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Brilliant Multi-Analysis of the Bin Laden Assassination

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Here is my commentary on today’s offering from CommonDreams.org. If you use only one other source of news and commentary it should be CommonDreams.org. It’s free; from time to time they will ask you for a small donation. I have highlighted the commentary provided by Glenn Greenwald. In my opinion, the best writer on the web. Read it all – it makes a grand synthesis of the thinking brought forth by the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Read, assimilate, and learn. tfk Wanted Dead or Alive Published on Thursday, May 12, 2011 by CommonDreams.org by Robert C. Koehler When President Obama, summing up the killing of Osama bin Laden, said, “Justice has been done,” the problem wasn’t simply that he misspoke — justice, after all, can only emerge at the end of an impartial judicial proceeding — but that, in so misspeaking, he hit the emotional bull’s-eye. “Justice has been done.” We got him, America! Oh yeah, sweet! Who...

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Three Anniversaries Best Not Forgotten

Three Anniversaries Best Not Forgotten

On May 1st there will be three anniversaries to mark. First, the International Worker’s Day (also known as May Day) originated in 1886 in Chicago and is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. The second marks the publication eight years ago of the Downing Street Memo in The London Times which provided...

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Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid

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A new survey of American voters shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University...

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March 19, 2011 A Day for Country-Wide Sadness and Mourning

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Today, March 19, 2011 marks the eighth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq.  Please read my Editorial that was published in the local regional newspaper on February 24, 2003, four weeks before the invasion.  I pointed out all the reasons that should have kept us from this criminal venture which has cost us at least three trillion dollars,...

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WikiLeak Releases

WikiLeak Releases

Here is an evaluation by experts of the latest WikiLeak releases. This report is republished with permission of  “STRATFOR” Some emphasis has been added at my discretion. In the end this whole episode will be a positive for this country – tfk There were other embarrassments also known by the informed observer. Almost anyone...

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Billionaire Launches Campaign to Slash Social Security

Billionaire Launches Campaign to Slash Social Security

by Jane Slaughter | Tue, 11/09/2010 – 5:45pm | LaborNotes Why does a billionaire want to take away your Social Security benefits? Peter Peterson is 84 years old. He’s old enough to relax and enjoy the fruits of the years he was well paid for managing other rich people’s money. Why is he spending...

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Big Profits Linked to Vaccine Mandates

Big Profits Linked to Vaccine Mandates

By Dr. Mercola  |  November 04 2010 | Mercola.com In the early 1950s, the United States administered four vaccines — diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox. Children received 13 doses of four vaccines by the time they were two years old and not more than three vaccines in a single visit.   By the mid-1980s, there...

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Is there a Perjurer on our Supreme Court?

Is there a Perjurer on our Supreme Court?

I remember watching the Congressional hearings where Clarence Thomas was a candidate for the Supreme Court.  I remember particularly the unnecessarily abusive way in which Arlen Specter questioned Anita Hill.  I remember hearing Thomas’ life story, his accomplishments and the help he got from institutions and people along the way.  I remember the meanness of the “ABC” taunt he heard...

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The George W. Bush Memoir

The George W. Bush Memoir

Admirers of George W. Bush will soon have an opportunity to get inside the head of their dearly beloved neo-conservative icon.  His much-hyped memoir, ‘Decision Points’ is due out in bookstores on November 9th. We’re told that ‘The Decider’ has, “spent almost every day” writing what his publishing house calls, “a strikingly personal and...

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