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reflects on growing calls by conservatives to decriminalize drugs. This
creates the potential of a formidable left-right alliance to to end
incarceration's impact on voting rights
Al
Qaeda now has a chemical weapons program. Al Qaeda was caught buying
chemicals to make sarin gas in Turkey. The administration must stop
supporting the Syrian rebels since Al Qaeda dominates that group. How
hard is it for Obama and Kerry to grasp this?
The
Gun Lobby, including the National Rifle Association, has far more
influence than the founding fathers foresaw. Citizens United provided
further complication. Children are dying in Chicago and nation wide. I
may be time for change.
Lurking
behind last week's courtroom arguments is a clear picture of the
difference between the corporate vision of the Internet's future and the
way the rest of us want it.
The
US was to attack the regime of Bashar al-Assad. A medical operation:
short, clean, surgical. When Congress hesitated, the hounds of hell were
let loose. AIPAC sent its parliamentary rottweilers to Capitol Hill to
tear to pieces any senator or congressman who objected. In Israel it was
said that Binyamin Netanyahu unleashed them on the express request of
Barack Obama.
Such
is the quality of mind required to reach the top rungs of the Imperium:
brutal, witless, dishonest, ignorant, lacking all nuance, all common
sense, all human feeling. A mind that mindlessly disgorges murderous
tropes and blatant nonsense in order to obscure, frantically, at any
cost, the cynical intentions and the monstrous effects of the Imperium's
Domination Machine.
It
should be immediately obvious that the United States, with 700 foreign
military bases (compared to Russia's 11), is not exactly isolationist,
and won't be any time soon. What follows is an attempt at a longer
reassurance that no apocalypse is at hand just because we're not bombing
Syria or otherwise being exceptionally American.
I'm excited. This pope Francis could change things.
By Mike Kirchubel
The eternal curse of debt money Last week, I promised to tell you about a better way to create money, by having our own government make it, without debt. Now this isn't some wild idea I just thought up, it's actually part of our Constitution: "Only Congress shall have the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof." Unfortunately, private bankers have always issued our nation's currency and have charged us interest for the privilege...
The effects of Domestic Violence in a neighbor's six or seven year old child.
By Eugene Elander
WELLS-FARGO: Despicable from Beginning to End! One long-term Wells Fargo mortgage and banking customer describes the miserable experiences he and his family have had trying to get a fair break and shake from W-F!
Significant
advance in battery architecture could be breakthrough for electric
vehicles and grid storage. A radically new approach to the design of
batteries, developed by researchers at MIT, could provide a lightweight
and inexpensive alternative to existing batteries for electric vehicles
and the power grid. The technology could even make "refueling" such
batteries as quick and easy as pumping gas into a conventional car.
Pearl
River Delta Megacity Growing faster than planned. There is plan to
integrate the nine major cities of the Pearl River Delta along with Hong
Kong and Macau. The Greater Pearl River Delta has about 60 million
people in it now. The GDP of the area is about US$1.1 trillion (2013
est). By 2020, the pearl river delta region could have a population of
100 million and a GDP of $2 to 2.5 trillion. The GDP figure would put it
into the range of France or the UK.
Daily Kos: Chuck Todd: Pointing out Republican lies isn't his job
MSNBC host Chuck Todd said Wednesday that when it comes to misinformation about the new federal health care law, don't expect members of the media to correct the record.It's apparently only the media's job to give a bully pulpit to Republican lies, which is why when Todd's employer poll people on Obamacare, they get answers like this:
Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil - YouTube
Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil - YouTube.MY GOODNESS, why is this not being done..it would solve our trash problem and give us the fuel we use without the CO foot print.
Has the gangster in America been transformed into a mythological hero?
What
is the true nature of the rebel forces that the US and its allies are
backing in Syria with money, increasingly heavy arms, and threats of
direct military support?
Mother
Agnes Mariam el-Salib and her group carried out their own
investigation. They looked through the 35 videos of the incident that
were posted on the internet. Children filmed as victims of the Aug 21
chemical attack in a Damascus suburb had been deliberately moved to the
location from a different region after being kidnapped weeks before,
Mother Agnes said after presenting her own investigation to the UN.
"Syria
has begun sending details of its chemical weapons as part of a
US-Russia brokered deal to make them safe, the chemical arms watchdog
has said. The Hague-based OPCW added that it expected more details from
Syria in the coming days and had postponed a meeting planned for
Sunday."
Republicans
have long vowed to use the threat of default to force Democrats to
confront the soaring cost of caring for an aging population, the
nation's central budget problem. Instead, Cantor (R-Va.) revealed more
limited ambitions: Delay the implementation of President Obama's
health-care law for a year. Promote tax reform. Build the Keystone XL
oil pipeline.
At
a poker table ringed by war contractors, radical Hamas, dictators, and
weak thinkers, can a couple jocks think outside the lobbies' designed
narrow box and play a hand that none of the gamblers expect? Can
Congressman Veeshun help Obama do a "Sting" that would spread the chips
from the House of Big Money among the people too poor to play?
Ignoring
the wishes of the White House and the Senate, the House of
Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill Friday that will shut down
the government unless Democrats agree to defund President Barack
Obama's marquee health care law. While the House voted 230 to 189 to
pass the measure that Democrats have called unacceptable, Republicans
insisted their bill does nothing to shutter the federal government.
America
is sick. The problem is that the people no longer have representation
in government. Until 1911, the size of the House increased along with
the population. It has been frozen at 435 for 102 years. In that time
the population has increased by more than 220 million. It's impossible
for 435 people to represent over 313 million. It's time for a change.
Vote for more info.
By Thomas Farrell
Pope Francis Is a Male Chauvinist In his recently published interview, Pope Francis says that he is against an ideology of female machismo. But he favors the ideology of male machismo represented by the Roman Catholic Church's teachings against legalized abortion in the first trimester. Women and men of goodwill who favor women's right to legalized abortion in the first trimester should speak out against his points regarding female machismo.
So,
the big idea here is that young people should decline health insurance?
Having no health insurance is "better for you?" When a car accident
happens, or someone is sent to the hospital needing critical care, who
picks up the bill? For slash-and-burn Koch groups, that doesn't seem to
matter.
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If
there is a buck to be made, don't stand in the way of weapons
manufacturers and gun lobbies, particularly the NRA. Don't forget CEOs
who have impoverished almost the entire middle class even though the
CEOs still have excessive executive salaries, bonuses, stock options,
Cadillac health insurance plans, corporate jets, luxury perks, and
golden parachutes.
This is about the growing gap between governing elites and the public, mainly with regard to America, but also Europe.
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"All
of us were horrified by the murders at the Washington Navy Yard this
week. Once again, in the aftermath of a shooting, a new installment of
the debate about gun laws has broken out. But what we really need is a
new discussion about what kind of people we are and what kind of country
we want to be."
With
a harsh, quick-fire condemnation of the Iranian president even as the
White House is making overtures in his direction, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel presaged a potential showdown with
President Obama over how to address Iran's nuclear program, a point of
contention between the two men, and the countries they lead, for years.
Netanyahu's office dismissed as "media spin" a flurry of statements by
Mr. Rouhani about the goals of his nation's nuclear program and his
willingness to engage in diplomacy regarding it.
Thirteen
people, including 3-year-old Deonta Howard, who suffered a gunshot
wound to the head, were shot at a Chicago park Thursday night. Thirteen
people who were on the court or were watching the game were hit, many of
them in the arms or legs. The 3-year-old, Deonta Howard, was standing
on the court and was shot near the ear, the bullet exiting through his
cheek, according to police and relatives. His family said the boy is
expected to recover but will need plastic surgery.
Up
for reelection in Kentucky next year, McConnell faces a serious tea
party challenge in the GOP primary--with die-hard conservatives in the
state griping that the senator, who last year scored a 100 percent
rating from the American Conservative Union, is not sufficiently
right-wing. (His latest sin: supporting legislation funding the entire
federal government that included appropriations related to the
implementation of Obamacare.)
San Rafael rescinds two high-density housing plans | zRants
Pressured by vocal opponents of high-density housing, the San Rafael City Council narrowly approved rescinding a plan to concentrate future housing developments near transit at the Marin Civic Center. Council members met Monday to decide the fate of the Marin Civic Center Station Area Plan, which outlines transit-oriented housing options for a 1/2-mile area around the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit station near the Civic Center, and the fate of the Marin Civic Center "priority development area," which identifies land for high-density housing near transit. Both overlap and cover the same location. On a 3-2 vote, with City Councilwoman Barbara Heller and City Councilman Andrew McCullough dissenting, the council voted to remove the priority development area designation. A motion by McCullough to adopt a lower-density designation failed.
"In
fact, that is exactly why the tea party Republicans are hell-bent on
doing everything they can to try to stop Obamacare from going online on
October 1st. Because even as Ted Cruz said the other day, this is the
real transparent deal here, Chris, is that they know that once people
realize the benefits of Obamacare, once they can no longer be dropped or
denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, once they are able to
fully benefit from the coverage that will be provided, they're not going
to want to let it go."
For fighting teachers' unions | SocialistWorker.org
Activist educators are looking at the example of the Chicago Teachers Union as they resist union-bashing and privatization. "It's difficult to overstate the challenges facing public school teachers--and the children, parents and communities they serve--as the next wave of corporate-driven "education reform" takes shape. "Privatization is rampant, with chunks of entire school systems like New Orleans and Detroit being turned over to charter operators--or with plans to turn them over. Half of the schools in Kansas City, Mo., have already been closed. In Los Angeles, charter schools have siphoned some 10 percent of student enrollment away from traditional public schools. In Philadelphia, budget cuts are being used to threaten the layoff of thousands of teachers unless their union agrees to staggering contract concessions." |
