THE PRICE OF TEA IN CHINA, THE PRICE OF GAS IN IOWA
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WHAT'S THAT GOT TO DO WITH MCBUSH POLICY ON ISRAEL, IRAN, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN?

DUBYA DETERMINED TO HIT $200/BBL, $6/GAL BEFORE HE GOES

It's A Family Thing: He Promised His Daddy & His Friends

What rational reason could the United States have for attacking Iran, at this point?

Or Iraq, in the first place?

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PTSD PLUS ANTI-SMOKING DRUG EQUALS 41 SUICIDES

McBUSH VA KNEW DRUG WAS LINKED TO SUICIDE

Veterans Administration Never Told Test Subjects Drug Might Cause Suicide

Just when you think George "Dubya" Bush couldn't possibly sink any lower, you read this. Your tax dollars are being used by your government to experiment on soldiers who came home from Iraq and Afghanistan with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, formerly known as Combat Fatigue, previously called Shell-Shock.

[Crossposted at Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus]

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AND WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY KNOW?

SHIT HAPPENS. DID IT HAPPEN ON OUR TOMATOES?

The Real Question Is, How Can FOUR U.S. Gov't. Agcy's STILL Not Know, After Almost A Week? The Politics Of Food Safety:

CDC
Division of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases
Salmonellosis
"Salmonella live in the intestinal tracts of humans and other animals, including birds. Salmonella are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces. "

We all know that big business and their lackeys in the Republican Administration don't give a shit about public health. These are the people who mass-marketed you tobacco, alcohol, sugar-water, fast food, polyunsaturated fats, and even baby food with no food in it at all, just chemicals. And babies were their business, their only business.

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MILLIONS SUFFER, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DIE, THE JUNTA CONTINUES HOLDING OFF RELIEF EFFORTS

HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN? WHAT'S WRONG? HOW DO WE FIX IT?

First We Have To Understand: The System Works

It just doesn't work for us. The system works for those who own it and control it. That's not you or me, or any Burmese peasants. The system is working really well for the Myanmar Junta, the other "sovereign" governments who are taking part in this disaster, and the corporations worldwide who support and direct the activities of those governments. They're all eating very well, thank you. They have no problem getting medical care, or shelter. The price of energy is fine with them as long as it keeps getting higher. Everything is going just swimmingly.


[Companies STILL doing business with the Junta in Myanmar]


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MILITARY DICTATORS STILL STEALING FOOD

WHAT LITTLE THEY ALLOW IN, ANYWAY

ASEAN Nations Do Nothing; The West is Impotent; China Is Willfully Blind

"Let Them Eat Frogs"

It's been over a month now since Cyclone Nargis swept across much of Burma. Initial reports said tens of thousands of lives had been lost. Now it's hundreds of thousands. Not because of cruel Nature; because of far more cruel Mankind.

The corrupt, incompetent, brutal, repressive, violent, psychotic leaders of this Southeast Asian nation have managed to keep out millions of dollars, tons of food, clothing, housing & medical supplies, plus aid workers from just across their own borders and around the world, all while their people are dying en masse.
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WRITE THEM TODAY: "TELL HILLARY IT'S OVER"

She Still Thinks She Can Win Something

No matter what we lose.

We're tired of losing. We're tired of the Democratic Party's tired old bosses letting a tiny minority of right-wing fundamentalist gun-toting corporatista racist sexist classist homophobic trash run out lives, our world. Hey, "Bosses," we finally found a good candidate, a great candidate, without your help. Now get out of his way. Get out of our way. We have a country to rebuild.

For those who aren't paying attention:
Hillary has not conceded.
She is in fact still campaigning today.
Her people are harassing Obama supporters, delegates & superdelegates, trying to switch their votes.
So, no, it ain't over.
And stopping Hillary from dividing us is neither  a waste of time nor divisive.
It is the very opposite, and it needs to be done now.
We're the only ones who can do it.
There will be NO moving on until we do.
It is Hillary who needs to move on. Now.
Make it so.

Click HERE for their addresses.

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"It ain't over till it's over." So, tell your Superdelegates it's over, already. Tell them to tell the Clinton campaign it's over. We've got a Party to unite, a Convention to organize, a campaign to wage, an election to win, and a country to save.

The Superdelegates need to make it clear that there will be no demos, no floor fights, no chaos at the Convention. They need to put a stop to all that right now. Tell them that.

We all need to Move On by this Friday, 6 June 2008. All the Primaries will be over by then. All the votes will have been counted. It's time for the grown-ups to speak up, and call it a day.

Superdelegate online contact information after the break.
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RIGHT-WING AUSTRALIAN CALLS FOR U.S. CANDIDATE'S ASSASSINATION

LIZ TROTTA, MOUTHPIECE, PUTS OUT THE HIT WITH A SMILE

Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?

Read all about it.

Fuxsnooze Outdoes Itself With Open Call to "Shoot The Nigger"

"and now we have what ... uh...some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama ...uh..um..Obama [after being prompted by the FNC anchor]....well both if we could [laughing]" LIZ TROTTA, FOX NEWS

In all fairness, I felt it was important to investigate this quote, and its' author. A longer version of the video is available on KOS's site.

"FoxNews Jokes About Obama Being Assassinated"

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MYANMAR JUNTA DELAYS CYCLONE RELIEF EFFORT

WEST THREATENS, CAJOLES, BRIBES, BARGES IN

Only One Country Has Influence With Burma Generals

Today a few hundred aid workers with the Myanmar Red Cross and the UN World Food Programme are working in the disaster areas of Burma. But a massive effort needs to be mounted to clear & repair hundreds of roads, bridges, airstrips, waterways, and get help where it is needed. Literally millions of people are homeless, hungry, dehydrated, sick and dying, a full week after the 120mph hurricane & 12-foot tidal surge swept across much of Burma. It will take thousands of experts in all fields of disaster relief years to begin to put Burma back together again.  But the work has been stalled by the brutal, corrupt, incompetent government of Myanmar.

Why?

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MYANMAR JUNTA DIDDLES WHILE BURMESE DIE

IF EVER THERE WERE A CASE FOR REGIME CHANGE . . .

Generals Intent Upon Profiting From Disaster

The Myanmar Junta refuse to allow foreign aid workers in, demanding money instead, those Burmese Army thugs who run that country by brute force and constant fear. All entreaties have failed. The Franco-American invasion bluff has, if anything, made matters worse by giving the regime an excuse to block entry by foreigners. The Chinese simply don't care what happens in Burma. That leaves it up to us. You and me.
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MYANMAR JUNTA HOLDS UP RELIEF EFFORTS

FOR POWER OR PROFITS, GENERALS STONEWALL

Colonial, Imperial & Corporatist Powers Rattle Their Swords

Meanwhile chaos reigns even in Yangon (Rangoon). Millions remain homeless and destitute in the coastal provinces. Whether the strategy of exaggerating the crisis, if it is exaggeration, and feigning military action, if it is just a feint, will work remains to be seen.


"US diplomat: 100,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone"

"France urges UN to force cyclone aid on Myanmar"

"EU Expands Economic Sanctions against Junta"


compleat links to aid organizations on the ground now in burmese disaster areas: donate now online

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

LIST OF AGENCIES' AND NGOs' WEBSITES FOR ONLINE DONATIONS

Plus Links To Background On Each Organization

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK
Burma death toll 'likely to hit 80,000'
"An aid official in Burma says the death toll from Cyclone Nargis may be 80,000 or more.
Kyi Minn is health adviser for World Vision in Burma and he says that on top of the 22,000 the military regime has admitted have died, there are another 60,000 missing - presumed dead.'

CLICK: LINK TO INFO ON AID ORGANIZATIONS
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MYANMAR DISASTER UPDATE: "PLEASE HELP"

RARE APPEAL TO OUTSIDE WORLD BY BURMESE JUNTA

Super-Hurricane Kills Thousands

Tens of thousands dead. Hundreds of thousands homeless. Millions hungry, as the "rice bowl of Asia" is broken by an 120mph cyclone. The effects will linger for months, worldwide.

This is far worse than any natural disaster the United States has ever suffered. The death toll is already much higher than the Johnstown Flood, the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, the Galveston Hurricane, 9/11 or the recent flood in New Orleans

Your help is desperately needed right now. Please go to one of the NGO disaster relief sites linked below and give what you can. Then click on the U.S. gov't links to let your representatives in Washington know how you feel about Bush cheaping out on yet another major disaster. Do it now. Please. Thanks.

"Myanmar Cyclone Toll Rises to 15,000; 30,000 Missing"

"U.S. Hurricanes"

"Hurricane History"
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CYCLONE NARGIS DEVASTATES MYANMAR

U.S. DOES NOTHING

You Can Help Now: Donate Online & Contact Your Representatives In Congress

Bush will do little or nothing until it is too late. Why don't YOU do something now? Disaster-relief donations online, linked below.

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DUBYA: "PROBLEM IS, THEY'RE NOT STARVIN' IN INDIA"

ADMISSION AGAINST INTERESTS: INDIA SAYS, "YEAH, WE ARE"

U.S. "Family Values" Party Leader Tries To Blame Food Shortages On Hungry Asian Families

Another sterling example of your tax dollars at work: U.S. President George "Dubya" Bush has gone out of his way to infuriate and insult two billion people in China and India, in your name. It's not the voracious appetite for fuel, including biofuel, or the rapid globalization and corporatization of agriculture that is causing shortages, skyrocketing prices and food riots around the world. It's those pesky hungry people out there. Thank Gawd we all had Mr. Bush to represent our interests on this. [cont.]
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THE MEDIA ARE NOT THE AUTHORS OF REALITY

I Believe It's Someone Called God, In The Popular Mythology

Even if he's dead, he still has more believers than the media.
But he has lightning, too.

Whatever the source of our quotidian reality; supernatural beings, natural laws, scientifically divined phenomena, pure randomness, whatever; it definitely ain't FoxNews. Or ABC or the BBC or NPR or Rush Limbaugh; nor Newsweek, Time, the Times of London, NY, LA or the Straits. The best they can do, for all their chattering, is comment on reality, and try to influence it after the fact (or our perception of it).

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This is exactly the result predicted months ago. Except that race-baiting, nuke-brandishing Billary and the minority Machine Democrats plus the cross-dressing Limbaugh Republicans minus the true Independents (60% who could not vote) barely managed a 10% edge, not the 20% forecast.

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Pennsylvanians Go For The Underdog

So, who do you think the underdog is in PA?

Thanks to the relentless badgering by Billary and the corporate media, Barack Obama is really starting to look like Rocky Balboa. He's been sucker-punched and brutally pummelled so many times on national TV, that all the underdogs out there in Underdogland are really beginning to root for him.

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