Nearly 1 in 6 Americans Lives In Poverty

"The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed," the AP reports. The National Academy of Science finds that "approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government's official figure." The new calculations put the poverty rate at 15.8 percent, or nearly one in six Americans.

Exceedingly shocking that the number is this high. But I can't say that I'm surprised about the economic disaster which is still unfolding. Like quite a few others, I saw this coming as far back as '04.

The Bush administration ran two wars off of a credit card, allowed war profiteering like no one has ever seen, gutted the SEC and other financial regulatory agencies; all aided by a republican congress dating back to 1994. Hedge funds and the derivative market have never been regulated, thanks to Phil Graham and company in 1998 when they refused all reasoned demand to regulate these these outlaw funds and economic tactics designed, it seems, to rob from the middle class and give to the wealthy. I won't even say what this has done to the poor.


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Rightwing Declares War On Everybody

Nothing new about the war, just more examples of it everyday; uglier examples, like this one. 


I mean, can one imagine the chilling effect this will have on college professors. Me thinks that is the reason for this new right-wing tactic. 


It might, however, have another kind of effect. College campuses could explode again, like they did in the '60s, but instead of an anti-authoritarian tilt, it could have the effect of turning campuses into hotbeds of civil war.




RIGHT-WING ACTIVIST LAUNCHES COLLEGE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE TO COUNTER 'LEFTIST ABUSE' AND 'SMASH LEFT-WING SCUM': Campus Progress reports that Morton Blackwell, founder of the right-wing young adult organization the Leadership Institute (LI), has launched a new social-networking site for young conservatives, called CampusReform. The site is dedicated to exposing supposed "bias" in universities that are "completely dominated by the left" and giving students a forum to report and organize against liberal professors. The site allows students struggling to meet the rising cost of tuition during the economic recession the opportunity to make money by reporting examples of "leftist abuse" by professors. Blackwell claims the site was born out of his "long-term awareness of how the campuses have become left-wing indoctrination centers." Even as LI spent $4.6 million last year to "conduct training seminars for college students and to assist with launching right-leaning newspapers on campus," Blackwell claims that CampusReform is "largest program ever created" in his organization's history. CampusReform's staff consists of 11 regional organizers, all providing services and resources to campuses across the country. LI has already bred conservative leaders like GOP strategist Karl Rove, Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson (R-SC), and Grover Norquist, head of Americans For Tax Reform. CampusReform also proudly points out that James O'Keefe, the filmmaker who posed as the pimp that led to the ACORN scandal, attended 10 different LI schools in addition to receiving funding from the Institute.
 


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9/11 Commission Report Is Almost Completely Deceptive

In case you missed it:

Wonder why I haven't seen this on the News. Did I miss it? 

This is the author of the report and senior counsel to the Commission, hardly a known conspiracy theorist.

9/11 Happened Due to the Bush Administration's Negligence

BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)

From Mark Crispin Miller:

 

Hang onto your hats:

John Farmer, Dean of the Law School at Rutgers University and former Attorney General of New Jersey, was legal counsel to the 9/11 Commission, and in charge of drafting its report.

 

And now, having read through lots of further evidence, he's come to the conclusion that the official version of the story is almost entirely untrue, based on false testimony by the White House, CIA, FBI and NORAD.

 

His new book, The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America's Defense on 9/11, makes this case with loads of documentary evidence--and his colleagues on the commission are on board, as the article below makes clear.

So are John Farmer and those other members of that very commission all "conspiracy theorists"?

 

“At some level of government,” says Dean Farmer, “at some point in time, a decision was made not to tell the truth about the national response to the attacks on the morning of 9/11. We owe the truth to the families of the victims of 9/11. We owe it to the American public as well, because only by understanding what has gone wrong in the past can we assure our nation’s safety in the future.”

 

Here's the press release re: Farmer's book from Rutgers University:

 

The Ground Truth narrates the government’s growing awareness of and reaction to the al Qaeda terrorist threat in units of time as it was lived – from years down to the final minutes and seconds to intervene and respond, vividly portraying key moments. The final section considers the nature of government in crisis. Dean Farmer offers seven lessons to be learned from the responses to 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, with perhaps the most important: “A government reshaped by the lessons of its prior experiences requires candor.”

And the “ground truth”? It’s that the fault for failing to detect or interdict the attacks lay in the nature of modern government itself. “Unless we change government, unless we plan to respond to crises the way we now know they are experienced,” says Dean Farmer, “we will fail to protect ourselves, with horrifying consequences.”

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This is not a book in suppport of 9/11 theorists because it doesn't propose an alternative conspiracy theory; but rather it makes the bold and accurate claim that the so-called 9/11 Commission was a Whitewash meant to conceal rather than reveal the truth. 

But when avenues of investigation are intentionally ignored, we are left speculating as to what the truth really is. Farmer, former legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission, offers some startling theories and information that is a truthful alternative to the Comission's politically positioned "findings."

"In revisiting the tragedy of the 9/11 attacks that still haunt America, John Farmer provides a devastating account of how what government and military officials told Congress, the 9/11 Commission on which he served, the media, and the public 'was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue.' The result is a major, carefully documented and deeply disturbing book, one that deserves the most serious attention of every American concerned about our future." --Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author.

"Physics teaches us that waves of the same frequency amplify each other. That's what brought down the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The Ground Truth reveals 9/11 as a manifestation of that same phenomenon, with waves of history cresting together. It does so with perfect clarity, thanks to the brilliance of finding, in the examples of two "minor" national security agencies, the dysfunctionality that plagued the mightiest-seeming arms of the government. I made the mistake of not writing down the first two or three times I felt goosebumps. The Ground Truth is superbly conceived and carried out. What a great book."
--Jim Dwyer, author of 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers


And Farmer concludes that a government that conceals the truth puts the nation at great risk.

 

While it won't please the diehard conspiracy theorists, this is an enormously important refutation of the 9/11 Commission from its legal counsel! That's stunning!

Whenever the federal government wants to hide the truth, rather than reveal it, they set up a politically appointed and guided "commission."

Such was the case, as many of us speculated, with the betrayal of the "9/11 Commission."

It's a worthwhile read to have it confirmed in such a bold book by the Dean of Rutgers University School of Law and former Attorney General of New Jersey.

 

This is an elite insider who was supposed to keep his mouth shut, but who decided to expose the deceit of the "9/11 Commission" instead.

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About the Author: John Farmer became Dean of Rutgers School of Law–Newark on July 1, 2009. In addition to his work for the 9/11 Commission, he has served as Attorney General of New Jersey, Chief Counsel to Governor Christine Todd Whitman, as a federal prosecutor, a law enforcement expert to the special envoy for Middle East regional security, and a founding partner of a New Jersey law firm.

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Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (September 8, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594488940
ISBN-13: 978-1594488948
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.4 inches

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Rush Limbaugh Farts Out Loud, Again.......

Old Rush sure is bouncing to the surface a lot these days. I've heard much more about him. I doubt I have ever listened to him. I haven't listened to the radio since C.D.s came out. The radio is never a place I choose to receive any but emergency news and weather reports  when driving and I know that Rush makes racial remarks all the time. People I know often tell me things he says. Usually these are people who are actually shocked and a little concerned about something he has said. I used to hear more about something funny he said.

I guess my style is too pay attention to anything that flies above the 'dar so to speak, unless the subject is     

How can anyone defend this man? He has shown, over and over again, that he either is a racist or, even worse,  he makes big bucks off the racist leanings of others. Don't tell me that racism doesn't exist. I know it does. It exists all over the country.

O'Reilly has every bit as much a crack team of researchers as Media Matters does. Yet, he and his staff could find only one example of Rush having anything to say about blacks on Teevee or Radio or anywhere else he influences masses of Americans, according to his own polls.

I do not believe Mr. Limbaugh's civil rights have been violated here. Certainly they are not being violated  anymore than the Dixie Chicks' were. The commentators on the Rght were saying that the The Dixie Chicks could well be hurt by the outrage of the people, because no one was saying that they could not have free speech. The markets would fix their uppity little butts. Did it? I don't remember. I don't believe it did over the long haul, because they are still very much around.

Limbaugh has not been fired. He is still free to spew his venom on the radio. The rest of us have a right of association. If we do not wish to associate ourselves with him, we don't have to. If the men bidding on the L.A. Rams do not wish to associate with him, they should not have to. If the players find him offensive they have a right to say that they will not play for a team owned, even in part, by him.

We make our choices in life. Limbaugh made his choice to get rich off hate speech. If the broader society finds that choice as disgusting as I do and refuses to openly associate with him or support him in any way, he has to live with that.




"The only thing we can find about Rush Limbaugh [saying racist remarks] is that he thinks quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated by some people who want black quarterbacks to succeed."-- Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, 10/15/09

VERSUS

"Media Matters has documented at least 28 examples of Limbaugh making racially charged remarks."
-- Media Matters, 10/16/09
 


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