[xico]

Life During Wartime from Stop Making Sense.

Great music, great show.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/01...g-wartime.html

[ekim68]

Originally Posted by xico

"They" is kind of vague. Got a link? Or are you referring to ekim and Poochee?

Hey, I resemble that remark...

[ekim68]

Chamber of Commerce Launches $100 Million Campaign to Protect Wall Street's Power at Our Expense

The CoC is the world's most powerful lobbying machine and it's working to make sure our money gets funneled to corporate execs.

Between 1998 and 2009, the CoC's campaign contributions dwarfed those of every other interest group in the United States -- over $447 million, more than double the next closest political influence peddler, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you add up the total contributions of Exxon Mobil, tobacco giant Altria (formerly known as Philip Morris) and GE, you won't even get close to what the CoC spends on congressional favors.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/14...t_our_expense/

[xico]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Hey, I resemble that remark...

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Laughter is very healthy! Thanks!

[xico]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Chamber of Commerce Launches $100 Million Campaign to Protect Wall Street's Power at Our Expense

The CoC is the world's most powerful lobbying machine and it's working to make sure our money gets funneled to corporate execs.



http://www.alternet.org/workplace/14...t_our_expense/

That's a bad omen. Most men have their price, and with that much money, America is on the auction block.

[xico]

Housing Minister: Spread of Arab population must be stopped:

Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097411.html



UN's Richard Falk: IDF seizure of Gaza-bound ship is 'criminal':

A United Nations human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel's seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip "unlawful" and said its blockade of the territory constituted a "continuing crime against humanity".
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097608.html



Cynthia McKinney: I'm in jail in Israel: .

Former congresswoman McKinney is not cooperating with the authorities" and refusing to sign a document acknowledging deportation, he said.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...ey_israel.html



Another Example of U.S. Censorship of Mainstream Media:

It appears that the U.S. Mainstream media is going to ignore this story even though Cynthia McKinney was once a Congresswoman from Georgia and a Presidential candidate. How odd. What does this say about the news we receive daily from the mainstream media.
http://liberalpro.blogspot.com/2009/...orship-of.html


Finding Fish, But Israelis Too:

"They told us 'go west or we will shoot you'," says Ashraf Sadallah. "Initially, we refused, so they began shooting very close all around our boat.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47482

[xico]

FBI Ignored Bush-Hussein Ties

By Robert Parry
July 2, 2009


The FBI has released reports on 20 interviews and five conversations conducted with Iraq’s deposed dictator Saddam Hussein before he was put to death, but none of the disclosed Q and A deals with the role of the Reagan administration in delivering key components for Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s.Share this article

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Either those questions weren’t asked or they are still being hidden by the U.S. government. The contents of one interview on March 21, 2004, were almost entirely redacted for supposed national security reasons.

As the National Security Archive, a private non-profit group that obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, wrote:

“Not included in these FBI reports are issues of particular interest to students of Iraq’s complicated relationship with the U.S. – the reported role of the CIA in facilitating the Ba’ath party’s rise to power, the uneasy alliance forged between Iraq and the U.S. during the Iran-Iraq war, and the precise nature of U.S. views regarding Iraq’s chemical weapons policy during that conflict, given its contemporaneous knowledge of their repeated use against Iranians and the Kurds.”

For the rest, click here.

Is this why the CIA Bush didn't try to march into Bagdad? That he was afraid the Saddam would spill the beans?

[xico]

Top CIA Officials Appear Before Jury Over Destruction of al-Qaida Tapes
http://www.truthout.org/070309S?n
Chris McGreal, The Guardian UK: "Senior Central Intelligence Agency officials, including the London station chief, have been brought before a grand jury in Virginia investigating the potentially illegal destruction of 92 video tapes recording the torture and interrogation of al-Qaida detainees."
Good!

[xico]

Obama Health Policy Czar Led Companies in Trouble
http://www.truthout.org/070309HA?n
Fred Schulte, American University: "Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama's health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University."

Sounds like Obama is really interested in reforming Health Care.

[xico]

Today we bring you an exclusive interview with Amy Philo, the mom who was "kidnapped" by psychiatric doctors and put on dangerous drugs that caused her to hallucinate killing her own newborn baby. She shares her courageous story with NaturalNews in a video you can watch right now.
Read the story at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026551_dr...ric_drugs.html



Or watch the video on YouTube:

[poochee]

Originally Posted by xico

Today we bring you an exclusive interview with Amy Philo, the mom who was "kidnapped" by psychiatric doctors and put on dangerous drugs that caused her to hallucinate killing her own newborn baby. She shares her courageous story with NaturalNews in a video you can watch right now.
Read the story at:
http://www.naturalnews.com/026551_dr...ric_drugs.html



Or watch the video on YouTube:

[wacor]

she did not kill the kid. it is just as plausible that she was suffering badly from PPD as it was the drugs. I don't buy her story there was no warning label. And anybody who takes a drug in blind faith without checking for what the side effects are is an idiot. Good lord people take a little control over your life and don't expect the nanny state to always look after you.

[ekim68]

Spending $102 Billion a Year on 800 Worldwide Military Bases Is Bankrupting the Country

We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.

http://www.alternet.org/world/141071...g_the_country/

[xico]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Spending $102 Billion a Year on 800 Worldwide Military Bases Is Bankrupting the Country

We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.

http://www.alternet.org/world/141071...g_the_country/

Is the 30 billion we're giving Israel to kill Palestinians and enlarge the homeland included in that figure? Instead of putting our wealth back into the country in schools, parks, roads and bridges, etc., our money's being wasted on military nonsense. Oh, but there's a lot of people who hate us! Right. Maybe we should stop trying to steal their democracies and their resources. Then maybe we wouldn't need military bases all over the world. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out, does it?

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Spending $102 Billion a Year on 800 Worldwide Military Bases Is Bankrupting the Country

We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.

http://www.alternet.org/world/141071...g_the_country/

And yet.........complaints from some about what Healthcare might cost!