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This article provides a ray of hope and a game plan for eliminating the outright lies and gross waste of our tax dollars, to the tune of 15+ trillion dollars in just 35 years. The very necessary legislative and management changes identified in this article will only occur if we all work together to achieve that end, starting now.
By Bob Koehler
Hope Flows from Hollow Water Residents of Hollow Water tried to save their shattered community. Maybe they wound up saving the world.
By Daily kos
The Return of the 19th Century A friend once told me that the wealthy elite didn't want to just "roll back" the New Deal, they wanted to roll back the entire 20th Century. His point was that all the social gains of the 20th Century were granted to us in order to combat global communism, and that with the collapse of communism the wealthy elite are going it take it all back.
By Martin Hill
As Police Tactics Questioned, 'Threat of Terrorism' and 9/11 used to justify Miriam Carey's Death 
Police standards have been loosened under the pretext of security, endangering us all.
Radical Republicans talk a lot about loving freedom and liberty but it's all a scam. They want rule by their millionaire backers without any form of democracy.
Analysis of causal factors underlying the ongoing US government shutdown.
he only protection against a slide towards totalitarianism is a free media that allows a free transfer of ideas between people without the need to self-censor. The global US military-security complex is embedded into the DNA of the internet. We cannot rely on the USA to voluntarily hand back the powers it has grabbed.
A real government shutdown would effectively take us back to a state of nature, or at least to an eighteenth century, pre-constitutional governmental structure, enhanced by all the modern conveniences we could keep working without Washington's help. That might provoke a new constitutional convention, which is what a busy minority has been after for a long time, and maybe that's the point of all this, but we're not there yet.
We did it well in the first three decades after World War II. America's economy doubled, as did the incomes of just about everyone. In fact, those in the bottom fifth rose faster than those in the top fifth. We achieved an extraordinary degree of equality -- and we also were serious about achieving equality of opportunity, through major educational investments (beginning with the GI Bill), through the Civil Rights Act and
Restaurants in D.C. are sending a very clear message about the government shutdown by running "shutdown specials" which has Congress seeing double.
By Jerry Lobdill
We have been transformed into a pathocracy--Political Ponerology, a must read This article calls attention to an important book explaining what is happening to us in the US today. It is a must read.
Cultural comment from a time traveler
When WKBT anchor Jennifer Livingston opened up her email she never expected to read something so hateful and demeaning.
Means testing is so ubiquitous it ought to be used for eligibility for Congressional elections.
By Franklin Lamb
Four Decades after the Tishrin" War Self-Delusion Commenting on the report's claim that Israel is now better off strategically than at any time in its history, the military analyst for the Ma'ariv newspaper, Amir Rapaport, observed wryly that "the last time we boasted that things were never better was in the autumn of 1973."
Nicholas Kristof: Government by Blackmail
Some Americans think that this crisis reflects typical partisan squabbling. No. Democrats and Republicans have always disagreed, sometimes ferociously, about what economic policy is best, but, in the past, it was not normal for either to sabotage the economy as a negotiating tactic.
US Treasury arrogantly dismisses as "myths" the nightmare FATCA has created for Americans living around the world.
Creeping Militarism. U.S. Launches Raid on Somali Rebel Camp
The nation and the world say no to U.S. military action. Nevertheless, it continues, this time in Africa.
Federal Shutdown: The Backstory
Obama has arrogated to himself the power to murder anyone anywhere on the planet, without trial or even judicial oversight. He claims the Constitution gives him authority to imprison anyone he deems to be a threat, and hold him indefinitely without trial. He has the power, he says, to send American troops to fight anywhere in the world, without a Declaration of War or even an executive finding that there exists an imminent threat to our our security. What can't he do? He can't issue a Directive to keep Federal offices open to avoid blackmail by a small group of wingnuts in Congress...or maybe he just doesn't want to. Though I part company with Lyndon Larouche on deep and important issues, I think that in this case he offers a perspective we're not likely to find elsewhere, and it is well worth reading.
Sister Megan Rice, 83, and two fellow peace activists staged a non-violent protest to symbolically disarm the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons facility, home to the nation's main supply of highly enriched uranium, in July. They were initially charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison, but felony charges quickly followed. They were eventually convicted of interfering with national security and damage to federal property.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a surprise announcement on Saturday that he would recall next week almost all of the 400,000 civilian employees of the Defense Department who had been sent home when the government shut down.
Secretary of State John Kerry, standing in for President Obama at an economic summit in Asia, warned on Saturday that the United States' reputation was endangered because of the government shutdown, which sends the message that "we can't get our own act together."
By earl ofari hutchinson
The GOP's Debt Ceiling War is Not about Debt but About Obama In September, the National Review Online made public the blueprint of the House GOPs war plan to stonewall the debt ceiling raise. The plan of attack included many of the same demands the GOP has repeatedly made to stall, eliminate, or delay every program and initiative President Obama has put forth.
As politician and president, Obama has been caught between a desire to avoid war with Iran, a war that would almost certainly harm the Western world's economy, and the political pressure of the powerful American Zionist lobby. The Zionists ultimately seek to ensure that U.S. policy falls in line with Israel's desires to see Iran destroyed.
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Canada's Shadow Revenue Minister Warns Government against Sellout on FATCA!
The New Democrats, Canada's progressive opposition party, has warned the Conservative government not to sell out Canadians' privacy rights to the United States. FATCA information demanded by the IRS on some 1 million Canadians would be passed on to spy agencies like the NSA. Will progressives really fight to uphold the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?  Best News Links from the Web
Don't let the title mislead you ; this is about a film which George Galloway and others have pledged to make about the killings committed by Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, e g, the UK Labour Party, over a million people in Iraq, and, not least, the financial killings he takes such extraordinary pains to hide from view.... Henri
Who Will Heal the Doctors?
In my previous column, I reported on the problem of widespread burnout among doctors and medical students — and I described a response that, in recent years, has spread to half the nation’s medical schools: a course called The Healer’s Art, created by a physician, Rachel Naomi Remen, to help doctors and students discover and reconnect to the deep meaning of their work and maintain their commitment for it. The article touched a sore spot. Hundreds of readers — patients, medical students, doctors and spouses and children of doctors among them — contributed comments describing their personal experiences, many of them raw with emotion. Some of the most poignant notes came from doctors themselves, and their words revealed a deep sense of betrayal.
Oilsands don't make economic sense and Asian demand won't save them
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) expressed frustration that Democrats were unwilling to consider defunding or delaying ObamaCare. "Like most Americans, I was disappointed when certain parts of the federal government were forced to shut down because Senate Democrats refused to make any changes whatsoever to the deeply flawed healthcare law known as Obamacare," he said.
The House on Saturday unanimously approved legislation to provide retroactive pay for furloughed federal workers after the government shutdown ends. The vote was 407-0. The White House said Friday that it "strongly supports" the legislation and urged its "swift" passage, even while warning that the single bill alone "will not address the serious consequences of the funding lapse." The Senate is still deciding how to proceed with the legislation, a Democratic leadership aide said, adding that it is unlikely the Senate will act on it today. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor that it is "cruel" to promise pay in the future but not allow federal workers to go back to work while the shutdown continues.
A man who set himself on fire on the National Mall in the U.S. capital has died of his injuries, which were so severe that authorities will have to use DNA and dental records to identify him, District of Columbia police said Saturday.
"Congressmen, this is about shutting down Obamacare," wrote Erick Erickson in the influential blog RedState. "Democrats keep talking about our refusal to compromise. They don't realize our compromise is defunding Obamacare...Our endgame is to leave the whole thing shut down until the President defunds Obamacare. And if he does not defund Obamacare, we leave the whole thing shut down." They've created a monster. And now the rest of the country is turning into peasants with torches, storming their castle.
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