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By Rob Kall
Wingnut Murder Spree or Are WE Part of the Problem?
imbalanced extremist wingnuts are being "activated" into murderers by extremist
activators in the media and on the web. Expect a lot more.
By Dave Lindorff
Where's the Anger as the Wheels Come Off Obama's and the Democrats'
Recovery Program?
Things are starting to come acropper with the Obama/Democratic Congress economic
reform program, with bond yields and commodity prices soaring and unemployment
continuing to climb. So where's the public outrage?
By Stephen Pizzo
Our Own Harvest of Ignorance
While much of the Middle East struggles with its harvest of ignoramuses, America
is just beginning to notice we have our own crop of under-educated morons. They
are weeds and they are spreading at an alarming rate. Should we leave them
untended much longer, they will strangle all that is good, useful and
progressive.
By Jason Leopold
Why Obama is Fighting to Keep the Detainee Abuse Photographs Secret
By trying to block the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing
detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama is essentially killing any
meaningful chance of opening the door to an investigation or independent inquiry
of senior Pentagon officials who were responsible for implementing the policies
that directly led to the abuses captured in the images.
By US Government
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling
Resurgence in Radicalization & Recruitment
one of a series of intelligence assessments published by the Extremism and
Radicalization Branch to facilitate a greater understanding of the phenomenon of
violent radicalization in the US. rightwing extremists may be gaining new
recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues.
By Kevin Zeese
The Case for Disbarment of Lawyers Who Facilitated Torture Grows
Lawyers were the lynchpin if they had given real legal advice: torture is
illegal under domestic and international law; there would have been no torture
program. Now two generals and an x-general have called for torture
accountability. And, DOJ emails have implicated President Bush and Vice
President Cheney. All we need now is for an enraged citizenry to demand
accountability for torturers and their facilitators
By Robert Parry
Tying Obama to Bush's Budget Mess
So, it is useful to read Wednesday's New York Times analysis of the CBO budget
projections, which revealed that Obama's stimulus plan and other domestic
programs account for "only a sliver" of the deficits, about 10 percent of the
projected $1.2 trillion deficit for 2009.
By Mary Shaw
Clearing Up Myths About the Employee Free Choice Act
The corporate world is twisting the facts to try to scare workers, the public,
and Congress into opposing the Employee Free Choice Act.
By Eric
Center-Left America
The media still calls America a "center-right" nation, but "center-left" is
closer to the truth. On issues ranging from health care to energy, the public is
more progressive than people think. A new report documents the trends and
challenges the mainstream media to recognize reality.
By Josh Mitteldorf
We Still Torture
The United States has always used torture, though it was officially acknowledged
to be illegal, and the practice was hidden from the public. With the Bush
regime, torture was mainstreamed. Now we cannot go back, argues Luke Mitchell in
Harper's Magazine. We must either abolish the practice in reality, or accept
this grotesque derangement of our constitutional democracy.
By Dean Powers
Landrieu: "Drill, Drill, Drill," Calls Obama "Senator"
There must be some retribution at some level. George Washington had severe consequences for deserters. There was good reason. If Obama wants to accomplish his goals, he and Harry Reid need to start holding the line.
By Meryl Ann Butler
Jellyfish Population Explodes on Land and Sea!
The jellyfish population has been expanding in "jellyfish blooms" in oceans around the globe, and now the explosion includes a 600-foot-long crop circle in England!
By Ellen Brown
Out of the Ashes of GM: The Phoenix of Renewable Energy
Prophetically, GM named one of its now-extinct brands the Firebird. Like the fabled Firebird, GM could be reborn as something else. We now own a car company. To finance its transformation into something better, we just need to own a bank.
By Richard Distelhorst
This Never Happens, But It Just Did
A response to statements made by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the 60
Minutes program on June 7, 2009. For probably the first time in history the
Federal Reserve obviously feels the need for a public relations program to
justify the fact that it is bailing out the big banks instead of bailing out the
American People.
By Leonid Teytelman
Desperately Trying to Have a Baby
A perspective on abortion from a couple that is struggling to bring a new life
into this world.
By John Basel
Two opposing viewpoints of Obama's speech in light of the
Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Obama's recent speech in Egypt elicited a wide range of reactions. Two of them
are discussed here. Both are from Jews but the two views of the speech couldn't
be further apart. It gives those of us who are not Jewish, Muslim, Israeli, or
Arab a unique view into a world we can only attempt to umderstand.
By Rob Kall
Health Professionals Tell Congress They Want Single-Payer
At a long-awaited House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, health-care
professionals made it clear that they believe a single-payer system to be the
best and perhaps only workable option for health care reform.
By Brent Budowsky
Boozing Bankers Celebrate Their Wealth and Triumph
The controversial TARP program to save Wall Street bankers fortunes has turned
out not to be the savior of the credit system after all.
By Bob Patterson
Never Give the Next President an Even Break
Did Bush pull a con job on Obama?
By Craig Harrington
Unemployment Skyrocketing Again-
The growth of unemployment had been slowing moderately over the past two months
but it took a turn for the worse in May despite conflicting reports from major
media outlets.
By Jason Paz
Support Happy Birthday for Aung San Suu Kyi
It is the first political campaign to use twitter with an integrated website to harness the reach and influence of some of the world's most influential celebrities. Through replies and re-tweets, the campaign message reached an estimated 5 million people through Twitter alone in its first five days.
By Kent Welton
NATIONALIZE HOME LENDING - Treasury Direct, No Debt-Money, Home Loans
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We can make stable, three percent, fixed home loans with treasury-created
funds which support, rather than undermine, a consumer-based economy. We can
provide for loan payment postponements in event of job loss. We can use the
interest paid back to our treasury to fund more home loans, and even pay down
government debt. We can act like human beings... when we, the people, control
our monetary system...
By Josh Mitteldorf
Sticks and Stones
Talk to the disabled people in your life. Ask them what it is like to be blind
or lame or to have a chronic disease. Chances are they will move very quickly
from talking about the disability to the disability's effects on the way they
are perceived and the way they are treated. This article reviews a new book by
Marsha Saxton.
By elena dumas
What is it with all the hog-wash these days?
Mr. Panetta's hog-wash continues Bush's dungeons and dragons game.
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By ALONE
SUSTAINABLE VOTING & DEVELOPMENT--EUROPEANS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO ACT &
VOTE PAROCHIALLY IN THESE 2009 EUROPEAN PARLIAME
Everyone talks about sustainable development but sustainable development also
takes democratic participation. This is what Michael Kopat of Wuppertal's
influential institute ZUKUENFTSFAEHIGES DEUTSCHLAND says in a recent speech in
Wiesbaden Germany. Europeans and North Americans should follow his advice and
political analysis when voting.
By Daniel Bruno Sanz
After Raul
This essay is an excerpt from Cuba at a Crossroads, The New American Strategy.
It is Daniel Bruno Sanz's latest work. Dedicated to Michelle Obama and written
for the 111th Congress and the State Department.
By Andrew Kreig
Alabama Decisions Illustrate Abuse of Judicial Power
The plight of litigants who face a biased judge is illustrated by the track
record of a prominent Alabama federal judge, as well by major recent decisions
requiring new trials in West Virginia and Georgia courts. The track record of
Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller of Montgomery, Alabama shows that he
continues to supervise cases compromised by his personal, financial or political
interests.
By Andrew Kishner
How to Squash the Baneberry of the East a la Dorothy Gale
If the overwhelming concern is about another country's nuclear bombs going off
and hurting other people, then we should focus on nuclear testing, which has
killed more people worldwide than even the holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By James Dunham
Hell Care: Health Care from Hell
The health insurance industry is out to get you. Your death is their corporate
mission.
By Vi Ransel
Debt. It's Better Than Chains.
It seems there's no way out of the slave system of capitalism. You will either
be chattel, owned outright, wage-slaves who recycle the Masters' money to them,
or debt-slaves who will enrich the Masters via compound interest and made-up
fees. Money for nothing. Not a lick of work. What's wrong with this picture?
By Kevin Gosztola
Hillary Clinton Renews Talk to "Obliterate Iran"
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate who,
while on the campaign trail, said if Iran attacked Israel America would be able
to "totally obliterate them," has renewed talk of such an action.
By John Little
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 9: Lessons from a Guerrilla War
A book review of chapter 9, lessons learned from a Guerrilla War, from the book Fidel Castro, My Life, a Spoken Autobiography, Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet.
By Muhammad Khurshid
Can Obama Become A Savior?
The people around the world have still been needing a savior. Who will be that
person, who will play the role of savior. Now all eyes are set on US President
Barack as the people are expecting that he will play the role of a savoir.
By Raff Ellis
Bailouts and other BS
All the fuss about bailouts is misdirected--making everyone think this will save
the economy when in reality it's a bis boondoggle.
By wagelaborer
A Nation of Laws?
Obama continues to obstruct justice. Cheney, Bush, Rumsfield, etal., must be
prosecuted for war crimes by law.
By J. Edward Tremlett
The BNP Goes to Brussels
Again we see how fear and loathing form a powerful political tool when coupled with a bad economy and a leadership that can do anything but lead. England may be in shock at having sent racists to represent it in the EU, but if they'd paid more attention to how the BNP gets its votes, and spent less time demonizing them, this might not have happened.
By RevBlake
Sotomayor
A political parody using the music of Boz Skagg's "Dirty Lowdown" in honor of
Supreme Court candidate and a response to Rush Limbaugh's and Newt Gingrinch's
stupid and unwarranted attacks against her
By George Washington
What the Murders of Dr. Tiller and Holocaust Museum Guard Really Mean
Some perspective.
By Ellen Theisen
'Daily Voting News' for June 10, 2009
'Daily Voting News' for June 10, 2009
By Mike Malloy
Look! It's Me! Look! Please!
To a very large, extent the general public has become a fearful herd of mooing
bovines, moved this way then that way by whatever barking Republican is handed a
mic or is steered toward a camera. Is there any topic, any attitude, any idea,
any anything that a right wing Republican can't saturate with fear and then use
to turn the cowardly Mister or Missus Television-Watching America into a
vibrating mass of onrushing panic?
By Raff Ellis
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery--or Is It?
Castigating ordinary citizens for borrowing too much without pointing out the
example of big government is hypocritical.
By thereisnospoon
Islamism and Rightism: A Match Made in Heaven
Rightist and Islamist terrorism is motivated by the same anti-progressive,
anti-modern ideolgy.
By Carolina Saldana
Leonard Peltier: Silence Screams -- Parole Hearing July 27
Native American artist, writer, and activist Leonard Peltier--one of the most
widely recognized political prisoners in the world--has spent more than 33 years
in some of the cruelest prisons in the United States, unjustly condemned to a
double life sentence for the shooting death of two FBI agents in 1975. His
situation is now aggravated by health problems.
By Robert Borosage
Wall Street Journal Throws Citi Under The Bus
"Resolving Citi--by either forcing it into a strategic partnership, if anyone
will have it, or selling off its assets and breaking it up--wouldn't be cheap,"
the WSJ editorialist writes. But it would eliminate one of the leading "zombie"
banks, end the "slow bleeding of taxpayer money.You don't have to believe in
Vince Foster conspiracies to think this is a question that deserves a straight
answer.
By Ben Dench
Paradigm Assessment Schemata (Part 3)
The third of a four part discussion of a holistic model for evaluating different
worldviews for their effectiveness and structural integrity.
By CODEPINK
Afghan Women Speak Out: Mariam Nawabi
As part of its mission to highlight and promote the stories and perspectives of
Afghan women, CODEPINK has launched an ongoing series of print, audio and video
interviews "Afghan Women Speak Out," conversations with leading international
women activists and policymakers. For the third interview in the series,
CODEPINK interviews Mariam Nawabi, an Afghan-American attorney, social
entrepreneur, and activist.
By Brasch
Waiving the Rules for Old Glory
Being patriotic doesn't mean waving a bigger flag than your neighbor's. In this
penetrating look at Flag Day, Walter Brasch looks at a number of issues of
patriotism and the American flag.
By Ed Tubbs
Nearly two in the morning folks, final call.
At least 80% of all Americans are but a single medical calamity removed from
total economic ruin! My personal story of illness, credit card maximization, and
bankruptcy. It's past time for health care reform! For all who are suffering
Dick Cheney levels of delusion, who contend they are happy with the coverage
they have right now, I want to disabuse them: They have ZERO coverage.
By Karyn Strickler
Gag Me with Clean Coal
Destroy life, property, mountains, streams, rivers, families, communities and
the planet to obtain a filthy fossil fuel. Burn it for electricity, releasing
myriad poisons. Contain the resulting sludge and toxic ash in billion gallon
ponds, until they break. Call it clean. Get the President to call it clean.
Repeat. Add alliteration and a multi-million dollar PR campaign. Voila, you have
clean coal.
By James Nimmo
So, Just What is the True Definition of Marriage
By what fiat of bigoted ignorance can anyone deny me and millions of other gay
and Lesbian Americans this legal right of marriage just because the gender of
the two people is the same, choosing to share their bounty and their concerns
for as long as they're able, be it one year or hopefully a long lifetime? How is
that any different from what opposite-gendered people choose to do?
By James Brett
White Water Statecraft
We are on a perilous journey in a partly swamped boat. The pundits continually
forget how dangerous and complicated the situation is. We should have more
pulling together, don't you think!
By ALONE
FROM PRAYER TO DEMONSTRATION: The Neglected History of East German
Churches in the 1980s
During this 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, many in Germany are
reevaluating the events of that age and reflecting on what it means in Germany
and in the world today. This article focuses on two pastors involved in the
Revolution of 1989/1990 in Eastern Germany. They are Rainer Eppelmmn and Markus
Merkel. They faced jail and attempted murder but they fought non-violently and
successfully.
By Scott Baker
Why I am Pro Roe V. Wade
Is a reasonable compromise between pro-life and pro-choice possible? A
scientific and logical look at the issues, and at the foundation of the abortion
debate: Roe V. Wade.
By Dean Powers
Dem. Landrieu Joins Dem. Nelson in Red Light District of Senate
Senator Landrieu became the latest Democrat to come out publicly opposed to the public health care plan option. A majority of Americans favor the public plan option, and our president campaigned for it.
By Stephen Crockett
Delaware State Worker Pay Cut Fight: Part 2
Article examines the ongoing Delaware state worker pay cut fight. It examines
the political impact, the economic fairness issue and proposed alternatives.
By David J. Cyr
The Convenient Truth of Present Amorality
... just one of the myriad present proofs positive that liberals have MovedOn...
that their hearts are hardened and their souls are lost, because they are
apparently no longer capable of feeling the shame that they now so very
personally should.
By sibel edmonds
The Current Battle against State Secrets Privilege
Abuse of State Secrets Privilege is unlikely to be checked by congress without
public pressure. "Contrary to what they may claim in order to pacify the recent
'Anti State Secrets Privilege' movement, the Congress does not want to deal with
this issue. And this applies to members of both parties...of course we will hold
a couple of hearings and show we have investigated and reviewed cases..."
(Unnamed congressional staffer.)
By David Swanson
Put Wars and Banksters on PAYGO
On Tuesday President Obama proposed that any increases in federal spending on
anything useful, such as healthcare or retirement security, must be balanced by
cuts and savings to something else useful, such as healthcare or retirement
security.
By Eric Lotke
2044: Big Brother Inc.
A new novel, "2044," starts where George Orwell's 1984 left off. The problem is
Big Brother Inc., not Big Brother. The government didn't take over. It got taken
over. 2044 follows the pattern to the endpoint.
By Suzana Megles
Lily Tomlin Speaks out for the Elephants
I am very happy that Lily Tomlin is helping In Defense of Animals get out the
word for a hoped-for global awareness that elephants don't belong in zoos (or in
circuses for that matter.)
Best News Links from the Web
In Obama
Era: Can We Think Big and Make the Changes We Really Need?
Martin Luther King didn't say, "I have a complaint." I've had a few of my
progressive friends say to me, "You know Keith, I'm not that happy about the
president not really going after those quirks in the Bush administration, I'm
not that pleased that we haven't heard as much as we want to hear about a public
option. Are you willing to make Obama give us that public option, give us that
single-payer system?
Stop Being
Distracted by Loudmouths Like Limbaugh: The Real Problem Is Lousy Democrats Like
Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson
Chris Bowers: Until a public option is passed, I don't want to hear about the
latest hate and idiocy spewing from Limbaugh, or Tancredo, or Palin, or
Gingrich, or whoever. And to tell you the truth, I don't want to attack them for
it, either. Because, right now, Republicans are not the obstacle to progressive
governance. Instead, Democrats who refuse to support a public option are the
obstacle.
Obama's
Visit Puts Health Care, Green Bay in Spotlight
The White House chose the event at Green Bay Southwest High School - scheduled
from 12:10 to 1:25 p.m. - to be Obama's first exchange with people on health
care since he was elected more than seven months ago. Scheduled to be in
Northeastern Wisconsin for a little more than two hours, Obama is ramping up his
public attention to this domestic issue after a week of intense focus on world
matters.
Obama to
address AMA Delegates in Chicago
The national doctors group represents about a quarter of a million doctors
across the country and its support of any effort to cover the more than 46
million uninsured Americans is seen as critical.
A Panic
Attack over Healthcare Tab
President Obama and his congressional allies -- who are also struggling to hold
down the national debt after years of deficit spending and new outlays to combat
the recession -- have pledged to raise more than $1 trillion over the next
decade to offset the costs of what would be the biggest health overhaul in
generations."Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree."
10 Large
Banks Allowed to Exit U.S. Aid Program
By ERIC DASH Published: June 10, 2009 Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and eight
other large banks were deemed strong enough by federal regulators to return more
than $68 billion in taxpayer aid.
U.S.
Commander in Afghanistan Is Given More Leeway
By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT Published: June 11, 2009 Gen. Stanley
McChrystal has a wide berth to pick a dream team of subordinates as he moves to
carry out a new strategy for combating the Taliban.
This Time,
We Won’t Scare
NY Time's columnist Nicholas D. Kristof speaks out on health care, Canada's and
ours.
US Supreme
Court: Sacred Peaks Not Sacred
I wonder how Christians, Muslims, Jews or others would feel if their sacred and
holy places were allowed to be desecrated by a Supreme Court ruling.
Six Weeks
into the Single-payer Surge
[R]emarkable advances for the single-payer solution, in large part because of
the work of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), the California Nurses
Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC, Healthcare-NOW!,
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), and other members of the
Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare.
Winning the
War of Legitimacy
"Do you know why Israel does not want to become America's 51st state? Because
then they would only have two senators! "Congress has always been Israel's trump
card and the democrats have been more pro-Israel than the republicans. Nancy
Pelosi and Harry Reid are the problem, not Netanyahu."-Jeff Halper, American
Israeli, Founder and Coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Peled
proposes Israeli sanctions on US
Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the US in a
letter to cabinet ministers. Peled recommends intervening in American
congressional races to weaken Obama and asking American Jewish donors not to
contribute to Democratic congressional candidates. He predicted that this would
result in Democratic candidates pressuring Obama to become more pro-Israel.
London's
Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects
The torture claims are part of a wide-ranging investigation which also includes
accusations that officers fabricated evidence and stole suspects' property. It
has already led to the abandonment of a drug trial and the suspension of several
police officers.
America's
Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making
In the debate about how the government racked up so much debt, there is enough
blame to go around.
A
Page-turner About Hysterectomy
Most women who are told they need a hysterectomy lack a basic understanding of
the important lifelong functions of the uterus and ovaries, and the consequences
of their removal. THE H WORD is everything you need to know about hysterectomy.
As this reviewer says, "Each page is an education." For more info, visit
hersfoundation.org.
Global
Military Spending Up as Economy Sinks
When the world practices Tao, horses fertilize the fields. When the world
ignores Tao, horses are bred for war. Tao Te Ching, 46
You Can Help
Halliburton Rape Victim Fight Lopsided Arbitration Law
After being drugged and gang-raped by KBR employees in Iraq, Jamie Leigh Jones
has become the leading voice against private contractors writing themselves
preemptive "get out of jail free" clauses in employment contracts. With your
support, Sen. Feingold's Arbitration Fairness bill has a great chance of passing
to turn the tide against contractor lawlessness.
(video)Bernanke
is worried! HR 1207 to Audit the Federal Reserve is Gaining Momentum FAST!
We're almost there! 207 co-sponsors for HR 1207 to Audit the Federal Reserve.
Join our call-a-thon to push it over the top and give Bernanke a few sleepless
nights.
Search For
the $1,000,000 Mattress
An AP news article reports on an Israeli woman's plight
The
Forgotten Casualties - US Army mental health failure
In order to get 'boots on the ground' in the so-called war on terror, the US
Army is reducing mental health entry standards for new recruits then medicating
problem soldiers with a dangerous cocktail of psychotropic drugs contrary to
manufacturers warning labels. The story follows one individual soldier's tragic
experience. This is yet another scandal the mainstream media ignores.
US 'failing'
to oversee contractors
The US government has no central record of who the contractors are, what they do
or how much they are paid, according to the Wartime Contracting Commission
report. KBR Inc, the primary LOGCAP contractor in Iraq, has been paid nearly
$32bn since 2001. The firm has defended its performance and criticised the
commission for making "biased" statements against the company.
Terror Names
Linked To Doomed Flight AF 447
Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France
flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged.
Half-Baked
Alaska
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican
base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party
organization, the air is a little nippy. Seven months after the election, Palin
still can't shoot straight. Unless something changes dramatically and soon,
"Missed Opportunity" should be the title of her memoir.
Charles
Pierce: What If Obama's Out of His Mind?
I didn't fully realize how deeply what Obama's been trying to do had penetrated
the entire country, and how deeply it had sunk into the lizard brain that had
controlled American society for the previous eight years. On January 20, Barack
Obama became president of a deranged nation.
Left, Right
Press Obama on War Funds
A bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has turned into a major
legislative challenge on Capitol Hill, as members press President Obama from the
left and the right on a number of fronts: the logistics of closing the
Guantanamo Bay detention facility, the release of photos showing abuse of
detainees and a proposed loan to the International Monetary Fund.
U.S. Envoy
Reassures and Presses a Wary Israel
Israeli officials said they had understandings with the Bush administration that
allowed for limited building. The Obama administration has not acknowledged any
such understandings. There has also been friction over Netanyahu's refusal so
far to endorse the notion of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
US denies N
Korea invasion plans
The US has no plans to invade North Korea or topple the country's government by
force, the Obama administration's top disarmament envoy said on the same day
that North Korea warned it would use its weapons if provoked – an apparent
effort to deter international punishment for its test of a nuclear device last
month.
UK
'terrorism suspects' win appeal
Britain's highest court has ruled against the government over the use of secret
evidence to justify imposing home curfews on people accused of "terrorism."
Orders have been used to restrict the movements of individuals the authorities
suspect of involvement in "terrorism," but against whom they lack sufficient
evidence to mount a trial.
Health
Reform for Beginners: The Difference Between Socialized Medicine, Single-Payer
Health Care, and What We'll Be Get
With public opinion polls, and a lively comment section. Covers single payer,
HMOs, the VA, and tackles "socialism".
Health
Insurance Nightmares Shared By Our Readers
We finally have a realistic chance to fix the system. Both the House and Senate
will likely vote on sweeping health care reform legislation during the last two
weeks of July. There will be a series of votes on amendments that will determine
whether we get real reform-whether the people or the special interests will win.
And there will be a relatively small number of lawmakers-mostly "moderate"
Democrats in the Senate-who....
A Republican
to Save Us - Sheila Bair
But, he added ominously: "Bair's hardball tactics aren't just irritating
bankers, though. She's also making enemies of career bureaucrats and Wall Street
sympathizers. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner - reportedly tried to push out
Bair before he took office in December."Rest assured, if Bair loses out and
Geithner has his way, Citigroup's CEO and the other Wall Street moguls will be
thrilled. But the public will have lost
In Congress,
Gates Sounds Positive Note on Afghanistan
Defense Secy Robert Gates said Tuesday that he was more hopeful than he had been
in a long time about progress in the war in Afghanistan, but that there would
have to be significant improvement a year from now for the American public to
support the effort. He provided few details to support his new view.
In An
Attempt To Criticize Health Reform, Senator Coburn Smears Veteran Health Care As
"˜Untenable To Most Americans'
Coburn laid out his criticism of the proposed public insurance option in Obama's
health reform plan. Like other reform opponents, Coburn repeated the empty Frank
Luntz- talking points claiming "bureaucrats" will be making health decisions. In
doing so, Coburn derided the Veterans Health Administration, a program that
boasts bipartisan support and has provided American veterans with some of the
best health care in the world
Making
College More Affordable for Poor Americans
Obama proposes paying for this come-rain-or-come-shine funding by no longer
subsidizing the vast private business of student loans(instead the federal
government would directly make those loans). Congressional Budget Office
estimates this move can save $94 billion over 10 years – just about covering the
increased cost of a Pell entitlement. But estimates can be fallible and Congress
will need to impose firm budget restraints
Pakistan:
Massive Hotel Bomb Further Erodes Security
Militants have also warned nurses at hospitals and medical centers to wear
veils. Following the threats, many girls have started wearing veils and burqas
to school. Adding to the sense of insecurity among residents here is that the
Taliban have a presence on three sides of the city: In the town of Darra Adam
Khel to the south and the Bara area of Khyber tribal agency to the southwest; in
the Jamrud area of Khyber to the west
March of the
Secularists
Larry Beinhart believes the pope is out to get him. A link to a thoughtful piece
in the Hudson Valley's Chronogram Magazine.
One Tough
Sell: Paying for Health Care Overhaul
About 70% of Americans who have health insurance get it through their employers.
Typically, the cost of the premiums are split between worker and employer, and
the portion paid by the worker is excluded from taxable income. To pay for the
changes Obama is calling for, Senate Finance Committee members are exploring
taxing the coverage of single taxpayers who earn more than $100,000 or married
couples who make more than 200,000
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Daily News is very important to those who are true Orthodox Catholic Christians. For without knowing or gaining information for understanding about what is happening in one's local area and around the world, you could find yourself faced with denied services in the secular area, lack of income, even (although it sounds far-fetched) ability to worship openly for the time is not far off when all will have to decide if they wish to follow the Anti-Christ through the One World Church and One World Government as prophesied by the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation of St. John or follow the faith delivered once and for all which will cause for many to be denied the abilities to survive under those kind of conditions, causing for one to consider other options.
Many of those who subscribe to, and some who have caused or are the cause for, these things to happen are involved in or with the Roman Jurisdiction of the Catholic Church (which is not the seat of all things "Catholic") as well as its protestant daughters such as the cultic Jehovah's Witnesses, the Pentecostal Churches, the Church of Latter Day Saints also known as the Mormon Church and far too many more to list.
Yet, at this web site we do provide some of the reasons about why they are opined to be the harbingers of that which is prophesied in Holy Scripture for the bringing about of the End Times which we have already entered. It is not necessarily their individual members or parishioners that should be blamed since they are only the "Sheep" and not the Shepherds... So do not think we castigate individual people of themselves as we castigate those "money changers" who Jesus Christ chased out of His Father's House as the Bible Describes; for they exist in these present times too.
Events are already rushing toward that time in which this is beginning to happen and will become more fully wide-spread. In these present times all you need to really do is look around both your local and larger areas as to what is really on-going through. Things so very little or miniscule that they are barely noticeable except to the more informed observer may become apparent.
Those little things are the laws of the land, economics, politics, the degrading and erosion of those rights and liberties afforded by the Constitution of these United States of America and many other things such as the manner with which entertainments have taken over much of the populace, entering into and becoming a major focus in worship, and more.
We ask you, if you don't want to believe us... Have you heard, seen or found what is termed (of the many terms being used) that there are "holding areas" or "camps" or "Closed/Fenced communities" being built by GOVERNMENT?
Here in North America, especially in the United States of America, we must admit that what Russia has come out of (a communistic, atheist country) we are entering into. And one last thing that needs also to be understood... Something very important to those of you who are "Catholic" in the Roman sense of its jurisdiction.... And, we believe this also holds true for many who are "Orthodox" whether "Eastern" or "Western"....
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