The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Bill Moyers | The Great American Class War: Plutocracy vs. Democracy
By Bill Moyers, TomDispatch | Speech Excerpt
Thursday, 12 December 2013 09:14
I met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a series for public television called In Search of the Constitution, celebrating the bicentennial of our founding document. By then, he had served on the court longer than any of his colleagues and had written close to 500 majority opinions, many of them addressing fundamental questions of equality, voting rights, school segregation, and — in New York Times v. Sullivan in particular — the defense of a free press.
Those decisions brought a storm of protest from across the country. He claimed that he never took personally the resentment and anger directed at him. He did, however, subsequently reveal that his own mother told him she had always liked his opinions when he was on the New Jersey court, but wondered now that he was on the Supreme Court, “Why can’t you do it the same way?” His answer: “We have to discharge our responsibility to enforce the rights in favor of minorities, whatever the majority reaction may be.”
Although a liberal, he worried about the looming size of government. When he mentioned that modern science might be creating “a Frankenstein,” I asked, “How so?” He looked around his chambers and replied, “The very conversation we’re now having can be overheard. Science has done things that, as I understand it, makes it possible through these drapes and those windows to get something in here that takes down what we’re talking about.”
That was long before the era of cyberspace and the maximum surveillance state that grows topsy-turvy with every administration. How I wish he were here now — and still on the Court!
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Congessman Keith Ellison, who represents Minneapolis/St Paul in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced a resolution in effect endorsing the NSP version of a Global Marshall Plan into the House of Representatives as H Res 439. It was referred to the Republican controlled Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. Please read the resolution below and send thanks to his legislative aide Vic Edgerton (contact information at end of post).
I see these antibacterial dispensers, whether soaps or gels, everywhere I go. They are as big a mistake as plastic bottles. What is worst about these antibacterial soaps that is just mentioned is that because they are not lethal to 100 per cent of bacteria, they lead to bacterial mutation. It is a variation of the ! same problem as the overuse of antibiotics.
Antibacterial Soaps Aren't More Effective And May Be Dangerous, Says US FDA
AMY CORDEROY, Health Editor – The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
You have probably already heard about this but I consider it to be so important I am running it anyway. We have a choice now as to how we choose to proceed with the American surveillance state that has grown up since 9/11. Write your Representative and Senators and let them know how you feel about being under constant surveillance.
Federal Judge Rules Against NSA Spying
KEVIN JOHNSON and RICHARD WOLF, – USA TODAY
I don't have the time tonight to search out the specific number but, this must be the fifth or sixth report describing how Rightist politicians trying to find evidence of voter fraud, spending hundreds of thousand of taxpayer dollars, each come up with the exact opposite of what they sought. There is no voter fraud. The fraud is the claim there is. Of course it is not really about voter fraud being, instead, a nefarious scheme to limit voting to affluent whites through selective voter suppression. It is a second phase after the gerrymandering. It is really quite vile. and it should always be remembered that this process has been made easier by the Rightists on the Supreme Court, who voted to gut the Voting Rights Act, by eliminating Section 5.
Iowa Republican’s 2-year Investigation Finds no Statistically Significant Evidence of Voter Fraud
SCOTT KAUFMAN – The Raw Story
Here is the truth, which I thought was already widely known, that multivitamins are a waste of money. Multivitamins are a Big Pharma scam. But this is only about multivitamins. This report doesn't really address sophisticated supplement usage. Taking supplements can make a lot of difference, but it takes work, searching out information, help from medical professionals to! work out what to take given your profile, when to take it, and at what dosage.
Multivitamin Researchers say “case Is Closed” After Studies Find No Health Benefits
RYAN JASLOW – CBS News
Correspondences between a collapsing civilization, culture or group, and a dying person
Introduction
Entangling with information overload and explanatory closure
Recognizing the omnipresence of death
Conventional metaphors to die by
Cultures engendering metaphors of death and dying
Art of dying: imagery vs practice
Challenging alternative implications of metaphors for dying
Inner game of dying and its global significance
Renaissance: Twice born, once dead — Thrice born…?
Mathematical cosmology and death — improving the inner game
Renaissance of a brain-dead global civilization?
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Last week, Congressmen Walter Jones and Stephen Lynch introduced a resolution urging President Obama to declassify the legendary “28 redacted pages of the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry of 9/11” issued in late 2002, which point to official Saudi involvement in 9/11.
After much lobbying, and under an oath of secrecy, Jones was allowed to read the censored document: “I was absolutely shocked by what I read. What was so surprising was that those whom we thought we could trust really disappointed me.”
The U.S. Drives the World Toward War
Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings.
These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked civilian populations.
None of these wars appears to have any compelling reason or justifiable explanation.
The wars have been important to the profits of the military/security complex.
The wars have provided cover for the construction of a Stasi police state in America, and the wars have served Israel’s interest by removing obstacles to Israel’s annexation of the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon.
