The Beatles- Hey Bulldog

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Tracy Chapman - Talkin bout a revolution

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"Who Really Controls America"

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clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Iraq Still for Sale Kerry Candaele Posted: March 13, 2008 09:42 AM When I first met Ben Carter by telephone in January of 2006, he was somewhat of a lone voice shouting into an empty stadium. He had been working for KBR -- a Halliburton subsidiary that had billions of dollars worth of government contracts in Iraq -- as a water contamination specialist. I was working with Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films on a documentary film (Iraq For Sale) about war profiteering companies who used the war as a way to line their pockets with gads of tax-payer cash for such things a bag of washed laundry at $100 a pop, or $45 for a six pack of Coke.

The Kyoto Protocol also allows industrialised countries to trade their allocation of carbon emissions, and to invest in carbon mitigation projects
in developing countries in exchange for Certified Emission Reduction Units, which they can use to meet reduction targets. But emissions trading, or offsetting, is not in fact a mechanism to reduce emissions. As the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental think tank, has pointed out, the emissions offset in the American act would allow "business as usual" growth in US emissions until 2030, "leading one to wonder: where's the 'cap' in 'cap and trade'?".

clipped from www.commondreams.org The Injustice of Carbon Offsets Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened by Vandana Shiva The science of climate change is now clear, but the politics is very muddy. Historically, the major polluters were the rich, industrialised countries, so it made sense that they should pay the highest price. The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in December 1997, set binding targets for these countries to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions by 5 per cent on average against 1990 levels by 2012. But by 2007, America's greenhouse-gas levels were 16 per cent higher than 1990 levels. The American Clean Energy and Security Act, which was passed in June, commits the US to reduce emissions to 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, yet this is just 4 per cent below 1990 levels.

The Politics of Lying

by Henry A. Giroux

clipped from www.truthout.org Obama's presence on the national political scene gave literacy, language and critical thought a newfound sense of dignity, interlaced as they were with a vision of hope, justice and possibility - and reasonable arguments about the varied crises America faced and civilized. Such practices as Obama compromised, if not surrendered, some of his principles to those individuals and groups that live in the vocabulary of duplicity, the idealism that shaped his language began to look like just another falsehood when measured against his continuation of a number of Bush-like policies. In this case, the politics of distortions and misrepresentations that Obama's lack of integrity has produced may prove to be even more dangerous than what we got under Bush because it wraps itself in a moralism that seems uplifting and hopeful while it supports policies that reward the rich, reduce schools to testing centers and continue to waste lives and money on wars

The Secret to Happiness

Don't kiss ass to get ahead.

And don't bend over to pick up the soap.

Closet Racism

The existing U.S. social structure creates buffers between white and non-whites which shelters the former from ever having to face a situation where racism might come into play, helping to cultivate a self-deluding notion that they themselves would act other than racist when put in a compromising situation, one in which they must choose between acting humanely or kissing up to white supremacist ideals.

The Right

The Right puts a gun to your head to get the desired result because they know they can only win the final argument by invoking fear.
Sure, they will win the war, it's true. But when the enemy is finally defeated, the Right will be standing alone(guns in hand) on the planet he destroyed with only plumes of smoke blocking the sun as companions.......It will be a good day all around because he will surely blow his own head off when he wakes from his self-induced super-patriotic coma.

Gangster Nature of the State II

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