GMO labeling hits Congress

Our right to know what we're eating hit the halls of Congress yesterday with full force.

Executives from some of our nation’s major brands -- including Stonyfield, Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, and Chipotle -- stood in front of the US Capitol to pressure Congress to stop the "DARK Act" and demand lawmakers pass commonsense GMO labeling legislation.

While Monsanto and major junk food manufacturers are lobbying Congress to keep us in the dark on GMOs, innovative and smart food leaders are stepping up to call for commonsense GMO labeling legislation.

On the heels of our huge event yesterday, we now need your help to keep up the momentum on lawmakers to reject the DARK Act before it’s too late.

Click here to sign our petition demanding Congress reject any attempts to block GMO labeling and stop the DARK Act in its tracks.

Our GMO labeling coalition also released the results of a recent national survey that found an overwhelming supermajority of Americans -- 88% in fact -- believe GMO foods should be labeled.

What’s more, the results showed that GMO labeling crosses party lines. Democrats, Republicans, and independents all agree that labeling genetically modified foods is important to them.

Now it’s time to convince members of Congress that a vast majority of their constituents want GMO labeling legislation. Click the link below to sign our petition:

http://StopTheDarkAct.com

Thanks for all you do.

-Claire

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Claire Benjamin
Executive Director
Food Policy Action

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What The Heck Is Wrong With Us!!?? What Part of THEY LIE TO US CONSTANTLY Don't You Understand?

an e-mail arrived in my inbox from the Kick them all out campaign and it is worthy of sharing  so here goes:

Quote To Remember

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.... Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same policies

Carroll Quigley,"Tragedy and Hope:a History of the World in our Time"

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Why Do So Many Fall For These People?

It absolutely confounds me why so many people fall for the STARS that the powers-that-be prop-up in front of us. How can otherwise bright, intelligent people become stupefyingly lame-headed and suckered by people that are clearly just saying exactly what everyone wants to hear? It happens over and over again. Once they are elected, they do nothing for us! Duh!!

Why do you think that is? Could it be that they never gave a damn about us to begin with? Could it be that when those in power offered to "make them rich and famous" and that they may have been seduced? No, that couldn't be it. Not our precious fill in the name of your favorite savior here.

The sad fact is many of us have been socially conditioned to idealize celebrity! It astounds me how easily people will glom onto someone and idealize them beyond any reasonable proportions. How many of our so-called leaders turn out to be worthy of our adoration and idealizations? How many discredited, corrupt political stars can look right into a camera, right into your eyes, smile and LIE without a second thought? That's why they pick these people. They can do this without any trouble whatsoever. Oh, but not Obama. He would never do anything like that. Sarah would never do anything like that. They are real. They are genuine, right? You just "know" they are by what you've seen on TV, or heard at a rally you saw her at. Or my God, she actually spoke to you personally at a rally. She seemed so real, so nice.

I think I may have to projectile vomit. Please excuse me for a moment . . .

Can you detect a bit of ire in my tone? I'm just so tired of seeing good people act out the same stupid behavior. There I said it. I said the "S" word.

Another strange thing that happens to many of us is when we see someone often enough on television we start to feel that we know them, as if they are a friend. Familiarity is not the same thing as friendship everyone. Friendship requires an actual relationship. Can any of you really say you know a darn thing about Palin or any of these people propped up before us? You only know what you've seen and heard through the media. Their sound bites are carefully orchestrated and controlled.

Some people were offended because I put the photo of Obama and Palin dancing in the campaign video. Nobody seems to have a problem with Obama being there, but "How dare I" put Saint Palin in with him! She's the real deal. She's "one of us."

Did any of you notice that Sarah Palin came out of nowhere just like Obama came out of nowhere? Suddenly she was thrust into the limelight with the full might and power of the establishment celebrity machine. She was everywhere and still is. They made her a star overnight and dazzled everyone inclined to be dazzled by her. She's gone from total obscurity to a multimillionaire folks. Do you really think they would have picked her if she wasn't going to serve their purposes?

There is no difference between what they did with Obama and what they are doing with Palin my friends. Look at that photo to the left. Look really hard and next time you watch Sarah, see if you can't see that this is exactly what she is doing. She's a performer. She's being paid a lot of money to do what she's doing. She's telling you exactly what she has been told you want to hear, what will sucker you in and make her more famous and powerful. Yes, she may believe some of what she says but make no mistake. She is not going to help us! Everyone who is gaga for Palin will see she won't deliver any better than Obama if she actually gets elected to anything. She is surrounded and controlled by the same "old guard" that's been in the primary "appointed" positions of power and advisory positions since Kennedy was assassinated.

Some people were also offended by the morphed photo of Obama and Bush I put in the campaign video. Don't you remember that Bush LIED to us about practically everything? Bush and his trusty sidekick Cheney, or was it the other way around, LIED us into Middle East wars that are still raging. If you're short on memory, watch this little video I put together. Bush's reign roughly doubled the size and power of the government, all accomplished through lies. He exploited 9-11 to put into place a domestic police state apparatus that would be right at home in Stalin's Russia, or Mao's China, or China today for that matter. He ended his reign by rubber stamping the first banker bailout. Remember the $700 BILLION which now has become over 24 TRILLION? Oh yea. Bush is a great sacred cow. He's a hero. He's the real deal.

The morphed photo of Obambush is the cold hard truth. There has been a total continuity of agenda passing from one administration to the next, from one Congress to the next and it's been like that for a very long time. Want more proof? Listen to this amazing speech given by Charles A. Lindberg given back in 1941 in which he talks about the exact same lunatics doing the exact same things.

This insanity is not going to stop until we stop being so gullible. To ignore this truth is pure folly. Go ahead and do what the Obama devotees have done, fawn over celebrity and soon you will all be hanging your heads, just like all the Obama zombies are doing right now.

It's Called Controlled Opposition Folks

It is a fact that those in power know how to manipulate and control us. It's a fine art to them. The best way to control the opposition is to become the opposition. They have been doing it for a long, long time. The second they feel a group can pose a threat they will infiltrate it and make sure their people will rise to the top leadership positions.

Another sacred cow to many people is Glen Beck. Folks, we can't afford any sacred cows. We have to see clearly without any wishful thinking sugar-coating our perceptions. Again, do you really think the establishment machine would give Beck a multimillion-dollar studio and an enormous salary if he wasn't going to serve their purposes? Come on!

Yes, he speaks the truth about many things. Great, however, haven't you noticed on every single major issue he has betrayed us? He was for the banker bailout. He's for a VAT tax (value-added tax) to pay down the fraudulent debt owed to the Federal Reserve. He trashed Ron Paul at every turn. He was going to expose the truth of FEMA camps. Oops, no, there aren't any FEMA camps. It's just another conspiracy theory.

Beck is being used to corral and control the Tea Party/Patriot movement. It's so obvious. Just because someone tells you things you want to hear, just because much of it is actually true, doesn't mean you can trust them, especially someone like Beck. He has a history of betraying our trust. We cannot afford to HOPE he is a different man now that he is speaking more truthfully. I would be willing to wager fake Federal Reserve money that he's only doing it because he's being told to do it by those that have made him rich and famous.

Remember the big march in Washington? Millions showed up and there was no media coverage. It's as if it didn't' happen. Remember all the rallies that have been held. Did any of those get the kind of coverage the recent Glen Beck extravaganza got? Hell no! Do you really think Beck's rally got the kind of coverage it got because it stood any chance of producing any real change? Come on! That event was simply a way to make everyone feel as if something is actually happening, that some actual momentum is beginning. It's not. Beck will not lead you anywhere except deeper down the rat hole. You will never hear him promoting anything that will create real change.

We're in deep trouble. We cannot afford to be seduced by the same old tactics we've been seduced by in the past. If we don't snap out of it, we are not going to prevail in this battle. We have to stop "hoping these people will save us." They won't. They are paid to make sure we are contained, that our anger and energy is siphoned off into things that will not lead us anywhere. They are paid to make sure we do not organize into any action that will actually change anything. If I were in real deep danger, I would not want someone like Beck or Palin watching my back!

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We Cannot Effect Change In Congress By Changing Which Party Has A Majority.

The quote by Carol Quigley at the top of this newsletter says it all. The most important part of the quote:

"the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."

The only way to effect "real change" in Congress is to THROW THEM ALL OUT! It must be a total house cleaning. Members of both parties must be purged. The system must learn that we are onto them. We have to show them we know the two party system is a sham and that it's just one big party, the big government/globalization party, by stopping support for either party. It's simple to do. Throwing them all out shows the entire system we are not falling for the false left/right paradigm anymore. We want people that will honor their oath of office and "protect and defend our unalienable rights" first and foremost! We don't care what party they suck up to.

Every single election we play out the same stupid behavior. We play their game and only about 15% of the Congress turns over . . . if we're lucky. The vast majority of players remain the same and nothing changes for the better. When we play the "flip the Congress" game, nothing changes because the bureaucracy that really runs the show is set up to ensure the underlying continuity of agenda continues no matter which party is in control.

We have to stop playing their game and hold them ALL accountable. We have to demonstrate that we know the truth of things and stop acting like total idiots.


I agree
www.kickthemallout.com

Republicans are lying about that Ground Zero Mosque

Written By FaithRMichaels
I wasn't going to address this but I can't stand it anymore.
Everyone is talking about it.
It's on FaceBook, on TV, in ads for Republican candidates and my friends have mentioned it and so have my children.

So lets be very clear here:
THERE IS NO PROPOSED MOSQUE BUILDING AT GROUND ZERO!
It is two blocks away and it's not a mosque! It is a proposed cultural center!
One other thing...IT IS IN A ISLAMIC NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR EVER!
See this
and this vid from the Jon Daily show that explains it very well I thought.

This is just another example of the twisted thinking within the Republican party.
God Knows there is nothing more important to talk about than a proposed Cultural center Two blocks away from Ground Zero!

Lets see what could be more important.
Perhaps JOBS??? The ruining of American Industries,by these bought and paid for by Lobbyist Washington politician Critters? see this
The destruction of our Constitution by The Demorats and Repuglicons that has been going on ever since 9/11 and before??? How about the Truth regarding 9/11???
How about our failing FDA that is bought and paid off by Corporations to the point of our food supplies and drugs are unsafe???
How about The trillions of dollars spent in our illegal wars???
How about the bankrupting of America and the Billions of dollars of theft by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve???
NO?? How about securing Americas future by providing support for the Green Technology out there that the Union of Concerned Scientist is proposing????
How about restoring the Gulf Industries that have been devastated by the Oil Gusher they like to call a leak???
How about the proposed GI bill that IVAV is trying to get through the Congress that would support and assist our Veterans????
Last but not least...how about the legalization of the medical marijuana that many states are currently trying to pass????
It seems that these issues are not important enough to address by the Republicans nor the Democrats!.

We just get to hear about a Proposed cultural Center/AKA Mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero!

I mean what could be more important than a "Mosque" at ground Zero????
Apparently Nothing at all according to the Mainstream media and the Repuglicons/Demorats PR campaigns.

One large Gushing Oil Leak Is all that it took!

Written By FaithRMichaels

Dead Fish are washing up all along the east coast by the hundreds possibly thousands.
Hundreds of dead jelly fish wash up on Mississippi's shores.
see this and this
Piles of dead Marine life that are being ignored by the Mainstream media and hidden from Camera view ..( this hiding is sponsored by Homeland Security who is in charge of all media content from the Gulf and BP's fear of a 50,000 dollar per dead animal fine.)
The cause ? less oxygen in the waters, Oil plumes, oil ingested by these sea animals and oil covering their bodies , toxic dispersant's, and methane, plus other gases that came from the oil well gusher.
Many of these fish are food species for all the life in the oceans and this Earth including humans.
The food chain has been disrupted in a large way. Maybe permanently.
This is why environmentalist have been saying ..NO drilling!
Our Congress did not care. Our Senate did not care. Our Presidents did not care.
The people who needed a job from the many industries that depend upon oil did not care.
The government did not offer those folks another job option.
With the save your current job carrot dangling in front of most Americans noses ..The government people who were elected to safeguard America and We the Peoples interests,
led them all to disaster!
ONE gushing Leak, just ONE! .... is all it has taken to bankrupt fishing industries,severely hamper (possibly destroyed) tourist and restaurant industries in multiple states, bankrupt and put out of a job, ALL the industries that depended upon a healthy eco-system within the ocean. Joc Cousteau would weep.
Just ONE Oil spill from ONE well is all that it took to create this .
(There are hundreds of Oil wells in the Gulf and elsewhere around the globe.)

We environmentalist were trying to save ALL the industries and ALL the jobs that depend upon a healthy eco-system, only to have Corporation spokespeople and their paid for politician lackeys say :
"We Environmentalist" are the reason there are no jobs from certain industries.
We the environmentalist KNEW that the Oil corporations could NOT be trusted to safe guard the environment that SO many others depended upon for their livelyhood.
How did we know this?
Well the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior and the Oil companies have a LOONG history of violating the environment and leaving their toxic messes.
After all it's not like Mining corporations and Oil corporations have ever left a huge disaster in EVERY PLACE they have ever been in the world is it?

This damage they leave costs them Millions possibly Billions to clean and people get sick, Crops get contaminated,and our water supply becomes contaminated with poisons...But hey what is that compared to profit?
These Corporations continue to make a profit while passing ALL the expenses on to the consumer for their messes. We the People get to pay for cleaning up the huge mess they made in the first place!
By the way this clean up costs more than the prevention would have cost.
In short they make their money with slow agonizing Death. Why should they care?
They are fine and have made Billions. While WE the People are stuck with paying for it.
How do they repay us for our loyalties???
They take the very same jobs they told us their neglectful processes were "saving" and outsourced them to other countries while they blame it all on the restrictions "Our Bleeding Heart Liberals" have set in place to hold them accountable..
They forgot to mention the fact that these laws would not have been necessary had they not destroyed all other Industries and more in their mad rush for Black Gold.

Instead these corporations just move on to other countries with lax environmental laws like a bad virus..contaminating and killing other parts of the world.

Sarah Palin had the nerve during the spill to attempt to lay the blame for this mega disaster upon the doorsteps of the environmentalists by saying that "if environmentalist had allowed shallow off the coast drilling" then this disaster would not be so huge.
Now how does that make any sense? Would there be less oil coming out from a collapsed line?
Perhaps their would have been a way to cap it better?
Perhaps BP would have paid closer attention to their own peoples warnings regarding a disaster and the dangers they were risking?
Noooooo Mz.Palin. That dog don't hunt .
We environmentalist were trying to create more jobs at home here in America from recycling industries,green technologies etc..only to have all of that fall on deaf ears within our bought and paid for by the oil lobbyist, propaganda spewing,war mongering ,special interest bought politicians government!
In short Mz.Palin People like you.

Unlike the oil companies; Green technology wasn't subsidised by the government so all the promising research and proven to work technology couldn't be taken to the next level.
Other countries created jobs for their people and took care of a huge part of their energy needs with Green Fuel technology ... but not America.

Instead of supporting new industries here in America that would have created millions of jobs for Americans in America; the last 3 administrations (and possibly more) have spent trillions of dollars fighting wars and waging a propaganda war to control the oil and gas resources of the world. Their reasoning???... keep them out of "hostile to American Capitalism" governments in the world.
Translation:
We have to Protect our national interest in the world" and that interest is expanding Capitalistic profit in the corporate sponsored government minds. Not for American People just for them.
In their twisted minds this paradigm equals freedom..(it does ...but only theirs.. not We the People's) so this is the tactic our government has been using to do unethical ,immoral,bad for Americans, business in the world and getting Americans to go along with what they have been doing.
Money creates freedom..right???
Money and jobs create prosperity...right????
after all we Americans must maintain our wealth right???
Then pray tell me the answer to this question.
Why have these "educated "people led us down the path to ruin?
If their Ideas were so great and workable why isn't the world economy in better shape?
Why is Americas economy in the double dipped recession we are now in?
One just ONE! Oil gusher in the ocean is all it has taken at the proper time to cause irreparable harm to a American Industry.
The lists of disasters in America (and the world) recently has been mind boggling.
Freaky weather,is causing many crops and gardens to fail.. (Is this HAARP related?)
Hailstorms have done extensive damage,tornado's,and rainstorms,floods and /or extensive droughts are wreaking havoc on the American farmer and have been doing so for years now.

The fishing industry off of Americas eastern coast is now damaged for years to come maybe for generations, maybe forever.
Our Greedy Bankster and Wall street money changers have wreaked our Construction industries, all the industries that depend upon new home construction, our Credit industries, Loan Programs , and Housing markets.
They have also assisted the drug wars in Mexico by laundering money for them.
Our retail car industries and car manufacturing industries, along with all the associated Industries, also took a heavy hit..and to top it all off "We the People " whose jobs vanished with the outsourcing of America and all the above mentioned situations Bailed many of these industries out with tax dollars, while we struggled to put food on the table and they squabbled and squawked over losing their million dollars bonuses.
Now those self same voices that have brought us to this precipice ..The Republican Party and the Democrat Party have bought up Billions of dollars of campaign ads on television ,radio, newspaper, banners,Internet ads, posters stuck all over every street corner in the nation to say the same thing..It was the other parties fault.
Elect ME! they all say. I will single handily fix it all.
"The Left has ruined our Country by imposing socialism programs" So saith the Right wing "Conservative" politicians.
"The Right has led us all to War bankrupted our nation ,ruined our economy " So saith the Left wing "Liberal" Politicians.
You know what??....we have had these two parties swapping control ...for over a hundred years!
In that time this thinking regarding jobs,World Peace and prosperity and more, have brought us to right here, right now, with these global and national problems outlined within this article.
Each political party has blamed the other or someone else for the problems refusing to take ANY responsibility for their part in these financial and ecological disasters!
We the People have had to deal with their lies,denials and finger pointing at each other while NOTHING HELPFUL In or/FOR THE LONG TERM... GETS DONE!
Their best thoughts got us right here in the now with one disaster after another.
The mind boggling part for me is that the American public will go to the polls again this year and elect one of these parties with proven incompetence at their jobs AGAIN!
The American Voter will say...What other choice is there????
Well if they would REALLY ask and research that question they would find there are MANY OTHER CHOICES!
It is way past time for a new paradigm.
I voted Green!
We the People do not need, nor can America survive anymore Conservatives or Liberals.
What WE the People need is BALANCE and SANE Thinking....not to far to the left nor right..for it is crystal clear that both the left and right have had more than enough time to get this correct and it is clear to even the most blind and/or dumbest among us..that they have FUBAR'ed it beyond anyones wildest nightmares!
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Big Banks fund the Drug Cartel's of Mexico with your money!

Written By FaithRMichaels

This article posted below arrived in my e-mail box this morning.
I read it and thought .."I was right!"
I have long suspected that the current war on drugs is a false front that makes money for the privatized prison systems,while doing away with druglords competition. I also believe that the main reason marijuana is still illegal is because powerful people are making a profit and do not wish that profit or power to be infringed upon .. and now here is the proof. (Cocaine is not the only substance coming from those cartels in Mexico ) ...Read about it then please become outraged..then for the sake of your livelyhood,your loved ones, your family and children...
DO SOMETHING!!!
What can you do???
Well for starters.... Take your money out of "Big Banks" and put it in a local community bank!
Then stop using the credit cards from Chase, Citi-Bank-Wachovia and anything funded by Goldman Sach! (For those that have been following along you also know that these banks are part of the FED.) You say you cannot??? Then when you wake up to a Socialist dictatorship that mandates everything you do,and they come for your family...Smile! Because your apathy helped to create it. Stop waiting for our useless government to do something..YOU DO SOMETHING!
My money is in a local community bank ..I do not have a credit card and I shop Mom and Pop local Bz. By money standards I am very poor..but I drink gourmet organic coffees, own my toyota, wash with handmilled soap made by the Amish, eat well from local farmers co-op,local gardens and my own, buy eggs from a local person, shop at yard sales for clothes, recycle, and more. You can do these things as well even if you live in the city. It's just done differently thats all.
Anyway here is the Mail from Taipan Daily.

Taipan Daily: "Too Big to Jail" - How Big Banks Are Turning Mexico Into Colombia
by Justice Litle, Editorial Director, Taipan Publishing Group

The Dogs of War
are men of hate...
With no cause,
We don't discriminate...
- Pink Floyd, "Dogs of War"

Ah, Megabanks, how we love thee. Let us count the ways... Like clockwork, you create a new crisis every five to seven years or so with your greedy, pig-headed lending. You routinely cover your tracks with torrents of lobbying cash poured into Washington. In the subprime mortgage crisis and the financial meltdown that followed, you nearly succeeded in blowing up the global economy. And then, in the aftermath, you arranged one of the greatest swindles ever, getting the system to make you whole again (via taxpayer blood and treasure) even as a majority of Americans suffered.

The above is plenty of reason to be disgusted, one could fairly conclude. But as that legendary pitchman Ron Popeil likes to say: "But wait - there's more!"

Now we learn that, joy of joys, plundering and pillaging the rotten financial system was not enough for these men. They also saw fit to directly fuel the Mexican cocaine trade... knowingly aid in the laundering of billions, even tens of billions, in bloody drug money... and do their part in helping turn Mexico into Colombia, a struggling developing world country slowly descending into the hell of a narco-state.

Exaggeration? Sadly not...

Black Suitcases and a DC-9

A recent issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine ran a deeply unsettling story titled "Wachovia's Drug Habit."

The story opens with the seizure of a DC-9 jet loaded up with "128 black suitcases, packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine," good enough for a street value of $100 million.


"Law enforcement officials also discovered something else," Bloomberg Markets magazine reports. "The smugglers had bought the DC-9 with laundered funds transferred through two of the biggest banks in the U.S.: Wachovia Corp and Bank of America Corp"...

"This was no isolated incident," the story adds. "Wachovia, it turned out, had made a habit of helping move money for Mexican drug smugglers. Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers - included the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine."

Blind Eye, Greedy Eye

Narcotics is big business in the United States. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Bloomberg reports, "the cartels have built a network of dealers in 231 U.S. cities from coast to coast, taking in about $39 billion in sales annually."

Thirty-nine billion is some serious dough. You don't move that kind of cash without the help of your friendly megabanker.

"It's the banks laundering the money for the cartels that finances the tragedy," says Martin Woods. "If you don't see the correlation between the money laundering by banks and the 22,000 people killed in Mexico, you're missing the point."

And just who is Martin Woods, you ask? He is the former head of Wachovia's anti-money-laundering unit in London. Woods is no longer in that role, having quit his job in "disgust" as higher-up executives ignored his documentation of the drug-money funneling process.

The profits from quietly washing that $39 billion clean were too big to pass up... and so the banks turned a blind eye instead.

The list of banks with questionable connections to the multibillion-dollar drug trade sounds like a "who's who" of financial might: Wachovia (now Wells Fargo). Bank of America. American Express Bank International. HSBC Holdings. Citigroup. Banco Santander. Western Union. There are probably more...

Too Big to Jail

"No big bank - Wells Fargo included - has ever been indicted for violating the Bank Secrecy Act or any other federal law," says Bloomberg. "Instead, the U.S. Justice Department settles criminal charges by using deferred-prosecution agreements, in which a bank pays a fine and promises not to break the law again."

In plain English, "Too Big to Fail" has become "Too Big to Jail." The megabanks are seen as too important to the health and functioning of the U.S. financial system to risk hitting them with criminal charges.

Perversely, the current setup actually reinforces criminal activity. When breaking the law results in a small financial fine, it doesn't take long before the fine is seen as a simple "cost of doing business." The megabanks, protected as they are from on high, are thus encouraged to do whatever they please and take their slap on the wrist later.

A Descent Into Hell

Roughly a month ago, Rodolfo Torre was ambushed and gunned down on a rural Mexican highway. Torre was the clear front-runner in a bid to become governor of Tamaulipas, a Mexican state bordering Texas. Along with Torre, his chief of staff, campaign chief and bodyguard were also killed.

This happened just across the border. Just imagine if a U.S. political candidate running on a strong anti-trafficking platform were hunted down.

In fact, we may not have to imagine at all, because a similar threat has arisen in Arizona... Joe Arpaio, the Sherriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., now has a $1 million bounty on his head. It was placed there by a Mexican drug cartel, Fox Phoenix reports. Do you think the cartel really has the money? I do. I wonder how they got it...

The number of people killed in the never-ending drug war continues to escalate. By some estimates 22,000 has become 25,000. Less than a week ago, four journalists were kidnapped. Attempts by the local police force to stand up to gang threats result in people's heads in baskets. Mexican pop singers who compose song ballads to drug barons, known as narcocorridos, are gunned down in cold blood when a rival baron gets offended. The Mexican Army, supposedly fighting the gangs, has gotten so out of control as to become a source of local terror themselves.

Mexico is on the way to becoming a failed state, or rather, a narco-state. The war on drugs has been completely and irrevocably lost. We are at the point where further efforts to "crack down" only serve to increase the profits of the cartels by raising the street value of various illegal substances. And the money poured into drug-fighting enforcement measures by both the U.S. and Mexican governments only serves to increase the size and frequency of violent, bloody shootouts.

Meanwhile, the dogs of war - i.e. the 'Too Big to Jail' banks - casually sit back and help fund it all.

No Redemption?

As Mexico morphs into Colombia - a de facto fiefdom for drug barons - America's "Great Recession" is showing more signs of being a Soft Depression for some. The latest stats indicate 25% of Americans have a credit score of less than 600, making them ineligible for any basic loans. A frightening majority of Americans are two paychecks or less from total destitution. And things are getting worse...

There seems to be no way around the final conclusion. America is gorging itself to death on complacency and ignorance. Our delusions and self indulgences are now, literally, costing thousands of lives. And the white-collar travesties being perpetrated at the highest levels are helping to transform an immediate neighbor, Mexico, from a promising developing world nation into a blood-soaked third-world hellhole.

What can we do about any of this? "Throw the bums out?" Which bums exactly? Replace the Democrat in the White House with another Republican? Fat lot of good that would do... just look what the last Republican did. When an empire shows itself to be in the final stages of crumbling, perhaps the only sane thing to do is stay wise, stay wary, and focus on the well-being of your loved ones...

Warm Regards,
JL

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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Einstein

Truth Rant
By Faith-R-Michaels

The Republicans are trying to capitalize on the growing anti-government sentiment by aligning themselves with those who they feel are their best chance for being elected..Yes we all know who they are. They are the Tea Party Movement.
This is most likely a Physop campaign to demonize the good people in a grass roots honor our Constitution movement and paint them all as extremists.
Many of the Tea Baggers are balanced good people who don't hate.. but leave it to the Repugs to use the worst haters among them to clutch at straw chances to bring their party back to power in politics and kill the movement.
How?
By aligning themselves with raciest hate mongers claiming to be members of the tea party movement , people who are most likely paid disrupters and are the neo-con handmaidens for the NWO. By these acts theRepuglicons kill two birds with one stone and assure that their agenda of Martial law to gain control will come to fruition.
They fear the strong pro constitution people who have made the tea baggers parties so successful and now are working to destroy that threat.
To tea baggers everywhere I say ..
GET A GRIP ON YOUR MOVEMENT AND DENOUNCE THOSE WHO WOULD DESTROY YOUR MOVEMENT FROM THE INSIDE. YOU MUST PUBLICLY COME OUT AND DENOUNCE HATRED AND FEAR MONGERING. IF YOU DO NOT THEN YOU HAVE DOOMED YOUR MOVEMENT AND PLAYED RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE VERY ONES YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT!

Here is a thought:
Remember those FEMA camps??? Does anyone know a better way for the military to be called out and martial law to be implemented than to capitalise and stoke the fires of this anti-government feelings right now? Remember the ones who have been dreaming of ways to control and finalize the Fascism in America by manipulating the anger of the people to their advantage..thereby fulfilling the NWO plan for America??
Need an example???
The War on Terrorism,brought on by the official lie from the government regarding 9/11!
People are playing right into their hands!
Being led like lambs to the slaughter!


For the record I voted for Cynthia McKinney.

The Republicans are attempting to use the current anti-government situation by saying this is about Obama and the Demorats.
Listen closely you neo-con repug morons..
THIS IS NOT ABOUT OBAMA!!!
THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS BEING IN POWER!!!!
THIS IS ABOUT PEOPLE IN BOTH PARTIES ATTEMPT TO STEAL OUR COUNTRY,IGNORING OUR CONSTITUTION FOR PROFIT AND PREFORMING THAT COUPE OF YOURS WHEN 9/11 WAS DONE ON REPUGLICAN WATCH!!!!!

Having failed in that and having failed in their attempts to gain complete fascist control over our country,the Republicans have begun an all out propaganda war feeding frenzy on the fear and anger out here already and are blatantly trying to start a civil war.
I am nervous when Ms Palin starts endorsing anything .

She activly endorsed a cross hair drawing over pictures of Democrats who voted for the health care bill.
She was quoted as saying to the teabaggers..."don't retreat.. reload"...Mz. Palin I am sure there are a few moose and wolves out there who feel the same about you!

I am calling you out on this one Palin.

Ms.Palin in my opinion you are an extremist and from all appearances power mad.
You madam are an insult to real women with heart worldwide!
You do not speak for strong women ! You are a wanna be!
You wanna be powerful ..you wanna be in control.. you wanna be heard.. you wanna be a strong woman...yes you wanna be but you ain't and this is not the path that brings those qualities..this path you have chosen is a male be like "The Man" path and you Mz Palin ARE BEING PLAYED and you are a traitor to the sisterhood!
All the TV time and people kissing your ass because of your name is NOT REAL power madam that is called being a PUPPET for the men who run the corporations!!
YOU ARE IN MY OPINION ACTING LIKE A SPOILT BRAT CHILD THROWING A TANTRUM BECAUSE YOU DID NOT WIN AND STILL A PUPPET DANCING FOR THE MEN IN POWER!
You are calling for the children of American Mothers to be bleeding in the streets!
No real woman wishes that on any other mother!
You appear to be so filled with hate and drunk power lust that you have lost sight of what is real and powerful regarding being a woman!

Now for the Republican party

Cheney admits war crimes and the Republican Party is silent. Republican party gets us involved in two illegal wars and there is silence. the repuglicons draft and endorse the patriot act and BOTH PARTIES ENDORSED IT..
Obama and the Demorats hand us a health care bill nightmare that only benefits the insurance companies AND the repugs start showing up at Tea Bagger parties practically foaming at the mouth pointing fingers and saying look!

LISTEN UP PEOPLE THEY ARE PLAYING BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE HERE!
THE DEMOCRATS AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE OWNED BY THE SAME CORPORATIONS!
THE SAME CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE HIJACKED OUR SUPREME COURT!
THESE CORPORATIONS HAVE GIVEN MONIES TO BOTH PARTIES IN EACH ELECTION.
WE THE PEOPLE ARE BEING PLAYED!!!!!!!!

Obama is NOT I repeat NOT the anti-Christ!
Some folks will believe any damn fool thing!
DON'T START MAILING ME WITH QUOTES FROM THE BIBLE EITHER.. BEEN THERE, READ THAT AND I DISAGREE WITH THE PRESUMPTION!
STOP believing the propaganda garbage you are being fed by those who would benefit from your confusion!

FIRE THEM ALL REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS!
THEY ARE HEADS AND TAILS OF THE SAME QUARTER!
THEY HAVE AN INVESTED CORPORATION INTEREST IN PLAYING BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE KEEPING US WE THE PEOPLE DIVIDED!
IT IS DIVIDE AND CONQUER STRATEGY!
THEY ARE DESTROYING THE REPUBLIC!
THEY ARE LYING OUT THEIR ASSES THINKING YOU PEOPLE ARE SHEEPLES TO BE LED TO SLAUGHTER AND TO STUPID TO INVESTIGATE THE TRUTH FOR YOURSELVES!
ARE YOU?

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After the Health Care Legislation: the Challenges Facing Progressives in the Age of Obama

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I know it's a lot of info... so bookmark this page or the site the info comes from and take your time. Read and think for yourself. I did this because quite often we who talk about 9/11 truth and government conspiracies are told we are paranoid and need meds.. We are told that our government doesn't do things like this and that we are delusional. Well just for fun I thought people should know what our government does with some of our tax money.
Lets see now... there are mind control experiments, secret societies, Internet control,psyops,sex abuse and more.
Much of this is listed under the title of non-lethal weapons. The name sounds harmless and quite good doesn't it?.
Is it?
Well you know the history of our CIA military complex so you tell me.
I looked around the world and wondered: All of this killing is authorized and done by people who claim to be devout Christians. Now why doesn't this bother people? It bothers me.
I wonder what would Jesus do?

http://www.wanttoknow.info/060123psyops
http://www.wanttoknow.info/060205usmilitarycontrolinternet
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2009/db2009114_700374.htm
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http://www.wanttoknow.info/050423secretgovernment
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/27/1027497418339.html
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-08/mf_haarp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyMU7DHMpYc
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I read through all of this stuff that is linked here and more, so everything I am going to reference to below is in one or more of those links above.

How do you feel about the equivalent of Keystone cops having this kind of power to influence how we look at things and how we respond? I find it kinda scary.
Also there are countries that have weapons that can disperse a protest.
This has been used already in Israel and in America.
They call it Scream.

The CIA has people in it who have been going on with these kind of terrorist agenda actions for a very long time and those in the CIA appear to have their own political agenda... so no matter who is president they get to keep on going with whatever their latest greatest program is. All of this is done under the guise of protecting America. From the looks of things they have been doing a whole lot of stuff "We the People" would never approve of.
The CIA has been involved for quite a few years in Yemen and damn near every other country in the world. Busy little suckers ain't they....Well after all war, murder, mind control, regime building and toppling, raping and pillaging IS a full time operation. All of this is done under the guise of protecting us.
The scary part of this is that these people actually believe this propaganda garbage.
People wonder why other people in the world hate us.DUH!!!

While I am not naive enough to think that if we "just talk to them it will all be goodie goddie...I do believe that there is another way that is along the moral high ground instead of becoming as bad if not worse than those who really do mean us harm.
I teach my children that if it is wrong for them to do it to you then it is wrong for you to do it to them. The bible teaches this. It is called the golden rule.
Those in government claim to be Christians so perhaps they could practice what they preach or claim to believe. Perhaps it would take a little Faith in what Jesus taught and while I know that that is asking alot either they are Christians or they are not. Calling themselves Christians does not make it so. Christians walk the talk, not talk the walk. Being proactive does not translate into act as badly as the enemy.

Then there is the health care business,hmmmm lets see.. who "owns" the Republican and Democrat parties? Oh look it is the insurance companies, weapons manufacturers, and such as that.
Oh and lets not forget how all the main members of government are involved in secret societies. It is something isn't it? I wonder what are the odds of so many presidents and so many of those running for president, and those in the highest offices in the land being from the same secret societies and often times descendants of those in the same secret societies..HMMMM what a coincidence.
After all of this government released documents and other info reported by mainstream media sources.(which the debunkers adore).... I cannot possibly imagine why anyone would believe in Conspiracy theories and shadow governments.
Can you?
So what can We the People do about this?
Well for starters we can demand that the president reign in the CIA and all of those alphabet(CIA,FBI,NSA) psychotic people who have stared so long in the mirror of enemies that they have become as bad if not worse than the ones they claim as enemies. (Personally they remind me of the KGB) Go read "A new strategy for America" then demand that our gov implement it.
some more related links:
The Military Complex is Ruining America

Nice work creating new terrorist you morons!

The Senior Republicans are the Extremist!

Van Jones resigned from being President Obama's Green Jobs advisor.
He resigned amidst controversy regarding his signing of a 9/11 petition.
This petition stated that Bush and Cheny were somehow responsible for 9/11,either by omission or direct involvement.The senior republicans were calling him unfit for his job. They were stating that his views on green jobs and the signing of that petition were "extremist" views.
Personally I am tired of being called an extremist by people who have clearly gone insane. People who sign legislation that makes no sense to any one but them, who send our country and our children to war for greed and profits, who continually support a ex-president and his vice president, when they are guilty as sin of war crimes, who allow our children to die from horrible diseases from lack of health-care,who do not give a damn about the homeless, who allowed this economic disaster to take place, and who caused people to lose their jobs in America. These self same people who have created a world crisis (remember Bush and the republicans were in charge when this whole mess started and had been in charge for 8 years), where America is more unsafe in the world than it has ever been. These people who vote to destroy our Constitution,who are guilty of negligence regarding 9/11 at the very least,complicity and masterminding 9/11 at the worst, who are guilty of allowing torture in We the Peoples name, and they are calling me and the hundreds of thousands of people like me an extremist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am tired of being called an extremist for wanting clean air to breath, for not wanting to look at mountains that have had their tops removed while the sludge contaminates mountain streams,destroying the ecosystem, contaminating poor peoples water and homes, for wanting fertile soil to grow things on,uncontaminated by poisons or radiation,healthy land for my children and grand children to grow up on and walk on, for not wanting toxic waste dumps in our communities, for not wanting the species on this planet to go extinct, and those &^%$#!!!!...Those people who call themselves Republicans that sit in office, who walk around with puffed up bloated minds , who CHOOSE to put their head in the sand,heads that are filled only with dreams of grandeur,have the audacity to call Van Jones and people who believe in the Constitution, who believe in truth and justice, who have strong family values,believe in God, and good health for Mother Earth and us all; an extremist!!!!!!!
They are clearly insane and have severe sociopath issues with paranoid delusions, near as I can tell.
These people are not true Republicans and do not represent the people they lie to,to get elected. These self same senior Republicans who are calling themselves "people who are for less government","family values","lower taxes", and "less spending", are the very same ones who placed this country in the bankruptcy mess it is now in!
They supported and allowed the FED to do this and did not support an audit for the FED.Senior Republicans and politicians who do not give a shit about you or me.
Senior republicans whose only loyalty is to the party. These self same Republicans who were in total control of the government when terms like.....
New world order,homeland,and drug Czars,came into being.
These terms have sounds of communistic fascism to me.
Senior Republicans and most of you politicians:
YOU PEOPLE ARE THE EXTREMIST AND YOUR VIEWS DO NOT REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!

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