Palistinians form human chain at border to try and bring international attention to their plight.

Please help spread the word.

Pakistan uses international telecom company to block Youtube from entire country.

Davis Fleetwood: Needs Three (3) Votes!

View his Youtube page, here.

Hell, it makes more sense than them voting for Clinton.

Free and Fair Elections? Dream on, Dimwits.

Just for you “progressives” that are still thinking that:

a. Obama is your choice for a progressive candidate.

b. Either DLC democrat will save this country.

Wake up and commit to impeachment. It’s the only shot we have.

This is Davis Fleetwood. And he makes allot of sense, if you listen.

***UPDATE*** You can link to Davis’ Youtube page, here. There are lots of other good videos and a link to his site.

So, for all of you who parrot the spoon-fed consensus that we should not rock the boat for fear of spoiling our chance to elect one of the two DLC candidates that lead the entire pack in corporate, lobbyist, and special-interests donations: “fuck you you fucking ass-hats”, you get what you deserve.

(from counterpunch; “Hillary Clinton is consistently a top recipient of money from a wide variety of industries, ranking number one amongst both Democrats and Republicans in funds received from computer and Internet companies, commercial banks, health professionals, health services and HMOs, hospitals and nursing homes, lawyers and law firms, hedge funds, miscellaneous health care interests, pharmaceutical and health product producers, real estate groups, securities and investment interests, and television, movie, and music companies. Barack Obama is consistently the second highest recipient of contributions from all these industries, with the exceptions of hedge funds, real estate, and telephone interests.”)

It doesn’t matter how you vote. Get it? 2000? 2004? Get it? It’s just a ploy to keep you quiet and railing on “the republicans” until Nov. and then for awhile in 2009, till you come to the conclusion that you have been duped for yet another year (ie. “Democratic congress will save us!”)

(At BradBlog, there is a breaking story about how the paper print-outs from 5 different counties in Jersey didn’t match the electronic talley cards that were turned in on Super Tuesday. Just one more e-voting “glitch” that seems to be systematic in the post Help-America-Vote-Act world.)

Pick a cause! Pick an angle! Make one up! Make some noise, now!

But McCain isn’t the problem, he’s a pawn. Obama isn’t the solution, he’s a pawn.

And if you don’t see that by now, so are you.

“… what they’re actually doing is unwittingly contributing to the destruction of the Democratic Party itself by saying that “these are the only points of view that we will deem acceptable within the Democratic Party.” And those points of view are generally reinforcing the corporate mentality inside the party.”

“The institutionalized influence of corporate America through the Democratic Leadership Council…. I Look at it as the political equivalent of genetic engineering. That we’ve taken the gene of corporate America and shot it into both political parties. So they both now are growing with that essence within. So what does that mean? It means oil runs our politics. Corrupt Wall Street interests run our politics. Insurance companies run our politics. Arms manufacturers run our politics. And the public interest is being strangled.”

From a Dennis Kucinich interview found here.

Why Were the Tapes Destroyed?

 by Paul Craig Roberts

Feb. 2, 2008

Many Americans are content with the 9/11 Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not. Neither was commission member Max Cleland, a US Senator who resigned from the 9/11 Commission, telling the Boston Globe (November 13, 2003): “This investigation is now compromised.” Even former FBI director Louis Freeh wrote in the Wall Street Journal (November 17, 2005) that there are inaccuracies in the commission’s report and “questions that need answers.”

Bill Moyers on the Secret Government; Reagan’s Secret Government

(the more things change…)

Jefferson Shrugged

by Scott Creighton 

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” MLK

The United States of America was not the first democracy, nor was it the last. But if you still believe that we live within the protections of anything that resembles a representative republic, you are deliberately choosing delusion. The evidence is far to clear to ignore.

Not only have we allowed this once “great experiment” to deteriorate into a shell of a façade of credibility, but we are actively exporting the faux democracy product to nations around the world, in the guise of supporting our “war on terror” and the lie of globalization.

The Line in the Sand

by Scott Creighton

(I am re-posting this article (originally written early Oct) to accompany one I am writing now)

In the mid to late 90s, the Caspian Oil Reserves were thought to be the largest in the world, by industry insiders and professional petroleum speculators. These reserves would have been large enough to quiet the rumors of the PEAK OIL CRISIS long enough for us to develop new sources of energy. Though the Caspian Reserves are turning out to be a bit of a let-down for the industry, there is still a lot of oil and natural gas in the region and with the growing markets in Pakistan and India and the energy market mother-load developing in China, those reserves represent a sizable profit margin for whoever controls them.

But we aren’t the only ones who see this diamond in the rough.

Sons and Daughters

The Decemberists give us a stirring reminder of the face of real hope in the world. Not a political false prophet or a swelling call to action… just the faces of  children.

When you watch this, and that feeling creeps up on you… you know, the one that says this isn’t what America is supposed to be about… that’s the real hope of this nation and the only hope for these children.

We have a responsibility to reclaim the control of our armed forces from the less than honorable men that are directing them now. That is our duty as citizens of a constitutional republic. And don’t you ever forget it.

***UPDATE*** US Warplanes mistakenly kill 9 Iraqi civilians. Story here.

***UPDATE*** Winter Soldier Conference Mar. 13-16 in DC. Details here.

720 Million a Day for Iraq War; How would you spend it?

I found this over at Pax Cosmico’s site. He’s got a bunch of good stuff over there, you should check it out. Thanks Pax.