It has been a little more than a month since the Associated Press ran this article about an FBI sting… Brooklyn Man Accused of Buying, Selling Kidneys … and still no report of where this rabbi got his kidneys from, who were the recipients, and how such a trafficking ring could flourish inside the US? I think that the US press should be a little bit more curious about it, don’t you? Also see Time/CNN’s report… Jersey’s Corruption Scandal: The Israeli Connection A question to ask, were the ‘donors’ dead Palestinians?

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Is it really a withdrawal from Iraq, Barack? The answer is that it depends on the meaning of the word ‘is’? It depends on whether you read the small print? It depends on what it depends on? Did you know that the removal of all ‘combat troops’ by the end of 2010 does not mean the removal of all ‘troops’? Did you know that the removal of all troops doesn’t mean the removal of all the Pentagon’s privatized mercenary forces? Did you know? According to the Associated Press it depends on if….? the US government can get away with keeping control over Iraq’s people using its colonialist puppet regime alone? It depends on…??? Us and them, because they (and Barack) will still want to stay in as long as they can if we let them. Will we?

The reactionary nature of the ‘Save Darfur’ campaign inside the US is blatant and evident and can be seen anew with its most recent efforts to jump start a future US military attack against Sudan. They are running ads in the media and on liberal sites, too, since many liberals are just as confused about Africa as they are about Afghanistan. Even more confused, one might say, since now even liberals are getting sick of the US occupation of Afghanistan.

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All the troops at the forced pro-war parade of active duty US troops sponsored by the US government and Colorado Springs municipal government got to see that not everybody in this Southern Colorado community is pro-war, thanks to the presence of us ‘troops’ from Coloradans for Peace. MIA were the Springs Action Alliance and Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission who took the day off. Were they scared to present their message to the uniformed soldiers?

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One of the sickest aspects of American culture is how the evangelical Christian churches manage to insert their insane sexual hypocrisy and perverse immorality into US politics all the time. The latest case in point of this is the Republican Right’s insane persecution of one of their own, South Carolina’s reactionary governor Mark Sanford, who has the same sick political personality disorder as say, Bill Clinton did and still does. The ’sin’ this time? Mark Sanford fell in love, and it matters not the least to the immoralistic witch hunters of the Right, that Mark Sanford has always been one of them! See AP report- SC GOP vents anger over gov.’s extramarital affair.

NMT has obtained screenshots from Atomic Games ‘Six Days in Fallujah,’ traded p2p and remarketed as Six Hours in My Lai. There was no budget to modify the OIF coalition uniforms to resemble the Vietnam GIs, but who’s looking at the clothing? Nostalgic vets will find the rape reenactments unremarkably familar. In reality the mayhem of My Lai and My Khe lasted 28 hours, not six, but industry research indicates that cyber ejaculators rarely have more than a six hour window before a landlady looks in on them.

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Maybe you don’t fear facing off with an army intelligence interrogator, FBI detective, or secret service agent sitting in a Fusion Center determined to anticipate your next move. But what about a loan officer, insurance adjuster, arbitration negotiator, prospective employer, or plaintiff’s lawyer taking your deposition, who’s armed with your psychological profile made up of your Facebook quiz answers? Your plan to defeat an IRS polygraph by clenching your butt-cheeks is a plan B of olden days. The ACLU has been anticipating these eventualities for you. They’ve devised their own Facebook quiz to illustrate.

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COLO. SPRINGS- Well, that wasn’t so hard. Our message was warmly received by soldiers who shook our hand in the staging area, and afterward we were thanked by others for what we are trying to do. Antagonism came from the crowd, but not as fiercely as we’d braced ourselves for. Eight years of horror has taken the edge off the “these colors don’t run” mentality. Hence the military imperative for parades like these. Our antiwar presence was all the more important to show the soldiers that some at home are fighting to rescue them. The rest of the attendees were giving them a “welcome home” as they did in 2004, and will keep doing only to redeploy them. The soldiers need to see more real support: a determination to stop these wars.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: COLORADANS-FOR-PEACE CONDEMNS COLORADO SPRINGS PRO-WAR PARADE.
 
–And why not? The rationales for the Iran and Afghanistan wars have been repudiated by the Obama administration. What place has this city to celebrate them? The wars have been declared illegal by international magistrates. How then can Americans presume to cheer their soldiers’ actions? Regardless the jingoism of the Colorado Springs community, to idealize militarism, while thousands of innocent civilians suffer under its boot every day, is unconscionable. A bigoted majority of Lamborn voters want to lynch a certain black man, should we give them a permit?

Once again, the Pentagon and municipal government are sponsoring a pro war march of active duty uniformed soldiers in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and pretending it is nothing more than a private event. And once again, the Pentagon and municipal government promoters of this political Right Wing march are hiding behind their favorite organizer, John O’Donnell, so therefore they can use him as a possible excuse to beat up and arrest any antiwar protesters that might try to show up with the opposite message to Big Government.

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Sri Lanka tourism video
 
“The High Commission of Sri Lanka categorically deny that the Sri Lankan armed forces engaged in atrocities against the Sri Lankan Tamil community. They were only engaged in a military offensive against the LTTE.”

Cindy Sheehan may be glamping again. This time it’s Martha’s Vineyard, where Sheehan is prepared to lay siege to another presidential vacation. Which certainly highlights what’s become undeniable about Barack Obama. He heralds no change. And I’m not prepared to hope the effectiveness of petitioning our leaders has changed either. Bush answered to no one, Obama won’t even dance with them who thought they elected him. The antiwar message has no one’s ear. Let’s put it to the American people.

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What a joke our new Commander in Chief! He convinced enough of the US ruling class to sponsor him for the Presidency and they did it totally under their assumption that he would run Team REFORM USA image control much better than the previous team, Team Torture, had done it. But here he is continuing torture ‘renditions’, using drone attacks on innocent civilians, trying to hide US POW abuse from further exposure to the world public, and now sponsoring more occupation and these stupid sham elections just run in Occupied Afghanistan for rendition to the servile US media.

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Mountain Justice activists Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks continue to occupy trees adjacent Massey Energy’s West Virginia coal mine, preventing further blasting of the Edwight mountaintop removal site. Assistants at the base of the trees were arrested for trespassing, but called back, expected to help the police communicate with the sitters.
Earth First! spokesman Mike Roselle has been visited by State troopers, demanding he command the Coal River Valley treesitters to climb down. Check Climate Ground Zero for updates, where you can leave messages of encouragement.

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COLORADO SPRINGS- I have to admit dropping my guard on the TABOR issue yesterday after 5 out of 4 council members pledged on Monday to vote in favor of putting reform on the November ballot. Private citizens who testified before the council went home satisfied that the city had heeded their words. No such luck. On Tuesday when the official vote was taken, two of the members changed their vote to NO. Council woman Jan Martin and Mayor Lionel Rivera decided to reverse what they’d told the public they’d do.

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As I was heading for work this morning, the imperialist faux liberal, faux public radio, ‘National Public Radio’ was informing the whole world that ‘The Liberal Lion of the Senate’ was no more. In Heaven, no doubt… But… if I had been able to tune into Rush’s or Dreck’s programs there is no doubt, too, that they would have informed me that it was ‘The Liberal Liar of the Senate’ that had just departed for Hell. Both these delusional camps and their camp followers are wrong though. The truth is that he was neither saint nor devil, but rather something in between. Maybe a lizard?

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According to CSAction, snively congressman Doug Lamborn has sent out 70,000 mailers, billed to the taxpayer, to disseminate the insurance biz wingnut falsehoods about health care reform. He’s hoping to reconstitute a teabagger assembly at a public meeting on Thursday evening, August 27, at the Valley Hi Golf Course on Colorado Springs’ Southeast side. Get there early with YOUR message. 5PM, Chelton and Airport. The anti-tax teabaggers hate standing next to signs that don’t represent them, so think of some slogans that do. How about: DO UNTO OTHERS, or
FAITH HOPE CHARITY, or “as you did to the least of My brethren,
you did it to Me.” -Matt 25:40

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Ted Kennedy, last high-born American public servant, exits stage left. The Kennedy brothers set a fine example of how to account for yourself once you have enough money. Today it’s thought sufficient to follow in Rockerfeller’s footsteps: donate the requisite sums to be called a philanthropist, or occupy high offices to entrench the family riches.

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Lt. William Calley has expressed remorse for the first time for leading the 1968 My Lai Massacre. Although he still maintains he was only following orders. Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role, but President Nixon commuted his punishment to three years of house arrest. Who should have been accountable for the 500 civilians executed in My Lai?

I snapped this photo at Monday’s city council meeting: A stringer for right-wing KVOR radio holds his microphone up to the chamber’s amplification system. Curiously, he only assumed this conspicuous stance when the council members were explaining their votes, and then, ONLY for those anticipated to speak against TABOR and its proponents.
 
As the councilmen vied to straddle the fence on the issue, this gentleman would slowly stand whenever someone’s reasoning appeared to vacillate against the interests of the anti-tax wingnuts, Local Liberty Action, and teabagger Sean Paige.

Are you looking for a good children’s film, and a film for the whole family to watch? Are you looking for a film where your children can learn about an alternative universe, and one that our American government has helped make? Then check out The Devil’s Miner.
 
Bolivian children labor in the silver mines of Cerro Rico, dating back to the 16th century, where devout Catholic miners sever their ties with God upon entering the mountain.

COLORADO SPRINGS- When the swine flu hits the fan, contrary to all earlier scaremongering, H1N1 is no scatological disaster. I have an example: Without even looking, we know of two confirmed cases of swine flu in Colorado Springs School District 12. You wouldn’t know it to talk to the school, the city, the newspapers, or County Health. Is that odd?

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The last antiwar street vigil I participated in there were three adults with us and 3 young children, but that did not stop a guy who claimed he was military who wrote his own sign out with the word FAGS on it as he came out to be besides us in protest against us protesters. I guess he did not notice the children we had with us? What a dummy! But this is typical of Right Wing prowar assholes I think. In fact, I can’t begin to count the times that I have been with elderly pro PEACE people and young dunces drive by screaming…. ‘Get a Job!’… to us! And just how stupid is that? Pretty stupid I think, since the American military lets its troopers retire as young as AGE 37! Don’t believe it? Then head over to military.com and read for yourselves…

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COLORADO SPRINGS- I attended a COS city council meeting today, lured by the prospect that Vice Mayor Larry Small was going to call the CS Independent publisher a liar to his face.
 
I’m always excited at the prospect of differences of opinion reaching a level of incivility. Do we care about these issues? Or is it all about liking each other, regardless who’s oppressing whom? We gentlemen debaters, after all, are never those affected by the injustices in question.

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Colorado Springs will be hosting a parade on August 29 to welcome troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Its predecessor was a 2004 victory parade, this one is billed as a Red White and Brave Welcome Home. You might shy from holding an antagonistic banner like “I DON’T WORSHIP WAR,” but imagine a message draped from a balcony along Tejon Ave! WELCOME HOME, NOW STAY HOME or WHAT HAPPENS IN IRAQ, STAYS IN IRAQ or my favorite, addressed to the 50,000-plus expected to attend: WE’RE CELEBRATING THE MURDER OF HOW MANY CIVILIANS?

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