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President Barack Obama’s first full month as president will be marked as historically significant for its shift away from the fraudulent "trickle down" economic model begun by Ronald Reagan almost 30 years ago. The first significant policy vote was to approve and increase the State Children’s Health Insurance Program or SCHIP. This program provides health coverage for children of working parents who are not eligible for Medicaid and whose parent’s employers do not provide health insurance. (…)

A huge and spirited rally demanding “Climate Justice,” was held in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2009. This video reflects some of the crowd scenes from that event; interviews with activists Anne Havemann of Chesapeake Climate Action; and Kate Lally of Baltimore’s Rising Tide; and a speech from Washington, D.C. Council Member, the Hon. Tom Wells (Ward 6). For background on the rally, go to:
http://www.capitolclimateaction.org/

By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
I take no joy in saying the things I say; I wish I could write about happy puppies loping through the warm grass in the summer sunshine. Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly? I take no pleasure in the things I see; I become angry to the point of outrage, not at the right, no, not at them, they are acting as you would expect spoiled children to act. My anger is with the left, or the lack of the left.
Have we become so desensitized as a people that (…)

New Bush Crimes Revealed: 92 Torture Tapes Destroyed
Yesterday, it was revealed that under Bush the CIA destroyed 92 tapes of illegal interrogation tactics — in other words, tapes showing the Bush administration’s record of torture. The CIA destroyed the tapes in response to, and in direct violation of, a Congressional investigation.
Destroying tapes is not small potatoes. For many months, former President Richard Nixon refused to turn over tapes that Congress believed showed criminal (…)

A huge and spirited rally demanding “Climate Justice,” was held in Washington, D.C., on March 2, 2009. One of the speakers at the event was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. His remarks were a scathing indictment of the “Coal Barons.” He said: “Clean coal is a dirty lie.” RFK, Jr. also alleged that the Coal Barons are running, in some instances, a “criminal enterprise.” He charged that some of the practices of the Coal Barons, like “mountaintop removal,” are “destroying the environment...America’s (…)

Would a global 10% income tax (global flat rate) help world wide economy to recover?
There exists 51 offshore financial centres with almost 0% income tax on planet earth:
Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba*, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands*, Cayman-Islands, Jersey and Guernsey, Cook Islands, Dominica, Dubai, Gibraltar, Grenada, Hongkong**, Ireland**, Isle of Man, Jordan**, Libanon**, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg**, Macao**, Maledives, (…)

This reaction to the news that Bush is visiting Canada, and without his diplomatic immunity, theoretically vulnerable to prosecution for war crimes, is a reaction likely shared by many the world over. Canada must try and hold him here. The world is watching...
http://mostlywater.org/node/63650
See also:
Former President and War Criminal
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?...
Haunted by Bush War Crimes
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?...
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Obama could stop the carnage in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories tomorrow but he won’t. UN data indicate that there is a total of 1,000 excess under-5 infant deaths daily and 1,460 total excess deaths daily in these Occupied Territories. Accordingly, Obama has caused 40,000 under-5 year infant deaths and a total of over 58,000 excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories in just his first 40 days in office.
After 40 days in office, Obama (…)

By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
Today we have so many celebrities who take on social causes; it is almost a given that they will each have some charity or cause that they support. That is good, I suppose, but still there is a clear distinction between being socially conscious and being Woody Guthrie.
Woody has been dead almost half a century, and his deeds and exploits have fallen from public memory. Woody wasn’t socially conscious, he was its conscience. In the dark (…)

Italy and EMU as a ’Vincolo Estemo’: Empowering the Technocrate, Transforming the State KENNETH DYSON and KEVIN FEATHERSTONE
Europe matters, but how? The political systems of the European Union (EU) member states are penetrated by European policies, but what is the effect of this process? Is Europeanization making the member states more similar? Or do different domestic political structures ‘refract’ Europeanization in different directions? Has ‘Europe’ changed domestic political (…)