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Lester R. Brown is Founder and President of Earth Policy Institute. The Washington Post has called him “one of the world’s most influential thinkers.”


“Lester Brown tells us how to build a more just world and save the planet from climate change in a practical, straightforward way. We should all heed his advice.” –President Bill Clinton



“A great book which should wake up humankind!” –Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum



“An enormous achievement—a comprehensive guide to what’s going wrong with earth’s life support system and how to fix it.” –Grinning Planet

America is failing economically, politically and in other ways because its ideology is preventing it from changing and adapting – exactly the same thing that happened to the Soviet Union.

The decline of the American car industry is a good example. 20% of the cost of US cars is health care. America has by far the highest health care costs in the world, yet delivers a poor service compared to others (parts of America have 3rd world life-expectancy and child mortality rates, for example). America’s competitors in Japan and Europe don’t have these costs. Sure they have higher taxes that fund the public health services, but these health services are much more efficient in getting bang for bucks.

A modern, univesal heath system would be a great help to American industry, yet ideology prevents this from being implemented.

Just one more example of how the rigidity of ideology prevents America from adapting to the modern world.

Secret Service keeps everyone safe in front of White House ( even us protesters )

George W. Bush on Osama bin Laden, Sept. 15, 2006: “There’s kind of an urban myth here in Washington about how this administration hasn’t stayed focused on Osama bin Laden. Forget it. It’s convenient throwaway lines when people say that.”

George W. Bush on Osama bin Laden, March 13, 2002: “You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him, Kelly, to be honest with you … And I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s at the center of any command structure … I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.”

Syrian Family, Nice Folks

The President is relentlessly dismantling the scientific
capabilities of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- a plan with
"long-term consequences," says the agency's chief financial officer.

Hurricane Katrina, One Year Later

http://www.infowars.com/articles/media/palast_charged_with_journalism_first_degree.htm

we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It’s been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW’s (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere. One resident, Pamela Lewis said, “It is a prison set-up”—except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.

To give a sense of the full flavor and smell of the place, we wanted to show that this human parking lot, with kids and elderly, is nearly adjacent to the Exxon Oil refinery, the nation’s second largest, a chemical-belching behemoth.

So we filmed it. Without Big Brother’s authorization. Uh, oh. Apparently, the broadcast of these stinking smokestacks tipped off Osama that, if his assassins pose as poor Black folk, they can get a cramped Airstream right next to a “critical infrastructure” asset.

Israeli Family.

The man interrupted me and blurted "Why don't you protest al-Quaeda instead?"

To which I replied:

"Before Israeli terrorists stole the land from the Palestinians, America HAD no enemies in the Middle East. It's only because our politicians are the lackeys of your spies and lobbies like AIPAC that we have any wars and conflict. 

¨Why don't you all get back behind your own borders? Why don't you stop torturing your political prisoners? 

"Why don't you take your spies and agents like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, Keith Weissman, Steven Rosen, and Paul Wolfowitz back to Tel Aviv with you and leave us AMerican alons. And pay us back the money you have weasled out of us. And get the hell out of the West Bank. And get rid of your WMDs. And I am just getting started with you bastards..."

Two amazing women. Made us signs in Amharic and Nepalese, spoke half a dozen languages between the two of them, and had travelled the world over. More power to ya, sisters!

Lazy-Ass Republican Lice

Bush Republican politicians work less than any in our history. Bush has taken MORE than a WHOLE YEAR of vacation since he became president 5 years ago.

Under Republican rule, the congress now will work only – now get this – NINTY SEVEN DAYS-!!! Out of a whole year, just 97 days. That is a MASSIVE DROP in work since Republicans gained control. Yes, it’s true: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060320/1a_bottomstrip20.art.htm

Don’t forget, since Republicans took over the House, they have been giving themselves AT THE SAME TIME, the largest increases in pay, http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9364688/detail.html

and now, even if you serve in congress just 6 years, YOU GET FULL 100% RETIREMENT – far more money than any Union Employee can ever dream of, and YOU PAY FOR CONGRESSIONAL HEALTH CARE FOREVER-!!!

Even if Tom DeLay is convicted of felonies while he was in office, he still gets every penny! http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/3774753.html

Welcome to Republikan “CEO-Admin” America, where Republikans are trying to do for America what the CEO Admin from Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom did for their employees and investors.

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 14, 2006; Page A12

Columnist Robert D. Novak, who first revealed Valerie Plame’s employment by the CIA and touched off a lengthy federal leak investigation, is accusing his primary source of misrepresenting their conversation to make the source’s role in the disclosure seem more casual than it was.

In an unusual column that appears today, Novak says his initial source, former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage, was more sure of Plame’s ties to the CIA than the source has indicated. Novak adds that Armitage linked her directly to her husband’s CIA-sponsored trip to Niger and suggested the disclosure would be a good item for Novak’s column.

This differs from Armitage’s assertions last week that his disclosure was made in an offhand manner and that he did not know why Plame’s husband was sent to Niger.

for the WTC 1993 attacks. That was only a month after Clinton got inaugurated on January 2003 and the WTC attacks happen on February 1993.

Now, BushRats are blaming Clinton for the Sept. 2001 WTC attacks. It’s funny that BushRats blame Clinton when in fact it was Bush who was in office for 8 months since his inauguartion AND had been given reports of possible terrorist attacks AND what did he do: VACATION.

R.I.P. Ann Richards

Disadvantaged by gender and poverty, unlike the current generation of pansy-ass politician, she overcame great obstacles to become the beloved Governor of Texas, before corruption and greed took the soul of the Lone Star State. The first woman to do so.

Ann Richards has left us,
and she HAS left us with a memorable quote, 

“Poor George. He was born with a silver
foot in his mouth.”

...or was it a silver spoon up his nose?

...or his head up his ass?

The Pentagon deliberately refused to tell the families of 6 US soldiers killed in Iraq that they had died in combat.

Why?

Because Bush and Co wanted to keep the death toll from the war at 2,999 so their little 9/11 pep rally wouldn’t be ruined by reporting the FACTS.

For Immediate Release
Sept. 13, 2006

Expressing the Sense of Congress that the President should 

immediately replace the Secretary of Defense, 

Donald Rumsfeld

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 13, 2006

http://www.house.gov/list/press/pa12_murtha/PRrummyres06.html

Bush and Death: Like Peanut Butter and Jelly

WASHINGTON — The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country’s western al Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents.

The officials described Col. Pete Devlin’s classified assessment of the dire state of Anbar as the first time a senior U.S. military officer has filed so negative a report from Iraq.

One Army officer summarized it as arguing that in Anbar province, “We haven’t been defeated militarily but we have been defeated politically — and that’s where wars are won and lost.”

The “very pessimistic” statement, as one Marine officer called it, was dated Aug. 16 and sent to Washington shortly after that, and has been discussed across the Pentagon and elsewhere in national security circles. “I don’t know if it is a shock wave, but it’s made people uncomfortable,” said a Defense Department official who has read the report. Like others interviewed about the report, he spoke on the condition that he not be identified by name because of the document’s sensitivity.

Devlin reports that there are no functioning Iraqi government institutions in Anbar, leaving a vacuum that has been filled by the insurgent group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has become the province’s most significant political force, said the Army officer, who has read the report. Another person familiar with the report said it describes Anbar as beyond repair, and a third said it concludes that the United States has lost in Anbar.

Devlin offers a series of reasons for the situation, including a shortage of U.S. and Iraqi troops, a problem that has dogged commanders since the fall of Baghdad more than three years ago, said people who have read it. These people said he reported that not only are military operations facing a stalemate, unable to extend and sustain security beyond the perimeters of their bases, but local governments in the province have collapsed and the weak central government has almost no presence.

Those conclusions are striking because, even after four years of fighting an unexpectedly difficult war in Iraq, the U.S. military has tended to maintain an optimistic view that its mission is difficult but that some progress is being made. Although CIA station chiefs in Baghdad have filed a series of negative classified reports during the past several years, military intelligence officials consistently have been more positive in their public statements and their internal reports.

Devlin, as part of the I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) headquarters in Iraq, has been stationed there since February, so his report isn’t being dismissed simply as the stunned assessment of a newly arrived officer. In addition, he has the reputation of being one of the Marine Corps’ best intelligence officers, with a tendency to be careful and straightforward, said another Marine intelligence officer. Hence the report is being taken seriously as it is examined inside the military establishment and by some CIA officials.

Why Bush Supporters are So Stupid, Part XXXIV

FOX NEWS:

OWNER: Self proclaimed ultra right wing conservative Rupert Murdoch. This repugnant republiscum even boasts that he uses the cons and all 236 of his media outlets to further his right wing agenda.

CEO/PRESIDENT: Republican fatboy ROGER AILES. Old Roger used to be the HEAD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY and used to write speeches for NIXON (another fine republican). Member of the “pioneers”...the wealthiest contributors to dumbya’s campaign.

PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR: None other than dumbya’s first cousin JOHN ELLIS. Think he’s going to air ANYTHING negative about his cuz?

And let’s not forget “reporter” TONY SNOW….republican conservative has been
speechwriter for the GOP turned FAUX WHORE.

Next week: 

THE MESSIAH

and

Owner, Founder, Manager, Editor, Subsidizer 

of the conservative rag

"The Washington Times"

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon

“I’m not spying on American citizens”.

The next story was

“I’m only spying on a few BAD Americans who are talking to terrorists”

The next story was

“I’m spying on Americans, but I have to so that you will be safe”

The next story is

“I’m not only spying on Americans, but congress needs to pass laws so that I can spy on more Americans, but it’s all to keep you safe.”

And cons have gone along with each story as it was told to them. 

After the first one they said “libs were just paranoid” by the last one, they had conceded that their president was indeed spying on American citizens, but saying “he has to so he can protect our freedom”.

How low he has brought the republicans, that they would give up being Americans to be “safe”, as if there is ever any guarantee of that.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Bush is disobeying, requires the executive to obtain from a secret panel of federal judges a warrant for spying on Americans. The purpose of the law is to prevent a president from spying for partisan political reasons. The law permits the president to spy first (for 72 hours) and then come to the court for permission. As the court meets in secret, and almost always grants the warrant (FISA court has only disallowed 4 out of over 15,000 warrants), how is spying without a warrant more effective in reducing the threat of terrorism than spying with a warrant?

Read The FISA Law of 1978 for yourself.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sup_01_50_10_36_20_I.html

IAEA protests “erroneous” U.S. report on Iran

Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:51am

By Mark Heinrich

VIENNA (Reuters) – U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran’s nuclear work, calling parts of it “outrageous and dishonest”, according to a letter obtained by Reuters.

The letter recalled clashes between the IAEA and the Bush administration before the 2003 Iraq war over findings cited by Washington about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that proved false, and underlined continued tensions over Iran’s dossier.

Sent to the head of the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Intelligence by a senior aide to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, the letter said an August 23 committee report contained serious distortions of IAEA findings on Iran’s activity.

The letter said the errors suggested Iran’s nuclear fuel program was much more advanced than a series of IAEA reports and Washington’s own intelligence assessments have determined.

It said the report falsely described Iran to have enriched uranium at its pilot centrifuge plant to weapons-grade level in April, whereas IAEA inspectors had made clear Iran had enriched only to a low level usable for nuclear power reactor fuel.

Slovenian

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14825465/

Princeton prof hacks e-vote machine

Students uploaded viruses 

able to spread to other machines

Updated: 9:48 p.m. ET Sept. 13, 2006 (AP)

TRENTON, N.J. – A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.

In a paper posted on the university’s Web site, Edward Felten and two graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine they obtained, found ways to quickly upload malicious programs and even developed a computer virus able to spread such programs between machines.

Brasileirinhas

Miscellaneous Reports from Hell

Why is Bush giving himself a pardon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060905/cm_thenation/20060918brecher_1

Why is the pentagon denying troops RPG defense systems?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14686871

Why has a top Marine general reported that the Anbar Province has been lost to Al Qaeda?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/world/middleeast/12anbar.html

Why are top American commanders in Iraq saying the U.S.-led military operations are not strong enough to defeat the insurgency?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060913/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_anbar_8

Iraq and Iran will probably mend fences and join forces now. I am very worried about all the young soldiers in Iraq. They are also stuck between Iran and Israel. How convenient for Israel.

http://www.president.ir/eng/ahmadinejad/cronicnews/1385/06/21/index-e.htm#b1
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206T.shtml

Polish

Arctic ice melting rapidly, study says

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/warming_sea_ice

Arctic sea ice in winter is melting far faster than before, two new
NASA studies reported Wednesday, a new and alarming trend that researchers say threatens the ocean’s delicate ecosystem.

Scientists point to the sudden and rapid melting as a sure sign of man-made global warming.

“It has never occurred before in the past,” said NASA senior research scientist Josefino Comiso in a phone interview. “It is alarming… This winter ice provides the kind of evidence that it is indeed associated with the greenhouse effect.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahedeen-e_Khalq

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles



“Because it’s only terrorism when OTHER countries do it.”

Get the audio book

Review: Amazon.com

Noam Chomsky is considered the father of modern linguistics. In this richly detailed criticism of American foreign policy, he seeks to redefine many of the terms commonly used in the ongoing American war on terrorism. Surveying U.S. actions in Cuba, Nicaragua, Turkey, the Far East and elsewhere over the past half a century along with the modern American war in Iraq, Chomsky indicates that America is just as much a terrorist state as any other government or rogue organization.



George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq drew worldwide criticism, in part because it seemed to present a new philosophy of pre-emptive war and an appearance of global empire building. But according to Chomsky, such has been the operating philosophy of American foreign policy for decades. Opponents of the Bush administration’s tactics consistently point out how the American government supported Saddam Hussein for many years prior to the 1990 invasion of Kuwait (pictures of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam’s hand are easy to come by) as a means of pointing out how the United States is happy to fund despots when it’s in American interests.



But Chomsky, armed with extensive historical notation, takes this notion further, arguing how the repression of other nations’ citizenry is, in fact, the very reason Americans support certain foreign leaders. The charges made throughout the book are severe, as are the dire consequences he posits if current trends are not reversed, and Chomsky is no more likely to make friends or gain supporters from the mainstream now than he’s ever been. But Hegemony or Survival is relatively dispassionate. Instead of relying on camp or shock value or personal attacks as some of his contemporaries have done, Chomsky drives his well-supported points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style. (John Moe)

Review: From Publishers Weekly

In this highly readable, heavily footnoted critique of American foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, Chomsky (whose 9-11 was a bestseller last year) argues that current U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Iraq are not a specific response to September 11, but simply the continuation of a consistent half-century of foreign policy-an “imperial grand strategy”-in which the United States has attempted to “maintain its hegemony through the threat or use of military force.”



Such an analysis is bound to be met with skepticism or antagonism in post-September 11 America, but Chomsky builds his arguments carefully, substantiates claims with appropriate documentation and answers expected counterclaims. Chomsky is also deeply critical of inconsistency in making the charge of “terrorism.” Using the official U.S. legal code definition of terrorism, he argues that it is an exact description of U.S. foreign policy (especially regarding Cuba, Central America, Vietnam and much of the Middle East), although the term is rarely used in this way in the U.S. media, he notes, even when the World Court in 1986 condemned Washington for “unlawful use of force” (“international terrorism, in lay terms” Chomsky argues) in Nicaragua.



Claiming that the U.S. is a rogue nation in its foreign policies and its “contempt for international law,” Chomsky brings together many themes he has mined in the past, making this cogent and provocative book an important addition to an ongoing public discussion about U.S. policy.



Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

LMAO


David Horowitz
Peter Collier

Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele yesterday aired a new commercial for his U.S. Senate bid featuring hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and said he plans to barnstorm the state after Tuesday’s primary.



“I feel very excited about what’s going to begin on September 13,” Mr. Steele, a Republican, said during an appearance on the Anacostia River near the D.C.-Maryland line to promote his environmental [lmao] plan.



The 60-second TV commercial features footage from a recent [Benjamin collection event] that Mr. Simmons hosted in Baltimore for Mr. Steele.



It shows Mr. Simmons onstage in a T-shirt and blue jeans, saying: “The lieutenant governor is clear on his mission. He said he wants to fight [ lack of Benjamins ] and ignorance … Now I’m here to [ blackify ] him [ for a fly stack of Benjamins ].”



The Steele campaign did not say how [ fly a stack of Benjamins ] it paid for television time for the ad.




Before Russell Simmons’
“blackification” treatment


After Russelll Simmons’
“blackification” treatment



Below: Maryland Republican voters

www.adbusters.org

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Repuke, Demoncrap
Corporate Whores
Spread Legs
for Big Pharma, Insurance, Oil
in Maryland Senate “Election”



Above: a whore.

Male Prostitute and White House
slumber party guest Jeff Gannon

Washington Post (expert in spreading the word, legs )

PAC Funds Undercut Claims in Senate Race
Maryland Candidates Try To Run as Outsiders

By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 7, 2006; A01

The latest television commercial in Democrat Benjamin L. Cardin’s bid for an open U.S. Senate seat in Maryland says he “always tries to do what’s right, what’s in the best interest of Maryland families, taking on the drug companies, the oil companies, the insurance companies.”

His campaign, however, has accepted checks from committees representing six large pharmaceutical companies, 22 oil and energy outfits, 27 insurance firms and industry associations, and eight HMOs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which compiles such figures on its Web site.

Republican Michael S. Steele’s sunny Senate campaign ad tells voters that he will “talk straight about what’s wrong in both parties. You know, to get a different kind of government, you’re gonna need a different kind of senator.”

Yet his candidacy is financed by some of the nation’s best-known Washington Republicans—White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was the host of Steele’s first fundraiser—with help from “Team Steele,” a group of lobbyists assigned to bundle hefty PAC contributions.

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http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Demonstrations/April2805nyc.cfm
http://www.erichufschmid.net/BenjaminFreedmansSpeech16.mp3
http://rense.com/general44/sevenjewishamericans.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739227220487922409&q=they+want+your+so ul&hl=en

They are all, both sides, just stooges for the global elite! Corporate sponsored actors/whores.

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Al Qaeda: Invented by the Bush Administration in January of 2001?

From “The Power of Nightmares”
by Adam Curtis (BBC)

video from brasscheck.com