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 | International: Reinventing the Evil Empire |
 by Stephen Lendman
For the West, everything changed but stayed the same,
hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in
the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to
reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took
over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little
different.
Russia is back, proud and reassertive, and not about
to roll over for America. Especially in Eurasia. For
Washington, it's back to the future, the new Cold War,
and reinventing the Evil Empire, but this time for
greater stakes and with much larger threats to world
peace. Conservatives lost their influence. Neocons are
weakened but still dominant. The Israeli Lobby and
Christian Right drive them. Conflict is preferred over
diplomacy, and most Democrats go along to look tough
on "terrorism." Notably their standard-bearer, vying
with McCain to be toughest.
Ten former Warsaw Pact and Soviet Republics are part
of NATO: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary,
Poland, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia,
and Lithuania. In addition, Georgia and Ukraine seek
membership. Russia is strongly opposed. And now for
greater reason after Poland (on August 20) formally
agreed to allow offensive US "interceptor missiles" on
its soil. A reported 96 short-range Patriot ones also
plus a permanent garrison of US troops - 110
transfered from Germany, according to some accounts.
Likely more to follow. In addition, Washington agreed
to defend Poland whether or not it joins NATO, so that
heightens tensions further. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Tuesday, August 26 @ 10:11:12 EDT (13 reads)
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| Opinion: Maybe We Should Just Hope the Republicans Win This Thing... |
 By Dave Lindorff
If the direr warnings about the US economy and the general state of the world are correct, maybe we should be glad that Obama’s presidential campaign is in failure mode (see Loserville).
Two terms of the Bush/Cheney administration have pretty much destroyed the dollar, wrecked the US industrial base, emasculated the US military, undermined public faith in the legal system, wrecked the educational system, bankrupted working people, fired up many labor unions, bankrupted the government and threatened the retirement and Medicare systems.
Do we really want to now hand this mess over to a Democratic administration and a Democratic Congress?
All that will do is ensure that Democrats will end up having to confront, and in the end get the blame for the whole looming catastrophe, allowing the otherwise thoroughly discredited Republicans and neocons who created this disaster to come back claiming it was the fault of the liberals and their pinko friends.
A better idea might be to let the Republicans win it, and then have to deal with it and take the consequences. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Monday, August 25 @ 13:39:50 EDT (19 reads)
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| Politics: LibertyUnion Colors |
By Doris Lake
The LUP--LibertyUnion Party -- was formed in 1970 at the home of former Congressperson, William H. Meyer and his spouse, Bertha, in West Rupert, VT.
LUP is four colored: red, green, black, and white.
White for the rejection of violence as a tool of government policy. We urge the end of “. . . research, production, testing of, and deployment of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons including uranium ammunition . . . We must reject the claim . . . That ‘we must kill them before they can kill us.’ We must refuse to burn and kill no matter who ‘orders’ us to.” ....
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Posted by Blue1moon on Monday, August 25 @ 13:33:27 EDT (18 reads)
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| Spirituality: The End Does Not Justify The Means |
 by Christine Smith
In the many issues facing society, a common rationalization for committing wrong, immoral, unjust or unethical acts is that if the greater good is served the relative harm necessary to gain such a supposed good is justified. In essence, people say doing bad can result in good, thus they assert bad becomes good. This has become commonly accepted in politics (as well as within people’s personal and business lives).
Consider issues such as immigration, taxation, abortion, capital punishment, torture, and the use of military force. All present a multitude of possible scenarios and situations in which the use of force is argued or disputed. Must we, then, live our lives in a state of flux, constantly having to analyze each and every situation to determine what is ethical? Are there times when commission of a wrong act is the best choice because the result may be better for the majority? Is morality relative? Can an immoral or unethical act sometimes be the right thing to do if the outcome is deemed favorable?
The final result of an action cannot and must not be the determiner of right or wrong. To allow your mind to begin to accept this falsehood to any degree permits corruption to enter. Do not arrogantly think you are capable of compromising what you know is right and wrong in a situation just because it is difficult, for many well-intentioned people have done so only to later find themselves having accepted degrees of inflicting harm upon others they would never have thought themselves capable. And the core truth is that committing any evil, regardless of the circumstances, is always wrong. Consider history, every horrible inhumanity man has committed against others, was justified in their own mind(s). ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Saturday, August 23 @ 18:58:22 EDT (22 reads)
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| War News: This Is Not the Change We Hoped For: House Concurrent Resolution 362 |
by: Camillo "Mac" Bica, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Though America voted for change in 2006, the subsequent two years have demonstrated that the Democrats in Congress, while avowing a "new direction for America," are as willing and as skilled as their Republican/neocon counterparts at utilizing half-truths, innuendo, deceit and scare tactics to mislead the American public along the path to another devastating and unnecessary war. Consider, as a case in point, H. Con. Res. 362, introduced by Representative Gary Ackerman (D-New York) and co-sponsored by 261 members of Congress (at this writing), many of them Democrats. This bipartisan resolution is flawed - perhaps even suspect - for a number of reasons.
First, it asserts as fact that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and intimates that it would share its nuclear material and technology with terrorists and "rogue" states. The reality is that as of the end of July 2008, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had conducted over 3,000 man-days of scrupulous inspections, including nine visits that were unannounced.
In a report to the IAEA Board of Governors dated May 26, 2008, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei affirms, "The Agency has been able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear materials in Iran. Iran has provided the Agency with access to declared nuclear material and has provided the required nuclear material accountancy reports in connection with declared nuclear material and activities." The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) corroborates the IAEA's findings. "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.... We assess with moderate confidence Tehran has not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007" (November 2007).
Credible evidence exists, therefore, to refute H. Con. Res. 362's claim that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and engaged in "illicit nuclear activities," the primary premise upon which this resolution builds its argument for sanctions and a blockade. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Saturday, August 23 @ 17:25:07 EDT (21 reads)
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| Action Alert: Million Doors For Peace |
 United for Peace & Justice
September 20, 2008 - National Day of Action: Be part of one of the most ambitious and innovative anti-war activities to date!
On Saturday, September 20, thousands of volunteers across the U.S. will knock on a Million Doors for Peace.
United for Peace and Justice is partnering with US Action/True Majority, Win Without War, and other organizations to make this day the biggest peace action of 2008.
Volunteer doorknockers will ask people to sign an antiwar petition directed to Congress. Our message: End this immoral war, bring our troops home, and invest in America's future. In addition, we will encourage people to join local anti-war groups, engage in voter education work, and become a part of the organized antiwar movement in their area.
In order to reach a million people in a single day, we must organize at least 25,000 volunteers in all 50 states. Peace groups have never implemented such an elaborate communication and organizing plan before now, but with new and traditional communications tools available, we anticipate success with this groundbreaking, grassroots project. This project will not end on September 20, but it will be a new beginning of a more organized grassroots movement for peace and justice. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Friday, August 22 @ 21:08:01 EDT (24 reads)
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| Politics: Law And Order Are Sagging On Wall Street |
 by William A. Collins
Your investments,
On the brink;
Not as safe,
As you might think.
The robber barons of the Roaring '20s finally stumbled off into oblivion with the coming of the Great Depression. It was the New Dealers who then invented the regulatory regimens to prevent such corruption from ever, ever happening again in the stock market and in corporate governance. Bless their hearts!
It all worked fine for a while, but now the barons are back, like the Joker in a Batman sequel. And the chief culprit in their resurgence for once wasn’t even Richard Nixon, Wellspring #1 of so many of America’s evil urges. No, this time it was Ronald Reagan, U.S. Wellspring #2. Mr. Reagan believed people were basically good, that “excessive” regulation was bad, and that unfettered capitalism would maximize world welfare. Or at least that’s what he convinced us to think. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Friday, August 22 @ 19:55:44 EDT (19 reads)
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| Health News: Constitution Bars Subversion of State Medical Marijuana Laws |
 Federal Court Rules U.S. Government May Not Deliberately Subvert California’s Medical Marijuana Laws
From: American Civil LibertiesUnion
SAN JOSE, CA - In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a federal court today held that the U.S. Constitution bars deliberate subversion by the federal government of state medical marijuana laws.
"Utilizing selective arrests and prosecutions, the federal government has sought to sabotage California’s reasoned approach to medical marijuana use," said Graham Boyd, Director of the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. "For the first time, a court has recognized that a calculated plan by the federal government to undercut state medical marijuana laws is patently unconstitutional. Today’s decision forecasts an end to any organized federal effort to sabotage state medical marijuana laws."
While previous high-profile cases affirmed the federal government’s power to enforce federal drug laws against individual medical marijuana patients and providers on a case-by-case basis, today’s ruling clearly recognizes that a calculated pattern of federal enforcement can render state medical marijuana laws effectively inoperable, which would violate the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Thursday, August 21 @ 20:19:59 EDT (26 reads)
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| Business/Economy: Penicillin In Peril |
 by David Wallinga, M.D. and Margaret Mellon
The miracle drugs of the 20th Century are under threat. Doctors are frustrated by rising numbers of illnesses resistant to their arsenal of antibiotics. When these medicines don't work, patients suffer or even die, and our nation's health tab ratchets upward. Drugs such as penicillin and tetracycline, used routinely to treat respiratory disease and heart infections in humans, are also fed routinely to farm animals - not to treat diagnosed disease but to promote growth and to compensate for the overcrowded, stressful, unsanitary conditions on factory farms.
This reckless use in animals of tried-and-true human antibiotics has contributed to the development of serious antibiotic-resistant human disease. For example, scientists have long linked excessive antibiotic use in animals with a greater prevalence of resistant forms of food-borne infections - such as those caused by salmonella bacteria - and systemic blood infections. Recent studies now suggest that automatic antibiotic use in livestock operations may also be driving the emergence of a new type of community-acquired (or CA) superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). CA-MRSA causes serious, sometime deadly, resistant infections among healthy individuals - tragically including many high school students and athletes. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Thursday, August 21 @ 14:21:57 EDT (27 reads)
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| Opinion: Dumping The National Phone Directory - Electing The President |
By Jozef Hand-Boniakowski
In the short story, "Harrison Bergeron", part of a collection of writings by Kurt Vonnegut called "Welcome to the Monkey House, George and Hazel Bergeron, living in the year 2081, unknowingly suffer from the impact of radio, television and the "news". They are oblivious to its main function, that of making them mentally handicapped, where reality is produced and they consume it. The media present George and Hazel with all the images, messages, thoughts and opinions that they as members of society need to know and accept in order to be part of the communitarian State where everything is always well. George and Hazel go on day in and day out with their lives watching TV, being part of what it reinforces as normal. They have no free thought, no free expression, take no action, avoid conflict and controversy, challenge no one and no one challenges them. Their boat never gets rocked and they would never rock anyone else's, nor the States' boat. Worse, they are beyond the ability to challenge the system under which they live as they are crippled into clueless happiness. George and Hazel are desensitized by the constant barrage of TV images that control them into behaving acceptably. Unbeknownst to them, however, are the invisible ruling elite that control everything. George and Hazel are kept in line. Everything that they do is monitored, listened to and recorded. For George and Hazel, life may be pointless though they don't think so, but it is predictable and just the same as it is for anybody and everybody else. Very much like many people today, George and Hazel are comfortable living a mundane life with little interest in changing anything.
Vonnegut writes,
Clever people had to wear a radio in their ear tuned to the government transmitter, which sent out sharp noises to keep people from taking advantage of their brains.
Today's controlling corporations are the government. Their ubiquitous propaganda messages, masquerading as harmless advertising, are behavior programming from cradle to grave. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Wednesday, August 20 @ 19:52:50 EDT (24 reads)
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| Health News: Six Facts About Popcorn |
 From: Medportal
Fact 1.
Popcorn is the only kind of corn, the grains of which pop when exposed to high temperatures. Little explosions happen because of a certain correlation of water and starch contained in the grains. When temperatures increase, the water starts boiling, turns into steam, and the pressure inside corns begins to grow. When a corn is no longer capable of holding the inner pressure, it bursts open and turns inside out.
Fact 2.
Humans have been familiar with these unusual qualities of popcorn for long already. It is generally believed that people living on the territory of New Mexico 5,600 years ago were making popcorn in hot sand or ashes. Native Americans began to pop corns in clay pots with a small hole on the lid. This method was used before 1885, when American Charles Cretors invented the first steam popper. The wheeled machine allowed to make popcorn at any location – near movie theaters, in zoos or busy streets.
Nowadays popcorn has become a national dish in the USA, which even has its own national holiday on January 19. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Wednesday, August 20 @ 17:39:09 EDT (25 reads)
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| The News: Anti-Immigrant Hatred |
by Christine Smith
A few weeks ago, I read the sad story of the beating death of Mexican migrant Luis Ramirez (age 25) in a small town in Pennsylvania. The details as reported in the press are sad and disgusting regarding what allegedly transpired between three white teens charged in the case and Ramirez. The story has stayed in my mind.
Remember when others worldwide regarded our nation as a beacon of light, a place where those persecuted could come to seek a better life, free from religious and ethnic persecution? Remember when you, perhaps, regarded our nation in that way?
“The Mother of Exiles,” as Emma Lazarus’ The New Colossus called her, was how America was viewed by those seeking a better life. To come to America was a dream, a dream and vision celebrated worldwide, and one which millions fulfilled much to the benefit of our nation. As the plaque on the base of the Statue of Liberty with Lazarus’ inscription spoke of the Lady of Liberty’s world-wide welcome, millions came and built this nation.
Yet such a warm welcome has not awaited many. When one considers how many people desperately seeking asylum here have been denied, or even those who go through the tedious process of applying for green cards and citizenship who worry after years of living, working, and even building businesses in America about the ultimate decision due to the excruciating waiting periods, or we take a look at the immigration detention facilities across our country filled with non-violent people (including many children), we see the welcome has long been gone…though my question is was it ever really there? ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Tuesday, August 19 @ 21:21:42 EDT (33 reads)
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| War News: Blockades: Acts of War |
 by Stephen Lendman
From July 21 - 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but
also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large
scale war games were conducted off the US East coast
in the North Atlantic. Its purpose may have been to
prepare for a naval blockade of Iran. Initial reports
after its completion were that participating ships
were deployed to Persian Gulf and Arabian and Red Sea
locations to join up with the present American strike
force in the region. The major media cover none of
this, and US Navy sources deny it. So precise
information is unclear. From what's known, however,
redeployment may be planned, and a blockade may ensue.
The situation remains tense and worrisome.
Under international and US law, blockades are acts of
war and variously defined as:
-- surrounding a nation or objective with hostile
forces;
-- measures to isolate an enemy;
-- encirclement and besieging;
-- preventing the passage in or out of supplies,
military forces or aid in time of or as an act of war;
and
-- an act of naval warfare to block access to an
enemy's coastline and deny entry to all vessels and
aircraft.
In 2009, it's believed that the International Criminal
Court in the Hague will include blockades against
coasts and ports as acts of war. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Monday, August 18 @ 21:05:19 EDT (27 reads)
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| Labor News: EPI: Chinese Trade Surplus With U.S. Costs Almost 2.3M Jobs |
WASHINGTON (PAI)--China’s trade surplus with the U.S., created by undervalued currency, low or no pay for Chinese workers and a deliberate drive for industrial exports, has cost the U.S. economy almost 2.3 million jobs--2.295 million, to be precise--from 2000 through 2007, an Economic Policy Institute analysis reports.
The average U.S. worker who lost his or her job to China since 2000 lost more than $8,000 yearly in wages when he or she found a new job, EPI adds, but the impact was wider than that. That’s because competition from low-priced Chinese imports and low-paid Chinese workers drove down other U.S. workers wages, EPI said. It calculated an average U.S. worker who kept a job, but whose firm faced competition from the Chinese imports was forced to take a $1,400 pay cut over the last seven years as a result.
Between 2001 and last year, China’s trade surplus with the U.S.--and our deficit with China--tripled, to $262 billion, Scott noted. That was 21% annually. Two-thirds of the lost jobs were in high-paying industries. One third were among workers with college degrees. “More than half (55.6%) of the displaced jobs were in the top half of American wage earners…Growing China trade deficits contributed to the loss of 200,000 scientist and engineering jobs within the manufacturing sector, a 10.7% drop,” the report says. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Saturday, August 16 @ 20:33:22 EDT (45 reads)
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| Alien News: NASA hides truth about Mars |
NASA’s Mars exploration program progresses in leaps and bounds. Last week NASA specialists announced that they had obtained incontestable evidence which proved the presence of water on the red planet. Phoenix Mars Lander exposed samples of hardened Martian soil to thermal treatment and registered the evaporation of water. The Martian water theory finally found its practical proof.
It is not ruled out that NASA experts decided not to unveil the entire truth about the Martian discoveries.
Aviation Week & Space Technology wrote with reference to own anonymous sources at NASA that the agency sent another document to the White House along with the report on the Martian soil analysis. The secret document supposedly says that Phoenix found certain evidence of possible life on the planet.
The classified report does not contain any mentioning of a life form that exists or might have existed on Mars, the weekly magazine wrote. Most likely, it goes about a potential ability of the red planet to maintain the existence of living organisms. It is too early to make such a conclusion about the entire surface of Mars. For the time being, the assumption may be true only with the area, where the rover conducts exploration works. ...
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Posted by Blue1moon on Saturday, August 16 @ 20:00:33 EDT (33 reads)
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