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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 who worries about such things is aware that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is close to the Russians and likes to party with young women. The latest batch of leaks revealed that the American diplomatic service was also aware of this. And now Berlusconi is aware that they know of these things, which will make it hard for diplomats to pretend that they don’t know of these things. Of course, Berlusconi was aware that everyone knew of these things and clearly didn’t care, since the charges were all over Italian media. The consistent reality of the leaks is that they do not reveal anything new...

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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 his fortune to convince politicians they should ruin the average guy’s retirement? Today Peterson announced the next facet in his long campaign to hack Social Security, including a joke Presidential candidate named Hugh Jidette (“huge debt”) and a website called Owe No. His aim is to convince Congress to raise the retirement age, cut Social Security’s cost-of-living increases—and raise the payroll taxes we pay for Social Security and Medicare. It wouldn’t matter what one cranky octogenarian billionaire had to say if he weren’t putting $6 million into ads, funding “expert” commissions, and spreading lies designed to panic the populace. Maybe Peterson figures offense is better...

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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 were seven vaccines — diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and polio.  Children received 15 doses of seven vaccines by the time they were two years old and not more than four vaccines in a single visit.  Since the mid-1980s, many vaccines have been added to the schedule.  Today, children may receive as many as 37 doses of 14 vaccines by the age of two, and as many as eight vaccines in a single visit!  The United States recommends more vaccines than any country in world. The CDC recommends 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age six, and 69 doses of 16 vaccines by age...

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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 as a child.  It was clear that given his education and experience he was clearly not a viable candidate for the Supreme Court.  And sadly that has been clearly proven in the past 19 years.  The color of his skin was why he was there.  Sadly the inappropriate telephone message left on Anita Hill’s telephone by his wife Ginni has helped no one.  We know there was another potential witness at the time of the hearing, Lillian McEwen, who, because of that phone call decided to “end her 19-year silence about Justice Clarence Thomas.” Now there is talk demanding that Thomas be impeached for perjuring himself before the committee. (...

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