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The corporate news media seem to have a blackout on it, but a Freedom of Information act suit to get the documents related to the government/big corporate conspiracy to organize the coordinated violent crackdown that interrupted Occupy has resulted in the exposure of the terribly shocking criminal unconstitutional conspiracy that led to the police riots across the country against Occupy,

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/30

Also a really powerful documentary telling the story of Occupy has been released:

http://metanoia-films.org/rise-like-lions/

How crazy does it have to get in Afghanistan before we realize that whatever we are trying to accomplish is futile?

One of the three Marine special operations personnel killed in Helmand Province by an Afghan police commander on August 9th was a friend of a close friend of mine.

“I don’t even know what to think about this,” was his gut reaction to the news. “Too much raw anger and frustration right now.”

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We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all A boom in oil production has made a mockery of our predictions. Good news for capitalists – but a disaster for humanity by George Monbiot The facts have changed, now we must change too. For the past 10 years an unlikely coalition of geologists, oil drillers, bankers, military strategists and environmentalists has been warning that peak oil – the decline of global supplies – is just around the corner. We had some strong reasons for doing so: production had slowed, the price had risen sharply, depletion was widespread and appeared to be escalating. The first of the great resource crunches seemed about to strike. 'The great profusion of life in the past – fossilized in the form of flammable carbon – now jeopardizes the great profusion of life in the present.' (Illustration by Daniel Pudles)

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The California Senate is just 2 votes short to pass its single payer health care bill, SB 810 - the California Universal Healthcare Act, before the end of this legislative session on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.

Four Democratic Senators have not voted either way on this bill. Its author, Senator Mark Leno, can bring the bill up for reconsideration, as long as he knows that he has two more votes!!

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