fundamental question neuroscientists are investigating is whether our perception of the world is continuous or a series of discrete snapshots like frames on a film strip.

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one of many mysteries concerning how we experience time that we are only now beginning to crack. "Time," says Eagleman, "is much weirder than we think it is."