Is the Occupy Movement about to Self Destruct?

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Thursday July 12, 2012 · 1:10 PM PDT

2012/07/12 · 13:10

On July 4th, 2012, the first Occupy National Gathering in Philadelphia announced their "Vision For A Democratic Future." It's a well written, sincere, and apparently cooperative endeavor that expresses the hopes and dreams of some very sincere young people.

It may also be the death knell of the Occupy movement itself.

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Monday March 05, 2012 · 6:38 PM PST

2012/03/05 · 18:38

At last, a right wing zealot has used his vitriolic insults to empower women in the US! Yes, we owe you one, Rush Limbaugh, for waking up millions of people - women and men alike, all across this country. You opened your very large mouth at just the right moment to underline the assault on women that has been waged, increasingly brazenly, by state legislatures and candidates for public office for more than a decade, with complete impunity. Until now.

If any of us here are outraged by this assault by the GOP and its de facto leader, and it seems we are,- we have a really great opportunity to speak with one voice...and insist that an attack on one woman is attack on us all. Indeed, we should stand together and announce that we are, indeed, all, sluts and prostitutes.

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Wednesday October 12, 2011 · 3:55 PM PDT

2011/10/12 · 15:55

If the planet is dying and know one really knows it, is it really dying?

Think about it: the demise of the earth is terribly unimportant when stacked up against everything else that truly matters in our lives like the horrific threats posed by supporters of abortion or gay rights. After all, we have those wonderful hacks on the corporate "news" networks to tell us what really affects us and what we should care about. Praise be to whomever.

Enter Bob Alexander with a very moving and disturbing editorial he titled NOISE. You know, - the noise that comes to us via the boob tube - the noise that blocks out the real world and convinces us that up is down and and day is night and that never lets us hear what is actually going on.

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Friday September 30, 2011 · 8:58 AM PDT

2011/09/30 · 08:58

An organized, politically motivated, and well financed effort to manipulate voting the election process in America is well under way. Some of those efforts are as overt as they are egregious, such as those th requiring voters to present DMV identification cards at the polls. But others are far less visible and only come to light as the result of intense investigation and analysis by very devoted and highly qualified experts.

Enter, Bev Harris of Backboxvoting.org, - who has devoted years to exposing the contamination of our most precious democratic right - that of participating in open and honest elections.

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Wednesday September 28, 2011 · 9:57 AM PDT

2011/09/28 · 09:57

Bob Alexander was born, raised, married, and educated in the United States. But, there came a moment of truth, when he felt he had to take his wife and two children away from the country he once loved so dearly.

This was ot an easy move for sure, and not a leap into any imagined Paradise. But, in this article at http://tvnewslies.org, Bob describes the differences between life in the US and life in his newly adopted country. He calls them 'remarkable.'

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Tuesday March 15, 2011 · 1:19 PM PDT

2011/03/15 · 13:19

Once burned? What about twice? In 1945, hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese suffered through the only atomic bombings in history - and yet, in the decades that followed those in power went on to construct the most dangerous, least controllable source of power on an earthquake-ridden nation in constant danger of earthquakes and tsunamis.

So now, the people of Japan are paying a terrible price for the decisions of a few.

The media, both in the US and in Japan, have referred to the 'worst disaster since WWII' without ever using the words Hiroshima or Nagasaki. No one seems willing to make the connection, even though the nexus is extremely relevant and distressing.

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Thursday January 13, 2011 · 11:24 AM PST

2011/01/13 · 11:24

You didn't see that headline in the mainstream media, did you? Of course not. However, the accusation - made by a reporter, not a doctor - discrediting Dr. Andrew Wakefield's studies on autistm made headlines everywhere, and the public was deliberately deluded into believing that any connection between autism and vaccines was a hoax.

Today,an article in http://tvnewslies.org shows that autism advocacy organizations as well as parent groups are urging both scientists and journalists to do more thorough research into vaccines and autism. They believe that the "...libelous accusations are based on the flimsiest possible construct."

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Friday August 06, 2010 · 8:51 AM PDT

2010/08/06 · 08:51

How about that? Finally, after 65 years, the US and its WWII allies will attend a memorial ceremony in Japan - commemorating the Bombs of August.

I really don't want to hear that incinerating more than 100,000 civilians helped to end the war. That's utter nonsense. Talks of surrender had already begun, and the power of the atom bomb was meant to warn Stalin not to even think about challenging America. Japanese, like Muslims today, were fodder for the western war machine. Nothing more.

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Thursday September 17, 2009 · 11:47 AM PDT

2009/09/17 · 11:47

It's almost as if a huge faucet has been turned off across much of the nation. It's not one labeled 'hot' or 'cold,' - rather it is labeled 'THINK!' While never a nation with great respect for intellectual individuality, we have had moments of clarity across the centuries, and as Americans of great diversity, we have brought a range of insight into our developing republic.

And suddenly, but perhaps not so suddenly, on both sides of the political spectrum - albeit uniquely in each party - a choice has been made to arrest the process of critical thought as if in mid-air. For separate motives, reason and analysis have disappeared from the scene, and rational thought has been replaced by what Bob Alexander refers to as profound retardation.

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 2:57 PM PDT

2009/08/21 · 14:57

Why all the looks of surprise? The media pundits are falling over themselves in amazement at Tom Ridge's revelations that the Bush Administration would raise the 'terror' alerts right before the 2004 elections. I cannot understand it... but then again, I do. The ostrich mentality of this nation since 9/11 explains a great deal...and yet it does not. From day one, the PNAC neocons implemented tactics that showed them to be the terrorists they were. They did their utmost to frighten and inspire terror in the hearts and minds of the US population in order to gain support for their war, and to ensure that the public remained loyal to the imperialistic goals these evil men had established years before.

Just to prove a point, let me link to an article that was written before the 2004 election, warning the public of the strategy of terror being used to control the nation. This was only one of many such articles at this site, but in this case it directly addresses the abuse of the ridiculous color coding system that had been set up to unnerve a traumatized country.

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Wednesday August 05, 2009 · 7:25 PM PDT

2009/08/05 · 19:25

This weeks marks the 64th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the close of WWII. According to a recent poll, half of Americans approve of the bombings, and - considering how little real history is taught here, that is no big surprise. In fact, dropping atomic bombs was a political move, not a military strategy to shorten the war. It was a message to the Soviets that we were prepared for the coming conflict with communism with this new and formidable weapon.

So many people were incinerated and radiated on those terrible days. No matter, we relegate the past to irrelevance. Maybe, just maybe that's not the right thing to do.

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 11:16 AM PDT

2009/05/14 · 11:16

What's wrong with this picture? - We have a crime that is clearly defined by domestic, military and international law. We have photos, videos and first hand testimony that the crimes actually occurred. And, best of all, we have public confessions of guilt by four major players in the last administration.

But, whenever the topic of torture is discussed, it takes the form of a bizarre debate that makes no sense at all.

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