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“The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” and What They May Be Planning Now

“the invited guests must come alone; no wives, girlfriends, husbands or... more

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Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars... Obama administration fighting covert war

Jeremy Scahill is an Investigative Journalist, Producer and Co-Writer of the Film... more

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American Gestapo: Boston Bombing Reveals Washington’s True Colors

The Gestapo-like tactics that were implemented in Boston last week by the... more

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America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, Obesity, Anti-Depressants, Etc.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/america-1-in-fear-stress-anger-divorce-obes... more

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Marijuanamerica: Why America Loves Weed

Against all odds, more than seventy-five years after the passage of the Marihuana Tax... more

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In celebration of the birth of Thomas Jefferson

Author of The Declaration Of Independence; Author of The Statute Of Virginia For... more

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The Tunnel People That Live Under The Streets Of America

Did you know that there are thousands upon thousands of homeless people that are... more

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Waking up from the American Dream: the reality of Corporatocracy

While onstage George Carlin once joked, "It's called the American dream... more

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Warning to American Teachers

DO NOT TRY TO TEACH YOUNG PEOPLE HOW TO CRITICALLY THINK!

http://news.yahoo.com/teachers-stomped-american-flag-jesus-officially-no-longer-084614330.html

I know there are countries that will suppress critical thought about anything considered taboo especially when it comes to their laws (written and unwritten) no matter how ridiculous they sound. If you venture into these uncharted waters (questioning validity) you might wind up in a field where you are stoned to death. But here in the United States of America with so many resources available to LEARN and THINK, we should be so far removed from such backwardness, yet we are not and that is quite troubling (and preposterously senseless). thinkingblue

The Florida Atlantic University student who allegedly ran afoul of school administrators when he expressed discomfort with a professor’s assignment to stomp on a piece of paper bearing the word “Jesus,” has won in an absolute rout.

As late as Monday, Fox News Radio was reporting that the student, devout Mormon Ryan Rotela, faced a litany of academic charges involving “acts of verbal, written or physical abuse” and could no longer attend class.

These charges were perplexing because they appeared to come after FAU first attempted to apologize. (RELATED: UPDATE: Florida Atlantic University apologizes for Jesus Stomping 101)

Before that apology, as UPI reports, school officials had sided with the professor, insisting that a university “is a venue for such dialogue and debate.”

It’s unclear if the school was actually planning to punish Rotela before the incident became a national story.

Whatever the case, the Sun Sentinel reports that Florida Gov. Rick Scott has now blasted FAU as “intolerant to Christians.” He called Rotela personally to praise his courage. He also asked Frank Brogan, chancellor of Florida’s public university system, to ensure that “this type of ‘lesson’ will not occur again.”

FAU has come out with a second apology. This time, it’s in the form of this nearly-touching humble pie-eating video.DO NOT TRY TO TEACH YOUNG PEOPLE HOW TO CRITICALLY THINK!... more

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Phoenicians discovered America 2000 years before Columbus?

Columbus, credited with the discovery of Americas, may not have been the first to set... more

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Classic pre-war speech in America - George Galloway

Pre-Iraq war George Galloway delivers a great speech in Seattle.... more

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Waking From My Moral Coma (Really?)

The following editorial from; William Rivers Pitt, Truthout is a welcome revelation... more

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America Is the Most Hated Country on Earth

http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed252.html

The United States is the most hated country in the world, followed closely by Israel, and then by nobody. Why? Why not Ecuador? China? Russia? East Timor? The hostility puzzles many Americans, who genuinely believe their country to be a force for good, a pillar of democracy, a defender of human rights.

To the rest of the world, none of this is even close.

If you have lived abroad, as so very few Americans have, the explanation for the hatred is obvious: Meddling. Relentless, prideful, uncomprehending meddling, frequently military, often with horrendous death tolls. Americans, adroitly managed by a controlled press, historically illiterate, incurious, decreasingly educated, either have never heard of the American behavior that angers others, or believe it to have been inspired by virtuous motives. Nobody else thinks so. Add to unfamiliarity with the wider world the constantly inculcated assertion that America is the greatest, most wonderful nation ever to exist, a light to the world, a shining city on a hill, and you get a dangerously delusional state. Especially now. In the past, American economic and military supremacy were such that the US didn’t have to care what others thought. The times, they are a-changing.

It might be wise to compare briefly the view through American and foreign eyes. Consider Iraq. To most of the world, the war on Iraq was brutal, unprovoked, and murderous. More than a few, looking at the ruins of Fallujah, thought of Guernica – of which few in the States have ever heard.

Many Americans do not believe that we destroyed Iraq for oil, empire, and the Israel lobby, as was in fact the case. No. We wanted to topple an evil dictator and dispense the precious gift of democracy. It was a question of goodness. Many apparently still believe that Iraq had something to do with the attacks on New York. Again, controlled press, poor schooling, little curiosity.

Similarly, Americans tend to see the war on Afghanistan as having to do with ending Terror or sprouting democracy – not as the Great Game (“Hanh?”) redux, or the quest for the TAPI pipeline (“Say whuh?”) or Caspian hydrocarbons. (“Caspian? You mean the Friendly Ghost?”) To most of the world, Afghanistan is just another sorry spectacle of American fighter-bombers killing peasants, of gutted children and drone attacks on half-identified targets. This, the merciless use of overwhelming firepower against lightly armed campesinos, is what the world sees, over and over. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan. It isn’t pretty.

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Great editorial!
9/11 was an inside job
America is a tool for the New World Order
The US will fall worse than Rome if people don't wake uphttp://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed252.html The United States is the most hated... more