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Why I'm Voting 'Yes'

By Dennis Kucinich

I have spent my life struggling for the rights of working class people and for health care. I grew up understanding first hand what it meant for families who did not get access to needed care. I lived in 21 different places by the time I was 17, including in a couple of cars. I understand the connection between poverty and poor health care.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25013.htm



The Filibuster Flim Flam

By Ralph Nader

Today, the Senate lies paralyzed even as it is controlled by 59 Democrats-usually enough for comfortable passage of legislation sought by a majority party that also controls the presidency.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25014.htm



The Green They Steal, The Greed They Wear

A St. Patrick's Day Lament

By Michael Moore

It was amazing. Every story on the front page of Monday's New York Times told the story of the Age of Greed during which a system known as capitalism is slowly, but surely, killing us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25009.htm



The American Dream Has Moved Abroad

By Washington's Blog

The American dream is what has kept Americans from rebelling against corporate corruption.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25016.htm



Keep The Change

By Sheila Samples

Each time it appears that Republicans can't get any nastier, any more bereft of morality, they wrap themselves in the flag, grab their guns and Bibles, and manage once again to hit the bottom of the ethical barrel.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25044.htm



An Absence of Class

By Bob Herbert

A group of lowlifes at a Tea Party rally in Columbus, Ohio, last week taunted and humiliated a man who was sitting on the ground with a sign that said he had Parkinson's disease. The disgusting behavior was captured on a widely circulated videotape. One of the Tea Party protesters leaned over the man and sneered: "If you're looking for a handout, you're in the wrong end of town."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25063.htm

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Five Yards and a Cloud of Dust

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Last week, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) made it clear to any and all that he was going to vote 'No' on the health care reform package currently being considered by the House. His argument was simple, and on many levels, entirely correct: the current bill is half a loaf, does not contain any kind of public option and is a big, fat giveaway to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries."

http://www.truthout.org/five-yards-and-a-cloud-dust57820

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The Tea Party & The Circus
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/03/19-0

Dennis Kucinich and Ralph Nader: A Discussion on Healthcare, Politics and Reform
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/03/19

Republican Lawmakers Stir Up the 'Tea Party' Crowd
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/21-5

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Tea Partiers: The new (distorted, screaming) face of conservatism

Our Future Blog
by Terrance Heath
03/18/10
http://tinyurl.com/yhsnumz



Buzzkill at the Tea Party

AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

03/23/10

As the 2010 campaign season hits full-throttle, as the 2012 presidential contest looms ever closer, the popular Tea Party Movement is at risk of being absorbed into the GOP like the Borg. It will be a subtle takeover, mind you, as more Republican candidates seemingly embrace the charge of the neo-liberty cause, while more Tea Partiers than not come to the conclusion that getting Republicans elected is more important (and easier) than pushing for a third-party solution. This marriage will not be difficult, as they have more in common with each other than with the renegade libertarian minority among the ranks...

http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/03/22/liberty-forum/



Now we’ll find out if the Tea Party movement is real

J. Neil Schulman @ Rational Review
by J. Neil Schulman

03/23/10

For most of my lifetime any opposition to the federal income tax has been a fringe movement — sometimes on the left, as a war protest, sometimes on the right, by objectors like Irwin Schiff who make various constitutional arguments against the income tax that federal courts have regularly dismissed as not only absurd, but a trial on the court’s patience. But I can’t remember a time when opposition to the federal income tax has been widespread enough to constitute a popular movement. The Tea Party won’t prove anything by supporting Republican candidates who would raise your taxes in a heartbeat if it gave them power to punish abortions — or keep out illegal Mexicans, or put more cops on the street. The proof would be protests and resistance against the tyrannical power of the federal government to control your behavior through its power to tax you...

http://tinyurl.com/ycnv8p7


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Last Hope

By Fred Reed

Washington is out of control. - The feds read our email and track the web sites we visit, make us hop around barefoot in airports at the command of surly unaccountable rentacops. They search us at random in train stations without even a pretense of probable cause. We have no influence over them, no way of resisting.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25020.htm



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/911commission.dont-cross-the-line.html

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Why The Facts of 9/11 Must Be Suppressed

By Guns and Butter

Understanding the Ruling Group Mind Behind the War Without End" with Dr. John McMurtry. Dr. McMurtry was one of the first academics to analyze 9/11 and the 9/11 wars. He is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of of Guelph, Ontario.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25012.htm



Colleen Rowley: Minders Ensured She Didn't Say Anything About 9/11 the FBI Didn't WANT Told, Even to Government Officials With Top Security Clearance

FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley was interviewed by Scott Horton, professor at Columbia Law School and Contributing Editor of Harper's Magazine.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/collen-rowley-minders-ensured-she-didnt.html



9/11 Reconstruction: Mental Before Physical

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

We need Congress to authorize and fund a new 9/11 investigation. The highly fragmented 9/11 truth movement must unite behind a political strategy to make this happen. The only reason to fear a new investigation is the likely unsettling finding that, indeed, the US government was a lot more than incompetent and negligent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25112.htm


From Information Clearing House

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How US news blocks 9/11 info
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/826.html

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Rockefeller Reveals 9/11 FRAUD



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States’ Rights Is Rallying Cry for Lawmakers
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/nyt-nullification.html

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Idaho nullifies ObamaCare in advance

CNN

03/17/10

Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to pass a law saying no thanks to part of President Obama’s health care proposal. The Idaho Health Care Freedom Act says in part, ‘every person within the state of Idaho is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty’...

http://tinyurl.com/y8wn8s7



From guns to healthcare, “states’ rights” gain ground
New York Times

03/17/10

Whether it’s a correctly called a movement, a backlash, or political theater, state declarations of their rights [sic] — or in some cases denunciations of federal authority, amounting to the same thing — are on a roll. Governor Mike Rounds of South Dakota, a Republican, signed a bill into law Friday declaring that the federal regulation of firearms is invalid if a weapon is made and used in South Dakota. On Thursday, Wyoming’s governor, Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat, signed a similar bill for that state. The same day, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives approved a resolution that Oklahomans should be able to vote on a state constitutional amendment allowing them to opt out of the federal healthcare overhaul...

http://tinyurl.com/yjdv6t8



US states delay tax refunds

The Free Liberal
by Fred E. Foldvary

03/17/10

Several U.S. states are depleted of funds, and are not paying their bills. They are delaying paying back tax refunds. Over 40 of the states have deficits and are unable to pay their bills promptly. In some states, cutbacks on staff are contributing to delays. The delays are not just a problem for those who are waiting for their refunds. Many of the states have to pay interest on late refunds after the closing date. But paying wages and debt service take priority over the refunds. Taxpayers are last in line...

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/004004.html



Our future under Obamacare
Cato Institute
by Michael D. Tanner

03/20/10

The bill will cost more than advertised. It won’t be long before Congress is shocked — shocked! — to discover that health-care reform is going to cost a lot more than expected. It’s not just the budgetary gimmicks that Democrats have been employing to hide the bill’s true cost. It’s also that government programs — and government health-care programs in particular — almost always end up exceeding their cost estimates. For example, when Medicare was instituted in 1965, it was estimated that the cost of Medicare Part A would be $9 billion by 1990. In actuality, it was seven times higher — $67 billion. Similarly, in 1987, Medicaid’s special hospitals subsidy was projected to cost $100 million annually by 1992, just five years later; it actually cost $11 billion, more than 100 times as much...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11596


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Is fed power now unlimited?

Christian Science Monitor
by Roger Pilon

04/12/10

With stormy midterm elections just ahead, and much of President Obama’s agenda still undone, the last thing congressional Democrats needed is the distraction of a difficult and protracted Supreme Court confirmation battle. Yet that’s likely what’s in store after Friday’s announcement that Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s liberal lion, is stepping down in late June. The party’s base, already disappointed with Mr. Obama, will doubtless press the president for a liberal replacement. But with the growing ‘tea party’ movement raising long-ignored constitutional issues, even a moderate nominee will face questions congressional Democrats would rather leave buried. Chief among those is that most basic question, brought to the fore by ‘ObamaCare’: Are there any longer any constitutional limits on federal power?

http://tinyurl.com/y7q2yax


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The US tortures both human and animal prisoners

Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway

03/16/10

Certainly, solitary confinement constitutes abject cruelty for killer whales (or chimps, or elephants, or any wild animals), and might well drive them to erratic or destructive behavior. But it’s rare to hear such expressions of sympathy or absolution for the tens of thousands of human beings who live in solitary confinement in the United States. Like Tilikum, many of these human prisoners did not kill until they were incarcerated; many more have not killed at all, and are held in isolation for disciplinary infractions, because they are mentally ill, or because they need ‘protective’ custody. They can remain there for years or even decades. And the devastating psychological effects of long-term lockdown — which is deemed to be torture by virtually everyone who has experienced it — are well documented...

http://tinyurl.com/ydc8wmj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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FOIA Review

Another promise of "change" miserably fails

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major government agencies has revealed that, despite Barack Obama's promise to make government more transparent, more information is now being withheld from the public.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2010/160310Secrecy.htm

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Obama’s (and Bush’s) enemy combatant policy

Washington Examiner
by Gene Healy

03/16/10

Ever since the failed Christmas bombing, Republicans have smelled blood in the political waters, and they’ve assailed President Obama for his allegedly soft-on-terror policies. This campaign is based on phony charges, and it’s a dangerous distraction from the fight for limited government...

http://tinyurl.com/yadnmw6



Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence oversight

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

03/16/10

[T]he Obama White House — just as was true for the Bush White House, and using the same rationale — does not want any meaningful oversight (i.e., briefings beyond the absurd Gang of Eight sham) on whether it’s breaking the law in the conduct of its intelligence activities. One of the Intelligence Community’s most loyal Congressional servants — Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein — told The Post that she thinks a deal can be worked out with the White House, meaning that the bill needs to be diluted even further, to the point of virtual nothingness, in order for the White House to accept it. It’s critical to note that this is far from an abstract concern, because the Obama administration has almost certainly been hiding intelligence activities from the Intelligence Committees, thus ensuring it operates without oversight...

http://tinyurl.com/yfkoq8d


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Joe Bageant

The "real" economy as most of us experience it, is stretched out dead as a day old codfish down there on Main Street. And all Obama or any other politician stewed in the super-capitalist ethos can do is pump money into the banks, and then beg the bankers to come out of their gilded lairs and trickle on the corpse. That's the problem with capitalism -- capitalists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25001.htm



The Next Big Bailout is on the Way

Prepare To Get Reamed!

By Mike Whitney

Master illusionist Ben Bernanke managed to engineer a modest 7-month uptick in sales, but the fairydust will wear off later this month when the Fed stops purchasing mortgage-backed securities and long-term interest rates begin to creep higher.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24993.htm



What Led to Wall Street Collapse and Who Predicted It
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6298082n&tag=related;photovideo


From Information Clearing House

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In Praise of Shared Outrage

Roy J. Eidelson, Truthout: "'We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all.' These were the words of Lord Brian Griffiths, Goldman Sachs international adviser, when he spoke at London's St. Paul's Cathedral last fall. With inequality at historic levels here in the United States and around the world, it's a reassuring message we all might wish to be true."

http://www.truthout.org/in-praise-shared-outrage57730


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Obama Pharma
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/obama-pharma.html



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AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia

By Rick Rozoff

Former U.S. diplomat Daniel Simpson was quoted above as to what in part is Washington's motive in pursuing a new war in and around Somalia: To test out AFRICOM ground and air forces in Djibouti for direct military action on the continent.

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Act Now to Stop War and End Racism

All out for the March 20th March on Washington!

In just days, we will be taking to the streets! We are hearing from people all over the country who are coming to bring their message to D.C., and we want to share with you some of the plans and ways that you can make an important contribution to the impact of the March 20 National March on Washington to demand "U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now!"

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US Military Created Private Spy and Murder Squad in Afghanistan

By Patrick Martin

The US government is running a multitude of death squad operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, targeting those resisting the US occupation of Afghanistan and anyone else alleged to have links to "terrorism."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25006.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Making Terrorism Your Friend
http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey44.1.html



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Boston Globe
by James Carroll

03/15/10

Think of Niagara Falls. Think of the onrushing current as the river pours itself toward the massive cascade. Imagine a lone swimmer a hundred yards or so upstream, desperately stroking against the current to keep from being swept over the precipice. That swimmer is President Obama, the river is the world, and the falls is the threat of unchecked nuclear weapons. Henry James used the image of Niagara to describe the rush into World War I: ‘the tide that bore us along.’ Hannah Arendt defined the wars of the 20th century as events ‘cascading like a Niagara Falls of history. …’ But now the image has entered the lexicon of strategic experts who warn of a coming ‘cascade of proliferation,’ one nation following another into the deadly chasm of nuclear weapons unless present nuclear powers find a way to reverse the current...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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It's Time to Rid the World of Nuclear Weapons

By Desmond Tutu

Sceptics may say a nuclear-free world is an impossible dream, but they said that about slavery and apartheid too.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25523.htm



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