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"Security firm Blackwater has had its contract to protect US diplomats in Iraq extended, as an FBI probe into the killing of 17 Iraqis continues."

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"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused its leaders of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism." Full article.

Want proof that the U.S. DOES promote terrorism?

See Zeitgeist: The Movie (complete, streamed) here. 2 hr 3 min.

Part 1: Religion
Part 2: 9/11
Part 3: The Fed and the U.S. Banking cartel

~Peace

Should Michigan and Florida's 313 delegates now be allowed to sit?

No. Not without re-caucus at the expense of the Democratic Party.

Though I am a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton, I am disappointed to learn that she wants (now) to include Michigan and Florida's delegates. Yes, I am clearly hopeful that she will win and become our next president. However, the Democratic Party was the entity that disallowed (penalized) Michigan and Florida by disallowing their 313 delegates to sit because they held their caucuses early. It was not a personal decision on her part to further her campaign.

I am hopeful that she, like Barack Obama, will agree to do as the Democratic Party has agreed, forget that the delegates exist (sorry delegates) and either re-caucus at the Party’s expense or just let those delegates go and get on with running a good, clean campaign as before - even if it means neither candidate will have the required delegates to secure their nomination by the Democratic Party.

~Peace

Obama denies assuring Canada on NAFTA



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"Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show — despite the disclosure of a Canadian memo indicating otherwise." Click pic for full article.

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In a related article:

"America's too vain, and he appeals to America's sense of vanity," Mos Def told Rolling Stone. "It's the A & R guy in me . . . when I saw him on the cover of Men's Vogue, I said, 'This guy's gonna win because he looks good.' So, the best-looking guy for the job is a black guy. I'm cool with that. People also want a rock-star quality to the president, which he has." Click link above for complete article.

Hillary relaxes with longtime friends Mary Steenbergen and Ted Danson while fielding questions from the press.



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Does Experience Matter in a President?

"A story is often told at times like this - times when American voters are choosing among candidates richly seasoned with political experience and those who are less experienced but perhaps more exciting alternatives. Once upon a time, the torch was passed to a new generation of Americans, and a charismatic young President, gifted as a speechmaker but little tested as an executive, was finding his way through his first 100 days. On Day 85, he stumbled, and the result ..."

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"When Americans pass over the best-credentialed candidates because their heart or their gut leads them elsewhere, they are only reflecting a visceral understanding that the presidency involves tests unlike all others. They are, perhaps, seeking the ineffable quality the writer Katherine Anne Porter had in mind when she defined experience as "the truth that finally overtakes you." An ideal President is both ruthless and compassionate, visionary and pragmatic, cunning and honest, patient and bold, combining the eloquence of a psalmist with the timing of a jungle cat. Not exactly the sort of data you can find on a rÉsumÉ."

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Black delegates under pressure to switch to Obama




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All about voting machines and the nature of casting your vote
Electronic vote fraud and the realities confronting the voting public about voting methods.

2 hr 20 min

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way -
Marijuana & Amphetamines

42 min 9 sec

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way -
Opium & Heroin

42 min 50 sec

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way -
Crack & Cocaine

43 min 9 sec

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way -
LSD & Ecstasy (partial)

9 min 30 sec

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Why oil prices are so high and what the Bush family had to do with it.

1 hr 40 min

"We turn now to the connections between President Bush and Enron. Enron founder Ken Lay and his family rank among President Bush’s biggest financial backers of his political career. The family donated about $140,000 to Bush’s political campaigns in Texas and for the White House. The president personally nicknamed Ken Lay “Kenny Boy.” Overall Enron employees gave Bush some $600,000 in political donations. According to the Center for Public Integrity this made Enron Bush’s top career donor–a distinction the company maintained until 2004. Shortly after Bush took office in 2001, Vice President Cheney met with Enron officials while he was developing the administration’s energy policies. Our guest Greg Palast examined the connections between Enron and the Bush administration in his documentary “Bush Family Fortunes.”

Zeitgeist
World Domination and how you are being played right now. Including how the Bush family has been deeply involved in 9/11, the Fed and the dumbing down of America through reduced educational standards in an effort to control YOU.

Sources for the facts divulged in the video.

2 hr 3 min

Bush's Brain - Karl Rove
Q: Who puts those words in Bush's mind and mouth?
A: Karl Rove

1 hr 18 min

Sicko by Michael Moore
About the nature of healthcare in the US vs in other countries.
So, if you had to choose between one finger (to have reattached and lose the other one because you couldn't afford it) which digit would you choose?

1 hr 55 min

Farrakhan Praises Obama as ‘Hope of Entire World’

"In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better. The 74-year-old Farrakhan, former leader of the black Muslim group, never endorsed Obama outright, but spent much of his nearly two-hour speech Sunday to an estimated crowd of 20,000 people praising the Illinois senator.

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"Farrakhan also leveled small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has been engaging in dirty politics."

Hillary Clinton
on Tavis Smiley, February 1, 2008:
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/video/369.html>run time: 25 mins 1 sec.





Barack Obama
on Tavis Smiley, October 18, 2007:
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/video/320.html>run time: 23 mins 57 sec.

Videostreams for your review and consideration:

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way (42 mins 9 sec)

A production of The History Channel, ... covers marijuana & amphetamines

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way (42 mins 50 sec)

A production of The History Channel, ... covers opium and heroin

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way (43 min 09 sec)

A production of The History Channel, ... covers crack & cocaine.

Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way (9 min 30 sec)

A production of the History Channel, ... [partial] covers lsd & ecstasy.

The complete article to which I refer below can be found here: Where Hillary Went Wrong


The False Hopes Argument

Finding herself in an unexpected battle for nomination, Hillary and her campaign reframed their attack on Obama, arguing not just that he lacked experience, but that he was an empty suit, full of rhetoric and cadence, but not much else. More than anything else, the problem with this argument was that it was less of an attack on Obama and more of an attack on Obama supporters. They had been duped, she was arguing, allowing their hope to be unrealistically inflated, and were in for a wake-up call if they didn't heed her advice. The attack instantly struck a cord, an offensive condescension that seemed misplaced and unfair. Without skipping a beat, Obama's speechwriters responded by capturing the belittlement felt by his audience: "In the unlikely story of America," Obama proclaimed, "there is nothing false about hope."

I, too, feel many of you are being "duped" by this candidate. I certainly hope that if he wins, he will be able to govern this country well and be able to shed the shackles of his supporters -- that is, those who bind him to his Party's interests. After all, his Party decided to present him to you for candidacy for the Presidency. The ground rules (the ideals that the candidate must represent in order to satisfy the Party's nomination) have been laid down by them first. Favors and debts must be repaid before one can effect the change they (personally) desire for the country. Senator Clinton has paid her dues in this arena, Senator Obama has not.

Not one candidate skates into office without having their hands already bound. No matter which candidate surfaces in November, they too will have to come up with George W's $62 billion for Katrina AND $100 billion budget. George W. Bush made promises that are not going to be easily sidestepped. Millions of people are expecting to get their money -- the money that [then] former President Bush promised them and we (taxpayers and other elected officials who vote) agreed to give them. Where is all of THAT money going to come from? The economy is slowing to a grinding halt, clearly we are IN a recession (I mean, "scrap gold??"), and though every candidate may WANT to effect change and to do better, and no matter how we believe they (our candidate) will provide the change and growth we seek as a society, as a nation, or as individuals, their (the winning candidate's) hands are bound by all previous votes and promises (be they public promises and votes or no.)

Where is the money coming from if I elect Senator Obama? How will he solve this problem? What is Senator Obama going to do about NAFTA? About the North American Union? About government's accountability for the spending of our tax dollars? How transparent will he be if right at this moment I cannot determine if he is going to accept public funding as agreed by the parties, or if he is going to continue to smile and tout his 'change' message while providing no path to same? [See here.]

It has now come to light that Senator Obama has officially declined to attend the annual "State of the Black Union" symposium in New Orleans. This important event "will address a largely African-American crowd of thousands in New Orleans' Ernest M. Morial Convention Center — where thousands of the city's poorest residents sought shelter in squalid conditions after Hurricane Katrina in 2005."

Senator Clinton will attend the State of the Black Union symposium. She accepted the invitation immediately, even though her African-American supporters were decidedly alienated after South Carolina. She is still reaching out to those she promised to represent and fight for.

I believe Senator Clinton to be the better suited candidate for the situations in which the United States currently finds itself. I definitely think Senator Obama will be a great President someday and I very much look forward to being one of his supporters then. But I do not believe Senator Obama is the best candidate for the job(s) of President of the United States of America right now. If Senator Obama could provide a viable means as to how he is going to generate billions in funds and thousands of jobs to make his claims of change more authentic ... then I will vote for him.

The Law That Never Was...

by: Bill Benson

The Premise

The authority of the federal government to collect its income tax depends upon the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the federal income tax amendment, which was allegedly ratified in 1913. After a year of extensive research, Bill Benson discovered that the 16th Amendment was not ratified by the required 3/4 of the states, but nevertheless Secretary of State Philander Knox fraudulently announced ratification.

Invisible Ballots - A Temptation for Electronic Vote Fraud

Here is some interesting information related to voting machines and the actual voting process. Also, the problems related to the various voting styles are painstakingly described and numerous examples are cited.

The video streams for about 2 hours 20 minutes and 16 seconds. Enjoy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=387547654949639
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