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Scandal, Intrigue on Capitol Hill: Pregnant Moms, Drugs, Baby Zombie Uprising

A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would attempt to prevent postpartum... more

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Scandal, Intrigue in Congress: Zombies and Lobbyists Eat Childrens' Brains

Drug companies are struggling because their products don´t work for preventive... more

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Foreign Policy Experience Of Hillary Clinton And Barack Obama

Neither really have much. More important to me is what they are going to do now which based on my reading isn't very different from what we have now. And I would think if you care about foreign policy you would at least chair subcommittee hearings.

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"I get the sense that Barack Obama is also extremely intelligent, though I've not had the same kind of encounters with him that I have had with Hillary Clinton and thus can't give personal commentary.

But I am convinced of something about Hillary Clinton's commitment to use every lever and every aspect of government machinery to push her legislative and policy work that I'm disappointed to say that I can't find as strongly in Barack Obama's profile. My concern has to do with the fact that as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations' Subcommittee on Europe, Obama has held zero hearings -- at least that is how the record appears to me.

Compare this to the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe, which is having constant hearings -- or to the Senate Subcommittee's work before Obama became Chair -- or to a comparative commitment of Hillary Clinton on a Subcommittee she chairs, and the zero hearing detail is disconcerting.

By the way, I have to praise the Environment and Public Works Committee for its website. I wanted to know what role Senator Clinton had played in the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health and not only found testimony of all involved but found photos showing who was there.

I'm not trying to find a minor, nuanced difference between Obama and Clinton and inflate that to inappropriate levels. I am a fan of some of Obama's foreign policy positions -- though I think that I tend to appreciate his speeches influenced by Zbigniew Brzezinski that reflect tough-minded thinking and hard choices rather than those influenced by former Clinton National Security Adviser Anthony Lake that seem to want America to rush into every global cause without clear delineation of priorities and an accounting of potential costs and consequences to our national interest.

But the question of how a Chief Executive would utilize the machinery of government towards the public good has always been of interest to me. Senators do have the opportunity to demonstrate executive-style leadership (or not) in how they deploy the resources taxpayers provide them in pursuing or informing legislative process."

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'Person of interest' questioned by FBI in Times Square bombing

The FBI announced that federal agents in Los Angeles, California, are questioning a... more

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Martin Luther King III Tells Congress "Mobilize Will to End Poverty in America."

Martin Luther King III told Congress the U.S. does not lack the means to end poverty,... more

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Congress Admits to Not Monitoring the NSA

The Government Accountability Office at the NSA remains unused since no one in... more

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Realizing the Dream and Ending Poverty Require Mobilization of Will

Martin Luther King III Reports to Congress on Realizing the Dream Poverty in America... more

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Creating a Non Violent World - Is it Really Possible?

Introduction—Confronting the Ideological Beast

America is desperately searching for heroes! If this were not true we would not see the incredible success of blockbuster action movies featuring mostly males with superhuman powers who fight for the underdogs by battling greed, injustice, and corruption of power. We have all seen time and again, story after story, encounters between the forces of good and the forces of evil; and we are constantly being challenged to take a side and fight. The emphasis of popular culture in mass media is a perpetuation of violence as the primary solution to the problem of enforcing the American Dream—“The Myth” (Hedges); like Superman fighting for “truth, justice, and the American way of life.” This portrayal of violence as a necessary judicial tool works inevitably to subjugate the most vulnerable people of our planet, namely women and children. It accomplishes this by portraying unrealistic ideologies and distorting and exaggerating differences among race, class, gender, age, sexuality, and especially religion. The media uses images that “shock and awe” our sensibilities—causing us to constantly react—deflecting our attention away from resistance and away from collective empowerment. “One of the most obvious signs of widespread acceptance of violence is the amount of it that routinely appears in media.” (Wood 314) Violence has become a pervasive part of our reality causing us to react with fear—a state in which we can be easily controlled and manipulated.

The media is a multinational enterprise—an “Eminent Domain”—which is the luxury of a privileged few who influence our popular culture and control the mechanism through which the mythologies of popular culture are transfixed. Its primary existence serves to preserve their control of global socio-economics in posterity by bombarding us with so much violence that we scarcely have time to be aware of the fact that we are being manipulated. However, there are those subtle geniuses who emerge from the frontlines and through personal experience have concluded that the status quo is a never ending merry-go-round leading to the annihilation of both sides. In other words, they have come to realize that hero fixation is a sickness that symbiotically—Ying Yang, 69—enforces victimization. These geniuses work behind the scenes influencing the media content, often changing its’ focus or challenging accepted norms. Although there are many people who are actively participating in efforts to transform the socio-economic landscape on many different fronts whether through academia, media, or politics, the most effective means to communicate ideas is through writing.Introduction—Confronting the Ideological Beast America is desperately... more

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America: Freedom to Fascism - Director's Authorized Version

This film by the late American entertainment businessman, film maker, and libertarian... more

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Anonymity - How important is it in society? VETO POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Photograph by Sabin Corneliu Buraga

With all the clamor of daily life revolving around the acquisition of wealth; every one tries to draw attention to themselves or at least their company or their product. Companies wouldn't make money if they didn't advertise and publicize their names, their logos, their brand.

Many people want to be recognized, liked, admired, and followed. They want their fifteen minutes. They want to be fashionable and trendy.

And yet their are those who prefer to remain in obscurity, privacy and isolation even though they may possess some amazing knowledge or insight that if shared could revolutionize the planet and its inter networked social systems. These are the anonymous contributors that have enriched our experience of reality. They have left their stories, their poems, their art and these contributions that when found and/or publicized, have touched us, sometimes deeply and profoundly.

When I first encountered the concept of anonymity it was in a poem called "Sister and I". This poem was a poem my mother would recite to us when we were little kids as part of a routine of things she did to lull us off to sleep at night. The poem was written by anonymous. As I learned to read books in school and had to check them out from the library at times I started to encounter more writing by this mysterious person called "anonymous". It actually took me a while to figure out that there wasn't just one "anonymous" that there were many anonymous writers. Why would they not want to get credit for what they made? It was an intriguing question.

Later in my academic career I encountered the concept of pseudonyms, that is words that are used as a substitute for the real word or that they mean the same things. And then I learned that writers sometimes wrote in pseudonyms or pen names...Wikipedia has a real cool article about pen names here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_name

My point that I am trying to make is that anonymity is important to the security of our nation and the people of this country. Anonymity is what the whole issue around a National Shield Law and Whistle Blower Protection is all about. The people coming forward want to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation; although sometimes the one being ratted out can figure out who did the ratting because the circle of those who knew was small and they could figure it out through a process of elimination and then silence the witness. This is why we have a Witness Protection Program.

With all the fear that the average person is in these days what with Iraq and Armageddon nipping at our heals, its no wonder that we don't have many courageous good Samaritans running around and that integrity and honesty are not even requirements for running a government anymore. Something is seriously wrong with this country; it has a cancer growing and its got a touch of Alzheimer's and I am talking figuratively here ok?

These three things alone would create fear in those that we entrust to govern us and to exploit our god given resources. This is our planet by God and we need to take the power back. TAKE THE POWER BACK!!!

Now why stop at a trifecta, why not give VETO power to the people through the power of the petition. In the Constitution it says that the right of the people to peacefully assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances shall not be unduly denied. I think there could be a constitutional basis for what I am proposing here. The number of signatures needed to achieve a VETO could be argued of course, but think about it. Any legislation and/or executive order could be challenged and placed on hold until a super majority of Senatorial and Congressional votes could overturn the VETO.

Please tell me what you thing about these ideas of Anonymity, and Veto power to the people.

Thanks.Photograph by Sabin Corneliu Buraga With all the clamor of daily life revolving... more

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The Rocket & 'roids

Ever since the release of the Mitchell Report, Roger Clemens has been on a mission to... more

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Baseball...Congress?

There have been angry clashes in a congressional hearing as US baseball star Roger... more

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Bush warns Congress on wiretaps

We need to trust George this time........ NOT!

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Why Have Obama/Clinton/McCain Missed So Many Votes?

Personally, I think this shows a lack of interest for the job. And that goes for... more

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Don't vote until you read this!

People of America we are losing our constitutional rights fast!!!!!!! The federal... more

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Berkeley may get the smack down from Washington

Taking a brave and bold stand, Berkeley, California's university town, may face... more

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ICE controversial Halloween photos released

Photos have been released, following the controversial Halloween party hosted by the... more

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Committee passes revised economic stimulus package; Senate now to vote

Though the original bill passed through the House with no problems, revisions were... more

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House passes bill; Senate calls for revisions to economic stimulus package

The $150 billion economic aid package on a fast track to passage in the House faces an... more

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Clinton Supporter: South Carolina Voters Are "Sheep"

Richland County Councilwoman Bernice Scott [...] bluntly told the audience "this... more

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