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POPSGotta keep up with the doom and gloom! Aging systems releasing sewage into rivers, streams. “Local governments across the USA plan to spend billions modernizing failing wastewater systems — some of which are more than 100 years old — over the next 10 to 20 years, EPA, state and local sewer authority officials said. Those improvement efforts face a huge challenge mitigating problems in what the EPA estimates to be 1.2 million miles of sewers snaking underground across the USA.” Bodies rot in cyclone-hit Burma. “Piles of rotting corpses are stacking up in remote villages of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, with residents saying they don't have enough fuel to cremate victims of deadly Cyclone Nargis.” Deadly battles as Hezbollah says Lebabon 'declares war'. “Deadly gunbattles erupted in Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah charged that a Lebanese government crackdown on his group was tantamount to a 'declaration of war,' stoking fears of a full-blown sectarian conflict."
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POPSWere You Duped by All the Preznit's Liars? Morford Explains Another great column by Mark Morford....Personally I haven't been duped by this bunch since the beginning--or ever! I wonder why so many people fall for the lies? Are they that seductive? Not to me. But then I'm not a gung-ho "Patriot", wrapped in the flag, 'USA--right or wrong , forever!' kind of person...are you? If you are, even a little bit, then you've been duped, fooled and misled.
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POPSLying for a living They all conspired and set torture in motion, they all lied...and yet they are still in offfice in the good ol' USA---WHY? WTF?
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POPS‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’ Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine “in the end ” if something is legal or right. Every federal official - including the President - who takes an oath of office swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.” WHAT IS GLARINGLY OBVIOUS IS THE OUR "LEADERS" DON'T BELIEVE IN THE CONSTITUTION
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POPSUSA Empire Ultimately Doomed Leading presidential aspirants and Congressional leaders continue to ignore this issue lest the public get a glimpse of the empire without a wardrobe. They enable the naked miscreants of power -- Bush, Cheney and the neo cons -- to continue to bleed the treasury through a capricious war and occupation.
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POPSSea Shepherd Continues Search for Japanese Whalers Despite Aussie Gov't Betrayal The new Aussie Gov't is now cooperating eith Japanese whalers. Why? What happened? Greed, most likely...Here' a link to the Japanese report and warning to Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd. http://www.icrwhale.org/eng/060105Release.pdf Unfortunately, the USA is cooperating with the Japanese by surveillance monitoring of the Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd vessels and giving the info to the Japanese Gov't. Shameful!
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POPSUSA's Dark New Legacy--Bush's Torture policy
This is a long and detailed article on Bush/Cheney's dark work..."We don't torture" is a huge lie. Read it at risk of sickening your heart and learning the sad, sad truth. Comment by vox persona on Alternet.com: The nightmare that is the CheneyBu$hCo crime syndicate still has a year to run, but its reverberations will be felt for generations. We went from 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' to 'Torture, detention and the pursuit of extraordinary rendition'. Homeland Security? Why not Fatherland Security? Or Motherland security? We've adopted nazi nomenclature, co-opted their techniques, and make no mistake there are dark forces run amok. If we can survive the torture that is this illegitimate administration, maybe, just maybe, we stand a chance of turning this thing around. Bush has squandered any moral high ground and reduced us to the lowest common denominator of our enemy. We've been spending over $4,000 per second since this "war' in Iraq started, in a bald-faced full
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POPSSad Truth--War is here to Stay Barbara Ehrenreich, in "Blood Rites," her extraordinary 1997 examination of the history of the passions of war, writes of the evolution of the phenomenon: "Meanwhile, war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions, rather than to just a handful of craftsmen and professional soldiers. It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures." Saying this, I return to the figure of a million war dead in Iraq, pause in horrified awe that, one, it could be possible, and two, it hasn't made mainstream headlines, where big, round numbers normally scream with significance. The estimate, by the U.K. organization Just Foreign Policy and corroborated by the market research firm Opinion Research Business, extrapolates from data published just over a year ago in the respected British medical journal Lancet, which indicated a violent-death toll, as
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POPSInsights into 'Murrikka I'm payin' attention...Naomi Wolf is very clear in her assessment of the "nation of sheep" and it's "shepherds".
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POPSLatest Jazz by the DuD and Presidunce's Press Secretary A letter i wrote to my local paper: (see the site to join action) After listening last week to the whining of the spokesman for the Pentagon and the Presidunce's newest propangandist press secretary, I began to wonder if they really thought the awakening USA public is as stupid as they think. Their false message that they don't have the money to "support our troops" is so bogus it crosses the line to ridiculous. If they can pay the hundreds of thousands of mercenaries like Blackwater's exorbitant salaries and bonuses, then perhaps it's truly time to end this fiasco in Iraq and bring the troops home now, end the killing of innocents, and find new priorities for the billions of wasted taxpayer dollars. And to the deep-voiced idiot, who claimed to work for the DoD, who called me at home and harassed and threatened me after my last letter--You don't scare me, buddy, you disgust me. We STILL have freedom of speech in this country, DON'T WE? Keep your jazzbo threats to yourself. Since
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POPSWhere do the children play? Why is it always about the troops in the media? Because the truth about the horrors of this war are too bloody and devastating for the Amerikan mind to grasp. Patriotism sells, Iraqi deaths are out of focus.
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