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It shows the truths behind the lies about the recent events in our history that has mesmerized and taken control of the minds of the population at large, turning you into a complacent scared people that is willing to be entertained over being informed.
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FREE THE SIX FLAGS ELEPHANTS!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Free-the-Six-Flags-7Living in an amusement park is no fun for the seven elephants at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. If you visit the Elephant Encounter, notice the bullhooks in the hands of the elephant keepers. Bullhooks are shaped like fireplace pokers with a sharp steel hook at the end.
NO MORE PRIMATES IMPORTED FOR EXPERIMENTS!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-more-monkeys-imported-for-cruel-false-quotresearchquot
We feel that the capture and breeding of wild non-human primates from Mauritius for import into the United States or any other nation for the purpose of "scientific research" is an unconscionable abuse and subjects those primates to lives of unmitigating hell. We also feel that the value of such experiments are dubious at best and do not merit the destruction of other living, sentient beings, particularly some of our closest relatives.
STOP ANIMAL TESTING LAB, COVANCE, FROM OPENING IN ARIZONA
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/470036461
Covance is an animal testing lab trying to come to Chandler, Arizona. They have MANY Animal Welfare Acts violations as well as a terrible history of controlling dangerous viruses such as Ebola! The city council and mayor's office have gone behind closed doors to bring this company to the city without any input from local residents. We are trying to stop that! Covance is clearly NOT a company we want doing business near us...or anywhere!
REUNITE CHIMP BROTHERS HUNTER AND LYONS!! I'm begging you, can't we please try to get this to target? Let's reunite these poor boys as they have suffered ENOUGH!!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/877116649
Hunter and Lyons were removed in 2005 from the Yerkes Primate Facility and sent to separate locations after 21 years together. Your help is vital to see that these two chimpanzees are reunited together in permanent sanctuary - forever.
Hello, I just signed the petition to the G8 leaders about AIDS and education, and I urge you to do so as well! Let's all speak up for the children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. It takes just a minute, so to sign the petition go now to: http://action.globalaidsalliance.org/page/signup
All CITIZENS ARE Asked to Contact Their Representative on HR 1279
Take Action on HR 1279-Now is the Time to Make a Fresh Push for H.R. 1279!
Take Action!
HR 1279 Gets Boost at House Hearing
Congress has returned to Washington, D.C. for the second half of the 110th Congress, and the time is right to make a renewed push to get your U.S. Representative to support the Direct Support Professional Fairness and Security Act (ANCOR's National Advocacy Campaign HR 1279 Talking Points and Question and Answer). We have a total of 113 Representatives (84 Democrats and 29 Republicans)-including bill sponsors Representative Lois Capps (D-CA) and Lee Terry (R-NE)-now supporting HR 1279. This is a tremendous accomplishment, but if we are to get serious consideration, we need even more co-sponsors.
More Good News on the Workforce Issue!
On the first day that the House of Representatives returned to Capitol Hill, the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing examining Medicaid's Critical Role for Americans with Disabilities. Representative Capps discussed her bill, gaining visibility of HR 1279 with the Committee of jurisdiction on this bill. H.R. 1279. Several witnesses, including Ralph Gronefeld, CEO of ResCare, provided written and oral testimony on the workforce crisis and HR 1279. This heightened awareness was demonstrated in the Committee's press release following the hearing: "With the introduction of the CLASS Act, the Community Choice Act and the Direct Support Professionals Fairness & Security Act, we are offering a new approach that builds upon our existing safety net system.."
Take Action: All ANCOR Members Are Asked to Contact Their Representative!
We now need to capitalize on that momentum regardless of whether your Representative is a co-sponsor or not and share the recent good news! Each contact helps you build those Congressional relationships so remember to personalize your letter!
How to Do It: You can make all the difference by taking action through ANCOR's automatic online Action Center, sending one of the following letters directly to your Representative. Click on the TAKE ACTION link in the right corner of this email to view the sample letters, enter your zip code to identify your Representative, and then personalize your letter before sending your message:
Tags: Healthcare Bill Important
 935 Bush Lies
By Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith
President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President **** Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.
MORE HERE> http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/Default.aspx?src=project_home&context=overview&id=945
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There's another candidate in addition to Ron Paul who is being iced out of the US news media coverage. Here's what he's saying: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/260.html- Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks.
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ALERT!
U.S. war provocation against Iran: Another Tonkin Gulf?
Take Action NOW to Stop War on Iran!
The Bush Administration has initiated an extremely dangerous war provocation just off Iran's coast, in the Strait of Hormuz. With Bush on his way to the Middle East to mobilize a collection of oil-rich U.S. client states against Iran, the U.S. government is working overtime to create a public-relations incident to heighten tensions in the region and threaten a new war. We must take action now to Stop War on Iran.
On Jan. 6, the U.S. Navy alleged that a "confrontation" took place between three massive guided-missile U.S. attack vessels and five small, open Iranian speedboats at the entrance to the Persian Gulf in the world's most important and busiest sea lanes. The Navy even produced a video purporting to show the Iranian speedboats approaching the U.S. warships.
HELP BUILD A GRASSROOTS MOBILIZATION TO STOP A U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN!
NO Phony Provocations!
In the coming days, we must mobilize like never before to Stop War on Iran! We need your help to do this. Please consider making an emergency donation at http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml.
But the Iranian media on Jan. 9 quoted an Iranian official as saying, "Images released by the U.S. Department of Defense about the Navy vessels were made from file pictures, and the audio was fabricated."
Nearly five years ago, the Bush Administration, with active collaboration from Congress and the media, led the U.S. into war, claiming that Iraq possessed chemical and nuclear weapons and that the people of Iraq were behind the attacks on 9/11. Now the Bush Administration is clearly grasping for some excuse - any excuse - to attack Iran. Once the National Intelligence Estimate revealed that Bush has been lying about Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, the hawks in his Administration have begun looking for any justification, real or fabricated, to sell a military attack they have been planning for years.
The real provocation here doesn't come from Iran. The U.S. currently has half of its Navy off the coast of Iran, including nuclear-armed aircraft carriers, guided-missile destroyers, frigates, cruisers and submarines.
Meanwhile, Bush is spending eight days visiting Kuwait, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. The purpose of his trip is to convince these corrupt, feudal regimes, which are dependent U.S.-client states, that Iran represents a dangerous threat, in preparation for a U.S. attack.
U.S. warships a constant threat
The U.S. Navy has again and again held major war games to plan for and stage just such a confrontation with Iran. The Pentagon has announced that it has already set targets on thousands of sites in Iran.
Even the video released to the media - if looked at closely- belies the very story that is being drummed up by the Bush administration. It shows five small open-air Iranian speedboats buzzing in the distance, far from the USS Hopper. Iranian boats have every right to patrol and defend their own coastal waters.
It should be noted that, according to the Pentagon's own description, the USS Hopper is a guided-missile destroyer. It carries an M240 machine gun that can fire 10 armor-piercing projectiles per second and is capable of carrying nuclear missiles that can destroy whole cities. This high-tech ship weighs 8,373 tons and measures 504 feet in length. It was traveling in convoy with the USS Port Royal--a guided-missile cruiser that weighs 9,600 tons fully loaded and has a length of 567 feet and is also capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles--and the guided-missile frigate USS Ingraham, weighing 4,100 tons and measuring 445 feet in length.
These three deadly ships are just a small part of the U.S. Navy armada arrayed off the Iranian coast.
We Must Act Now to Stop War on Iran
No New Tonkin Gulf!
Even after 16 of the top U.S. spy agencies publicly released a National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran has no nuclear program, at least since 2003, nor nuclear weapons, the Bush administration has continued to threaten Iran.
It is important to remember that the massive U.S. bombing of Vietnam and the Johnson administration's escalation of the war was preceded by reports of an attack on a U.S. destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam - which years later was finally admitted to be phony.
On Aug. 2 and 4, 1964, the Pentagon claimed that small Vietnamese boats had fired on the USS Maddox and another destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. Lyndon Johnson used this "attack" as pretext for ramming a resolution through Congress giving him the power and funds to wage war on Vietnam.
Johnson's own papers later revealed it was a fraud, and later Defense Secretary Robert McNamara admitted in the film "Fog of War" that the whole incident had been phony.
Nearly all the Republicans and Democrats in both houses of Congress, including the present major contenders for the presidential nomination, voted for resolutions against Iran. In a staged or fraudulent confrontation with Iran, with wild charges from the corporate-owned media, Congressional opposition is highly unlikely. The only force that will stop an attack on a Iran is a massive, grassroots campaign.
It is more urgent then ever that we raise a global alert.
We must continue to mobilize and act to Stop the War on Iran BEFORE it starts! It is essential that the anti-war movement denounce this latest provocation by the Bush Administration.
The Stop War on Iran campaign was the first international campaign launched to oppose Bush's plans to attack Iran. Since our founding in 2006, with initiators including George Galloway, MP; Ramsey Clark; Tony Benn, MP; Dennis Halliday; Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature; Margarita Papandreou, former First Lady of Greece; Ervand Abrahamian, Prof. ME History, Author, Between Two Revolutions; and David N. Rahni, Professor and scholar; and dozens more, we have now generated more than half a million petitions sent to President Bush, Congress, and major media.
But we must do more. In the coming days, we will be mobilizing like never before to stop another bipartisan rush to war. We need your help to do this. Please consider making an emergency donation at http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml .
We must join forces to demand:
U.S. Navy Out of the Gulf!
U.S. Troops Out of Iraq!
We need Jobs, Health Care and Housing, Not Endless War!
- Sign the Petition - http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml
- Print out and circulate Stop War on Iran petitions - http://www.stopwaroniran.org/petition.pdf
- DONATE to continue the Campaign to Oppose U.S. War on Iran - http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml
Tags: War Iran Alert
Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressional investigations. A federal grand jury. Allegations of illegal arms smuggling. Wrongful death lawsuits brought by families of dead employees and US soldiers. A federal lawsuit alleging war crimes. Charges of steroid use by trigger-happy mercenaries. Allegations of "significant tax evasion." The US-installed government in Iraq labeling its forces "murderers." With a new scandal breaking practically every day, one would think Blackwater security would be on the ropes, facing a corporate meltdown or even a total wipeout. But it seems that business for the company has never been better, as it continues to pull in major federal contracts. And its public demeanor grows bolder and cockier by the day.
Rather than hiding out and hoping for the scandals to fade, the Bush Administration's preferred mercenary company has launched a major rebranding campaign, changing its name to Blackwater Worldwide and softening its logo: once a bear paw in the site of a sniper scope, it's now a bear claw wrapped in two half ovals--sort of like the outline of a globe with a United Nations feel. Its website boasts of a corporate vision "guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for a safer world." Blackwater mercenaries are now referred to as "global stabilization professionals." Blackwater's 38-year-old owner, Erik Prince, was No. 11 in Details magazine's "Power 50," the men "who control your viewing patterns, your buying habits, your anxieties, your lust.... the people who have taken over the space in your head."
In one of the company's most bizarre recent actions, on December 1 Blackwater paratroopers staged a dramatic aerial landing, complete with Blackwater flags and parachutes--not in Baghdad or Kabul but in San Diego at Qualcomm Stadium during the halftime show at the San Diego State/BYU football game. The location was interesting, given that Blackwater is fighting fierce local opposition to its attempt to open a new camp--Blackwater West--on 824 acres in the small rural community of Potrero, just outside San Diego. Blackwater's parachute squad plans to land at the Armed Forces Bowl in Texas this month and the Virginia Gold Cup in May. The company recently sponsored a NASCAR racer, and it has teamed up with gun manufacturer Sig Sauer to create a Blackwater Special Edition full-sized 9-millimeter pistol with the company logo on the grip. It comes with a Limited Lifetime Warranty. For $18, parents can purchase infant onesies with the company logo. 
MORE HERE: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/scahill
I have just signed a national petition calling for a
return to Broadcast Decency, and a greater accountability
from network broadcasters. I am encouraging you to do
the same by clicking here:
http://www.grassfire.org/39/petition.asp?PID=15173877&NID=1
+ + Grassroots Americans Have a Voice
For more than two years, Grassfire.org has been one
organization that spearheaded a national campaign
resulting in the presentation of more than 150,000
citizen petitions to the FCC, and leaders in Congress,
as well as a letter-writing campaign that saw the
delivery of more than 10,000 protest letters to each
FCC commissioner.
Earlier this year, Grassfire rallied tens of thousands
to send emails to the manufacturer of a video game that
could be manipulated by the user to unlock adult sexual
content.
Their action prompted the game maker to pull the game
from the shelves and re-edit the material.
Grassfire was also instrumental in the passage of the
Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 (S. 193),
that will raise fines from $32,500 to $325,000 to
broadcasters airing offensive material.
By adding my name to the 301,157 citizens who
are standing for broadcast decency, I have a voice in
this debate, and can impact the issue through Grassfire.
Please join with me on this important issue, and together
let's work to take back the airwaves and protect family viewing times.
http://www.grassfire.org/39/petition.asp?PID=15173877&NID=1
Sincerely,
Ron G.
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