The Nazis were a result of un-checked corporate power:

The Nazis ("National Socialists") embodied many fascist traits, and were largely a product of corporatism:



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Listen to Nader

We're stuck with, uh, Coke or Pepsi, for Presidential Candidates this year, because we don't have instant runoff voting at the federal level yet.

Neither sounds like they're really going to be able to address some serious issues we will have to face immediately (although I suspect that Obama and Edwards could motivate and mobilize the population to embark on some major changes for the better), because a monopolized press and a hugely corrupt and ineffectual government have crippled our society and soured our position in the world.

Listen to Nader, get LOCAL. Do outreach. Get out of your chair. Communicate. Make Calls. I just called the Obama campaign and recommended that they start pushing legitimacy, accountability and credibility, and impeachment of certain war-criminals. Call your legislator OFTEN. Put the toll free numbers in your phone and USE them. One single-sentence issue per call.

Like Mr. Nader says: "If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you."

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How about Obama-Edwards?

An Obama-Edwards Ticket will defeat "Bomb-Bomb McCain" and lead our country out of economic meltdown.

Or We're all doomed.

I like the first idea better.

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Maybe They Already Knew....?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_linda_mi_080311_is_spitzer_being_tar.htm
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Governor Spitzer was scheduled to deliver a major address yesterday morning in Albany, New York, on the issue of women's reproductive rights. One thousand people were awaiting the Governor's address when the news of his sexual liaison broke. Governor Spitzer abandoned his women's rights speech to defend his own rights instead. He had no other choice.
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_linda_mi_080311_is_spitzer_being_tar.htm

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Tampa Bay Desalinization facility

As aquifers and glaciers dissapear, more and more our useable water will have to come from plants such as the one in Tampa Bay (currently the largest in the U.S.):

http://www.tampabaywater.org/watersupply/tbdesal.aspx

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New Solar Electric Plants

Stirling Energy Systems could be a key player in kick-starting our new energy economy.

http://www.stirlingenergy.com/

Here are some good audio interviews regarding Stirling.

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Plan B 3.0 is essential reading.

Without intelligent leadership, the Human Race is Doomed. This book needs to be in the forefront of public debate. You read Shock Doctrine.. now read this one:

Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

The Whole Book is available online as a PDF, FREE HERE.

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To Our Government: DO your JOB. You are US.

Here's a St. Petersburg Times Article comparing the TSA to the Nazi Party:
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/06/Business/Comparing_TSA_to_Nazi.shtml

Good. The Press must keep the government in check. Don't use this as an excuse to hate government, however. Read On:

Here are some comments from a local blogger regarding it:
http://tampasbackdoor.blogspot.com/2008/02/sieg-heil-tsa.html

Good. Citizens should talk about this kind of stuff.

I am Familiar with the TSA. I believe all Members of the TSA should:

1. Get 'em Through efficiently.
2. Keep 'em Safe.
3. Use Professional Courtesy.

I believe that TSA Personnel who do this right, and who minimize interpersonal abrasion, are generally regarded in a positive light by the traveling public; and make their own jobs easier.

Regarding the hassle and inconvenience of airport checkpoints: we ALL could have paid more attention to our government and energy policy and foreign policy over the past couple generations, and then maybe we would not have gotten ourselves in such a mess to begin with. Like it or not, agree or disagree on the causes, flying is less safe for Americans today than it was before. Checkpoints are today a necessary evil, and as such, are inherently not profitable, and are thus naturally a public government activity.

Government employees and elected officials work for the citizens.

The U.S. Government is no place for ass-kissing, back-stabbing, people-hating, boot-licking goose-steppers. If the shoe fits, G T F O. (Git the ---- Out [and have a nice day]).

Federal government employees are required to adhere to a code of ethics:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/blethics.htm
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CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE

Any person in Government service should:

1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principals and to country above loyalty to Government persons, party, or department.

2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their evasion.

3. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving to the performance of his duties his earnest effort and best thought.

4. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished.

5. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never accept for himself or his family, favors or benefits under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of his governmental duties.

6. Make no private promises of any kind binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.

7. Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or indirectly which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance of his governmental duties.

8. Never use any information coming to him confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means for making private profit.

9. Expose corruption wherever discovered.

10. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.

[Source: U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee]

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http://usgovinfo.about.com/blethics.htm

We need functional government. All men are not angels. Lew Rockwell is Wrong in this regard. Government is how an organized community of human beings protects itself from crooks (like big thieving corporations, for instance). Government is how the organized community protects itself from "persons" who have been pushed over the edge into antisocial and/or violent acts, for whatever reason. Most people who won't say anything at all out loud desire and treasure order in their society, so long as that order is just. Regarding Order, Uniforms should connote order. Not Oppression.

(An Aside:)
Our Military and our Police used to have to wear Class B's (clothing that is an expression of respect for the community). That they more often nowadays can be seen in battle-garb is alarming and I think this should be changed. Battle is not cool or neat. It's when human beings kill and destroy. Walking among us clothed for that is bad.

Part of a functional government is a vibrant fourth estate (the Press). In the absence of an effective Press, governments can and do become corrupt and oppressive.

I would like to see effectively enforced legislation (maybe constitutional amendments) breaking up media monopolies and keeping the Internet neutral (no filtering by ISP's.) Sound like a tough one? Not if enough people in government take seriously their allegiance to the Constitution, which specifies protections for the Press. Not if enough citizens take seriously their allegiance to the republic for which the flag of the United States stands.

The Newspaper Article caught my notice. My gut feeling is, don't take unfair advantage of your position in order to inflict your own personal misery on others (but then this is regarding INDIVIDUAL SELF-GOVERNMENT).

Bill Clinton tells 9-11 Truth Heckler to "Go Away"

I'll leave it to you to find it.. I heard about it on Mike Malloy's show.. I heard the clip.. Now we know where Bill Clinton stands on the 9-11 coverup, I wonder what he thought about the Kennedy Assassination. That there could be a link between 9-11 and JFK is in the minds of many who believe the one fundamental truth of our times:

You're Being Fooled.

Now the Pie has been Shot out of the Sky, GET ACTIVE.

Edwards dropping out of the 08 presidential race should be a clear message to anyone who cares, that THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WILL NOT SOLVE MOST OF OUR PROBLEMS. Any real, meaningful change in our country will require ORGANIZED work from all citizens, and not just rooting for whichever race-horse appears to have a chance of winning a particular election.

Don't use this disappointment as an excuse to play victim and "quit". Join us as a truly concerned citizen and help us make our world better, one step at a time. Here are some of my own ideas on areas to focus on:

http://www.americanwisdom.org/solutions.htm

I will certainly vote. I will not throw my vote away on a spoiler candidate.

(now.. where should I put these "Edwards" stickers?)

Find Edwards Supporters in Your Area

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Support the John Edwards Campaign

Edwards Bumper Stickers

http://store.johnedwards.com/stickers-s/1.htm

A Flaw in Libertarian Thought

Here's a quote I found recently:

"the state acts like a band of thieves and killers... The private sector doesn't do that" --Lew Rockwell

What?

Okay, let's go back to Galt's Gulch, the fantasy Ayn Rand paradise described in "Atlas Shrugged". In Galt's Gulch, there's no government, and everything's peaceful because the people there honor their agreements with each other and are thus able to have functional commerce. Everybody honors their agreements and pays what they said they would for what they got. Nobody falls on hard times and has trouble meeting their obligations. There are no freeloaders bringing hard times upon themselves.

Galt's gulch is fantasy.

The "Private Sector" thrives on thieving and killing. Look at General Electric, Halliburton, Blackwater, Coca Cola.. the list goes on and on. If they're not defrauding you and me out of billions of our own tax dollars, they're murdering union activists who want nothing more than the ability to provide a marginally decent life for their families.

Men are not all angels. This is why we need government. Government by us, to protect good people from lying, cheating thieves.

"the state acts like a band of thieves and killers... The private sector doesn't do that" --Lew Rockwell

Gimme a break. You Ron Paul Lemmings should take notice of this.

NBC is not a human being.

If NBC were a human being, I would tell it, "who gave YOU the right to decide who can or can't run for president"? That NBC claims First Amendment protection in deciding to dis invite Dennis Kucinich from the debates on Tuesday 15Jan08 should serve as ample proof that the idea of "corporate personhood" is bullshit and must cease. It's destroying our republic. The FCC is supposed to ensure that broadcasters serve the community in exchange for the privilege of using our public airwaves. Instead here we see them actively INTERFERING with our democratic process.

Amy Goodman with DemocacyNow interviewed Dennis Kucinich and gave him the opportunity to respond to the questions in the debate here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/16/breaking_the_sound_barrier_democracy_now

Corporations are not persons, and they SURE AS HELL AREN'T CITIZENS. Since they are collective efforts of groups of people to support themselves, they are a form of virtual municipality. On closer examination, these virtual municipalities are governed as dictatorial gangs, and they more often than not hurt the REAL municipalities they operate in. Isn't America supposed to be different from that? Own stock in one of these organizations? Try attending one of their board-meetings to influence their decisions. They'll laugh you out of there. If the nation is an organism, then the corporation in its current form is a cancer.

The fourteenth amendment should be amended to say "natural persons", not just "persons".

Don't let these Criminals sell you on attacking Iran

Question Motives. The only winners in an illegal U.S. invasion of Iran (and they would only be short-term winners) would be the war-profiteers.. those parasites who thrive because of death, destruction and misery, and contribute to the furtherance of policies that will continue it.

Question Allegiances. Who is honoring their oath of office to support the United States Constitution? Who is not? Who has attacked other countries without justification or the support of the rest of the world? Who has not?

If the crooks in power today get us into a war with Iran, it will be the large-scale equivalent of burglars setting fire to your house after they have robbed it.

More on how cynical, criminal and just plain STUPID invading Iran would be:

http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=10984&browse=0
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Keynote: Chris Hedges- What Will Happen if the U.S. invades Iran
Chris Hedges, former NY Times reporter, talks about the implications of a U.S. invasion of Iran.
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http://www.freespeech.org/videodb/index.php?action=detail&video_id=10984&browse=0

Edwards, but don't just focus on the Election

Out of all the clowns the system is offering up as candidates, EDWARDS is the least bad. I'd like to see him nominated as the Democratic candidate. I think he would be supported by the "Nascar Dad" former "Republicans" in large part too.

I like Dennis Kucinich and I voted for him on my absentee ballot here in the Florida Non binding primary. I'd like to see him on the ticket with Edwards.

Certainly, VOTE. But the election will not solve a lot of the problems we face. For ideas about the bigger picture, look at our main site: http://www.AmericanWisdom.org

Another one Right in Front of your Face

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2233038,00.html
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she was anxious that she was not being given enough security. The email was passed to Wolf Blitzer, a CNN presenter, to be published if she was killed. In the email Bhutto said if she was killed it would be the responsibility of Pervez Musharraf, the general who seized power in a coup and became Pakistan's president.

"Nothing will, God willing happen. Just wanted u to know if it does in addition to my names in my letter to Musharaf of Oct 16nth, I wld hold Musharaf responsible," the email said. "I have been made to feel insecure by his minions
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2233038,00.html


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Idea: Edwards - Kucinich 2008

Why?

Kucinich tells it like it is. He's such a loose cannon that the sold-out elements of the Democratic Party apparently arranged things so he wasn't even in the Iowa Debates.

Edwards is a proven warrior in the conflict of People versus Corporate Greed.

I don't see anything better.

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Don't be a sucker for Ron Paul

Here are some thoughts on Ron Paul:

1. First and foremost, how can ANYONE of integrity associate with the Republican Party after all they've done. What? What?

2. Second, How can ANYONE with a lick of sense reason that further chopping up the republic and selling it off to corporate cronies will enable us to collectively enforce our Constitution and its protections against concentrated wealth? Learn what happened to Chile after September 11, 1973. And then learn how neo-liberalism (not social liberalism) destroys republics and could destroy ours.

3. Third, Why does the Ron Paul Campaign have such appeal to hate groups such as the White Supremacist group StormFront, and religious types who want to impose their philosophy on others?


I am not criticizing Ron Paul as a man, but if he truly wanted to protect the constitution he wouldn't advocate the further privatization of our constitutional republican government, further gutting our ability to oversee the management of our community.

I smell a false-populist, false revolution. Recognize Ron Paul's phony rallying cry to protect the constitution as a ploy by the "Republican" party to continue their destruction our republic.

History repeats itself. Learn what happened in 1933.

Wise Up.

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