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Kerry is a real one percenter. How many remember his backhand support for the the Iraq war? Where he said he would "do everything differently" but couldn't bring himself to say he wouldn't do it. Kerry as SOS brings us oil wars without end.

Some have also pointed that dems would also then likely lose the Massachusetts senate seat to Scott Brown. We can do better than this.

By Laura Flanders and Noam Chomsky, AlterNet

05 May 12

Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he's given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. His new book, Occupy, published in the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series by Zuccotti Park Press brings together several of those lectures, a speech on “occupying foreign policy” and a brief tribute to his friend and co-agitator Howard Zinn.

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Did you read that 20 or so Americans were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a "bus" in Kabul October 29? This monstrosity that looks like something out of Apartheid South Africa was actually what they were riding in. Don't forget that fuel in Afghanistan is costing our military (taxpayers) between $400 and $800 per gallon. What do you suppose the fuel economy of a Rhino is?

Can you imagine what one of these things costs? And we are told that we have no money for pensions or health care or highways or schools here in the U.S.? The crazy war spending is not even mentioned while our elected "representatives" like Senator Max Baucus put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block! We need millions of people to flood the streets. Join the Occupy movement and support it any way you can!

The former chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has reportedly accused the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, of being part of a plot to have him fired from his post.

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