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This morning, I found a little green caterpillar crawling on my arm, in bed, as I was waking up. I took it outside so it could become a butterfly or moth. If it had been a mosquito or tick, I would have killed it so it wouldn't hurt me or my family later.
Each year of endless war that passes further normalizes the endless rights erosions justified in its name. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.
By Richard Spisak
This IRS Story Doesn't Pass the Smell Test.
THE IRS STORY - backstory - and just who benefits - slipping the Right Wing "social service" orgs smoothing the way for more Rovian Citizen United Teflon Roots Orgs - Koch Bros. must be laughing - They were shocked shocked at the reaction!
This IRS Story Doesn't Pass the Smell Test.
THE IRS STORY - backstory - and just who benefits - slipping the Right Wing "social service" orgs smoothing the way for more Rovian Citizen United Teflon Roots Orgs - Koch Bros. must be laughing - They were shocked shocked at the reaction!
All bets are off on the winner of this monstrous catfight. EU member-states may vote against their own interests; but another thing entirely would be an overwhelming eruption of anger by already beleaguered European citizens. This new saga of Western turbo-capitalism has all the elements to be, well, quite revolutionary.
The 87-year-old ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla died Friday in prison where he was serving sentences for grotesque human rights crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. But one of Videla's key backers, the late President Ronald Reagan, continues to be honored by Americans.
By Patrick Walker
Barack Obama--and the Sick, Twisted Dynamic of Racism
Perhaps the edgiest progressive political analysis you'll ever see published, a scathing--and penetrating analysis of the deep evil (a "vampire's kiss") that happened when Barack Obama met his "fairy godmother" Penny Pritzker. Little "bad language," but CERTAINLY for adults only ...
Barack Obama--and the Sick, Twisted Dynamic of Racism
Perhaps the edgiest progressive political analysis you'll ever see published, a scathing--and penetrating analysis of the deep evil (a "vampire's kiss") that happened when Barack Obama met his "fairy godmother" Penny Pritzker. Little "bad language," but CERTAINLY for adults only ...
Now, when the Supreme Court has deemed corporations "people" under the First Amendment and when income and wealth are more concentrated at the top than they've been in over a hundred years, has enabled America's financial elite to further entrench their wealth and power and thereby take over much of American democracy.
Are there religious truths? If we claim that our beliefs are truer than the others, how do we prove our claim?
This week, the national media has focused on the three different scandals surrounding the White House, devoting hours of coverage to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the talking points Susan Rice used in the aftermath of the attacks in Benghazi, and the Justice Department's subpoena of phone records from the Associated Press. And while these stories raise serious concerns about money in politics, embassy security, and freedom of the press, they aren't the only problems impacting the American people. Here are five big stories the media isn't obsessing about...
Hiding and near death, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly scrawled on the inside of a boat that he did what he did to avenge innocent Muslims killed by U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a rare look at the why behind "terrorism."
A recent study has found a causal link between moderate to high risk of suicide and sleep deprivation. It furthered that for every one-hour increase in quality sleep, there was a 72-percent decrease in suicidal ideation.
In this corner: Uranus in Aries! In this corner: Pluto in Capricorn! Squaring off May 20 in the third round of their historic seven-round bout, these two titlists are punching for change and battling for dominance until their final round in early 2015. It's the barnburner of the century, with no way to know who will walk away as champ after the final round.
Video: Dr. Julie Masters uses a contraction simulator to simulate labor pain on two volunteer men who thought their wives were exaggerating. The men experienced sensations from early labor through active labor and birth in an hour-long simulation summarized in this video in under three minutes. It will not surprise most women that these fellas changed their tune after their experiences!
Since the 60s, we have been traveling down the road of evolution and revolution. Hopefully we are heading toward greater compassion and enlightenment. The 3rd square between the planets that brought us the 60s is upon us. To make lasting changes in our society, we have to see and acknowledge the corruption of our corporate governments (Pluto in Capricorn) and then be brave enough to take a stand for change (Uranus in Aries).
By Bob Patterson
The case of the missing photographs
Just because a photo is ubiquitous on the internet, that doesn't mean that a columnist has permission to use that particular picture
The case of the missing photographs
Just because a photo is ubiquitous on the internet, that doesn't mean that a columnist has permission to use that particular picture
Daschle was Obama's very effective campaign chairman in 2008. He is fiercely loyal to the president and Obama's vision of the presidency expressed in the historic 2008 campaign. He has long friendships and working relationships with key White House aides and the stature to privately speak truth to power, which is profoundly important to all presidents.
Boston Bombing: CIA SPY Arrested in Moscow
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GOP scandal-chasers have been obsessed with the Obama administration's talking points about the attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, and the White House on Wednesday tried to put the pseudo-scandal to rest by releasing a batch of interagency emails related to the talking points. The Accountability Review Board report was justifiably tough on the State Department--citing "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels"--but the CIA has largely escaped unscathed. "They've gotten a pass on a lot of this," a former Obama administration official says. Perhaps that's the real scandal.
Our Constitution outlines a separation of powers between the branches of government. The separation was not designed to encourage partisan division but to assure that there would always be a checking and balancing of power--regardless of party affiliation or allegiance. Rarely has the partisanship been more intense, more bitter, than now.
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I Long For A Better World (Music)
I hope that you find this piece as meaningful as I meant it to be.
I hope that you find this piece as meaningful as I meant it to be.
The Future of American Health Care
Discusses the likely changes in American health care citizens will experience in the very near future.
Discusses the likely changes in American health care citizens will experience in the very near future.
Thirty years ago you could not critically raise the subject of Israel in public, and thus the Zionists had a monopoly on the entire history of this issue. That is emphatically not the case today. Despite Alan Hart's unfortunate experience, the fact is that, at a popular level, the Zionists have lost control of the Palestine narrative.
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Anxiety in Society - a discussion by Michael Kerr, M.D. & Roberta Roberta Holt
In their Family Matters program, Michael E. Kerr, Director of the Bowen Ceneter for the Study of the Family discusses with Dr. Roberta Hall how high anxiety is currently impacting our society in what Murray Bowen, M.D. once called, "societal regression."
In their Family Matters program, Michael E. Kerr, Director of the Bowen Ceneter for the Study of the Family discusses with Dr. Roberta Hall how high anxiety is currently impacting our society in what Murray Bowen, M.D. once called, "societal regression."
