Reporting Factory Farm Abuses to be Considered "Act of Terrorism" If New Laws Pass

"How do you keep consumers in the dark about the horrors of factory farms? By making it an “act of terrorism” for anyone to investigate animal cruelty, food safety or environmental violations on the corporate-controlled farms that produce the bulk of our meat, eggs and dairy products."
http://www.alternet.org/environment/shocking-reporting-factory-farm-abuses-be-considered-act-terrorism-if-new-laws-pass?akid=9993.153143.JNvq-i&rd=1&src=newsletter786843&t=8

12 Rational Responses to Irrational Arguments About Guns

"Which sport requires an assault weapon that fires 850 rounds per minute?"

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/12-rational-responses-irrational-arguments-about-guns?akid=9971.153143.6OCiw4&rd=1&src=newsletter782769&t=6&paging=off

Or, how about this: "The Ultimate Guide to the Gun Safety Debate"
http://thinkprogress.org/gun-debate-guide/#moreguns

Or, this: Chris Wallace of FOX "News" calls Wayne LaPierre "Rediculous"
http://2knownow-fox.blogspot.com/2013/02/chris-wallace-of-fox-news-calls-la.html

Hated WTO and NAFTA/CAFTA? Wait Till You See TPP!!!

"Foreign firms—or foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms—could extract unlimited amounts of taxpayer money as compensation when investors claim that U.S. government actions undermine a corporation’s expected future profits."
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/can-dracula-strategy-bring-trans-pacific-partnership-into-sunlight
The "highly secretive trade agreement aims to penalize countries that protect workers, consumers, and the environment. Luckily, the growing opposition goes beyond the usual trade justice suspects."

(Emphasis by me/Lance.)

Amazing SmartPhone 'Apps' for Monitoring Health

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/765017

The NRA Insists that Current Gun Laws Be Enforced....BUT

assists Republi-con Congressmen in making that IMPOSSIBLE. While this video is entertaining and enjoyable it is a PERFECT example of exactly the means by which these same Republi-cons hinder valid efforts by our government and then criticize the government for being inefficient or bumbling.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-16-2013/there-goes-the-boom
(watch BOTH clips!)

GLENN BECK, Of ALL People, Exposes FOX "News" And ALL Rest of the Propaganda Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26M0bJut-RI&feature=youtu.be
NOTE: Listen for Beck's description of WHO the 'mis-leaders' are!
(I wouldn't have believed the source of this TRUTH unless I had seen it myself!)

Conservatives Have Their Worst Week Ever

Matt Taibbi: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/conservatives-have-their-worst-week-ever-20130123?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
"The man was rushed by helicopter to a hospital in Cleveland. I sure hope that dude has private health insurance that he paid for. If it turns out that taxpayers had to foot the bill for a freaking helicopter flight to rescue the friend of some gun-toting conservative who decided to protest the socialist Obama administration by accidentally shooting a pal on Martin Luther King Day, that would be some kind of embarrassing, wouldn't it?"
There's LOT more.....
Speaking of Obama, the following is, in my opinion, the best summation of Obama's Inaugural Address:

"In Historic Inauguration Address, Obama Takes the Fight to the Right" http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/historic-inauguration-address-obama-takes-fight-right?akid=9948.153143.2M2hal&rd=1&src=newsletter780779&t=off

(Not all of which I agree with BTW.)

MoveOn Founder and Tea Party Leader...MEET..

What I have said all along, and what I experienced at my previous employer, is that “The Powers That Be” long ago determined that if they can get ‘us’ fighting amongst ourselves, ‘They’ will be able to abscond with our country (and company) … successfully. And they did.

Well, it looks like some of the leaders of the “citizen’s movements” from BOTH sides  of the ‘aisle’ are beginning to talk WITH each other and, guess what?

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/MoveOn-founder-Tea-Party-figure-meet-4204384.php

Zero Dark 30: Bin Laden's Last Victory?

Absolutely.
And my absolute favorite, most objective, most truth-seeing & telling investigative reporter, Matt Taibbi has a precise, inciteful review of this movie, Zero Dark 30:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/zero-dark-thirty-is-osama-bin-ladens-last-victory-over-america-20130116?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

"I mean, this is real Keystone Kops stuff, on a grand scale, only it had the minor side effect of destroying everything America purports to stand for, in addition to being comically stupid and ineffective." "Zero Dark Thirty is like a gorgeously-rendered monument to the fatal political miscalculation we made during the Bush years. It's a cliché but it's true: Bin Laden wanted us to make this mistake. He wanted America to respond to him by throwing off our carefully-crafted blanket of global respectability to reveal a brutal, repressive hypocrite underneath. He wanted us to stop pretending that we're the country that handcuffs you and reads you your rights instead of extralegally drone-bombing you from the stratosphere, or putting one in your brain in an Egyptian basement somewhere."

"The only way we were ever going to win the War on Terror was to win a long, slow, political battle, in which we proved bin Laden wrong, where we allowed people in the Middle East to assess us as a nation and decide we didn't deserve to be mass-murdered. To use another cliché, we needed to win hearts and minds. We had to make lunatics like bin Laden pariahs among their own people, which in turn would make genuine terrorists easier to catch with the aid of genuinely sympathetic local populations."
"Instead, we turned people like bin Laden into heroes. Just like Marlowe in The Long Goodbye, there were a lot of people in the Middle East who were on the knife-edge about America after 9/11. Yes, we were hated for supporting Israel, but the number of people willing to suicide-bomb us was still a tiny minority."
"The EIT program changed that. We tortured and humiliated thousands of people across the world. We did it on camera, in pictures that everyone in the Middle East can watch over and over again on the Internet. We became notorious for a vast kidnapping program we called by the harmless-sounding term "rendition," and more lately for an endless campaign of extralegal drone attacks, through which 800 innocent people have died in Afghanistan alone in the last four years (the Guardian claims we've killed 168 children in that country in the last seven years)."
"Now we have this movie out that seems to celebrate the use of torture against Arabs, and we're nominating it for Oscars. Bigelow can say that "depiction is not endorsement," but how does she think audiences will receive it in the Middle East? Are they going to sell lots of popcorn in Riyadh and Kabul during the waterboarding scenes?"

The above is not even the final conclusion./Lance

Obama: Continuing to PROVE That "Democrats" Are 70% As Corrupted As Are "Republi-cons"

Do you know who Jack Lew is? He has just been nominated by Obama as his new Treasury Secretary to replace (Wall Street’s toady) Timothy Geithner.
Former Banking Regulator, current white-collar criminologist and University Professor, William Black, and America’s #1 Investigative Reporter and true HERO, Matt Taibbi are interviewed here:”Failure of Epic Proportions” http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/11/failure_of_epic_proportions_treasury_nominee

(The entire interview is only 13 minutes long despite what you initially think.)

If you like the “Tea Party” and its recommendations for America you will love Jack Lew.

As long as this corruption is allowed by American citizens and blinded, lemming, “Democrats” our country really has no future. The middle class will disappear …. just more slowly than under Republi-con rule.

P.S. If you ‘like’ the above interview regarding Jack Lew you will “enjoy” Matt Taibbi and William Black’s interview regarding the new foreclosure “deal” and how it (again!!!) spares the banks: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/11/matt_taibbi_william_black_on_bailout?autostart=true&get_clicky_key=suggested_next_story

The Hoax of 'Entitlement' Reform

"Taming future deficits requires three steps having nothing to do with entitlements: Limiting the growth of overall healthcare costs, cutting our bloated military, and ending corporate welfare (tax breaks and subsidies targeted to particular firms and industries).Obsessing about “entitlement reform” only serves to distract us from these more important endeavors."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/07-3

Unhinged Tactical Response CEO Threatens to ‘Start Killing People’ Over "Obama’s" Gun Control

A video that is a 'Must See':
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/10/unhinged-tactical-response-ceo-threatens-to-start-killing-people-over-obamas-gun-control/

The Founding Fathers Versus The Gun Nuts

"Sorry, gun nuts, you’re on the wrong side of our Founding Fathers."
With supporting documentation:
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13786-the-founding-fathers-vs-the-gun-nuts

The Four Business Gangs That Run The US

"If you've ever suspected politics is increasingly being run in the interests of big business, ... Jeffrey Sachs, a highly respected economist from Columbia University, agrees with you - at least in respect of the United States. In his book, The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity, he says the US economy is caught in a feedback loop. ''Corporate wealth translates into political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the revolving door of jobs between government and industry; and political power translates into further wealth through tax cuts, deregulation and sweetheart contracts between government and industry. Wealth begets power, and power begets wealth,'' he says. Sachs says four key sectors of US business exemplify this feedback loop and the takeover of political power in America by the ''corporatocracy''. First is the well-known military-industrial complex. Second is the Wall Street-Washington complex, which has steered the financial system towards control by a few politically powerful Wall Street firms, notably Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and a handful of other financial firms. Third is the Big Oil-transport-military complex, which has put the US on the trajectory of heavy oil-imports dependence and a deepening military trap in the Middle East, he says. Fourth is the healthcare industry, America's largest industry, absorbing no less than 17 per cent of US gross domestic product."
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-four-business-gangs-that-run-the-us-20121230-2c1e2.html

Secrets and Lies of the Bailout

Matt Taibbi: "The federal rescue of Wall Street didn’t fix the economy – it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

"It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you'd think the bailout was the best thing to hit the American economy since the invention of the assembly line. Not only did it prevent another Great Depression, we've been told, but the money has all been paid back, and the government even made a profit. No harm, no foul – right? Wrong.
It was all a lie – one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people." 

Republican Votes Against Hurricane Sandy Assistance 7 Years After Begging For Aid Post-Katrina

"Talking Points Memo highlights how Steven Palazzo, a Republican from Mississippi, voted against aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy after pleading for federal hurricane relief in 2005.:
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/republican-votes-against-hurricane-sandy-assistance-7-years-after-begging-aid-post?akid=9902.153143.7hHmrm&rd=1&src=newsletter772658&t=14

Want to know how your congress-person voted? Here you go: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/7


Of particular interest is to learn the names, party, and STATES of the 67 NO votes on Sandy Relief.