Q: Why do modern US presidents oppose the Second Amendment?
A: It stands between them and the First.
Q: What do US presidents call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.
Q: What’s the difference between a US president’s cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One’s full of tax evaders, blackmailers and threats to society. The other is to jail pot smokers.
Q: What’s the difference between a large pizza and the typical presidential backer?
A: The pizza can feed a family of four. The backer can feed four states.
The order is needed to suspend provisions of state law. The Associated Press reported that Gov. David Paterson declared a state of emergency, saying a recent rise in swine flu cases has created a “disaster” and that certain provisions of state law needed to be set aside to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible. The executive order Thursday means that far more health care professionals — including dentists, dental hygienists, podiatrists, pharmacists, midwives and physicians assistants — will be permitted to administer swine flu and seasonal flu vaccines with only brief training. [See: New York City Parents Opting Out of Swine Flu Vaccine --Officials used Wednesday's event to implore more parents to sign up 29 Oct 2009.] –CLG
June 2008 speech at the Green Our Vaccines rally In front of the Sylvan Theatre on Washington Monument grounds, Washington, D.C.
Transcribed by Rady Ananda
On June 4, 2008, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr spoke before 8,500 activists from every state and from Mexico, Canada and the Philippines on the dangers of vaccines, and the government cover-up of the vaccine-autism link.
18-min video (in three parts) and transcription follow.
Thugs with badges. Anarchy reigns. Might is right. Civilian dissent is brutally suppressed in the U.S. A culture of humiliating dominance, backed up by brute force and sonic weapons, pervades the group-think of armed bodies in uniform.
A radical reach for power, Issue 2 grants a politically appointed Livestock Care Standards Board autonomous authority over the Ohio Dept of Agriculture, the Ohio EPA, other state agencies and the state legislature. Ohioans are now voting on the Issue through Nov. 3rd.
Spending millions of ad dollars on bolstering support for Issue 2, industry giants are confident they’ll win. The initiative thwarts a growing national movement to enforce more humane, and fewer, CAFOs – concentrated animal feeding operations. Read more »
Neither the Dolton Police Dept. nor the Academy for Learning will talk about the criminal brutality that occurred when an Illinois police officer punched Marshawn Pitts in the face several times, then slammed him onto the floor, crushing him beneath his weight. Marshawn suffered a broken nose and immediately transferred out of this school for special needs kids. The beating by the officer, who is three times his size, was punishment for an untucked shirt.
In Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore looks at the Wall Street bailouts – which the vast majority of citizens rejected (and Congress passed anyway) – and concludes that capitalism is a sin.
“We now have the highest unemployment rate since 1983. There’s a foreclosure filing once every 7.5 seconds. 14,000 people every day lose their health insurance,” he wrote in an email this morning. “Would Jesus be a capitalist? Would he belong to a hedge fund? Would he sell short? Would he approve of a system that has allowed the richest 1% to have more financial wealth than the 95% under them combined?”
This three-minute YouTube by Al Jazeera captures some of the concerns of those G20 protesters whom global elites brutalized with rubber bullets and sound cannons, despite our inalienable rights to assemble peacefully and state our piece.
One local Pittsburgh TV station also caught on film what some of our intelligent youth have to say, two days before the military and local police attacked marchers, Read more »
Today [Sep. 28], the Georgia Supreme Court ruled [PDF] that unauditable voting in the state does not infringe upon the fundamental right to vote and to have that vote counted. In 2002, Georgia was among the first in the nation to implement Diebold touch-screen voting machines across the entire state.
Shannon, a member of my drum culture, sent this 8-minute video out today… lemme tell ya, drumming on the open sand at night is way different from doing it inside a church – like I did in Columbus, Ohio. South Florida drummers are EVERYWHERE; circles can be found every day of the week – if you have the time and energy. They drum in parks, on the beach, in the woods, in backyards… but always out in the open.
Seven former Central Intelligence Agency directors released a letter today warning President Obama to rein in Attorney General Eric Holder. The CIA does not want torture investigated, saying the case was already opened and shut by the previous attorney general. You know, the one who thinks the U.S. Constitution and Geneva Conventions are “quaint.” Read more »
Despite a concerted top-down effort to silence, marginalize or ignore those who question the official 9/11 Commission Report, demands for a new, independent investigation grow louder each year. Russia Today posted this 3-minute news item:
Tonight, President Obama unveiled before Congress and the public his health insurance plan. Congress gave him a 5-minute standing ovation.
He said he was determined to be the last president to take up the cause of healthcare, but his plan insulates the health insurance industry by requiring all citizens to buy health insurance.
This six-inch female weaved a web support line so strong that it impeded my opening the patio door – not by much, of course, but enough that I could feel it. The silk of Nephila clavipes surpasses the strength of Kevlar, a fiber used in bulletproof vests. And she layers it.
Nephila clavipes (banana spider) by Rady Ananda Sept.2009, Ft. Lauderdale
Oy, the long reach of 9/11 complicity… here we are, eight years later, and the man credited with colorizing the environmental movement with his Clean Energy Jobs Bill, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi embraced, has resigned from the Obama Administration. Right wing neocons pushed for Van Jones’ dismissal citing his “coarse rhetoric” and thought crime. The thought crime is 9/11 Truth, and the vulgarity was calling Republicans “assholes.”
On May 24, 2009, the literary bloodbath at OpEdNews.com began. Over 30 popular writers and commenters, including this Senior Editor, were banned en masse over the next month. Anyone who identified as or agreed with COTO* suffered. Trusted author status was removed, articles were pulled off the front page, comments deleted, links jinxed.
Global drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., and its subsidiary, Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc., have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, the Justice Department announced yesterday. The settlement covers criminal activity since at least 2005.
From the Rose Garden yesterday, President Barack Obama promised that the swine flu vaccine “will be completely voluntary.” He spoke for four minutes and took no questions. Top policymakers from the various alphabet agencies whose bailiwick includes the WHO flu (H1N1) flanked him.
Speech given July 5, 2009 At Socialism 2009, San Francisco
Haymarket Books, International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker
“Building a New Left for a New Era”
Sponsored by Center for Economic Research and Social Change.
Transcribed by Rady Ananda (with subtitles, links and graphics added)
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