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Archive for July, 2010
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July 31, 2010What oil spill?
July 31, 2010July 30, 2010
By Saturn Smith
Our nation’s apathy has convinced me that the disaster won’t change our environmental policy… http://open.salon.com/blog/saturn_smith/2010/07/30/101_days_of_spilling_oil_and_losing_hope
Senate Can’t Pass Tax Cuts, But It Can Raise Penalties On Pot Brownies
July 31, 2010TPMDC, 7-30-10:
If you thought that the Republican filibuster of the tax-cutting small business bill meant that the Senate didn’t have a particularly productive day Thusday, you’d be wrong. In fact, the Senate authorized the issuance of a conservation stamp, created Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Week, gave a little money to the Patent and Trademark office and, oh yeah, doubled the penalties for making pot brownies. Yes, the same week that Congress significantly reduced the racially-charged crack-powder sentencing disparity, they also voted to create one between pot brownies and dime bags.
The Senate voted to pass by unanimous consent (that it, without a roll call vote) S. 258, known colloquially as the Saving Kids From Dangerous Drugs Act of 2010, introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and co-sponsored by Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Charles Grassley (R-IA). While the bill is intended to keep drug dealers from cutting their product with sweets in order to make them more marketable to children, it applies to any drug mixed with with something that modifies its flavor — as making pot brownies does — if the person making the brownies “intends” to give it to someone under 18. At that point, the person making the pot brownies would be subject to twice the normal penalty of any person caught distributing weed.
Dog Shot And Killed By Police
July 31, 2010A few months back, police shot and killed a pit bull-mix who was running loose in LaGrange, Missouri. And this certainly isn’t the first time a story like this has surfaced — Bella of North Carolina had a similar fate….. http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/activist-spotlight-dog-shot-and-killed-by-police/
Is the FDA’s Breast Cancer Committee Really an Obama Death Panel?
July 31, 2010By Jim Edwards | July 30, 2010
Conservatives believe they have finally found President Obama’s healthcare reform Death Panel, and it’s the FDA’s advisory committee on Avastin, a cancer drug marketed by Roche (ROG.VX) and Genentech. They’re wrong, of course, and it’s telling that Andrew Breitbart (responsible for the phony Shirley Sherrod scandal) is in part behind this nonsense
That FDA panel voted 12-1 on July 20 to remove Avastin’s official designation as a breast cancer drug (it keeps its other cancer treatment indications). While the drug showed a small benefit for patients it came with so many serious side effects that panelists believe it should not be used for breast cancer. Earlier studies showed Avastin had a 6 month survival benefit, but the new studies revealed it’s much smaller than that, 2.9 months.
Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, said the vote amounts to death panels by the backdoor:
“I shudder at the thought of a government panel assigning a value to a day of a person’s life,” Vitter said in the news release. “It is sickening to think that care would be withheld from a patient simply because their life is not deemed valuable enough. I fear this is the beginning of a slippery slope leading to more and more rationing under the government takeover of health care that is being forced on the American people.”
Vitter and Breitbart aren’t just wrong, they’re scientifically illiterate. Lack of interest or outright disbelief in science is a dangerous trend that’s very much alive in conservative America, and it’s going to harm us all if left unchecked (and not just because cancer patients would end up receiving dangerous drugs that don’t work very well if we followed their advice).
Why lobbyist’s gifts to legislators are so rarely reported and so difficult to track
July 31, 2010Ian Lind, 7-30-10:
Another review of expenditure reports filed by lobbyists and the businesses and organizations that employ them confirmed what I initially noted two weeks ago–money spent on the gifts given to public officials by lobbyists are rarely publicly disclosed, despite the requirements of state law.
This time I looked at reports filed by individual lobbyists, as well as those by the businesses and organizations that they represented.
The result was the same. With a handful of exceptions, expenses for gifts go largely unreported.
Most gifts reported by legislators are relatively small, but with 76 lawmakers and their staff, the numbers can add up. There are many gifts delivered to legislative offices on opening day, others spread throughout the legislature. There are routine “good will” gifts, boxes of pastries or manapua delivered to offices of legislators who sit on key committees. Small tokens–coffee mugs, flowers, books, calendars, pens, and so on. There are plate lunches delivered to committee staff during the busy periods towards the end of the session, lunches with key legislators.
Sad to say, if you ever eat food from the Gulf again, you’re insane.
July 31, 2010Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain
Scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they can easily enter the foodchain.
Marine biologists started finding orange blobs under the translucent shells of crab larvae in May, and have continued to find them “in almost all” of the larvae they collect, all the way from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to Pensacola, Fla. — more than 300 miles of coastline — said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.
And now, a team of researchers from Tulane University using infrared spectrometry to determine the chemical makeup of the blobs has detected the signature for Corexit, the dispersant BP used so widely in the Deepwater Horizon.
Tell the FDA to Come Clean About Gulf Seafood
July 31, 2010Target: U.S. FDA Comissioner Margaret Hamburg
Sponsored by: Care2.com
Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), chair of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has tried to contact FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg multiple times regarding the current safety of seafood from the Gulf of Mexico.
The safety of the Gulf’s seafood is in question because of the prolonged use of chemical dispersants on oil flowing out of the Deepwater Horizon oil well.
A study from Imperial College in London earlier this month revealed that oil spills can block the ocean’s natural ability to filter arsenic out of seawater. As these levels rise, the poison can enter the marine ecosystem and become more concentrated as it moves up the food chain. And samples of crab larvae from the area tested positive for hydrocarbons.
Consumers deserve to know the safety of the food they eat and what the FDA is doing to regulate the safety of seafood from the Gulf. Tell FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to come clean about food safety regarding contamination in the Gulf of Mexico.
ExxonMobil world’s largest integrated oil company, spent more than $19 million to promote skepticism about global warming
July 31, 2010ExxonMobil is the world’s largest integrated oil company, engaged in oil and gas exploration, production, supply, transportation, and marketing around the world. It has proved reserves of just less than 21 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Exxon Mobil’s refineries can handle more than 6 million barrels per day, and the company supplies refined products to more than 40,000 service stations in 118 countries that operate under the Exxon, Esso, and Mobil brands (including more than 16,000 in the US).
According to a recent study by the US Union of Concerned Scientists, has spent more than $19 million to promote skepticism about global warming,
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More information on oil industry contributions to Congress can be found at FollowtheOilMoney.org, a project created by the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization Oil Change International
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ORGANIZATIONS IN EXXON SECRETS DATABASE
Webpage carries the links to see a factsheet containing information about funding from Exxon-Mobil and see their spokespeople.
60/Sixty Plus Association
Accuracy in Academia
Accuracy in Media
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Affordable Power Alliance
Africa Fighting Malaria
Air Quality Standards Coalition
ALEC – American Legislative Exchange Council
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
Alliance for Climate Strategies
American Coal Foundation
American Conservative Union Foundation
American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research
American Council on Science and Health
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
American Friends of the Institute for Economic Affairs
American Petroleum Institute
American Policy Center
American Recreation Coalition
American Spectator Foundation
Americans for Tax Reform
Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy
Arizona State University Office of Cimatology
Aspen Institute
Association of Concerned Taxpayers
Atlantic Legal Foundation
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Blue Ribbon Coalition
Business Civic Leadership Center
Capital Legal Foundation
Capital Research Center and Greenwatch
Cascade Policy Institute
Cato Institute
Center for American and International Law
Center for Environmental Education Research
Center for Security Policy
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Center for the New West
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Centre for the New Europe
Centre for the New Europe
CFACT – Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Chemical Education Foundation
Citizens for A Sound Economy and CSE Educational Foundation
Citizens for the Environment and CFE Action Fund
Clean Water Industry Coalition
Climate Research Journal
Committee For Economic Development
Communications Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Congress of Racial Equality
Consumer Alert
Cooler Heads Coalition
Council for Solid Waste Solutions
DCI Group
Defenders of Property Rights
Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
Earthwatch Institute
ECO or Environmental Conservation Organization
European Enterprise Institute
ExxonMobil Corporation
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Fraser Institute
FREE – Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
Free Enterprise Action Institute
Free Enterprise Education Institute
Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation
George C. Marshall Institute
George Mason University, Law and Economics Center
Global Climate Coalition
Great Plains Legal Foundation
Greening Earth Society
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
Heartland Institute
Heritage Foundation
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University
Hudson Institute
Illinois Policy Institute
Independent Commission on Environmental Education
Independent Institute
Institute for Biospheric Research
Institute for Energy Research
Institute for Public Affairs
Institute for Regulatory Science
Institute for Senior Studies
Institute for the Study of Earth and Man
Institute of Humane Studies, George Mason University
Interfaith Stewardship Alliance
International Climate Science Coalition
International Council for Capital Formation
International Policy Network – North America
International Republican Institute
James Madison Institute
Junkscience.com
Landmark Legal Foundation
Lexington Institute
Lindenwood University
Mackinac Center
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Media Institute
Media Research Center
Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Mountain States Legal Foundation
National Association of Neighborhoods
National Black Chamber of Commerce
National Center for Policy Analysis
National Center for Public Policy Research
National Council for Environmental Balance
National Environmental Policy Institute
National Legal Center for the Public Interest
National Mining Association
National Policy Forum
National Wetlands Coalition
National Wilderness Institute
New England Legal Foundation
New Zealand Climate Science Coalition
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Pacific Legal Foundation
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
Peabody Energy
PERC – Property and Environment Research Center, formerly Political Economy Research Center
Public Interest Watch
Reason Foundation
Reason Public Policy Institute
Science and Environmental Policy Project
Science and Public Policy Institute
Seniors Coalition
Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP
Small Business Survival Committee
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Southeastern Legal Foundation
Stanford University GCEP
Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Texas Public Policy Foundation
The Advancement of Sound Science Center, Inc.
The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition
The Justice Foundation (formerly Texas Justice Foundation)
The Locke Institute
The Tax Foundation
United for Jobs
University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc.
US Russia Business Council
Virginia Institute for Public Policy
Washington Legal Foundation
Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy
Western Fuels
World Affairs Councils of America
World Climate Report
Wyoming Heritage Foundation
Another Mother Kills Her Autistic Child: Is Autism Awareness Really Enough?
July 31, 2010The news about autism this summer has been difficult.
A Bronx mother killed her 12-year-old autistic son Wednesday night before taking her own life, the July 29th New York Daily News reports. Last week, a mother in Dallas killed her two young autistic children. Another New York city mother and a mother in Wales killed their autistic sons earlier this year. A Colorado mother killed her baby because she thought he might be autistic. A Chinese mother who admitted to killing her autistic daughter in Canada walked free from prison. And many in the autism community will remember the case of Dr. Karen McCarron, an Indiana woman who killed her young autistic daughter, Katherine, and was sentenced to 36 years in prison in 2008.
New Beer Packaged Inside Dead Animals
July 31, 2010Scottish brewery BrewDog has manufactured a beer that is 55 percent alcohol — the strongest beer ever made. The beer, given the name “The End of History” was limited to a twelve bottle run, and the bottles are inside of small rodents prepared by a taxidermist. The bottles are all sold out, going for 500 to 700 British pounds each.
As animal rights ethics become more pervasive, there have been overtures by alcohol companies — especially smaller breweries — to vegans and vegetarians in the form of “vegan friendly” beers, liquors and wines. Companies like BrewDog throw that kind of mentality out the window, using dead animal corpses the same way that fur companies do: to add the illusion of wealth, status, and a gimmicky superfluousness to an unnecessary and destructive product….. http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/worlds-most-alcoholic-beer-comes-in-taxidermied-rodents/
The Ugly End of Industrial Capitalism
July 31, 2010I think as the machinery of Empires continues to break down and the long term ill effects of constant war and incessant pollution become glaringly obvious we may finally see the end of industrial warfare and imperialism. That is really our only hope of making it into the future with any kind of habitable ecosystem. Peace.
I don’t even want to try to calculate how much time I’ve wasted scrolling through the newsfeed and browsing through photos
July 31, 2010Facebook, the enormously popular social networking site, hit a milestone moment recently: 500 million users.
This article was published on 07.29.10
That is, in case numbers aren’t your thing, half a billion people.
Or, think of it this way: Millions and millions of men and women frantically and obsessively posting status updates, uploading photos, browsing for high-school buddies and sweethearts, commenting on wall posts and otherwise shouting into the void.
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Kick me off after 30 minutes: Sometimes when I catch myself late at night, iPhone in hand and the Facebook app open yet once again, I force myself to shut the damn thing down. It’s sad, but the social networking site seems to have become something of a blind habit in my life—a mindless activity, a knee-jerk reaction to empty minutes. I don’t even want to try to calculate how much time I’ve wasted scrolling through the newsfeed and browsing through photos. Sometimes it serves as a way to feel closer to people, but too often it’s just a reminder that they’re over there and I’m over here, and no amount of digital trickery could ever replace logging off and opting for a real-life, tangible connection.
REMINDER: The Vatican says that attempting to ordain women is a sin equivalent to the rape of children
July 31, 2010
PIG FUCKER
Just when you think the Catholic Church might be trying to get it right—and recent reports that investigation of pedophiles in the clergy had been designated a higher priority with longer statute of limitations might be such an indication—the guys in robes and mitres go and screw it up again
Get this: The Vatican says that attempting to ordain women is a sin equivalent to the rape of children.
No kidding.
You might just think this is another example of the appalling lack of perspective that the Roman Catholic Church seems to be positively reeling from, but I’m going to argue that it is, in addition, a true revelation. The fundamental problem in the Church (and in a number of other churches) is a deep-seated hatred of and fear of women—also known as misogyny—that leads them to reject and debase the feminine.
Uh, guess what, guys? Children, with their smooth skin and androgynous features also represent the feminine.
Now, stick with me here for a minute. Take a look at denominations that regularly allow the full inclusion of women at all levels of the ministry, and ask yourself when the last time you’ve heard about systemic problems with sexual abuse in those churches. It’s been a long time—like never—since the Unitarian Universalists, the Quakers, the more liberal Jews, etc., have been accused of systematically covering up for pedophiles and rapists.
‘Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America’ by Barbara Ehrenreich
July 31, 2010Here’s a thoughtful bit from the RSA Animate: An animation of part of a lecture by Barbara Ehrenreich, in which she discusses many of the ideas from her book, Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America. (This is a fantastic book, by the way.)
Sit back, relax, and get 10 minutes of radical realism:
Pastor Darlene Bishop: “God cured me of breast cancer in 1986.” Twenty years later; “I was never medically diagnosed with the disease, but believe I had it”.
July 31, 2010Solid Rock pastors’ strong stances stir scorn, adoration
The 62-foot King of Kings statue no longer stretches out its giant arms to motorists on Interstate 75, but a pastor of the Solid Rock Church says the June 14 fire was good PR for what the church is about: Christ…http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24864/solid-rock-pastors%E2%80%99-strong-stances-stir-scorn-adoration
Bobby Jindal the Exorcist?
July 31, 2010That’s right, Bobby Jindal,(1) not only participated in an exorcism, but wrote about it candidly in the New Oxford Review in an article called “Beating a Demon”. You have to pay a buck and a half to read the full version on their website, but I got that joint for you for free ninety nine:
“Beating a Demon” by Bobby Jindal, from the December 1994 Oxford New Review.
This man is running a state of four and a half million people and he believes that women can be punished by God with cancer and demon possession for such offenses as “intense flirting” (Jindal, “Beating a Demon”, p. 8-9). What does that say about American culture that he was elected by a majority of people in his state? What does it say about our collective intellectual capabilities that a man with more political power than me actually believes that cancer can be prayed away, leaving a person “purified”? (Jindal, p. 9).
1. Frequently on FOX. Conservative Christian Fundamentalist. “Piyush Amrit “Bobby” Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal )
Behind High Walls – Catholic Child Abuse
July 31, 2010The Catholic child abuse scandal has hit no country harder than Ireland, and we should know. BlatantWorld.com is run by Irish staff, and we have been witnessing the growing realisation amongst the population here, that widespread abuse has indeed been committed in the name of religion throughout our nation.
Since the 1950′s, successive Irish governments and the police force have helped to cover up the massive amounts of abuse by members of the clergy. Most of this cover-up was done through ‘keeping with tradition’, and many cases would have seemed like isolated incidents to officials involved, but many high ranking clergy were fully aware of the scale of the problem.
This show is mainly based around what has happened in Ireland, with abuse survivors stories featured, but it also looks at the way in which high ranking church officials continue to cover up this scandal – including Pope Benedict XVI, and leader of Ireland’s Catholic church, Cardinal Sean Brady.
One very interesting point which this program discusses, is that when clergy abused children whilst working within society as a parish priest, they were then moved to industrial schools, and those high-walled industrial schools ended up housing a massive concentration of abusive priests. And, not only were the kids in those schools in constant fear of abuse, they were also used as modern day slaves in the school’s industrial factories.
SOURCE: http://www.blatantworld.com/documentary/people_and_power_behind_high_walls.html
200 ‘witches’ killed in India each year – report
July 31, 2010As many as 200 women are lynched every year in India after being accused of practising witchcraft, a study by a charity has found.
The deaths are most prevalent in poverty-stricken villages populated by tribal groups in the northern Indian state of Jharkhand, with cases also reported in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Orissa……. http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24866/200-witches-killed-in-india-each-year-report
Obama admin “normalizng” Bush-era abuses
July 31, 2010Obama Administration In Danger Of Establishing “New Normal” With Worst Bush-Era Policies, Says ACLU
July 29, 2010
Group Releases 18-Month Review Of President’s National Security Policies And Civil Liberties
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NEW YORK – The Obama administration has repudiated some of the Bush administration’s most egregious national security policies but is in danger of institutionalizing others permanently into law, thereby creating a troubling “new normal,” according to a new report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Establishing a New Normal: National Security, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights Under the Obama Administration,” an 18-month review of the Obama administration’s record on national security issues affecting civil liberties, concludes that the current administration’s record on issues of national security and civil liberties is decidedly mixed: President Obama has made great strides in some areas, such as his auspicious first steps to categorically prohibit torture, outlaw the CIA’s use of secret overseas detention sites and release the Bush administration’s torture memos, but he has failed to eliminate some of the worst policies put in place by President Bush, such as military commissions and indefinite detention. He has also expanded the Bush administration’s “targeted killing” program.
The 22-page report, which was researched and written by staff in the ACLU’s National Security Project and Washington Legislative Office, reviews the administration’s record in the areas of transparency, torture and accountability, detention, targeted killing, military commissions, speech and surveillance and watchlists.
Canadian University Criticized for Pain Study on Mice
July 31, 2010Vivisectors in Canada have come under criticism for their tests on lab mice’s responses to pain. It should come as no surprise, however, that the scientists were found to be within the ethical guidelines that govern animal testing.
The tests in question involve subjecting lab mice to unnecessary pain, then photographing their faces to document how their facial expression showed they were in pain. The methods used included injecting the mice with mustard oil.
The study and the researcher, Jeffery Mogil, came under fire when criticism from a newsletter on the subject of lab animal welfare prompted an investigation into the research. The publisher of that newsletter, Leslie Norins, said that the study seemed “frivolous” because of the large amount of information already available on the subject and, in his view, the research came close to a violation of the national guidelines on animal testing…….http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/canadian-university-criticized-for-pain-study-on-mice/
Banks, drugs and US-sponsored terrorism
July 31, 2010Unless you want to keep your money under a mattress, you need a relationship with a bank or two.
Where do drug traffickers store their loot?
The surprising answer here (the drug business rabbit hole goes deep.)
The Climategate hoax
July 31, 2010This article was published on 07.22.10.
After investigating the furious controversy that became “Climategate,” a panel in Britain reported last week that the scientists at East Anglia University—the ones whose e-mails were hacked in late 2009—had not, as global-warming deniers charged, distorted scientific evidence to prove that the planet was heating up primarily because of human activity…… http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1458227
Man and Wife wanted to rid the Demons from their 3 children by Beheading them
July 31, 2010Killer to die for butchering children
ReligionNewsBlog.com • Friday July 30, 2010
A Hidalgo County jury Thursday sentenced a Brownsville man to die for killing and beheading three young children he was raising with their mother.
John Allen Rubio, 29, kept his head down as state District Judge Noé González read the jury’s decision that Rubio remained a threat to society, intended to kill the children and showed no mitigating virtues that should spare him from death row.
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The jury found Rubio, 29, guilty of capital murder Monday, then heard several days of penalty phase testimony before starting deliberations on his punishment. It took the panel about three hours to reach a decision.
WikiLeaks & the Essential Democratic Question: Who Will Tell the People?
July 30, 2010Dan Ellsberg
07-29-2010 John Nichols via The Nation
The Obama White House was quick to condemn the publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents detailing the monumentally misguided and frequently failed attempt by the United States to occupy Afghanistan.
National Security Adviser James Jones took the lead in attacking WikiLeaks for making the details of the war available to the American people—who are, ultimately, supposed to define the direction of US foreign policy—by declaring: “The United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security.”
Despite the fact that the “Afghanistan War Logs,” which are being published by the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Speigel, detail the mess in Afghanistan, and point to the bigger mess that will be made if the occupation is expanded as the Obama administration proposes, Jones offered a classic don’t-confuse-us-with-the-facts response. “These irresponsible leaks will not impact our ongoing commitment to deepen our partnerships with Afghanistan and Pakistan; to defeat our common enemies; and to support the aspirations of the Afghan and Pakistani people.”
The echo you are hearing is that of the Nixon administration responding to the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Indeed, as Dan Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers says: “I’m very impressed by the release. It is the first release in thirty-nine years or forty years, since I first gave the Pentagon papers to the Senate, of the scale of the Pentagon papers.”
We can only hope that Obama and his aides have read enough history to recognize that Nixon’s over-reaction to the Pentagon Papers began a process that would lead—at least in part—to a House Judiciary Committee vote to impeach him and the only presidential resignation in the country’s history.
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Bush Memoir Release Has Republicans Concerned
July 30, 2010With the 2010 election season underway, Republicans are reportedly concerned about how the impending release of former President George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, may affect the party’s success at the polls come November.While the widely-anticipated book from Bush isn’t set to be released until November 9 — one week after votes are cast across the country — details from the text have already begun to leak out.
Moreover, the unpopular Republican leader and contentious policy initiatives put forth by his administration have already resurfaced to shake-up this year’s heated midterm match-ups.
5 Reasons Not to Pay Your Credit Cards
July 30, 2010Feeding The Matrix: 5 Reasons Not to Pay Your Credit Cards
Sure, you get to “rent” a flat-screen TV, a car, or a home from them, making life in the matrix almost worth it. But, ultimately, you only temporarily use that stuff at great expense to you and massive profits to the banks. After years and years of paid interest, you still never truly own anything. The TV is now obsolete and worthless; you still must pay increasing property taxes and insurance on your homes and cars, even when your done paying the bank three times their value, all while they bought your years of servitude with nothing real or tangible. In truth, if there was real justice in America, the criminal banking cartel would be arrested under the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, and their assets should seized and returned to their victims. After their arrest and the unconditional release of all debt prisoners, a new, fair, and sound money system should be put in place for the benefit of all (See The Secret of Oz). For the many who are contemplating dropping out of the corrupt debtor system, the least impact from the mafia will occur by ignoring your unsecured credit cards. Before you take this action, be warned that you may have to return the signing bonus gift you received when got your contract to play in the big leagues. Here are the top five reasons not to pay your credit cards: 1. If you owe $6,000 on a credit card with a 20 percent interest rate, and you only pay the minimum payment each time, it will take you 54 years to pay off that credit card. During those 54 years you will pay $26,168 in interest rate charges in addition to the $6,000 in principal that you are required to pay back (Source). 2. Under the legal fractional reserve banking system, the banks NEVER actually had the fake money for the credit they extended you in the first place. They added you to their stable of debt slaves with a simple accounting key stroke. 3. The cartel of the large private banks are a proven criminal entity at the heart of most global problems including, but not limited to: wars, genocide, famine, and resource plundering. It’s immoral to continue to support such a system on any level. 4. You won’t need a good credit score to live outside of the matrix. It’s a place in your mind where it is okay to not ever “use” anything with bank financing for the rest of your life. 5. Not paying your credit cards may be one of the only ways to make the matrix feel the weight of your protest without drawing too much oppression.
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Up to 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up
July 30, 2010Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery’s former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster.
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