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1,000+ Architects & Engineers Officially Demand New 9/11 Investigation

January 18, 2010 Congratulations to Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. They... more

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New Facebook Group - GBOC

While representatives from every major nation are converging on Copenhagen to discuss... more

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Mr. President Lead Us Out of the Afghanistan War

Next Wednesday, President Obama will give his first State of the Union address.... more

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7-Eleven petition collects 1.6M signatures

7-Eleven Inc. said Thursday that its franchisees and store operators have collected... more

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CBS is Anti-Choice

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The Third World: Eduardo is About to Die for Lack of Healthcare

Eduardo lives in America. While heath care reform dominates the national debate, not everyone in this wealthy country will be helped. In Kansas City, KS, there is a 14 year-old boy named Eduardo Loredo who could die any day.

Eduardo is being denied a heart transplant because he does not have health insurance (or enough money) to pay for a heart transplant and follow up care. Eduardo was diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy, and was hospitalized at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO beginning in July 2009. Eduardo was sent home from Children's Mercy Hospital on October 14, 2009 and told that he had the potential to live a few years or a few days.

Missouri's Medicaid program is generally available only to citizens and certain legal immigrants who meet a five year waiting period. These restrictive rules prevent Eduardo from qualifying for health insurance that would cover both the transplant procedure and the long-term follow up care required to ensure a successful transplant. Without this coverage, the total cost of the transplant would cost his family $500,000. Children's Mercy Hospital told Eduardo that without an up-front payment of $100,000, he would not even be able to get on the waiting list for a heart transplant. While Children's Hospital in St. Louis, MO originally offered to perform the transplant surgery for no cost, this offer was later retracted. His family is simply being told that his life is not a priority.

Here's what you can do to help:

Sign the petition to save Eduardo Loredo's life - http://www.petitiononline.com/Eduardo/petition.html

Help the Mobilization keep fighting for the right to health care. Since this campaign started, we've been able to support brave activists across the country stand up to the biggest corporations in the world, and say, "We demand the right to health care." Now we are taking the message to Congress that Medicare for All is the only way to end the needless suffering and death in the wealthiest country in the world. We are planning actions on Human Rights Day, December 10th, across the country at Senators offices. Please join those efforts.

But we need your support to keep this campaign going, click here to donate now. Give what you can and we will make sure that every Member of Congress hears about Eduardo's needless suffering and demand the right to health care for all people in this country.

Martin Luther King, Jr declared: "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

Visit: http://outinthestreetfilms.comEduardo lives in America. While heath care reform dominates the national debate, not... more

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Sign these petitions to support a public health option!

If you believe that every American should have access to health care, then you're... more

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BARACK OBAMA MIGHT NOT SIGN THIS - BUT WOULD YOU?

Help STOP The Akaka Bill http://StopAkakaPetition.com Help STOP Hawaiian Land Theft

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Pressure is Already on Congress to Get Out of Afghanistan

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BARACK OBAMA MIGHT NOT SIGN THIS

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Sign Petition: Limit How Big a Bank Can Get (So it doens't fall where we have to pick up the pieces)

http://sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=c53f1aca-5881-403e-928b-a25980cb4e0c This... more

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Obama's Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights - Act Now

Obama is backing tougher legislation but lobbyists are pushing back hard... Moveon is... more

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Sign BAN THE BAG - Ban the Bag Day September 26th

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Richard Bruce Cheney Is Not Above The Law!

The law of the land is to be respected by everyone. Not just those residing on the... more

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Bicyclists on the road treated no better than deer

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"Those within corporations who commit crimes can avoid going to prison by paying large sums of money

Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to streamline mechanisms for corporate control. It exposes the myth of a functioning democracy and the triumph of corporate power. But it does not significantly alter the political landscape. The corporate state is firmly cemented in place.

The fiction of democracy remains useful, not only for corporations, but for our bankrupt liberal class. If the fiction is seriously challenged, liberals will be forced to consider actual resistance, which will be neither pleasant nor easy. As long as a democratic facade exists, liberals can engage in an empty moral posturing that requires little sacrifice or commitment. They can be the self-appointed scolds of the Democratic Party, acting as if they are part of the debate and feel vindicated by their cries of protest.

Much of the outrage expressed about the court’s ruling is the outrage of those who prefer this choreographed charade. As long as the charade is played, they do not have to consider how to combat what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls our system of “inverted totalitarianism.”

Inverted totalitarianism represents “the political coming of age of corporate power and the political demobilization of the citizenry,” Wolin writes in “Democracy Incorporated.” Inverted totalitarianism differs from classical forms of totalitarianism, which revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader, and finds its expression in the anonymity of the corporate state. The corporate forces behind inverted totalitarianism do not, as classical totalitarian movements do, boast of replacing decaying structures with a new, revolutionary structure. They purport to honor electoral politics, freedom and the Constitution. But they so corrupt and manipulate the levers of power as to make democracy impossible.

Inverted totalitarianism is not conceptualized as an ideology or objectified in public policy. It is furthered by “power-holders and citizens who often seem unaware of the deeper consequences of their actions or inactions,” Wolin writes. But it is as dangerous as classical forms of totalitarianism. In a system of inverted totalitarianism, as this court ruling illustrates, it is not necessary to rewrite the Constitution, as fascist and communist regimes do. It is enough to exploit legitimate power by means of judicial and legislative interpretation. This exploitation ensures that huge corporate campaign contributions are protected speech under the First Amendment. It ensures that heavily financed and organized lobbying by large corporations is interpreted as an application of the people’s right to petition the government. The court again ratified the concept that corporations are persons, except in those cases where the “persons” agree to a “settlement.” Those within corporations who commit crimes can avoid going to prison by paying large sums of money to the government while, according to this twisted judicial reasoning, not “admitting any wrongdoing.” There is a word for this. It is called corruption.

Corporations have 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state capitals that dole out corporate money to shape and write legislation. They use their political action committees to solicit employees and shareholders for donations to fund pliable candidates. The financial sector, for example, spent more than $5 billion on political campaigns, influence peddling and lobbying during the past decade, which resulted in sweeping deregulation, the gouging of consumers, our global financial meltdown and the subsequent looting of the U.S. Treasury.
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Help Save Our Boreal Birds: Sign The Petition [pic]

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State Your Support for Health Care reform at www.healthreform.gov..

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Auto Euthanasia : Petition - Please sign IF you believe in it. - Thanks!

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Stop Tuition Hikes Now: A Million Letters Campaign

In most other industrialized nations education is a right. The governments pay or... more

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