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John VIII-XXXII
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"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty.
The activist is the man who cleans up the river."
On July 8th, 2008, Presidential candidate John McCain was asked about a recent survey that showed US exports to Iran have increased under the Bush administration, mostly from cigarettes. McCain responded, “Maybe that’s a way of killing them.” In 2007 McCain sang the Beach Boy’s song “Barbara Ann” with the words changed to “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.” Does this man even belong in our government in ANY capacity?
"Torture is just as wrong as murder is and condoning it for ANY reason is unjustifiable.
Allowing torture invites others to do the same to our men and woman, many of whom
are just boys and girls trying to serve their country, not the wealthy war profiteers!"
To feed men and not to love them
is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle.
To love them and not respect them
is to treat them as if they were household pets."
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the
most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the
germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these
proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing
the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could
preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
Four years ago, on July 19, 2005, Army Private First Class LaVena Johnson
was found dead in Balad, Iraq. Her body was found in a tent belonging to the
private military contractor KBR. She had abrasions all over her body, a broken
nose, a black eye, burned hands, loose teeth, acid burns on her genitals, and
a bullet hole in her head. The Army labeled Johnson's death a suicide. But her
parents never believed that story. They think she was raped and murdered and
are now demanding a full congressional investigation into their daughters death.
PLEASE URGE YOUR LEGISLATORS TO DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION!
HERE WE GO AGAIN with Haliburton's KBR!
and THEIR "No-SUE Rape Clause"
and 30 Republicans who VOTED NEAH!
"There is no civil right, not even the precious right of citizenship,
that this administration will not abuse to secure
ever greater control over American life."
Professor Jack Balkin
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale University
“The power of the executive to cast a man into prison
without formulating any charge known to the law
and to deny him the judgment of his peers
is to the highest degree odious and the
foundation of all totalitarian government,
whether Nazi or Communist."
Winston Churchill (1943)
While in the midst of fighting for England’s very survival.
(Thanks to our current policies we can now add Capitalist to that list.)
The above link shows our EX-President dodging a very important question.
The answer sir; Is that your former proconsul in Baghdad, Paul Bremer
granted blanket immunity to our contractors in Iraq when he left.
Perhaps this link will refresh your memory:
“To follow one’s government “blindly” is to lower yourself to the level of a household pet.
Blind patriotism is the equivalent of a dog following his master’s commands without question because that’s where his next meal is coming from.”
Patrick Alaggio
British Parliament Member at US Senate Hearing "Oil For Food"
"The banks were not innocent or deceived parties in these transactions:
they were active participants in the fraud. While there have been no
charges that any of the entities set up by the banks were illegal, the banks
were aware that Enron was using the prepays to defraud investors."
Senate subcommitte investigating the banks - January 2003
"If all Americans want is security, they can go to prison.
They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads.
But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a
human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty,
and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
or other in order that the people may require a leader."
Bush Administration Blocking Payments to Gitmo Attorneys (July 2008)
The Bush administration is blocking the American Civil Liberties Union from paying attorneys representing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The ACLU says the White House is carrying out “obstruction of justice” by delaying Treasury Department licenses needed to pay the attorneys. ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said, “The government is stonewalling again by not allowing Americans’ private dollars to be paid to American lawyers to defend civil liberties.’’
"The most effective way to restrict democracy
is to transfer decision-making from the
public arena to unaccountable institutions:
kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,
party dictatorships, or modern corporations."
“Unscrupulous politicians and lobbyists are like seafaring rats . . .
no matter how dirty their business or how foul their character . . .
there’s always another anchor line and ship waiting for them."
Patrick Alaggio
(My sincere apologies to the rat for this analogy.)
"He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression:
for if he violates this duty, he establishes
a precedent that will reach unto himself."
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the
kind of world it leaves to its children."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer – German Philosopher
US Congress is CAVING IN to
Help Bush Shred OUR Constitution!
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived,
and dishonest, but the myth– persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief
in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
John F. Kennedy
* Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part I:
* Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part II:
* Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part III (Q&A):
Congressional Approval Hits NEW LOW of 9% (July, 2008)
In congressional news, the polling firm Rasmussen Reports says public approval of the US Congress has fallen to single digits for the first time ever. According to the latest survey, just nine percent of Americans think Congress is doing a good or excellent job. 52 percent of voters say Congress is doing a poor job, tying a record high.
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Tobacco companies have exported their death
to more than 100 MILLION men, women and children!
When are we going to say, “STOP THE MURDER!”
to this modern day holocaust we’re allowing?
"Another world is not only possible, she's on her way.
Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her,
but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully,
I can hear her breathing..."
"We need to engage in whatever non-violent actions appeal to us.
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change
is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at
critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.
We find ourselves today at one of those critical points."
"In fact, the evidence strongly suggests—and we haven’t had a chance
to talk about this since Election Day—that Obama probably won by
twice as many votes as we think. Probably a good seven million votes
for Obama were undone through vote suppression and fraud… (it was)
extensive and pervasive, in places where you wouldn’t expect it."
Professor Mark Crispin Miller
Prof. of Media Culture and Communication at NYU
Author of "Loser Take All: Election Fraud
and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008"
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which
it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired in value.”
"Protecting the wolves is synonymous to protecting our environment and
the well-being of our natural habitats. To disregard this responsibility
is to rape the earth and spew in the face of creation."
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use
rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get
men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong their reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic (Democracy) is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety than ever before, even in the midst of war.”
"Every species factors into the balance of life and every affront
mankind makes upon that infinite wisdom is an assault upon every
other creature... including us. Only in our most feebleminded
imaginings do we grant ourselves the right to play God."
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have
their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity
shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may
experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will
understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive
to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty,
disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and
that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in
a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
"Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World,
more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary.
One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?"
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures of soothing
and baffling expedients of delays is coming to a close.
In it’s place we are entering a period of consequences."
Sir Winston Churchill on November 12th, 1936
(Discussing Hitler and the Nazi threat. Or, equally important today in
discussing Global Warming and the liars who tell us it isn’t happening!)
“In a competition between international teams to make
the most fuel efficient vehicles, a team from Switzerland
developed an aerodynamic, light-weight car named "Pac-Car II" which achieved 12,645 miles per gallon.”
"To see the earth as it truly is,
small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats,
is to see riders on the earth together,
brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold,
brothers who know they are truly brothers."
Tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are now TWO
threads of human life that are currently defined as “homo sapiens”.
Those who understand that we are all the same and find racism,
in all of its’ forms, to be vile and reprehensible… and those who
STILL BELIEVE they are better than the rest of us when in fact
they are much more closely related to the chimpanzee!
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes which were,
for the moment, unpopular."
“… we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
President Dwight David Eisenhower
(from his Farewell Address of January 16th, 1961)
This was a very interesting debate between two world renowned scholars.
One who presented history accurately and with substanative evidence and one who,
when seriously challenged, devolved debate into a disrespectful and vitriolic discourse.
Patrick Alaggio
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Oh Israel, your shame is humanities shame.
Your Hitleresque atrocities will not go unpunished.
Even America's war-machine will not be able to protect you.
Find your humanity or prepare for your self-imposed extinction.
Americans, WAKE UP and see where your government is leading you
and of the evil 100 BILLION dollars of OUR tax dollars helped to empower.
"Making every