Who is watching out for your health while “they” are watching out for themselves and their profits?
America, the land of the drugged.
50% - of our total population is taking at least one prescription drug and most are using three or more. A large part of the remaining 50% is self-medicating with non prescribed legal and “non-legal” drugs/chemicals. The total tonnage of chemicals/drugs produced, prescribed, purchased and consumed in the U.S. is large. Visualize a billion prescription bottles and other drug paraphernalia in a large pile/mountain.

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In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on November 28, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) put forward an argument for staying the course in Iraq. Of course, his argument in “Our Troops Must Stay” was filled with false information.

Lieberman describes “real progress” and “self-securing nationhood.” What are the facts? Rep. Murtha laid them out clearly saying the “war in Iraq is not going as advertised” and, more specifically:

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A few months ago I put out a request for letters from soldiers being redeployed to Iraq for a second or third tour. I received about ten letters so far and will be publishing them over the next several weeks.

I am publishing the first three letters today and also including some audio files from interviews of Iraq vets who have PTSD or are having problems getting health care or benefits from the VA.

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"George Bush is a liar AND a loose gun for hire." I found it so refreshing to read these affirmations of truth on the cover of Mike Palecek's latest novel, Looking for Bigfoot. Palecek's "irreverent" novel is a potent attack on almost everything which is perverse, depraved, immoral, and malevolent about the US government and the society which it creates and perpetuates (through the public education system and its subservient corporate media). The search for Bigfoot which Jack Robert King, the novel's protagonist, undertakes is a metaphorical quest for the truth behind the deteriorating facade of the United States as a benevolent super power which spreads freedom and liberty around the globe.

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Just recently on November 18, 2005 the republican led congress came unglued with their mantra of 9/11 over the suggestion by Congressman John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania to turn Iraqi over to their newly formed democracy that our mission had been completed. To take this new spark of freedom and radiate it to the world by leaving mom’s tit and taking the first minimum step of controlling their on destiny with out foreign forces present. Yet it was the republicans led spectacle that day with a constant reference by the congress, of we must avenge 9/11 we can not leave until the job is done. The following is from a speech by George W. Bush on September 20, 2001 to a joint session of congress. In the excerpts is the initial plan on retaliation for 9/11/2001.

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Two modes of government are doing battle in America today. The issue of secrecy in government has never been more important. Few Americans realize how radically the Bush Administration changed our systems and processes in order to deny the average American citizen access to information about what the government is doing in our name!

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Two years ago President Bush made a surprise visit to the troops in Iraq, put on an Army jacket and served the troops a turkey. The photograph and video of a smiling president serving the loyal troops was played throughout the country – over and over. Only later did we discover that the service was a staged event and the turkey was plastic.

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Greenland's glaciers have begun to race towards the ocean, leading scientists to predict that the vast island's ice cap is approaching irreversible meltdown, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

Research to be published in a few days' time shows how glaciers that have been stable for centuries have started to shrink dramatically as temperatures in the Arctic have soared with global warming. On top of this, record amounts of the ice cap's surface turned to water this summer.

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The Republican Party under the leadership of Bush, Cheney, Frist, Delay and crew has pushed the tax burden from the wealthiest of Americans and large corporations onto the middle class. They have combined this financial assault on the middle class with huge cuts in government services for the middle class and the poor.

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I recently invited the visitors to my website (www.NoneSoBlind.org) to address the question, “How has living through this Bush presidency affected your basic feelings state and your sense of the world you live in?” For a great many Americans, I knew, the experience of living under this ruling group has been intense, its impact on the deepest fibers of our being profound. It certainly has been for me.

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Republican talking points being promoted by the Bush political spin machine has finally spun out of the realm of reality. Talking points have morphed from spin control into outright lies. The problem for the American public is that government policy is being based on the lies.

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A few days ago I watched the documentary, “9-11 In Plane Sight”. On two occasions while watching this documentary I uttered the words, "Murderers, mass murderers". It is obvious that there is more than enough evidence in existence to easily convict the leaders of the present military industrial dictatorship of mass murder and treason, that is, if America was still a democracy with laws that actually meant something.

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As a United States citizen of his congressional district I apologize for the unprofessional behavior by Duncan Hunter and will hand deliver the letter below to his office first thing Monday morning 11/21/2005 I am sorry for such a display of arrogance by my public servant.

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I asked Dr. Daniel Ellsberg this question on Tuesday, November 15th, after he had just completed his lecture to instructors, professors, students and members of the public that were in attendance to hear him speak at William Patterson University in Wayne, New Jersey: Dr. Ellsberg, which bomb do you think will go off first – Fitzgerald bringing another indictment, or the military attack on Syria and Iran? His answer was frightening – he offered that the war would probably come first, initiated in all likelihood as an engineered distraction to negate the effect of the expected upcoming indictments.

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"Preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader -- a dictator -- willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures,' which few know how, or are willing to employ." -- Michael Ledeen

Goodness gracious! Henny Penny! Since defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and vice president Dick Cheney teamed up to lead the charge to create a New World Order, the whole universe has become untidy. Very untidy. My friend Bernie says Dick and Rummy's big plan to take over the world by waging continuous war is kinda like baptizing a bobcat -- ain't gonna happen.

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The time has arrived – a designation must be assigned to the increasing number of Americans who are fed up and terrified by the unbelievable and staggering criminal acts perpetrated both domestically and internationally by the Bush gang. Bush and his GOP are targeting and immediately attacking any and all inspirations of accurate journalistic reporting of administration wrongdoing, proving all the more how despotic American government has become.

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The mainstream media has been under the Bush Administrations desk doing a marathon Lewinsky, for the last five years. Come up for some air and realize you are an accessory to war crimes. September 11, 2001 is a high water mark in American History but somebody is not telling the truth. The oil companies met with the bush administration early in 2001 that was way before September 11, 2001 and all parties involved have already lied about the meeting. September 11 changed the entire direction of our country and the world but it fit into the bush energy plan. How can a secret attack against the United States fit perfectly into the strategy of a secret energy meeting?

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Translated from French by Ragnar B. Johannessen

The story that you are about to read is a true one. It’s a story about the kidnapping of a 39 year old Eyptian on February 17, 2003, by a team of CIA agents. This happened in the middle of Milan.

Nasr Oussama Mustafa Hassan (alias Abu Omar), who was a native of Alexandria, had obtained political asylum in Italy in 2001. He had been arrested in Egypt in 1993 for political reasons. He had wrongly been assumed to be an imam of the Islamic center on the Jenner boulevard in Milan, and had simply been noticed because he had led the prayers at the other mosque, on Quaranta street in Milan. His kidnapping was followed by an”extraordinary rendition” to the Egyptian secret services in Cairo (Mabahith Amn Al Dawla). We have not heard from Abu Omar in over a year. At worst, he is dead. At best, he languishes in an Egyptian prison.

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In a shocking but nevertheless not surprising maneuver U.S. House Republicans are attempting to introduce a bill that will cause serious damage to the already precarious existence of the nation's 37 million poor. In a multi-pronged attack the Republicans have endeavered to target the safety net that the nation's children and those living in poverty rely on.

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Surikov1, The Conquest of Siberia (16th c.) by Yermak

Kazan was captured from the Mongols in 1552. Ivan the Terrible was on the throne. From that time until 1917, the year of revolution, the Russian Empire expanded rapidly. “The Russians were driven east by fur, the ‘soft gold’ that accounted for 1/3rd of the Imperial coffers."2

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I talked to a couple of rightwing conservative today about George W. Bush. I asked them what will be the legacy of this president. They replied with what I thought about it, I said I am not sure although he had both houses under Republican control. The first person ran through the last five years thinking out loud. He has spent too much money oh yea it will be that the terrorist only attacked the United States once. The other person was identified as Washington D.C. insider and a conservative reporter introduced as a conservative guru. He also agreed with the first person and added that Bush changed the judges and these judges would not make laws, but rather interpret them as the founders would have.

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To blame war criminal G. Bush for the GOP losses around the country in the recent elections is a bit of a stretch, but not entirely. Douglas Forrester’s loss to public office purchaser, Jon Corzine, the three-year Senator from New Jersey who just bought the New Jersey governorship employing his tremendous wealth, had little to do with the notoriety of Bush and his “Pearl Harbor of the 21st century.” New Jersey is a “yellow dog” Democratic state; no analytical thinking or honest evaluation of either issues or candidates is allowed anywhere within the state on Election Day - Democrats are a shoo-in!

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My first reaction when I read the transcript of President George W. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech was anger. No, not anger. Rage. Blind rage. How dare he, I thought. Not even the lowest, scum-sucking son of a bitch in politics would stoop to using a day to honor those who served their country would stoop to using that day to promote his lies-based, illegal, immoral exercise in mass murder called the invasion of Iraq.

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They say they support our troops. That's a lie. They say they are patriotic. That's an abomination. These right wing supporters of Republicans and republican-like democrats are causing millions of soldiers who fought for America to roll over in their graves. Damn, there must be so many soldiers rolling in their graves they must be causing seismic readings.

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It is increasingly apparent that there is an important ideological conflict going on in the modern conservative movement between supporters of increased state power and supporters of limited government. The conflict pits the Bush Republicans against traditional conservatives. While both groups give lip service to the term limited government and use the same “conservative” label, they are very different creatures.

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This is the original Haaretz page text BEFORE the retraction- Thu., November 10, 2005 Cheshvan 8, 5766

Bombs rocked three hotels in Amman late last night, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 115 in apparent suicide attacks. One of the hotels is known to be popular with Israeli tourists.

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On Wednesday, Nov. 9, in a conference call with reporters and Republican activists from around the country, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman attacked Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for remarks made at a press conference the previous day, in which Reid described a "dark cloud" over the White House, and singled out Vice President Dick Cheney as the center of corruption and policy failures. Mehlman accused Sen. Reid of having a "Lyndon LaRouche moment."

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Translated from French by Ragnar Johannessen

The Grand Rabbi of Sao Paulo, the American Henri Sobel, told President George W. Bush on Sunday in Brasilia about the ”precarious” situation of the Jews in Venezuela, accusing Hugo Chávez of being an ”anti-Semite”.

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Christians of strong religious faith and sound moral conscience often end up in disagreement. Human affairs are a messy business, unfortunately, and even at the best of times we only see through a glass, darkly.

It is hard for that reason to call Christians to a universal standard of behavior. At this moment, however, we cannot afford to dilute the message of Jesus into meaningless ambiguity. There are certain acts that a follower of Jesus simply cannot accept. Here is one: A Christian cannot justify the torture of a human being.

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Our present rulers don’t want the Geneva Conventions ban on torture to hold them back. Other Americans are struggling to return our country to a willingness to be ruled by law, and to sheer human decency.

Our present government has no interest in restraining greed to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change and other degradations of the biosphere. Others in this country are devoting our energies to moving America toward a way of life in harmony with earth’s living systems.

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Last week the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative unit of Congress, released a report indicating that the Pentagon has been calling up reserve soldiers who are ill or medically unfit to serve. The reservists are serving primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness is responsible for managing medical and physical fitness policy and procedures, the report determined that this office has no way to determine if reserve soldiers are fit to serve or have pre-existing medical conditions prior to deployment.

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How many more premature deaths are morally and politically acceptable in Tennessee under the governor's TennCare cuts?

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Urgent Action Alert: Call Rep. [Your Rep.] now at (800) 426-8073. Say "no" to a morally bankrupt budget.

Last week, I spoke with other religious leaders at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol, urging the House of Representatives to oppose cuts in social services in their budget bill. When it was over, we walked to the rotunda to offer a prayer for our nation and its leaders, that they would do the right thing for people in poverty. Suddenly, we were face to face with Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and took the opportunity to deliver our message directly to him. He listened politely, but offered little response.

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While Cindy Sheehan has deservedly gotten a lot of attention for reawakening the anti-war movement with her allies from veteran and military family organizations, the especially interesting thing about the opposition to the Iraq War is that it includes former military leaders, former national security and intelligence officials as well as foreign service officers. The Iraq War that is opposed by those who generally support U.S. foreign and military affairs.

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The Republican Party has been promoting a series of policies that hurt residents of rural America very badly. While voters are more likely to vote Republican in farm communities and small towns than the national average, the Republican Party has been supporting a whole series of actions and policies that go against the interests of these voters.

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Translated from French by Ragnar Johannessen

A really shocking piece of news was posted on the AFP network on Wednesday. We are posting it here:

“The high court of Nanterre decided Wednesday that the editor of the publishing company Al Qalam be sentenced to a three month suspended prison term and 10.000 Euros in damages for having published the anti-Semitic book “The Other Face of Israel”, (known in English as “Galilee Flowers”), the sale of which has been legally prohibited as well.

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Last week President Bush put forward a program to prepare for the eventuality of a bird flu pandemic. In his comments Mr. Bush noted, "If history is our guide there's reason to be concerned." In fact, the influenza pandemic of 1918 is a model for what we are likely to face with the bird flu. And unless the Bush administration responds more boldly we will relive the 1918 pandemic, only this time it will be worse.

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There may be a collection of fifty or sixty million blue collar NASCAR dads, fascist Christians, neo-nazis, racists, greedy pig rich people who unpatriotically refuse to pay their fair share in taxes, and the corporate traitors to humanity and the planet... even to life itself, who prefer to support money over the environment, biodiversity and a world that supports humans. These toxic takers are the vast minority of the world-- the supporters of Bush. But the rest of the USA and certainly, the rest of the planet, outside of the corporatists and fascists in other nations, consider George Bush, his verminous minions and cretinous, despicable supporters to be pariahs.

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Bush’s approval rating at a little over 40%, nearly one-third of Americans no longer in favor of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the Vice-President’s Chief Of Staff indicted, the House Majority Leader indicted, the Senate Majority Leader under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Harriett Miers fiasco, and now the Democrats shutting down the Senate? It all feels so deliciously appropriate and so painfully overdue. Are the Democrats finding their spines? Will Cheney be indicted? Will Bush be impeached?

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Lyndon LaRouche today called for Vice President Dick Cheney's immediate ouster from office. In light of the Oct. 28, 2005 indictment of Cheney's chief of staff and top national security advisor I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on five counts of lying to a Federal grand jury, and in the wake of today's action by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who called the U.S. Senate into an extraordinary closed session to force an end to the White House obstruction of Senate oversight over Administration crimes, LaRouche spelled out four precise reasons why Cheney must go—now.

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President Bush and Congress nixed winter heating aid for poor families 3 months after subsidizing oil companies. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said "this is not something I would be in favor of (using some of the oil profits to help the nations poor). That would be the equivalent of windfall profits tax." Bodman went on to say that any transfer of oil profits to programs to help the poor with heating this winter is not even under consideration.

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It is disquieting sensing the backpedaling on the part of some political observers who formerly blamed the Bush administration totally for its horrific failures. It would seem that only a short time ago these very same observers understood the basic aura, as well as the specific responsibilities of command and leadership conveyed to George W. Bush, whom they formerly so vociferously vilified for his egregious failures. Some of these former critics are now entertaining the possibility of President Bush’s innocence.

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"Good morning everyone, thanks for commin."

"Our pleasure Mr. President, as usual. Always a profound joy to be in your presence."

"Good try Scooter, but you're going to have to leave now. Just wouldn't look right. Still got a lot of work for you to do once we get you off the rap though, so we'll fill you in later."

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Never in the 229 years of United States history has this government “of, by and for the people” been in greater peril. Not during the Civil War, not during the great depression, and not during the Second World War or the Cold War which followed.

Until today, gross incompetence, abuse of power, corruption, corporatocracy, and federal insolvency could be checked and reversed by balanced and separated governmental powers, and at the ballot box by a citizenry informed and provoked by an alert and independent media. Now all branches of government and the mainstream media are dominated by the wealthy elites in control of a single political party.

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I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.

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Last night, November 1, 2005, I posted an incorrectly attributed quote. The quote although reiterated by Texe Marrs, did not originate with him. It was wrong to say: “Texe Marrs - Jew” at the end of the quote. I apologize for this mistake.

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Synopsis:
Not that the world beyond America's shores could give two hoots about the U.S.' internal squabbles anymore: after years of hoping for some inkling of resistance from the home front, the global community has likely had quite enough. But is there a stirring in the Belly of the Beast? Writer Daniel Patrick Welch, while skeptical, takes pleasure in the growing travails of the Bush cabal and hints that the heretofore neutered opposition may have grown some new appendages.

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After two years of thorough, aggressive investigation Patrick Fitzgerald is unable to say whether or not there was a plan at the White House to leak the name of Valerie Plame-Wilson in an effort to undermine her husband Joseph Wilson. So far, the obstruction of justice has been successful.

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