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Targeting AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
Stephen Lendman: "On January 23, Occupy AIPAC announced plans to confront the powerful Israeli Lobby in Washington from March 2 - 6...Since last September, OWS inspired affiliate groups. Among others they include Occupy Together, Occupy Everything, Occupy Arrests, Occupy Police, Occupy Marines, Occupy Veterans, Occupy Writers, Occupy Filmakers, Occupy Schools, Occupy the World Wide Web, Occupy Freedom, Occupy NATO, Occupy Congress, Occupy the White House, and Occupy Your State Capital America.
Jan 30, 2012, 12:57pm
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Jive Talkin
James Howard Kunstler: "In this particular winter of our discontent, the wispiest nostrums and baldest lies will do. America is not interested in reality...America's soul is so lost that it has disappeared into the same cosmic wilderness that MF Global's client accounts were last seen entering.
Jan 30, 2012, 12:42pm
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America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor
Stephen Lendman: "Political Washington's austerity harshness causes greater harm. Shocking bipartisan indifference to human need and suffering is criminal...In the world's richest ever country, poverty is highest among industrialized nations. Homelessness and hunger levels are unprecedented. Over 20% of US families haven't enough money to buy food and need help.
Jan 25, 2012, 3:24pm
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Murmuration
James Howard Kunstler: "The people of the USA, having been let down and swindled in so many ways by the people they placed their trust in, and even freely elected, appear to be in a daze of injury. Maybe this accounts for the obsession with zombies...The term "murmuration" describes the way that rapid changes occur in the realm of human activities...
Jan 23, 2012, 10:28am
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Beating Up on Chavez
Stephen Lendman: "Since inaugurated in February 1999, he's faced open US hostility, including by go-along major media scoundrels...Venezuelans get free education to the highest levels, quality healthcare at no cost, subsidized food, affordable electricity and cooking gas, gasoline at 7 cents a gallon, and other social benefits.
Jan 20, 2012, 5:07pm
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Stephen Lendman: "The Constitution's Eighth Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment."...Sentencing minors to life without parole qualifies. The ACLU says American children as young as 13 "are sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in prison without any opportunity for release."
Jan 16, 2012, 3:55pm
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What Gives
James Howard Kunstler: "So, everybody and his uncle over in Europe got a sovereign debt downgrade and now the math changes for all the pretend bail-outs and back-stops that had been so exquisitely rigged through the long, nauseating autumn...In the background of these grave machinations lurks the tragedy of Iran.
Jan 16, 2012, 3:47pm
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This Ripe Moment
James Howard Kunstler: "Occupy Wall Street will seem like a mere harvest dance when we look back from the uproars later in 2012. Both organized parties have managed to banish the rule of law in America. Both parties need to be driven into the wilderness of history and the rule of law has to be rescued from the oblivion they sent it to.
Jan 9, 2012, 10:45am
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Promoting War on Iran
Stephen Lendman: "Iran hasn't attacked another country in over 200 years and threatens none now. However, Brookings Institution called Tehran a threat to America, when, in fact, Washington very much threatens Iran, the region and other independent states worldwide.
Jan 6, 2012, 2:09pm
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Money Power Runs America
Stephen Lendman: "Wall Street does it by controlling money, credit and debt, as well as manipulating markets for private enrichment. House and Senate millionaires do it their way for greater wealth, privilege, power and status...Washington runs on inside information. Congressional members use it to get rich.
Jan 4, 2012, 5:22pm
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2012 Forecast: Bang and Whimper
James Howard Kunstler: "On close examination, the industrial world underwent complete zombification in 2011. Its member states and their institutions are now lurching across the stage of history like so many walking dead...The USA lies in complete moral ruin...
Jan 2, 2012, 10:38am
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Israel v. Palestine in 2012
Stephen Lendman: "Palestinians have endured decades of ruthless occupation. World leaders decline support. They're left largely on their own despite growing millions globally supporting them...Life in occupied Palestine is harsh and repressive...
Dec 30, 2011, 1:55pm
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Responsible New York Banking
Stephen Lendman: "Founded in 1882, the Bank of Cattaraugus (B of C) exception proves the rule. Located in Western New York, it's miles from Wall Street's cesspool of fraud, market manipulation, grand theft, bailouts, and influence peddling in league with corrupt politicians getting generous campaign contribution bribes in return..."Personal, friendly service is our signature trademark, and we're dedicated to give back to the communities we service."
Dec 27, 2011, 12:31pm
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A Christmas Carol 2011
James Howard Kunstler: "Who is still not impressed with the ability of these central banks, and their owner-operators, to keep re-circulating immense loads of notional money?...But rackets as grand and insolent as these would not be possible, except in a culture so estranged from truth that anything goes over without notice.
Dec 26, 2011, 3:04pm
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Destroying the American Dream
Stephen Lendman: "Corporate greed and profits over people priorities launched nationwide OWS protests in hundreds of US cities for change...Mindless of growing public rage, political Washington keeps cutting vital social benefits needing increases during hard times...
Dec 21, 2011, 4:49pm
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