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2009/09/082009/09/08

Journal: Chuck Spinney Highlights Labor Day in a Kleptocracy

Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a Kleptocracy posted by Juan Cole Sept 7, 2009 http.www.juancole.com/2009/09/where-have-all-broad-shoulders-gone-or.html The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still looking for a job recently. A vast bank robbery by the corrupt on …

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2009/09/062009/09/10

Journal: Ralph Peters on Stifling of General McChrystal

O’s Afghan woes White House stifles general September 3, 2009 The classified status report from Afghanistan by Gen. Stanley McChrystal was censored by the White House before its submission. As a result, it’s all bun and no burger. According to multiple (angry) sources, McChrystal — our top soldier on the ground — intended to ask …

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2009/09/062009/09/06

Review: Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire

Integrity Demands a Five, One of Three in My Review Trilogy September 6, 2009 John Pilger This is the third of three books by John Pilger (he has written others, I had to be selective) that I ordered and have read this long-week-end. The others: 2002 The New Rulers of the World 2005 Tell Me …

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2009/08/312009/09/04

Worth a Look: Independents Rising

Jacqueline Salit led the independent movement that elected Bloomberg mayor of New York City. She has gone on to create a nation-wide grass-roots movement with two thrusts: the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), and as its primary objective, the enabling of Independent Voting, not only in the general election but in the primaries …

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2009/08/312011/10/22

Journal: Questions for supporters of the Democrat-Republican duopoly

Questions for supporters of the Democrat-Republican duopoly August 31, 7:49 AM Chad MacInnes Orange County Independent Examiner EXTRACT: The fact of the matter is that career politicians will say anything to get re-elected and will do anything to stay in power. This then becomes a classic dichotomy: the politicians say one thing, yet continue to …

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2009/08/312011/10/22

Journal: 9-11 Truth Movement–Hanging Fire, Still Explosive

THE STORY BEHIND 9/11: HIT OR MYTH? TAKING ON THE TRUTHERS By MAXINE SHEN August 28, 2009 Read Full Story Online First. Then below Response (provided here because original is behind a Facebook Password Access page).: The 9/11 Official Story Runs Out of Steam? by Sander Hicks (pictured in insert by Post at right) (NEW …

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2009/08/312009/08/31

Journal: Facebook Toys with Facsism

By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN Published: August 26, 2009 The Medium:Facebook Exodus Leif Harmsen, once a Facebook user, now crusades against it. Having dismissed his mother’s snap judgment of the site (“Facebook is the devil”), Harmsen now passionately agrees. He says, not entirely in jest, that he considers it a repressive regime akin to North Korea, and …

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