URGENT ACTION APPEAL
- From Amnesty International USA
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Further information on UA 36/12 (3 February 2012)
Issue Date: 16 February 2012
Country: USA (Florida)
EXECUTED AFTER THREE DECADES ON DEATH ROW
Robert Waterhouse was executed in Florida in the evening of 15 February. Aged 65, he had been on death row for half his life, for a murder committed in January 1980.
In September 1980, 33-year-old Robert Waterhouse was sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of Deborah Kammerer, whose body had been found eight months earlier. In 1988, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing. Robert Waterhouse was re-sentenced to death in 1990.
In 2005, it was established that evidence from the crime scene had been destroyed and that there was nothing left that could be subjected to DNA analysis. In a motion filed in state court, Robert Waterhouse's lawyers argued that it would be unconstitutional to execute a prisoner who had "consistently and continuously maintained his innocence", who in support of this claim had sought DNA testing unavailable at the time of his trial, and where all relevant evidence had been destroyed as a result of official recklessness or negligence. The lawyers also presented a sworn statement from a witness who had come forward with his recollections from the night of the crime that appeared to call into question the credibility of a key prosecution witness against Robert Waterhouse. On 8 February 2012, the Florida Supreme Court upheld a lower court's dismissal of the claims.
The execution was originally scheduled for 6pm on 15 February, but was delayed while the US Supreme Court considered a last-minute appeal. When this was rejected, the execution went ahead. Robert Waterhouse was pronounced dead at 8.22pm. He maintained his innocence before being put to death by lethal injection.
This is the first execution in Florida this year, and the 72nd in the state since the USA resumed judicial killing in 1977. Four prisoners have been put to death in the USA this year, bringing to 1,281 the total number of executions nationwide since 1977.
No further action by the UA Network is requested. Many thanks to all who sent appeals.
Name(s): Robert Waterhouse (m)
Issue(s): Death Penalty
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Tea Party rallies at University Mall
Wave That Flag Tea Baggers!
An American flag billowed in the breeze against a bright blue sky while patriotic music blared Saturday afternoon as about 30 people gathered along North Davis Highway in Pensacola for a tea party rally.
Coordinated by John Baker of the Pensacola Tea Party, the purpose of the demonstration was to protest against President Barack Obama’s request to the U.S.
Congress last week to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion.
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PS: Gotta love the sign in the hand of the man featured in the picture for this article! He apparently doesn't even realize that he's describing himself and his Tea Baggers.....America's Ignorance and Apathy!! LOL Ah sweet justice!
Magginkat: Tea Baggers...........so proud of their ignorance. They raise a ruckus about the debt ceiling and don't have a clue what it's about. Why weren't they screaming when Chicken George breezed through a surplus, lied us into two illegal occupations of countries that have never done us any harm & tripled the national debt. Oh heck no, these same silly know nothings were cheering him on with all their might claiming that he was patriotic as he walked all over the Constitution. Long forgotten are the thousands of soldiers who were murdered & continue to be murdered for these lies, the innocent bystanders whe were murdered as their country was bombed into sand pile. And still they want those spend crazy, corrupt fools in Congress to bomb another country that has done us no harm. Wave that flag Tea Baggers & keep on waving it because that's all you are getting from those supporters of the 1%. Wave it while our schools are closed down and our own people continue to die because they cannot afford the simplest of medical care. Wave on Tea Baggers while our highways, bridges, etc. collapse and kill more people. It won't bother the 1% as they happily fly to their well maintained airports in their fancy jets with their tax deductions and subsidies (welfare checks in amounts you could only dream about). Wave that flag clueless fools. The 1% love it that you are so clueless & they will say anything to keep you that way.
An American flag billowed in the breeze against a bright blue sky while patriotic music blared Saturday afternoon as about 30 people gathered along North Davis Highway in Pensacola for a tea party rally.
Coordinated by John Baker of the Pensacola Tea Party, the purpose of the demonstration was to protest against President Barack Obama’s request to the U.S.
Congress last week to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion.
_________________________________________________
PS: Gotta love the sign in the hand of the man featured in the picture for this article! He apparently doesn't even realize that he's describing himself and his Tea Baggers.....America's Ignorance and Apathy!! LOL Ah sweet justice!
Magginkat: Tea Baggers...........so proud of their ignorance. They raise a ruckus about the debt ceiling and don't have a clue what it's about. Why weren't they screaming when Chicken George breezed through a surplus, lied us into two illegal occupations of countries that have never done us any harm & tripled the national debt. Oh heck no, these same silly know nothings were cheering him on with all their might claiming that he was patriotic as he walked all over the Constitution. Long forgotten are the thousands of soldiers who were murdered & continue to be murdered for these lies, the innocent bystanders whe were murdered as their country was bombed into sand pile. And still they want those spend crazy, corrupt fools in Congress to bomb another country that has done us no harm. Wave that flag Tea Baggers & keep on waving it because that's all you are getting from those supporters of the 1%. Wave it while our schools are closed down and our own people continue to die because they cannot afford the simplest of medical care. Wave on Tea Baggers while our highways, bridges, etc. collapse and kill more people. It won't bother the 1% as they happily fly to their well maintained airports in their fancy jets with their tax deductions and subsidies (welfare checks in amounts you could only dream about). Wave that flag clueless fools. The 1% love it that you are so clueless & they will say anything to keep you that way.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
The U.S. is not broke!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Kucinich-End-the-Fed--Cr-by-Josh-Mitteldorf-110604-927.html
Kucinich: End the Fed & Create Full Employment
On Tuesday, Dennis KUCINICH told the simple, unvarnished truth behind the debt ceiling charade. The debt crisis is a creation of the neocons who want to "drown government in a bathtub". (What they want to drown is medicare and social security, not corporate welfare or the military.)
Here's the text of Kucinich's speech:
Why are we in debt? We borrow trillions for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, trillions for tax cuts for the rich. We borrow billions from China and Japan.
We have plenty of money for war, Wall Street, and welfare for the wealthy; but when millions of honest Americans need jobs, need wage increases, need health care, need education, need retirement security, they're told no, we don't have the money.
How is it that the Fed can create trillions of dollars to give to the banks but the U.S. can't meet its needs without going into debt to banks? The financial system works for a few at the expense of the many.
The Founders did not intend for America to be run by big banks and Wall Street. The Constitution put the ability to create money in the hands of Congress. The Fed took away that power in 1913. We need to get that power back to invest in our economy, to create jobs, to put America back to work, to rebuild America without going into debt. We must reclaim our destiny by reclaiming control over the money system.
……………………………………………….. and here’s another part of the huge deficit story:
Largest US businesses made $170 billion and paid no taxes
Yes, you read that correctly.
Not only have these twelve companies paid zero in taxes for the years 2008-2010, they actually received tax subsidies that added $62.4 billion to their bottom lines.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Wisconsin Revolt--About “taking our country back”
© Bryan Zepp Jamieson
February 20th 2011
One thing that's important to remember about the budget battle in Wisconsin is that when the new governor took office just over a month ago, the state still had a surplus.
That's right. There was no deficit. This made Wisconsin something of a rarity at a time when, following 30 years of Republican policies designed to sabotage government budgets, most states are drowning in a sea of red ink.
The new governor, a Koch-backed Teabagger named Scott Walker, needed a deficit so he could have an excuse to attack unions. So he created one, with some fake-out tax cuts. There was one, highly touted, that supposedly cut taxes for small businesses making over a half a million a year in revenues. Another permitted tax deductions on contributions to health savings accounts, and brought Wisconsin in line with 46 other states that have such. So far so good.
The REAL nature of the tax cuts, according to the blog One Wisconsin Now, were as follows:
$25 million for an economic development fund for job creation that still has $73 million due to a lack of job creation. Walker is creating a $25 million hole which will not create or retain jobs. [Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, 1/7/11]
$48 million for private health savings accounts, which primarily benefit the wealthy. A study from the federal Governmental Accountability Office showed the average adjusted gross income of HSA participants was $139,000 and nearly half of HSA participants reported withdrawing nothing from their HSA, evidence that it is serving as a tax shelter for wealthy participants. [Government Accountability Office, 4/1/08; Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, 1/11/11]
$67 million for a tax shift plan, so ill-conceived that at-best the benefit provided to job creators would be less than a dollar a day per new job, and may be as little as 30 cents a day. [Associated Press, 1/28/01]
The average “job creation” tax cut, according to Politifact, amounted to one dollar a year for each small business affected. Yes, you read that correctly. One dollar a day per job. You can apparently hire a lot of people for a dollar a day in Wisconsin. The HSA deduction will benefit roughly 1.3% of Wisconsin's taxpayers. That's right: one point three percent. Three guesses which end of the socio-economic spectrum they might reside on.
But it did what Walker wanted: it created a deficit where there hadn't been one before, so he could scream about implementing austerity measures.
Only he didn't offer anything in the way of cuts in services, or anything designed to [gawd ferbid] bring in more revenue. Instead, he came up with a bill to abolish collective bargaining by state employees.
That won't save the state a dime for several years, if ever. It means that without a union, the state will privatize everything they can, and outsourcing services ALWAYS costs more, and usually results in lower-quality employees, ones less accountable to the state government. When was the last time you met a Republican representative who gave a Fuck about deficit spending unless it was to break unions, weaken Democrats, or screw the people?
But the new governor, a fascist disguised as a conservative, wants to break the unions. Fascists absolutely hate unions, and will do anything they can to destroy them. There is no room for power-sharing in that Mindset.
So he presented his bill, and not only did the state unions explode (including the police and fire-fighter unions, who had supported him under the mistaken assumption that he was a conservative), but so did workers around the country. Suddenly there were huge demonstrations at the state capitol, and protests around the country. Liberal bloggers, spotting a similarity, started referring to Walker as “Hosni Walker”.
In a reprise of a redistricting scam in Texas authored by professional political outlaw Tom DeLay, the Democratic representatives bolted the state in order to deny to scofflaw Republican majorities in the state lege the quorum needed to pass the bill. In Texas, America's first third-world state, the Dems eventually lost, with the result that the state has grotesquely gerrymandered districts that manage to keep the white minority of the state in control. Shades of Boetha! Hopefully the Dems in Wisconsin will fare better.
The right wing noise machine sprang into action, of course. Faux News was claiming – falsely – that union employees were the reason Wisconsin had a deficit. On Friday, they had a correspondent in a very strange situation: a large burly sort was standing three feet from him, chanting “Fox lies!” over and over. Completely unfazed, he tried to engage the shouter in conversation, and the shouter just kept screaming “Fox Lies!”. The anchor suggested that perhaps the shouter would like a state-run station like Hosni Mubarak's TV which didn't show the protests after a couple of days.
Can you say “plant,” boys and girls? I knew you could! Oddly enough, the commentator didn't try to engage any of the hundreds others who were chanting the same thing.
The anti-union propaganda geared up rapidly. Many blogs got stories about a friend or neighbor or relative who was a retired teachers and “embarrassed to admit how big her pension was.” Gee, thirty years of wet-nursing mewling brats whose highest ambition is to be ignorant right wing assholes like mommy and daddy? Gee, I can't see any reason there to give them a pension, can you? One of the Republicans at the state house reportedly said teachers didn't deserve any special treatment (“special treatment” apparently means already-earned retirement pensions) because they don't “produce anything.” As if Republican representatives do.
Another anti-union whine is that cops get to retire at age 50 with full pension. Having already been overpaid as union employees to begin with. Most communities can't wait to get a full complement of underpaid 55 year old cops who can't afford to retire, right? It's not like cops take any risks or make any sacrifices, right?
This is the average salary (less benefits) of a state teacher over the average wage for a state:
Alabama 120%, Arkansas 117%, Arizona 130%, California 122%. I know this because the Teabag morons have been promoting it all over the blogosphere.
It's ironic that billionaires are spending lots of money getting their cultivated idiots in the Teabagger movement to parrot that line. Someone making 120% of what an “average” worker gets for the thankless task of educating children is someone getting undue and unearned privilege, it seems. At least, the people who whine copiously about having to pay 15% cap gains on their billions will tell you this.
Maybe people should ask themselves why, if these union employees make 120% of what they do, maybe they should join a union? Wouldn't you like a 20% raise, and bring your purchasing power back up to what it was in 1992?
Another yowl getting currency among the tin-foil soldiers of the right is that “unions are unconstitutional” and that FDR disapproved of public employee unions. The first is utter nonsense, of course: unions, like corporations, are groups of people banded together to further a mutual economic interest and act as a single legal entity. If unions are unconstitutional, so are corporations. As for FDR, he feared public employee unions becoming politically active and partisan—in short, an end-run around the laws that demolished the Spoils System. History has shown his fears to be unjustified. If there is danger of politicization of the bureaucracy (along with the courts and the military) it is from the fascist right, who love to take their stooges and dress them up in judges' robes and military costumes.
I really have to wonder what outside observers make of these morons who come piling out of their single-wides to take up the cause of eliminating cap-gain taxes and paying for it by cutting teachers' pay, benefits, pensions, and overall numbers, all in the name of reducing worker power.
We've had 30 years of Reaganomics, and all we have to show for it is fewer good jobs, poorer pay, and howls from the entitled class that it's not fair that they should have to pay ANYTHING for the upkeep of the country and the people they have spent a generation gutting.
A favorite line of plutocrats and their pet teabaggers is that they want to “take our country back.” A lot of the Teabaggers are stupid enough that they think it means standard conservative halcyon days of the 1950s when cars had fins, households only needed one wage earner on one job, Negroes knew their place, and teen pregnancy could be swept under the carpet, with illegitimate offspring dumped at orphanages for the priests to play with.
The fascists mean something else entirely. They aren't yearning for long ago days, unless perhaps it was the 1920s, or even the 1870s, when plutocrats nearly did take over the country entire. And when they talk about “taking our country back”, they really mean “taking the country,” period.
And they want to take it from us. That's why they want to break the power of the middle class, steal the pensions, and make Americans weak, subservient, and totally dependent on their employers for everything.
It's time this “taking” ended.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zepps_essays/message/867
February 20th 2011
One thing that's important to remember about the budget battle in Wisconsin is that when the new governor took office just over a month ago, the state still had a surplus.
That's right. There was no deficit. This made Wisconsin something of a rarity at a time when, following 30 years of Republican policies designed to sabotage government budgets, most states are drowning in a sea of red ink.
The new governor, a Koch-backed Teabagger named Scott Walker, needed a deficit so he could have an excuse to attack unions. So he created one, with some fake-out tax cuts. There was one, highly touted, that supposedly cut taxes for small businesses making over a half a million a year in revenues. Another permitted tax deductions on contributions to health savings accounts, and brought Wisconsin in line with 46 other states that have such. So far so good.
The REAL nature of the tax cuts, according to the blog One Wisconsin Now, were as follows:
$25 million for an economic development fund for job creation that still has $73 million due to a lack of job creation. Walker is creating a $25 million hole which will not create or retain jobs. [Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, 1/7/11]
$48 million for private health savings accounts, which primarily benefit the wealthy. A study from the federal Governmental Accountability Office showed the average adjusted gross income of HSA participants was $139,000 and nearly half of HSA participants reported withdrawing nothing from their HSA, evidence that it is serving as a tax shelter for wealthy participants. [Government Accountability Office, 4/1/08; Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, 1/11/11]
$67 million for a tax shift plan, so ill-conceived that at-best the benefit provided to job creators would be less than a dollar a day per new job, and may be as little as 30 cents a day. [Associated Press, 1/28/01]
The average “job creation” tax cut, according to Politifact, amounted to one dollar a year for each small business affected. Yes, you read that correctly. One dollar a day per job. You can apparently hire a lot of people for a dollar a day in Wisconsin. The HSA deduction will benefit roughly 1.3% of Wisconsin's taxpayers. That's right: one point three percent. Three guesses which end of the socio-economic spectrum they might reside on.
But it did what Walker wanted: it created a deficit where there hadn't been one before, so he could scream about implementing austerity measures.
Only he didn't offer anything in the way of cuts in services, or anything designed to [gawd ferbid] bring in more revenue. Instead, he came up with a bill to abolish collective bargaining by state employees.
That won't save the state a dime for several years, if ever. It means that without a union, the state will privatize everything they can, and outsourcing services ALWAYS costs more, and usually results in lower-quality employees, ones less accountable to the state government. When was the last time you met a Republican representative who gave a Fuck about deficit spending unless it was to break unions, weaken Democrats, or screw the people?
But the new governor, a fascist disguised as a conservative, wants to break the unions. Fascists absolutely hate unions, and will do anything they can to destroy them. There is no room for power-sharing in that Mindset.
So he presented his bill, and not only did the state unions explode (including the police and fire-fighter unions, who had supported him under the mistaken assumption that he was a conservative), but so did workers around the country. Suddenly there were huge demonstrations at the state capitol, and protests around the country. Liberal bloggers, spotting a similarity, started referring to Walker as “Hosni Walker”.
In a reprise of a redistricting scam in Texas authored by professional political outlaw Tom DeLay, the Democratic representatives bolted the state in order to deny to scofflaw Republican majorities in the state lege the quorum needed to pass the bill. In Texas, America's first third-world state, the Dems eventually lost, with the result that the state has grotesquely gerrymandered districts that manage to keep the white minority of the state in control. Shades of Boetha! Hopefully the Dems in Wisconsin will fare better.
The right wing noise machine sprang into action, of course. Faux News was claiming – falsely – that union employees were the reason Wisconsin had a deficit. On Friday, they had a correspondent in a very strange situation: a large burly sort was standing three feet from him, chanting “Fox lies!” over and over. Completely unfazed, he tried to engage the shouter in conversation, and the shouter just kept screaming “Fox Lies!”. The anchor suggested that perhaps the shouter would like a state-run station like Hosni Mubarak's TV which didn't show the protests after a couple of days.
Can you say “plant,” boys and girls? I knew you could! Oddly enough, the commentator didn't try to engage any of the hundreds others who were chanting the same thing.
The anti-union propaganda geared up rapidly. Many blogs got stories about a friend or neighbor or relative who was a retired teachers and “embarrassed to admit how big her pension was.” Gee, thirty years of wet-nursing mewling brats whose highest ambition is to be ignorant right wing assholes like mommy and daddy? Gee, I can't see any reason there to give them a pension, can you? One of the Republicans at the state house reportedly said teachers didn't deserve any special treatment (“special treatment” apparently means already-earned retirement pensions) because they don't “produce anything.” As if Republican representatives do.
Another anti-union whine is that cops get to retire at age 50 with full pension. Having already been overpaid as union employees to begin with. Most communities can't wait to get a full complement of underpaid 55 year old cops who can't afford to retire, right? It's not like cops take any risks or make any sacrifices, right?
This is the average salary (less benefits) of a state teacher over the average wage for a state:
Alabama 120%, Arkansas 117%, Arizona 130%, California 122%. I know this because the Teabag morons have been promoting it all over the blogosphere.
It's ironic that billionaires are spending lots of money getting their cultivated idiots in the Teabagger movement to parrot that line. Someone making 120% of what an “average” worker gets for the thankless task of educating children is someone getting undue and unearned privilege, it seems. At least, the people who whine copiously about having to pay 15% cap gains on their billions will tell you this.
Maybe people should ask themselves why, if these union employees make 120% of what they do, maybe they should join a union? Wouldn't you like a 20% raise, and bring your purchasing power back up to what it was in 1992?
Another yowl getting currency among the tin-foil soldiers of the right is that “unions are unconstitutional” and that FDR disapproved of public employee unions. The first is utter nonsense, of course: unions, like corporations, are groups of people banded together to further a mutual economic interest and act as a single legal entity. If unions are unconstitutional, so are corporations. As for FDR, he feared public employee unions becoming politically active and partisan—in short, an end-run around the laws that demolished the Spoils System. History has shown his fears to be unjustified. If there is danger of politicization of the bureaucracy (along with the courts and the military) it is from the fascist right, who love to take their stooges and dress them up in judges' robes and military costumes.
I really have to wonder what outside observers make of these morons who come piling out of their single-wides to take up the cause of eliminating cap-gain taxes and paying for it by cutting teachers' pay, benefits, pensions, and overall numbers, all in the name of reducing worker power.
We've had 30 years of Reaganomics, and all we have to show for it is fewer good jobs, poorer pay, and howls from the entitled class that it's not fair that they should have to pay ANYTHING for the upkeep of the country and the people they have spent a generation gutting.
A favorite line of plutocrats and their pet teabaggers is that they want to “take our country back.” A lot of the Teabaggers are stupid enough that they think it means standard conservative halcyon days of the 1950s when cars had fins, households only needed one wage earner on one job, Negroes knew their place, and teen pregnancy could be swept under the carpet, with illegitimate offspring dumped at orphanages for the priests to play with.
The fascists mean something else entirely. They aren't yearning for long ago days, unless perhaps it was the 1920s, or even the 1870s, when plutocrats nearly did take over the country entire. And when they talk about “taking our country back”, they really mean “taking the country,” period.
And they want to take it from us. That's why they want to break the power of the middle class, steal the pensions, and make Americans weak, subservient, and totally dependent on their employers for everything.
It's time this “taking” ended.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zepps_essays/message/867
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Economy and Jobs Reign as Top Issues as Voters Scrutinize Both Parties
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/21/economy-and-jobs-reign-as-top-issues-as-voters-scrutinize-both-p/
While most Americans agree that the economy and jobs are the most important issues facing the country, they have mixed opinions on which party would handle them best.
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Unfortunately most Americans will vote for those vanishing tax cuts. They are not intelligent enough to see that the pittance handed them by republicans will vanish due to the increase in gasoline, groceries, health care long before they file their tax return. The wealthiest of the wealthy will be sitting there with a smug look on their faces massaging their many dollars & laughing gleefully that they fooled you again......Magginkat
While most Americans agree that the economy and jobs are the most important issues facing the country, they have mixed opinions on which party would handle them best.
......................................
Unfortunately most Americans will vote for those vanishing tax cuts. They are not intelligent enough to see that the pittance handed them by republicans will vanish due to the increase in gasoline, groceries, health care long before they file their tax return. The wealthiest of the wealthy will be sitting there with a smug look on their faces massaging their many dollars & laughing gleefully that they fooled you again......Magginkat
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
WAR IS A CRIME Update
WarIsACrime.org
WAR IS A CRIME Update
Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from Washington
- End the War on Iraq
- Peace Joins with Justice on October 2nd
- War Is A Crime .org Blogs
War Is A Crime .org (formerly After Downing Street .org) is growing in traffic and in its roster of talented bloggers. It continues to be a leading force for peace through justice and accountability. And War Is A Crime needs your help!
Our friends at the Velvet Revolution have been funding the hosting of our website for years now. The website is hosted at May First, and we want to keep it there. May First is unionized and dedicated. They provide the best possible service, and we have our own server where we can create and host additional websites for small groups and temporary campaigns (who remembers MeetWithCindy.org ?) at no charge and with no tech support needed. We've been hosting websites for free there for a number of local peace and justice groups that will lose that service if we lose our server.
VR can't pay our bills anymore, and we'll have to do it ourselves. We need $200 per month. That's $2,400 per year. And we don't want to have to bug you about it every month. Can you chip in a little now to help cover the next year?
Donate through Paypal.
The link is also on the right side of http://warisacrime.org
Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from Washington
Pretending to end a war and occupation, while stationing 50,000 soldiers, 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors in massive and permanent military bases in Iraq is a far cry from what candidate Barack Obama described as ending "the mind-set that got us into war in the first place." It fits better with Nobel Peace laureate Obama's description of war as "not only necessary but morally justified."
READ MORE:
http://warisacrime.org/node/54588
Incumbent congress members to keep and discard:
http://defundwar.org
Challengers who should replace some of them:
http://caws.us
A challenger who has committed to beginning the process of impeaching Jay Bybee and opening up an investigation into the crimes of aggression and torture:
http://impeachbybee.org
End the War on Iraq
As news stories are leading those still aware of the war on Iraq to believe it's over, it was encouraging to see Busboys and Poets restaurant in Washington, D.C., packed Sunday evening for a four-hour forum on actions needed to actually end that war, make reparations, and deter future wars of aggression. The event was advertised with the following description:
"Is the U.S. military really leaving Iraq or just rebranding? What is the toll of seven years of occupation on Iraqis, U.S. soldiers and our economies? What is the status of Iraqi refugees around the world? Is it still possible to hold accountable those who dragged us into the war or committed crimes such as torture? What role did Congress and the media play in facilitating the invasion/occupation? We'll also look at the role of the peace movement -- its strengths and weaknesses -- and draw key lessons to make our work for peace, including in Afghanistan, more effective."
READ MORE:
http://warisacrime.org/node/54599
Peace Joins with Justice on October 2nd
There is new reason for energetic engagement: a major march on Washington on October 2nd that will bring the peace movement together with those focused on jobs and economic justice, something that's been badly needed since before the current wars began, as the funding of global militarism has been hollowing our country out from the inside. Get involved at:
http://www.onenationforpeace.org
War Is A Crime .org Blogs
David Swanson is writing a new book that War Is A Crime will be a big part of. While still blogging, he's been joined by several other new bloggers. Here are some recent articles and blogs from some of them:
Media Didn’t Buy Petraeus Command’s Story of Low Taliban Morale
Afghanistan War Weekly: August 29, 2010
Labor Organizers Can Beat Army for Exciting Career
Endless War, Humanitarian Crisis, and Perpetual Resistance: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Protesters Disrupt War Criminal John Yoo's Return to Classroom UC Berkeley Law Boalt Hall 8-16-10
Calling Them Out: War Profiteer Steven R. Loranger
Obama Boxed in by Generals on Afghanistan
Yale Now Has Two War Criminals on Its Faculty
There Are No Heros in Illegal and Immoral Wars
War Veterans/Military Family Members Successfully Blockade Fort Hood Deployment to Iraq
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Oil Volcano…tsunami?
The bottom line is that we don't know squat about what
has been done to the Gulf & surrounding areas. The best
we hear is that the leak has been stopped......... no answer
as to why this could not have been done 100 days ago.
AND "we" (whoever that is) are monitoring the effects of
the dispersant that was sprayed by the thousands if not
millions of gallons in the Gulf. "Monitoring"?? How is
that going to help the animal & plant life that has already
been killed?
Our entire political system is so corrupt that it
defies description.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Response to Barack Obama's email
I received an email from Pres. Obama asking me to stand with him on a clean
energy bill. This is my response to his email:
Dear Barack,
I have been giving you a chance to implement those "changes" for well over a year now
and all I see is more bullschitt & cutesy speeches which, quite frankly, make me want to vomit. You have bent over backwards, sideways & every which way to appease and please the Republicans. And what did that gain for you?
Did you not notice idiots like Eric Cantor, John Boner, John McCain, Michelle Bachman,Mitch McConnell, and others like them calling you everything but the 'N' word and I would guess that everyone of them called you that & more behind your back more times than we could count.
Yeah, I know you are returning to this area today as I had to dodge the people workingin this awful heat putting up barricades to keep "We the People" away from you.
I've been writing letters for clean energy for a bunch of years now only to be ignored by you while you were in the Senate and which will probably be ignored by you now that you are in the White House. So why the hell should I waste my time signing your damn petition?
You dragged that so called health care bill out for over a year and then you were too damn cowardly to include a public option. You had to go behind closed doors and make dirty deals with the companies that are bankrupting this country & making health care unaffordable for the very people who need it the most.
So you will have to pardon me Obama, if I just don't put a lot of stake in anything you say these days. If you ever grow any balls and decide to stand up to the vile, corrupt Republican party I will support you to my last breath but not until.
By the way, I have heard that the "clean energy" bill that the Senate has dreamed up is a pile of horse manure at best......... that it's just another hand out to the people causing the problems. Get real Obama. As our first Black President you have the means to gain massive public support for almost anything you want to accomplish but you have to show that you are representing "We the People" and not the damn, corrupt, greedy, corporations.
Why don't you put on your boots today and make a stop in Orange Beach, Alabama which is a hop, skip and jump from Pensacola and which is becoming covered up with that that nasty, foul smelling, crap that BP is pumping out into the gulf?
AND why doesn't BP have more tankers in the location of the actual spill siphoning up that crap. Seems to me that a few tankers dropping pipes down and catching that stuff as it explodes upwards would prevent tons of it from ever being a problem. AH........ gee whiz..... that would be too much like common sense wouldn't it?
energy bill. This is my response to his email:
Dear Barack,
I have been giving you a chance to implement those "changes" for well over a year now
and all I see is more bullschitt & cutesy speeches which, quite frankly, make me want to vomit. You have bent over backwards, sideways & every which way to appease and please the Republicans. And what did that gain for you?
Did you not notice idiots like Eric Cantor, John Boner, John McCain, Michelle Bachman,Mitch McConnell, and others like them calling you everything but the 'N' word and I would guess that everyone of them called you that & more behind your back more times than we could count.
Yeah, I know you are returning to this area today as I had to dodge the people workingin this awful heat putting up barricades to keep "We the People" away from you.
I've been writing letters for clean energy for a bunch of years now only to be ignored by you while you were in the Senate and which will probably be ignored by you now that you are in the White House. So why the hell should I waste my time signing your damn petition?
You dragged that so called health care bill out for over a year and then you were too damn cowardly to include a public option. You had to go behind closed doors and make dirty deals with the companies that are bankrupting this country & making health care unaffordable for the very people who need it the most.
So you will have to pardon me Obama, if I just don't put a lot of stake in anything you say these days. If you ever grow any balls and decide to stand up to the vile, corrupt Republican party I will support you to my last breath but not until.
By the way, I have heard that the "clean energy" bill that the Senate has dreamed up is a pile of horse manure at best......... that it's just another hand out to the people causing the problems. Get real Obama. As our first Black President you have the means to gain massive public support for almost anything you want to accomplish but you have to show that you are representing "We the People" and not the damn, corrupt, greedy, corporations.
Why don't you put on your boots today and make a stop in Orange Beach, Alabama which is a hop, skip and jump from Pensacola and which is becoming covered up with that that nasty, foul smelling, crap that BP is pumping out into the gulf?
AND why doesn't BP have more tankers in the location of the actual spill siphoning up that crap. Seems to me that a few tankers dropping pipes down and catching that stuff as it explodes upwards would prevent tons of it from ever being a problem. AH........ gee whiz..... that would be too much like common sense wouldn't it?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Spending Freeze?
I think I am going to send this to a lot of Congress People
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/10357
There was NEVER a spending freeze for bailing out the crooks on Wall Street.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for bailing the gambling banks.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for bailing out the gas guzzling auto manufacturers.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for AIG crooks.
There was NEVER a spending freeze GOLDMAN SACHS crooks.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have lost their homes.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have lost their jobs.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have lost their healthcare.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have nothing -All due to US corporations preying on struggling working class Americans.
It makes me puke.
D. M.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/10357
There was NEVER a spending freeze for bailing out the crooks on Wall Street.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for bailing the gambling banks.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for bailing out the gas guzzling auto manufacturers.
There was NEVER a spending freeze for AIG crooks.
There was NEVER a spending freeze GOLDMAN SACHS crooks.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have lost their homes.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have lost their jobs.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have lost their healthcare.
There's ONLY a spending freeze for helping Americans who have nothing -All due to US corporations preying on struggling working class Americans.
It makes me puke.
D. M.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Do I Look Like The Bank of America?
BAH! Humbug! Do I look like the fffing Bank of America?
For at least two months my mailbox has been flooded daily by requests for donations. The past couple weeks the incoming beg emails have doubled, tripled or more.
If I don't donate it seems the world will come crashing down around us. Sometimes I get up to a dozen emails a day from the same organization.
Everybody just has to have money to keep their web sites and blogs going. True a few ask only for $5. but others are a little more brazen and tell me that I can donate up to $2000 or whatever the legal limit! They make it look as though I should donate that $2000., however they will accept a lesser mount..........Scrooge!
I have 10 grandchildren and I happen to think they are a more worthy cause. They are getting my meager dollars! I am not buying a pile of cheap, poisonous Chinese made crap either. I am sticking with books (For the older ones) , building blocks (for the little ones), handcrafted Teddy Bears and quilts.
The books I buy will not be written by Granny Palin, Chicken George Bush, or any other political hack.
So....STFU with your begging emails. I don't have anything to donate and if I did you irritable bastards would be the last in line!
Grandma Maggie
AKA The Proud Liberal Bitch
For at least two months my mailbox has been flooded daily by requests for donations. The past couple weeks the incoming beg emails have doubled, tripled or more.
If I don't donate it seems the world will come crashing down around us. Sometimes I get up to a dozen emails a day from the same organization.
Everybody just has to have money to keep their web sites and blogs going. True a few ask only for $5. but others are a little more brazen and tell me that I can donate up to $2000 or whatever the legal limit! They make it look as though I should donate that $2000., however they will accept a lesser mount..........Scrooge!
I have 10 grandchildren and I happen to think they are a more worthy cause. They are getting my meager dollars! I am not buying a pile of cheap, poisonous Chinese made crap either. I am sticking with books (For the older ones) , building blocks (for the little ones), handcrafted Teddy Bears and quilts.
The books I buy will not be written by Granny Palin, Chicken George Bush, or any other political hack.
So....STFU with your begging emails. I don't have anything to donate and if I did you irritable bastards would be the last in line!
Grandma Maggie
AKA The Proud Liberal Bitch
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