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Bet you didn't hear this on Fox News!

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:56:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Absotively amazing...no wonder they did it...

Congressman Brad Sherman of California's 27th congressional district told the House in a speech on Thurs evening that several fellow Congressional representatives have said they were threatened with the prospect 'Martial Law' should they vote in opposition to the $700 billion bailout.

According to numerous Congressional testimonies, the stark panic atmosphere which has gripped both Congress and the US media was intentionally created in order to 'fast-track' a financial bailout bill. Several members of Congress were told before Monday's vote that martial law might be instigated in America if the legislation failed.

Viewers can watch his actual testimony from the House floor here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbNm6hoBXc

Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Congress Threatened with Martial Law Over Bail Out Bill

Sarah Silverman on Obama vs. McCain

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:08:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hilarious as well as informative! The great Schlep--hahahahaha

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Not a Silverman fan? Wash your troubles down with this.

The day Americans went broke

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:52:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Other than that, everything is just fine and dandy.

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As it happened 75 years ago

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The Bank Holiday of 1933

Over 9,000 banks failed in the US during the 1930s.

By 1933, over $140 billion in depositors' money went up in smoke. This was in an era when you could buy a luxury car for less than $1,000 and a mansion for $20,000.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) first took office in 1993, his first act as President was to declare a "Bank Holiday," the closing of all banks throughout the nation.

Three interesting things about this talk:

1. It's coherent and detailed.

2. The government at the time seemed to have the capacity to rapidly evaluate the soundness of banks throughout the nation

3. The currency sent to replenish bank supply was, according to FDR, backed by sound assets.

Folks, by this this standard, we're in worse shape than in the 1930s.

Today we have idiots in the White House who can't string two sentences together that make sense; the government not only can't seem to examine banks, it doesn't seem to feel a responsibility to

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"A Punch in the Throat"

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:24:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And I'm not even onna vote for for either of these guys. Can't stand Hawks. War and greed. Suck.

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A fitting reminder (and some good advice) from Daniel Chun:

"Consider all the meaningless shit that we become obsessed about — ex-girlfriends, neighbors' dogs, celebrities' vaginas — and now think about this: a 72-year old liar with anger problems might become the most powerful person in the world. And if he dies, he'd be replaced by a babbling, evolution-doubting, Supreme-Court-case-not-knowing woman whose knowledge about the world comes from a 3-week cram session. This deserves one month of your obsession. [...]

"The contrast between Obama and McCain could not be greater. This is like choosing between an orgasm and a punch in the throat. The fact this is a close race is a terrifying outrage, and every single person should be doing everything they can about it... Go knock on some doors. Make some phone calls. Make a donation. Recruit your friends. You only have to do it for a month. This shit makes a difference

Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:53:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is "dialed in" to the McCain campaign. Rove's protege Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain's vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move.

What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the ta

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Palin will help to establish a true and irreversible 'fear society' in this once free once proud nation.

Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.

You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you don't have freedom.

Make-Believe Maverick--McCain's true nature

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:49:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: EXCELLENT article Highly recommend if you are wavering or undecided...Dramesi continued:
"McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."

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A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty

• VIDEO: Five Myths About John McCain
• The Double-Talk Express
• Mad Dog Palin: The Full Story

On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.

"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."

"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.

"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.

"Why? Where are you going to, John?"

"Oh, I'm going to Rio."

"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"

McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.

"I got a better chance of getting laid."

-Betty Boop- Betty for President-1932

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:20:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Remind you of anyone? 'cept Betty would be better than Sarah!

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Hey, They predicted the Sarah Palin vs Joe Biden debate 76 years ahead! That's pretty good!

Yeah, there's even a beer in the end for Joe Six Pack!

Zeiteist:The Movie --Addendum

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:39:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very interesting. Worth watching all of it.

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Zeitgeist: Addendum, by Peter Joseph 2008

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Sarah sad statement about 'Merika--Matt Taibbi

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:31:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power.

Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV -and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.

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The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is -- it's what her candidacy says about America.

I'm standing outside the XCEL ENERGY CENTER in St. Paul Minnesota Sarah Palin has just finished her speech to the Republican National Convention, accepting the party's nomination for vice president. If I hadn't quit my two-packs-a-day habit earlier this year, I'd be chain-smoking now. So the only thing left is to stand mute against the fit-for-a-cheap-dog-kennel crowd-control fencing you see everywhere at these idiotic conventions and gnaw on weird new feelings of shock and anarchist rage as one would a rawhide chew toy.

In the crush to exit the stadium, a middle-aged woman wearing a cowboy hat, a red-white-and-blue shirt and an obvious eye job gushed to a male colleague they were both wearing badges identifying them as members of the Colorado delegation at the Xcel gates.

Votin in a nutshell--George Carlin

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:18:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm leaning his way more and more--fuck it!

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I guess all I gotta say was already said, by the late great George carlin.

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Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:01:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This text was from Norman Solomon.

Look closely at the lower left of the pic....

The leverage for the U.S. Treasury to subsidize Wall Street is too big to fail. The leverage to subsidize mothers and children kicked off welfare is too small to matter.

The political momentum for bailing out corporate America is too big to fail. The political momentum for funding adequate payment rates from Medicaid to reimburse healthcare providers is too small to matter.

The oil conglomerates are too big to fail. Global warming is too small to matter.

The prison industry is too big to fail. The need for preschool is too small to matter.

Corporate power is too big to fail. The ordeals of working people and want-to-be-working people are too small to matter.

Human worth as maximized by dollars: too big to fail. Human worth as affirmed by humanistic values: too small to matter.

The current odds of pumping at least several hundred billion taxpayer dollars into corporate America: too b

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Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter

These times provide a crash course on the corporate state:

If a company like AIG is too big to fail, the government will rescue it. Mere people -- too small to matter -- are expendable.

The insurance industry is too big to fail. A person's health is too small to matter, so -- when it fails due to the absence or loopholes of insurance coverage -- that's tough luck.

The Defense Department is too big to fail. The people it's killing in Iraq and Afghanistan are too small to matter.

The U.S. nuclear arsenal is too big to fail. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, undermined by Washington, is too small to matter.

Overall, the warfare state is too big to fail. The virtues of peace are too small to matter.

Agribusiness is too big to fail. Family farmers are too dirt-small to matter.

The leverage for the U.S. Treasury to subsidize Wall Street is too big to fail. The leverage to subsidize mothers and children kicked off welfare is too small to matter.

There will be consequences

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:39:55 GMT

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What goes up will come down

"The path that we're on right now is not sustainable."

"The portfolio adjustments will be swift and severe."

"There's going to be a major realignment of global living standard."

"Every knows the dollar could collapse, but nobody knows where it will start."

Oceans, Reefs, Forests Increasingly Threatened

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:47:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think we may have gone too far to recover...

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Ocean ‘dead zones’ spread, fish more at risk: study. “The number of polluted 'dead zones' in the world's oceans is rising fast and coastal fish stocks are more vulnerable to collapse than previously feared, scientists said on Monday. The spread of 'dead zones' -- areas of oxygen-starved water -- 'is emerging as a major threat to coastal ecosystems globally,' the scientists wrote in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”

Pollution killing world’s coral reefs. “Coral reefs like Chitales, near the northern tip of a Caribbean reef chain stretching from Mexico to Honduras, are dying around the world as people and cities put more stress on the environment.”

Amazon deforestation rises dramatically. “Amazon destruction jumped 228 percent in August when compared to the same month a year ago, according to a report from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. Some 756 square kilometers (292 square miles) of Amazon was destroyed last month…”

Happy Book Banning Week!

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:38:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The piece about Missy Sarah is amusing--she won't tell us which newspapers she reads, except "All of 'em" hahahahahahahaah

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Happy Banned Books Week. This news item from last year’s commemoration.

Fahrenheit 451 is the most recent selection in the NEA’s “The Big Read” national reading celebration.

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Not often I would link to a Michael Moore piece. But in this rant, Nail meets Hammer

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Speaking of book bans, Here’s Eyewitness Proof That Sarah Palin Never Reads
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3628

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

These fucking idiots seek to ban a book that teaches not to burn books because characters in the book burn books. In my less noble moments, I entertain the idea that these fucking idiots should be banished from our land.

By the way, just to add to the irony, Ray Bradbury was often frustrated by the common interpretation Fahrenheit 451 as an anti-censorship manifesto. Bradbury’s intent was to warn against our excessive television consumption, which steers us away from books and numbs our brains.

Obscene Profits--and Now a Free Ride?

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:12:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I's such a scam...and we'll be forced to accept their terms of a Bailout.

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

Predatory lending in America

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Interview with the filmmaker

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It wasn't an accident

Guess who the biggest campaign contributor to George W. Bush is?

MBNA, a big credit card company.

MBNA wrote the legislation that radically changed the bankruptcy laws in the US.

Predatory lending, which used to be the province of criminal loan sharks, is now the norm in the lending industry in the US.