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Collapsing Bridges, Sinking Levees. It’s (Past) Time to Invest

By Eric Lotke
July 31, 2008

Our nation’s infrastructure is dying of old age and neglect. The solution is obvious: Repair and rebuild. We can't allow conservatives to have us running scared from this issue.

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Are You Being Tracked? - Can They Do This? - "Yes We Can"

By David Rosen
From alternet.org
January 6th, 2012

alternet.org — A series of ongoing battles delineate the boundary of what, in the digital age, is personal, private life and information.

In a recent hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Al Franken reminded his fellow Americans, “People have a fundamental right to control their private information.” At the hearing, Franken raised an alarm about Carrier IQ’s software, CIQ.

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Tomgram: Frances Fox Piven, The War on the Home Front

By Frances Fox Piven
From tomdispatch.com
November 7th, 2011

tomdispatch.com — The Tomdispatch.com website has for years provided an alternative voice to the tainted and simply unrepresentative mainstream media that parrots the views of the plutocrats and their relentless drive against democracy in America.

This story provides some perspective; thoughts from veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan wars to the betrayal of the ideals they thought they were fighting for.

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The Class War Has Begun

By Frank Rich
From nymag.com
October 24th, 2011

nymag.com — Whitehouse

"Our Establishment, left, right, and center, did not see the wave coming or understand what it meant as it broke. Maybe it’s just human nature and the power of denial, or maybe it’s a stubborn strain of all-­American optimism, but at each aftershock since the fall of Lehman Brothers, those at the top have preferred not to see what they didn’t want to see." - Frank Rich

War - "A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties." - The Freedictionary

I know what you meant Mr Rich and I agree with the sentiment about class conflict but you should use the term war, carefully.

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Fingerprinting Those Seeking Food Stamps Is Denounced

From nytimes.com
October 12th, 2011

nytimes.com —

Taking aim at a practice she called unnecessary, costly and punitive, the speaker of the City Council, Christine C. Quinn, is asking the Bloomberg administration to justify requiring applicants for food stamps to be electronically fingerprinted.

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Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium

From telegraph.co.uk
June 22nd, 2011

telegraph.co.uk — US technological lead abandoned in the sixties because it didn't produce enough plutonium for nuclear bombs.

A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium.

Telegraph Article: Click Link

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Buying and Operating Cost Of 2,443 F35s is estimated to be $1.3 trillion

From nextbigfuture.com
May 21st, 2011

nextbigfuture.com — The words Millions and Billions and Trillions are bandied around by office bound politicians and media commentators with such an abstract detachment the sheer scale and meaning of what they say is easily lost on ordinary people who budget in the tens and hundreds from day to day.

Just how many unnecessary war machines, how much corruption, and how much greed can 1.3 Trillion sustain over thirty years. Just how many wars will we have to start to justify them, how many threats must we create and magnify to justify them. War = Profits. Fantastic profits

Think like a CEO and board, have a cigar, and think of a convincing argument..... for war.

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Bringing the 'Bush Six' to justice

From guardian.co.uk
January 7th, 2011

guardian.co.uk — Today, the Centre for Constitutional Rights filed papers encouraging Judge Eloy Velasco and the Spanish national court to do what the United States will not: prosecute the "Bush Six". These are the former senior administration legal advisors, headed by then US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who violated international law by creating a legal framework that materially contributed to the torture of suspected terrorists at US-run facilities at Guantánamo and other overseas locations.

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Terrorist by Association

By Jeremy Gantz
From inthesetimes.com
December 22nd, 2010

inthesetimes.com —

Joe Iosbaker, a Service Employees union steward, and Stephanie Weiner, a Palestinian solidarity activist, at home in Chicago. The FBI used their porch as a staging area before the September 24 raid. Watch In These Times' video interview with the couple in their home after "FBI political fishing expedition". (Photo by Peter Holderness)

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NY Times Warning: Blue State Armageddon On The Way

By Walter Russell Mead
From blogs.the-american-interest.com
December 20th, 2010

blogs.the-american-interest.com — Watching this situation develop over the past few years has been like watching the sea withdraw before a terrible tidal wave sweeps all before it. This post is a pretty good summary of the meaning behind media signals being transmitted in increasing rapidity.

Please read through the consequences of a state bailout. it ain't pretty for the poor.

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