Dear chuck ,
My father's middle name was Franklin. He was named after Franklin Roosevelt. And today, we celebrate the anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment - Social Security.
We call it Social Security. In other countries, the call it a public pension. But Roosevelt chose the term Social Security because the word "security" went right to the heart of what he was trying to accomplish for Middle Class America. It was one of Roosevelt's famous Four…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 4:08pm —
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By James P. Tucker Jr.
The Trilateral Commission (TC) refused to tell AMERICAN FREE PRESS where it would meet next spring. Still, we figured it out. The globalist group will meet in Washington, D.C. April 8-10, 2011 to panhandle American taxpayers in a determined, but failing, attempt to establish a world government.
Already the TC is struggling to reignite its global government efforts but is unable to overcome resistance from American patriots. The Senate is balking at…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 3:26pm —
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Elites' Democratic Days Are Numbered
Saturday 14 August 2010
by: David Sirota, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Call me an '80s junkie, but when I saw the results of this week's closely watched Colorado election, I immediately thought of "Spaceballs." In that Mel Brooks masterpiece, a Darth Vader spoof named Dark Helmet says "evil will always triumph because good is dumb." Make it "dumb and broke," and you have a powerful explanation for incumbent Democratic Sen.…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 2:44pm —
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Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/does_truth_matter_science_pseudoscience_and_civilization/
Feature
Carl Sagan
Volume 20.2, March / April 1996
Carl Sagan
Science has beauty, power, and majesty that can provide spiritual as well as practical fulfillment. But superstition and pseudoscience keep…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 1:04pm —
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Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his
writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.
One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw
a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of
someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up.
As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn't
dancing, but…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 11:21am —
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Franklin's Focus 8/14/10
I and a host of fellow critics have been scolded in extremely harsh
terms by Obama's mouthpiece, Robert Gibbs. Among other comments,
Gibbs has suggested that persons such as myself and my ilk 'should be
drug tested'. He has never come even close to criticizing those of the
right with such harsh words. In the words of Sam Smith, Gibbs is
saying '... the left is to be scolded, the right to be coddled.' I
would put…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 11:11am —
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What have you got to hide? The answer may shock you: If you’re like most Americans, you have far more than you realize that you need to be hiding, and not doing so may be putting you and your family in grave danger.
In his new book, Three Felonies a Day, attorney Harvey Silverglate holds that the typical American professional commits an average of three federal crimes a day, just going about their daily business, without even realizing it. And the only thing keeping them out of…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 11:09am —
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CAN'T
Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander or lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning
And robs us of courage we need through the day:
It rings in our ears like a timely-sent warning
And laughs when we falter and fall by the way.
Can't is the father of feeble endeavor,
The parent of terror…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 14, 2010 at 10:34am —
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Help, Oh Help, Oh Help, Oh....
Deraqnged Reflections
July 6, 2010
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Looking back on a disordered life that I occasionally package as journalism, but that actually has more in common with the path of a large ball-bearing through a pinball machine, I don’t really think I will slit my wrists. Though it has its appeal. I mean, it’s unnerving to sail through the vastness of an unasked-for universe, round and round a minor sun, on a ball of rock with billions of…
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BEIJING: A Chinese General on Friday termed as "flagrant provocation" US plans to send a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea and said the country would retaliate if "offended".
"A country needs respect, so does a military. We will retaliate if we are offended," Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences, wrote in an editorial in the PLA Daily.
The US is "pushing its security…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 13, 2010 at 8:00pm —
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The Daily Reckoning Presents
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Disaster
Bill Bonner
The US Department of Agriculture may have some usefulness. Projecting future prices isn't one of them. In 2005, it looked five years ahead and saw a bushel of wheat selling for $3.50. Last week, the price rose to more than twice that much.
Why? God himself is to blame. Not since 1880 has Russia been so dry. And not since Napoleon's invasion has Moscow suffered so much soot.…
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Will the summer of 2010 be remembered as the time when we turned into a nation of sleepwalkers? We have heard reports of the intrusion of the state into everyday life, and of miscarriages of American power abroad. The reports made a stir, but as suddenly as they came they were gone. The last two weeks of July saw two such stories on almost successive days.
First there was "Top Secret America," the three-part Washington Post report by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 13, 2010 at 5:44pm —
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Group Seeks Korean and Vietnam Veterans with Brain Cancer, Glioblastoma for Agent Orange Report
August 12, 2010 posted by Michael Leon •
Agent Orange: The killing and maiming goes on
Korean and Vietnam Veterans that served in areas sprayed with Agent Orange have a higher rate of glioblastoma malformation than found in the civilian population. With the alarming rate of death that our veterans are experiencing from this cancer, it is the mission of the…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 13, 2010 at 3:17pm —
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Franklin's Focus 8/13/10
Underground Neofascism in Amerika
I append a back up to things I've been saying for a long time. I long ago argued that Obama's mother probably was a CIA asset, and she had prepared him for a CIA connection. Clinton also was a CIA agent, and was groomed by the CIA to become president. I've argued that Obama was similarly groomed for the presidency and ushered into office with considerable CIA support. This piece is a continuation of items past…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 13, 2010 at 2:56pm —
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Friday, August 13, 2010Capital Controls: The Final Phase in the Great Looting of America
Eric Blair
Activist Post
Instituting capital controls seems like the next big event in the government-banking-oligarchy's great looting of America.
First, these vampires designed "free trade" agreements to use slave labor abroad at the expense of American jobs. Next, they moved their investment capital and assets abroad sucking the life-blood out of the U.S. economy. Then,…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 13, 2010 at 10:49am —
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Senate Leaders Strike Deal on Food Safety; Commence Breath Holding
Leading Democrats and Republicans in the Senate came to an agreement today on pending food safety legislation, Congress Daily (subscription) reports. The compromise will be introduced on the floor as a managers’ amendment to replace the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) which was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee in November 2009. The managers’ amendment has not…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 13, 2010 at 9:28am —
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How They do it and The Solution to their Evil Intent.
Dog Poet Transmitting…….
There are two reasons why Israel dominates American domestic and foreign policy. They control the mass media that gives the intentionally dumbed down American public their news and their world view. They control the money supply by controlling the central banks that issue currency via the mediums that actually print it according to their instructions. The same is true of…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 12, 2010 at 8:18pm —
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After 16 days of denials by Laredo law enforcement and local officials regarding a Mexican drug cartel takeover of a Laredo area ranch, a Texas police blotter proves the alleged incident did in fact happen and that multiple agencies responded to the scene of a seized U.S. ranch.
Think about it for a moment.
One of the most brutal drug cartels operating in Mexico crossed the U.S. border and took a ranch from its lawful owner.
Intimidation has…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 12, 2010 at 5:48pm —
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Farm animals R US
by Noah Ararat
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is non-threatening disease and yet the government is setting up conditions for an outbreak here which, if it occurred, would entail the slaughter of vast numbers of animals, even healthy.
Farm animals are so important that in destroying them, the government would be destroying local independent farmers, local food economies, safe food, food security, and the very underpinning…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 12, 2010 at 12:59pm —
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What if... you received a special invitation that,
on the surface, many would receive... but only
a select few could understand to accept.
A calling card from the Universe, hidden in plain
sight.
The offer would be simple enough:
Escape the world for a week, journey to a secret
location to undergo the most intense spiritual
training ever to be spoken and passed to another,
a code even the most faithful, dedicated awakened…
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Added by CHUCK W. on August 12, 2010 at 10:25am —
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