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Iraq is now a better terrorist training ground than Afghanistan in the '80s, CIA says, and a greater threat to the U.S. You can thank George W. Bush for the next, better trained Osama bin Laden-wannabe.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050622/pl_nm/security_iraq_cia_dc_1

Howard Dean is this week's BuzzFlash.com's Wings of Justice Honoree; "A guy with courage to take on the schoolyard bully who threatens democracy"
http://www.wingsofjustice.com/05/06/woj05003.html

Democracy at Risk: The 2004 Election in Ohio. 5 Month Investigation reveals "More than 1 in 4 voters in Ohio faced problems at the polls, including illegal requests for identification, long lines, poorly trained election officials, and more."
http://www.democrats.org/vri/ohioreport/index.html

Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying.
1,728 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq (thru today)
12,855 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (Last DoD Update: 10-Jun-05)
25,426 Iraqis Reported Killed (thru today)

Iraq Troop Withdrawals Not Likely Until 2006; U.S. commander says level of violence in Iraq expected to remain at current levels for at least the next four months. At least. An average of 2 or more soldiers die every day in Bush's war. 6/23
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=29895

The Greedy Scum that is K Street; Lobbying Firms Hire More, Pay More, Charge More to Influence Government. K Street is Killing Democracy almost as much as the Bush Administration. 6/23
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101632.html

Conyers Challenges GOP on Flag Desecration Amendment; "This resolution goes against those ideals the flag represents and elevates a symbol of freedom over freedom itself." 6/23
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/06/ale05089.html

David Corn: Proof Of Deception, Not Intention; "Put aside the questions of fixing intelligence and lying about intentions, these memos demolish Bush's case for war and his CIA-made-me-screw-up defense." 6/23
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050622/proof_of_deception_not_intention.php

Nuclear Warrior Replaces Bolton as Arms Control Chief; and more in the June 22nd World Media Watch by Gloria Lalumia
http://www.buzzflash.com/mediawatch/05/06/wmw05073.html

Ex-KKK Member Convicted In 1964 Civil Rights Killings In Mississippi; and more -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
http://www.buzzflash.com/peyser/05/06/pey05166.html

The Twins Meet Marines -- Editorial Cartoon by Tony Peyser
http://www.buzzflash.com/peyser/05/06/pey05167.html

Isn't It Time to Change the Channel? -- Editorial Cartoons by Andrew Wahl
http://www.buzzflash.com/wahl/05/06/wah05005.html

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Raleigh Myers
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If what we are contemplating is not fair to our progeny we have a failed event in retrospect
--Raleigh


Some other lectures leading to solutions
http://raenergy.igc.org/Googleclick.html


Under the placid surface [of the economy], there are disturbing trends: huge
imbalances, disequilibria, risks -- call them what you will.
Altogether the circumstances seem to me as dangerous and intractable
as any I can remember, and I can remember quite a lot.

Paul Volcker, Former US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman
April 10, 2005.


"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible, and they are stupid."

-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952


"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises
in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Franklin Roosevelt said that the domination of our nation by large corporations is the
definition of fascism. http://www.rense.com/general63/ssi.htm
"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor). http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html


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Blog
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret Mead


Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs& And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our sphere under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one system, one design.
                                                                                                                      Roger Bacon