Democrats want to take all our money and return to us one dime out of each dollar.
Republicans want to take all our money and give it to corporations and the wealthy.
Neither is acceptable!
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The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.
Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. emeritus Professor of Linguistics
If we thought the old Taliban was a problem, wait until they get a complete nuclear arsenal. They truly believe that returning to the golden age is in their best interest. But to the rest of the world, that would be like living in the stone age. [...]
I accept the fact that there will always be those who will deny the holocaust, and absolutely nothing will ever make them say different. Not that they don’t know and believe it happened, but because they have an ulterior motive for denial. [...]
Last year President Bush convinced the Democratic controlled congress to authorize sending Special Ops forces into Iran to “gather information”, according to the latest issue of The New Yorker Magazine. Most top military leaders are concerned about this, in that they are afraid Bush will use this opportunity to authorize an air strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Even Defense Secretary Robert Gates warns of the consequences if Bush stages a preemptive strike. He said “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America”. Continue Reading » »
Once again Ali Velshi of CNN talked about the price of oil this morning. He pointed out that oil was going up an average now of $1 per day. John Roberts asked Velshi where does this all end. Velshi answered “Well, this is so speculative that you don’t really know when it ends. It ends when speculators decide that this is not the best bet. There are better places for their money. And part of that means when the stock market, when real estate, when other things become more reasonable investments, but the fact is there is a lot of demand for oil. So if you can trade in oil, you’re going to make money until there are other places to make money. It’s considered safe, believe it or not”. Continue Reading » »
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified last week before the House Armed Services committee. He was asked a lot of questions in an effort for the committee to get some feedback from the military side of how things were going in Iraq. When asked about the moral of the troops relative to being short-handed thereby having to spend 3-4 tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Admiral Mullen said “the soldiers are happy with what they are doing”. Continue Reading » »
According to the Pentagon, China spent as much as $139 billion on their military in 2007. A large chunk of this was spent on trying to steal information from the United States. Continue Reading » »
For the past few weeks George Bush has tried to initiate the building of a case to attack Iran. Now today Iran decided to provoke another incident between their Navy and ours. This is nothing new by Iran, as they implement these provocations all the time. It’s just the way they are. Basically, their Navy has nothing else to do.
My View
Sometimes wars are unavoidable and necessary. But wars have been started for lesser reasons than mentioned above. And wars have been started just because a leader of some country wanted a war. Continue Reading » »
“A 16-year-old girl has died after allegedly being choked by her father over a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women. Peel Regional Police arrested a 57-year-old man Tuesday morning after receiving a 911 call from a [...]