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"The new job for Morrell, then, is less anything 'new,' and more so, a textbook example of the revolving door...""The new job for Morrell, then, is less anything 'new,' and more so, a... more
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Chris Mckibben of 350.0rg asks the question; Where are the solar panels for the White house that President Obama promised by spring? Its summer officially and no panels. Of course there are platitudes thrown from the Department of Energy. Which is apparently to busy promoting coal in Wyoming to worry about this small detail. He is correct in stating that President Obama is frightened of being compared to Carter who was a pioneer in the use of alternative energy when it wasn't sexy. President Carter also froze gasoline prices and ordered appliances to become energy efficient. Probably our only truly communist-socialist president since FDR?
http://www.350.org/Chris Mckibben of 350.0rg asks the question; Where are the solar panels for the White... more
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Newscasts from the day in 1980 - Afghanistan, Politics and Libya - some things just don't change.Newscasts from the day in 1980 - Afghanistan, Politics and Libya - some things just... more
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In the more than 40 years since the Middle East war of June 1967, there have been many peace plans and many negotiations.
Some of these have been successful, including those between Egypt and Israel and Israel and Jordan, but a settlement has still not been reached in the core conflict - the dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians.
The BBC News website's Paul Reynolds looks at the main peace proposals since 1967 and what happened to them.
UN Security Council Resolution 242, 1967
Camp David Accords, 1978
The Madrid Conference, 1991
Oslo Agreement, 1993
Camp David, 2000
Taba, 2001
Saudi peace plan, 2002
Roadmap, 2003
Geneva Accord, 2003
Annapolis, 2007
More detail at link...
What a joke! Nothing but a taxpayer funded holiday for a bunch of globalist puppets of the New World Order. Here's how it works: kill people, wear a suit, say the word "peace", shake hands, make stupid people believe you, kill more people and do it all over again with the next puppet.In the more than 40 years since the Middle East war of June 1967, there have been many... more
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On March 24th 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered after denouncing the US-backed military dictatorship's brutality.On March 24th 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered after denouncing the... more
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A federal appeals court upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected two legal challenges by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, who said the references to God are unconstitutional and infringe on his religious beliefs.
The same appeals court caused a national uproar and prompted accusations of judicial activism when it decided in Newdow's favor in 2002, ruling that the pledge violated the First Amendment prohibition against government endorsement of religion.
President George W. Bush called the 2002 decision "ridiculous," senators passed a resolution condemning the ruling and Newdow received death threats.
That lawsuit reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004, but the high court said Newdow lacked the legal standing to file the suit because he didn't have custody of his daughter, on whose behalf he brought the case.
So Newdow filed an identical challenge on behalf of other parents who objected to the recitation of the pledge at school. In 2005, a federal judge in Sacramento decided in Newdow's favor, prompting the appeals court to take up the case again.
Judge Carlos Bea, who was appointed by Bush in 2003, wrote for the majority in Thursday's 2-1 ruling.
"The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through the proud recitation of some of the ideals upon which our Republic was founded," he said.
Bea noted that schools do not require students to recite the pledge, which was amended to include the words "under God" by a 1954 federal law. Members of Congress at the time said they wanted to set the United States apart from "godless communists."
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who was part of the three-judge panel that ruled in Newdow's favor eight years ago, wrote a 123-page dissent to the 60-page majority opinion.
"Under no sound legal analysis adhering to binding Supreme Court precedent could this court uphold state-directed, teacher-led, daily recitation of the 'under God' version of the Pledge of Allegiance by children in public schools," wrote Reinhardt, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Newdow, a doctor and attorney who founded a group called the First Atheist Church of True Science, told The Associated Press he would ask the appeals court to rehear the case. If it rejects that request, Newdow said he'll appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The whole argument that 'under God' wasn't placed into the pledge for religious purposes is bogus," Newdow said. "I hope people recognize this is not against God or people who believe in God. It's about the government not treating people equally on the basis of their lawful religious views."
Newdow said he isn't optimistic the Supreme Court will agree to hear the case because the justices will likely be reluctant to hear a case that could invalidate the pledge.
"They don't want to do what's politically unpopular," he said. "The Supreme Court will not hear a case that upholds the Pledge of Allegiance. It's very unlikely at least."
Rory Little, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, agreed. He said the Supreme Court is unlikely to review the case because Thursday's ruling is the third appellate court decision upholding the pledge.
In addition, Congress passed legislation reaffirming the pledge in 2002, following the 9th Circuit's ruling that struck it down.
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The Democratic president and Mr Brown are 10th cousins, genealogists said on Friday.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society said Mr Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Mr Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Massachusetts.
He died in 1687 at, for the time, the unusually old age of 102.
"I think it's a really interesting thing, where you have the separation between a Democrat and a Republican, but you have one link," said David Allen Lambert, the society genealogist who co-discovered the connection with colleague Chris Child.
Mr Lambert said the work had been aided by prior research about Mr Obama, as well as Mr Brown's cooperation with the society when researchers first contacted him in December.
"I'm glad to be in such distinguished company," Mr Brown said of the findings.
In 2008, the society discovered that Mr Obama is related to seven prior presidents, including George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. They also learned he was related to Brad Pitt, the Hollywood actor.
Mr Brown, once a little-known state senator, jolted the national political landscape by capturing the Senate seat held for nearly a half-century by the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy.
When he is seated, Mr Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate. That means the Democrats will no longer hold the 60-vote supermajority needed to overcome Republican procedural manoeuvres to block votes on legislation such as a health care reform bill, Mr Obama's top legislative priority.
The genealogical chart shows that Mr Obama descends from Richard's eldest son, Jonathan Singletary. He later changed his surname to Dunham. Mr Brown, meanwhile, descends from Jonathan's brother, Nathaniel Singletary.The Democratic president and Mr Brown are 10th cousins, genealogists said on Friday.... more
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January 20: General Interest
1981 : Iran Hostage Crisis ends
Minutes after Ronald Reagan's inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, the 52 U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, are released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis.
On November 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran. The Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's political and religious leader, took over the hostage situation, refusing all appeals to release the hostages, even after the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to the crisis in an unanimous vote. However, two weeks after the storming of the embassy, the Ayatollah began to release all non-U.S. captives, and all female and minority Americans, citing these groups as among the people oppressed by the government of the United States. The remaining 52 captives remained at the mercy of the Ayatollah for the next 14 months.
President Jimmy Carter was unable to diplomatically resolve the crisis, and on April 24, 1980, he ordered a disastrous rescue mission in which eight U.S. military personnel were killed and no hostages rescued. Three months later, the former shah died of cancer in Egypt, but the crisis continued. In November 1980, Carter lost the presidential election to Republican Ronald Reagan. Soon after, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations began between the United States and Iran. On the day of Reagan's inauguration, the United States freed almost $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets, and the hostages were released after 444 days. The next day, Jimmy Carter flew to West Germany to greet the Americans on their way home.
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1981 : Iran Hostage Crisis ends
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Obama is NOT Change, At Least Not For The Better.... More wars, more wiretapping, more taxes, more loss of personal liberties.....
When I voted for Obama I was hoping for the opposite of George W. Bush. Instead, I just got a different version guiding us further and further into the abyss. I am changing his name to Barack H. O'Bush. Washington is the same no matter who is in office.
The President has no power to make 'Change'. The Federal Reserve and Wall Street have staged a silent, invisible to the people, non-violent coup of the United States. We have been taken over by a third party and that third party has all the money, all the influence, all the power, all the media and all of our representatives bought and paid for.
It's time to put aside partisan politics and work together as a country to resolve the problems we face in Washington. Study your Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Un-Patriot Act, your local laws and get involved. Together we can take the lawyers and the bankers who have only their interests in mind out of Washington, ban the lobbyists, arrest those that have lied to the American people and start from scratch.
This time, let's listen to everyone, even the conspiracies and weigh the evidence to keep this from happening ever again. Take a look at History and see the signs of fascism and false flags.
We are at a turning point in our history. Take it from a former Democrat that voted for Obama, we are heading toward a fascist police state. I was worried about this during George W's eight years and was hoping all of that would 'change'. From what I am seeing with the people that Obama has surrounded himself with, the only thing that changed is the rate that our land of the free is being destroyed. It's is like a locomotive that reached the top of the hill of fascism with Bush and started going downhill when Obama took office. Yes we can, oh yes we can, oh yes we can, oh yes we can.....chug a chug a chug.
We're in trouble people, changing from one party to the next hasn't changed anything since JFK. We The People no longer matter to these people.
Isn't it time we reminded them who's in charge?
For We Are Change Kentucky
Christopher Hignite 2010Obama is NOT Change, At Least Not For The Better.... More wars, more wiretapping, more... more
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Newly-released documents have revealed the UK's "special relationship" with the US was under strain at the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
The National Archives files show the murder of Lord Mountbatten by the IRA in 1979 did not prompt the response from the US that the UK had hoped for.
While president Jimmy Carter expressed his "profound sadness" at the death, he made no reference to terrorism.Newly-released documents have revealed the UK's "special relationship"... more
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The smear campaign against President Obama has flourished without opposition from the Left. Jimmy Carter's recent criticism has been the voice of one crying in the wilderness.The smear campaign against President Obama has flourished without opposition from the... more
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Foxnews.com is certainly known for swinging to the right, but have you ever read the RADICAL comments about some of the news articles.
Read the comments from the FOX FORUMS as readers react!
by newfreedom
"I want to know when Obama's white half is going to pay reparations."
by snowskierColorado
"Carter ought to be put on a bill of some denomination because as far as I am concerned he is a dead president"
by dumbneoconCalifornia
"HEY CRAZIES, YOU LOST THE ELECTION...GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!!!!!. NO AMOUNT OF TEABAGGIN PARTIES OR PROTESTS IS GONNA CHANGE THAT. YOU LOST!!!! BARACK OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WILL BE FOR THE NEXT 7 1/2 YEARS...GET OVER IT NUT JOBS, LOL."Foxnews.com is certainly known for swinging to the right, but have you ever read the... more
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UPPER LAKE – An advocacy group said Monday that several arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration that followed a federal raid in Upper Lake last week are believed to be the first involving medical marijuana since President Barack Obama took office.UPPER LAKE – An advocacy group said Monday that several arrests by the Drug... more
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"McKinley encourages gun presence at town hall meets," "HOOVER FILLS TREASURY WITH J.P. MORGAN EXECUTIVES," "LBJ: 'War on Poverty' too costly" and other mightabeen headlines..."McKinley encourages gun presence at town hall meets," "HOOVER FILLS... more
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Charlie Rose in a conversation with Jimmy Carter about the US, China, Hamas, and the Israeli Apartheid.Charlie Rose in a conversation with Jimmy Carter about the US, China, Hamas, and the... more
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These posters speak for themselves.
Whichever side of the aisle you find youself, there's a chuckle here for you.
Enjoy ;)These posters speak for themselves.
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
SUCH AS...
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." - Noam Chomsky
OR...
"It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people" - Gore Vidal
For the first time in 14 years, weapons manufacturers are donating more to Democrats than to Republicans. The Dems have received 52 percent of the defense industry's political donations in this election cycle--up from a low of 32 per cent in 1996. That money is about shaping foreign policy, and so far, it appears to be well spent. Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill * PLAYERS NOT CHEER LEADERS
Everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. - Ellen Key
Let alone the fact that most of the voting will be done on Diebold & friends machines, exposing American democracy as the sinister & cynical farce it has become under the proto-fascism Bush/Cheney junta.
LYNCHING BY LAPTOP 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCR6IdTQTeE
ELECTION INTEGRITY ?
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/election-integrity
80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
When will the American people actually vote to give to the world more than bombs and missiles, sweatshops, dubious science, frankenfood, poverty and misery?; - Cynthia McKinney
Meanwhile back at the ranch...
GOING UP !
Top 1% share of total income
Income gap between rich and poor
Foreign debt as a percent of GDP
Age at which one can receive Social Security
Hunger
Consumer credit debt
Housing foreclosures
Severe poverty rate
GOING DOWN !
Real income
Real manufacturing wages
Percent of single women and mothers in the workforce
The bottom 40%'s share of national wealth
Older families with pensions.
Workers covered by defined benefit pensions.
The savings rate
US manufacturing jobs
ALL THE WHILE...
Protest restricted/ignored
Dissenter labeled terrorist/traitor
False-flags
Elections suspect
Leaders benefit from wars/disasters
Use of propaganda/lies & partisan mass-media
Claims that War is needed for everchanging false reasons
Secret/extrajudicial/torture camps
Curtailed/suspended civil rights/liberties
Wiretap/intercept/surveillance net
Stealthily expands int'nl influence/power
Judiciary/Opposition ineffective/ignored
Legislation to defy Constitution
Education or catastrophe said H.G. Wells. Mindfuck Inc. has created a nation of over 50% of functional analphabetes where lies and credulity marries to generate opinion.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson
Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/90161/
Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are.
Ignorance is the downfall of all cultures and we are about to hit bottom.
" We need to lay siege to empire with everything we've got. You know? Deprive it of oxygen, shame it, mock it, tell our own stories. This corporatist revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they're selling ... their ideas, their wars, their notion of inevitability." - Arundhati Roy
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