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#72685

From: John Churchilly <meso999@...>
Date: Sat Oct 1, 2011 10:40 pm
Subject: Why US stands against Arabs (video)

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#72686

From: ranger116@...
Date: Sun Oct 2, 2011 2:37 am
Subject: Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread Nation Wide

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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread Nation Wide

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From The United States Declaration of Independence
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     "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed",
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   - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, Laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."          
      "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
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#72687

From: ranger116@...
Date: Sun Oct 2, 2011 4:19 pm
Subject: Special Live Broadcast: Occupy Wall St. 2 PM Central (3 PM EST) BY "Al

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Special Live Broadcast: Occupy Wall St. 2 PM Central (3 PM EST) BY "Al

Occupy Wall St. Special Live Broadcast: 2 PM Central (3 PM EST) BY "Alex
Jones"
Sunday 10-2-2011

Stream it live and archived here
http://www.infowars.com/occupy-wall-st-special-live-broadcast-2-pm-central/




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======================================
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Radio in the USA - Tune in 12160 KHz 12 Noon to 4 PM EST and See / Hear
======================================
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          Fla.News Service, Miami, Fl. USA
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From The United States Declaration of Independence
----------------------------------------------
     "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed",
-
   - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, Laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."          
      "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

----------------------------------------------
Hear The TRUTH For a Change !
----------------------------------------------

Jeff Rense Program - Stream From
http://www.rense.com/
RenseRadio Network
http://www.renseradio.com/
jr@...

Joyce Riley - The Power Hour - Stream From http://www.thepowerhour.com/
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        Coast to Coast AM http://www.coasttocoastam.com/  
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Nation wide, Just tune across your AM Radio dial and you will find it
1:00 AM till 5:00 AM EST earlier as you go toward the West Coast of the
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#72688

From: ranger116@...
Date: Sun Oct 2, 2011 7:02 pm
Subject: No Excuses --> Join the Occupy Wall St. Movement or Stand on the Wrong

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No Excuses --> Join the Occupy Wall St. Movement or Stand on the Wrong
Side of History (Read below)+Pass it on !

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(They are the "Elite Contractual Thieves !" Known as -->"the ECT" -
Stealing from You with crooked Contracts, That is how they steal your
labor and your money and recently Your Jobs and Houses ! Bankers, Stock
market, Mortgages, Insurance, pensions, Political Action Committees and
Politicians enacting the PAC's written laws ) tlb-fns
    This was being done in 1940s Germany and is the reason many
average German Citizens did not protest Hitlers mass murders.
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Click and read or scroll down
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PresidentBarakObama/message/34134
      Either you obstruct the plundering by the criminal
class on Wall Street or become the passive enabler.
September 30, 2011 |
There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on
Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the
country or you stand on the wrong side of history.
        Either you obstruct, in the only form left to
us, which is civil disobedience,
the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated
destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become
the passive enabler of a monstrous evil.
          Either you taste, feel and smell the
intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into themiasma of despair and
apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.
        To be declared innocent in a country where the
rule of law means nothing, where we have undergone a corporate coup,
where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and
hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are
the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer
exists, where you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a commodity to
corporate systems of power, one to be used and discarded, is to be
complicit in this radical evil.
        To stand on the sidelines and say "I
am innocent" is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do nothing to reach
out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the
planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. Ask Tim
DeChristopher.
      Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate
forces are determined
to crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified
this will spread. They have their long phalanxes of police on
motorcycles, their rows of white paddy wagons, their foot soldiers
hunting for you on the streets with pepper spray and orange plastic
nets.
          They have their metal barricades set up on
every single street leading into the New York financial district, where
the mandarins in Brooks Brothers suits use your money, money they stole
from you, to gamble and speculate and gorge themselves while one in four
children outside those barricades depend on food stamps to eat.
Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators were hanged.
Today they run the state and the financial markets.
          They disseminate the lies that
pollute our airwaves. They know, even better than you, how pervasive the
corruption and theft have become, how gamed the system is against you,
how corporations have cemented into place a thin oligarchic class and an
obsequious cadre of politicians, judges and journalists who live in
their little gated Versailles while 6 million Americans are thrown out
of their homes, a number soon to rise to 10 million, where a million
people a year go bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills
and 45,000 die from lack of proper care, where real joblessness is
spiraling to over 20 percent, where the citizens, including students,
spend lives toiling in debt peonage, working dead-end jobs, when they
have jobs, a world devoid of hope, a world of masters and serfs.
The only word these corporations know is more. They are disemboweling
every last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from
education to Social Security, because they want that money themselves.
Let the sick die. Let the poor go hungry. Let families be tossed in the
street. Let the unemployed rot. Let children in the inner city or rural
wastelands learn nothing and live in misery and fear. Let the students
finish school with no jobs and no prospects of jobs. Let the prison
system, the largest in the industrial world, expand to swallow up all
potential dissenters. Let torture continue. Let teachers, police,
firefighters, postal employees and social workers join the ranks of the
unemployed. Let the roads, bridges, dams, levees, power grids, rail
lines, subways, bus services, schools and libraries crumble or close.
Let the rising temperatures of the planet, the freak weather patterns,
the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the tornadoes, the melting
polar ice caps, the poisoned water systems, the polluted air increase
until the species dies. Who the hell cares? If the stocks of ExxonMobil
or the coal industry or Goldman Sachs are high, life is good. Profit.
Profit. Profit. That is what they chant behind those metal barricades.
They have their fangs deep into your necks. If you do not shake them off
very, very soon they will kill you. And they will kill the ecosystem,
dooming your children and your children's children. They are too stupid
and too blind to see that they will perish with the rest of us. So
either you rise up and supplant them, either you dismantle the corporate
state, for a world of sanity, a world where we no longer kneel before
the absurd idea that the demands of financial markets should govern
human behavior, or we are frog-marched toward self-annihilation. Those
on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope.
They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or comfortable, that
it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finally faith. They sleep
on concrete every night. Their clothes are soiled. They have eaten more
bagels and peanut butter than they ever thought possible. They have
tasted fear, been beaten, gone to jail, been blinded by pepper spray,
cried, hugged each other, laughed, sung, talked too long in general
assemblies, seen their chants drift upward to the office towers above
them, wondered if it is worth it, if anyone cares, if they will win. But
as long as they remain steadfast they point the way out of the corporate
labyrinth. This is what it means to be alive. They are the best among
us.
Click here to access OCCUPY TOGETHER, a hub for all of the events
springing up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. Click
here to see a video of Chris Hedges at Occupy Wall Street.
http://www.alternet.org/story/152592/no_excuses_--_join_the_occupy_wall_st._move\
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ment_or_stand_on_the_wrong_side_of_history?page=entire
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. Have a great day,
Tommy
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. Have a great day,
Tommy
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#72689

From: ranger116@...
Date: Sun Oct 2, 2011 11:39 pm
Subject: Find Your Local Occupy Wall St Branch HERE Get Involved ! Pass it on

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Find Your Local Occupy Wall St Branch HERE Get Involved !
  Pass it on

Find Your City, State, Country's Branch of "Occupy Wall Street Together"
click below and get in contact with other Protestors, You can help in
other ways than protesting in person.

(This is It Folks make Your Decision Now! Do you want / Demand fair
treatment by the Giant Corporations that control the U.S. Government ?
Or are you Content to remain a slave to them ? !  tlb-fns )

Occupy Wall Street Together   (Home)
National Information Website
http://www.occupytogether.org/
Pass it on

  My Branch
Occupy Together |  Occupy Miami
http://www.occupytogether.org/events/southeast/florida/occupy-miami/?replytocom=\
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  Tell them "NO MORE !"
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(They are the "Elite Contractual Thieves !" Known as -->"the ECT" -
Stealing from You with crooked Contracts, That is how they steal your
labor and your money and recently Your Jobs and Houses ! Bankers, Stock
market, Mortgages, Insurance, pensions, Political Action Committees and
Politicians enacting the PAC's written laws ) tlb-fns
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#72690

From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 1:19 am
Subject: LOOK AT YOURSELF AFTER WATCHING THIS: Attitude is Altitude !!

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Nick Vujicic :: Life Without Limits :: Attitude is Altitude



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Phone: +1 818.707.NICK (6425)
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Nick Vujicic is now an author. Find out more by clicking Life Without Limits:
Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life! The first book by: Nick Vujicic .



Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to
experience touch, or to hold another hand with. Or what about being born without
legs? Having no ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand on two feet. Now put
both of those scenarios together: no arms and no legs. What would you do? How
would that effect your everyday life?

Meet Nick Vujicic... Born in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia, without any medical
explanation or warning, Nicholas Vujicic (pronounced Voy-a-chich) came into the
world with neither arms nor legs. Having had an uneventful pregnancy and no
family history to expect this condition, imagine the shock his parents felt when
they saw their first born, brand new baby boy, only to find he was what the
world would consider imperfect and abnormal. A limbless son was not what nurse
Dushka Vujicic, and her husband Pastor Borris Vujicic had been expecting. How
would their son live a normal happy life? What could he ever do or become when
living with what the world would see as such a massive disability? Little did
they know that this beautiful limbless baby would one day be someone who would
inspire and motivate people from all walks of life, touching lives all over the
world.

Throughout his childhood Nick dealt not only with the typical challenges of
school and adolescence such as bullying and self-esteem issues; he also
struggled with depression and loneliness as he questioned why he was different
to all the other kids surrounding him; why he was the one born without arms and
legs. He wondered what was the purpose behind his life, or if he even had a
purpose. After a lot of frustration and feeling like the odd one out in school,
at seven years of age Nick tried out some specially designed electronic arms and
hands, in hopes that he would be more like the other kids. During the short
trial period of the electronic arms, Nick realized that even with them, he was
still unlike his peers at school, and they turned out to be much too heavy for
Nick to operate, effecting his general mobility quite significantly.

As Nick grew up he learned to deal with his disability and started to be able to
do more and more things on his own. He adapted to his situation and found ways
to accomplish tasks that most people could only do by using their limbs, such as
cleaning teeth, brushing hair, typing on a computer, swimming, playing sports,
and much more. As time went by Nick began to embrace his situation and achieve
greater things. In grade seven Nick was elected captain of his school and worked
with the student council on various fund-raising events for local charities and
disability campaigns.

According to Nick, the victory over his struggles throughout his journey, as
well as his passion for life can be credited to his faith, his family, his
friends and the many people he's encountered during his life who have encouraged
him along the way.

After school Nick went on with further study and obtained a double bachelor
degree majoring in accounting and financial planning. By the age of 19, Nick had
started to fulfill his dream of encouraging others by sharing his story through
motivational speaking. He found the purpose of his existence, and also the
purpose in his circumstance. Nick wholeheartedly believes that there is a
purpose in each of the struggles we encounter in our lives and that our attitude
towards those struggles that can be the single most effective factor in
overcoming them.

In 2005, Nick was nominated for the "Young Australian of the Year" Award, which
is a large honor in Australia. The award honors a young person for their
excellence and service to their local community and the nation, as well as their
own personal accomplishments. Nominations for this award are only given to truly
inspirational people.

Now at 27 years old, this limbless young man has accomplished more than most
people even twice his age. Nick recently made the massive move from Brisbane,
Australia to California, USA, where he is the president of an international
non-profit organization, and also has his own motivational speaking company;
Attitude Is Altitude. Since his first motivational speaking engagement back when
he was 19, Nick has traveled around the world, sharing his story with millions
of people, speaking to a range of different groups such as students, teachers,
youth, business men and women, entrepreneurs, and church congregations of all
sizes. He has also told his story and been interviewed on various televised
programs worldwide. However, Nick's speaking engagements have gone beyond purely
motivational speaking, he has had the opportunity to speak with several leaders,
including the vice president of Kenya. This year alone Nick is set to speak in
over 20 countries.

People ask Nick, "How can you smile?" Then they realize there's got to be
something more to life than meets the eye if a guy without arms and legs is
living a fuller life.

Nick shares with his audiences the importance of vision and dreaming big. Using
his own experiences in worldwide outreach as examples, he challenges others to
examine their perspective and look beyond their circumstances. He shares his
view of ceasing to see obstacles as problems, but instead begin to see them as
opportunities to grow and reach out to others. He stresses the importance of how
attitude can be the most powerful tool we have at our disposal and illustrates
how the choices we make can have a profound effect on our lives and the lives of
those around us. Nick shows through his own life that the major keys in
fulfilling our biggest dreams are persistence and choosing to embrace failure as
a learning experience, rather than allowing the guilt and fear of failure to
paralyze us.

How does Nick Vujicic feel about his disability now? He accepts it, embraces it
and oftentimes pokes fun at his own circumstance as he shows off his many
tricks. He meets challenges with his special blend of humor, perseverance and
faith always encouraging those around him to examine their perspective as they
develop and define their vision. Using those new definitions he challenges each
person he meets to make changes in their lives so that they can begin the path
to fulfilling their biggest dreams. Through his amazing ability to connect with
people from all walks of life and his incredible sense of humor he captivates
children, teens and adults alike, Nick is a true inspirational and motivational
speaker.


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#72691

From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 1:45 am
Subject: Itâ€™s time for you to leave Bank of America !!

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BANK OF AMERICA JUST BEGGING TO GO DOWN - Bank of America today announced that
it would begin charging $5 per month for debit card usage, because defrauding
homeowners and cashing taxpayer checks was no longer a winning business model.
Well, they announced that first part, but they actually blamed Wall Street
reform and a cap the Fed will put Saturday on the swipe fees they can charge
merchants.

Don't believe it: BofA is getting crushed in the market and simply wants your
money. HuffPost Hill will eat its overdraft notices if these fees are still
around a year from now. In January 2010, TCF Bank, which pioneered free checking
in the 1980s, announced it would begin charging a monthly fee in response to Fed
rules restricting overdraft charges. The move was regularly cited during the
2010 swipe fee fracas as evidence of the harm that would befall consumers if
Dick Durbin didn't back off.

This January, TCF brought back free checking after losing customers. But this
isn't the worst crisis consumers have faced! One day before the Senate was
expected to vote on delaying swipe fee reform, Chase went nuclear: Thanks to the
Durbin amendment, thousands of Chase customers were warned, your kid can forget
about that trip to Disney World. "Congress recently enacted a new law known as
the Durbin Amendment that significantly impacts debit cards," reads the letter.
"As a result of this law, we will be changing our debit rewards program. After
July 21, 2011 you will no longer earn Disney Dream Reward Dollars when you use
your Disney Rewards Debit Card." Which reminds us: Did we ever tell you about
the great swipe fee fight?
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Banks, Merchants And Why Washington Doesn't Work For You

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/swipe-fees-interchange-banks-merchants_\
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WASHINGTON -- Charlie Chung runs Cups & Co., a coffee and sandwich shop in the
basement of the Russell Senate Office Building. Known on Capitol Hill simply as
â€œCups,â€ the shop -- a rickety 20-second train ride away from the elevator to
the Senate floor -- is always swarmed with lobbyists, staffers and the
occasional senator .

If customers flash an American Express card to buy a banana, Chung waves them
off: â€œJust take the banana. Donâ€™t give me the card.â€

Chung has run Cups for about a decade and says that plastic has allowed him to
better serve a hurried and harried clientele. But Chung is still routinely
frustrated with the card networks -- Visa, MasterCard and American Express --
that dictate the fees storeowners like himself must pay to process credit and
debit card transactions. Why charge for a banana when card fees make it a losing
proposition?

Fees are annoying, Chung says, but not debilitating. â€œTheyâ€™re just like a
phone company,â€ he says. â€œDelivery surcharge. Paper charge. Equipment
charge.â€ Thereâ€™s an additional fee for using cards from banks outside his
contract, but Chung says he has no way of knowing until heâ€™s gotten his bill
how much of that pricier plastic has been swiped.

The fees Chung pays are a tiny fraction of Wall Streetâ€™s swipe fee windfall;
banks take in a combined $48 billion a year from these â€œinterchangeâ€ fees on
debit and credit cards, according to analysts at The Nilson Report. That money
comes out of the pockets of consumers as well as merchants , as stores pass on
whatever costs they can to their customers.

Major retailers -- the Walmarts, Home Depots and the Targets of the world --
complain that card fees are one of their biggest annual expenses, and theyâ€™ve
entered into a Capitol Hill battle royale against card companies to roll back
the lucrative fee regime. Last yearâ€™s financial reform bill ordered the
Federal Reserve to crack down on debit card swipe fees, a $16 billion pool of
money from which $8 billion flows to just 10 banks. As a concession to Wall
Street, credit card fees were left unscathed.

But the clock never ticks down to zero in Washington: one yearâ€™s law is the
next yearâ€™s repeal target. Politicians, showered with cash from card companies
and giant retailers alike, have been moving back and forth between camps, paid
handsomely for their shifting allegiances.

The swipe fee spat is generating huge business for K Street: A full 118
ex-government officials and aides are currently registered to lobby on behalf of
banks in the fee fight, according to data compiled for this story by the
Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan research group. Retailers have signed up at
least 124 revolving-door lobbyists. And at least one lobbyist has switched sides
during the melee. Republican Thomas Shipman of Cornerstone Government Affairs
registered to lobby for the merchantâ€™s leading player, Walmart, in 2010, only
to move over to Visa in 2011. (The firmâ€™s executive vice president, Fred
Clark, says that while Cornerstone is registered to lobby for Visa on
â€œelectronic payments,â€ the shop told the card company it wouldnâ€™t lobby on
interchange fees specifically, because of the appearance of a conflict of
interest. He also says that while Shipman was registered to lobby on behalf of
Walmart in 2010, he never specifically lobbied on the interchange issue.)

â€œOh man, this is unbelievable. Youâ€™ve got the banking community, the
financial community, pitted against the retail community,â€ says Sen. Mike
Johanns (R-Neb.). â€œTheyâ€™ve both been in my office and Iâ€™m a clear yes vote
on this ... so you can only imagine those who are trying to figure this out or
are still on the fence. They must be getting flooded.â€

The flood fills the hallways with lobbyists and deluges the airwaves with ads.
For weeks, Washingtonâ€™s Metro system has been papered with pro-plastic ads on
trains and station walls. Itâ€™s a way for card networks to flex their muscles,
to put lawmakers and lobbyists on notice that theyâ€™re willing to spend big to
win. â€œWhere does Washingtonâ€™s $12 billion gift to giant retailers come from?
YOUR DEBIT CARD,â€™â€ blares one ad. This being Washington, a poster on the
Metro was hacked by a swipe fee reform supporter, who crossed out â€œYOUR DEBIT
CARDâ€ and penned in â€œBANKS.â€

A senior Senate Democratic Banking Committee aide, Peter Bondi, spotted the
defaced ad and snapped a Twitpic . He sent it out on March 31, the day that a
bill sponsored by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) was coming up for a floor vote. The
Tester bill called for a two-year delay on proposed debit card fee caps that
Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) had pushed through
Congress last summer.

â€œ#Durbin supporters strike back against #Tester supporters on #metro ad
campaign in swipe fee/interchange fee battle,â€ Bondi tweeted.

The swipe fee debate, as mundane as it may appear, is emblematic of how
Washington works today -- and helps explain why Congress hasnâ€™t passed an
appropriations bill in years, canâ€™t write an annual budget, is flirting with
defaulting on the countryâ€™s debt and effectively gave up on job-creation
efforts in the midst of a brutal economic downturn. There are, to be sure, a
variety of reasons that Congress is zombified, but one of the least understood
explanations is also one of the simplest: The city is too busy refereeing
disputes between major corporate interest groups.

As swipe fees dominate the Congressional agenda, a handful of other
intra-corporate contests consume most of what remains on the Congressional
calendar: a squabble over a jet engine , industry tussling over health-care
spoils and the never-ending fight over the corporate tax code.

The endless meetings and evenings devoted to arbitrating duels between big
businesses destroy time and energy that could otherwise be spent on higher
priorities. In America today, over 13 million people are out of work and
millions more are underemployed. One out of every seven is living on food
stamps. One out of every five American children lives in poverty. Yet the most
consuming issue in Washington -- according to members of Congress, Hill
staffers, lobbyists and Treasury officials -- is determining how to slice up the
$16 billion debit-card swipe fee pie for corporations.

â€œEvery time we go in to an office and tell them weâ€™re here to talk about
interchange, they cringe,â€ says Dennis Lane, who makes regular lobbying trips
to Washington and has owned a Massachusetts 7-Eleven for 37 years. â€œI think
thereâ€™s been more lobbying -- thereâ€™s been more hours and minutes spent on
Capitol Hill discussing interchange reform -- than there has been talking about
a shutdown of the government.â€

The combination of high financial stakes and scant public attention to the
faceoff between card companies and retailers has blurred party lines. Dozens of
unlikely and influential figures have rushed to random sides of the swipe fee
trough: Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, the
Christian Coalition, teachers unions, Koch-funded think tanks, the NAACP, Karl
Rove, Dick Morris, Walmart and Google. Even Mickey Mouse has made an appearance.

In Washington, the easiest way to derail somebody elseâ€™s good idea is to
suggest delaying it while experts conduct a study. In the Senate, Tester is
joined by Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, in pushing the plan to
postpone Durbinâ€™s fee caps. West Virginia Republican Shelley Moore Capito is
carrying a similar bill in the House, cosponsored by Florida Democrat Debbie
Wasserman Schultz. When corporate interests are at stake, such bipartisanship
tends to be much easier to secure.

President Obama recently tapped the Wall-Street friendly Wasserman Schultz to
head the Democratic National Committee, a position generally reserved for party
figures with the best fundraising ability. In the first quarter of 2011, members
of the Electronic Payments Coalition -- the bank lobby fighting swipe fee reform
-- gave more than $2 million to members of Congress and the two parties and more
than $250,000 to cosponsors of Capitoâ€™s bill, according to an analysis done by
the Sunlight Foundation for this story.

And thatâ€™s just direct contributions. Both sides have spent lavishly on TV and
radio ads and face-to-face lobbying. After all, a mere month of swipe fee
revenue amounts to more than the total sum a presidential campaign will spend
between now and next November. Many of the ads openly attack big business, while
giving no hints about their own corporate backing.

While cable news was recently overwhelmed by coverage of budget negotiations and
a possible government shutdown, many of the nationâ€™s most powerful political
players were focused instead on the Tester amendment -- and on a lobbying scrum
that even boggles the minds of seasoned politicians. â€œItâ€™s the biggest issue
in Washington right now,â€ says a senior Treasury official whoâ€™s grateful it
doesnâ€™t fall within his scope of responsibility.

â€œEverybody and their grandmotherâ€™s lobbying on this,â€ says Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-S.C.). Graham, who supported Durbin last year, hasnâ€™t made up his
mind on the Tester bill, but says the ongoing swipe-fee fight is one of the
â€œtop 10â€ most brutal and well-funded battles heâ€™s seen in the Senate.

Not all of the interests in the fee fight are powerful. But small business
owners like Chung who might benefit from swipe fee reform would be sharing in a
victory that the big-box retailers are funding. This, in the end, may be the
best little guys can hope for in Washington: to have their interests roughly
align with those of powerful players.

One frustrated moderate Democratic senator asks to remain anonymous so he can
speak freely about his legislative education. â€œIâ€™m surprised at how much of
our time is spent trying to divide up the spoils between various economic
interests. I had no idea. I thought weâ€™d be focused on civil liberties, on
education policy, energy policy and so on,â€ the senator says. â€œThe fights
down here can be put in two or three categories: The big greedy bastards against
the big greedy bastards; the big greedy bastards against the little greedy
bastards; and some cases even the other little greedy bastards against the other
little greedy bastards.â€

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#72692

From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 2:11 am
Subject: President's Speech we should all be hearing !!

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WOULDN'T BE GREAT
TO TURN ON THE TV
AND HEAR THE U.S. PRESIDENT,
DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN,
GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?





















'My Fellow Americans:
As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed.


Since Congress does not want
to spend any more money on this war,
our mission in Iraq is complete.


This morning I gave the order
for a complete removal of all
American forces from Iraq.
This action will be complete
within 30 days.
It is now time to begin the reckoning.


Before me, I have two lists.
One list contains the names of countries which have stood by our side
during the Iraq conflict.
This list is short.
The United Kingdom, Spain, Bulgaria, Australia, and Poland are some of the
countries listed there.


The other list contains every one
not on the first list.
Most of the world's nations are on that list. My press secretary will be
distributing copies of both lists later this evening.


Let me start by saying that
effective immediately,
foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases indefinitely.
The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay
for the costs of the Iraqi war.


THEN EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER
It'll GO TO OUR
SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM
SO IT WONT GO BROKE IN 20 YEARS.


The American people are no longer
going to pour money into third world
Hell holes and watch those
government leaders grow fat on corruption.


Need help with a famine?
Wrestling with an epidemic?
Call France...


In the future, together with Congress,
I will work to redirect this money
toward solving the vexing
social problems we still have at home.
On that note,
a word to terrorist organizations.
Screw with us and we will hunt you down and eliminate you and all your friends
from the face of the earth.


Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France or maybe China.


I am ordering the immediate
severing of diplomatic relations
with France, and Russia.
Thanks for all your help, comrades.
We are retiring from NATO as well.


I have instructed the
Mayor of New York City
to begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan
with more than two unpaid parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be
stripped, shredded and crushed.
I don't care about whatever treaty
pertains to this.
You creeps have tens of thousands
of unpaid tickets.
Pay those tickets tomorrow
or watch your precious Benzes,
Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest chop shops
in the world.
I love New York.


A special note to our neighbors:
Canada is on List 2.
Since we are likely to be seeing
a lot more of each other,
you folks might want to try
not ticking us off for a change.


Mexico is also on List 2.
Its president and his entire corrupt government really need an
attitude adjustment.
I will have a couple thousand extra tanks and infantry divisions sitting around.
Guess where I am going to put 'em?
Yep, border security.


Oh, by the way, the United States
is abrogating the NAFTA treaty -
starting now.


We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we'll be drilling for oil
in Alaska -which will take care of this country's oil needs for decades to come.
If you're an environmentalist
who opposes this decision,
I refer you to List 2 above:
pick a country and move there.


It is time for America to focus
on its own welfare and its own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism.
I answer them by saying,
'your f*** darn tootin.'


Nearly a century of trying to help folks
live a decent life around the world
has only earned us the undying enmity
of just about everyone on the planet.
It is time to eliminate hunger in America.
It is time to eliminate homelessness
in America.
To the nations on List 1, a final thought: Thank you guys.
We owe you and we won't forget.


To the nations on List 2, a final thought: You might want to learn to speak
Arabic.


God bless America...
Thank you and good night.'


If you can read this in English,
thank a Marine, Soldier, Airman, or Sailor.


(Please forward this to at least ten friends and see what happens!
Let's get this to every
computer in the U.S.A.!!!)







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#72693

From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 9:45 am
Subject: Stop The Internet Blacklist Bill !

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http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/08/protect_ip.html


By David Segal and Patrick Ruffini

We are Tea Partiers and bleeding-heart liberals, we are artists and investment
bankers, we represent the left and the right, and we support Senator Wyden as he
comes forward, yet again, as a stalwart champion for First Amendment rights,
innovation and digital security.

The problem at hand is a bill called the "Preventing Real Online Threats to
Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act" (PROTECT IP) and it
aims to permanently change our digital landscape â€“ that's why we're calling it
what it is: The Internet Blacklist Bill.

Imagine you're the successful owner of a heavily trafficked website. Your income
and that of those with whom you work depends entirely on the advertising revenue
and payments provided by visitors to your site. One day, without warning, your
site no longer appears at its domain, your advertisers have backed out, and you
can't even find your site on Google. You've been disappeared â€“ blacklisted by
new regulations set by Congress in the PROTECT IP Act.

If passed, PROTECT IP would give the government dramatic new powers to target
websites dedicated to the illegal distribution of copyrighted content. Violating
sites would have their domain disabled in DNS servers (the servers that match
the domain name with the numerical IP address and make sure you go to the
websites you want to), and all third party sites, including search engines,
would be required to remove the site from their registries and disable all links
to the domain in question.

Even worse, PROTECT IP also includes a "private right of action" that would
allow rights holders to obtain a temporary restraining order against a domain in
civil court. Instead, big content providers like the RIAA can target websites at
their whim, urging courts to shut down anyone they accuse of violating U.S.
copyright law.

The entities accused of infringement wouldn't even get their day in court until
after they've been shut down â€“ they could appeal to the courts for relief only
after the fact.

Big interest groups in favor of PROTECT IP have recently pushed the idea that to
be against this bill is to handicap aspiring artists and to be in opposition to
a fair marketplace. We vehemently disagree. Regulations stipulated in PROTECT IP
would cause tremendous damage to the infrastructure and security of the Internet
and ultimately undermine the millions of entrepreneurs, businesses and artists
who depend on a free, uninterrupted communications platform.

Already, venture capitalists, engineers, and entrepreneurs (including Google CEO
Eric Schmidt) have penned letters and petitions against PROTECT IP, citing the
corrosive effect it would have on digital security and innovation. Human rights
activists are terrified that PROTECT IP will provide comfort to totalitarian
regimes that seek ever more control over Internet users in their own countries.
More that 400,000 Americans have urged their lawmakers to oppose the bill. But
ultimately, we are depending on lawmakers, like Sen. Wyden to make the final
decisions and defend our rights.

David Segal is Executive Director of the left-leaning Demand Progress and
Patrick Ruffini is Executive Director of the right-leaning Don't Censor the Net,
which together have generated more than 400,000 anti-PIPA contacts to Congress.

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We're written before about Senator Leahy (D-Vt.) and the PIPA ("Protect IP")
Act. (The actual name is long and noble-sounding â€” the "Preventing Real Online
Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act".
"Economic creativity" â€” that's code for "Big People's money".)







For a nice backgrounder, click here . PIPA is a second attempt to shut down
websites that link to sites that show protected content. You got it â€” shut
down the linking site.

That original bill was dubbed the Internet Blacklist Bill , for good reason.
According to that original bill (quoting myself here):

Targeted sites could be placed on a required-to-block list via a court order, or
on a suggested-to-block list by the Attorney General. You read that right; the
exec branch gets to unilaterally "suggest" which sites to block.

Executive censorship, no appeal process (that I could find), and the "crime" is
linking, not hosting. What do they call that in soviet-style national security
circles? Mission Accomplished , of course.

Last week, in a seriously under-reported move, a large Tea Party group has
signed on to oppose PIPA. The Hill :
<blockquote>
The opposition to Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.) Protect IP or PIPA Act got a lot
broader this weekend when the Tea Party Patriots came out against the
legislation on Facebook . The conservative umbrella group has almost 850,000
supporters on Facebook and linked to an editorial from Demand Progress executive
director David Segal and Don't Censor the Net executive director Patrick Ruffini
on Saturday, arguing the coalition of political opposition from the right and
left shows the bill is bad for consumers.
</blockquote>
Is "bad for consumers" what the focus groups say to call it? I guess " bad for
civil liberties " just doesn't have that zing.

The article goes on to note:
<blockquote>
"This is very interesting. Left and right both opposing severe government
overreach in the area of intellectual property. Have your own website? Maybe the
government will shut it down tomorrow...without any notice to you," Tea Party
Patriots posted to its profile.
</blockquote>
Over 350 firms sent a letter to Congress urging that PIPA be passed. The letter
was organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. However, the bill remains on hold
.

Watch this one. The name is PIPA and Big Money wants it bad. So far, Sen. Wyden
(D-Ore.), a real Democrat, is the choke-point.

Action Opportunity. You might want to thank him:
<blockquote>
Washington, DC
223 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-3703
Phone: (202) 224-5244
Fax: (202) 228-2717
</blockquote>
Any bets the Chamber is sending lots of Thank You money to the bill's
supporters? The Internet doesn't protect itself, you know.

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Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 11:45 am
Subject: Engineer graduates will be effective

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#72695

From: "BATR@..." <batr@...>
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 12:36 pm
Subject: Herman Cain is the Uncle Tom of the Federal Reserve

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The drama being milked from the surprise Florida straw poll, that has Herman
Cain on top, is just part of the media's attempt to create another phony
conservative to pacify mentally challenged GOP voters. The rush for a
"politically correct" challenger to Barry Soetoro and his debauchery of the
presidency, knows no bounds. The silly season is in full swing, especially
for those Republican Party loyalists in the sunshine state. As any rap
brother from Liberty City knows, Herman Cain is an oreo. Such a slur only
fuels the national divide, but the real segregate has nothing to do with the
pigment of one's skin, but has everything to do with the cerebral gulf that
separates rational thinking from emotional guilt repentance.



Read the entire article on the BATR archive page

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#72696

From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 4:02 pm
Subject: Facebook Is Getting Too Complicated !!

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http://mashable.com/2011/09/30/facebook-too-complicated/?WT.mc_id=en_my_stories&\
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Ever noticed how the remote for each new TV you check out seems to have more and
more buttons? Or how that online game you used to enjoy is feeling less like fun
as the options pile on? Itâ€™s not your fault. Itâ€™s a well-documented
phenomenon, found in hardware, in software and on the Web: feature creep .

Engineers, bless their hearts, want to give us access to all the exciting new
functions theyâ€™ve come up with. But theyâ€™re not great at making them simple
enough for the average user, or at removing the buttons we no longer need. When
a company does have the courage and discipline to slash away at its engineersâ€™
wish lists, and adhere to the KISS principle of design (Keep It Simple, Stupid),
it can rise head and shoulders above its rivals and delight its users. Apple is
a great example of that, as is Nintendo (the Wii being one of the most simple
â€” and successful â€” game console designs of all time.)

Unfortunately for its 800 million users, Facebook does not appear to be that
kind of company. It used to be, and its inherent simplicity was part of the
reason it was so successful. But now it is falling victim to feature creep â€”
and a roster of settings that are becoming increasingly complex.

Take the Ticker , for example, that real-time stream of information which now
crowds the right-side of your Facebook page with a lot of distracting noise. Or
look at the Like button , which recently celebrated its first birthday . That
was a very popular all-purpose tool that spread rapidly across the Web. Everyone
knows what it means to Like something. But Facebook couldnâ€™t leave well enough
alone.

At this yearâ€™s f8 conference , Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Gestures ,
which will allow you to [any verb] a [any noun]. As Zuckerberg pointed out, this
will allow you to â€œreadâ€ a book or â€œhikeâ€ a trail rather than like it.
Thatâ€™s great if you like a lot of granularity in your News Feed, but I fear
that for the vast majority of us it means more confusion, more noise, and the
decline of the social networkâ€™s single most iconic feature.

Once upon a time, you just friended people; now you have to decide if you want
to subscribe to their feed instead. A profile used to be a profile, plain and
simple; now it can also be a Page (and converting one to the other can open up a
world of pain ). And letâ€™s not even get into the debate over Timeline , the
radical redesign of the user profile, which will start rolling out to all users
in the next week or so and eventually be required for all of us. Got your
all-important top-of-the-page picture picked out yet? Booked the hours that
itâ€™s going to take to fill in the story of your life, all the way back to
birth? (The vast majority of respondents in our poll said filling in their
Timeline gaps would take too much time and effort.)
The Other 792 Million

The New Facebook Profile: Timeline

Timeline is a radical departure from previous versions of the Facebook user
profile. The most prominent feature is the addition of a cover photo at the top
of the page. Users can change this to whatever they'd like it to be.

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Chances are, as a Mashable reader, youâ€™re on top of some of this stuff. Maybe
youâ€™ve even gone through the complex steps required to activate your Timeline
ahead of time. Great; that puts you in the top 1% of Facebook users: the early
adopters, the people who get excited about change rather than fear it. But spare
a thought for the other 792 million users, most of whom donâ€™t even know these
changes are coming. There are millions of people who think the Ticker is the new
Facebook. Theyâ€™re in for a nasty surprise.

Even for those at the top of the pile, the complexities are growing. Many
friends who cover Facebook for a living have their pet peeves about the site and
the increasing number of roadblocks it throws in the path to doing something
that should be very easy. Take Lists, for example. Facebook used to treat Lists
as a way to prevent certain people from seeing certain information; you could
exclude your boss and your parents from seeing all those girlsâ€™ night out
pictures you were tagged in, say.

But now Facebook has changed its mind and decided that Lists are more like
Circles on Google+ â€” ways to share with specific groups of friends rather than
block specific groups of friends. In other words, there are now two kinds of
Lists. It is possible to merge your old Lists together, but weâ€™ve heard from
users that this blasts your privacy settings. And who has the time to sort out
this stuff? Itâ€™s getting so that managing your social network, and making sure
nothing embarrassing slips out, is a full-time occupation in itself.
Memo To Facebook: Chill Out

The impression we get of Facebook is that of a young company, both in its own
age and in the average age of its employees. Theyâ€™re excited. They want to
change the world. They canâ€™t sit still for long. The engineers â€” and it is a
company top-heavy with engineers, starting with Zuckerberg himself â€” canâ€™t
wait to thrill you with their latest feature. And theyâ€™re constantly looking
over their shoulders at what Google+ is developing.

That all adds up to a dangerous mindset. It ignores the fact that most users
just want to post a status update and read what their friends are up to. It
treats casual visitors as if they were power users. I agree with my colleague
Christina Warren that few people are likely to quit Facebook just yet, or not
enough to matter. But that doesnâ€™t mean they wonâ€™t get frustrated, confused,
and less likely to visit. In less time than you might think, that will open up
opportunities for rivals.

What Zuckerberg needs is the discipline and the vision of a Steve Jobs or a Jeff
Bezos; the power to resist feature creep and focus on what matters.

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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 4:06 pm
Subject: A Visual History of Twitter

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This infographic details Twitterâ€™s most influential content creators,
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Curious about The Biebs â€˜ first tweet? Wondering which event caused the latest
tweets-per-second record? Scroll on down for a birdâ€™s eye view ( see what we
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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 5:20 pm
Subject: Barack the Magic Negro Lyrics !!

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Native-Prophecy-Council/ Barack the Magic Negro
lives in D.C.

The L.A. Times, they called him that
â€˜Cause heâ€™s not authentic like me.
Yeah, the guy from the L.A. paper
Said he makes guilty whites feel good
Theyâ€™ll vote for him, and not for me
â€˜Cause heâ€™s not from the hood.

See, real black men, like Snoop Dog,
Or me, or Farrakhan
Have talked the talk, and walked the walk.
Not come in late and won!

Oh, Barack the Magic Negro, lives in D.C.
The L.A. Times, they called him that
â€˜Cause heâ€™s black, but not authentically.
Oh, Barack the Magic Negro, lives in D.C.
The L.A. Times, they called him that
â€˜Cause heâ€™s black, but not authentically.

Some say Barackâ€™s â€œarticulateâ€
And bright and new and â€œclean.â€
The media sure loves this guy,
A white interloperâ€™s dream!
But, when you vote for president,
Watch out, and donâ€™t be fooled!
Donâ€™t vote the Magic Negro in â€“
â€˜Cause â€”

â€™Cause I wonâ€™t have nothing after all these years of sacrifice
And I wonâ€™t get justice. This is about justice. This isnâ€™t about me, itâ€™s
about justice.

<blockquote>
Itâ€™s about buffet. I donâ€™t have no buffet and there wonâ€™t be any church
contributions,
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
And thereâ€™ll be no cash in the collection plate.
There ainâ€™t gonna be no cash money, no walkinâ€™ around money, no phoning
money.
Now, Barack going to come in here and ........
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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 5:27 pm
Subject: 29 years old and hearing myself for the 1st time!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsOo3jzkhYA&feature=player_embedded


http://mashable.com/2011/09/30/sloan-churman-deaf-hears-voice/?WT.mc_id=en_my_st\
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Sloan Churman was born deaf. For 29 years, she has relied on reading lips and,
to a very limited extent, hearing aids.

Two months ago, she received Envoy Medicalâ€™s Esteem Implant , which utilizes
ear drum vibrations to bring hearing back to its users. The reaction, captured
by her husband on video, is nothing short of extraordinary. Her pure joy is
contagious.

Hereâ€™s what she said on her YouTube page:



â€œI had an implant put in 8 weeks ago called The Esteem Implant by Envoy
Medical. I was born deaf and have worn hearing aids from the age of 2, but
hearing aids only help so much. I have gotten by this long in life by reading
lips. This was taken as they were activating the implant.â€

I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video
of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :) Edit: For
those of you who have asked the implant I received was Esteem offered by Envoy
Medical.
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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 5:51 pm
Subject: Electronic books: Not yet the remediation of print

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http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept09/author/psalembi/

by Philip Salembier

There is no question but that electronic structures are changing our views about
the way knowledge is ordered and utilized, however those changes are more
nuanced than many digital enthusiasts, to borrow Bolterâ€™s (2001) term, have
allowed. Yet as more electronic books have become available on more platforms
(laptops, cell phones, PDAs and dedicated e-book readers), there has been no
mass exodus from print. Writing about the excessive optimism that accompanied
the introduction of e-books, Hawkins (2002) notes simply that: â€œMost people
donâ€™t like to read from a screen, and it will be extremely difficult to change
that perceptionâ€ (p. 44). We are clearly in a transitional stage in the
evolution of the e-book, and even its relation to the printed codex that
preceded it is up for debate. Anderson-Inman and Horney (1997) argue that in
order to be considered an e-book â€œthe software must adopt the metaphor of a
book in some significant wayâ€ (p. 486), including such things as the use of
bookmarks, tables of contents, references to screens as â€˜pagesâ€™ and
functionality that allows the addition of â€˜margin notes.â€™ Writing just four
years later, Bolter argues â€œâ€¦the metaphor of the book is now moribundâ€
(Bolter, 2001, p. 98). He suggests that the affordances of the Internet allow us
to move beyond the book to a new metaphor shaped by digital technologies.
Teacher-librarians, charged with instructing students in how to access
information and literature in the most efficient and enjoyable ways possible,
have embraced the use of e-books in schools. What has become apparent is that
e-book technologies, as Bolter (2001) suggests, have had an additive effect
rather than entirely remediating print. The focused linearity of print is a
quality still valued by many readers, particularly for fiction, while the
internal and external linkages afforded by hypertext are useful when the goal is
information gathering. Bolter (2001) argues that in â€œâ€¦late age of print â€¦
the circle and the line are equally at homeâ€ (p. 88), but limitations of
existing e-book technologies still prove an obstacle.
Latest Sony e-book reader

Sony Reader Daily Edition

The cost of digital alternatives has been a factor in their adoption. E-books
read using a home computer are cost effective since few people in developed
countries do not already own a PC capable of running the required software.
However, the initial cost of purchasing a dedicated e-book reader, particularly
for fiction, is still prohibitive. There are also lingering issues of
portability, readability and battery life, though these are certain to be
addressed over time. For non-fiction materials, particularly encyclopedias and
reference works, however, portability works to the advantage of e-books and
uptake has been faster and more enthusiastic. High school students are content
to use electronic versions of reference works that are, in print form, typically
larger, heavier, and available for shorter loan periods than other types of
materials. And, in addition to 24/7 availability online, electronic reference
books offer the advantages inherent in most digitized material: â€œSpecifically,
electronic documents are usually searchable, modifiable, and â€˜enhanceable.â€™
â€ (Anderson-Inman & Horney, 1997, p. 487). At the post-secondary level, where
students purchase their books, electronic texts are popular with a majority of
students for many of the same reasons (Hawkins, 2002, p. 45). â€œAs with any
remediation, however, the eBook must promise something more than the form it
remediates: it must offer what can be construed as a more immediate, complete,
or authentic experience for the readerâ€ (Bolter, 2001, p. 80). Again, to date,
this is most true for reference works and most notable for encyclopedias.
World Book online student

World Book online Student
Bolter devotes some time to discussion of CD-ROM and DVD encyclopedias, but at
this writing, they have been almost entirely eclipsed by their online versions.
Bolter, published in 2001, could not have foreseen the phenomenal success of
Wikipedia , the wiki-based encyclopedia edited by tens of thousands of Internet
volunteers from around the globe, which started the year his book was printed.
DVD-based encyclopedias were, in retrospect, a stepping-stone from print to
online versions. They introduced search capability, hyperlinks and multimedia:
â€œâ€¦excellent examples of the ways in which hypertext and hypermedia remediate
printâ€ (Bolter, 2001, 88). They are, however, limited by network restrictions
(speed, bandwidth, user limits), and they suffer from the same limitation as
their print counterparts: DVD encyclopedias are usually updated once a year.
What they did allow was time for the technology of the Internet to mature, for
networks and ISPs to become more stable and reliable, and for high-speed
connections to become commonplace in developed nations. The major traditional
commercial encyclopedias including Britannica ( www.britannica.com Nov. 12,
2009) and World Book ( store.worldbook.com Nov. 12, 2009), still offer print and
DVD editions, but they also offer subscription-based online versions that are
continually updated with new hyperlinks, new media, and new articles. Some, such
as Britannica and World Book, also incorporate Web 2.0 interactive elements
including the Britannica blogs and YouTube-like video. Britannica features a
section called Advocacy for Animals. Both encyclopedias incorporate popular Web
2.0 design elements making their sites look more like interactive websites than
search engines. Bolter did accurately foresee that: â€œThese online editions of
the great book add to their claim of immediacy by connecting their user to
cyberspace, which is itself already construed as a vast encyclopediaâ€ (Bolter,
2001, p. 89). Perhaps more interesting still are websites that not only
encourage interactivity with readers, but also depend upon it.

Fanfiction.Net ( www.fanfiction.net Nov. 11, 2009) employs attributes of Web 2.0
popular with teenage readers. Fanfiction, as the name suggests, is a site that
allows users to write chapters and scenes based on their favourite works
(novels, plays, movies and television shows), and publish them to thousands of
readers. Readers can browse these user creations by category and read them
online as long as they have a computer with an Internet connection or access to
one in a school or public library. The fan compositions reflect the interests
and preoccupations of the time, and reach a wide audience through Internet
publication facilitated by categorization, searchability and interactivity
(ratings and reviews). Forums and communities allow readers and writers to
discuss their works, the shows and books on which they are based and a wide
range of related topics. English, literature and creative writing teachers would
do well to co-opt the enthusiasm for this type of interaction with popular
culture to encourage students to write for a much wider audience than that
available in the classroom or the school. Interestingly, while Fanfiction
incorporates many Web 2.0 affordances, it is also still linked strongly to the
metaphor of the codex. Hawkins (2002) sums up the current situation well:
â€œE-books will survive, but not in the consumer marketâ€”at least not until
reading devices become much cheaper and much better in quality â€¦. The e-book
revolution has therefore become more of an evolution.â€ (p.48).

References

Anderson-Inman, L. & Horney, M. (1997). Electronic books for secondary students.
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 40 (6), 486-491.

Bolter, J.D. (2001). Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of
Print . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Hawkins, D. T. (2002). Electronic Books: Reports of their death have been
exaggerated. Online, 26 (4), 42.

=========== Hyperculture

by Philip Salembier

The last two chapters of Bolter (2001) were an excellent choice to close our
readings. As an aside, I would like to say how much I enjoyed the sequencing and
intertextuality of the readings in this course. Most courses I have taken
offered carefully chosen readings around the key ideas and topics, but none
linked them so successfully and recursively as was done here. It was helpful to
my own thinking and enjoyable to read Bolter on Ong, Kress cited in Dobson and
Willinsky, and so on. I could cite such pairings all the way back to the first
readings. Itâ€™s one of those subtle displays of good pedagogy that makes me
wonder if I could do a better job selecting and sequencing the readings in my
classes.
It was inevitable.

It was inevitable.

To return to Bolter, however, the argument that the technology used for writing
changes our relationship to it (p. 189) seems almost self-evident. I know that
my approach to writing changes when the tool is a pen versus a word processor.
And it is largely for this reason that I avoid text messages. I worry how typing
on a tiny keyboard with my thumbs to any great extent would affect my
relationship with writing (which is already sufficiently adversarial). The
discussion of ego and the nature of the mind itself as a writing space was also
interesting. Iâ€™m not sure that I can follow where Bolter leads when he
suggests that if the book was a good means of making known the workings of the
Cartesian mind, hypertext remediates the mind (p. 197). That, it seems to me,
accords too little to the ego and too much to networked communicationsâ€”at
least as they currently exist.

Bolter is certainly correct, however, when he asserts that electronic
technologies are redefining our cultural relationships (p. 203). This is
especially true for my students. Writing in 2001, Bolter preceded Facebook by at
least three years, but he could have been doing Jane Goodall-style field
research in my school (watching students use laptops, netbooks and handheld
devices to wirelessly access Facebook) when he suggests that we are rewriting
â€œour culture into a vast hypertextâ€ (p. 206). My own efforts at navigating
the online reading and writing spaces of the course were, I fear, somewhat
hampered by having lived most of my life in â€œthe late age of print.â€

I didnâ€™t post a lot of comments, although I attempted to chime in on the Vista
discussions. What I realized late in the game was that I should have been more
active in posting comments to the Weblog. The strange thing is that I enjoyed
reading the weblog postsâ€”and especially enjoyed reading the comments people
made about my weblog postings. For some reason, however, that didnâ€™t translate
to reciprocating with comments in that space. Perhaps itâ€™s because Iâ€™m not a
blogger or much of a blog reader outside of my MEd classes. I still prefer more
traditional (read: professional, authoritative) sources for news and opinion.
Though, truth be told, I probably read as much news and opinion online as in
print. It doesnâ€™t hurt that the New York Times makes most of its content
available online for free and that I have EBSCO and Proquest access at work. It
might also be because the other online courses Iâ€™ve taken in the past two
years tended to use the Vista/Blackboard discussion space as the discussion
area, so I think of that as the â€œappropriateâ€ space for that type of
writing. Itâ€™s fascinating to analyze oneâ€™s own reading and writing
behaviours and assumptions in light of what weâ€™ve read and discussed. It also
takes me again to my own practice as a teacher. When I next use wikis, for
example, with my students, I will try to devise a way (survey, discussion tab in
the wiki, etc.) to find out how they believe their previous online reading and
writing experiences influence their interactions and contributions.

References

Bolter, J.D. (2001). Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of
Print . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 10:04 pm
Subject: 1st President selected by the U.S. Supreme Court 2001 ?

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* "People don't need to worry about security. This deal wouldn't go forward if
we were concerned about the security for the United States of America."
â€”George W. Bush, on the deal to hand over U.S. port security to a company
operated by the United Arab Emirates, Washington, D.C., Feb. 23, 2006


* "You took an oath to defend our flag and our freedom, and you kept that oath
underseas and under fire." â€”George W. Bush, addressing war veterans,
Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2006


* "As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself â€” not here at the
hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a
little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid
when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here,
but thanks for your compassion, Colonel." â€”George W. Bush, after visiting with
wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San
Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006


* "I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome." â€”George W.
Bush, defending Vice President Dick Cheney's pre-war assertion that the United
States would be welcomed in Iraq as liberators, NBC Nightly News interview, Dec.
12, 2005


* "Wow! Brazil is big." â€”George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005


* "I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend."
â€”George W. Bush, on visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005


* "We discussed the way forward in Iraq, discussed the importance of a democracy
in the greater Middle East in order to leave behind a peaceful tomorrow."
â€”George W. Bush, Tbilisi, Georgia, May 10, 2005


* "I can only speak to myself." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28,
2005


* "This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply
ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table." --Brussels,
Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005


* "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?" --in a note to to
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a U.N. Security Council meeting,
September 14, 2005


* "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and
over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
--Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005


*
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who
resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina
debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005


* "You work three jobs? â€¦ Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is
fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha,
Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005


* "I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy
taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me." --Washington D.C., April
14, 2005


* "Because he's hiding." â€”George W. Bush, responding to a reporter who asked
why Osama bin Laden had not been caught, aboard Air Force One, Jan. 14, 2005


* "Who could have possibly envisioned an erection â€” an election in Iraq at
this point in history?" â€”George W. Bush, at the white House, Washington, D.C.,
Jan. 10, 2005


* "I have a record in office, as well. And all Americans have seen that record.
September the 4th, 2001, I stood in the ruins of the Twin Towers. It's a day I
will never forget." â€”George W. Bush, Marlton, New Jersey, Oct. 18, 2004


* "The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be
in power if he were the president of the United States, and the world would be a
lot better off." â€”George W. Bush, second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo.,
Oct. 8, 2004


* "I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America,
where it's nice and safe and secure." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept.
23, 2004


* "I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?'" â€”George W.
Bush, Beaverton, Oregon, Aug. 13, 2004


* "Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to
have control over your own life." â€”George W. Bush, Annandale, Va, Aug. 9, 2004


* "We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be the Struggle Against
Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe in Free Societies Who Happen to Use
Terror as a Weapon to Try to Shake the Conscience of the Free World." â€”George
W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004


* "I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war
president? I don't." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004


* "I want to thank my friend, Senator Bill Frist, for joining us today. You're
doing a heck of a job. You cut your teeth here, right? That's where you started
practicing? That's good. He married a Texas girl, I want you to know. Karyn is
with us. A West Texas girl, just like me." â€”George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn.,
May 27, 2004


* "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut
off by Saddam Hussein." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004


* "Iraqis are sick of foreign people coming in their country and trying to
destabilize their country." â€”George W. Bush, interview with Al Arabiya
Television, May 5, 2004


* "They could still be hidden, like the 50 tons of mustard gas on a turkey
farm." â€”George W. Bush, on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Washington, D.C.
, April 13, 2004


* "God loves you, and I love you. And you can count on both of us as a powerful
message that people who wonder about their future can hear." â€”George W. Bush,
Los Angeles, Calif., March 3, 2004


* "Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter."
â€”George W. Bush, advising quail hunter and New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici,
Roswell, N.M., Jan. 22, 2004


* "This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By
the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had
collapsed." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 2003


* "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other.
Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." â€”George W. Bush,
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003


* "I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I
rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the
news themselves." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003


* "Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace."
â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 25, 2003


* "My answer is bring them on."â€”On Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces,
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003


* "I'm the master of low expectations." â€”George W. Bush, aboard Air Force One,
June 4, 2003


* "First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers.
Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill."
â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003


* "We ended the rule of one of history's worst tyrants, and in so doing, we not
only freed the American people, we made our own people more secure." â€”George
W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, May 3, 2003


* "I don't bring God into my life to â€” to, you know, kind of be a political
person." â€”George W. Bush, interview with Tom Brokaw aboard Air Force One,
April 24, 2003


* "When Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war
criminal." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2003


* "Haven't we already given money to rich people? Why are we going to do it
again?" â€”George W. Bush, to economic advisers discussing a second round of tax
cuts, as quoted by Paul O'Neil, Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 2002


* "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." â€”George W. Bush,
Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002


* "See, we love â€” we love freedom. That's what they didn't understand. They
hate things; we love things. They act out of hatred; we don't seek revenge, we
seek justice out of love." â€”George W. Bush, Oklahoma City, Aug. 29, 2002


* "Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too."
â€”George W. Bush, apparently confusing his Health and Human Services secretary
with Sen. Fred Thompson, Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002


* "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
â€”George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British
Prime Minister Tony Blair


* "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking
about peace." â€”George W. Bush, June 18, 2002


* "Do you have blacks, too?" â€”George W. Bush, to Brazilian President Fernando
Cardoso, Nov. 8, 2001, as reported in an April 28, 2002, Estado Sao Pauloan
column by Fernando Pedreira, a close friend of President Cardoso


* "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." â€”George W. Bush, as
quoted by the New York Daily NewsApril 23, 2002


* "Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'"
â€”George W. Bush, in a speech about childhood education, Washington, D.C.,
April 2, 2002


* "I understand that the unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout the
region." â€”George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002


* "I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my
hanging." â€”George W. Bush, at the dedication of his portrait, Austin, Texas,
Jan. 4, 2002


* "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of
Hanukkah." â€”George W. Bush, at a White House Menorah lighting ceremony,
Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001


* "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty
tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." â€”George W. Bush,
Washington, D.C. Sept. 19, 2001


* "Brie and cheese." â€”George W. Bush, to reporters, on what he imagines
reporters eat, Crawford, Texas, Aug. 23, 2001


* "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about
it." â€”George W. Bush, July 27, 2001


* "You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as
they say in diplomatic nuanced circles." â€”Goerge W. Bush, referring to his
meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, July 23, 2001


* "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and
trustworthyâ€¦.I was able to get a sense of his soul." â€”George W. Bush, after
meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, June 16, 2001


* "It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
â€”George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran
Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.


* "So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve
something greater than themselves, congratulations." â€”George W. Bush, in
remarks to the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, the 2001 national
champions, May 31, 2001


* "Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." â€”George W. Bush,
declining to take reporters' questions during a photo op with Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien, April 21, 2001


* "The person who runs FEMA is someone who must have the trust of the president.
Because the person who runs FEMA is the first voice, often times, of someone
whose life has been turned upside down hears from." â€”George W. Bush, Austin,
Texas, Jan. 4, 2001


* "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's
trustworthiness." â€”George W. Bush, in a CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000


* "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." â€”George W. Bush,
Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000


* "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic
pictures." â€”George W. Bush, Jan. 3, 2000


* President George W. Bush walked into Nalle Elementary School in Southeast
Washington to talk about the importance of reading. "One reason I like to
highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good
student," Bush said. "This is also Black History Month," the President added.
"And what's important about Black History Month is to read about different
heroes who have made a difference in making history, and to realize there are
fantastic role models. So this is a combination of history, plus reading. So
thanks for letting me come by."


* "I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for
predecessors as well." Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001


* "You know I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've
never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But
that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public
office." George W. Bush, 1989


* "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they
were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we
are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." George W. Bush,
Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000


* "Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to
enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."
George W. Bush--Interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001


* "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating
plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants."
George W. Bush, Interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001


* "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until
we get an objective analysis." George W. Bush, CNBC, April 15, 2000


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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 10:11 pm
Subject: Is The War On Terror A Hoax?

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ article29273.htm

By Paul Craig Roberts



September 30, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- In the past decade,
Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions
of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the "war on terror."
Washington's attacks on the countries constitute naked aggression and impact
primarily civilian populations and infrastructure and, thereby, constitute war
crimes under law. Nazis were executed precisely for what Washington is doing
today.

Moreover the wars and military attacks have cost American taxpayers in
out-of-pocket and already-incurred future costs at least $4,000 billion
dollars--one third of the accumulated public debt--resulting in a US deficit
crisis that threatens the social safety net, the value of the US dollar and its
reserve currency role, while enriching beyond all previous history the
military/security complex and its apologists.

Perhaps the highest cost of Washington's "war on terror" has been paid by the US
Constitution and civil liberties. Any US citizen that Washington accuses is
deprived of all legal and constitutional rights. The Bush-Cheney-Obama regimes
have overturned humanity's greatest achievement--the accountability of
government to law.


If we look around for the terror that the police state and a decade of war has
allegedly protected us from, the terror is hard to find. Except for 9/11 itself,
assuming we accept the government's improbable conspiracy theory explanation,
there have been no terror attacks on the US. Indeed, as RT pointed out on August
23, 2011, an investigative program at the University of California discovered
that the domestic "terror plots" hyped in the media were plotted by FBI agents.


FBI undercover agents now number 15,000, ten times their number during the
protests against the Vietnam war when protesters were suspected of communist
sympathies. As there apparently are no real terror plots for this huge workforce
to uncover, the FBI justifies its budget, terror alerts, and invasive searches
of American citizens by thinking up "terror plots" and finding some deranged
individuals to ensnare. For example, the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the
New York city subway plot, the plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago were
all FBI brainchilds organized and managed by FBI agents.


RT reports that only three plots might have been independent of the FBI, but as
none of the three worked they obviously were not the work of such a professional
terror organization as Al Qaeda is purported to be. The Times Square car bomb
didn't blow up, and apparently could not have.


The latest FBI sting ensnared a Boston man, Rezwan Ferdaus, who is accused of
planning to attack the Pentagon and US Capitol with model airplanes packed with
C-4 explosives. US Attorney Carmen Ortiz assured Americans that they were never
in danger, because the FBI's undercover agents were in control of the plot.

Ferdaus' FBI-organized plot to blow up the Pentagon and US Capitol with model
airplanes has produced charges that he provided "material support to a terrorist
organization" and plotted to destroy federal buildings--the most serious charge
which carries 20 imprisoned years for each targeted building.


What is the terrorist organization that Ferdaus is serving? Surely not al Qaeda,
which allegedly outwitted all 16 US intelligence services, all intelligence
services of America's NATO and Israeli allies, NORAD, the National Security
Council, Air Traffic Control, Dick Cheney, and US airport security four times in
one hour on the same morning. Such a highly capable terror organization would
not be involved in such nonsense as a plot to blow up the Pentagon with a model
airplane.


As an American who was in public service for a number of years and who has
always stood up for the Constitution, a patriot's duty, I must hope that the
question has already popped into readers' minds why we are expected to believe
that a tiny model airplane is capable of blowing up the Pentagon when it was
incapable of doing the job, merely making a hole not big enough for an airliner.


When I observe the gullibility of my fellow citizens at the absurd "terror
plots" that the US government manufactures, it causes me to realize that fear is
the most powerful weapon any government has for advancing an undeclared agenda.
If Ferdaus is brought to trial, no doubt a jury will convict him of a plot to
blow up the Pentagon and US Capitol with model airplanes. Most likely he will be
tortured or coerced into a plea bargain.


Apparently, Americans, or most of them, are so ruled by fear that they suffer no
remorse from "their" government's murder and dislocation of millions of innocent
people. In the American mind, one billion "towel-heads" have been reduced to
terrorists who deserve to be exterminated. The US is on its way to from National
Socialism into a mere precursor.


Think about this: Are not you amazed that after a decade (2.5 times the length
of WW II) of killing Muslims and destroying families and their prospects in six
countries there are no real terrorist events in the US?



Think for a minute how easy terrorism would be in the US if there were any
terrorists. Would an Al Qaeda terrorist from the organization that allegedly
pulled off 9/11--the most humiliating defeat ever suffered by a Western power,
much less "the world's only superpower"--still in the face of all the screening
be trying to hijack an airliner or to blow one up?

Surely not when there are so many totally soft targets. If America were really
infected with a "terrorist threat," a terrorist would merely get in the massive
lines awaiting to clear airport "security" and set off his bomb. It would kill
far more people than could be achieved by blowing up an airliner, and it would
make it completely clear that "airport security" meant no one was safe.


It would be child's play for terrorists to blow up electric sub-stations as no
one is there, nothing but a chain link fence. It would be easy for terrorists to
blow up shopping centers. It would be easy for terrorists to dump boxes of
roofing nails on congested streets and freeways during rush hours, tying up main
transportation arteries for days.

Before, dear reader, you accuse me of giving terrorists ideas, do you really
think that these ideas would not already have occurred to terrorists capable of
pulling off 9/11?

But nothing happens . So the FBI arrests a guy for planning to blow up America
with a model airplane. It is really depressing how many Americans will believe
this.


Consider also that American neoconservatives, who have orchestrated the "war on
terror," have no protection whatsoever and that the Secret Service protection of
Bush and Cheney is minimal. If America really faced a terrorist threat,
especially one so professional to have brought off 9/11, every neoconservative
along with Bush and Cheney could be assassinated within one hour on one morning
or one evening.


The fact that neoconservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi
Rice, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, John Bolton, William Kristol, Libby,
Addington, et. al., live unprotected and free of fear is proof that America
faces no terrorist threat.


Think now about the airliner shoe-bomb plot, the shampoo-bottled water plot, and
the underwear-bomb plot. Experts, other than the whores hired by the US
government, say that these plots are nonsensical. The "shoe bomb" and "underwear
bomb" were colored fireworks powders incapable of blowing up a tin can. The
liquid bomb, allegedly mixed up in an airliner toilet room, has been dismissed
by experts as fantasy.


What is the purpose of these fake plots? And remember, all reports confirm that
the "underwear bomber" was walked onto the airliner by an official, despite the
fact that the "underwear bomber" had no passport. No investigation was ever
conducted by the FBI, CIA, or anyone into why a passenger without a passport was
allowed on an international flight.


The purpose of these make-believe plots is to raise the fear level and to create
the opportunity for former Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff to make a
fortune selling porno-scanners to the TSA.


The result of these hyped "terrorist plots" is that every American citizen, even
those with high government positions and security clearances, cannot board a
commercial airline flight without taking off his shoes, his jacket, his belt,
submitting to a porno-scanner, or being sexually groped. Nothing could make it
plainer that "airport security" cannot tell a terrorist from a gung-ho American
patriot, a US Senator, a US Marine general, or a CIA operative.

If a passenger requires for health or other reasons quantities of liquids and
cremes beyond the limits imposed on toothpaste, shampoo, food, or medications,
the passenger must obtain prior approval from TSA, which seldom works. One of
America's finest moments is the case, documented on UTube, of a dying woman in a
wheelchair, who requires special food, having her food thrown away by the TSA
despite the written approval from the Transportation Safety Administration, her
daughter arrested for protesting, and the dying woman in the wheelchair left
alone in the airport.


This is Amerika today. These assaults on innocent citizens are justified by the
mindless right-wing as "protecting us against terrorism," a "threat" that all
evidence shows is nonexistent.


No American is secure today. I am a former staff associate of the House Defense
Appropriations subcommittee. I required high security clearances as I had access
to information pertaining to all US weapons programs. As chief economist of the
House Budget Committee I had information pertaining to the US military and
security budgets. As Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, I was provided
every morning with the CIA's briefing of the President as well as with endless
security information.


When I left the Treasury, President Reagan appointed me to a super-secret
committee to investigate the CIA's assessment of Soviet capability. Afterwords I
was a consult to the Pentagon. I had every kind of security clearance.


Despite my record of highest security clearances and US government confidence in
me including confirmation by the US Senate in a presidential appointment, the
airline police cannot tell me from a terrorist.

If I were into model airplanes or attending anti-war demonstrations, little
doubt I, too, would be arrested.

After my public service in the last quarter of the 20th century, I experienced
during the first decade of the 21st century all of America's achievements,
despite their blemishes, being erased. In their place was erected a monstrous
desire for hegemony and highly concentrated wealth. Most of my friends and my
fellow citizens in general are incapable of recognizing America's transformation
into a warmonger police state that has the worst income distribution of any
developed country.


It is extraordinary that so many Americans, citizens of the world's only
superpower, actually believe that they are threatened by Muslim peoples who have
no unity, no navy, no air force, no nuclear weapons, no missiles capable of
reaching across the oceans.


Indeed, large percentages of these "threat populations," especially among the
young, are enamored of the sexual freedom that exists in America. Even the
Iranian dupes of the CIA-orchestrated "Green Revolution" have forgotten
Washington's overthrow of their elected government in the 1950s. Despite
America's decade-long abusive military actions against Muslim peoples, many
Muslims still look to America for their salvation.

Their "leaders" are simply bought off with large sums of money.


With the "terrorist threat" and Al Qaeda deflated with President Obama's alleged
assassination of its leader, Osama bin Laden, who was left unprotected and
unarmed by his "world-wide terrorist organization," Washington has come up with
a new bogyman--the Haqqanis.


A ccording to John Glaser and anonymous CIA officials, US Joint Chiefs of Staff
chairman Mike Mullen "exaggerated" the case against the Haqqani insurgent group
when he claimed, setting up a US invasion of Pakistan, that the Hagganis were an
operating arm of the Pakistan government's secret service, the ISI. Adm. Mullen
is now running from his "exaggeration," an euphemism for a lie. His aid Captain
John Kirby said that Mullen's "accusations were designed to influence the
Pakistanis to crack down on the Haqqani Network." In other words, the Pakistanis
should kill more of their own people to save the Americans the trouble.


If you don't know what the Haqqani Network is, don't be surprised. You never
heard of Al Qaeda prior to 9/11. The US government creates whatever new bogymen
and incidents are necessary to further the neoconservative agenda of world
hegemony and higher profits for the armaments industry.


For ten years, the "superpower" American population has sat there, being
terrified by the government's lies. While Americans sit in fear of non-existent
"terrorists" sucking their thumbs, millions of people in six countries have had
their lives destroyed. As far as any evidence exists, the vast majority of
Americans are unperturbed by the wanton murder of others in countries that they
are incapable of locating on maps.

Truly, Amerika is a light unto the world, an example for all.
--------------------

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was appointed by President Reagan Assistant Secretary of
the U.S. Treasury and confirmed by the US Senate. He was Associate Editor and
columnist with the Wall Street Journal, and he served on the personal staffs of
Representative Jack Kemp and Senator Orrin Hatch. He was staff associate of the
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, staff associate of the Joint Economic
Committee of Congress, and Chief Economist, Republican Staff, House Budget
Committee. He wrote the Kemp-Roth tax rate reduction bill, and was a leader in
the supply-side revolution. He was professor of economics in six universities,
and is the author of numerous books and scholarly contributions. He has
testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.




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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 10:31 pm
Subject: Occupy Wall Street Live Feed

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OCCUPY WALL STREET

Occupy Wall Street Live Feed
http://www.livestre am.com/globalrev olution/

Monday, October 3 at 5:00pm, City Hall - New York City: Emergency Protest To End
Police Arrests on Occupy Wall St.
https://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=27034199 2989349

Wednesday, October 5 at 4:00pm - 7:00pm: NYU Student Walk Out in Solidarity with
Occupy Wall Street
We will meet in the middle of Washington Square Park and march together to City
Hall, where we'll join the Community/Labor March in Solidarity with Occupy Wall
Street, endorsed by dozens of NYC unions and community groups including the
United Federation of Teachers, SEIU 32BJ and SEIU 1199, the Transit Workers
Union Local 100, Make the Road New York, New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts, the
Alliance for Quality Education, and more!
https://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=16856183 6560896

Wednesday, October 5 at 4:30pm: COMMUNITY/LABOR MARCH TO WALL ST.
Union workers and community members impacted by the economic crisis have been
demanding that Wall Street and the wealthiest New Yorker's pay their fair share
of taxes. Let's march down to Wall Street to welcome the protesters and show the
faces of New Yorkers hardest hit by corporate greed.
https://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=28247305 1782707

Busted on Brooklyn Bridge
[From The Occupied Wall Street Journal] What is occurring on Wall Street right
now is remarkable. For over two weeks, in the great cathedral of capitalism, the
dispossessed have liberated territory from the financial overlords and their
police army. They have created a unique opportunity to peacefully shift the
tides of history like the sit-down strikes of the 1930s, the civil rights
movement of the 1960s and the democratic uprisings across the Arab world and
Europe today.
http://images. salon.com/ news/wall_ street/index. html?story= /politics/
war_room/ 2011/10/01/ occupy_wall_ st_saturday

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City | NYC General Assembly
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human
race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our
rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to
protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic
government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek
consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true
democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
http://www.nycga. cc/2011/09/ 30/declaration- of-the-occupatio n-of-new-
york-city/

For Police, Another Protest Brings Another Overreaction
The encampment in Zuccotti Park is likely to remain indefinitely. At this point,
any attempt on the part of the police to close things down could only result in
the resurrection of Emma Goldman. Brookfield Properties, the developer that owns
the land and offers it for public use, is presumably sending few notes of
gratitude to the police. In a statement, a spokesman said the company was
"extremely concerned with the conditions that have been created by those
currently occupying the park," and was "actively working with the City of New
York to address these conditions and restore the park to its intended purpose."
Good luck with that.
http://www.nytimes. com/2011/ 10/02/nyregion/ for-police- another-protest-
brings-another- overreaction. html?_r=3& ref=giniabellafa nte

Occupy Wall Street: Police Arrest 700 on Brooklyn Bridge [PHOTOS]
Nearly 700 Occupy Wall Street protestors were arrested during a march on
Saturday in New York City.
http://www.ibtimes. com/articles/ 223365/20111002/ occupy-wall- street-photos-
video.htm

National Nurses United Statement in Support of the OccupyWallStreet. org actions
in New York | Nation
September 30, 2011National Nurses United (NNU), the nation's largest registered
nurses union and professional association, representing 170,000 direct care RNs,
stands in support of, and in solidarity with, the ongoing OcuppyWallStreet. org
street protests and rallies.
http://www.national nursesunited. org/press/ entry/national- nurses-united-
statement- in-support- of-the-occupywal lstreet.org- act/

LENIN'S TOMB: First we take Manhattan
To put it in what will sound like uncharitable terms, it is baby-steps, the
experimental form of a movement in its infancy, not yet sufficiently developed
theoretically or politically to be anything else. There is a sort of loose
autonomism informing its tactics, while its focus on participatory democracy is
redolent of the SDS wing and the Sixties 'New Left', but it is not yet definite
enough to be reducible to any dominant strategy or perspective. It is, however,
potentially the nucleus of a mass movement, and how it relates to the problems
addressed by both reformists and revolutionaries now will make all the
difference in the future.
http://leninology. blogspot. com/2011/ 10/first- we-take-manhatta n.html

OCCUPY EVERYWHERE
Occupy Together
Yes, over 100 cities in the United States have joined the Occupy Movement. Check
out this page to plug into your area. Please be true to the name and take over
space and Occupy! Even for a few hours.
https://www. facebook. com/OccupyTogeth er

Needs of the Occupiers list | Occupy Los Angeles
To our wonderful supporters who would like to donate supplies, You can drop them
off at City Hall Spring Street steps today 10/2, or you can send it to our new
mailbox! :) For a working list of needs of the occupiers, please click on our
forum link: http://occupylosang eles.org/ ?q=node%2F203 Our mailbox address: ~
The UPS Store, ATTN: OccupyLA, 645 W. 9th Street, Unit 110-953, Los Angeles, CA
90015. Thank you everyone for the overwhelming support!
http://www.occupylo sangeles. org/?q=node% 2F203

Thousands March in Boston, 24 Arrested
The group calling itself "Occupy Wall Street" said on its website that it staked
its ground in downtown Manhattan "as a symbolic gesture of our discontent with
the current economic and political climate." "We are all races, sexes and
creeds. We are the majority. We are the 99 percent. And we will no longer be
silent," it said, expressing "solidarity" with protesters in Boston.
http://www.readersu pportednews. org/news- section2/ 320-80/7669- thousands-
march-in- boston-24- arrested

CTV Toronto- Wall Street occupation inspires Canadian protesters - CTV News
CTV Toronto - Inspired by protesters along Wall Street and in other U.S. cities,
hundreds are expected to occupy Toronto's Bay Street in two weeks to air their
various grievances against the financial system and its wealthiest companies.
http://toronto. ctv.ca/servlet/ an/local/ CTVNews/20110930 /wall-street-
occupation- inspires- canadian- protesters- 111002/20111002/ ?hub=TorontoNewH
ome

Thousands Attend Funeral Of Executed Convict Troy Davis
Thousands of people packed a church in Georgia Saturday for the funeral of Troy
Davis, who was executed for the murder of a police officer in a case that drew
world attention because of claims by his advocates that he was innocent.
http://www.ktla. com/news/ landing/ktla- troy-davis- funeral,0, 2952889.story

Protesters mass in Manchester as Conservative conference begins
Around 30,000 people join march against government cuts, as Tory minister Lady
Warsi defends deficit reduction strategy.
http://www.guardian .co.uk/politics/ 2011/oct/ 02/protesters- manchester-
conservative- conference? CMP=twt_fd

1948 Occupied Palestine: Thousands of Israeli Arabs march to commemorate October
2000 riots
Demonstrators in several towns across Israel wave flags, chant anti-Israel
slogans and hold up photos of the 13 Israeli Arab protesters killed in clashes
with police at start of Second Intifada.
http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ thousands- of-israeli- arabs-march-
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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 10:36 pm
Subject: Direct Deposit for SS check !! HR 4646

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ON JANUARY 1 ST 2012, THE GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRING EVERYONE TO HAVE DIRECT
DEPOSIT FOR SS CHECKS. WONDER WHY?









1% tax on all bank transactions HR4646


Watch for this AFTER November elections


1% tax on all bank transactions HR 4646


This government just cannot think of enough ways to hurt the American people! I
sure hope this dies!!!!!


FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!


1% tax on all bank transactions HR 4646. Checked this on snopes, it's true !
Check out HR 4646.


President Obama's finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction
fee (TAX): to sneak it in after the November elections to keep it under the
radar.


This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution - banks,
credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a transfer
within your account, will have a 1% tax charged. ~If your paycheck or your
social security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for
the transaction. ~If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay $10 just for the
privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand carry your
paycheck or any check into your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be charged. ~You
receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, $50 just to allow you to
deposit that check in the bank.. ~If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your
bank, 1% tax will be charged.


Mind you, this is if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one
penny of new tax. Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you
learn about the under-the-table moves to increase the number of ways you are
taxed.


Oh, and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you have
it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you guessed it. You
will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank. Remember,
any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from, you will pay a
1% fee if you put it in the bank.
Some will say, oh well, it's just 1%. Are you kidding me? It's a 1% tax increase
across the board. Remember, once the tax is there, they can also raise it at
will. And if anyone protests, they will just say, "Oh,that's not really a tax,
it's a user fee"! Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the
transactions you made on one year's banking statements. Then add the total of
all those transactions and deduct 1%. Still think it's no big deal?




" A government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to
take away everything you have." - Barry Goldwater



1. snopes.com: Debt Free America Act â€¢â€¢â€¢
Is the U.S. government proposing a 1% tax on debit card usage and/or banking
transactions?
...It is true. The bill is HR - 4646 introduced by US Rep Peter deFazio D-Oregon
and US Senator Tom Harkin D-Iowa. Their plan is to sneak it in after the...
...moved beyond proposing studies and submitted the Debt Free America Act (H.R.
4646 ), a bill calling for the implementation of a scheme to pay down the...
...[2010] by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.). His "Debt Free America Act" (H.R. 4646 )
would impose a 1 percent "transaction tax" on every financial transaction...
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:26:40 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp




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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2011 11:47 pm
Subject: Apologizing ! / Your Destiny !

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Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 12:07 am
Subject: Positive Outlooks !

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Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:37 am
Subject: Alphabet Comparison from A to Z !!

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HERE'S AN INTERESTING COMPARISON OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET OF YEARS GONE BY AND
TODAY ... IS THIS PROGRESS ??? YOU BE THE JUDGE ...












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At least A is still Apple!!!


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Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:54 am
Subject: Why the media doesn't cover "Occupy Wall Stret" !

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A lot of the mainstream media is refusing to give serious coverage to the Wall
Street protests. Second City has figured out why... (This video is brilliant.)


http://www.americablog.com/2011/10/vdeo-why-media-wont-cover.html?utm_source=fee\
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Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:57 am
Subject: Krugman on the Senateâ€™s threatened sanctions against China for currency manipulation

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It looks like the Senate will take up legislation this week threatening
sanctions against China for currency manipulation. Here's Business Insider using
the scare word "tariff" in their wrap-around of the AP story (my emphasis):


TARIFFS: Washington's Response To Chinese Currency Manipulation

After years of trying, Congress is taking another stab at retaliating against
what many see as Chinese manipulation of its currency to make its exports to the
United States cheaper and U.S. exports more expensive.

The Senate is expected to take up legislation Monday to impose higher U.S.
duties on Chinese products to offset the perceived advantage that critics say
China gets by undervaluing its currency. It's a political given here that
China's economic policy has damaged American manufacturers and taken away
American jobs. ... Moreover, the Obama administration, like the Bush
administration before it, doesn't like the bill, saying quiet diplomacy is a
better way to influence Chinese policy and warning that overt sanctions could
lead to a destructive trade war .

Note the constant pussy-footing in the AP story itself â€” "a political given"?
It's an economic given â€” and also the super-scary phrase "trade war," which
the Obama administration is quoted as throwing around.

How much of this editorial undercutting has to do with Chinese money and its
influence on U.S. politics, both directly and through corporate intermediaries
like WalMart? No way to know .

Deeper into the article, we learn the details of the legislation, as well as the
extent of the problem:

<blockquote>
[New York Democratic Senator Chuck] Schumer and others say that's a major reason
that some 2 million U.S. jobs have been lost to Chinese competitors in the last
decade and that the U.S. trade deficit with China last year hit a record $273
billion, some 43 percent of the entire U.S. trade gap. ... If the measure does
make it through the Senate, it faces an uncertain future in the House .
</blockquote>
Note that this is Schumer supporting the legislation.

So in his Monday column , Paul Krugman sets things straight. He thinks the
Senate should proceed with the sanctions in order to reduce trade deficits and
restore economic health :

<blockquote>
To get our trade deficit down, however, we need to make American products more
competitive, which in practice means that we need the dollarâ€™s value to fall
in terms of other currencies. Yes, some people will shriek about â€œdebasingâ€
the dollar. But sensible policy makers have long known that sometimes a weaker
currency means a stronger economy, and have acted on that knowledge.
Switzerland, for example, has intervened massively to keep the franc from
getting too strong against the euro. Israel has intervened even more forcefully
to weaken the shekel.

The United States, given its special global role, canâ€™t and shouldnâ€™t be
equally aggressive. But given our economyâ€™s desperate need for more jobs, a
weaker dollar is very much in our national interest â€” and we can and should
take action against countries that are keeping their currencies undervalued, and
thereby standing in the way of a much-needed decline in our trade deficit.
</blockquote>
That's been Krugman's argument against the euro all along â€” if they had their
own currencies, countries like Greece and Spain could deflate their drachmas and
pesetas and recover through an export boom. Just what he's recommending the U.S.
needs to do.

The rest of the column lists the objections and his counter-arguments. A good
read.

Back to Schumer and the House for a second. Think this has a prayer?

Consider: (1) China, if it has any brains at all , has huge "investments" in the
U.S. political scene. (2) The House is bought and sold by the WalMarts and Kochs
of the world. (3) If Schumer is thinking this bill is DAO in the House (or even
the Senate), he's bringing it up to trade for something. That "something" could
be other Senate legislation, or some PR cred as U.S. jobs tank. Or something
else. Any guesses?

Yet Krugman is ever hopeful, and making the case. And yes, the Senate should
pull the trigger and do it. I guess we'll find out shortly.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/opinion/holding-china-to-account.html?_r=1





The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of
many players. Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldnâ€™t stop
us from holding individual bad actors to account.


Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times


Paul Krugman



And thatâ€™s what Senate leaders will be doing this week, as they take up
legislation that would threaten sanctions against China and other currency
manipulators.

Respectable opinion is aghast. But respectable opinion has been consistently
wrong lately, and the currency issue is no exception.

Ask yourself: Why is it so hard to restore full employment? Itâ€™s true that the
housing bubble has popped, and consumers are saving more than they did a few
years ago. But once upon a time America was able to achieve full employment
without a housing bubble and with savings rates even higher than we have now.
What changed?

The answer is that we used to run much smaller trade deficits. A return to
economic health would look much more achievable if we werenâ€™t spending $500
billion more each year on imported goods and services than foreigners spent on
our exports.

To get our trade deficit down, however, we need to make American products more
competitive, which in practice means that we need the dollarâ€™s value to fall
in terms of other currencies. Yes, some people will shriek about â€œdebasingâ€
the dollar. But sensible policy makers have long known that sometimes a weaker
currency means a stronger economy, and have acted on that knowledge.
Switzerland, for example, has intervened massively to keep the franc from
getting too strong against the euro. Israel has intervened even more forcefully
to weaken the shekel.

The United States, given its special global role, canâ€™t and shouldnâ€™t be
equally aggressive. But given our economyâ€™s desperate need for more jobs, a
weaker dollar is very much in our national interest â€” and we can and should
take action against countries that are keeping their currencies undervalued, and
thereby standing in the way of a much-needed decline in our trade deficit.

That, above all, means China. And none of the arguments against holding China
accountable can stand serious scrutiny.

Some observers question whether we really know that Chinaâ€™s currency is
undervalued. But theyâ€™re kidding, right? The flip side of the manipulation
that keeps Chinaâ€™s currency undervalued is the accumulation of dollar reserves
â€” and those reserves now amount to a cool $3.2 trillion.

Others warn of bad consequences if the Chinese stop buying United States bonds.
But our problem right now is precisely that too many people want to park their
money in American debt instead of buying goods and services â€” which is why the
interest rate on long-term U.S. bonds is only 2 percent.

Yet another objection is the claim that Chinese products donâ€™t really compete
with U.S.-produced goods. The rebuttal is fairly technical; let me just say that
those making this argument both overstate the case and fail to take the indirect
effects of Chinese currency policy into account.

In the last few days a new objection to action on the China issue has surfaced:
right-wing pressure groups, notably the influential Club for Growth, oppose
tariffs on Chinese goods because, you guessed it, theyâ€™re a form of taxation
â€” and we must never, ever raise taxes under any circumstances. All I can say
is that Democrats should welcome this demonstration that antitax fanaticism has
reached the point where it trumps standing up for our national interests.

To be fair, there are some arguments against action on China that would carry
some weight if the times were different. One is the undoubted fact that
inflation in China, which is raising labor costs in particular, is gradually
eliminating that nationâ€™s currency undervaluation. The operative word,
however, is â€œgraduallyâ€: something that brings the United States trade
deficit down over four or five years isnâ€™t good enough when unemployment is at
disastrous levels right now.

And the reality of the unemployment disaster is also my answer to those who warn
that getting tough with China might unleash a trade war or damage world
commercial diplomacy. Those are real risks, although I think theyâ€™re
exaggerated. But they need to be set against the fact â€” not the mere
possibility â€” that high unemployment is inflicting tremendous cumulative
damage as we speak.

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said it clearly last week:
unemployment is a â€œnational crisis,â€ with so many workers now among the
long-term unemployed that the economy is at risk of suffering long-run as well
as short-run damage.

And we canâ€™t afford to neglect any important means of alleviating that
national crisis. Holding China accountable wonâ€™t solve our economic problems
on its own, but it can contribute to a solution â€” and itâ€™s an action
thatâ€™s long overdue.

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Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 12:14 pm
Subject: How many phone calls does it take to jam the circuits of the Congressional switchboard?

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Dear Friends:





Let's Jam the Phone Lines!How many phone calls does it take to jam the circuits
of the Congressional switchboard?



I don't know the exact answer to that. One thing I am sure about, though, is
that if even a small fraction of the people who are angry about job-killing,
NAFTA-style trade deals take part in today's National Call-In Day to Stop the
Korea, Panama and Colombia Free Trade Agreements we will easily jam the phone
lines â€” sending our message of opposition to these proposed trade agreements
louder and clearer than ever before.


Let's Jam the Phone Lines!








Yesterday, the White House formally introduced the Korea, Panama and Colombia
pacts for votes under "Fast Track" â€” meaning that our time to stop these awful
deals is running short. These business-as-usual trade proposals favor Wall
Street executives, tax evaders and job offshorers over the needs of ordinary
working people, consumers, family farmers and the environment. It's up to us to
fight back!





Huge numbers of people throughout the country will be participating in today's
call-in day, initiated by the AFL-CIO. Together, we can make public opposition
to business-as-usual trade deals the number one topic of discussion in
each-and-every Congressional office. But only if you call in!







Making your voice heard during today's National Call-In Day is fast and simple:







1.) Call 1-800-718-1008. When prompted, dial in your zip code and you'll be
connected to the office of your U.S. Representative.



2.) Once connected, say something like: "I want my Congressperson to oppose the
Korea, Panama and Colombia Free Trade Agreements. Where do they stand on this
issue?"



3.) Once you get off the line, please report back what you hear using this
online form .







It's that easy! If you find that the lines are already jammed when you call,
just call again â€” and keep calling until you get through. (You can also
contact your elected officials any time using CTC's online action tool.)


http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6604





Only by calling our elected officials and letting them know we're watching can
we stop these heinous proposals:


     â€¢ The Korea Free Trade Agreement would become the biggest trade pact of
its type since NAFTA. It would displace a net 159,000 good-paying U.S. jobs in
manufacturing, high-tech and green-tech.



     â€¢ The Colombia Free Trade Agreement would reward human rights violators in
the deadliest place in the world to be a trade unionist. In 2010, at least 51
trade unionists were assassinated in Colombia â€” more than in the rest of the
world combined. So far in 2011, another 22 have also been killed, despite
Colombia's so-called "Labor Action Plan." Would Congress reward a country were
51 CEOs were gunned down in one year?



     â€¢ The Panama Free Trade Agreement would make it harder to crack down on
money launderers and tax dodgers in a notorious offshore tax haven.




Enough is enough! Please call your U.S. Representative right now at
1-800-718-1008 and urge them to vote NO on the Korea, Panama and Colombia Free
Trade Agreements. We can still stop these deals, but only with your help.






Many thanks,





Arthur Stamoulis


CITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN






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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 12:21 pm
Subject: Nuclear reactor shut down in Japan: cause unknown

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Breaking: Nuclear reactor shut down in Japan, cause unknown 04 Oct 2011 A
nuclear power reactor was shut down automatically in western Japan on Tuesday,
but the cause of the suspension was not immediately known, its operator said.
Operations at the number four reactor of Genkai Nuclear Power Plant in Saga were
automatically suspended at around 1:40 pm (0440 GMT), said Kyushu Electric
Power, which runs the plant. "The cause of the automatic suspension is now under
investigation," the spokesman said.




Anonymous Threatens to 'Erase NYSE from the Internet' 03 Oct 2011 Anonymous
declared "war" on the New York Stock Exchange this weekend and vowed to "erase"
the NYSE from the Internet on Oct. 10 as the Occupy Wall Street protest entered
its third week in New York City after a weekend that saw hundreds of protesters
arrested during a planned march across the Brooklyn Bridge. "On Oct. 10, NYSE
shall be erased from the Internet. On Oct. 10, expect a day that will never,
ever be forgotten," intoned a computer-generated male voice common to many
Anonymous videos, in a warning posted on TheAnonMessage YouTube channel.






Protests against Wall Street spread across US 04 Oct 2011 Protests against Wall
Street entered their 18th day Tuesday as demonstrators across the country showed
their anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed by
marching on Federal Reserve banks and camping out in parks from Los Angeles to
Portland, Maine... In Chicago, demonstrators pounded drums in the city's
financial district. Others pitched tents or waved protest signs at passing cars
in Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., and Los Angeles.




N.Y.P.D.'s 'White Shirts' Take On Enforcer Role 03 Oct 2011 The New York Police
Department puts an endless list of tasks on the shoulders of its so-called white
shirts â€” the commanders atop an army of lesser-ranking officers in dark blue.
But the portfolio of the white shirt has now unexpectedly grown to include the
role of enforcer. As the Occupy Wall Street protests, which began on Sept. 17,
lurch into their third week, it is often the white Black shirts who lay hands on
protesters or initiate arrests. Video recordings of clashes have shown white
shirts -- lieutenants, captains or inspectors -- leading underlings into the
fray.




TWU blasts city for putting handcuffed Occupy Wall Street protesters on buses 03
Oct 2011 The Transport Workers Union will go to court Monday to try to stop the
city from forcing bus drivers to transport Wall Street protesters arrested by
the NYPD, the Daily News has learned. The union, whose leaders voted last week
to support the protesters, said police brass commandeered three MTA buses to
transport many of the 700 demonstrators arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge on
Saturday. Union President John Samuelsen called ordering bus drivers to drive
prisoners "a blatant act of political retaliation."




Dozens arrested after foreclosure protesters target Bank of America 01 Oct 2011
Police have arrested two dozen protesters for trespassing during a demonstration
against Bank of America's foreclosure practices at the banking giant's offices
in downtown Boston. The Boston Herald reports that the event was an act of civil
disobedience that the organizers intended to send the message that the lender's
practices were unfair. 'They wanted to be arrested, and we obliged,' Boston
police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told the newspaper.




Crisis-weary Icelanders pelt lawmakers with eggs --'As lawmakers, dignitaries
and the country's president walked to the traditional start-of-term Mass at a
cathedral next door, they were hit with yogurt and eggs.' <g> 01 Oct 2011
Icelanders angry about the price debt-burdened citizens are paying for their
country's economic crisis pelted lawmakers with eggs Saturday during a protest
at the opening of the new parliamentary session. One legislator was slightly
injured. More than 1,000 people gathered outside Iceland's parliament, the
Althingi, in central Reykjavik, with some banging pots and pans and hurling food
and fireworks at the building.




Protesters blockade nuclear power station 03 Oct 2011 More than 200 people are
blockading a nuclear power station in protest at plans to build new reactors at
the site. Members of several anti-nuclear groups who are part of the Stop New
Nuclear alliance say they are barring access to Hinkley Point power station in
Somerset in protest against EDF Energy's plans to renew the site with two new
reactors. The new reactors at Hinkley would be the first of eight new nuclear
power stations to be built in the UK.




Plutonium 40km from Fukushima plant 02 Oct 2011 Small amounts of plutonium
believed to have escaped from Japanâ€™s tsunami-crippled nuclear plant have been
detected in soil more than 40km away, say government researchers, a finding that
will fuel already widespread fears about radiation risk . The plutonium was
found at six sites - including one in Iitate around 40km from the plant - all of
which are subject to evacuation orders. However, plutonium's long half-life and
the potential for even small amounts to pose a health hazard if ingested is
likely to make it a focus of popular concern.




Nuclear relic 02 Oct 2011 At Hanford from 1943 until 1989, World War II through
the Cold War, the United States produced the plutonium that gives the nuclear
and thermonuclear arsenal its punch... Left behind was a chemically toxic,
radioactive soup that drained into underground carbon-steel storage tanks and
was, at least in the hurried days of world war, forgotten. Those tanks, 177 in
all, held 56 million gallons of waste. Most, 149, are single-shelled; 28 are
double-shelled. Sixty-seven of the single-shelled tanks have leaked,
contaminating the soil and possibly the groundwater underneath.




Over 200 arrested at Ottawa tar sands protest By Marco Vigliotti 27 Sep 2011
Over 200 protesters objecting to the federal government's enthusiastic support
for Alberta's Tar Sands and the Keystone pipeline XL were arrested Monday
morning as they attempted to stage a sit-in in the House of Commons. The
protesters wanted the chance to air their grievances with the environmentally
reckless policies of the Harper-led Conservatives inside Parliament but were
blocked from entering by fenced barricades and over 50 RCMP officers.




Internet firms co-opted for surveillance: experts 30 Sep 2011 Internet companies
such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance
work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement
agencies, Web experts said this week. Suggestions that BlackBerry maker RIM
might give user data to British police after its messenger service was used to
coordinate riots this summer caused outrage -- as has the spying on social media
users by more other oppressive governments.




Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul -- 'We have just totally
disrespected the Constitution.' [Not really a news event here.] 03 Oct 2011 Ron
Paul said Monday that President Barack Obama's targeted killing of [US citizen]
Anwar al-Awlaki might be an impeachable offense. Asked at a Manchester, N.H.
town hall meeting about last week's killing of the American-born Al Qaeda
leader, the Texas congressman said impeachment would be "possible," but that he
wants to know more about how the administration "flouted the law." Paul called
the killing a movement toward "tyranny."




Justice Department Gave CIA Approval to Kill Al-Awlaki --Official: Secret memo
between DOJ and CIA placed al-Awlaki on kill or capture list 02 Oct 2011 The
U.S. Justice Department gave the approval to the CIA to kill Anwar al-Awlaki,
the charismatic U.S.-born cleric who orchestrated Al Qaeda recruitment from
Yemen, by justifying his killing as an act of self-defense, a U.S. official told
Fox News. The official said Sunday that a secret memo between the DOJ and CIA
placed al-Awlaki on a kill or capture list, which laid out the case that
al-Awlaki was not entitled to the same protections as a U.S. citizen, but rather
a combatant targeting U.S. citizens.




CIA Figure in Pakistan Case Is Charged in Parking Fight 04 Oct 2011 A former CIA
contractor who set off a diplomatic furor after killing two men in Pakistan
earlier this year is now facing felony assault charges in the U.S. after getting
into a fight over a parking spot. The altercation took place Saturday morning,
when Raymond Davis, 37, began to argue with another man about a parking space
outside a bagel shop in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, Colo., authorities
said. On Monday, Mr. Davis was charged with second-degree assault and disorderly
conduct. The district attorney has designated the assault a "crime of violence,"
which carries a stiffer sentence. If convicted, Mr. Davis faces a mandatory
minimum of five years in prison.




Gen.: U.S. to remain in Afghanistan a 'long time' --62 percent: U.S. forces
should be decreased 03 Oct 2011 Ten years ago this week, U.S. forces went to war
in Afghanistan to root out the terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 seize gas
pipelines for UNOCAL , and to topple the Taliban government that gave them safe
haven. That's been done [?!?], but Taliban insurgents - using Pakistan as a base
[thanks to *billions* the US gives Pakistan yearly, apparently for that purpose]
- fight on, and the top U.S. general in Afghanistan says that the U.S. troops
will remain there for a "long time," likely far beyond a planned 2014 handover
of security responsibility.




Iraq attacks leave seven dead 03 Oct 2011 Gun attacks and bombings in Iraq on
Sunday killed seven people, including four anti-'al-Qaeda' militiamen killed in
two roadside bombs, police and medics said. Two Sahwa, or Awakening Council,
fighters were initially killed when their car was struck by a roadside bomb
around 9.30am (1530 AEDT) in the Al-Nibaie area, north of the town of Mashaada,
30km from the capital, police First Lieutenant Uday Sarhan said.




Uniforms, IDs reported among AWOL soldier's possessions 30 Sep 2011 A Kileen,
Texas, newspaper is reporting that an unsealed arrest warrant lists items seized
from an AWOL Fort Campbell soldier accused of planning to build two bombs and
attack Fort Hood soldiers either on post or in Killeen. Police arrested Pfc.
Naser Jason Abdo, 21, on July 27 at a hotel near Fort Hood with what authorities
say were bomb-making components and a recipe to make a homemade bomb. The Kileen
Daily Herald reports that the warrant had remained sealed until this week. The
following items were included in the warrant: a nursing uniform, an Army combat
uniform with Fort Hood patches, four photo identifications, multiple cellphones,
"The Book of Monotheism," a stun gun, a video camera and Bushnell binoculars.




At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered 01
Oct 2011 In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry (R) began
hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his familyâ€™s secluded West
Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a
large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. "N*ggerhead," it
read... Perry's version of events differs in many respects from the
recollections of seven people, interviewed by The Washington Post, who spoke in
detail of their memories of seeing the rock with the name at various points
during the years that Perry was associated with the property through his father,
partners or his signature on a lease.




Hank Williams Jr. bounced from tonight's Monday Night Football opener after
controversial comments 03 Oct 2011 Hank Williams Jr. won't be ready for some
football this Monday night. ESPN bounced Williams' trademark opening "Are you
ready for some football?" after the longtime voice of Monday Night Football's
theme song, after he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler. "While Hank
Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to
our company through the open to Monday Night Football," an ESPN spokesman wrote
in an email to the Daily News.




Sea lion who crossed Highway 101 had been shot 04 Oct 2011 (CA) An intrepid sea
lion who flopped across eight lanes of traffic on Highway 101 in Burlingame on
Saturday was suffering from a gunshot wound, officials at the Marine Mammal
Center said Monday. The sea lion, dubbed Broadway Bound because she exited at
Broadway before being apprehended by rescuers, is in stable condition although
veterinarians don't yet know if she'll recover, center spokesman Jim Oswald
said.

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Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 1:05 pm
Subject: 21st Century Madrid

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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 1:52 pm
Subject: At Rick Perryâ€™s Texas hunting spot, campâ€™s old racially charged name lingered

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At Rick Perryâ€™s Texas hunting spot, campâ€™s old racially charged name
lingered





http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rick-perry-familys-hunting-camp-still-kno\
wn-to-many-by-old-racially-charged-name/2011/10/01/gIQAOhY5DL_story.html






View Photo Gallery â€” From Paint Creek to the Governorâ€™s Mansion: The
Republican presidential candidate speaks often about how his upbringing in a
sparsely populated Texas farming community has influenced his conservatism.
By Stephanie McCrummen
P aint Creek, Tex. â€” In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry
began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his familyâ€™s
secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block
letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.




â€œNiggerhead,â€ it read.



Video
The small Texas town of Paint Creek has no post office, no grocery store, and no
claim to fame - until now. Dean Reynolds takes a tour of Paint Creek, the town
where Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry grew up.

The small Texas town of Paint Creek has no post office, no grocery store, and no
claim to fame - until now. Dean Reynolds takes a tour of Paint Creek, the town
where Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry grew up.


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Ranchers who once grazed cattle on the 1,070-acre parcel on the Clear Fork of
the Brazos River called it by that name well before Perry and his father, Ray,
began hunting there in the early 1980s. There is no definitive account of when
the rock first appeared on the property. In an earlier time, the name on the
rock was often given to mountains and creeks and rock outcroppings across the
country. Over the years, civil rights groups and government agencies have had
some success changing those and other racially offensive names that dotted the
nationâ€™s maps.

But the name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became
associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official
and finally as Texas governor. Some locals still call it that. As recently as
this summer, the slablike rock â€” lying flat, the name still faintly visible
beneath a coat of white paint â€” remained by the gated entrance to the camp.

When asked last week, Perry said the word on the rock is an â€œoffensive name
that has no place in the modern world.â€

But how, when or whether he dealt with it when he was using the property is less
clear and adds a dimension to the emerging biography of Perry , who quickly
moved into the top tier of Republican presidential candidates when he entered
the race in August.

He grew up in a segregated era whose history has defined and complicated the
careers of many Southern politicians. Perry has spoken often about how his
upbringing in this sparsely populated farming community influenced his
conservatism. He has rarely, if ever, discussed what it was like growing up amid
segregation in an area where blacks were a tiny fraction of the population.

In his responses to two rounds of detailed, written questions, Perry said his
father first leased the property in 1983. Rick Perry said he added his own name
to the lease from 1997 to 1998, when he was state agriculture commissioner, and
again from 2004 to 2007, when he was governor.

He offered a simple version of how he dealt with the rock, followed by a more
elaborate one.

â€œWhen my Dad joined the lease in 1983, he took the first opportunity he had to
paint over the offensive word on the rock during the 4th of July holiday,â€
Perry said in his initial response. â€œIt is my understanding that the rock was
eventually turned over to further obscure what was originally written on it.â€

Perry said that he was not with his father when he painted over the name but
that he â€œagreed withâ€ the decision.

In response to follow-up questions, Perry gave a more detailed account.

â€œMy mother and father went to the lease and painted the rock in either 1983 or
1984,â€ Perry wrote. â€œThis occurred after I paid a visit to the property with
a friend and saw the rock with the offensive word. After my visit I called my
folks and mentioned it to them, and they painted it over during their next
visit.â€




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From: ghwelker3@...
Date: Tue Oct 4, 2011 2:23 pm
Subject: Oppose All Three Free Trade Agreements

ghwelker

Send Email

Congress is poised to vote on three NAFTA-style trade deals â€” the Korea,
Panama and Colombia Free Trade Agreements. It's not too late to stop these
harmful pacts, but your elected officials need to hear from you soon.


Dear Friends:



The pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama
represent a continuation of a failed trade model that is harmful to working
people in the United States and abroad.


These NAFTA-style pacts threaten to destroy jobs at a time when our country can
least afford it. They also include excessive foreign investor privileges;
outrageous restrictions on financial service regulations; unnecessary limits on
procurement policies that keep tax dollars circulating in local economies; and
agricultural provisions that will force farmers off their land, worsening the
ongoing human rights catastrophe in Colombia in particular.


Please stand up for your constituents against the offshorers, tax evaders and
human rights violators by opposing each of these three trade deals. I look
forward to hearing your final position on each of them.


Sincerely,


[ your name ]


sign here:





http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1034/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6604


Citizens Trade Campaign



P.O. Box 77077
Washington DC 20013
Email : info@...
Phone: 202/494-8826



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