[LAAMN] INCOME and TAXES IN THE UNITED STATES
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[LAAMN] What does Koch + Exxon + WalMart + ATT equal?
Common Cause - Holding Power Accountable Dear Scott, What do ATT, Koch Industries, WalMart, Altria, Pfizer and Exxon Mobil have in common? They're all members of the *A*merican *L*egislative *E*xchange *C*ouncil (ALEC), a shadowy organization made up of big business leaders and state legislators who work to put corporate profits ahead of the public interest. With ALEC at work in your state capitol, *business wins, and the middle class loses.* Common Cause is helping lead the fight to expose ALEC's secret corporate agenda, challenge its nonprofit status and shine a spotlight on political money spent by its members. Please help us keep the pressure on and *rescue our democracy from corporate control*. *Donate today and your gift will be matched – doubling your impact!* http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=gdJLLOMjF7JCIWKs=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK Please Donate Today http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=jqLRIXNvHaIJK6Js=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK We've documented ALEC spending in all 50 states on issues ranging from health care to schools to the environment. And democracy doesn't get a free pass from ALEC – *they've supported legislation that has made it harder to vote* in 18 states, and even *written resolutions in support of the horrendous /Citizens United/ decision* that opened the floodgates of corrupting special interest money into our elections. State by state and bill by bill, we're going to fight to save our democracy from corporate control. We've gotten a good start on our goal of raising $50,000 by early October, but we need your support. *Can you help us fight back against ALEC and other corporate interests?* *Please give today! Every dollar you donate will be matched and put to work in our effort to break the grip of special interest control over our elections and government.* http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=mjIXI6PHJdKQIgIs=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK Please Donate Today http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=pwK3JfMTIgJXJqLs=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK A government that works for we the people is within our reach. Let's work together to achieve it. Thanks for all you do, Bob Edgar and the rest of the team at Common Cause P.S. Want to learn more about ALEC? Visit ALECexposed.org and read the Common Cause research report: /Money, Power and the American Legislative Exchange Council/ http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=pmL3KfMZKtL4JqJs=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK. Forward this email http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=ifIPKUNqGcILL3Ks=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK Join on Facebook http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=ipIPKUNrG9IKL6Ks=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK Follow on Twitter http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=lsJVK3ODIcLRJgJs=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK Common Cause is a national nonpartisan organization with chapters in 35 states. The mailing address is 1133 19th Street NW, 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20036. The phone number is (202) 833-1200. http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=gdJLLPMhF7JEIVKs=hlISLdNYIqI5LeN3Em=ilJ2IdPQLjJWJkK [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] EXCELLENT QUOTES
*Information Clearing House Newsletter* *News You Wont Find On CNN* *September 05, 2011* ** When people ask me, 'Why can't labor organize the way it did in the thirties?' the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal. ~ *Thomas Geoghegan* = ~ There is power, there is power in a band of working men, when they stand, hand in hand. That's a power, that's a power that must rule in every land. ~ *Joe Hill* = ~ No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living. ~ *Franklin D. Roosevelt* = ~ If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. ~ *Abraham Lincoln* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Re: Islamophobia
On 9/5/2011 3:24 PM, Scott Peden wrote: The full article is at the link, I received this clipped out of the article as it cuts to the meat of the matter. Scott Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/margaret_mead.html http://news.yahoo.com/fear-inc-americas-islamophobia-network-184945320.html According to a comprehensive new report by the Center for American Progress, anti-Islam efforts are no vast right-wing conspiracy: rather, it's a rather small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts,EUR? operating on $40 million in funding from just seven organizations. The report, EURoeFear, Inc.,EUR? names five expertsEUR? who generate a huge amount of misinformation about Islam. They are: EUR0/00Frank Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy EUR0/00David Yerushalmi at the Society of Americans for National Existence Daniel Pipes at the Middle East Forum EUR0/00Spencer, of Jihad Watch and Stop Islamization of America EUR0/00Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism Meanwhile, seven foundations have donated no less than $40 million to Islamophobic think tanks like these over the past ten years. They are: EUR0/00Donors Capital Fund Richard Mellon Scaife foundations EUR0/00Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Newton D. Rochelle F. Becker foundations and charitable trust Russell Berrie Foundation EUR0/00Anchorage Charitable Fund and William Rosenwald Family Fund EUR0/00Fairbrook Foundation In extensive detail, the report describes how this small group of donors fund a cluster of think tanks that promote rank Islamophobia, and how their misinformation is spread through a network of conservative media and grassroots organizers like Geller. The important context here is that anti-Islam sentiment is growing in the decade since the September 11 attacks: an ABC News taken last year in the wake of the Ground Zero mosque debate showed 49 percent of Americans had a negative view of Islam, compared with just 39 percent in October 2002. The biggest contributor to these efforts, by far, is the Donors Capital Fund, which has given over $20.7 million to groups like EmersonâEUR^(TM)s Investigative Project on Terrorism and the Clarion FundâEURin fact, Donors Capital Fund fully funded the Clarion FundâEUR^(TM)s distribution of the DVD âEURoeObsession: Radical IslamâEUR^(TM)s War Against the West,âEUR? which went to over 28 million swing-state voters before the 2008 presidential election. Donors Capital Fund is a philanthropic organization run by a number of conservative heavyweights. The board includes members of the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal. The report does unearth a few new facts about the Islamophobia network, but many other parts were already knownâEURthe New York Times, for example, has already detailed [10]YerushalmiâEUR^(TM)s efforts at getting âEURoeanti-ShariahâEUR? laws passed in statehouses across the country. But the reportâEUR^(TM)s real strength is in demonstrating exactly how smallâEURand effectiveâEURthis network is. It's not a lot of people, it's not a lot of organizations, it'EUR^(TM)s not a lot of money. It is amazing what these people have accomplished,EUR? Eli Clifton, one of the report'EUR^(TM)s authors, said in a press call Friday. Faiz Shakir, a vice president at CAP and also a co-author, said the report is trying to end Islamophobia. If we are to end it we have to identify who are they key motivators and drivers of this hate industry. We have to give a path for those who want to divorce themselves from the Islamophobia industry the opportunity to do so. When the report was released on Friday, the targets responded with charaterstic and near-cartoonish zeal; Horowitz said CAP oehas joined the Muslim Brotherhood, and Spencer accused the authors of belonging to the Islamic supremacist propaganda machine. The Nation Since 1865 Copyright © 2011 The Nation [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la
[LAAMN] Happy Labor Day Goodbye to All That by Mike Lofgren/Truth-Out.org 9/3/11
Goodbye to all that: Reflections of a GOP operative who left the cult by Mike Lofgren Truth-out.org 9/3/11 Barbara Stanwyck: We're both rotten! Fred MacMurray: Yeah - only you're a little more rotten. -Double Indemnity (1944) Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats' health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats' rank capitulation to corporate interests - no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma. But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP. To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. To be sure, the party, like any political party on earth, has always had its share of crackpots, like Robert K. Dornan or William E. Dannemeyer. But the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today: Steve King, Michele Bachman (now a leading presidential candidate as well), Paul Broun, Patrick McHenry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Allen West. The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy. It was this cast of characters and the pernicious ideas they represent that impelled me to end a nearly 30-year career as a professional staff member on Capitol Hill. A couple of months ago, I retired; but I could see as early as last November that the Republican Party would use the debt limit vote, an otherwise routine legislative procedure that has been used 87 times since the end of World War II,in order to concoct an entirely artificial fiscal crisis. Then, they would use that fiscal crisis to get what they wanted, by literally holding the US and global economies as hostages. The debt ceiling extension is not the only example of this sort of political terrorism. Republicans were willing to lay off 4,000 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, 70,000 private construction workers and let FAA safety inspectors work without pay, in fact, forcing them to pay for their own work-related travel - how prudent is that? - in order to strong arm some union-busting provisions into the FAA reauthorization. Everyone knows that in a hostage situation, the reckless and amoral actor has the negotiating upper hand over the cautious and responsible actor because the latter is actually concerned about the life of the hostage, while the former does not care. This fact, which ought to be obvious, has nevertheless caused confusion among the professional pundit class, which is mostly still stuck in the Bob Dole era in terms of its orientation. For instance, Ezra Klein wrote of his puzzlement over the fact that while House Republicans essentially won the debt ceiling fight, enough of them were sufficiently dissatisfied that they might still scuttle the deal. Of course they might - the attitude of many freshman Republicans to national default was bring it on! It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe. This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant. In his Manual of Parliamentary Practice, Thomas Jefferson wrote that it is less important that every rule and custom of a legislature be absolutely justifiable in a theoretical sense, than that they should be generally acknowledged and honored by all parties. These include unwritten rules, customs and courtesies that lubricate the legislative machinery and keep governance a relatively civilized procedure. The US Senate has more complex procedural rules than any other legislative body in the world; many of these rules are contradictory, and on any given day, the Senate parliamentarian may issue a ruling that contradicts earlier rulings on analogous cases. The only thing that can keep the Senate functioning is collegiality and good faith. During periods of political consensus, for instance, the World War II and early post-war eras, the Senate was a high functioning institution: filibusters were rare and the body was legislatively productive. Now, one can no more picture the current Senate producing the
[LAAMN] Happy Labor Day! Here's what UnAmerican really is!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Hartmann-Here-s-what-UnAm-by-Thom-Hartmann-110903-655.html /By Thom Hartmann //(about the author) http://www.opednews.com/populum/authorspage.php?sid=1486entry=o=y/ Become a Fan javascript:void(0); Become a Fan javascript:void(0); (67 fans) -- Page 1 of 1 page(s) opednews.com http://www.opednews.com Apparently I ruffled some feathers over at the right wing website Newsbusters when I suggested that today's Republican Party is infected with a powerful strain of Anti-Americanism. And I'm not really sure if the right-wingers are upset with my argument - or upset with the fact that I took their buzz word. It's time to start calling people out - because there's no more room in this critical debate over America's future for individuals who are fundamentally anti-American. That includes the politicians - the so-called newsmen - the phony economists - and the greedy CEOs who have no problem destroying this nation just for a few bucks. They spew poll-tested terms like job creators to push for even more tax breaks for transnational corporations that already pay nothing in taxes. While forgetting that this nation was founded as a result of an anti-corporate revolt against the world's largest transnational corporation at the time - the British East India Tea Company. They call up hucksters like Thomas Friedman to tout so-called Free Trade policies that sell off our factories and manufacturing jobs to the lowest bidders around the world. While forgetting that our nation's first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton laid out an 11-point plan literally called The American Way that promoted protectionsism and promoted American industires - and NOT so-called Free Trade. They give millionaires and billionaires the power to run amok in our politics - claiming that corporations are people - and as people have a right to free speech - and to dump as much money in our elections as they damn well please. While forgetting that none of the founding fathers considered corporations important enough to not even mention them in our nation's Constitution. And that the author of the Declaration of Independence himself - Thomas Jefferson - had a deep-seated mistrust of too much corporate power and fought tirelessly to include freedom from monopolies in the Bill of Rights. Jefferson described corporate powers-that-be as, the selfish spirit of commerce (that) knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. Jefferson's tradition was carried on by both Republican and Democratic Presidents throughout the nation's history like Grover Cleveland who said, in his 1888 State of the Union address, As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters. And like Teddy Roosevelt who challenged corporate power by passing the Tillman Act in 1907 which read, It shall be unlawful for any national bank, or any corporation...to make a monetary contribution in connection with any election to any political office. And like Franklin Roosevelt who called the corporate shills Economic Royalists At the 1936 Democratic Convention - Roosevelt directed his speech at these Economic Royalists saying, These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for. Thirty years ago - riding the coattails of Ronald Reagan - these Economic Royalists have returned to power in America - and have been infecting this nation with their anti-American propaganda ever since - trying to clog up everything this nation has accomplished from the New Deal to the Great Society. They are dismantling the very programs and institutions that Americans have fought and died for - from labor unions to the social safety net - to the right to vote itself. And they do it the same way they did it in Roosevelt's time - by hiding behind the flag and the constitution. Even worse - these anti-American cowards beat the drum for war because they know that in times of war - there's money to be made! - and our nation is more vulnerable to an ideological take-over. They rally around a war criminal like Dick Cheney whose incompetence is only outweighed by his brutality. Here's a man who was head of the anti-terrorism task force in the White House in 2001 - who was warned by former Vice President Al Gore to keep an eye out for Al-Qaeda - and who neglected to
[LAAMN] You Don't Know the Official 9/11 Story
Here it is, 9/1/11 and I feel like I've been waiting for the other shoe to fall all day long. On 9/11/01 I got a phone call from my ex, our daughter was safe, she had been entering the building as glass from the first 'plane' hitting it, fell to the ground. From 8 minutes after the first 'plane' hit, I watched 2 TV sets for the next 4 hours, and it was YEARS before I could find people who actually knew the time line as 911 went down, the MEDIA worked overtime to ensure that it was as confusing as possible, most people thinking 'my pet goat' happened after the 'first plane' instead of after the second one, and as a couple of the media at 'my pet goat noted' why hadn't the SS whisked the President away for safety after the first plane hit, what was so important about this photo op at an elementary school? The end of the second paragraph and start of the third paragraph of this article says something that the MSM has worked very heard to keep confusing, I'll end with that and recommend you read this. Scott You see, much of the doubt cast on the official narrative of the events of 9/11 has not come in the form of speculated accusations, or theories. In fact, it has come in the form of questions that have been raised after a careful study of the official and undisputed events and details. Ten years have passed since the infamous events of September 11th, 2001 took place, and the majority of people still don't know a damn thing about the actual details of that event. They don't know what was going on in the country with regard to our military that day. http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/911-facts/48/20581-you-only-believe-the-official-911-story-because-you-dont-know-the-official-911-story-.html * You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because **You Don't Know the Official 9/11 Story * Jesse Richard,TvNewsLIES.org http://tvnewslies.org/ I don't believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11! During the past 10 years I have not met a single individual who, after doing research on the subject, switched from questioning the official narrative of the events of 9/11/2001 to believing the official narrative of those events.. It is always the other way around. Why do you think that is? There are good reasons for this, and I will try to explain this phenomenon right now. The term conspiracy theorist, perhaps the most misapplied description in our vernacular, is often used to describe 9/11 truthers. Perhaps that term does apply to a segment of the 9/11 truth movement. But in most cases a more accurate description of 9/11 truthers is probably expert, or scholar, or researcher. You see, much of the doubt cast on the official narrative of the events of 9/11 has not come in the form of speculated accusations, or theories. In fact, it has come in the form of questions that have been raised after a careful study of the official and undisputed events and details. Full article: http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/911-facts/48/20581-you-only-believe-the-official-911-story-because-you-dont-know-the-official-911-story-.html _ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Cheney
Seems this also missed Cheney's 'service' to Tricky Dick, as the man responsible for cleaning up Watergate. He and Rummy never let Ford do a dammed thing, if Ford was for something and CR was against it, Ford had to go along with them. It was Cheney that stated 'The Freedom of Information Act has set us back decades and I will not rest till it is destroyed' He and Rummy led that charge without doing anything to it during Regen tenure, but during GHWB and GWB he got it dismantled to the point that they can black out 50 pages and release that as being acceptable, and Obama wouldn't have been 1/10th as effective in prosecuting whistle blowers while protecting Government Criminals, if he hadn't had Cheney's, his cousins handiwork, to get him through. Every president since Jefferson, except Tyler, has been related to King John as well as Cheney and half a dozen 'other memorable men' who were proficient at making bankable profits out of bloodshed. Those who set up the financial situations that caused the American revolution, and the pirates and Insurance companies and the West Indies Trade Company, were also related to King John..one of the reasons they could get away with the crap they pulled when in the power situations they had 'risen' to. What I want to know is who/what was going on to keep him and Obama and their ilk for the last 200 years, out of trouble and primed to run the country 30-50 years before they got into office. Who is it that is being primed for the next 50? Every President except Tyler, since Jefferson has supported the International mega businesses and bankers, and none without major force has ever backed up anything that was to support we the people. We've gotten to where we are today due to a 200 year assault on out Constitution and what the basic principals of this country was, and the co-opted Koch Billionaire Funded Tea Party be dammed, they're simply supporting the agitating corporate faction against the one in power now. If those SOB's worked together more often, we'd have been history turned into a bank account long ago. Scott The Chapter That Went Missing From Dick Cheney's Book http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUFF/message/74408;_ylc=X3oDMTJzbjRhNG1rBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwNDk0NjQxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM3NDQwOARzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzE0NzAzOTEy Dick Cheney's hyper-hyped autobiography is short on revelations (it turns out that the secret undisclosed location was his house) but long, very long, on excuse making when it comes to the wars of whim into which he steered the United States. The former vice president is still sure there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, dismissing any talk of apologizing for his own weapons of mass deception pontificating in the run-up to the Iraq War. In fact, Cheney remains enthusiastic about every aspect of the wars of whim he steered the country into as Ronald Reagan's chief congressional ally during the Iran-Contra scandal, George H.W. Bush's hapless secretary of defense and George W. Bush's neoconman prince regent, But where's the chapter on Cheney's heroic service in Vietnam? Of, that's right, he had other priorities than responding to draft notices. Try as readers may to find the tale of Cheney's Vietnam service or, to be more precise, his meticulous avoidance of service, they just won't find that *In My Time* http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139977274/a-look-at-dick-cheneys-unapologetic-memoir http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139977274/a-look-at-dick-cheneys-unapologetic-memoir offers much in the way of revelation about Cheney's times. Cheney has always positioned himself as an arch militarist. But when he had a chance to get on the front lines, he instead got deferments. A lot of them Richard Bruce Cheney was of age for service during the Vietnam conflict. Faced with the chance to engage on the battlefield or the home front, however, he dodged out -- not for moral reasons but selfish ones. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss, who interviewed Cheney for his book *They Marched Into Sunlight* http://www.amazon.com/They-Marched-Into-Sunlight-Vietnam/dp/0743217802 http://www.amazon.com/They-Marched-Into-Sunlight-Vietnam/dp/0743217802, says the vice president just couldn't be bothered. I think he's emblematic of a certain type. He wasn't against the war, just didn't want anything to do with it, explains Maraniss. He wanted to get on with his life and not let the world get in the way. Unfortunately, the world had a tendency to get in the way of young men who, like Cheney, were of draft age when the US troop presence in Vietnam began to rise in the mid-1960s. As a result, there was one sense in which Cheney mirrored the actions, if not the politics, of his fellow students. Dick Cheney was definitely opposed to the draft, at least as far as it affected him. Indeed, unlike
[LAAMN] Colin Powell's presentation
We've lived in a country for some time that glorifies those who commit unhumanitarian actions, and jail peace protestors and whistle blowers of crimes committed by our Government, in our name. If it was our press talking about China or Russia r any place that had energy that could be use to increase the cost of what is sold to people in the 'free industrialized nations', the 'divide and conquer' would be in place and we'd know that only a corrupt degenerate people would allow that to go on, in their name, so as a people, they must be evil and any ills that befall them would be justified even if other men did it to them. Scott On 8/31/2011 8:25 AM, Paul wrote: I am perpetually surprised, ashamed and disgusted that the dozens, yes_dozens_, of detainees who died in Bagram and Guantanamo and elsewhere have not had the perpetrators of their murders (yes, I agree with General McCaffrey below) dragged into court and dealt with. Former Bush official promises to testify if someone will 'Pinoch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUFF/message/74456;_ylc=X3oDMTJzcXByNTBsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwNDk0NjQxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM3NDQ1NgRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzE0Nzg4OTY4et Cheney * By David Edwards Nation http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/category/united-states/ http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/category/united-states/ The former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged Tuesday to testify against former Vice President Dick Cheney if he is ever tried for war crimes. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told /Democracy Now/'s Amy Goodman that he would participate in a trial even if it meant personal repercussions. I, unfortunately --- and I've admitted to this a number of times, publicly and privately --- was the person who put together Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations Security Council on 5 February, 2003, Wilkerson said. It was probably the biggest mistake of my life. I regret it to this day. I regret not having resigned over it. In an interview that aired on NBC Monday, Cheney told Jamie Gangel that unlike President George W. Bush, he did not have a sickening feeling when they discovered there were no weapons of mass destruction after the invasion of Iraq. I think we did the right thing, Cheney said. Joining Wilkerson and Goodman to discuss Cheney's new book In My Time, Salon's Glenn Greenwald said that it was disturbing to see the former vice president treated simply as an elder statesman. The evidence is overwhelming... that Dick Cheney is not just a political figure with controversial views, but is an actual criminal, that he was centrally involved in a whole variety not just of war crimes in Iraq, but of domestic crimes, as well, including the authorization of warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens in violation of FISA, which says that you go to jail for five years for each offense, as well as the authorization and implementation of a worldwide torture regime that, according to General Barry McCaffrey, resulted in the murder ---in his word --- of dozens of detainees, far beyond just the three or four cases of waterboarding that media figures typically ask Cheney about, Greenwald explained. And as a result, Dick Cheney goes around the country profiting off of this, you know, sleazy, sensationalistic, self-serving book, basically profiting from his crimes, and at the same time normalizing the idea that these kind of policies, though maybe in the view of some wrongheaded, are perfectly legitimate political choices to make. And I think that's the really damaging legacy from all of this. Colonel Wilkerson, do you think the Bush administration officials should be held accountable in the way that Glenn Greenwald is talking about? Goodman asked. I certainly do, Wilkerson replied. And I'd be willing to testify, and I'd be willing to take any punishment I''m due. And I have to say, I agree with almost everything [Greenwald] just said. And I think that explains the aggressiveness, to a large extent, of the Cheney attack and of the words like 'exploding heads all over Washington.' This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will 'Pinochet' Dick Cheney. Wilkerson was referring to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested in London in 1998 after being indicted for crimes against humanity. It was the first time the principle of universal jurisdiction had been applied to a former foreign head of state. Watch this video from /Democracy Now/, broadcast Aug. 30, 2011: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/former-bush-official-promises-to-testify-if-someone-will-pinochet-cheney/ http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/former-bush-official-promises-to-testify-if-someone-will-pinochet-cheney/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[LAAMN] To the Victor Go the SpOILs
Ya know, this is the way it seems to work. Someone has Oil, and the Western Imperialist nations attack, or at the very least interfere with them getting their oil to market. The Oil companies then reinvest their profits (as these wars cost them nothing, in fact they rape and pillage the citizens of the nations going to war by over charging for fuel for the invading forces, who would have used NONE should they have STAYED AT HOME) into more Politicians in the elections and more control over the general propaganda sources, more commonly known as 'news', or Hollywood style movies glorifying the victors and demonizing anyone that had stood in the way for the Capitalist carpet bagging murders and thieves. Iran puzzles me, they want nuclear power, as they don't have the oil needed to run their power grid, and they've suffered an oil embargo for some time. Why the hell does BP want to get in there then, as it is BP whose pissed that when the Shaw was ousted that 'their oil' was taken away from them. Of course Iran would have nuclear energy as soon as BP's boys ran the country again and all of the oil there would cost 4X as much as it does now. History shows us this is the norm. With every attack on an oil producing nation we're told there is a shortage and the prices jump, and when the flow resumes, the prices go up again, as after all, Capitalism is about controlling the supply of anything that they can have a monopoly over the demand, so they can create scarcities and raise prices. We keep talking about nations invading, when in fact the Western Nations operate as WW II Italy. *Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. --Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy-- Scott* On 8/25/2011 4:34 PM, Duane Roberts wrote: TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS By Duane Roberts Now that it is becoming increasingly evident the oil wells of Libya will soon be liberated from the clutches of that wicked madman, Muhammar Gaddafi, a flurry of articles have popped up on news websites everywhere explaining the real reasons why Barack Obama, our peacenik Democratic president, spent $896 million bombing that country to smithereens. For example, a piece headlined, “Big Oil Should Win With Gadhafi Gone,” posted on InvestorPlace.com, an investment newsletter, hints Uncle Sam is meddling in Libya’s internal affairs because the baby-eating tyrant who has led that country for 42 years has been a longstanding oppressor of U.S. petroleum firms ever since he nationalized the oil industry in 1969. But now that Obama and the good Christian gentlemen of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have galloped into Libya on their pretty white ponies to civilize the heathens, InvestorPlace.com notes “ExxonMobil’s luck–and that of several other big players in oil–in Libya might be changing now that dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s rule seemingly is at an end. Click on the following link for the rest of the article: http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2011/08/to-the-victor-go-the-spoils/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Re: Thank you
Yes, I signed something at Change dot Org. It was AN ACCOUNTABILITY ISSUE, much like I have with the Feral DLC Mongrel Curs. It wasn't a Get on a Rah Rah party line list, vote blind deaf and dumb issue. Actually, considering the Patriot Act, and the ENDLESS Bank Bail outs after We the Voters, since it no longer seems it is We The People, told you NOT TO DO THAT, and you did it anyway, Bringing the vote up again and again till the media didn't cover it so the general population couldn't get up in arms about the betrayal, and then the Health care scam that makes us purchase services from a Corporation, which we could have done before if we wanted to, I'm of the mind and action to work against every dammed Democrat who has voted against We the Voters. We're down to less then 10% Democrat Congresspersons and Senators that represent us, why don't the rest of you just break off and call yourselves what you are, the Two headed Corporate party? How about you clean up the leadership of the Faux Democrat Party, and see what happens by attraction. Aw forget it, 90% of the population can't match the corporate donations your hooked on like a drug addict. Thanks for sending this, I can attach the Senate Democrats voting records to show in things that We the voters, how less Dam Dems supported We the Voters (obviously we're not your constituents, as many Senators are in Israel) then the Repuke Republicans. How the hell can you sell yourself when more Republicans stand up for the average citizen, and they advertise the support American business (and then sell it out to International Corporations, with DLC backing). How the hell can you ask me, after abandoning the voters at every turn that makes Corporations richer, OUT OF OUR POCKETS, ask ANYONE to re-elect a so called Democrat that is FAR TO THE RIGHT OF NIXON? Nixon was the Liar in Chief that made sure that most men my age ARE DEAD FOR CORPORATE PROFIT, and Obama is the LIAR IN CHIEF, doing that to my Kids and Grand kids. At least Nixon was afraid the general public would storm the walls, the military would run out of ammo and he'd be lynched (not at all worried about the good military people losing their lives for his power and riches, see VIET NAM if you don't quite get it. But you've got the media tied up now, only 5 men instead of hundreds to repeat your bilge while not publishing any opposing views. PsychoticCorporationism, is what your asking us to support IN ACTION. At least the Neo Cons tell us outright how they're going to destroy the average person. Hard to think I'd ever point out a plus point in their ethics to someone who now has a couple of decade track record of selling out their base to Corporations, the realm of the Faux Republicans. Go ahead, send me more of this stuff I can reply to and share. Scott On 8/24/2011 1:49 PM, DSCC wrote: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee https://dscc.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2c=Z%2FJnebDjJ6t0Frtfcs0vGUVo80zGKls3 Dear Scott, Recently, you stood with the DSCC against GOP extremism by signing a petition at Change.org. We'd like to thank you for standing with us and ask for your urgent help. We’ve got Rick Perry saying that President Obama is “the greatest threat to our country.” Really? Michele Bachmann says she would have allowed our nation to default if she were president – great way to destroy our economy. And good old Mitt Romney told an Iowa crowd that “Corporations are people.” The Tea Party’s clearly taken hold and isn’t letting go. These Republican presidential candidates are extreme. Their ideas are dangerous. If any one of them beats President Obama, or if Tea Partiers take back the Senate, our nation will be in a world of hurt. *It’s time for Democrats to stand up, come together and fight back. We’re looking for 100,000 Democrats to join the fight. Will you?* _*Click here to sign our petition. As committed Democrats, we will do everything we can to defeat Tea Party Republican candidates and elect President Obama to a second term. *_ https://dscc.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2c=33YsQHWWA8HHnhLrRt5tg0Vo80zGKls3 We're not going to sit by and let this terrible Tea Party ideology take hold. We're going to fight these candidates like mad, and we hope you will, too. Our future depends on it. Sincerely, The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee P.S.: Be sure to *“like” us on Facebook* https://dscc.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2c=k4vyPLdHNYg9RYa%2FoIL49EVo80zGKls3, and *follow @DSCC on Twitter* https://dscc.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2c=YsW4Nk%2Fo9%2FU4mU1ZhwRlpUVo80zGKls3. Contribute Now https://dscc.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2c=0lEGI%2F8XfldtoHhTYheb30Vo80zGKls3 Paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, dscc.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This message was sent to scotpe...@cruzio.com. To unsubscribe
[LAAMN] What I Learned in 2 Years at the Tea Party
Generally I don't pass along this kind of stuff BUT, the writer summed up in the first three quarters of the first paragraph, why the tea party came into existence, and what they have in common with most of the American People: They're just mad. In many meaningful ways, today's Tea Party attendees' lives have gotten consistently worse for the last 20 years, regardless of which party was in power. Scott What I Learned in 2 Years at the Tea Party http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/what-i-learned-in-two-years-at-the-tea-party [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Congress person missing ?
Looking for your Congress person ? Try Jerusalem ! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/us/politics/16congress.html?_r=1 I've known for decades that they weren't my Congressperson/Senator, and who they worked for, AIPAC being only one of the largest money and power flows that controls even who gets to run for office much less whether they get media or bank funding to be able to run a campaign. Did you know that 5 candidates made it to the primaries last pResidential sElection season without ANY Party support OR Banker or MSM (Main Stream Media) support? 3 Were Democrats and 2 were Republican. Some people heard a little about Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich, but though their own parties or the MSM, it was only to belittle them, yet their voting records are so dissimilar to those who get the attention of AIPAC and the International Bankers and International Corporations funding, you'd think it was a completely different Countries Political process altogether. Unless your looking for who is running, instead of sitting at home expecting the information to be delivered to you via one of the Corporate Political Parties or the MSM, you'd never know that we actually had candidates who actual voting record (not the lying claims PAID Political Talking heads made) showed that they represented us. Of course, it is easier to just sElect between the choices offered you, neither one is going to pay you 1/1000 the attention or representation, they'll give a foreign Government. Feel free to share. Input your Zip code, and your representatives will show up, click on them, and then click on their voting record. I consider their political compass the most important of all, as that tells you where their stance is on the issues, and I no longer vote for anyone that doesn't want us to know where they stand. http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm Here's a little help separating fact from fiction. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ This is still set up from the last pResidential sElection process, I call it as such, due to... well tell me when you've finished filling out the survey if you even know the candidates that ran, and they all paid for advertising at the same rate as those who got the nod/funding from AIPAC. http://www.dehp.net/candidate/index.php Here's another good one. Are you as Liberal, or Conservative as you think? http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz http://www.politicalcompass.org/ A little work on your part, and you won't have have to rely on the Government of Israel or AIPAC to make the best choices for you, in your country. And if all else fails, take a look at what the political cartoonists are saying. They rarely support anyone, as they are noted for caricature of those who are 'off enough' to aid them in making a living. (How many wouldn't have been able to feed the kids if Sara Palin/Clinton/Coulter/Pelosi/Bush/Obama/Cheney hadn't been as forth coming with materiel for them to write about?) caricature Scott [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com
[LAAMN] One Light Bulb at a Time (not a joke)
I received the below story just as it is. I have no links to prove anything BUT, I have had several instances where looking for something in a store, found the USA brands were cheaper. On the other hand I stopped purchasing at the Big Box Stores long before they wiped out all of our local family owned businesses, ran up the need for those working for them to have to get on Medi Cal or some such other government assistance which we who are saving money shopping there, have to cover in increased fees or loss of our own social services cause they didn't give enough hours or enough pay per hour for someone to live on, or were rewarded by our Congress and Senate with tax breaks for hostile take overs, and no import taxes on products now made out of country that we use to make and consume ourselves, even though they bank their profits off shore so they don't have to pay taxes on them, so I can't say for certain that everything in those stores are made out of the country. But I do know, that if you personally invest in the well being of others nations citizens by penalizing your neighboors and don't purchase the products they have to offer instead of the International Mega Corporations offerings, that you will get what your support of Capitalism has financed. profit for those who already have the most, and a destroyed economy of those who are the working class, and the media claims want to much money to live on while producing the products, and the economy, that has our nation at our Economic peak in about 1958. My present knee jerk reaction to shopping is, the larger the store or chain, if it isn't based and owned completely by those who live in my neighborhood, is shop else where or do without. I'm tired of financing the ills of our nation, which I complained about, yet supported financially. After that, then I check labels to see if the products are made locally. At least I feel, I have a right to bitch now, since I can do at least this little bit to not contribute to the economic ills of my Country. To complain about the state of our nation, and do nothing but complain, seems to only get us more to complain about. Follow the money someone is profiting from others suffering or we wouldn't get a larger gap between the middle class and the ultra rich, every decade in the last 50 years. A country, which cannot produce the goods it needs for it's own day to day operation, is completely under the control of the suppliers. And that is the spot the USA is in now. Feel free to share your own thoughts, or send mine along. Scott * A physics teacher in high school, once told the students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American .. Good idea .. . one light bulb at a time . . . . Check this out . I can verify this because I was in Lowes the other day for some reason and just for the heck of it I was looking at the hose attachments . They were all made in China . The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA . Start looking .. In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job . So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track . Let's get behind her! My grandson likes Hershey's candy . I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now... I do not buy it any more. My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico ... now I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything .. This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets . I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, Everyday Value ... I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price .. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio . So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here .. So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets . ... . yep, you guessed it, bounce cost more money and is made in Canada .. The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA ! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price! My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors! If you accept the challenge, pass this
[LAAMN] Former Salt Lake mayor Rocky Anderson divorces himself from 'gutless' Democratic Party
Excellent. This is the same thing ANY voter should do to ANY Political party that REFUSES to represent them, for ANY reason. Scott Former S.L. mayor Rocky Anderson_divorces himself from 'gutless' Democratic Party_ by Dennis Romboy The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) 8/12/11 SALT LAKE CITY — One of Utah's most liberal politicians has divorced himself from the Democratic Party. In a harshly worded email, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson this week asked the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to remove his name from its list. I'm done with the Democratic Party. As I said on Amy Goodman's show a couple years ago, I've put my 'Proud Democrat' coffee mug in storage. I think now I'll just throw it in the garbage and have done with it, he wrote. Anderson said in an interview that he thinks people are fed up with the Democratic and Republican parties, Congress and the Obama administration to the point of being ready to do something about it. I think the answer is a new political party that actually will advocate for and promote the interests of the public rather than the narrow interests of the wealthy who bought and paid for not only Congress but the White House, he said. Though he doesn't have plans to run for office, Anderson said he would be interested in working with others to form a new party. Anderson, executive director of High Road for Human Rights, listed several issues on which he believes Democrats have failed to stand strong as the party espouses. How dare you send an email with the subject line 'Standing strong,' he wrote. You didn't do it on Iraq; you didn't do it on torture; you didn't do it on signing statements; you haven't done it on Afghanistan; you haven't done it on defense spending; you haven't done it on real health care reform; you haven't done it on energy policy and the climate crisis; you haven't done it on the evisceration of our system of checks and balances through the invocation of the state secrets doctrine; and you haven't done it on the debt ceiling fiasco. Anderson wrote that he wants no part of the Democratic Party until it shows some spine and draws a line in the sand — that an end to the tax breaks for the wealthy needs to be part of any debt/budget bill. He says he can count on one hand those who have stood strong in Congress, and they have faced nothing but opposition by Nancy Pelosi and most of the rest of the so-called Democrats. A good chunk of the letter deals with what he sees as the party ignoring torture and war crimes at the highest level of government. The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper, he wrote. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by the same interests that buy and pay for the Republican Party. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705389115/Former-SL-mayor-Rocky-Anderson-divorces-himself-from-gutless-Democratic-Party.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Congress
/The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.* - Patrick Henry -*/ *I have totally cleaned this e-mail from all other names, sending it to you in hopes you will keep it going and keep it clean. This is something I will fight for and I hope you all read it all the way through. You will be glad you did. * * The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure. * * I'm asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. Congressional Reform Act of 2011 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. 2. Congress (past, present future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.* * 3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. * * 4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. * * 5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. * * 6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. * * 7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. * * If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time. * * THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!* *If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete. You are one of my 20+. Please keep it going.* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] President Obama - His Actual Voting Record on ALL Issues
Yes Mike, all ACTUAL VOTES are on Vote Smart, under the VOTING RECORD link. You keep sending how the SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (Corporate representatives mostly) RATE the Politician on how they voted. The _Special Interest rating_ /is NOT/ THE Politicians _VOTING RECORD. _You do this for a living Mike, so I know you understand that Special Interest Group RATINGS, are NOT the VOTING RECORD. I think your depending on no one checking your comments against the facts._ _ I can read the introduction, so can others. Obama's voting record is HERE: http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=9490 How the Special Interest groups, who raise money for or against politicians RATE THEM, is here: http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=9490#Top I note no matter how much war funding Obama votes for, the Military SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS give him a bad rating, making him LOOK LIKE he is a Peace Candidate when he is a Huge Hawk among Hawks. Yet his is consistent in voting for what 60-90% of the US Public says they are against. You twist words and meanings for a living. It is easy for anyone to see who looks that you send Special Interest Group Ratings, and tell everyone it is the Congressperson or Senators Voting record, when that is a completely different link, (one link says VOTING, the other which you are selling as a voting record says ISSUE RATING) and in regards to Obama in voting For the patriot Act, the Telecom immunities, the endless war funding, several times giving them more then they asked for, are not represented by how Partisan special interest groups FEEL ABOUT HIM, AND THEIR FEELINGS are NOT HIS VOTING RECORD. If we talk about this off group, then none of the members will understand the difference between your Special Interest Group RATINGS being represented as the politicians voting record, and the Politicians ACTUAL Voting record. Scott On 8/8/2011 2:15 AM, bigraccoon wrote: President Obama - His Actual Voting Record on All Issues VOTE-SMART uses the actual votes taken in Congress (same ones you watch on C-SPAN). Actually you can see each list of votes used to get a % on http://www.vote-smart.org website. The special interest groups each have bills before congress that they wish to have voted on either YES or NO. Vote-Smart tallies how often every representative votes YES or NO on bills of interest to each special interest group. The percentage listed in VOTE-SMART is the % of time the Representative VOTED YES or NO on their BILL - HIGHER PERCENTAGES = YES VOTES on BILLS special interest group, like Sierra Club, AFL-CIO, ACLU, UAW, AUDUBON, WILDERNESS SOCIETY, NURSES UNION, NOW, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, or any other conservative or liberal group. ALL Congresspersons Senator's Voting Records are listed in Vote-Smart. Look up voting records on YOUR representatives of ISSUES of interest to YOU. You may be surprised how much different people surprise! you positively negatively. Speeches are one thing, but the Votes are what really count. Have been a dues paying member of vote-smart for several years. http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=9490#Top You can phone vote-smart.org at (888)868-3762 to get your questions answered. *ALL Members of Congress Voting Records are on VOTE-SMART.ORG * Scott we should maybe send emails off group as it may be easier to explain to you without bothering the whole group. Wish I could explain vote-smart better. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To
[LAAMN] 300,000 Protest in Israel...
.still isn't a story large enough for the worlds media to carry it, but one psycho mass murdering gunman and we'll get drowned in his anti Palestinian crap. Since the US media won't carry it, and this Israeli URL isn't as of _yet blocked,_ for US computers, read it while you can. http://972mag.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] Justin Raimondo: Why Is America Committing Suicide?
Follow the money. It is simply good business. Follow history. If you look for it you can find those that became ultra rich and then moved onto other nations, after the death of Greece and Rome's operating for the profits of the few so that the general public 'could live in the manner they'd become accustomed to'. On 8/6/2011 2:52 PM, Romi Elnagar wrote: Why Is America Committing Suicide? The US of A on the road to ruin by Justin Raimondo, August 05, 2011 America is committing suicide. That’s the only explanation I have for the course followed by US policymakers in the past decade, a period in which the US budget deficit has skyrocketed beyond all reason. While we have run up deficits before, some of them considerable by the standards of the day, in 2001 – the year we launched our endless “war on terrorism” – the deficit began to enter new territory. Whereas before it had fluctuated, going up, down, and effectively maintaining a steady state of neutral, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks this country went into debt bigtime, with the deficit climbing steadily, doubling in 2007, and nearly doubling again the next fiscal year. In the name of fiscal “austerity,” Congress recently authorized yet another raising of the debt ceiling, and everyone sits around waiting for the “draconian” cuts to fall – a “cut,” that is, in the rate at which government spending is projected to grow. Only in Washington, D.C., is a “cut” actually an increase – just not as much of an increase as was anticipated. As Ron Paul pointed out, if Congress had simply frozen spending at 2004 levels, we’d have more of a “cut” than we do now. No one is surprised by this Washington doubletalk: that’s the language they speak in the Imperial City, where murdering civilians is “collateral damage” and taxation is “revenue enhancement” instead of good old-fashioned theft. It’s silly season on Capitol Hill: so what else is new? Yet I sense a more sinister pattern in this Kabuki theater known as the debt ceiling drama, the implications of which are darker than I care to contemplate — but then again, that’s my job … While governments can only finance their completely non-productive (in reality: counter-productive) activities by incurring debt, it’s rare in human history to find profligacy comparable to our own. One has to go all the way back to ancient Rome, under the heel of its more depraved emperors, to find a precedent. The numbers are not merely astonishing: they are inconceivable. The figure — $14.3 trillion – must forever remain in the world of abstractions, because any attempt by the human brain to concretize it fails. How do our lawmakers imagine we can continue to spend at these levels, living light years beyond our means? Their recklessness is epitomized by how the military budget came out in all the deficit dickering. As it stands, real defense cuts only kick in if the “super-Congress” fails to come to an agreement on what cuts to make. Then and only then will the misnamed “defense” department come in for something approximating its fair share of cuts. Put another way: only in the most extreme and politically next-to-impossible case will Congress even consider cutting back on its overseas empire. They’ll yank your grandmother off her dialysis machine before they’ll contemplate getting rid of “foreign aid.” We ordinary folk live in a completely different world than the movers and shakers of the Imperial City: no one outside the Beltway bubble can really understand the mental processes that allow for such a massive evasion of reality, a kind of collective madness that infects the ruling elite in this country, regardless of party. They talk down to the hoi polloi, and use a different language when they converse among themselves, but occasionally the truth comes out. In 2004, Ron Suskind wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine which included this quote from an unnamed top White House aide: “The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ … ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.’” While the context was a discussion of the Iraq war, this mindset – which is dominant in the Washington of Barack Obama just as it was during the Bush era – pervades our ruling elite in all matters. Why shouldn’t they run up a $14.3 trillion debt — after all, don’t they create their own reality? Armed with such supernatural powers, we aren’t going to let a little thing
[LAAMN] Protests Grow in Israel, With 250,000 Marching
As usual, the most dangerous thing the war mongers can imagine, are Peaceful people Protesting inhumanities to other humans. Generally we are met with violence. But do take into account, that the largest Anti War protest that ever occurred in recorded history, happened world wide just before we, the USA, invaded Iraq, and the Main Stream Media in the USA. didn't carry that either, considering it not being 'newsworthy'. Maybe you'll have a better idea what they consider newsworthy now, and how much trust you should blindly put in what you hear (and especially what you don't hear). Please pass this along, it may be the only way some people hear that others feel as you and these other good folk do. Also, it helps for others to know that the silence of our media, doesn't mean we are in agreement with the inhumanities done by our government, in our name. Scott *Media not covering because of no violence? Those demonstrations could soon happen here. I'm beginning to think Sarah Palin might be a better choice *Israel Blog http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?catid=13 Protests Grow in Israel, With 250,000 Marching http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?itemid=56 By: Admin http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?memberid=1 By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: August 6, 2011 http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?blogid=13 Israel's biggest protest in decades overlooked worldwide http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?itemid=55 By: Admin http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?memberid=1 Published: 02 August, 2011, 10:54 Protestors in Israel accuse foreign media of burying their heads in the sand over of the biggest anti-government protests the country has seen in decades. Tens of thousands of people are staging demonstrations over deteriorating living standards. The events, however, are little known outside of Israel, because their story is not receiving the coverage which protests in Egypt and other Arab countries did. When it comes to Israel, a lot of the foreign media want to see an action movie. This [demonstration] hasn't been violent, May Flam, a protestor explained. It is the largest demonstration in Israel in over a decade. And how did ABC, CBS and NBC cover it? Not at all! While the editors of France 24, BBC and Sky coughed up just a few meager seconds. Perhaps it is not that interesting to their editors back in the studios. OK, there is a protest, what exactly is a protest? A social protest? A revolution? It is not the same kind of story, as big and dramatic as some of the bigger revolutions happening around the Middle East, says Amir Mizroch, English editor for Yisrael Hayom daily. Amir Mizroch is not surprised by the worldwide lack of media... Read More » http://www.progressivepeoplepower.com/index.php?itemid=55#more [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Target/Walmart/Macy's rape factory
The only person the International Corporations listen to, is their accountant. Vote with your dollars. Scott Change.org *Tell Target: End the abuse at rape factory in Jordan http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-to-stop-rape-and-torture-of-young-women-in-its-factories?alert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email* http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-to-stop-rape-and-torture-of-young-women-in-its-factories?alert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email Sign the Petition http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-to-stop-rape-and-torture-of-young-women-in-its-factories?alert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email Dear Scott, Thousands of Change.org members have already spoken out against abuses at what's becoming known as the rape factory in Jordan. “We only went to Jordan to earn money to help our families; we had no idea that factory managers would rape so many of us young girls,” said a young woman who goes by the name Nazma to protect her identity. Nazma is one of the dozens of Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi young women who have been sexually assaulted by supervisors at Classic Factory in northern Jordan, which makes clothes for American brands like Walmart, Target, and Macy's. Leading up to next week’s trial against a Classic supervisor charged with rape -- the first such trial -- managers are */escalating/ abuses*. Supervisors are locking victims and witnesses in the factory, threatening and intimidating them to ensure they will not testify. And although the Jordanian government promised that Anil Santha, the manager accused of rape, would not be allowed to return before the trial, */he's back on the factory floor./* Despite global outcry over Classic’s abuses and the tactics they’re using to dodge justice, international customers like *Walmart, Target, and Macy's *are still buying Classic clothing. ***Given the critical situation on the ground, Classic Factory workers, consumers, and human rights organizations, are urgently calling on these high-profile companies to immediately condemn human rights abuses and force change. **Click here to sign the petition now.*** http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-to-stop-rape-and-torture-of-young-women-in-its-factories?alert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email** Target and Macy's have claimed that they are investigating conditions at the factory, but they're deferring to the Jordanian Ministry of Economy and Labor -- which claims there is no evidence of sexual abuse. *Instead, conditions are getting worse*. In addition to imprisoning women inside the factory, managers are removing all the males workers -- in some cases even deporting them -- cutting the staff to older male supervisors and vulnerable young women. At Classic's urging, the government also arrested the leader of an outside human rights NGO and took his passport to prevent him from intervening to protect the women at the factory. “All we can do is cry,” Nazma said. “We ask the people who buy our garments, please end this abuse and torture we face. We should be able to work without fear of sexual assault.” *Now is a critical moment for action. *Outside pressure and attention can ensure that victims and witnesses are freed and can testify against their rapists -- and that Classic Factory reforms its policies and practices. Otherwise, the manager and supervisors will continue to imprison, assault, and rape girls and women with renewed impunity. *Sign now to urge Walmart, Target, and Macy's to force Classic Factory to free imprisoned victims and witnesses -- and end its human rights abuses against women:* *http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-to-stop-rape-and-torture-of-young-women-in-its-factories* http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-to-stop-rape-and-torture-of-young-women-in-its-factories?utm_source=action_alertutm_medium=emailalert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email Thanks for being a change-maker, - Patrick and the Change.org team This email was sent by Change.org to scotpe...@cruzio.com. Start a petition http://www.change.org/start-a-petition?source=footeralert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email. Unsubscribe http://www.change.org/account_settings/action_alerts_opt_out?email_id=HPTLCPGOWDBNXRFGRPJJme=aaalert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email from future weekly updates. Edit your email notification settings http://www.change.org/account_settings?me=aaalert_id=jqdQiEVsPJ_YcHSjtqMeMutm_source=action_alertutm_medium=email. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network ---
[LAAMN] More Bank of America Deathwatch: AIG to Seek $10+ Billion for Dud Mortgages naked capitalism
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/more-bank-of-america-deathwatch-aig-t o-seeks-10-billion-for-dud-mortgages.html (For some reason the link will not remain together, follow the money? cut and paste pelase) http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/more-bank-of-america-deathwatch-aig-t o-seeks-10-billion-for-dud-mortgages.html More, and more and more. BOA is on the ropes, until govt bails them out again * Monday, August 8, 2011 More Bank of America Deathwatch: AIG to Seek $10+ Billion for Dud Mortgages http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/more-bank-of-america-deathwatch-aig-to-seeks-10-billion-for-dud-mortgages.html Wow, this couldn't be happening to a nicer bank (well take that back, JPM and Goldman are tough competitors). As you may recall, in the previous quarter, Bank of America announced its $8.5 billion mortgage settlement, which is now looking pretty wobbly, since a variety of unhappy parties, the latest being New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman, have taken aim at it. And Delaware attorney general Beau Biden is reported to be joining the pile on this week. This means either no deal, or a very different deal (almost certainly with bigger numbers attached) after a long slugfest, um, negotiations. The Charlotte bankhad said it would increase loss reserves in the second quarter by $20 billion http://www.cnbc.com/id/43583347/Bank_of_America_Expects_to_Take_20_Billion_in_Charges (which included this $8.5 billion) and claimed this would put its mortgage woes behind them. Yours truly was skeptical, and the market reacted badly when it saw the revelation in their 10-Q filing just released, that the bank was going to take more losses on Fannie and Freddie putbacks than previously expected http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/bank-of-america-death-watch.html#comment-441122. The latest revelation, that AIG is expected to file a suit that will seek more than $10 billion in damages against Bank of America on Monday, comes from Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/business/aig-to-sue-bank-of-america-over-mortgage-bonds.html: The American International Group is planning to sue Bank of America over hundreds of mortgage-backed securities, adding to the surge of investors seeking compensation for the troubled mortgages that led to the financial crisis. The suit seeks to recover more than $10 billion in losses on $28 billion of investments, in possibly the largest mortgage-security-related action filed by a single investor. It claims that Bank of America and its Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Financial units misrepresented the quality of the mortgages placed in securities and sold to investors. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/more-bank-of-america-deathwatch-aig-to-seeks-10-billion-for-dud-mortgages.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] MAV's
http://video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html Those who already see our Country as One Nation under Surveillance, and not far behind England, who has cameras all over the streets in their major cities, may not find this advertisement Form General Dynamics, to be the kind of Progress, they were hoping for in our Country, due to this technology is mainly being set up to do spying of people, in the city, when you can't be watched through your computer or cell phone. Pretty nifty, they are proposing they can do everything from spying on people, to delivering explosive payloads and personal 'elimination' er assassination. We should hearing some major assurances that 'only we, the good buys, will have it... even though General Dynamics is an INTERNATIONAL Military Industrial Complex Corporation, who of course only makes a profit if their stuff sells. Reminds me of the bad guy in Iron Man, who insisted he was the good guy. Dang, 60% of the employed 5 years ago, worked in some industry that supported the Police/Military/Prison/GovernmentALL Paid for by the taxes if the other 40%. This will create new jobs but.. what small slice of your paycheck are you willing to live on? As my Grandfather stated, any Country whose Government is afraid of it's general citizenship, is not a Country of the people, for the people, by the people, and he's been saying that since before we were hoodwinked into both campaigns of WW II. http://video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] President Obama - Interest Group Ratings of His Voting Record
I'm still waiting for you to explain how he is more liberal then Dennis Kucinich. You have a * by your comment of such, is it in a minor area, or some special interest group rating? No this only covers SPECIAL INTERESTS VOTES for Obama, not HOW HE VOTED. Again, this does NOT Cover his voting record on his support of the Police State, the Military Industrial Complex, immunity for telecoms for spying on Americans cause they turned everything over to Big Brother, torture, support of the Israeli terrorist state against Palestine (well i do see stuff in here rating him a -1 and -2 and F) nor does it cover his giving AIPAC everything they asked for why making nice little blusters for the American media (before they drop the subject). Your representation of this, doesn't seem to jive with what Vote Smart is saying, this is simply his ratings from SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS..The first couple sentences are of great importance, and should have been understood BEFORE reading the results. How to Interpret these Evaluations: (Back to top) http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=9490#Top Project Vote Smart collects performance evaluations from special interest groups who provide them, regardless of issue or bias. If you have any comments concerning performance evaluations or know of a group that provides ratings not included here, please contact us at rati...@vote-smart.org mailto:rati...@vote-smart.org. Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups are biased. They do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. On 8/5/2011 3:32 AM, bigraccoon wrote: On VOTESMART interest group ratings ARE voting record. This is the % the representative VOTED either in favor OR against the interest group's position on the issue. ALL senators congressperson's VOTING RECORDS are on this site. The site explains this or call them. President Barack H. Obama Jr. - Interest Group Ratings of His Voting Record http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=9490 *More liberal than Dennis Kucinich [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] President Obama- Interest Group Ratings of His Voting Record
Interest group ratings. This is NOT his voting record, which is here: Didn't Obama just sign off on major cuts for Planned Parenthood, given the Tea baggers once again, more then they asked for? I have no idea what cherry picked data is used to say he's more Liberal the Dennis Kucinich, who doesn't vote consistently for perpetual war, mega money give aways to Banks and other International Corporations who owe no allegiance to the government or Constitution of the USA. Dennis Kucinich doesn't support Corporate Government/Welfare State, in action, as Obama does. I note it has been FIVE YEARS that we've been asking him to state his Political Positions, and he just ignores us. http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=9490 What about his Position papers, things he has put in writing that shows where he stands so the general public can see who it is we'd have representing us? http://www.votesmart.org/speech.php?type=can_id=9490begin=end=daterange=keyword=phrase=contain=without=sort=issue_position=1start=0#Results Out of 4 pages of possible opportunities for his to state his position, he's declined the opportunity. HAHAHAHAHAH!! In 2008, an ELECTION YEAR, vote Hemp' gave Obama a B+, same rating he got in his election year for running for US Senate on his positions of ending the wars, investigating 911, ending GITMO, and fighting Corporate corruption in Wash DC. Look at budget and taxes in the link you sent. Only 2 times does he clear 25%. My Gawd, nearly everyone that gave him High marks, he's trashed their programs in the last 3 years. Were you counting on people not reading this, or not understanding it? I suppose so, as this appears to be the rallying cry of the Main Stream Media, the _Paid_ Political advisers and talking heads; How fortunate for leaders that men do not think. *Adolf Hitler* Scott On 8/4/2011 1:07 AM, bigraccoon wrote: President Barack Obama - Interest Group Ratings of His Voting Record (% his votes supported group) http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=9490 *More liberal than Dennis Kucinich [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Syria Hama Siege: 'People Are Being Slaughtered Like Sheep'
BEIRUT -- The flashpoint Syrian city of Hama endured a fifth day under military siege Thursday, with a resident saying people were being slaughtered like sheep in the streets and families were burying their dead in home gardens or roadsides rather than risk a trip to a cemetery -- George http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/04/syria-protest-kills-six-o_n_917921.html (please scroll down) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] President Obama- Interest Group Ratings of His Voting Record
I forgot to clarify my HAHAHA Obama on Pot sentence. Medical marijuana is legal in our state, and the Feds had laid off busting them, but Obama's got them going after them again. The Prison Unions were complaining about the loss of income as they had less people to charge We the People for, at $200 a day per inmate, since honest people weren't being jailed at the rate they use to be jailed. Seriously, 60% of the prisons in the USA have non violent drug offenders in them and the programs that cut down the numbers returning were one of the first things to get defunded, once again at the prison Unions insistence as it was cutting into profits. Apparently the electronic voting situation is well in hand, as I've never seen so many people pissed off about being Democrats as the last 2 years have brought about here, you use to get mumblings, people are pretty tweaked, and the newspapers just don't carry this in the letters to the editors, as our local papers are now owned by The Mega Main Steam media Corporations, who of course simply ignore any complaints against a Corporate Run Government. It's waht they do, not waht they or the paid political activist and talking heads say they represent IT IS WHAT THEY DO, and more and more people ARE paying attention, it's hard not to when every facet of society we live in has been under attack, and the standard of, the republican minority is obstructing the Majority so the Dems can't do anything, ain't flying as we see consistently that what ever the Tea baggers ask for, Obama give them that, and often enough more then they asked for. It's in the news, day in and day out, one simply has to realize it all has something to do with each other instead of every rep rot being an isolated instance as it is delivered to us. Scott On 8/4/2011 10:27 PM, Scott Peden wrote: Interest group ratings. This is NOT his voting record, which is here: Didn't Obama just sign off on major cuts for Planned Parenthood, given the Tea baggers once again, more then they asked for? I have no idea what cherry picked data is used to say he's more Liberal the Dennis Kucinich, who doesn't vote consistently for perpetual war, mega money give aways to Banks and other International Corporations who owe no allegiance to the government or Constitution of the USA. Dennis Kucinich doesn't support Corporate Government/Welfare State, in action, as Obama does. I note it has been FIVE YEARS that we've been asking him to state his Political Positions, and he just ignores us. http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=9490 What about his Position papers, things he has put in writing that shows where he stands so the general public can see who it is we'd have representing us? http://www.votesmart.org/speech.php?type=can_id=9490begin=end=daterange=keyword=phrase=contain=without=sort=issue_position=1start=0#Results Out of 4 pages of possible opportunities for his to state his position, he's declined the opportunity. HAHAHAHAHAH!! In 2008, an ELECTION YEAR, vote Hemp' gave Obama a B+, same rating he got in his election year for running for US Senate on his positions of ending the wars, investigating 911, ending GITMO, and fighting Corporate corruption in Wash DC. Look at budget and taxes in the link you sent. Only 2 times does he clear 25%. My Gawd, nearly everyone that gave him High marks, he's trashed their programs in the last 3 years. Were you counting on people not reading this, or not understanding it? I suppose so, as this appears to be the rallying cry of the Main Stream Media, the _Paid_ Political advisers and talking heads; How fortunate for leaders that men do not think. *Adolf Hitler* Scott On 8/4/2011 1:07 AM, bigraccoon wrote: President Barack Obama - Interest Group Ratings of His Voting Record (% his votes supported group) http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=9490 *More liberal than Dennis Kucinich [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http
[LAAMN] FToday's LUV News: 4 August, 2011
*AT WAR IN 120 NATIONS? * ** *Nick Turse says http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175426/tomgram%3A_nick_turse%2C_uncovering_the_military%27s_secret_military/ by the end of this year we will likely have secret special ops people in 120 nations committing acts of war such as assassinations. If we had a free and open democracy, as corporate media describe it, with a system of justice based on justice, most of our top leaders would be in prison. This is one more, in a long string of things our government is doing, that the American people would reject if they knew it was happening. * ** *CORPORATE MEDIA ARE COVERING UP GLOBAL WARMING * ** */Fairness Accuracy In Reporting/ has a piece http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/03-8 on how our mass media cover up global warming for their masters, who prefer to get all the profit they can by ignoring the problem. * ** *HOW THE FORCES OF GREED MAKE ZOMBIES OF THE MASSES * ** *Ted Rall, who has signed up to join us for the revolution starting 6 October in Washington http://october2011.org/welcome, has an excellent piece this morning going into how opinion is controlled in the Land of the Free. He published it abroad, of course, in /al Jazeera/ http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/20118164314283633.html. * ** **To read our controlled mass media, one might not know that human rights groups all over the world condemn US prisons for their inhumane environments. Police routinely joke to suspects they've arrested that they will be raped in prison, so open is this fact in law enforcement circles. The most common conviction is for drug offenses, most very minor and not involving violence. Most common also for females are minor drug offenses, and other nonviolent crimes. I have been to see female prisoners and watched as friends or relatives held babies up to be seen by their mothers who are behind a plexiglass window and not allowed to touch their babies. I have always considered this, when in that room, to be a form of torture, as the babies scream for a mother they can see but not touch. Our ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm are such low lifes that they profit from the prisons, just as they profit from wars, from sickness and injury through our privatized health care system, from death because they've purchased up most of the funeral parlors (they keep the old family names to fool people, but they are mostly corporate enterprises now). This hopeless corruption is mostly hidden by our mass media, which is owned by the same scumbags who profit from the land mines, frankenfood and banned pesticides like DDT, which American companies still make and export all over the third world (it comes back in our imported food). In the following piece, Rose Aguilar takes us inside the California chapter of prison USA --Jack ** *Overcrowded Jails Inimical to Justice http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/20118272235885588.html * ** * by Rose Aguilar * *It's been two months since a divided US Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling, which ordered the state of California to reduce its prison population by roughly 33,000. The state's 33 prisons currently hold 156,000 prisoners, nearly double the number they were designed to house.* ** *In the 5-4 ruling, the court said that overcrowded and unhealthy living conditions violated constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment and threatened inmates' health. In the majority opinion http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1233.pdf, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, A prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including adequate medical care has no place in civilised society.* ** *In order to highlight the inhumane conditions, Justice Kennedy, in a rare move, included three photos in his opinion showing overcrowded conditions in gymnasium-style rooms and holding cells used to house suicidal inmates. Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth-sized cages without toilets.* ** *A psychiatrist expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic, wrote Justice Kennedy. Prison officials explained they had 'no place to put him.'* ** *Justice Kennedy also noted that California's prisons have operated at around 200 per cent of capacity for at least 11 years, as many as 200 prisoners live in a gymnasium, and 54 share a single toilet.* ** **Inaccurate m**edia coverage ** ** *The ruling has since received national media attention, much of it focused on the false premise that the worst of the
[LAAMN] Re: Barack Obama and the debt crisis: A successful con game explained by Bruce A. Dixon
Now, you understand that the debit limit has been raised 74 times since 1962. Something like 15 times under Ronald Regan and 9 more times under GW Bush, AND NOT ONCE WAS THERE A CRISIS IN PASSING THIS. We had another one of our classic 1/4th or less of congress and the Senate voting with our best interested in mind, but as always happens when there is money to be made for the International Bankers and Corporations (they do not even owe allegiance or bank here!) it keeps rearing it's ugly head till they get legislated robbery of you and I. Election, or as I call it sElection season cause we're told only the Corporate Candidate are a viable choice for us, but the media and the PAID TALKING POLITICAL HEADS, and we have a few choices to make. This situation is caused by those who are in office that represent Corporate Interested above those of the majority of the US public, and give our money to corporations while allowing their taxes to be half or less then what you and I pay. Be consistent and vote for who ever the media and talking heads tells you is your only viable choice, or the other consistent scenario, FEAR, the other guy is a LOT WORSE then the one your party is presenting and if you don't vote for the lesser of the evils, EVIL WILL WIN! duh, either way you lose, this is the classic, throwing your vote away while being told if you don't do this, you'll throw your vote away. OR, when the media tells you who to vote for, are you going to look for more sources, are you going to look at voting records? Is it to much trouble to be truly informed, instead of only hearing the Corporate side, before you vote? Gonnareelectem or vote for the person best suited for the job? While the Propaganda masters spin and smoke and mirrors, those things they do so well while avoiding VOTING RECORDS every selection season, are you going to remain quiet while they do this? Are you going to point out what actuality happened, are you going to vote party line cause you like where our country has gone since the height of our society in 1958, 53 years ago? In 1984 a big proposition was put forth to the people, the media, the bankers the corporations all said it was the best thing for us as we were running out of money to hold elections (fact is the media had political ad prices at 20-50 times the going rate of any other advertising) and that if we approved this legislation as campaign finance reform, it would allow the corporations to take their rightful place and contribute to the debates and such. Fact was, the Corporation now take the tax payers money, add it to their own, and hold debates that they control who gets to speak at them. When they set down rules and other candidates made the grade, they still didn't allow them into the debates, and the US Court system upheld that they could take our money, and only have debates for the candidates they wanted. And that folks is where all of your political news comes form now. 1984 legislation, they really rubbed it in doing it then too. Voting records can be found here. They make it hard on purpose, to tell if a legislation with a positive sounding name, is actually negative for you and I. Stay informed NOW instead of at crunch time. http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=9490 Scott On 8/3/2011 8:44 PM, Scott Peden wrote: Barack Obama and the debt crisis: A successful con game explained by Bruce A. Dixon Black Agenda Report August 3, 2011 The phony debt ceiling crisis was, from beginning to end, a con. It was an elaborate and successful hoax in which the nation's first black president, the Democratic and Republican parties, Wall Street and corporate media all played indispensable parts. The object of the supposed crisis was to short circuit public opinion, existing law, democratic process and traditions of public oversight, in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We've been conned. President Barack Obama as First Actor in the Con The key actor in the con was and is Barack Obama, leader of the Democratic party and president of the United States. When the Bush and Obama administrations bailed out the banksters in 2008, 2009 and 2010 they didn't print new warehouses of greenbacks and send them over in a fleet of trucks. The Federal Reserve simply opened its spreadsheets, and wrote numbers with lots of zeroes crediting the banksters' accounts. It literally created the new money by giving it away, and next proceeded to borrow those funds back from the banksters at interest. The debt ceiling crisis was nothing but those same banksters twirling their mustaches and oinking ? Well, we don't think you (the government that created the money by giving it to them) can really afford to repay all these loans you've been taking out... We might have to downgrade your credit rating
[LAAMN] Barack Obama and the debt crisis: A successful con game explained by Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama and the debt crisis: A successful con game explained by Bruce A. Dixon Black Agenda Report August 3, 2011 The phony debt ceiling crisis was, from beginning to end, a con. It was an elaborate and successful hoax in which the nation's first black president, the Democratic and Republican parties, Wall Street and corporate media all played indispensable parts. The object of the supposed crisis was to short circuit public opinion, existing law, democratic process and traditions of public oversight, in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We've been conned. President Barack Obama as First Actor in the Con The key actor in the con was and is Barack Obama, leader of the Democratic party and president of the United States. When the Bush and Obama administrations bailed out the banksters in 2008, 2009 and 2010 they didn't print new warehouses of greenbacks and send them over in a fleet of trucks. The Federal Reserve simply opened its spreadsheets, and wrote numbers with lots of zeroes crediting the banksters' accounts. It literally created the new money by giving it away, and next proceeded to borrow those funds back from the banksters at interest. The debt ceiling crisis was nothing but those same banksters twirling their mustaches and oinking ? Well, we don't think you (the government that created the money by giving it to them) can really afford to repay all these loans you've been taking out... We might have to downgrade your credit rating...? The whole notion of excessive government indebtedness, or that government might not be able, as the president threatened, to issue or cash social security checks was always a crock, a sham. There was never, ever a moment when Barack Obama didn't know that his homey analogies about government having to live within its means just like a family were just cynical fairy tales. The president could have prevented this crisis by passing a debt ceiling when he had a 50 vote majority in Congress for all of 2009 and 2010. He could have avoided it again by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire. Instead the president renewed the Bush tax cuts when he had a 50 vote majority in Congress. The president could have defused it in the last month by any of a number of means, including simply calling it fake. But giving away the game is not what actors in a con do. The Second Actor: Corporate Media The second key actor in the con was and is the corporate media establishment. Media is nothing less than the sum total of the public conversation. Our corporate media is owned by a tiny group of greedy billionaires and soulless corporations who get to decide what most of us see and hear, what gets in and what gets left out of that supposedly public conversation. So corporate media cynically repeated the banksters' doubts about getting their free money paid back. Over the years, corporate media moguls had manufactured an entire Matrix-like world of fake ?money experts? and economists who assured us in the 90s that tech stocks would never go down, and in the 2000s that real estate prices would never decrease, and always that lower taxes on the rich would trickle down to create jobs for the poor. For these masters of alternative realities, rebranding the white nationalist wing of the Republican party as the tea party portraying it as a mass movement, and riffing on a new/old set of lies about the government going broke were par for the course. Corporate media set the limits of the political discourse inside a false reality --- one where the myths that the US government could and might go broke, and where trickle down economics unquestioned facts. It portrayed the only political choices available in that universe as the president's accommodation vs the tea party's extremism. The Third Actors: Republicans and their tea party faction Every Jeff needs a Mutt, every good cop needs a bad cop. This was the role played by Republicans. Throughout the Obama presidency their job has been to refuse the president's pre-emptive compromises to meet them fifty, seventy, ninety percent of the way, moving the goal ever rightwards. Along the way a secondary function is to gratuitously insult the president, sometimes in openly racist terms, thus enabling some of the president's backers to try to rally black and progressive support around him despite his utter abandonment of any progressive agenda. The power of Republicans and their tea party subsidiary to dictate the course of events has always been exaggerated. During the first two years of the Obama presidency they had no legislative majorities anywhere and could not even call a committee meeting. Even with a majority in the House since the beginning of this year, Republican power to do damage is always limited by the combined power of the Democratic White House and a large Democratic
[LAAMN] 9/11 Commissioners Themselves Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
Boy they'll avoid this with the same fever they went after our Social Security, as 911 profited, still profits the MIC/Police State/International Bankers like nothing else ever could, to find that it was a false flag event would endanger everything they've worked for over the last 50 years. I can guarantee you that their first line of defense against the truth, the Main Stream Media, will avoid this like the plague, or at the very least issue personal attacks on those they use to use as their shining examples of a Corporate Government state well run. Scott 9-11 resolution is the way to save we just may be able to save our country in a democratic way without shedding blood all over the world. Please read the links that pertain to Ellsberg and Gravell... Pentagon Papers Whistleblowers, Congressman Who Saved Headwaters Forest, and 9/11 Commissioners Themselves Call for a New 9/11 Investigation http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/pentagon-papers-whistleblowers.html The two main players in releasing the Pentagon Papers were Daniel Ellsberg and United States Senator Mike Gravel. Senator Gravel is the person who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. This act made the papers public record, so that they could not be censored by the government. He was the only member of Congress courageous enough to do so. Both Ellsberg and Gravel - like many other high-level former officials http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/09/anniversary-of-911.html in the government and intelligence services (including many well-known whistleblowers http://www.nswbc.org/membership_list.htm) - support a new 9/11 investigation. Ellsberg says http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5260 that the case of a certain 9/11 whistleblower is far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers. (Here's some http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/31/760117/-Bombshell:-Bin-Laden-worked-for-US-till-9-11 of what that whistleblower says.) He also said that the government is ordering the media to cover up her allegations about 9/11. And he said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been, that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of those in office, and that there's enough evidence to justify a new, hard-hitting investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath (see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJhWhItqYCc and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VirlkZq1pLY). Gravel is now backing a California ballot initiative for a new 9/11 investigation. The text of the initiative is below. The initiative would actually help support the 9/11 Commission and fulfill the desire of the 9/11 Commissioners. Specifically, the Commission was severely underfunded: * The government spent $175 million http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/15/nation/na-probe15investigating the // http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/15/nation/na-probe15Challenger space shuttle disaster. * It spent $152 million http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-106137814.html on the Columbia disaster investigation. * It spent $30 million http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/01/starr.costs/ investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal. * But the government only authorized $15 million http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/faq.htm for the 9/11 Commission. Moreover, many 9/11 Commissioners said they never completed the investigation: * 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton himself says I don't believe for a minute we got everything right, that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue http://web.archive.org/web/20070108233707/http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html. * Similarly, 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . . http://salon.com/ent/feature/2006/06/27/911_conspiracies/index4.html . He also says that he had long feared that the investigation depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking, and that it might take a permanent 9/11 commission to end the remaining mysteries of September 11 http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/03/911-commissioner-bob-kerrey-it-might.html. * And 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/23/1546256 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LAAMN] Re: Cynthia McKinney in LA August 7th to tell Us the TRUTH
The draft had been going on for some time by the time I had to report to the induction office. Nixon cancelled it the day before the point of no return, for me. What was big news then was the media was showing coffins coming home, which was made illegal by the last 2 WH Administrations. The media obviously was working for someone else's profit then the MIC, and GE handled that by purchasing a large portion of MBC and I think CBS was the other one, as well as purchasing a lot of food stuff companies that already advertised on the media, so they could 'refuse advertising' when they were a major advertiser, and raise hell in the Board Room at the same time. Back then as is now, all Peace protestors are displayed as nuts, dirty unwashed law breakers, it wasn't till the coffins entered the house of the middle class that the middle class got on the anti war movement. Seeing how many of our soldiers came home dead every day was too much for them, it would have been worse if they'd HAD TO LOOK at the disabled/maimed soldiers too. Scott On 7/31/2011 3:09 AM, jdema...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I think that what caused the protests against the War on Vietnam to build up was the re-institution of the DRAFT. People did not much care very much about the War on Vietnam. And people did not really care much about the killing and oppression of Vietnamese. BUT people Sure Did CARE A LOT about themselves (and their children etc.) Being Drafted. Oh and in the Vietnamese War era there was not the UNITED (and totally controlled) Anti-War Movement. And in the Vietnamese War era there were various Anti-War actions like street shutdowns and even some work place shut downs (i.e. STRIKES) and there were boycotts and campus shutdowns etc. In todays' - much, much Much more organized Anti-War Movement there are much Better Rallies - with Permits asked for from and given by the very government entities that are waging the Wars and all those worthless actions like work stoppages and campus shutdowns and boycotts are no longer needed in today's much more efficient Anti-War Movement. Today the Anti-War Movement and the government entities that are waging the Wars are Working Together. So now the modern Anti-War Movement and the government War machine are working together and they are UNITED! Yea we have Won! Today it is the Speeches that are the important thing in the Anti-War Movement. BUT Boy those SPEECHES ARE GREAT. And WOW the Egos that get built by those SPEECHES and the tiny power that is increased in today's much more effecient Anti-War Movement So things are Much better in today's Anti-War Movement than in the Vietnamese War era. We have Won! Jim The current Wars on Afghanistan and on Iraq are much Smarter Wars than the Vietnamese War - No DRAFT in today's Wars so very few people care about ending today's Wars. and NOTHING is really being done to end the Wars on Afghanistand and on Iraq. D. - Original Message - From: Barry bsch...@yahoo.com mailto:bschier%40yahoo.com To: change-li...@yahoogroups.com mailto:change-links%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:02 AM Subject: [change-links] Re: Cynthia McKinney in LA August 7th! Although I have not held a membership card from organized political tendency since 1986, I have held the belief -- ever since leading protests against the U.S. war in Vietnam while a high school student -- that pressure resulting from protests against foreign interventions / wars can stay the hand of the guilty government. And I remember that it took about 8 years for protests to build up from relatively small pickets and teach-ins to mass marches which (along with the heroic fight of the Vietnamese and other international factors) forced Washington to withdraw from Indochina. And, then, like now, there were pseudo-Marxists and pseudo-radicals who were never part of building (or even supporting the building) of such protests. -- Barry Schier --- In change-li...@yahoogroups.com mailto:change-links%40yahoogroups.com, Cort Greene cort.greene@... wrote: *Sorry Barry I don't support the intervention and certainly the International Marxist Tendency does not and I can understand your confusion about politics, what anti-imperialism is from your SWP days and from what a sect is but it sounds like you are using the Old Uncle Joe Cannon attacks that he use against the tendency in the late 1930's and 40's when he used Healy to attacked them in England.* *Turns out Grant et al were mostly correct in their analysis then and now, thats why they have organized in 42 countries and are well respected in many others.* ** *Now Workers World, PSL and the book club SWP are very small and insignificant, their days are numbered that people will listen at all or do to them is proven as fact.* ** *Cort* ** * One fool can ask more questions in a minute
Re: [LAAMN] GOOD READ: The Corporate Education Act Becomes Law
At first I thought this had something to do with the Liberal Arts, but i see instead it has more to do with the Orwellian 'Conservative' Arts. On 7/28/2011 2:53 PM, Romi Elnagar wrote: The Corporate Education Act Becomes Law by Luke Hiken / July 28th, 2011 Republican lawmakers were ecstatic today to announce passage of the Corporate Education Act (CEA). The President expressed his support for the Act because the Republican sides of both the House and the Senate had backed it, and that meant it was certainly good enough for Obama. Democrats went along with the Act because they didn’t want to lose the potential financial support of the corporations that would benefit from the CEA. The first order of business after the passage of the CEA will be to close all of the existing “liberal arts” colleges in the country. As Senator Boner pointed out, the whole concept of “liberal” is passé, and “art” has nothing to do with good job performance. Instead, the CEA will ensure that all education is geared towards employment with America’s leading corporations, and graduates will have been properly trained and groomed to serve these corporate interests. He chuckled at the thought that “liberal arts” ever had the backing of any patriotic citizens. The government is determined to set priorities for corporate involvement in educating America’s students: Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop and other major military contractors will, of course, have the first shot at the top students, teaching courses that will assist them in weapons development and military research. There will be a strong emphasis on science and mathematics, and courses of questionable utility, such as English, literature, history, philosophy and education, will be placed on a back burner. The next range of businesses to receive students, after the military contractors, and their assistants at the Pentagon, will be the Wall Street financiers. Their particular expertise, at teaching students how to squeeze the maximum profits out of American citizens without actually producing anything of value, is seen as a specialized form of economics, and one necessitating Wall Street’s leadership. Of course, hedge fund brokers, mortgage speculators and other financial advisors will work closely with corporations such as Goldman Sachs to ensure that every aspect of U.S. business will receive their quota of graduating students. After the corporations mentioned above, the next in line will be the insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies, and other institutions that have made a profit during the last 6 years in the face of America’s failing economy. It was felt that anyone who could make a profit in the current political environment deserved unlimited support. The CEA was drafted so as to provide public funding for the education that students will receive in order to work for the corporations that will run the academic senates of the universities. After all, private corporations should not be burdened with the need to pay for the education of students who will work for them in later life. Since an educated work force is a prerequisite to the success of any corporation, it is obvious that the public should bear the burden of making sure the CEA functions efficiently. Democratic leaders explained that several concerns will be met through passage of the CEA: It will get rid of those students who cannot compete in the corporate environment, and will therefore likely become a financial burden on the society. Scholarships will also be unnecessary, since students will be assured jobs at the corporations that sponsored and educated them, and the initial costs of their education will be borne by the public. Finally, by making sure that all future graduates will be assured employment with one of the corporations that run the system, the public will save billions of dollars by not having to educate worthless, stupid youth, who can’t compete in the corporate world. Because most children don’t know what they want to be when they grow up, and certainly, under the older system, had no idea where they would find employment, the Congress determined that it was a waste of time and money to teach such children until they were older, and had a better sense of direction. By obviating the need for special education, scholarship programs, or “affirmative action,” the Congress was able to drastically lower the amount of funds and resources needed for what used to constitute widespread, wasteful education. The teaching workforce will also be affected positively. Since the corporations and businesses who will train and educate the students are in the best position to know what courses and curriculum will best suit their needs, the kind of wasted efforts on language skills, history, philosophy and other abstract, impractical classes that characterized the old university systems, can be modified to delete such
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 24 July, 2011
*NORWAY MASSACRE: RIGHT WING TERRORISTS, NOT MUSLIMS, PART 2 * ** *Following up on our lead story yesterday about the Norwegian massacre alleged to have been committed by a right wing Christian fundamentalist, we would like to respond to criticisms that our facts were wrong-- they were not. We said corporate media's initial response was to blame Muslims, and Glenn Greenwald backs that up in his column this morning http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/23/nyt/index.html, singling out the /Washington Post /and/New York Times/, two newspapers we find at /LUV News/ to be disgusting in their zealous efforts to support National Security State http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm propaganda and the positions of the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm, at the expense of the public interest. Our comment that this is the usual practice of our mass media, to discredit Muslims when no Muslim is involved, such as in the case of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, also by a right wing Christian who was registered as a Republican, is backed up by this old Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting piece http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3606 going back to that bombing. * ** *UPDATE ON MURDOCH'S HACKINGGATE SCANDAL * ** *Braden Goyette has a piece going into the three investigations of the Rupert Murdoch empire http://www.truth-out.org/whats-deal-news-corps-other-us-based-hacking-scandal/1311431445 in the USA, concerning the hacking scandal. * ** *SAY YA' WANT A REVOLUTION? * ** *Kevin Zeese provides an update on the revolution http://october2011.org/node/473 in Washington starting 6 October, going into reasons why it has a chance to succeed, if only people will continue to swell the ranks of citizens participating, work to inform others, and encourage others to participate. The piece is infused with inspiring videos of successful protests across the nation that have not received coverage by our corrupt mass media. * ** **/The Hill/ reports this morning http://thehill.com/homenews/house/173117-head-of-dem-caucus-warns-no-revenues-in-debt-deal-no-dem-votes that President Obama has offered $650 billion in cuts to Social Security and Medicare, but his Republican partners say that's not enough, and no way are the rich and corporations going to contribute anything other than a willingness to continue to make billions for themselves from privatized government and the usual corporate welfare. This despite Obama and his Gang of Six buddies offering a tax cut for the rich http://www.truth-out.org/what-do-obama-gang-six-and-paul-ryan-have-common/1311350379 as part of the plan. Here's a piece http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/23/us-usa-afghanistan-waste-idUSTRE76M27Y20110723 in British news this morning about another $34 billion stolen by the Nuclear Mafia http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Mafia.htm in the Iraq/Afghanistan quagmires-- we get such stories weekly now as our government leaders pretend the deficit is caused by the poor getting too much bread, the elderly getting too much medical care, and the working class paying too little in taxes. Often the money just disappears, and nobody knows what happened to it, many billions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and nobody is responsible. The President and Congress pretend, on behalf of their campaign donors, not to understand any of this, and nobody is ever charged with keeping track of where the money goes. The rich and corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars in a system rigged to give them money whenever anything happens: when somebody pays their rent/mortgage, when somebody eats food, when somebody gets sick, when someone dies, when a hurricane hits, when a war flares up, when a job is sent abroad in search of child, prison or slave labor. Desperate to find a way to sell out the public interest, the latest proposal by Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/23/super-congress-debt-ceiling_n_907887.html, is that a 12 person Super Congress, will be formed to fast track legislation and ram it through Congress quickly before the ignorant masses can find out what hit them. This, or some similar scheme will be finalized in order to undermine democracy on behalf of the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm, so it does appear our government leaders have absolutely no shame remaining as they kneel to kiss the butts of powerful transnational investors who don't give a damn about this nation or its people.** ** As in the days before the French revolution, the rich are getting much richer and the poor are getting desperately poorer. In the following piece,
[LAAMN] We Are The Whirled | Mark Fiore's Animated Cartoon Site
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[LAAMN] foreclosures
Sorry about the large file, but this isn't the kind of thing that is clearly told to you by the self elected investigative and information services of America, the main Stream media, in fact they seem to go past this kinda stuff in a real rush. Las Vegas of today reminds me if Central Western Washington State when I left in 1970, with it's billboard on hwy 99 as you left headed for Cullyfornia, and work WIll the last person leaving please turn out the lights'. This was also the conditions that Bill Gates felt was welcome to invest in as real-estate was highly suppressed and people would work for near nothing, reversing the immigration as the remaining jobs in Texas, the Mid West and Cullyfornia were sent over seas. Do you get the idea that depressions are real money makers for those who already have the most? Those same bankers we the taxpayers just bailed out, for starters? Their assets are protected, even if they stole all of yours. *Subject: **Maps showing the density of foreclosures in some cities* *T**HIS IS A STARTLING SET OF PICTURES!* */_Note: The red_/**_/dots show homes currently in foreclosure. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010/_* *Although some of the worst hit areas in**Nevada,CaliforniaandFloridaimproved from 2009, the foreclosure rate in these areas remains high. For a way to visualize the foreclosure crisis, they borrowed aGoogle http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/googlemaps technique described byBarry Ritholtz http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/12/google-map-foreclosures/. Keep scrolling down,Las Vegasis the big winner/loser with its number of foreclosures.* *20)**Boise,Idaho-- 1 in 21 homes in foreclosure (The red dots show all foreclosures in process)* cid:D3F06AC3C3AA421E9E4EE00B1762A3D1@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *19)**Sarasota,Fla.-- 1 in 21 homes in foreclosure* cid:9510EE83C7AE4F7FADA006968A61CE9C@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *18)**Lakeland,Fla.-- 1 in 21 homes in foreclosure* cid:19471A5D11604C96BB23268EE091CB82@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *17)**Tampa,Fla.-- 1 in 20 homes in foreclosure* cid:B7B12589C64C4B2496F214CC713927BD@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *16)**Port St. Lucie,Fla.-- 1 in 19 homes in foreclosure* cid:724F2003994C467C96CEDF92EC140ED0@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *15)**Sacramento,Calif.-- 1 in 19 homes in foreclosure* cid:8DAAB673143E4BB592C853002D928475@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *14)**Naples,Fla.-- 1 in 18 homes in foreclosure* cid:F02E83169D814D5790DFD5A68589FDAD@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *13)**Deltona,Fla.-- 1 in 17 homes in foreclosure* cid:3844F83713B74B0CAB04831EA787AF94@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *12)**Bakersfield,Calif.-- 1 in 17 homes in foreclosure* cid:CA10B466AAB9475EB3EA7005DB556F79@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in 2010./ *11)**Reno,Nev.-- 1 in 16 homes in foreclosure* cid:F81C85D8217444F9BC2334F09A9B4BD4@charlesd6ebdbf Image: Courtesy of Google Maps /Note: The red//dots shows homes currently in foreclosure.. The slide title describes the fraction of homes that received foreclosure filings in
[LAAMN] Ray and Bubba
Ray and Bubba http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUFF/message/71235;_ylc=X3oDMTJzc29hYXNlBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwNDk0NjQxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM3MTIzNQRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzExMTczMjk0 Ray and Bubba were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A woman walked by and asked what they were doing. We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole, said Bubba. but we don't have a ladder. The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocket, took a measurement and announced, Eighteen feet, six inches and walked away. Ray shook his head and laughed. Ain't that just like a woman! We ask for the height and she gives us the length. Ray and Bubba are currently working for the U.S. Government. and helping to design more 'stimulus packages' [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] whiskey
In 1952, Armon M. Sweat, Jr., a member of the Texas House of Representatives, was asked about his position on whiskey. What follows is his exact answer (taken from the Political Archives of Texas): If you mean whiskey, the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being. However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life's great tragedies and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into Texas treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it. This is my position, and as always, I refuse to compromise on matters of principle. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Hey CRAP! We just bailed...
These SOB's out, under the insistence of Bush II, Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, Reid and McCain Maybe it is time for them to return the favor, in exactly the manner they got it from you and I, loans that have NO END, and NO INTEREST. Those sons' a robber barons Scott (take a lookie and see how many of them you can identify as Military Industrial Complex or Bankers/Wall Street moguls that have been at the Government teat for at least the last few generations) http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/?akid=7271.263424.z1JTWoid=635585rd=1t=1 29 Companies Had More Cash Than The U.S. Treasury As Of July 13 http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/635585/29_companies_had_more_cash_than_the_u.s._treasury_as_of_july_13/ As of July 13, 29 public companies had more cash on hand http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-are-29-public-companies-more-cash-us-treasury?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29 than the U.S. Treasury Department, according to the site Zero Hedge based on numbers from Capital IQ. It's a stark reminder that if Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, the government won't have nearly enough money to continue funding essential services and programs. In the first half of July alone, Treasury cash balances were depleted http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-are-29-public-companies-more-cash-us-treasury?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29 from from $130 billion to just $39 billion. That means the most powerful nation on earth currently is tied with Google for the amount of cash that it has, and is less flush than Bank of America, JP Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, among others. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-are-29-public-companies-more-cash-us-treasury?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29 Here Are The 29 Public Companies With More Cash Than The US Treasury Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden on 07/15/2011 11:53 -0400 * BAC http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/12281 * Bank of America http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/7841 * Google http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/12089 * Tim Geithner http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/299 As was pointed out yesterday http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-treasury-burns-90-billion-cash-two-weeks, courtesy of a blistering $80 billion cash burn in the first half of July, Tim Geithner managed to reduce Treasury cash balances from $130 billion to $39 billion. Granted this number will increase next week after this week's $66 billion in Treasury auctions settle, only to drop once again when another batch of Bills mature and are not rolled. So in response to various inquiries we present the 29 public companies that hold more cash than the US Treasury does as of July 13 (Geithner is tied with Google at $39 billion). Not very surprising, two of the top 3 are Chinese companies. The third? Bank of America... Surely there is a good reason why BAC is preparing for rainy days. http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/draghi/Cash%20vs%20UST.jpg And in related news, here are the 69 companies whose CDS trade inside of the US, or said otherwise, are perceived as less risky than the US government, whose default risk yesterday http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-cds-jumps-highest-february-2010-debt-ceiling-worrieshit a one-and-a-half year high. http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/draghi/CDS%20Spreads.jpg 5 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2:
[LAAMN] Ironic Times...............
http://www.ironictimes.com/ *TSA TOLD TO CHECK FOR SUICIDE BOMBERS WITH * *SURGICALLY IMPLANTED BOMBS* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The DA stole his life, justices took his money
Prosecutors are not responsible to train their staff that they MUST turn over evidence that is favorable to the defendant? Huh? This explains the great many cases where we have heard time and again that the prosecutors knowingly prosecuted innocent people. Let's look at this from a different angle. Those Prosecutes are there to represent the best interests of We the People? Or are they there to use any person who cannot defend themselves from monsters, to be ale to climb the so called ladder of the Justice system so they can make more money AND ENRICHEN the Prison system? There job is NOT to get the actually Guilty? Just to get convictions? The 'letter of the law' is an aberration to the purpose of the law, then only they who control the letters of the law need no fear the law, as this is solid proof, That Justice Thomas and his fellow DO NOT work for We The People. These are the people, who are suppose to evenly and fairly apply the laws to EVERYONE, and this is a shining example of how dangerous the legal system could be to you. Something needs to be done to return our Nation to it's purpose, not the letter of documents whose PURPOSE is suppose to be to ensure the PURPOSE of our Highest laws, are carried out. We now have a whole criminal system that no one lawyer or judge can understand all of it, because it no longer is designed to protect the citizens of the nation and it definitely is not there to uphold the purpose of our Constitution. The people for this job, are you and I, as those who are suppose to represent us, are showing in bold face, we are not those being represented and worked for. Scott *The D.A. Stole His Life, Justices Took His Money http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/opinion/sunday/03sun5.html?_r=1* www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/ A Supreme Court’s ruling has made it even more likely that innocent people will be railroaded by untrained prosecutors. One month before John Thompson’s scheduled execution, a private investigator discovered that prosecutors had hidden evidence that exonerated him. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the 5-to-4 majority http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/09-571P.ZO in Connick v. Thompson, said the D.A.’s office was not liable for failing to train its lawyers about their duty under the Constitution to turn over evidence favorable to the accused. The lawyers had kept secret more than a dozen pieces of favorable evidence over 15 years, destroying some. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6991/1403/1600/penguin%20031.jpg Unless we embrace 'TRUTH' and recognize 'EVIL', we will find NO Resolutions to 'PEACE... _ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Cartoon Du Jour - By Khalil
Well, we've all heard of DINO and RINO's, who are most of those holding office in Congress and the Senate, now we have a shining example of SINO. Wicked cartoons by America's Most Wanted Political Cartoonist. Enjoy! If the cartoons doesn't load automatically, please visit the following URL to manually load the cartoon: http://www.bendib.com/newones/2011/July/small/7-5-Papandreou.jpg http://www.contactingyou.com/emailmarketer/link.php?M=16825N=161L=254F=H Check-out-the-cartoon-book http://www.contactingyou.com/emailmarketer/link.php?M=16825N=161L=80F=H ~~ To subscribe a friend, just follow this link: www.bendib.com/subscription http://www.contactingyou.com/emailmarketer/link.php?M=16825N=161L=78F=H To unsubscribe, please e-mail: cont...@bendib.com mailto:cont...@bendib.com E-mail Marketing Provided by: JM Web Designs http://www.contactingyou.com/emailmarketer/link.php?M=16825N=161L=72F=H [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The wench Michelle Malkin - and an old 'toon that I found funny
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[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 6 July, 2011
Now I understand why some paid Democrat Operatives have been going nuts the last few weeks about Nader.. and he isn't even running. The last Article, Debating Taboo's. OMG, they're afraid people will TALK amongst themselves! Subscription link at the bottom if you want this newsletter every morning, as I forward them irregularly. Scott *FORCES OF GREED WILLING TO DESTROY PLANET FOR SHORT TERM PROFIT * ** *Humanity is near to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater and faster than the industrial revolution to avoid 'a major planetary catastrophe,' warns a new United Nations report, begins a piece this morning in Environment News Service http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2011/2011-07-05-02.html. * *Our ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm, ignoring the vast research of most hard scientists on the planet that human-caused global warming is getting worse, continue to ignore everything but the bottom line on the current quarterly profit statements. * *So many of our biggest problems could be resolved if we had a government that cared about the public interest and spread factories making solar panels and wind turbines from sea to shining sea, providing employment for the victims of global capitalism as the growing catastrophe from global warming was lessened in severity. * *If we had a system of justice based on justice, a huge number of CEO's would be in prison for what they've done to condemn the children of the future, including their lackeys in the White House and Congress.* *WEAKENING SOCIAL SECURITY TO ENRICH THE WEALTHY * ** *There is no good reason why children born this morning can't have full Social Security benefits, other than the corruption in our government owing to subservience to the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm (FOG). Dean Baker has a good piece this morning http://www.truth-out.org/subsidizing-profits-weakening-social-security-employer-payroll-tax-cut/1309872784 showing how bad is the idea of an extension of the payroll tax holiday to increase corporate profits going to transnational investors who don't give a damn about this country or its people, endangering the future of Social Security. If the corporate low-lifes responsible for this idea create a job anywhere from this, it will be a victimized slave labor, child labor, or prison labor position abroad that will not help anyone but the ruling FOG. * ** *GOVERNMENT LEAK HYPOCRISY * ** *Glenn Greenwald's piece this morning is about hypocrisy in government leaks http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07/05/leaks/index.html. When the government wants to cheerlead support for war or corporate greed, it leaks information carefully constructed to do that, in violation of secrecy laws, and there is never punishment for the leakers, but when a leaker exposes government corruption or National Security State human rights violations, the leaker is charged with serious criminal activity. Corporate media never notice anything is amiss, in their central role spreading the propaganda on behalf of their masters, the ruling Forces of Greed and its subservient National Security State http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm. * * **In the Land of the Free, there are many taboos in the corporate media. You may not in any way question corporate capitalism or the right of wealthy transnational investors, who don't give a damn about this country or its people, to make a private plantation of the nation. You may not question military spending, bankster bailouts, or where the tax dollars go in general. When the government just simply loses billions of dollars somewhere in the Pentagon, rest assured if the story is reported at all, there will be no follow-up, and that will be the end of it. Congress will appropriate more money for the Pentagon, the Nuclear Mafia http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Mafia.htm will stuff the pockets of Congressmembers with campaign financing, and the /New York Times/ will move on to the next Weinergate scandal or other diversion. You may not question election campaign debates, or why there are only two participants, representing the same corporate greed at any cost to the public interest. Corporate media play it up as though there are differences (hey, one of them is pro-choice, and one is anti-abortion, need we possibly know anything more?). In the following piece, Ralph Nader looks into our system of see no evil, hear no evil, and above all else, speak no evil --Jack * *Debating Taboos http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/05-6 * * * *by Ralph Nader* *The first nationally televised debate (C-SPAN) on the
[LAAMN] The Evil of Two Lessers :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de]
*The Evil of Two Lessers* Margaret Kimberley 7obama_blk_unemployed.jpg http://www.uruknet.de/pic.php?f=7obama_blk_unemployed.jpg BAR http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-evil-two-lessers, July 7, 2011 /Not only is Obama keeping the country in a perpetual state of war, but he abandons core Democratic programs at the first sign of Republican resistance. As a consequence the GOP, which has fought and schemed for decades to starve the beast by cutting social programs while fattening the military and the wealthy, are closer than ever to seeing their dream realized. No longer can it be said that the Democrats are the lesser of two evils, since they are the party in charge that is making the evils possible./ /Medicare and Medicaid are in danger because the president and the rest of the Democrats have acquiesced to Republican attacks on them. / One of the Republicans' major goals is to starve funding from any and all government programs which do not support military spending or the further enriching of corporations and wealthy individuals. They have worked towards this end for decades and, ironically, now, with a Democratic president, are closer than ever to seeing their dream realized.** Senate Democrats like Charles Schumer and Joseph Lieberman are publicly agreeing with Republicans that Medicare and Medicaid are _on the table http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/us/05deficit.html?_r=2ref=us_ and may be sacrificed in order to meet Republican demands for budget cuts. The end result of Barack Obama's photo opportunity golf game with Republican House Leader John Boehner, is that Boehner wins and the people lose. Neither President Obama nor any other Democratic leaders are willing to stand up for what used to be bedrock principles of their party. Democrats once knew with certainty that the already fragile American safety net was protected by their own and under threat only from the other side. Now we see that it is under threat from all sides, with no one in the political system willing to take a stand and fight for their constituents' needs. The 2012 political campaign has already begun in earnest. President Obama is raising millions of dollars for his campaign and congressional Democrats are doing the same for themselves. They base their request for fund raising and other support on Democrats' fear of Republican control, but there is no reason to once again remain loyal to them when they have no loyalty to anyone except the heavy hitter fundraisers. /Fears of Republican control of the White House and Congress are overblown./ At this juncture in history, fears of Republican control of the White House and Congress are overblown. It is Barack Obama who appointed conservative former senator Alan Simpson to his deficit reduction commission. It was a Democratically elected congress who joined with Republicans to defund and destroy ACORN. It is Democrats who have launched yet another war based upon lies, this time against Libya. Democrats' automatic antipathy to the Republican agenda has less and less basis in reality. When they should be paying attention to the machinations of their own party, they instead focus on utterances from Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh, neither of whom are responsible for Democrats who act against the interests of the Democratic party base. It doesn't matter if they make outrageous or racists statements about Obama or other Democrats. Palin, Limbaugh and the other right wingers used to keep Democrats in an uninformed state of panic, are out of power and unable to do away with or cut Medicare. Medicare and Medicaid are in danger, and they are in danger because the president and the rest of the Democrats have acquiesced to Republican attacks on them. While Democrats were always a war party, just as much as Republicans, they were also known for their willingness to use the federal government to create and enhance programs which benefited working people. They protected and expanded the modern welfare state as it existed in this country. President Johnson was responsible for the horrific escalation of the war against Vietnam, but he also was responsible for the very existence of the programs which Democrats are now ready to eviscerate. Johnson was the embodiment of the lesser of two evils argument, attacked because he waged an aggressive and immoral war, but at the same time credited with responding to movement demands and eliminating poverty for millions of people. /When they should be paying attention to the machinations of their own party, they instead focus on utterances from Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh./ That lesser of two evils argument now has almost no meaning. Not only is Obama keeping the country in a perpetual state of war, but at the first sign of Republican resistance, he is willing to throw what used to be the foundation of the Democratic party under the wheels of a bus. Sadly, most Democrats
Re: [LAAMN] This October
Another group has also sent a lot across my desk, stating they are headed for DC in September. http://october2011.org/node/387 I think I've sent articles from both groups. The LUV News site had the first articles about it, Kevin Zeese published through there to announce Oct2011 campaign. If your interested in the seize DC one, I can send some links here for that too. CLG news is behind that one. Scott On 7/8/2011 10:12 PM, gdjohns...@juno.com wrote: In case anyone isn't aware of this Don't know just how big a deal this is, but the organizers seem to be hoping for our own Tahrir Square. See: http://october2011.org/ --GJ __ 2550% Penny Stock Gains? Our last pick exploded 2550% - Join our newsletter for free picks! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e17e367e38352b7bedst04vuc [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Your have a right to.....
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Re: [LAAMN] Military conflicts between nations increasing steadily since 1870
Interesting date. That is just a few years after the US would have gone bankrupt from having to pay off the Northern Soldiers, since the Corporations that hired them said they couldn't, it would bankrupt them and then who was going to put all of those out of work soldiers to work, so the US was going to go bankrupt.. but the same really nice International Financiers that worked with the then US Big Businesses and Corporations, said if they could control the value of the US Dollar, they'd loan the US money, otherwise it just wouldn't be profitable, it would have been cheaper to just take over from who ever took over the USA. Amazing how often in troubled financial times in the USA the nice family name of the Rothschild pops up. Where would we be without them? Who was it that said the International Independent Bankers make 10 times as much money in times of war, as they do in the best times of economic prosperity? It's rather fitting though, don'tcha think? Or as the Businessman father of a kid I went to business school with once said to me, War, it's simply good business, profits ALWAYS go up. Follow the money, ALWAYS. On 7/4/2011 10:51 PM, Michael Novick wrote: Steadily upwards in total number of yearly conflicts by 2% -- and that's only through 2000! Of course the researchers are clueless about the role of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and war profiteering.--MN Military conflicts have been increasing since 1870, study finds June 30, 2011 Courtesy of the University of Warwick and World Science staff Military conflicts between states have been increasing in frequency from 1870 to 2001even without counting the best-known conflagrations such as the world wars and American interventions, a study has found. The survey of conflict counted everything from all-out shooting wars and uses of military force to displays of force such as sending warships and closing borders. This doesn't measure the intensity of violence, researchers said, but does capture governments' readiness to settle disputes by force. Only conflicts between states, not civil wars, were counted. Identifiable factors behind the increase -- two percent more wars each year, on average -- are that there are more borders and weapons are cheaper, according to the investigators. By their count, the total number of nations rose from 47 in 1870 to 187 on the eve of the World Trade Center attacks. There is a close connection between wars and the creation of states and new borders, said Mark Harrison of the University of Warwick, U.K., one of the researchers. This is not reassuring, he added. No matter how you divide it, we have only one planet... you can never be quite sure what little conflicts will not suddenly snowball into much wider, more deadly struggles. It may seem the world enjoyed relative peace between the Cold War and 9/11, but the study by Harrison and Nikolaus Wolf of Humboldt University, U.K. found that the number of conflicts between pairs of states rose steadily from 6 per year on average between 1870 and 1913 to 17 per year in the period of the two World Wars, 31 per year in the Cold War, and 36 per year in the 1990s. The number of conflicts has been rising on a stable trend. Because of two world wars, the pattern is obviously disturbed between 1914 and 1945 but remarkably, after 1945 the frequency of wars resumed its upward course on pretty much the same path as before 1913, Harrison said. The findings are to appear in the journal Economic History Review. When the researchers discussed their work with colleagues, they said the most frequent questions have been about the extra wars since 1945: Aren't these just America's wars? and Aren't these just coalition wars in which many far flung countries join symbolically, yet most never fire a shot? No is the answer to both, they said; if one disregards America's wars altogether, the rising trend remains. Other scholars have found that the average distance between countries at war has fallen steadily since the 1950s. The researchers found that nations with the largest economies have tended to make more frequent military interventions, but there has been no increase in this tendency over 130 years. They also found there is no tendency for richer countries, defined by gross domestic product per head, to make war more often than others, and again this has not changed over 130 years. In other words, the readiness to embark on military adventures is scattered fairly uniformly across the global income distribution. The increase is puzzling as well as alarming, the researchers said. Conventional wisdom said this shouldn't be happening. Nations have become richer, more democratic, and more interdependent on the whole. Thinkers of the Enlightenment held that these things should generally make the world more peaceful. Much political science is built on the idea that the leaders of
[LAAMN] Is the United States a Representative Democracy or a Mirage Democracy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-zeese/a-question-for-reflection_b_889544.html?view=print Posted: 07/ 5/11 03:04 PM ET It is a shame to have to ask whether democracy is a mirage in the United States, no doubt most Americans would rather be celebrating U.S. democracy than questioning it. But the reality of the disconnect between government and the people has become so stark it is impossible to ignore. Gallup reports that Americans belief in our form of government and how well it works is now at only 42% (in 2002 it was at 76%). Less than a quarter of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, yet because of manipulation of the political process, the drawing of voting districts, the impact of campaign money and the power of incumbency, more than 90% will be re-elected. A major problem is the two party duopoly acts much like a two party dictatorship. Despite nearly 60% of Americans wanting a third party and only 35% believing the two parties do an adequate job, the two parties work together to prevent more choices on the ballot. They have put up road blocks to independent challengers through ballot access laws, campaign finance rules, exclusion from debates and the winner take all electoral system. The corporate media plays an important role of keeping independent candidates off the air so people do not hear about their existence or positions. As a result only the two parties, both funded by the corporate oligarchy, and their corporate-approved candidates appear on most ballots. Most Americans end up voting against their interests for what has commonly become known as voting for 'the lesser evil.' The courts, which play an essential role in applying constitutional limits on government in the U.S. Republic, have become a tool of the financial elite, actually weakening elections further. They have issued rulings that further empower the money-class in their control of democracy. The court has allowed unlimited spending by corporations and individuals in the Citizens United decision; and recently found the Arizona Clean Elections Act unconstitutional. Thus striking two blows for the wealthy - they can spend as much as they like, but government cannot provide matching public funds for elections. President Obama, rather than pushing for clean elections, is going from big donor event to big donor event to become the first candidate to run a billion dollar campaign. More and more Americans recognize that his health care policy, which re-enforced and expanded the power of the insurance industry, likely resulted from their $20 million in donations to his first campaign. Obama kept single payer out of the debate despite years of polls showing large majorities of Americans want single payer and vast evidence showing it is the best model to control costs and the only model to provide health care to all. The insurance company's profits came before the necessities and preferences of the people. We see people from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and other big financial institutions not only being bailed out but being put in the Obama administration rather than prosecuted for crashing the economy despite strong evidence of criminal wrongdoing. These are two examples of many. Obama has advocated corporatism on every issue and is now going to those special interests to fund the most expensive campaign in history. In the United States more and more recognize the disconnect between government and the needs of most Americans. They see how crony capitalist policies lead to the largest wealth divide we have known with increasing poverty, joblessness, underemployment and insecurity. At the same time the Congress, Treasury and Federal Reserve funnel trillions of dollars to the big banks, but demand cuts for programs that would create jobs, fund state and local government, build the infrastructure, provide basic necessities and protect the environment. This is the first generation of Americans who see that their children are likely to be worse off than they are. What can Americans do to create a representative democracy and shift the power to the people from major corporations? In fact, the U.S. is not the only country facing the problem of oligarchy. One example that has not gotten a lot of attention in the U.S. media is Spain. The people have been in revolt since March 15th. Hundreds of thousands have taken control of public spaces across the country. Their protests continue and more major protests are being planned. The Spanish movement has been only minimally reported in the U.S. commercial media, perhaps because some of the complaints are so similar to what we hear in living rooms, schools and restaurants when Americans talk among themselves. Here's a sampling of what they are saying in Spain: Politicians and economic powers have perverted the democratic ideal. A professor from Barcelona explains - the political structures, instead of
[LAAMN] Startling revelations from a Swiss banking insider by Peter Odintsov/noviden.info
Follow the money, in all things. Scott Startling revelations from a Swiss banking insider by Peter Odintsov noviden.info Moscow May 30th, 2011 Interview with a Swiss banker done in Moscow 30.05.2011 Q: Can you tell us something about your involvement in the Swiss banking business? A: I have worked for Swiss banks for many years. I was designated as one of the top directors of one of the biggest Swiss banks. During my work I was involved in the payment, in the direct payment in cash to a person who killed the president of a foreign country. I was in the meeting where it was decided to give this cash money to the killer. This gave me dramatic headaches and troubled my conscience. It was not the only case that was really bad but it was the worst. It was a payment instruction on order of a foreign secret service written by hand giving the order to pay a certain amount to a person who killed the top leader of a foreign country. And it was not the only case. We received several such hand written letters coming from foreign secret services giving the order to payout cash from secret accounts to fund revolutions or for the killing of people. I can confirm what John Perkins has written in his book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”. There really exists just a system and Swiss banks are involved in such cases. Q: Perkins book is also translated and available in Russian. Can you tell us which bank it is and who was responsible? A: It was one of the top three Swiss banks at that time and it was the president of a country in the third world. But I don't want to give out to many details because they will find me very easily if I say the name of the president and the name of the bank. I will risk my life. Q: You can't name any person in the bank either? A: No I can't, but I can assure you this happened. We were several persons in the meeting room. The person in charge of the physical payment of the cash came to us and asked us if he is allowed to payout such a big amount in cash to that person and one of the directors explained the case and all others said ok you can do it. Q: Did this happened often? Was this kind of a slush fund? A: Yes. This was a special fund managed in a special place in the bank were all the coded letters came in from abroad. The most important letters were hand written. We had to decipher them and in them was the order to pay a certain amount of cash from accounts for the assassination of people, funding revolutions, funding strikes, funding all sorts of parties. I know that certain people who are Bilderbergers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group were involved in such orders. I mean they gave the orders to kill. Q: Can you tell us in what year or decade this happened? A: I prefer not to give you the precise year but it was in the 80’s. Q: Did you have a problem with this work? A: Yes, a very big problem. I could not sleep for many days and after a while I left the bank. If I give you too many details they will trace me. Several secret services from abroad, mostly English speaking, gave orders to fund illegal acts, even the killing of people thru Swiss banks. We had to pay on the instructions of foreign powers for the killing of persons who did not follow the orders of Bilderberg or the IMF or the World Bank for example. Q: This is a very startling revelation that you are making. Why do you feel the urge to say this now? A: Because Bilderberg is meeting in Switzerland. Because the world situation is getting worse and worse. And because the biggest banks in Switzerland are involved in unethical activities. Most of these operations are outside the balance sheet. It is a multiple of what is officially declared. Its not audited and happening without any taxes. The figures involved have a lot of zeros. Its huge amounts. Q: So its billions? A: Its much more, its trillions, completely unaudited, illegal and besides the tax system. Basically it’s a robbery of everybody. I mean most normal people are paying taxes and abiding by the laws. What is happening here is complete against our Swiss values, like neutrality, honesty and good faith. In the meetings I was involved in, the discussions where completely against our democratic principles. You see, most of the directors of Swiss banks are not locals anymore, they are foreigners, mostly Anglo-Saxon, either American or British, they don’t respect our neutrality, they don’t respect our values, they are against our direct democracy, they just use the Swiss banks for their illegal means. They use huge amounts of money created out of nothing and they destroy our society and destroy the people world wide just for greed. They seek power and destroy whole countries, like Greece, Spain, Portugal or Ireland and Switzerland will be one of the last in line. And they use China as working slaves. And a person like Josef Ackermann, who is a Swiss citizen, is the top man at a German
Re: [LAAMN] Military conflicts between nations increasing steadily since 1870
It's a good thing we control the printing presses or what we call civilization, would be called barbarism. On 7/4/2011 10:51 PM, Michael Novick wrote: The researchers found that nations with the largest economies have tended to make more frequent military interventions --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Drowning Fish?
**Drowning Fish?** /by Greg Palast June 30th, 2011/ // July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine. My Dad's last wish the night before he died last November was to dedicate some of his small savings to the Palast Investigative Fund. It's the only time I wished he'd been an investment banker. He wasn't, so the Gil Palast Memorial Fund is small. And therefore, I appreciate deeply the donations many of you added to it. My mom asked me to wait until my parents' would-have-been anniversary to announce the recipient of the Gil Palast Really Tiny Memorial Fellowship in Investigative Reporting. And the winner is: Rob Roberts, fish biologist. Except his name isn't Rob and he doesn't know a damn thing about fish. His real name is Zachary ZD Roberts, photo journalist extraordinaire. Zach, under the name Rob, scoped out the Gulf Coast for our team immediately the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion. // If you google Zach Roberts, Greg Palast also comes up, making his undercover work more difficult than it need be. But google the name Rob Roberts and you get lots of hits including a sex offender and a fish biologist. Using the name Rob (one of his many legal names, so it's legit), Zach could go where US media fear to tread: where BP doesn't want cameras to snoop. Here's what he found. According to the scientists on NPR, every one of whom is in BP's pay, Mother Nature herself was cleaning up the oil from BP's blow-out, so don't worry about the fish. But Zach found out that BP's fish story was baloney. From local fisherman, Zach learned that fish were DROWNING. Until I heard this from Zach, I didn't know a fish could drown. They can, a biologist (a real one) explained to me. And they have, by the gazillions - but BP's rent-a-professor operation had drowned out the findings. Yes, Mother Nature has created bacteria that can eat crude oil (good), and the bugs have had a party feasting on BP's gunk. Then these bacteria had bacterium babies (bad). These little buggers, like all creatures, breathe — and so they sucked all the oxygen out of the water. Result: fish drowned. BP denies it — and the Department of Interior can't find the fish corpses. The Department hired these same biologists who are suckling on the BP money teat. They could not find the dead fish despite searching by sticking their white canes in the Gulf waters. But we could. It's not easy finding a biologist who is not licking BP's candy cane. But we found a couple: You can meet them — and the deceased fish—in our film on BP, broadcast last week in Europe. The full-monty US version is on its way. // This year, Zach completed the first round of shooting in Alaska for his film on Sarah Palin. Click here http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1ID=107NL=1N=108SI=58991ENC=%212%21GS%21%3fy%216%214%21JQ%21A%211%28O%213%21CD%21%3e1%21%3f%3a%29x%2184%27%216%3f%217%3b%28%21%2f%21%3f%21-%21%29%40%211%28sC%3c%21I%3b%2fy%23%3a%21B94t%212%21GL for some of the killer shots from his portfolio, including the one at the top of oil from the Exxon Valdez — taken 21 years after the spill by Roberts in advance of our filming in the Arctic for our Arctic-to-Amazon investigation of BP and Big Oil. Zach, by the way, conceived and edited the comic book, Steal Back Your Vote (2008) http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1ID=107NL=1N=108SI=58991ENC=%212%21GS%21%3fy%216%214%21JQ%21A%211%28O%213%21CD%21%3e1%21%3f%3a%29x%2184%27%216I%21%3eI3%21%2fR%21%3d%218CbpY, and convinced Bobby Kennedy and I to write it, along with artists Ted Rall and Lloyd Dangle. The Fellowship will provide Zach a small stipend to work with us for one year. [I'd like to make it two years, and would appreciate your tax-deductible donations to do so. I don't want to pressure you, but my mother is 89 and it would break her heart if the Gil Palast Memorial Fund http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1ID=107NL=1N=108SI=58991ENC=%212%21GS%21%3fy%216%214%21JQ%21A%211%28O%213%21CD%21%3e1%21%3f%3a%29x%2184%27%216I%21%3eI3%21%2fR%21%3d%216H%21%3a0%21-G.%21H%40%21J%40%280 ran out of funds. Mom has also requested the list of names of all you subscribers who have NOT donated; which gives you a hint as to how she maintained a successful 66-year marriage.] Thanks again to you all. We're working hard to produce no-B.S. journalism and your support goes along way. We look forward to sharing our forthcoming reports with you over the next several months, and will keep you informed on Rob Roberts' ongoing work. /When in the course of human events it becomes necessary/ to expose the bastards, you can count on us. — Greg Palast and the Palast Investigative Team * /Forensic economist and journalist Greg Palast, author of the New York Times
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 1 July, 2011
*OBAMA'S WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS * ** *President Obama has gone after more whistleblowers than any previous president. This is chilling to anyone who cares about government corruption, now rampant. Linda Greene has a piece going inside it http://www.counterpunch.org/greene06302011.html this morning. * ** *FINALLY GOING AFTER CROOKED BANKSTERS? * ** *Glenn Greenwald points out that banksters are finally being prosecuted http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/30/bankers/index.html, but /in Afghanistan/, not here, where bankster scams resulted in the entire world economy collapsing. The Third World, it would appear, is being held to a higher standard. In an update at the end of the piece, Greenwald points out a /Washington Post/ piece calling for the establishment of the rule of law in Afghanistan, where the USA keeps its Bagram prison in which thousands are locked away without charges indefinitely, never seeing a courtroom, many of them allegedly children. Because of mass media like /the Post/, most citizens stumble about like zombies, completely unaware. * *ACTION OF THE MONTH * ** *In our Action of the Month for July http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/ we encourage readers to send a donation to /Inter Press Service/, which maintains reporters throughout the third world and reports on the victims of global capitalism ignored by our mass media. * ** **At /LUV News/ we routinely run stories about our ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm (FOG) killing their workers by maintaining known unsafe workplaces, killing their consumers with known poisons and unsafe products, sickening us all with air and water pollution and numerous other horrors with the approval, or a blind eye, from our corrupt government. But can they take away your right to sue them if they rape you? Yes they can. You think I mean figuratively, but no, I'm talking about actual rape, brutal rape, and there's nothing you can do about it. The FOG, like King George, rule absolutely --Jack ** *Woman Gang-Raped by 7 Halliburton Employees Signed Away Her Right to Sue? How Justice Has Become the Privilege of Corporations* http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/151452/woman_gang-raped_by_7_halliburton_employees_%22signed_away%22_her_right_to_sue_how_justice_has_become_the_privilege_of_corporations/?page=entire *Access to justice -- like access to elected office, let alone a pundit's perch -- is becoming a perk just for the rich and powerful.* * * *by Laura Flanders* *Worried about the influence of money in American politics, the huge cash payouts that the US supreme court http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/us-supreme-court waved through by its Citizens United decision -- the decision that lifted most limits on election campaign spending? Corporations are having their way with American elections just as they've already had their way with our media. But at least we have the courts, right?* *Wrong. The third branch of government's in trouble, too. In fact, access to justice -- like access to elected office, let alone a pundit's perch -- is becoming a perk just for the rich and powerful.* *Take the young woman now testifying in court in Texas. Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was drugged and gang-raped http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jamie-leigh-jones-claims-iraq-rape-employer-held/story?id=13884264 while working for military contractor KBR in Iraq (at the time, a division of Halliburton). Jones, now 26, was on her fourth day in post in Baghdad in 2005 when she says she was assaulted by seven contractors and held captive http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4004174, under armed guard by two KBR police, in a shipping container.* *When the criminal courts failed to act, her lawyers filed a civil suit, only to be met with Halliburton's response that all her claims were to be decided in arbitration -- because she'd signed away her rights to bring the company to court when she signed her employment contract. As Leigh testified before Congress, in October 2009, I had signed away my right to a jury trial at the age of 20 and without the advice of counsel. It was a matter of sign or resign. I had no idea that the clause was part of the contract, what the clause actually meant, testified Jones.* *You've probably done the very same thing without even knowing it. When it comes to consumer claims, mandatory arbitration is the new normal. According to research by Public Citizen http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=183 and others, corporations are inserting forced arbitration clauses into the fine print of contracts for work, for cell phone service, for credit cards, even nursing home contracts, requiring clients to give up their
[LAAMN] Capitalism Vs: Democracy/Socialism etc.
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. - Fran Lebowitz It would have been nice, in my particular perfect world, for me to have known and understood this quote a few years ago. In one group I'm in we've had a long drawn out conversations about what is Socialism, waht is it's purpose, and why there have been murderous dictators who've said they were Socialists, turns out Democracies are the same way, when they are Democracies in name only. I'm looking for Education on Capitalism, what it is, and Democracy and what it is, and Socialism, and what it is, Communism and what it is, and how Capitalism cannot survive as any one of those, as Capitalism is basically the foundation for Fascism, which is basically the opposite of any Government that operates for the benefit of the majority of it's citizens. Below are the 14 points of Fascism, and of great importance is Milton Mayer's comments at the bottom, from his Book, They Thought they were Free, the Germans 1938-1945 (whose going to write the counter part for us Americans? Don't we deserve such a large glorious place in History too?) Now, please read all of this, keeping in mind the discussion is Capitalism vs Democracy, and all other systems that are suppose to be in place for the good of the majority of the citizens of any given nation. How many, and which points in particular must Capitalism have in place for a country to operate as a Fascist nation? How many of these points have to NOT EXIST, and which ones, for Democracy or say Socialism to exist as a system that operates for the good of all citizens, verses just the few at the top as in Capitalism. Let's see if we can keep it to just those 2 questions, and I realize, nothing is an absolute so we are talking about majorities, not complete black and white situations. I suppose a definition of Capitalism is in order too. I'll use Websters, a staunch supporter of Capitalism, till someone can find a decent universally accepted definition that tells us what Capitalism's Purpose is, how it is intended to operate, and if it even operates that way. Scott ** http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism cap·i·tal·ism /noun/ \?ka-p?-t?-?liz-?m, ?kap-t?-, /British also/ k?-?pi-t?-\ Definition of /CAPITALISM/ *:* an economic system characterized by private http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private[1] or corporate ownership of capital http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capital goods, by investments http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism# that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20market ** http://www.ellensplace.net/fascism.html *14 POINTS OF FASCISM* *1. /Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism/* From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia. *2. /Disdain for the importance of human rights/* The regimes themselves viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation. *3. /Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause/* The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people's attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice---relentless propaganda and disinformation---were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite spontaneous acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and terrorists. Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly. *4. /The supremacy of the military/avid militarism/* Ruling elites always identified closely with the military and the industrial infrastructure that supported it. A disproportionate share of national resources was allocated to the military, even when domestic needs were acute. The military was seen as an expression of nationalism, and was used whenever possible to assert national goals,
Re: [LAAMN] Inside Nader's Stock Portfolio
Mike, Your after him because Nader's after 'Pro Corporate Candidates' who make sure their investments make their constituents/campaign donors rich. Not because he makes Corporate Campaign contributors or Politicians rich at the expense of those who voted for them. Having stock investments is not pro corporate. As I pointed out in my last post on this, Nader has been against all of the things that Clinton/Gore/Kerry/Obama were for. redux: Might as well note, the VA hospitals Gore was going to close, Bush closed. The Medi Care cuts Gore was proposing, Bush implemented, the give aways to the Big Pharma that Gore was supporting, Bush did. Just for a tad of Information in case you might have missed it over the last 3-4 decades, Nader is against Corporate Control of our Government and Politicians giving away the Tax payers money to Corporations who are always begging for more welfare and less taxes, which has to be paid for by the middle class. Try this. If your Pro Corporate Political Party, Promote it openly. Your DLC who approves those who get the Democrat Party approval to run as their Representative are openly Pro International Corporate, though if you look closely neither them or the Republicans support Independent American Businessmen, the leaders of the D/R party voted to give rewards and tax breaks to the International sorts that hostilely took over American Business that didn't want to sell in the first place to the International Consortium of Businesses and Bankers. It was this that destroyed the Democrat Control of the House and Senate in the 1980's, and is once again doing it. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is insane. so I'm going to assume it isn't insane waht the D and R party leadership does and jsut follow the money.. and OMG, those who contribute to their campaigns and support them in non sElection years, are thier sources of income. makes perfect sense why Corporations and International bankers get welfare from our Government paid for by by those that pay taxes (not their top guys). Scott On 6/29/2011 1:53 AM, bigraccoon wrote: Nader was on CNBC monday, 6/27/11 discussing his stock investments. He sounded very pro-corporate, why would he have hundreds of thousands if not millions of his own money invested in numerous corporations mutual funds if it were otherwise. Begin forwarded message: From: Scott Peden scotpe...@cruzio.com mailto:scotpeden%40cruzio.com Date: June 27, 2011 9:30:50 PM PDT Cc: laamn@yahoogroups.com mailto:laamn%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [LAAMN] Inside Nader's Stock Portfolio Mike, I think your almost 11 years late on sending this one out. For starters, it was attacking Gore for his Corporate STANCE, and Naders investment of his PERSONAL wealth. Two different things. Nader has an anti Corporate Control of government stance, which he and his supporters were attacking Gores PRO Corporate Stance. Might as well note, the VA hospitals Gore was going to close, Bush closed. The Medi Care cuts Gore was proposing, Bush implemented, the give aways to the Big Pharma that Gore was supporting, Bush did. Just for a tad of Information in case you might have missed it over the last 3-4 decades, Nader is against Corporate Control of our Government and Politicians giving away the Tax payers money to Corporations who are always begging for more welfare and less taxes, which has to be paid for by the middle class. Scott On 6/27/2011 10:23 AM, bigraccoon wrote: Inside Nader's Stock Portfolio http://www.salon.com/news/politics/feature/2000/10/28/stocks/print.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go
Re: [LAAMN] Inside Nader's Stock Portfolio
Mike, I think your almost 11 years late on sending this one out. For starters, it was attacking Gore for his Corporate STANCE, and Naders investment of his PERSONAL wealth. Two different things. Nader has an anti Corporate Control of government stance, which he and his supporters were attacking Gores PRO Corporate Stance. Might as well note, the VA hospitals Gore was going to close, Bush closed. The Medi Care cuts Gore was proposing, Bush implemented, the give aways to the Big Pharma that Gore was supporting, Bush did. Just for a tad of Information in case you might have missed it over the last 3-4 decades, Nader is against Corporate Control of our Government and Politicians giving away the Tax payers money to Corporations who are always begging for more welfare and less taxes, which has to be paid for by the middle class. Scott On 6/27/2011 10:23 AM, bigraccoon wrote: Inside Nader's Stock Portfolio http://www.salon.com/news/politics/feature/2000/10/28/stocks/print.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] IRONIC TIMES - 06/27/11
/never kill the golden goose./ Is the answer to a question inside - Scott Original Message Subject:IRONIC TIMES - 06/27/11 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:51:37 -0700 From: Ironic Times ironicti...@earthlink.net To: Dear Subscriber, GINGRICH HOCKS WIFE'S EARRINGS TO STAY IN RACE more at ... http://www.ironictimes.com/ Thanks for subscribing to Ironic Times. -- The Editors ironicti...@earthlink.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] SHELL GAMES: A Reuters Investigation
Special Report: A little house of secrets on the Great Plains http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-little-house-secrets-great-plains-113759191.html Articles in this series are exploring the extent and impact of corporate secrecy in the United States. CHEYENNE/ATLANTA (Reuters) - The secretive business havens of Cyprus and the Cayman Islands face a potent rival: Cheyenne, Wyoming. At a single address in this sleepy city of 60,000 people, more than 2,000 companies are registered. The building, 2710 Thomes Avenue, isn't a shimmering skyscraper filled with A-list corporations. It's a 1,700-square-foot brick house with a manicured lawn, a few blocks from the State Capitol. Neighbors say they see little activity there besides regular mail deliveries and a woman who steps outside for smoke breaks. Inside, however, the walls of the main room are covered floor to ceiling with numbered mailboxes labeled as corporate suites. A bulky copy machine sits in the kitchen. In the living room, a woman in a headset answers calls and sorts bushels of mail. A Reuters investigation has found the house at 2710 Thomes Avenue serves as a little Cayman Island on the Great Plains. It is the headquarters for Wyoming Corporate Services, a business-incorporation specialist that establishes firms which can be used as shell companies, paper entities able to hide assets. Wyoming Corporate Services will help clients create a company, and more: set up a bank account for it; add a lawyer as a corporate director to invoke attorney-client privilege; even appoint stand-in directors and officers as high as CEO. Among its offerings is a variety of shell known as a shelf company, which comes with years of regulatory filings behind it, lending a greater feeling of solidity. A corporation is a legal person created by state statute that can be used as a fall guy, a servant, a good friend or a decoy, the company's website boasts. A person you control... yet cannot be held accountable for its actions. Imagine the possibilities! Among the entities registered at 2710 Thomes, Reuters found, is a shelf company sheltering real-estate assets controlled by a jailed former prime minister of Ukraine, according to allegations made by a political rival in a federal court in California. The owner of another shelf company at the address was indicted in April for allegedly helping online-poker operators evade a U.S. ban on Internet gambling. The owner of two other firms there was banned from government contracting in January for selling counterfeit truck parts to the Pentagon. CASTING THE FIRST STONE All the activity at 2710 Thomes is part of a little-noticed industry in the U.S.: the mass production of paper businesses. Scores of mass incorporators like Wyoming Corporate Services have set up shop. The hotbeds of the industry are three states with a light regulatory touch-Delaware, Wyoming and Nevada. The pervasiveness of corporate secrecy on America's shores stands in stark contrast to Washington's message to the rest of the world. Since the September 11 attacks in 2001, the U.S. has been calling forcefully for greater transparency in global transactions, to lift the veil on shadowy money flows. During a debate in 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama singled out Ugland House in the Cayman Islands, reportedly home to some 12,000 offshore corporations, as either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record. Yet on U.S. soil, similar activity is perfectly legal. The incorporation industry, overseen by officials in the 50 states, has few rules. Convicted felons can operate firms which create companies, and buy them with no background checks. No states license mass incorporators, and only a few require them to formally register with state authorities. None collect the names and addresses of beneficial owners, the individuals with a controlling interest in corporations, according to a 2009 report by the National Association of Secretaries of State, a group for state officials overseeing incorporation. Wyoming and Nevada allow the real owners of corporations to hide behind nominee officers and directors with no direct role in the business, often executives of the mass incorporator. In the U.S., (business incorporation) is completely unregulated, says Jason Sharman, a professor at Griffith University in Nathan, Australia, who is preparing a study for the World Bank on corporate formation worldwide. Somalia has slightly higher standards than Wyoming and Nevada. An estimated 2 million corporations and limited liability companies are created each year in the U.S., according to Senate investigators. The Treasury Department has singled out LLCs as particularly vulnerable to being used as shell companies, as they can be owned by anyone and managed anonymously. Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming had 688,000 LLCs on file in 2009, up from 624,000 in 2007. Treasury and state banking regulators
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 26 June, 2011
*WAR LIES * ** *Glenn Greenwald's piece yesterday http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/25/libya/index.html quotes President Obama, a week into his Libya bombing campaign three months ago, ***Broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake*. He quotes a number of following White House denials before presenting this: * *The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war *admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi*. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops in Libya after Qaddafi falls -- Josh Rogin, /Foreign Policy/, yesterday http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/06/24/exclusive_top_us_admiral_admits_we_are_trying_to_kill_qaddafi. * *Not that people who are awake had any problem understanding the reality of this when bombs fell on Qaddafi's family, as recounted in this blistering summary by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney http://mycatbirdseat.com/2011/05/how-nato-killed-qaddafi-family-members/, Well, in the case of Muammar Qaddafi it's not only twice: once for his daughter, murdered by the United States bombing on his home in 1986, and again on 30 April 2011 when his youngest son, Saif al Arab, but yet again for three young children, grandbabies of Muammar Qaddafi killed along with Saif at the family home. * *Corporate media and our government often tell us our smart bombs are extremely accurate, and if so, it should be obvious to all but our most devout propagandists in corporate media and government, that Qaddafi was targeted. So why the lies? * *We've been lied to by our government/mass media because there is a pretense of operating under a UN security council mandate which authorized narrow guidelines that do not include ground troops or assassination of the Libyan leader. In other words, under international law, what's being done, and what's being planned by the US government in Libya is illegal. * *When President Bush lied about Nigerian yellow cake after the CIA warned him the information was suspect, in order to get support behind his illegal war on the people of Iraq, liberals vilified him, but they have been asleep since Obama took office. * *Greenwald's piece mainly goes into the divided vote in Congress, not allowing the war in Libya to be authorized, while allowing funding to continue. Greenwald defends the Congressional peace faction, who were given a confusing bill. But there is no question the bill was written that way because the deceptive Speaker Boehner supports Obama's lies, and saw this as a way to divide the opposition. * *JUSTICE IN AMERICA * ** *Consider Paul Allen, 55, a former mortgage CEO who defrauded lenders of over $3 billion. This week, prosecutors *celebrated* http://www.marketwatch.com/story/another-messed-up-mortgage-meltdown-2011-06-24 the fact they got him a 40-month prison sentence. http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/morning_call/2011/06/former-taylor-bean-ceo-gets-3-years-in.html Consider Roy Brown, 54, a hungry homeless man who *robbed * http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/01/28/prosecutionsa Louisiana bank of $100 - the teller gave him more but he handed the rest back. He felt bad the next day and surrendered to police. He *got* http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_alladdress=439x1353941#1355786 15 years. * *http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/06/24-8 * ** ** ** **Our secret government, on behalf of the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm (FOG), the National Security State http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm, and the transnational corporations for whom it toils, fears nothing more than an informed public. That's why the ruling FOG bought up the publishing houses, major city newspapers, cable networks, communications companies, TV networks, radio networks, magazines by volume and just about everything one considers to be mass media, clearly for control. They don't have to let you run for high office, they can make sure you're not seen. They can work up enough support for a war that thousands of troops will be up to their neck in it before anything can be done to stop it, and they don't cover the protests. One of their greatest fears today of the FOG/National Security State are the Hacktivists who represent the public interest in getting information out for the masses to see, information our high government officials would never let you see, because they don't want you to know they are selling you out at every opportunity on behalf of the FOG who finance the elections and control mass media nearly absolutely. They are in so much
[LAAMN] Questions for todays Progressive News Network PEACE SHOW Guests
This is a new source I've just barely seen. Unfortunately I may be sending it to late for today's show. I'd love some feed back from those of you who are already all over a lot of Progressive sites. Scott *Questions for todays Progressive News Network PEACE SHOW Guests* *Tune In Live 7pm-8pm Eastern Time - or listen Anytime * *Click Here to Listen http://www.blogtalkradio.com/progress-news-network *- /Tell Your friends/ / / 1. What was it that called *YOU* to the peace movement 2. What do you see as the answer to the question: *WHY SO MANY WARS*? 3. Why are */WAR PROFITEERS/* GOING UNPUNISHED? 4. WHY DO WE HAVE A *GROWING ARMY OF MERCENARIES*? 5. *IS LIBYA A WAR*? or a /Limited Kinetic Operation/? 6. *Absent a DRAFT*, WHAT if anything will Awaken YOUNG AMERICA to the price of* ENDLESS WARS * 7. Have you called for a protest in opposition to the* WAR ON LIBYA? ** WAR ON YEMEN? * 8.* WHAT PRECEDENTS ARE WE ESTABLISHING FOR FUTURE NATIONS *with our *WARS* and *Drone Missile Strikes *on /nations whose leadership we do not approve/ or _who harbor individuals_ who _we deem as dangerous_ or _problematic_? 9. When will we pull out of*IRAQ? AFGHANISTAN? PAKISTAN? YEMEN? HONDURAS? COLUMBIA?VENEZUELA? * 10. When will we openly declare war on *LIBYA? COLUMBIA? HONDURAS*? and the not so secret war on*YEMEN? or COLUMBIA or Venezuela? * 11. We have entered a period where absent declared wars against nation states we've declared UNILATERAL WAR on citizens and citizen groups within other sovereign nations? *What is the harvest of policies like that? * 12. IS THE ERA OF ANTI-WAR or *PRO-PEACE ACTION DEAD? * 13. *Have DRONES WARS made PEACE ACTIVISTS OBSOLETE? * 14. HAVE THE ATTACKS IN PEACE ACTIVISTS IN THE MIDWEST FINALLY destroyed any semblance of a peace movement? 15. *When did you last attend a peace action? * 16. If economic collapse has not put an end to overseas adventures is there nothing to prevent expansions of WAR *(Secret and Not so Secret)* as International Policy? 17. Will *Veterans Care Institutions* fully adopt the Sen. Simpson analysis - too expensive to maintain and a DRAIN on the Struggling Economy? 18. If the *national commercial media* does not report on* International Warfare*, who will draw America's attention to it? 19. What is the most effective means of *Alerting the Civilized World* to the /COSTS OF WAR/? 20. Is *Move ON relevant*? Is *Amnesty International*? 21. Who will save today's Whistle-Blowers from a* Democratic Administration? * 22. Will* UNLIMITED WAR* be an election Issue in 2012? 23. Is *ANTI-WAR Morality* obsolete? /Again - No Particular Order - But I wanted you to know the direction we are headed./ / / /solidarity peace/ / / /r...@averyvoice.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Tommy Douglas OR WHY SOME WANT TO TALK NASTY ABOUT NADER!
Well, That explains a lot! Thank you Holycstngs for doing the Follow the Money for us as to why Nader is under attack from the Dems, WHEN HE ISN'T RUNNING FOR OFFICE. Scott WHY SOME PEOPLE, LIKE BARRON'S, WANT TO TALK DOWN NADER! *Show Ralph Nader the MONEY *** Barrons June 27, 2011 From: Ralph Nader act...@singlepayeraction.org To: holycstngs To secure single payer here in the United States -- We have to understand how Canada did it. And to understand how Canada did it, we have to understand Tommy Douglas. And not just that Canadians voted him The Greatest Canadian in a recent poll. Or that he's the grandfather of the actor Kiefer Sutherland. But we have to understand how Tommy Douglas built a political movement that toppled the two corporate parties in Saskatchewan in the mid-1940s. And what the lessons are for citizens in the USA. Tommy Douglas was born in Scotland in 1904. His family moved to Canada when he was six. Tommy Douglas became a Baptist minister who supported unions and a public health insurance system. He became premier of Saskatchewan by running against Canada's two major parties. In a dramatic and decisive confrontation in 1962, Douglas then overcame a doctor's strike against Medicare plan. The Medicare for all single payer plan became law that same year in Saskatchewan. And in 1966, his single payer program was adopted by the national government. For a donation of $100 to Single Payer Action http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=47tpWEyxgryJ8yOjBQaTykgwFrUdcLHl today, we'll send you the acclaimed 334-page paperback biography -- /The Life and Political Times of Tommy Douglas /by Walter Stewart. And we'll also send you the riveting three-hour Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) docudrama DVD -- /Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story./ // Show it to your friends. As you know, single payer full Medicare for all is supported by a majority of the American people, doctors and nurses. But last year the single payer bill in Congress (HR 676) was shoved aside by the insurance and drug companies, their two toady parties and President Obama. There was not one full Congressional hearing on this majoritarian proposal. We need to learn from Tommy Douglas and the Canadian experience to prepare ourselves for the next round – coming soon. So, to get both the biography and DVD, donate now. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=PRV624JSgqtNb2ngKrvni0gwFrUdcLHl Together, they will give you a deeper understanding of how Tommy Douglas got it done in Canada. So that we can get it done here in the USA. Your donation http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=w60UHnxEnQy0TqWUcW5QjUgwFrUdcLHl will be supporting the good work of Single Payer Action, which has just launched a county by county /pilot campaign /to demand the resignation of Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito from West Virginia. She not only opposed single payer, but in her extremism, she recently voted in the House of Representatives to put Medicare on the road to extinction. The campaign is part of our ongoing effort to find new ways to break through the united greed and cruelty of the corporate supremacists. Thank you for your continued support. Onward to single payer full Medicare for all, Ralph Nader Ralph Nader PS: This offer ends July 1, 2011. But supplies are limited. (The publisher of the biography informs us there are fewer than 600 copies left in print.) So please donate now to secure your book and DVD. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=c6%2By6hLCt2Pb6VclnfP6zUgwFrUdcLHl If you would like to stop receiving these e-mails, please click here. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=%2F1EXAFVAUWBLX0%2F0NLl5GUgwFrUdcLHl empowered by Salsa http://www.salsalabs.com/?email [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group
[LAAMN] Cost of Bush Tax Cuts $5.5 Trillion
Amazing. Now who would support someone that backed these Bush Tax cuts which have reduced the tax base from federal to local levels about 40%? Would you re-elect someone that was driving you into bankruptcy or debt, while making sure their moneyed buddies at the top got richer? Go ahead, can you name your representatives that voted for the Bush Tax Cuts, AND their party affiliation? The dates at the bottom isn't referring to the period GWB was in office, only that he started this, and Congress,,the Senate and Current President have accelerated, not slowed down in this area. http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm Scott Cost of Bush Tax Cuts $5.5 Trillion June 7, 2011 http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/57321640 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Tell your Senators: We need the facts!
TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE Join us and people of faith across the country in marking the *International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26)* by asking your Senators to support the public release of the findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into CIA interrogation practices. *Send an e-mail to your Senators TODAY!* http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=80rz1J8rY%2BXSoEQJ0nO8pjkEzOZDgWNR The Senate Intelligence Committee is carrying out a 2 year long investigation into CIA interrogation practices. We need the Committee to seek the release of a public version of the report on this investigation so that future U.S. policy can be based on facts. Please use our online tool to send an e-mail to your Senators http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=EHf6b53sjmQSAF%2BoL8pkkDkEzOZDgWNR, asking them to help ensure that the findings of the report are made public. You can strengthen your voice by using this Tell a Friend message http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=PRoJJ9FsrQ%2BvgLTmZR2Q7DkEzOZDgWNR to write friends or members of your congregation. And you can find additional resources for education and advocacy on our Torture Awareness Month webpage http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2c=ZcxI3J/XfaOGgQax%2BqaSRzkEzOZDgWNR. Thank you for raising your voice today in support of victims of torture. Uncovering the truth will help prevent the future use of torture. // [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Does Senator Kerry want to hear from you?
Mobilizing the Progressive Vote From Senator John F Kerry http://www.pdamerica.org/blog/view/from-senator-john-f-kerry/ Wow. Read the reader comments. Maybe he doesn't want to hear what we are saying, it certainly isn't a mess of back patting happening there. I wasn't happy with Kerry when he threw himself under the bus when we could have had a recount, after promising to not do the same thing Gore did and give up at the earliest possible moment, and instead defend WE THE VOTERS as OUR REPRESENTATIVE. There were other things too, but I stopped listening to him till this came across my desk. After years of the party liners telling me I am the fringe or lunatic cause I want to vote for the best candidate, instead of Dem Party-line, it is refreshing to read comments from reads I do not know. This is twice now I've gone to the PDA site and nearly every single responder has stated they are tired of the illusion of representation from the Dem party or one of it's members (not all Dems) with a Neo Con voting record. Reading the PDA site has been a real refresher, enlightening, to know I am in the vocal majority now, not the minority. Most of you here likely are of the same persuasion, wanting Representatives in Office, not D's that ignore you after they've been elected. Seems to me PDA is taking nothing but a shellacking from people, as the articles I've seen since Wisconsin, all scream that were tired of the Non Progressives being sold to us as, Progressive. Mike hasn't closed the comments yet. so if you want to have a say, do it while you can! Even if he has, read what the PEOPLE not the PAID POLITICAL POPULATION CONTROL EXPERTS want you to think the rest of the nation feels. Scott --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 24 June, 2011
This article fits in with this issue too http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/05-1 Second string psaychopaths Scott *OUR LAWLESS GOVERNMENT * ** *Washington has signed 96 agreements with different countries to avoid having its troops, involved in conflicts, being brought to trial at the International Criminal Court, **stated Nicolás Fernández http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/23junio-impunity.html, member of the Cuban International Law Society, no matter how horrendous are the crimes, including torture, rape and murder**. As for our leaders, **At present, ways of arresting real criminals are nonexistent, and so we cannot try the former President George W. Bush, or former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he said. * *This would all be obvious were our mass media to allow such criticism. Because they cover up our criminal National Security State http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm activities, most citizens are unaware that our government is now clearly the most criminal on earth, as it lies us into illegal wars, slaughters innocents, tortures people, locks people in horror prisons without charges indefinitely, and commits more human rights violations than any of the nations on the annual State Department Human Rights report. * *The State Department's web site on this is a joke, pretending concern about human rights http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/.**Of course Cuba, from where we got this story this morning, is on that list.* *CRIMINAL COURTS IN THE LAND OF THE FREE * ** *The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Big Pharma cannot be sued under state laws for failure to list the known risks of taking their generic drugs. In other words, if they know they are selling you poison, they don't have to let you know about it. These right wing justices, who would themselves be in prison were our system of justice based on justice, are leaving law enforcement in these matters up to the federal government, whose Food and Drug Administration is run by Big Pharma, and covers up all but the worst outrages, as Big Pharma kills far more people from drugs known to be harmful and taken as directed, than the Mafia ever dreamed. The irony of course, is that these same honorable justices are all for states rights when they get transnational corporations off the hook. * ** *OBAMA VS FREE PRESS * ** *Glenn Greenwald has another masterful report http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/23/risen/index.html on the Obama Administration's chilling attacks on whistleblowers, centering on /NY Times/ reporter Jim Risen being pushed to give up his source. We do not use the /NY Times/ as a source because of their close relationship with the National Security State http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm. When their own journalist, Ray Bonner, reported the El Mozote massacre in El Salvadore, at the request of the Reagan Administration the story never ran and Bonner lost his job. This was a massacre of 900 innocents, including infants, by troops whose leaders were trained in the USA in torture techniques. We also despised the /NY Times/ running phony stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq with which to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq while we were running, at /LUV News/, stories by the world's foremost experts on Iraq's weapons, saying there were none, and so many other stories, but we agree that what's happening to Risen is the kind of thing that will make even the /NY Times/ worse, if they cannot protect their sources. * ** **All over America people are uniting to protest the outrages of our government covered up by our mass media. Our mass media do not report on these protests (unless it is a handful of teabaggers representing the interests of the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm, then we get headlines, of course). But the protests the mass media ignore are the public interest ones, the ones most citizens support, with demands like taxing Wall Street, cutting defense spending, stopping the wars, cleaning up the environment and the other things we talk about every day at /LUV News/. Those in power, with a stranglehold on the news, fear the public may find out that there are others who think the way they do, who would lure the public into one of those rebellions Jefferson so famously told us we should have every once in awhile to ensure an outbreak of democracy. Following is a delightful piece about a protest on Wall Street a few days ago, and most citizens would agree with everything the Nurses involved have to say, but most citizens will never know it happened, thanks to the slimy scumbags who censor such things in keeping our fellow citizens stumbling about like
[LAAMN] Re: The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths
This kind of government is ideal for control of a populace by the moneyed elite. To carry this out requires the employment of many 'kept' politicians to excite and misdirect scared and angry -- and ignorant -- voters. Lest the citizenry realize who stole their money and storm their castles with torches, the rapacious elite need politicians who will carry out the work of re-directing anger at teachers, or labor unions, or the poor. On 6/24/2011 7:18 PM, Scott Peden wrote: Ahh, It's sElection Season again, and it is time to meet some of those running for office again. can you spot your Representative after reading this article? It's what they do, not the Sweet Nothings the tell us during sElection Season. This is rather pertinent. In a country in which much of human culture has been rendered into machines for the manufacture of money, psychopaths are the ideal leaders. They are very focused. They are outcome oriented. They are frequently charming, and usually very bright and able. They can lay off thousands of people, or deny people health care, or have them waterboarded, and it does not disturb their sleep. . Since psychopaths are usually very smart, they can be quite competent at impersonating regular human beings in positions of power. Since they don't care how their actions affect people, they can rise to great height in enterprises dealing with power and money. They can manufacture bombs or run hospitals. Whatever the undertaking, it is all the same to them. It's just business. Scott http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/05-1 Published on Sunday, June 5, 2011 by CommonDreams.org http://www.commondreams.org The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths by David Schwartz http://www.commondreams.org/author/david-schwartz The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book /A Man without a Country/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/081297736X?tag=commondreams-20/ref=nosim. He was the man; the country was the United States of America. Vonnegut felt that his country had disappeared right under his -- and the Constitution's -- feet, through what he called the sleaziest, low-comedy Keystone Cops-style coup d'état imaginable. He was talking about the Bush administration. Were Vonnegut still alive in the post-Bush era, he would not have felt that his country had returned. How had our country disappeared? Vonnegut proposed that among the contributing factors was that it had been invaded -- as if by the Martians -- by people with a particularly frightening mental illness. People with this illness were termed psychopaths. (The term nowadays is anti-social personality disorder.) These are terms for people who are smart, personable, and engaging, but who have no consciences. They are not guided by a sense of right or wrong. They seem to be unaffected by the feelings of others, including feelings of distress caused by their actions. Straying from a decent way of treating people, or violating ethical codes causes no anxiety, the anxiety which is what causes the rest of us to moderate our more greedy impulses. If most children feel anxiety when they are pilfering the forbidden cookie jar, psychopaths feel just fine. They can devour the cookies, shatter the jar as evidence and stuff it in the trash can. When accused, they can argue with apparent sincerity that the cookie jar has been missing for at least a week. There suffer no remorse, no guilt, no shame. They are free to do anything, no matter how harmful. Psychopaths can be very tricky to recognize. As psychiatrist Dr. Hervey Cleckly wrote in his classic The Mask of Sanity in 1941, psychopaths are not technically insane. They don't have a psychosis, like schizophrenia. They are experts in appearing normal. They can act the role of a caring, concerned executive, even though they actually do not seem to experience such feelings. If they hurt somebody, they don't modify their behavior. The United States corporate and government spheres have become, Vonnegut suggested, a perfect habitat for psychopaths. What has allowed so many psychopaths to rise so high in corporations, and then government, he wrote, /is that they are so decisive. They are going to do something every fuckin' day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they don't give a fuck what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich!/ In a country in which much of human culture has been rendered into machines for the manufacture of money, psychopaths are the ideal leaders. They are very focused. They are outcome oriented. They are frequently charming, and usually very bright and able. They can lay off thousands of people, or deny people health care
[LAAMN] The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths
Ahh, It's sElection Season again, and it is time to meet some of those running for office again. can you spot your Representative after reading this article? It's what they do, not the Sweet Nothings the tell us during sElection Season. This is rather pertinent. In a country in which much of human culture has been rendered into machines for the manufacture of money, psychopaths are the ideal leaders. They are very focused. They are outcome oriented. They are frequently charming, and usually very bright and able. They can lay off thousands of people, or deny people health care, or have them waterboarded, and it does not disturb their sleep. . Since psychopaths are usually very smart, they can be quite competent at impersonating regular human beings in positions of power. Since they don't care how their actions affect people, they can rise to great height in enterprises dealing with power and money. They can manufacture bombs or run hospitals. Whatever the undertaking, it is all the same to them. It's just business. Scott http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/05-1 Published on Sunday, June 5, 2011 by CommonDreams.org http://www.commondreams.org The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths by David Schwartz http://www.commondreams.org/author/david-schwartz The great writer Kurt Vonnegut titled his final book /A Man without a Country/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/081297736X?tag=commondreams-20/ref=nosim. He was the man; the country was the United States of America. Vonnegut felt that his country had disappeared right under his -- and the Constitution's -- feet, through what he called the sleaziest, low-comedy Keystone Cops-style coup d'état imaginable. He was talking about the Bush administration. Were Vonnegut still alive in the post-Bush era, he would not have felt that his country had returned. How had our country disappeared? Vonnegut proposed that among the contributing factors was that it had been invaded -- as if by the Martians -- by people with a particularly frightening mental illness. People with this illness were termed psychopaths. (The term nowadays is anti-social personality disorder.) These are terms for people who are smart, personable, and engaging, but who have no consciences. They are not guided by a sense of right or wrong. They seem to be unaffected by the feelings of others, including feelings of distress caused by their actions. Straying from a decent way of treating people, or violating ethical codes causes no anxiety, the anxiety which is what causes the rest of us to moderate our more greedy impulses. If most children feel anxiety when they are pilfering the forbidden cookie jar, psychopaths feel just fine. They can devour the cookies, shatter the jar as evidence and stuff it in the trash can. When accused, they can argue with apparent sincerity that the cookie jar has been missing for at least a week. There suffer no remorse, no guilt, no shame. They are free to do anything, no matter how harmful. Psychopaths can be very tricky to recognize. As psychiatrist Dr. Hervey Cleckly wrote in his classic The Mask of Sanity in 1941, psychopaths are not technically insane. They don't have a psychosis, like schizophrenia. They are experts in appearing normal. They can act the role of a caring, concerned executive, even though they actually do not seem to experience such feelings. If they hurt somebody, they don't modify their behavior. The United States corporate and government spheres have become, Vonnegut suggested, a perfect habitat for psychopaths. What has allowed so many psychopaths to rise so high in corporations, and then government, he wrote, /is that they are so decisive. They are going to do something every fuckin' day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they don't give a fuck what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich!/ In a country in which much of human culture has been rendered into machines for the manufacture of money, psychopaths are the ideal leaders. They are very focused. They are outcome oriented. They are frequently charming, and usually very bright and able. They can lay off thousands of people, or deny people health care, or have them waterboarded, and it does not disturb their sleep. They can be impressively confident. Psychopaths can be dynamic leaders of enterprises, but are handicapped by their lack of feelings for relationships. They may be accomplished captains of industry, or senators, or surgeons, but their families are frequently abused and miserable. Most psychotherapists have seen the wives or husband or children of such accomplished people. Since psychopaths are usually very smart, they can be quite competent at impersonating regular human beings in
[LAAMN] The Bill Clinton Legacy
Good reminder from Robert Scheer about the connection of Clinton to our current miseries. Progressive Democrats especially need to remember the importance of pushing more progressive candidates and policies. From Common Dreams. Robert Scheer: Bill Clinton’s Legacy of Denial http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/22-5 --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 22 June, 2011
I thought so, the 30,000 troop withdrawal for Election season, is only half of what he escalated it to (not including the contractor escalation numbers too). Considering that he ran on getting us out of the Middle East, ain't it comforting to know that those who INVESTED the most MONEY in the last RECORD SETTING Election, are STILL getting their money's worth? Scott *TODAY'S WAR NEWS * ** *Tonight President Obama gives his speech about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, to kick off his campaign for reelection. The networks are allowing it in prime time-- because their owners, stockholders, and board members are making a fortune from the wars, and realize it is an obvious scam to keep the wars going, a token withdrawal with which to fool a disgruntled public. President Obama would have to withdraw at least 60,000 troops just to get back to the troop strength in Afghanistan when he took office, so anything less will be a dog and pony show intended to divert the attention of the masses. Early in his administration, Obama doubled the size of the occupation there by over 30,000, then last year added another 30,000 in a President Bush-like surge, increasing the numbers during his presidency from about 32,000 to 99,000 (not counting contractors numbering over 100,000). The reason for this scam is clear, the American people want out (latest polling numbers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/pew-research-record-support-afghanistan-troop-withdrawl_n_881549.html). Politicians are frightened of the public mood, indicative in a report from /Truthout/ http://www.truth-out.org/us-mayors-call-end-wars-and-nuclear-weapons/1308677269 this morning titled US MAYORS CALL FOR END TO WARS AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Glenn Greenwald summarizes many of Obama's broken peace promises in his piece this morning http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/21/endless_war/index.html Today in Endless War. * ** *STARVING SENIORS TO HELP THE RICH * ** *As our butt-kissing politicians recommend cutting Social Security and Medicare to balance a budget out of control because of their tax cuts to the rich, profitable corporate wars, Wall Street bailouts and other scams, Senator Bernie Sanders tells us http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/21/sanders-5-million-seniors-face-the-threat-of-hunger/ that 5 million seniors face the threat of hunger. Sanders is one of few among our psychopaths called senator, to have a conscience, and he often sounds such alarms never relayed to the public by our shameless mass media. Robert Reich just made a video in which he solves the US economy in two minutes http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/robert-reich-solves-economy_n_881479.html. * ** *MURDERING THE MENTALLY SLOW * ** *Milton Mathis, with an IQ in the low 60's, was executed in Texas last night http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/milton-mathis-executed-killer_n_881885.html by Governor Perry, who's now slaughtered 230 people in this manner, popular enough with voters that he keeps getting reelected. In most of the civilized world executions have been outlawed as human rights violations, but even where they are still allowed they are most often banned when applied to children or the mentally slow, since these are not considered to be aware enough of their actions to be found guilty of criminal intent. Perry is thought to be considering a run for the White House, reminiscent of Bill Clinton's execution of a mentally slow Ricky Ray Rector,**with which to appeal to voters**, as Clinton ran for the White House. **After consuming his last meal,**Rector told his guards he wanted to save his pecan pie for later, and helped guide the execution needle into his arm, thinking it was medicine. * ** **The democracy movement in the USA that will be starting its major action on 6 October, has put out a statement in unity with the other democracy movements on the planet and asked that we go with it this morning, following. A similar piece was supposed to run at /al Jazeera/ on Sunday, so we held back on publishing it to give /al Jazeera/ the scoop. But /al Jazeera/ is trying to get into the American market, where they are mostly shut out by the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm, pushing them toward increasing censorship, as we have noted in recent months. To merge into the American mass media requires that the viewpoint of the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm be unchallenged, so /al Jazeera/ has been excluded from most cable networks. As we predicted, the entire mass media will censor this action as long as they can, and when it becomes impossible to ignore it, they will turn to attacking
[LAAMN] The economy explained. In 135 seconds.
Interestingly enough, it really is this simple. Of about 80% of the income that use to run our government a few decades back, half that is in the hands of the super rich, who now pay less then half the taxes they did before creating the shortfalls we are experiencing now. Which Government Representative of yours will tell you that the only thing that will recover the US Economy, is a strong middle class, while the super rich are running class warfare on us trying to get all the wealth the middle class use to have, and a you might still have some of. By my reckoning, the super rich have about a 66%+ representation in Congress and the Senate, while they are less then 5% of the population, yet control over 40% of all the wealth in this nation. Good vid, get some better details then I just shared, and it didn't seem like 2 minutes longer either. Scott The response to this video online has been just phenomenal---it really seems to have struck a chord---so we're sending it out to every single MoveOn member today. What is it? It's former Labor Secretary *Robert Reich explaining what went wrong with America's economy in just 2 minutes and 15 seconds*---with illustrations to boot. It's great, and it's going viral. *You've got to check it out, *and then pass it on to your friends and family. Watch the video http://www.moveon.org/r?r=209212id=28084-4797179-Ogp6suxt=2 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=209212id=28084-4797179-Ogp6suxt=1 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=209212id=28084-4797179-Ogp6suxt=1 Thanks for all you do. --Daniel, Adam Q., Laura, Sarah, and the rest of the team *Want to support our work?* We're entirely funded by our 5 million members---no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here https://pol.moveon.org/donate/email.html?id=28084-4797179-Ogp6suxt=3. PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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So much for Cats being elected by Mice! *Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know that government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last, has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed -- **first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf. -- **Gerry Spence** - Lawyer and author - Source: From Freedom To Slavery* ?The hottest(darkest) places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality? Dante Alighieri . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 15 June, 2011
*ILLEGAL WAR NEWS * ** *French news is reporting http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110615/wl_sthasia_afp/usattacksbinladenpakistan_20110615061612;_ylt=AruIGbgoBEvptyo8TGe6wDOFOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTMwYXQ0amJpBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDExMDYxNS91c2F0dGFja3NiaW5sYWRlbnBha2lzdGFuBHBvcwM3BHNlYwN5bl9wYWdpbmF0ZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA3Bha2lzdGFuYXJyZQ-- that **five Pakistani informants who assisted the CIA ahead of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden have been arrested, as tensions mount between the USA and Pakistan. We said in /LUV News/, at the time, that we felt the raid had to have inside help, and this indicates that it was not sanctioned by Pakistan's government. In addition, drone bombers operating out of Pakistan have been moved to Afghanistan, the first we've heard they were taking off and landing in Pakistan, under the noses of government officials condemning the bombings of Pakistan's Western Pashtun Taliban. * *Our government got itself into this by staging an unsanctioned raid, and one must imagine how our nation would take it if a foreign government staged a raid in this country to take out someone like Henry Kissinger, recognized by many as a war criminal certainly responsible for killing a thousand times as many innocents as bin Laden. * *Glenn Greenwald points out that the bombing in Yemen is also illegal http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/14/yemen_illegal_war/index.html, to add to the long list of crimes our nation has committed over the past decade in the phony war on terrorism. * *Congressman Kucinich, with bipartisan assistance, is expected to file a complaint in federal court today to force President Obama to seek Congressional support for his illegal attacks on Libya. * *ATTACK ON WORKING CLASS CONTINUES IN WISCONSIN * ** *The Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned a ruling by a judge that Governor Walker's measure limiting public sector collective bargaining be voided, by a vote of 4-3. This means the Governor will get his way and take away worker rights, as directed by his backers, the billionaire Koch brothers. * ** *KOCH BROTHERS WANT TO CONTINUE TO POISON US * ** *Formaldehyde has been listed by the government as a carcinogen. We have known since 1980 that it caused cancer in rats, so why did it take so long to classify it? Well, because billionaires profiting from formaldehyde, like the Koch brothers, have been lobbying against its being listed http://www.truth-out.org/ralph-nader-koch-brothers-led-fight-defend-formaldehyde-despite-carcinogenic-evidence/1308070723 as a poison. And why did they do this? Well, the styrofoam cups they make, from which you drink your coffee, have formaldehyde in them, together with benzene, another known carcinogen. * *Most of our ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm (FOG) will kill you for a dime in profit, but there is something you can do to protect yourself. Here's a story out this morning http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/14/clean-fifteen-low-pesticide-produce_n_876580.html listing the fifteen fruits and veggiesrelatively unlikely to be contaminated by pesticides, for those who can't afford to eat organic. * *Our ruling FOG have knowingly filled our air, water and soil with poisons we can no longer avoid, such as dioxins, but fresh fruits and vegetables are known to boost the immune system, your best defense against it, when combined with exercise, proper sleep, hydration, sunshine and lack of stress (meditation is great for stress). * **The following piece is by Ted Rall, whose political cartoons we often use, because they are among the best in the progressive blogospere. At /LUV News/ we were proud to make the initial announcement of the mass protest planned for 6 October, but we are not satisfied. More than a thousand people have pledged to be there, including Ted Rall and me, but we want tens of thousands soon, running into hundreds of thousands later, and although nobody's saying this now, at /LUV News/ we want more than a million the first day, so that the swampy ground around Washington shakes, along with our sellout politicians, when we march. This is real democracy in action, not a bogus election sponsored by Wall Street, defense cheats and polluters, shutting out all public interest candidates with their media control. I have never felt more like I'm participating in democracy than when joining people marching for social justice, peace, a clean environment, and the other things /LUV News/ stands for http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Belief.htm, and I know /LUV News/ readers will blast this all over the internet and get people to sign up at the web site http://www.october2011.org/ to force our
[LAAMN] The Axis were incompetents!
(referencing Germany, Italy and Japan, WW II era) Did we win because we were better, or waited till everyone else was out of supplies and the wars would have run down anyway, due to lack of warriors and supplies, and good timing was what the USA supplied the best in a 6 year period? (a shorter period then the wars we are in now) So, look at it this way we are now using the same tactics the Axis in WW II used, and there can only be one outcome. Better get ready to learn Chinese, even though the greatest Depression ever known in the USA (for the general public, it will be the greatest transfer of wealth to the top richest 5%) will look a lot more appealing then what history tells us is on the way. Scott http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28342.htm *Six Wars and Counting Washington Reaches for the Record Book By Tom Engelhardt June 15, 2011 **TomDispatch* http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175404/tomgram:_william_astore,_american_militarism_is_not_a_fairy_tale/* -- President* Obama recently reshuffled his top Washington warriors, sending CIA Director Leon Panetta, a man who knows Congress well, on to the Pentagon to replace retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. In turn, the president is bringing in General David Petraeus, present Afghan War Commander, former Centcom commander, and former Iraq War commander (as well as Bush's http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175266/robert_dreyfuss_the_president_chooses_the_guru general), to run the Agency. Whatever the local politics involved, and the Petraeus appointment ensures that the potentially popular general will be on the political sidelines http://www.businessinsider.com/president-obama-ponders-how-to-bury-general-david-petraeus-2011-3 for campaign year 2012, these moves catch the /zeitgeist/ of our Washington moment. Since the bin Laden assassination, in which U.S. military special operations forces commanded http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/jan-june11/panetta_05-03.html by Panetta took out the al-Qaeda leader, a new face of American war http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_new_face_of_war, where sovereignty is irrelevant, armies tangential, and decisions are secret, has been emerging according to Foreign Policy in Focus analyst Conn Hallinan. With the latest news (revealed last week http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html by the /New York Times/) that the U.S. has launched a significant intensification of its secret air campaign against Yemeni tribesmen believed to be connected with al-Qaeda, the U.S. is now involved in no less than six wars. Count 'em, if you don't believe me: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and what used to be called the Global War on Terror. In anyone's book, that certainly qualifies as a working definition of endless war, but that doesn't mean endlessly the same kind of war. Let's look at this, war by war: /Iraq:/ Now largely the dregs of a counterinsurgency operation, this war will not end in 2011. At his confirmation hearings, for instance, Panetta cited http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/09/politics/main20070256.shtml#ixzz1P61rTUjS the existence of al-Qaeda in Iraq as a reason for U.S. troops to remain beyond an agreed-upon year-end withdrawal date. Should those troops actually leave, however, the war will still go on, even if in quite a different form. A gargantuan, increasingly militarized http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175401/tomgram:_peter_van_buren,_how_not_to_withdraw_from_iraq/ State Department mission in that country, complete with its own army and air force of perhaps 5,100 mercenaries http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304906004576369801913947130.html?mod=googlenews_wsj, will evidently keep the faith. /Afghanistan:/ This remains a full-scale U.S. Army-run counterinsurgency war, backed by a major special operations/CIA counterterror war. /Pakistan:/ A full-scale CIA-run drone war in the Pakistani borderlands is actually expanding http://news.antiwar.com/2011/06/08/at-least-24-killed-as-us-drones-attack-north-waziristan/. In the post-9/11 era, this has been the first of Washington's covert or shadow wars (which no longer means secret -- it's all over the news almost daily -- but something closer to off the books, as in beyond the reach of any form of significant popular or congressional oversight or accountability). Panetta is calling for http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/panetta-escalate-shadow-wars-expand-black-ops/#more-48890 more emphasis on such off-the-books wars in which U.S. military operatives might, as in the bin Laden operation, temporarily find themselves under the command of the CIA. /Libya:/ Officially a NATO air war, this one is nonetheless partially run by the Pentagon with targeting assistance from various U.S. intelligence agencies. It involves both direct U.S. air strikes and support for strikes by various NATO and Arab allies
[LAAMN] Need a causus belli ? Invent one !
America's Recent Wars have all been Accompanied b http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUFF/message/68965;_ylc=X3oDMTJzazlyZXEyBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwNDk0NjQxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM2ODk2NQRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzA4MTY0Njc5y False Stories By Prof Peter Dale Scott URL of this article: www.globalresearch. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=25249ca/index. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=25249php?context= http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=25249vaaid=25249 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=25249 Global Research, June 13, 2011 The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 9, Issue 24 It is a troubled Time for NATOs campaign against Libya. President Obama has seen a near-revolt in Congress against the costly war, while Defense Secretary Gates in Brussels has warned his European allies that their tepid response is putting the Libya mission and the alliance's very future at risk.1 Back home, according to the London Daily Mail, Mr Gates has requested extra funds for Libya operations, but has been rebuffed by the White House.2 The past history of American wars tells us that, when the war-going begins to get tough, the professional p.r. campaigns get going, often with wholly invented stories. For example, when in 1990 Defense Secretary Colin Powell was expressing doubts that the United States should attack Kuwait, stories appeared that, as revealed by classified satellite photos, Saddam had amassed 265,000 troops and 1500 tanks at the edge of the Saudi Arabian border. Powell then changed his mind, and the attack proceeded. But after the invasion a reporter from the St. Petersburg Times viewed satellite photos from a commercial satellite, and she saw no sign of a quarter of a million troops or their tanks.3 Hawks in Congress, notably Tom Lantos and Stephen Solarz, secured support for the attack on Iraq with a story from a 15-year-old girl, that she had seen Kuwaiti infants snatched from their incubators by Iraqi soldiers. The story was discredited when it was learned that the girl, the daughter of the Saudi ambassador in Washington, might not have visited the hospital at all. She had been prepped on her story by the p.r. firm Hill Knowlton, which had a contract for $11.5 million from the Kuwaiti government.4 The history of American foreign interventions is littered with such false stories, from the Remember the Maine campaign of the Hearst press in 1898, to the false stories of a North Vietnamese attack on U.S. destroyers in the so-called Second Tonkin Gulf incident of August 4, 1964. We know furthermore that in their Operation Northwoods documents, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962 proposed a series of ways, some of them lethal, to deceive the American people in order to engineer a war against Cuba.5 Since the fiasco of the false Iraqi stories in 1990-91, these stories have tended to be floated by foreign sources, usually European. This was conspicuously the case with the forged yellowcake documents from Italy underlying Bushs misleading reference to Iraq in his 2003 State of the Union address.6 But it was true also of the false stories linking Saddam Hussein to the celebrated anthrax letters of 2001. (Their anthrax was later determined to have come from a U.S. biowarfare laboratory.)7 This recurring history of falsified stories to justify interventions should be on our minds as we now face the allegations, as yet neither proven nor disproven, that Gaddafi has been using rape as a method to fight insurrection, and may have been guilty of raping victims himself. These charges were made on June 8 by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), who claimed (according to Time Magazine there were indications that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had ordered the rape of hundreds of women during his violent crackdown on the rebels and that he had even provided his soldiers with Viagra to stimulate the potential for attacks.8 Luis Moreno-Ocampo According to Time, the rape stories are being circulated by doctors who claim to have met and treated patients but do not have patients' permission to reveal their identities. Earlier, according to a Libyan doctor interviewed in an Al Jazeera video, many doctors have found Viagra and condoms in the pockets of dead pro-Gaddafi fighters, as well as treated female rape survivors. The doctor insists this clearly indicates the Gaddafi regime is using rape as a weapon of war.9 But what of Morenos charge that Now we are getting some information that Gaddafi himself decided to rape, and this is new.10 This is a sensational charge: until we learn there is a reliable source for it, one can suspect it was made to grab headlines. One problem in investigating these charges is that Libyan culture is so unkind to rape victims that they are reluctant to come forward.
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: Flag Day, 2011
*SELLING OUT THE PEOPLE WORKS * ** *Glenn Greenwald's piece this morning http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/13/headline/index.html takes off on two fronts to show how President Obama has pleased the National Security State http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm people by authorizing record power to spy on the American people, even without cause, while pleasing the ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm by doing everything he could to help the banksters while leaving the victims of the banksters in free fall to lose their homes and jobs. **Obama got record campaign financing from banksters in his first shot at the White House, and appears to be attempting to top that.* *Every time we hear corporate media talk about how great the economy is, we understand it is only for the wealthy, many of them scumbags who would be in prison if we had a system of justice based on justice. Abby Zimet has a graph this morning http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/06/13-2 showing The incredible shrinking workers' share of income, in what the unscrupulous corporate media tell us is the land of opportunity. / Corporate Crime Reporter/ has a piece this morning http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/barofsky06132011.htm saying we may expect another bankster bailout, this time costing us $5 trillion as /laissez faire/ capitalism wrenches the last crust of bread from the hands of starving children. That we don't have riots in the streets is owed entirely to our deceptive corporate media, which has the majority of the population stumbling about like zombies. * *ETERNAL WAR NEWS UPDATES * ** *British news is reporting negotiations to make the Afghan war continue after 2014 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/13/us-afghanistan-secret-talks-on-security-partnership. 2014 is the latest end of the war date, after all the previous ones slipped. The piece includes the Orwellian line about the remaining troops, **Although they will not be 'combat troops' that does not mean they will not take part in combat.* *Earlier we reported that negotiations were ongoing to keep the troops in Iraq past the end of this year, the latest end of the war date after all the previous ones slipped. Iraq is particularly good for Nuclear Mafia http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Mafia.htm profits, so our ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm do not want to lose that cash cow. Australian news reports that in the Iraq adventure, another $6.6 billion is missing http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-iraqi-billions-probably-stolen-20110613-1g0eb.html, believed to have been stolen (shocking?), but nobody really has any idea what happened to it, like so many billions before. Technically Iraq is on the hook for it, but they're taking it to court and it looks like Uncle Sam will likely have to pony up, because it came out of the US treasury and nobody wrote down who got it, when, or why, and Iraqis are concerned about this accounting method. Our sycophantic government will no doubt cut grandma's Medicare to cover it. We have our priorities. * ** *ANONYMOUS DEMANDS RESIGNATION OF FED CHAIRMAN * ** *In a video uploaded on Saturday http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/anonymous-demands-fed-chairman-resign_n_876269.html, the Anonymous group allegedly claims that the Federal Reserve is guilty of crimes against humanity and calls for the resignation of Ben Bernanke. In addition, the group would seem to demand the break up of the Federal Reserve and other major banking institutions. * *We say allegedly because it's always hard to know if this is supported by everyone at Anonymous, or even anyone, since the group is secretive and under attack globally by police forces of most of the powerful nations on the planet, a situation wide open for Anonymous scams. * *But if this is legit, Anonymous is now taking on the most powerful people on the globe, Wall Street's Fed enablers, the nerve center of the Empire, so we thought it worth mentioning. * **When we began /LUV News/ in the 1990's we were determined to push what the corporate media ignore: compassion, sharing and understanding http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/Belief.htm, in place of their hatred, greed and delusion. A part of that goal is to demand that our nation stand for much higher things than our National Security State http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/NatSec.htm and ruling Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm expect. And just as we try to do that in the USA, Uri Avnery does the same in Israel, and we greatly admire him. In his following piece, he takes us into the microcosm of recent events in Israel, then
[LAAMN] IRONIC TIMES - 06/13/11
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[LAAMN] depressing thot 4 2day
This just goes to prove that gold is worthless, and that the only thing which has real value, is electrons, represented by pieces of paper with numbers on them, and he who controls/owns the printing press and the computers with the proper electrons, owns the world. The Banking Speculators won a long time ago, and we weren't invited to the party, as we were broke. Scott Sell the Gold in Fort Knox! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUFF/message/67602;_ylc=X3oDMTJzbnI1cG45BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwNDk0NjQxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM2NzYwMgRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzA2NTE3Mjgx Some food for thought: Image - A Pile of gold If the US sold all of the gold that it holds in Fort Knox and elsewhere http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/blog/FEN-Blog/May-2011/All-the-gold-in-Fort-Knox---.aspx http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/blog/FEN-Blog/May-2011/All-the-gold-in-Fort-Knox---.aspxhttp://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/blog/FEN-Blog/May-2011/All-the-gold-in-Fort-Knox---.aspx http://www.thefreeenterprisenation.org/blog/FEN-Blog/May-2011/All-the-gold-in-Fort-Knox---.aspx , at today's record high price of $1,500 an ounce, we would only get enough money to pay about one-third of THIS YEAR'S budget shortfall. If ALL of the gold mined in the history of the world were ours to sell, we could pay off only about 60% of the U.S.A.'s national debt. No amount of increased taxation can solve America's problems. We have spent $14 trillion that we don't have, and our governments at every level keep spending more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Re: Now as never before we need this reminder: PROTEST WORKS
I feel the same way about (not) voting, that I feel about this article. So many people have told me, my vote doesn't count. I voted, and they didn't listen to us even when our vote/phone calls/petitions said to represent us in a different manner. Your wasting your vote, if you don't vote Party Line. If you don't vote party line, then your vote will count for the more evil man. If you vote third party, you are just helping those who are our opposition AND MORE EVIL THEN OUR GUY! (instead of supporting someone that stood for what they state that they believe in). Those whose job it is to control the population (political talking head but all of them, and the Mega Main Stream Media) know exactly, to the penny, how many dollars they have had to invest to keep this sham of an election system going. They know within a small percentage how many people voted for the bilk 'their only viable candidate' spewed, and how many were voting simply against THEW OTHER GUY. They know to the cent how much they have to invest to make this political system appear to be a two party system, and that those people are opposites, not two sides of the same rotten coinage, as is shown if you follow what votes pass, and how voted for their passage (yet didn't you vote for them to stop that same stuff they just approved?). And if you give up in despair, they know this. They don't have to invest ONE RED CENT to manipulate you anymore. In fact, they tell the masses, they have the option to vote, obviously it isn't as bad as your making things out to be, or more people should vote like you want. They know exactly, how many votes had to be manipulated to get the Only Viable Candidate in office, that is, the only viable candidate for their moneyed interests. Not voting gives them more revenue to invest in the things you already gave up on thinking you could change. Who'd a thunk, that anti war protesters, even while they were ridiculed constantly by the media, kept those who run our Military and Government, those who INVEST HEAVILY, MONETARILY in our political system, from nuking more civilians then we already have in the 1960's and 1970's. Don't forget, we are the only nation on this plant to nuke civilians and spread uranium around making millions more sick or creating deformed babies. This happens, because too may of us have given up, we don't vote against it, we don't protest. How many Americans are aware that in the European WW II Campaigns, we killed many more times the numbers of non combatant ON PURPOSE, then we did with nukes in Japan? We burned down entire civilian cities with firestorms, not even military targets (and none of the nuke targets in Japan were military targets either). _YOUR 'Government', needs your complacency, to commit the most atrocious crimes against humanity. _ They can only do this if you don't vote against them, if you don't show your head to be counted in protests, as those who've given up changing things, are the desired end result of what the Population Control experts want. Scott For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. Simon Wiesenthal http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/simon_wiesenthal.html Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/simonwiese405090.html#ixzz1OZAqCMBE On 6/6/2011 10:55 PM, Scott Peden wrote: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/10/protest-works-just-look-at-the-proof.html Sunday, October 31, 2010 Protest works. Just look at the proof http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/10/protest-works-just-look-at-the-proof.html Its astonishing to see how Americans have been conditioned to think that political action and engagement is futile. Im old enough to have witnessed the reverse, how activism in the 1960s produced significant advances in civil rights blacks and women, and eventually led the US to exit the Vietnam War. Im reminded of this sense of despair almost daily in the comments section. Whenever possible action steps come up, virtually without fail, quite a few will argue that there is no point in making an effort, that we as individuals are powerless. I dont buy that as a stance, particularly because trained passivity is a great, low cost way to hobble people who have been wronged. I mistakenly relegated an article by Johann Hari in the Independent on this topic to Links, and Richard Klines commentary on it made me realize it deserved its own post, so I am remedying that error now. As Kline observed: The nut of the matter is this: you lose, you lose, you lose, you lose, they give up. As someone who has protested, and studied the process, its plain that one spends most of ones time begin defeated. Thats painful, humiliating, and intimidating. One cant expect typically, as in a battle, to get a clean shot at a clear win. What you do with protest is just what Hari discusses, you change
[LAAMN] Environmental Obama..... NOT
I wonder what few things still keep some of the Democrats citing Obama's wonderful Environmental record. It sure isn't making sure that the Blue Fin Tuna can be fished to extinction. It sure isn't due to his administration telling anyone that if they touch an oil coated animal in the Gulf they will serve prison time. It sure isn't due to Obama's secret dealings with the Japanese Whaling Industry to remove the Sea Shepherds non profit status, using the IRS as a weapon against Non Profits. Damn, if the story only stopped there. Scott excerpts *At least Republicans are honest, Watson says. Mitsubishi has a five-year supply of bluefin, Watson explains. They'd like to get a ten-year supply, because diminishment translates to scarcity and scarcity translates to higher prices. If they drive the bluefin into extinction, we're looking at a million-dollar fish. So there's no interest in conserving them.* *We speak the one language everyone understands: economics, Watson says. We don't try appealing to these people's morals or ethics, because I don't believe they have any.* http://www.alternet.org/environment/151167/the_wild_war_to_protect_bluefin_tuna_in_libyan_waters%2C_and_obama%27s_troubling_role The Wild War to Protect Bluefin Tuna In Libyan Waters, and Obama's Troubling Role The waters off Libya are a NATO no-fly zone, which is good news to poachers: No inspectors. No surveillance. /June 1, 2011/ | A war is raging in Libya, but it's not the one in the news. Its battles are set in the dazzling Mediterranean offshore. Its warriors are foreign, their motives mostly mercenary. Their casualties? Atlantic bluefin tuna. Although it's not an officially endangered species --- with help from the Obama administration --- overfishing has reduced bluefin populations by 80 percent since 1970. A single bluefin typically sells for $75,000, and that's what will happen to those caught off Libya, unless Captain Paul Watson, armed with international law and big serrated knives, wins this war. Two ships from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a nonprofit Watson founded in 1978, nine years after cofounding Greenpeace, are now speeding toward Libyan seas. French, Spanish, German, Italian and Maltese poachers ply these waters with impunity, although the EU has outlawed all fishing here due to Libya's civil war. It's a NATO no-fly zone, which is good news to poachers: No inspectors. No surveillance. Except, that is, for the Sea Shepherd's 60-foot helicopter-mounted flagship /Steve Irwin/ and its small, swift scout vessel. Any boat we find will be an illegal boat, warns Watson, who says he liberated 800 tuna off Libya last year. Bluefin are not killed upon being caught, but hauled live in huge underwater nets to shore stations where they can be fattened up like feedlot steers, Watson explains. Sea Shepherd divers slit those nets with knives. It's the latest in a long series of rip-roaring and highly controversial rescue missions involving blades and ballistics, fire and ice, stink-bombs and blood. Sea Shepherd vessels ram Japanese whalers, get rammed back, and rock wildly under water-cannon fire on Animal Planet's /Whale Wars/ and in /Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist/, a new documentary directed by SSCS veteran Peter Brown. Sea Shepherd crews have scuttled --- that is, sunk --- at least 10 whaling vessels. Sea Shepherd ships ram whalers, foul their propellers, intercept their harpoons, block their slipways to prevent loading, and barrage them with bottles of foul-smelling butyric acid. In return, Sea Shepherd vessels have been rammed, burned, flash-grenaded, fired upon, and depth-charged --- including by a Norwegian naval vessel. /Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist /calls Sea Shepherd a vigilante organization, its members a band of pirates and the world's most wanted environmental heroes. Watson's many honors include the Amazon Peace Prize and inclusion among the /Guardian/'s 50 People Who Could Save the Planet. He has been beaten, suffocated, immersed in icy seas, and even shot in the chest by opponents, he says. He's been arrested in many countries and charged with many crimes, including attempted murder, but never convicted. We don't do anything illegal. We target illegal operations. Everybody's so concerned about private property. They think private property is sacred. But if that private property is being used to flout conservation codes, all deals are apparently off. We're an interventionist organization fighting against poaching on the high seas. Recently, Watson was appalled to learn --- from Wikileaks, of all places --- that Barack Obama colluded with the Japanese government to disempower the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In a confidential November 2009 cable Wikileaks released this year, the Japanese government asked the US government to revoke SSCS' tax-exempt status. This cable cited the head of Japan's fisheries agency as saying
[LAAMN] Comedians for Sarah Palin
: Comedians for Sarah Palin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUFF/message/67905;_ylc=X3oDMTJzOHVwazBrBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwNDk0NjQxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM2NzkwNQRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzA2OTg2NDA2 Support Palin! Put a comedian to work! By Dean Obeidallah, Special to CNN June 1, 2011 10:12 a.m. EDT (CNN) -- It's been a tough two and half years for comedians. We have been in a political comedy recession since Barack Obama took office. Sure, President Obama gives us some material here and there. But unlike his past two predecessors, he has not provided us with a clear comedic angle. It used to be so much easier. With George W. Bush, it was his well-documented struggles with English, and Bill Clinton was known for his sextracurricular activities. But honestly, what's funnier -- a joke about Section 3002 of Obama's health care law, which deals with Improvements to the physician quality reporting system, or a joke about Bush mispronouncing al Qaeda as El Key-eeda? A terrorist group? No! A Mexican restaurant. We comedians can wait no longer for this comedy downturn to end. We have decided it's time to take matters into our own hands. We are putting aside our petty differences to actively support the candidate who will best help our comedy careers. That is why I'm excited to announce the formation of: Comedians for Sarah Palin. Our slogan is: Comedians putting aside their differences and the good of America for comedic material. You can follow us on Twitter @ComicsforPalinhttp://twitter.com/#%21/search/@comicsforpalin http://twitter.com/#%21/search/@comicsforpalin. To comedians, Sarah Palin is not just a less-than-one-term governor with few achievements on the national or international stage. Sarah Palin is comedy gold. Comedians haven't been this excited over a political figure since George W. Bush was president -- in fact, comedically speaking, the only difference between Palin and Bush is lipstick. It wasn't easy for Palin to lock up our endorsement. Many comics liked Donald Trump -- he could never stop talking, and his hairstyle made you appreciate Justin Bieber's. But, alas, he is out. And there are a few other lesser-known presidential candidates who show comedic possibilities, such as Michele Bachmann, who in March confidently proclaimedhttp://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/12/bachmann-increases-public-profile-makes-another-gaffe-in-nh-trip/ http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/12/bachmann-increases-public-profile-makes-another-gaffe-in-nh-trip/ that the American Revolution had started in New Hampshire. (Right answer: Massachusetts -- but you knew that.) And making a late attempt to win our endorsement was Herman Cain, the former head of Godfather's Pizza, who last month confusedhttp://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/may/25/herman-cain/cain-mistakes-declaration-independence-language-co/ http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/may/25/herman-cain/cain-mistakes-declaration-independence-language-co/ parts of the Declaration of Independence with the U.S. Constitution, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. No -- it's Palin, with her proven track record. Others might be able to promise us comedy, but she has already delivered . After all, she is the person who told us: Obviously, we gotta stand with our North Korean allieshttp://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/25/political-hot-topics-thursday-november-25-2010/?iref=allsearchhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/130721-palin-gaffe-we-gotta-stand-with-our-north-korean-allies http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/25/political-hot-topics-thursday-november-25-2010/?iref=allsearchhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/130721-palin-gaffe-we-gotta-stand-with-our-north-korean-allies. (Right answer: South Korean.) But Palin had lain low and avoided the spotlight -- good for her, but bad for us. The only time Palin isn't providing comedy material is when she isn't talking. We worried that maybe she had lost her comedy mojo. Then in March, she showed us she still had the right stuff. During an appearance on Fox News, she discussed America's involvement in Libya. The Chicago Sun-Times sayshttp://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/4564425-417/sarah-palin-questions-whether-military-attack-was-a-squirmish.html http://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/4564425-417/sarah-palin-questions-whether-military-attack-was-a-squirmish.html she posed the question: Do we use the term 'intervention'? Do we use 'war'? Do we use 'squirmish'? That's right, squirmish. In her defense, Palin probably thought that in light of the recent success of the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, it was acceptable to add the squi sound to the beginning of any word. Next up: Squimmigration. If we had any lingering doubts, they were erased this
Re: [LAAMN] California Senate Approves Walmart-inspired limits on Superstores
Yeah, it does discriminate against one type of retailer over the others. It discriminates against ones like Wal-Mart/Target and the other MEGA box stores who increase the burden on the rest of the tax payers due to the store paying wages so low the employees often need government assistance even though they have a full 28 hour a week job (so no benefits or a living wage has to be paid). It has no effect on the Super Mega Stores, that pay living wages as the employees do not need public assistance and local business are not decimated by this kind of business. Besides the Super stores that give living wages, also pay taxes unlike Wal Mart and target that pay little to no taxes, while getting government assistance to bring and keep their stores in areas they destroy the lively hood of the residents, off shore stashing of their cash, and not spending every dollar possible that was brought into that store, in the local community (see, stashing their cash in off shore accounts, which also helps them not pay taxes on that income). Vote with your dollars. If you love the economy as it is now, please shop at Wal Mart and target, Home Depot and OSH and their ilk. Of course if you like the economy the way it is, only your staff are shopping at those places, you wouldn't be caught dead seen in a place like that. On 6/1/2011 4:20 PM, bigraccoon wrote: 6/1/11 Senate approves Walmart-inspired limits on superstores http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/may/31/senate-approves-walmart-inspired-limits-superstore/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Protection from War
If anyone has ANY doubt at all why Education is under attack in this Country, and Monopoly media, as the only source of widespread available information,whom can only maintain their monopolies with permissions of the Government, this should explain it easily. Scott The greatest protection against war is a well educated populace. - *L.L. Castetter* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Protection from War
If anyone has ANY doubt at all why Education is under attack in this Country, and Monopoly media, as the only source of widespread available information,whom can only maintain their monopolies with permissions of the Government, this should explain it easily. Scott The greatest protection against war is a well educated populace. - *L.L. Castetter* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] What will YOU do to Win the Peace TODAY?
Send a few bucks if you have it, start your own movement if you have the energy, but at least visit the web sites. Scott What will YOU do to Win the Peace TODAY? We have asked ourselves this question many times, and bet you may have also. Now we have embarked upon a coarse of action. We are making feature film, 'Lysistrata Unleashed', a comedy based upon the ancient Greek play, 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. This amazing theatre classic explores solutions to ending war though brilliant comedic satire. It inspires direct personal action for solving deep economic and military issues. Our movie is guaranteed to stimulate laughter first, and then dialog about how WE can achieve Peace in OUR world today. http://www.LysistrataUnleashed.com It is incredible how the problems of 25 centuries ago reflect upon the dire issues in our own world today. And our theatrical audiences have expressed this to us precisely and emphatically. Polls show that 60% of Americans don't want this endless war in the Middle East. Which is why we are making this movie right now. And why we believe its message is very timely and important. Hence we strive to complete the film in short order, to be released this Fall. What are YOU doing to win the Peace? We would like to enlist your aid and support towards completing our movie, 'Lysistrata Unleashed'. Our IndieGoGo campaign: http://igg.me/p/24968?a=14910i=shlk Please send us $5 (or as much as you can) on IndieGoGo today, AND tell your friends, contacts and network(s) about the film. We thank you for your support and participation. Peace Prosperity, Phoenix and The Lysistrata Unleashed Team PS: You can forward the above letter, use it as a model to re-write, or just send the links in with your own words, like below. -- Checkout the cool Love Peace movie project: -- http://igg.me/p/24968?a=14910i=shlk === The website - http://www.LysistrataUnleashed.com The IndieGoGo - http://igg.me/p/24968?a=14910i=shlk --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The Worst Bill Ever in Congress (HR 1750) 5-23-11
image http://warisacrime.org WarIsACrime.org http://warisacrime.org The Worst Bill Ever in Congress The Defense Authorization bill now before Congress, HR 1750, is arguably the worst bill ever considered likely to pass into law. It includes $118 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars a majority of Americans wants ended. But that's not why it's the worst bill ever. This bill also includes $553 billion for other military waste. That's enough money to save and improve a lot of lives if it weren't being dumped into the war machine. But that's not why this is the worst bill ever. The bill limits the Presidentâs ability to implement the New START agreement unless there is full funding for the nuclear weapons complex, bars the retirement of nuclear weapons until two new nuclear facilities are completed, and bars further nuclear weapons reductions below New START levels unless approved by Congress. But that's not why this is the worst bill ever. The bill invests heavily in a National Missile Defense system based in California and Alaska. This bill revives a second engine for the F-35 that the Pentagon has no use for. This bill bars any transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo. But none of that is why this is the worst bill ever. *This is the worst bill ever because it gives presidents the power to single-handedly launch wars and to lock people up without trial. * This legislation, Section 1034 of the worst bill ever http://davidswanson.org/content/republicans-congress-crown-obama-king, undoes the limitations on one-man rule put in place by the U.S. Constitution over two centuries ago. This is the biggest formal shift of power in our government since we've had a government. We have military operations now in some 75 countries, and a significant war in Libya, all illegal under the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Act. But the worst bill ever will erase the War Powers Act, and the Constitution will simply be ignored. Meanwhile the significant withdrawal that President Obama promised to begin in Afghanistan has been scaled back to a withdrawal of 2.5 percent http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/12/afghanistan-us-militaryof U.S. forces *Call Congress today and tell your Representative and your two Senators: * Enough is enough! End the wars! Bring the troops home! Convert the economy to peace! And do not pass the worst bill ever! *Call toll-free 1-888-231-9276.* ## Support WarIsACrime: Donate through Paypal https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclickhosted_button_id=VVV5963NKLHCU. Please help us inform you of activities in your town by logging in at http://afterdowningstreet.org Then click on My account, on Edit, and on Personal Information, and type in your state and zip code. If you receive this from a friend, you can subscribe by registering at http://afterdowningstreet.org/user/register If you receive this directly from us and want to unsubscribe, click the Opt Out link at the bottom. You can also unsubscribe or resubscribe by editing your account on the website. http://warisacrime.org/massmail/optout/97c5932fab41a73 One person can make a difference -- Dennis Kucinich http://Kucinich.us [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
[LAAMN] Cartoon Du Jour - By Khalil
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[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 20 May, 2011
CONTINUED SHREDDING OF CIVIL RIGHTS * * ** *Kevin Gosztola has an investigative piece http://my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2011/05/19/fbi-documents-show-us-citizens-targeted-for-interest-in-us-foreign-policy/ going into FBI raids of peace activists, including links to FBI documents accidentally left behind in one of the raids. And Linn Washington has a piece http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/ on the Obama Administration's refusal to look into new evidence that military commanders probably ordered the shootings that killed four nonviolent peace protesters at Kent State in 1970. We were told for decades that National Guard troops fired on their own. * ** *THE WAR IN LIBYA IS ILLEGAL * ** *Glenn Greenwald has a magnificent piece http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/19/libya/index.html showing the hypocrisy of President Obama in his latest major war, beginning with quotes from presidential candidate Obama: * ***The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation, and, **No more ignoring the law when it's inconvenient. That is not who we are. . . . We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers.*** *Greenwald's piece concludes, referring to the President's Middle East speech yesterday, **President Obama -- who has presided over lethal civilian-killing attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Pakistan and Somalia -- announced: 'we will not tolerate aggression across borders.' That instantly ranks among my favorite political statements ever.* *HEALTH CARE CRISIS GETTING WORSE * ** *Roger Bybee has a piece showing that our health care crisis is getting worse http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7323/insurers_reap_record_profits_hike_premiums_as_families_ponder_their_fa/, as corporations gouging Americans for health care make record profits. * *Corporate media have long been telling us the recession has ended, which in modern economic doublespeak means the rich and their corporations are doing well, the only thing that counts, as everybody else goes under. * *Our hopelessly corrupt government bailed out the banksters who destroyed the economy with their scams gone awry, leaving their victims, the rest of us, in free fall, to hope we don't get sick, because we may not have a health care plan, or we may not be able to afford the deductibles. * **With our government a sewer of corruption, our elections rigged as badly as those of totalitarian regimes, our Supreme Court made up of butt-kissing corporate sycophants who would shame Al Capone (who thought himself to be a good capitalist), our Congress so bad that it would be insulting to streetwalkers to call it a parliament of whores, our mass media little more than stenographers to power, and our true rulers, the Forces of Greed http://members.cox.net/libertyuv/FOG.htm, so ignorant and immoral that many of us despair-- there is a brave new international group who give us hope. They would be Anonymous, the epitome of anarchism. To date, they have toppled totalitarian regimes, and battled with transnational corporations more powerful than most nation states. We can't say at /LUV News/ we will support their every future endeavor, but to date we find them to be Robin Hoods of the 21st century. In the past. some Anonymous members have attacked what others have said, as though they are the ones to speak for Anonymous. It does get confusing, and because many of their actions are illegal, spokespersons are not very public, with law enforcement hot on their tail. Although nobody can truly speak for Anonymous, we believe the following piece is representative of the group --Jack ** *ANONYMOUS AND THE ARAB UPRISINGS http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/201151917634659824.html * * * *by Yasmine Ryan * *Anonymous's rapid rise from the depths http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/11/anonymous-behind-the-mask of geekdom to becoming a catalyst and nerve centre for real-life revolutionaries is one that has taken even some of its own members by surprise. The loosely-knit hive brings anonymous techies, hackers and, increasingly, activists together under a single appellation, united in their non-violent but often illegal collective action. With high-profile campaigns, centred on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that knock target websites offline, it has been transformed from a fringe group of law-breaking pranksters http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/11/anonymous-behind-the-mask that emerged in 2006 into an
[LAAMN] Democrats are mean (LOL)
The remarks below show comment #26 by Marie Burns of Ft. Myers, Florida which gave me a laugh and I thought I would share it. It was in response to the Krugman blogpost Whiners I think this comment is at the top of page 2 of the comments. The blogpost after Whiners includes a link to the Ryan budget in pdf format, if you are interested in reading it, saving it for reference, etc. John T http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/whiners/#preview Comment #26, p. 2 It's not fair to pick on these paragons of rectitude. I'm sure none of them once criticized Democrats or President Obama during their campaigns. And trying to use issues to win votes IS just dishonest. Democrats should just campaign on their pretty faces. Or something. I hope President Obama takes heed and in the interest of bipartisanship puts a stop to all these accusations that the Ryan/Republican Tea Party budget bill is what it is. In the meantime, Kathy Hochul, a Democrat who has pulled ahead in the heavily-Republican New York 26th District special election by laying out some of the worst aspects of the Ryan budget bill, should just quit running ads that tell the truth because a campaign based on facts is so painful for her opponents. Democrats are mean. -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] YouTube - Immigrants For Sale
This is the same prison system that is against the legalization and taxation of Marijuana, as that alone could lessen their profits by 30% or more. Or if you read it as I do, reduce the tax burden by 30% to house in prisons those who have minor offenses, increase the tax base for education and rehabilitation for those who suffer from addiction and want out of the cycle, which of course is a win win for you and I, but a complete loss for the prison systems, which is THE LARGEST LOBBYIST IN CALIFORNIA. You don't have the cash on had to be the largest lobbyist, if your not making money hand over fist. This video shows a different angle for perpetual income from this same set of Mega Corporations, who only benefit, if more and more of the people in the USA suffer. That is, your profitable, or your a potential profit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGE1VxVsYofeature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGE1VxVsYofeature=youtube_gdata_player [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Obama Signs Legislation to Make Supplements and Alternative Health Remedies Illegal
*Good God, we can stop more bad legislation when the evilist of the evil two headed party is in power. How the hell did anyone ever think these people were on the side of the citizens? Scott * *_* ** *Obama signs legislation to make supplements and alternative health remedies illegal* September 14th, 2010 10:41 pm ET http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-atlanta/james-williams James Williams http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-atlanta/james-williams Atlanta wellness Examiner http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-atlanta/james-williams It's not health Obama is promoting, it's profit - he is negating his pre-election promises. http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-atlanta/resized-1uspoliticsbarackobamadeception-jpg-photo Right through the back door, while everyone was focused on the Gulf oil spill, Barack Obama gave his signature to legislation permitting the U.S. Government to outlaw supplements and alternative health treatments. That means that the *supplements* you take and *therapies* you use to keep your body healthy *can now be made illegal* by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Obama quietly gave permission for Codex Alimentarius - the United Nation's worldwide plan for food standards - to take effect in the U.S. via Executive Order 13544 of June 10, 2010 http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-14613.pdf. The President's decision creates the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council - a group of 'experts' that carry out whatever activities Obama deems appropriate. According to an article at Rense.com http://rense.com/general92/adopt.htm, after five years of fighting this bill in Congress and the House, Obama has decided to try to kill the supplement and alternative health industry; all alternative health remedies can be deemed unscientific and not provable by the FDA, which can lead to their being banned. It means that supplements may have to be removed from sale permanently, or have their potency capped at ultra low levels, making them almost worthless. The very same thing happened in Europe just a few years ago. Ultimately, this legislation, signed by the very man whose claim to fame was change we need and change we can believe in has these effects: 1. REMOVES YOUR POWER OF CHOICE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE SUPPLEMENTS AND USE ALTERNATE THERAPIES; 2. STOPS YOU FROM TAKING CARE OF YOUR HEALTH NATURALLY - YOU ARE FORCED TO HAVE TO RELY ON THE MEDICAL / PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES WHOSE AIM IS MAXIMUM PROFIT AND FOR YOU TO REMAIN SICK, SO THEY CAN KEEP YOU HOOKED ON THEIR PRODUCTS; 3. WILL FORCE YOU TO RELY ON LOW-STRENGTH, SYNTHETIC SUPPLEMENTS MADE BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES; 4. OR FORCE YOU TO BUY EXPENSIVE, Rx-ONLY HIGH-STRENGTH SYNTHETIC SUPPLEMENTS MADE BY THE $MULTI-BILLION PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES. If you read the executive order, it seems quite positive. However, behind the vague words are a wide range of powers to do whatever the United Nations and Obama wants, including the adoption of legislation that bans therapies and supplements. Continue reading on Examiner.com: Obama signs legislation to make supplements and alternative health remedies illegal - Atlanta wellness | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-atlanta/obama-signs-legislation-to-make-supplements-and-alternative-health-remedies-illegal#ixzz1M19vvPED http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-atlanta/obama-signs-legislation-to-make-supplements-and-alternative-health-remedies-illegal#ixzz1M19vvPED [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email |
[LAAMN] The Osama Tale: Stranger and Stranger by Eric Margolis
Some interesting background information/history, and a few more thoughts come up, in this US/Pakistan shot gun marriage, or is it an invasion, held in place by bribes from the USA, from money borrowed from China? And it all goes back to the Bush's administrations insistence of Invasion, and Oabma's insistence that we not only stay there, but escalate, none of which would have the least bit of founding should we not have had 9/11 and the resulting patriot Act and open acknowledgments that we are the leading Fascist Country in the world. (Fascist per Mussolini's definition should have been Corporationism, where a Country operates for the benefit of it's largest Corporations protecting their interests abroad, even go so far as making the citizens of that nation work for them and purchase their products). Without 9/11, millions of more people would be alive, 1,283 TRILLION wouldn't be owed by the USA to China for our Perpetual War efforts (in exchange form them having a market to sell the products, we use to amke here) much less the 450 BILLION A YEAR we pay in interest. Isn't our whole countries infrastructure being dismantled for less then 450 Billion a Year? Someone is PROFITING BIG TIME, and you and I are the ones giving them the money. Scott http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis241.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] 1870 Mother's Day Proclamation, 1908 Founding, Funny Thoughts
1870 Mother's Day Proclamation, 1908 Founding, Funny Thoughts Mother's Day began with Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), who nursed the wounded during the American Civil War. In 1870 she started a crusade to institute a Mother's Day as a Day for Peace. Here is her Mothers Day proclamation. Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870 by Julia Ward Howe Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, For caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe our dishonor, Nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil At the summons of war, Let women now leave all that may be left of home For a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means Whereby the great human family can live in peace... Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, But of God - In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask That a general congress of women without limit of nationality, May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient And the earliest period consistent with its objects, To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, The amicable settlement of international questions, The great and general interests of peace. *** http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/84985/?page=1 Was It Easier Being a Mother in 1908? By Marilyn Gardner, Christian Science Monitor: May 10, 2008. On the first Mother's Day 100 years ago, moms had a tough -- but rewarding -- job, just as they do today. Motherhood ranks as one of the hardest jobs to do, yet one of the easiest to romanticize. This Sunday, May 11, as families shower mothers with cards, gifts, and superlatives, they will be part of an observance that had its humble beginnings 100 years ago. On Sunday, May 10, 1908, simple church services in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia honored the nation's mothers. A bill introduced in the US Senate that year failed to establish an official Mother's Day, but it set the stage for a successful measure in 1914. With their tightly laced corsets, long skirts, heavy shoes, and upswept hair, the mothers of 1908 bear little physical resemblance to their counterparts in 2008, dressed in shorts, Spandex, and sneakers. But as today's busy mothers savor their holiday, some might think longingly of simpler times, before women spoke of juggling or balancing work and family. They might even be tempted to idealize mothers of a century ago, whose serene images grace family photo albums. But wait. It's not a time to be romanticized, says Stephanie Coontz, a historian and author of Marriage: A History. Mothers in 1908 spent less time mothering than they do today. Even in the middle classes, they spent much less time with their kids than we would have imagined. One reason for this time deficit involves work. Most families needed several wage earners, Ms. Coontz says. Women took in boarders, did sewing at home, cleaning, and all sorts of jobs that weren't counted as jobs on the Census but were time-consuming. A photo from that era shows a mother balancing a baby on her lap while she assembles cigarettes at her kitchen table. Two other children stand nearby. Even mothers without paid employment labored endlessly doing housework. In 1908, a New York settlement worker estimated that the average woman, even in middle-class families, spent 40 hours a week just cleaning and shopping. Laundry was an arduous, two-day task, washing one day and ironing the next. Wood and coal stoves required tending and cleaning. In 1908, Hoover introduced the electric suction sweeper, revolutionizing housecleaning. It'll sell itself if we can get the ladies to try it, Mr. Hoover said. Assuming, of course, that the ladies had electricity. A majority of women still lived on farms. Until the New Deal Rural Electrification program was implemented in the 1930s, electricity was unavailable to huge sections of the country. Although the birthrate was falling in the early 1900s, women still bore an average of 3.5 children. Farm women averaged closer to five. The mothers of 1908, like their counterparts today, received advice from pediatricians. Emmett Holt, author of The Care and Feeding of Children, was the Dr. Spock of his era, Coontz says. His advice to
[LAAMN] Unfolding Evidence Suggests Direct Role in Harboring bin Laden
More and more interesting. Democracy now has an interesting interview with a Canadian Journalist here: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/5/pakistani_military_faces_scrutiny_as_unfolding I've observed, there have been no verified tapes of bin Laden since September 2001, everything else has been proven to be faked. No one in the Military or those interviewed who are the opposition of the invaders in the Middle East, are referring to Osama anymore, they are referring to those who are the leaders of the Taliban, which isn't Osama by all accounts, for over 9 years. Now we have a million dollar home, in the middle of a posh area, that looks like a prison, and this is suppose to be Osama's home. Then we have several conflicting stories, just from the US Government sources, about what happened, but it has been revealed, who ever was shot, was unarmed, and was shot twice in the face, and all of that in under 12 hours, In Pakistan, they were able to get DNA testing (we need that speed in our Western system, don't we?) at which time they were over the sea, and dumped the body from a plane.so no ones word need be taken except the shooters. 'Nothing of interest here folks, read about it in the paper, now go away..' While Paki Security states they informed the US intelligence agencies 2 years ago. Well it is an election year, what should we American expect except political posturing? Much less that the US Military operates freely in Pakistan... that makes us the invaders there too, doesn't it, and the Paki Government our puppet, all out in the open instead of speculatively. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Fwd: [bush_lied_people_died] Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake
A tad of debunking on the 'Run in circles, scream and shout' crowd, about Bin Ladens photo being fake, just now being brought up when THAT PHOTO IS A 2 YEAR OLD FAKE. That is, yesterdays news is once again being pedaled as today's news, to keep the facts as dammed confused as possible, so those who have at least some interest, will get bored and go away and only remember the most sensational sound byte. Scott Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake *Image of bloodied man picked up by British newspapers has been circulating online for two years* *Amelia Hill* http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/ameliahill guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/, Monday 2 May 2011 12.03 BST An image purporting to show Osama bin Laden's bloody corpse An image purporting to show Osama bin Laden's bloody corpse, right, is a composite of two separate images, left and centre. Photograph: twitpic An image apparently showing a dead Osama bin Laden http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/osamabinladenbroadcast on Pakistani television and picked up by British newspaper websites is a fake. The bloodied image of a man with matted hair and a blank, half-opened eye has been circulating on the internet for the past two years. It was used on the front pages of the Mail, Times, Telegraph, Sun and Mirror websites, though swiftly removed after the fake was exposed on Twitter. It appears the fake picture was initially published by the Middle East online newspaper themedialine.org http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=24972on 29 April 2009, with a warning from the editor that it was unable to ascertain whether the photo is genuine or not. Since then, however, the image has been claimed as genuine on a number of conspiracy forums and used to substantiate claims that the terrorist responsible for the 9/11 bombings had been killed. The Guardian was one of the few sites to hold back from using the manipulated image on its front page, reporting the picture's existence in its live blog but questioning its legitimacy http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-live#block-32. The image is based on a genuine photograph of Bin Laden taken in 1998 and used by the Reuters news agency. On Twitter, a composite including the other photograph used to make the image http://twitpic.com/4sa55uwas posted by @HannahMarbina http://twitter.com/HannahMarbinaand other users showed how easy it was to find the image already online with a simple search http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HhEh-2wPwVMJ:www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/04/29/osama-bin-laden-believed-dead-by-pak-int+osama+bin+laden+believed+killed+by+pak+intelcd=1hl=enct=clnkgl=uksource=www.google.co.uk. // // / / // // / // // Be careful when you fight the monsters,lest you become one Friedrich Nietzsche We had fed the heart on fantasies,the heart's grown brutal from the fair William Butler Yeats / [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Trump trumped
Now that is funny, I liked the Faux News bit best. Comedy is making a statement about the truth, and it being funny, when it really isn't, though you gain an insight as to why it isn't funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TwRmX6zs4feature=share http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TwRmX6zs4feature=share http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/04/obama-releases-full-birth-certificate.html?utm_source=Facebookutm_medium=fanpageutm_campaign=pbs http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/04/obama-releases-full-birth-certificate.html?utm_source=Facebookutm_medium=fanpageutm_campaign=pbs _ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] [Darenet] Alternative theories of Osama bin Laden's death
A few things here prove thoughts I've not yet seen in the groups about bin Laden's death (besides some of the more revolting ones). The second one under b) is a real thought provoker for even those that find bin Laden's second (or is this the third?) death to be a tad suspicious, much less the a) under that same b). Scott Alternative theories of Osama bin Laden's death by Michael Dare Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush switched faces a decade ago and this was Obama's clever way of disposing of Bush's body so bin Laden can live a glorious life in Texas opening libraries dedicated to his most despised adversary. It was all a cover-up to move the living bin Laden to his own private island in Bahrain. The island is shaped like: a) a matzo ball b) a kidney dialysis machine c) the twin towers d) the Mandelbrot set They've been saving the dead body of bin Laden in a freezer waiting for an appropriate day to dump it overboard. They chose the anniversary of Dubya's Mission Accomplished speech because: a) He said to. b) There was no kidney dialysis machine in Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound because: a) that wasn't Osama bin Laden, you fools. Why on earth do you believe everything you hear from such accomplished liars? b) It was all pre-scripted. When Satan first approached Obama about letting him be president, he told Obama he could say whatever he wanted during the campaign as long as he did Satan's bidding while in office. Obama threw in a kicker. He wouldn't do it unless Satan let him get bin Laden as sort of an October surprise to guarantee his re-election. Satan said okay as long as Obama enforced a small clause in Dubya's contract, keeping Gitmo open in order to justify it's existence when so called information from tortured detainees would point to Abbottabad, and preventing a small clause in bin Laden's contract that expires 10 years after 9/11 from becoming operational . The real plan all along was to: a) befuddle the fuck out of everyone b) as Bush said, Arab women will feel the black sperm of my vengeance. (Thank you Roger Ebert.) c) Skinjobs, man, they're all skinjobs. They don't have to invade us, they're already here. d) issue in a new world order based upon the rural south around 1850. The new slaves, 99% of the actual population, live underground and mutate into eloi while those above ground, the ruling 1%, suffer endless days of lazy pleasure, not knowing they're being groomed to be eaten by the poor starving eloi/proletariat they thought they'd been exploiting when, in fact, it was the eloi that were exploiting them. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] England?/UK?/Great Britain?
I want to see a part II, the ex Colonies as they became Empire, done much in the same manner. Then we can add in France, Spain, Duetschlend (only Engrish speakers call it Germany) and might as well make the Roman Empire look benovelant in its' destruction of it's known world, in much the same manner. * You May Have Wondered About This...Or Not * http://www.wimp.com/differencebetween/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] White House Threatens to Blacklist Paper for Covering Protest
This is bush-like, sort of USSRish http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/368-wikileaks/5789-white-house-threatens-to-blacklist-paper-for-covering-protest It is out in the open now, we have State Controlled media. It happens during the Bush era, right before we illegally entered Iraq. There was the largest anti war protest in the world, and half of it happened right here in the USA, but we could only get from independent media, that it happened everywhere else in the world. And now we can't even get coverages from outside sources, as 'protective software' is built right into your browser, you never get to see the results of that which isn't approved. We have the best Government Money Can buy, and that the Population COntrol experts can keep the cattle, er sheepeople, er the citizens hereded into only seeing, knowing hearing, what is approved. Big brother Loves you, and would never hurt you, and is working day and night to make sure those that might make your head hurt with independent thought, never can harm you. Scott [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] ATTENTION!!PLEASE THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!
What I really want to know is WHO PROFITS FROM MAKING SURE THIS KIND OF INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE WHEN YOU TAKE PHOTOS FROM A SMART PHONE. This is programed in, this is PLANNED, before the product hits the market. WHY? Selling YOUR INFORMATION is exceptionally BIG BUSINESS. So who is it that gets you to pay mega bucks for their products, and then not only can sell your information, but those who are predisposed to criminal activities have the easiest access to YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. Who profits, from your troubles? Of course the next questions is, once informed, why are we submitting to Hitlers Dream, much less cheerfully paying for it out of our own pocket? Scott If you don't do anything else PLEASE watch this youtube video...PLEASE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY PLease pass it on to your family and friends..people need to know this ESPECIALLY if you have children. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Exporting Democracy
Exporting Democracy Has Led to Shortages of it in U.S., Experts Say Wisconsin, Florida Hardest Hit WASHINGTON (*The Borowitz Report http://borowitzreport.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49de3335c30245ecd0fa291aaid=3cf2f58e96e=e9874627c9 http://borowitzreport.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49de3335c30245ecd0fa291aaid=3cf2f58e96e=e9874627c9 *) The U.S. policy of exporting democracy abroad has meant that there is very little of it left at home. That is the grim assessment of a new study commissioned by the University of Minnesota, which predicts that if the U.S. continues to export democracy at its current pace it may completely run out of it at home by the year 2015. We have been exporting democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq while there are severe shortages of it in Wisconsin and Florida, said Professor Davis Logsdon, who supervised the study. This is madness.' Citing the study, Speaker of the House John Boehner said today, It has been clear to me for some time that we must explore alternative forms of government, such as oligarchy or plutocracy. Noting that democracy originated in Greece, Mr. Boehner added, We must reduce our dependence on foreign sources of government. The University of Minnesota study contains several proposals, such as outsourcing the U.S. government to the world's largest democracy, India. The work done by Congress could be accomplished much more efficiently by a series of electronic phone prompts, the study recommends. But Mr. Boehner warned that eliminating Congress entirely would have disastrous effects: That would destroy entire sectors of our economy, especially the prostitution industry. Speaking from one of the states hardest hit by the democracy shortage, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker downplayed the seriousness of the problem, calling democracy overrated. of the problem, calling democracy overrated. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
