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Are you related to Ann Coulter or do you post comments like this because you have nothing better to do? The first particles arriving today are those that escaped at the beginning of the event last Thursday. Since that time up to six reactors have either exploded or are burning and their spent fuel rods have become exposed. Nothing has been done to stop the meltdown process. More concentrated levels of radiation are being released every second. Some of those plumes are filled with MOX plutonium which is two million times more deadly than enriched uranium. According to the Nuclear I

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How to protect yourself from radiation exposure. In less than four days the beginning of the radioactive fallout from Japan will reach the West Coast. With no end or solution in sight this might become useful... My link Another site to monitor radiation... My link

When does the trickle down begin? It looks like these corporations are sitting on their massive profits and not creating new projects, research or jobs for people like the theory claims... Number of the Week: Companies’ Cash Hoard Grows By Mark Whitehouse $1.9 trillion: Corporate America’s cash U.S. companies’ cash hoard keeps getting bigger, a trend both good and troubling. After hitting new highs in five of the last six quarters, nonfinancial corporations’ cash and other liquid assets reached $1.9 trillion at the end of 2010, according to the Federal Reserve. That’s 7% of all their a

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Governor Walker is not just targeting the public sector unions. As one can see in this article, the privatization of state power facilities and the raiding of state worker pension plans are also in the works to pay for tax breaks to the wealthy and his big business cronies. He is also planning to privatize the state's two University of Wisconsin college campuses. I guess the fun has just begun. By the way, I don't think what is happening in Wisconsin and other states has any relevant relationship with overthrowing years of dictatorial regimes who have tortured and murdered their own people

I guess the improving economic picture hasn't reached these folks yet. Visit an Obamaville. Places like this are popping up all over the country. Folks who have lost their jobs and homes who now reside in tent cities much like the Hoovervilles of the early 1930's. Someone should tell them about the thousands of new jobs that are available out there... A Visit to an American Tent City Author: Mac Slavo Reading the headlines over the last eighteen months one would think that the recession of 2008 is all but over. Unemployment, officially, is on the mend, with a reported 9.5% of Americans un

Augurus, here in Connecticut, a Democratic governor is calling for raising the sales tax, gasoline tax and income tax. He is calling for eliminating the property tax exemption used when calculating your state income taxes and raising liquor taxes and cigarette taxes. He is calling for new taxes on haircuts, pet grooming, car rentals, hotels, yoga, boat purchases, non prescription drugs, manicures and plastic surgery to name a few. Those who earn $100,000 a year jointly, will face a greater increase in their income taxes than those making over $500,000. All of this on top of concessions from pu

This says it all. Until this is reversed noting anyone is arguing about here will ever change. I think they call it fascism... Corporate Coup d'Etat In Wisconsin By Stephen Lendman Ralph Nader calls Washington corporate-occupied territory - "every department agency controlled by the overwhelming presence of corporate lobbyists, corporate executives in high government positions, turning the government against its own people." Nader also said corporations don't just control government, they are the government. "The corporation IS the government!" They bought and own it at the federal, st

I've been reding and what I've read is that jobs are not being added in any substantial amount to change the trends of increased unemployment. They are playing with the numbers and you are falling for it. You can believe what you want to believe, but things are not getting better for those out of work... Behind the February 2011 Employment Numbers On average, the U.S. economy needs to generate 120,000 new jobs each month to absorb all the new entrants. Since the latest recession began, the number of people without jobs grew to more than 8 million with another 8 plus million either giving u

Yeah, but they are doing it overseas, not in the United States...

I didn't know you lived in China...The deindustrialization of America has been going on for decades. They estimate the real unemployment rate at between 22% and 25%. Businesses are shutting down every day. Where are these thousands of jobs? Don't give me the administrations fake numbers. If Bush was still president, no one would believe any figures his labor secretary would put out. The country is collapsing right in front of your eyes. Here's a few bits of info that might enlighten you. There is one good thing about the destruction of industry in this country. Some of the abandoned mills are

I use this tuning DDDDAD to play a bunch of Stepen Stills songs pretty much spot on, like Suite Judy Blue Eyes, 4 and 20, Carry On, and a few others. It took me many years to learn how to play SJBE, but finally after learning about this tuning, it all came together. Many of my guitar playing friends are blown away by this song when I play it for them. They all ask, how did you do that? It's really simple. At the Solid Sound Festival last year I noticed Sir Richard Bishop used this tuning. I spoke to him about it later and told him about SJBE. He told me he wasn't aware that was how it was pla

You'll need them. I posted a direct link to this movie a few pages back in this thread. Every American should watch it to see how we have been royally f**ked by all those global elite pigs portrayed in the film. If you don't understand the economic reasons for the collapse we are in the midst of, this film explains it as simply as it can be explained for the economically challenged. You'll understand why Elliot Spitzer was destroyed despite the fact they all do what he did. It is a sad commentary on the state of affairs in America today. You won't be voting Obama in 2012 after you watch it, if

Ratigan is one of the few commentators who gets it. The greatest heist in American history... Dylan Ratigan: Today, some new protests in defense of unions and collective bargaining spreading across the Midwest. Workers and labor leaders gathering in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin to protest bills that would void union contracts or slash bargaining rights. Keep in mind, this is all about public workers continuing to be asked to pay for Wall Street's crime against their pensions. Filmmaker Michael Moore hit the nail on the head at a rally in Madison: Interjected video clip of Michael

After reading the past three pages of this thread, some of you get upset when I post excerpts of articles? Back to the matter at hand. Here is an excerpt from Michael Moore, who we all have opinions about, both positive and negative. He describes what he has witnessed in Madison and addresses the media's slanted reporting of the real situation on the ground at the state capital... How I Got to Madison, Wisconsin The scene in Madison is nothing like what they are showing you on TV or in the newspaper. First, you notice that the whole town is behind this. Yard signs and signs in store w

I'm sure landscaping damage will take care of itself in the spring. The alleged damage to the marble was an attempt to discredit the protesters, as was the discovery of bullets in conspicuous places. That issue seems to have gone away. Napster, did you actually regularly ride your bike under that bridge? I would guess they have replaced it by now, am I correct? We had a similar incident on I-95 in Connecticut a few years back. Folks drove right off the collapsed section in the dark not knowing a whole section of the highway had fallen into the river. I had driven over that section the day befo

I guess the masking tape of mass destruction was a big lie. But aren't most things that government tells us? Officials back off $7.5 mil protester cleanup estimate, now say it's $350K Wisconsin officials now say the cost to repair damage at the state Capitol could be as low as $350,000. Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch says the original $7.5 million estimate to repair marble damaged by tape was a "high-end" estimate. An updated report from DOA says a majority of the nearly $350,000 would cover a crew to perform "very limited" restoration on marble as well as landscape

Lake Placid, Fort Ticonderoga, Lake George, NY, or maybe jump over to Boston.

Not bad. Could easily have been a song on Tomorrow the Green Grass by the Jayhawks. It has that kind of feel to it.

John Stewart crucifies the media for supporting Wall Street and attacking teachers... http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-3-2011/crisis-in-the-dairyland---for-richer-and-poorer---teachers-and-wall-street Link to "Inside Job" the award winning documentary about the collapse of the American economy brought on by the banksters who run this country. After watching this let me know if you think the public unions should bare the brunt of blame for the crisis... My link After you watch Inside Job watch this and you'll see the difference between the people and the banksters... http:/

Is tape the new weapon of mass destruction? What a crock of shit. The smearing, the demonizing and the attempted setting up of the teachers and other public worker protesters by the Wisconsin state authorities and some of the media outlets, has been ratcheted up into high gear. Six million dollars of damage from masking tape from signs? Give me a freaking break. Doesn't anyone in the media question these assertions? It obviously sounds like someone went around scattering 22 caliber bullets in places that they would be easily found. No one appears to have been spotted with a weapon. No shots ha