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JibJab's 2007 Annual Report on Humanity
2007-12-22 03:27:00
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Dumping The Dollar
2007-12-14 02:50:00
Offshoring Interests and Economic Dogmas Are Destroying the US Dollar By Paul Craig Roberts"The US media has no investigative capability and serves up the lies that serve short-term corporate and political interests. If it were not for the Internet that provides Americans with access to foreign news sources, Americans would live in a world of perfect disinformation...."Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration. He is credited with curing stagflation and eliminating “Phillips curve” trade-offs between employment and inflation, an achievement now on the verge of being lost by the worst economic mismanagement in US history.Also See:Krugman: After the Money’s Gone Technorati tags: U.S. Economy, Paul Craig Roberts, U.S. Dollar

Wake Up, America!
2007-12-12 07:56:00
The majority of America ns continue to bury their heads in the sand, refusing to see the writing on the wall. This is a Must-Read:AlterNet: The End of America? Naomi Wolf Thinks It Could Happen: "An interview with author Naomi Wolf, whose new book, 'The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,' may confirm your worries about democracy in America...."Freedom Rider: Black America Left Behind: "The racial economic gap is growing, with whites moving ahead more quickly than Blacks. Even more damning to African American prospects, a new study shows that nearly half the children of the Black 'middle class' are worse off than their parents. Decades of accumulated, systemic assaults on Black upward mobility are definitively taking their toll, making a lie of the vaunted 'American Dream.' There is no mystery behind the disaster: 'If big business destroys entire industries that provide well paid employment, poverty is not far behind. If black people are targeted for prison, ...
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GATA Begins Campaign to Wrest Gold Documents from Fed, Treasury
2007-12-12 06:56:00
Good news. GATA has just issued this press release:MANCHESTER, Conn. & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. has begun a campaign to use the federal Freedom of Information Act to reveal the disposition of United States gold reserves.On Thursday, December 6, GATA delivered to the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department formal requests for access to all documents in their possession that have been generated since 1990 and mention swaps of gold involving the U.S. government. Such swaps of gold are commonly used by governments to intervene surreptitiously in the gold and currency markets, and in May this year provisions for swaps began to be cited in Treasury Department records of the U.S. government's international financial reserve position: http://www.gata.org/node/5637.GATA's requests seek not only any documents showing gold swaps but also any documents identifying the legal authority for swaps and any documents describing the U.S. governmen...
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MUST READ: THE PLANNED COLLAPSE OF AMERICA
2007-12-12 06:48:00
By Peter ChamberlinOnline Journal Contributing WriterThere is no shortage of speculation about "why" our leaders are still adamantly planning for the destruction of Iran, in the face of overwhelming popular opposition, even though everyone except the neocons and their allies believes that America would not survive our own actions. An irrational attack is planned and apparently the decision has been chiseled in stone. It may be for Israel. It may be for oil. Maybe it is for world domination?We are launching a nuclear world war to save us from ourselves. "We have found the enemy and he is us." --Pogo. We risk blowing the world apart, to avoid watching America slowly choke on its own excesses.The government has known for decades that America is on a countdown to self-destruction. Among the elite it is common knowledge that our "global economy" must one day collapse from its own dead weight. In 1974 an intensive research project was undertaken by the Stanford Research Institute and the ...
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No Wonder Impeachment is Off The Table
2007-12-11 20:54:00
Bipartisan Brutality: Senior Dems Also Got Sneak Peak at Waterbording in 2002Melissa McEwan: Democrats have also been engaging in quite the charade with their supposed outrage about the Bush administration's torture policy."It's bad enough when an opposition party merely fails to effectively oppose, or when they are give tacit approval to a criminally corrupt majority party's radical policies with passive indifference, but when they are active supporters of extremist departures from the nation's most basic principles, they make themselves complicit in the coup by a thousand cuts. Per Lambert, no wonder Pelosi took impeachment off the table....Continue Reading.Technorati tags: Democratic Party, CIA, Jay Rockefeller, Torture, Nancy Pelosi
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Unfit to Serve
2007-12-08 22:38:00
Olbermann: "You, Mr. Bush, are a bald faced liar.""A Special Comment about the President’s cataclysmic deception about Iran." Trouble viewing this video? CLICK HERE.For a complete transcript CLICK HERE.Technorati tags: Keith Olbermann, Bush, Iran, CIA, Youtube, video
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Watch the Heartland Presidential Forum LIVE on MVL
2007-12-01 18:40:00
The Heartland Presidential Forum is TODAY December 1st, 2:30 pm eastern, 1:30 pm central, 11:30 am pacificGet great free widgets at Widgetbox!Heartland Presidential Candidate Forum to Ignite New Values DebateCommunity Groups to Lead Nation in Challenging Status QuoLaunch Campaign for Community Values(Washington, DC) This presidential campaign season will see more stories and hear more debate about our country’s values. The real conversation begins at the Heartland Presidential Candidate Forum when grassroots community groups ignite a new values debate in American politics as five presidential candidates are challenged to offer bold solutions for getting America back to where we are at our best. Senator John Edwards, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Chris Dodd, Senator Barack Obama and Congressman Dennis Kucinich have confirmed to attend the forum on December 1, 2007 at HyVee Hall in Des Moines, in which hundreds of community groups will launch a major national campaign for Commu...
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MUST SEE: Noam Chomsky on Iran
2007-11-25 05:28:00
Noam Chomsky on U.S. Policy Towards Iran : Are assumptions about Iran wrong?"Suppose it was true that Iran is helping insurgents in Iraq. I mean, wasn't the United States helping insurgents when the Russians invaded Afghanistan? Did we think there was anything wrong with that? I mean, Iraq's a country that was invaded and is under military occupation. You can't have a serious discussion about whether someone else is interfering in it. The basic assumption underlying the discussion is that we own the world." Noam Chomsky on Democratic presidential race and Iran: Do the Democrats have a different answer on Iran? Original Source: The Real NewsTechnorati tags: Noam Chomsky, Democratic Party, 2008 Presidential Election, Iran
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Nevada Democratic Debate - Dennis Kucinich Interview
2007-11-24 18:30:00
"This is [an] uncut interview with presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich , discussing health care, UFOs, and Peak Oil. Afterwards, his wife Eilizabeth [discusses] reopening the investigation of 9/11 and the possibility that Dennis might run on a ticket with Ron Paul."Original Post: Raw VegasTechnorati tags: Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Peak Oil, 9/11, Health Insurance
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McClellan's Dish: Impeachment is Back on the Table
2007-11-24 01:43:00
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.There was one problem. It was not true.I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the Vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself.--Excerpt from Scott McClellan's forthcoming book "What Happened"(Public Affairs Books, due out in April 2008)Dave Lindorf (Counterpunch): With that one little statement, released on the Public Affairs Books website this week, all excuses for not impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney, not to mention ...
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Gaza's Reality
2007-11-24 01:26:00
Technorati tags: Israel, Palestine, video
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Your Big Thanksgiving Surprise?
2007-11-22 18:30:00
If you've been paying attention, this should come as a surprise to no one.The New York Times writes that Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S. "Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials.The data come largely from a trove of documents and computers discovered in September, when American forces raided a tent camp in the desert near Sinjar, close to the Syrian border. The raid’s target was an insurgent cell believed to be responsible for smuggling the vast majority of foreign fighters into Iraq.The most significant discovery was a collection of biographical sketches that listed hometowns and other details for more than 700 fighters brought into Iraq since August 2006..."Technorati tags: Iraq, Terrorism
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My Sentiments Exactly
2007-11-11 21:25:00
Frank Rich (NY Times) writes:"...Last weekend a new Washington Post-ABC News poll found that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Mr. Bush are both roundly despised throughout the land, and that only 24 percent of Americans believe their country is on the right track. That’s almost as low as the United States' rock-bottom approval ratings in the latest Pew surveys of Pakistan (15 percent) and Turkey (9 percent).Wrong track is a euphemism. We are a people in clinical depression. Americans know that the ideals that once set our nation apart from the world have been vandalized, and no matter which party they belong to, they do not see a restoration anytime soon."Must Read:Glenn Greenwald: Dianne Feinstein -- Bush's key ally in the Senate: "...Feinstein is not merely voting reliably for the most extremist Bush policies, though she is doing that. Far more than that, she has become, time and again, the linchpin of Bush's ability to have his most radical policies approved by the Sen...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Effort to Impeach Vice President Cheney Still Alive
2007-11-10 00:07:00
Democracy Now! 11/09/07:Despite the best efforts of the Democratic leadership, impeachment was indeed on the table this week in Washington. On Tuesday, Congressmember and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich nearly forced the full House to vote on his measure to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney . House Resolution 333 accuses Cheney of deliberately manipulating intelligence and deceiving the public to build support for the invasion of Iraq and now towards a possible attack on Iran. Twenty-one House Democrats have supported the bill, but it's met fierce opposition from the Democratic leadership.Democratic leaders were able to send the bill to the House Judiciary Committee, where they expect it to languish. In a bizarre sequence, Republican lawmakers initially voted against tabling the bill after their leadership apparently decided a House debate would embarrass the Democrats. The bill was eventually sent to committee after a back-and-forth wrangling between Kucinich and Majority Lea...
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Democrats Bury Cheney Impeachment
2007-11-09 00:59:00
The following is an update on Dennis Kucinich's noble attempt to put impeachment on the table.Thanks to: The Real News.Technorati tags: David Swanson, Impeachment , Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney
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Kucinich's Resolution Survives Tabling Attempt, Is Referred to Committee
2007-11-07 06:32:00
READ AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FLOOR TODAY. Then send Dennis your heartfelt thanks.Hat tip to AfterDowningStreet.org.Technorati tags: Kucinich, Impeachment, Cheney
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Draft Gore or Forever Hold Your Peace
2007-11-02 18:11:00
The chances of Al Gore running for President in 2008 are not likely -- but not impossible. Do what you can to encourage him to run.Technorati tags: Al Gore, 2008 Presidential Election, Draft Gore
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Declare This An Emergency
2007-09-24 07:24:00
It's up to you. What will you do?Technorati tags: Puppetgov.com, activism
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Will the Democrats Betray Us?
2007-09-16 19:15:00
Another superb Frank Rich op ed. Must Read.Will the Democrats Betray Us?By Frank RichThe New York Times SIR, I don't know, actually": The fact that America's surrogate commander in chief, David Petraeus, could not say whether the war in Iraq is making America safer was all you needed to take away from last week's festivities in Washington. Everything else was a verbal quagmire, as administration spin and senatorial preening fought to a numbing standoff. Not that many Americans were watching. The country knew going in that the White House would win its latest campaign to stay its course of indefinitely shoveling our troops and treasure into the bottomless pit of Iraq. The only troops coming home alive or with their limbs intact in President Bush's troop "reduction" are those who were scheduled to be withdrawn by April anyway. Otherwise the president would have had to extend combat tours yet again, mobilize more reserves or bring back the draft. On the sixth anniversary of the d...
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MUST SEE: BURIED 60 Minutes INTERVIEW / INDICTMENT of Bush Administration
2007-09-16 05:58:00
Technorati tags: Paul O'Neil, 60 Minutes , Interview s, Iraq, Bush , Bush Administration , Nation Building, National Security Council, 2001 Bush Whitehouse, news
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Poof! Gone!
2007-08-24 03:52:00
I Will return .... exactly when, of course, is unkown.In the meantime, stay informed by clicking on the sidebar links, and keep up the pressure on your elected officials.Oh, yes, if you're still trying to figure out who the heck the Unknown Candidate is, watch this:Enjoy! Peace to all,--TUC

The C.I.A. Report
2007-08-23 06:23:00
The New York Times reports: : "The C.I.A. inspector general's report on the agency's failures before Sept. 11 was devastating-- but not because it showed that America's spies missed the rise of Al Qaeda. George Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, rang the Qaeda alarm. He sent a memo to the entire intelligence community saying that he wanted no effort spared in the 'war' with Osama bin Laden. He took on the president's closest advisers to agitate for a strike on a Qaeda base in Afghanistan. The disturbing thing was that this all happened under President Bill Clinton. When George W. Bush won the White House, Mr. Tenet seems to have shifted his priorities. The C.I.A. chief suddenly seemed consumed with hanging on to his job (through such innovative antiterrorism measures as naming the C.I.A.'s Langley, Va., headquarters for Mr. Bush's father).The Bush team was so busy in 2001 trying to upend America’s global relationships according to a neo-conservative age...
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FOX Attacks Iran
2007-08-22 23:44:00
Sign the Open Letter:Tell the networks not to follow FOX down the road to war Sources for Fox Atta ck s Iran video Iran Fact SheetTranscript for Fox Attacks IranRobert Greenwald reports:I remember very clearly the daily fearmongering led by FOX as they cheered for war with Iraq. The 24/7 images, sound effects, yelling and threatening were an ever-present drumbeat for war. We had to invade, and we had to invade now.. anyone who didn't see that was a traitor. They viciously attacked those of us who worked to get out the truth. You'd think that with the complete failure in Iraq, those days would be behind us. Sadly, you'd be wrong.FOX wants war with Iran.It's almost too ridiculous to believe, but it's shockingly real. We've already compiled over 4 hours of FOX footage... the same images, sound effects, yelling and threatening that led the U.S. to invade Iraq is happening right now to sell a war with Iran. They are saying the exact same things!!Here is the video evidence, si...
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Margolis Says TV News Hiding Truth About Iraq Civil War
2007-08-22 22:50:00
Eric Margolis, contributor to American Conservative magazine and The Real News , says television news is misleading people about the responsibility of the U.S. in fueling the Iraq civil war. Watch the video:Trouble viewing this video? Click Here.Technorati tags: The Real News, Politics, Iraq, Video, YouTube, news
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"The Mother of All Energy Paradigm Shifts"
2007-08-22 18:45:00
Go Green and Save Money By Thomas L. FriedmanThe New York TimesHave your eyes recently popped out of your head when you opened your electric bill? Do you, like me, live in one of those states where electricity has been deregulated and the state no longer oversees the generation price so your utility rates have skyrocketed since 2002?If so, you need to listen to a proposal being aired by Jim Rogers, the chairman and chief executive of Duke Energy , and recently filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission. (Duke Energy is headquartered in Charlotte.) It’s called “save-a-watt,” and it aims to turn the electricity/utility industry upside down by rewarding utilities for the kilowatts they save customers by improving their energy efficiency rather than rewarding them for the kilowatts they sell customers by building more power plants.Mr. Rogers’s proposal is based on three simple principles. The first is that the cheapest way to generate clean, emissions-free power is by imp...
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In Case You Missed It ...
2007-08-22 06:45:00
U.S. foreign policy experts oppose Bush's surge: Reuters reports that "more than half of top U.S. foreign policy experts oppose President George W. Bush's troop increase as a strategy for stabilizing Baghdad, saying the plan has harmed U.S. national security, according to a new survey...."Army Specialist Buddhika Jayamaha, Sergeant Wesley D. Smith, Sergeant Jeremy Roebuck, Sergeant Omar Mora, Sergeant Edward Sandmeier, Staff Sergeant Yance T. Gray and Staff Sergeant Jeremy A. Murphy report The War as We Saw It for the New York Times: "VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched...."Technorati...
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Matt Cooper Says Rove DID Leak Valerie Plame's Identity To Him
2007-08-22 05:23:00
Crooks and Liars reports: "Following Karl Rove ’s appearance this morning on “Meet The Press” David Gregory (who is involved in the Plame scandal. More on that later.) held a round table discussion which included former Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper . Cooper, who was dead center in the Valerie Plame scandal, stops just short of calling Karl Rove a liar, insisting that he did, in fact, leak Valerie Plame’s name to him in 2003...." For transcript, video and more CLICK HERE.Technorati tags: Crooks and Liars, Plamegate, Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson, David Gregory, Matt Cooper, news, video
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Online Voters Pick Kucinich as Winner of ABC Debate
2007-08-22 05:16:00
Hat Tip to Crooks and Liars.Technorati tags: Crooks and Liars, ABC Presidential Debate , Dennis Kucinich, polls
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War's Chilling Reality
2007-08-22 05:11:00
Bob Herbert reports that "a new documentary offers a portrait of combat and its aftermath that bears no relation to the sanitized version of war that often comes from politicians and the news media."War's Chilling Reality By Bob HerbertThe New York TimesBryan Anderson, a 25-year-old Army sergeant who was wounded in Iraq, was explaining, on camera — to James Gandolfini, of all people — what happened immediately after a roadside bomb blew up the Humvee that he was driving.“I was like, ‘Oh, we got hit. We got hit.’ And then I had blood on my face and the flies were landing all over my face. So I wiped my face to get rid of the flies. And that is when I noticed that my fingertip was gone. So I was like, ‘Oh. O.K.’“So that is when I started really assessing myself. I was like, ‘That’s not bad.’ And then I turned my hand over, and I noticed that this chunk of my hand was gone. So I was like, ‘O.K., still not bad. I can live with that.’“And then when I went to w...
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