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Headzup: The Complex Military Industrial Complex

2008-10-12T14:47:53Z

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The US government is illegally using private contractors to investigate the crimes of private contractors.

Read more about it here--
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/04/government-hires-contractors-to-investigate-abuses-by-other-contractors-in-iraq/

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Obama, McCain and the Empire

2008-10-12T14:49:36Z

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Chalmers Johnson: No president has stood up to the military-industrial complex

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Taking on the military industrial complex

2008-10-09T08:51:52Z

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SLAVERY -- It has lasted a lot longer than you think!

2008-09-21T20:17:55Z

Extending the timeline of Slavery well into the 20th Century

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Riz Khan - Mike Gravel - 17 Sep 08 - Part 2

2008-09-22T02:48:24Z

Joining Riz Khan is Mike Gravel, a former senator from Alaska who ran for president this year - twice once as a Democrat and once as a Libertarian.

In his campaigns, he has criticised the military-industrial complex that shapes US policy and fought for "direct democracy" allowing ballot initiatives at the federal level so people can decide laws without Congress.

Gravel is a leading critic of the Iraq war and all pre-emptive wars, including war with Iran.

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Riz Khan - Mike Gravel - 17 Sep 08 - Part 1

2008-09-22T04:48:25Z

Joining Riz Khan is Mike Gravel, a former senator from Alaska who ran for president this year - twice once as a Democrat and once as a Libertarian.

Gravel is a leading critic of the Iraq war and all pre-emptive wars, including war with Iran.

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Authors@Google: Jeffrey Kluger

2008-09-08T14:40:29Z

Jeffrey Kluger visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "SIMPLEXITY: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and how Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)." This event took place on June 4, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

In Simplexity, Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger shows how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives; how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock; how investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract art and physics drives jazz; why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better. As simplexity moves from the research lab into popular consciousness it will challenge our models for modern living. Jeffrey Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving theory into a delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the rules of business, family, art—your world.

Jeffrey's other work includes Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the 1995 movie Apollo 13 was based, and the critically acclaimed Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio.

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Shadow upon Tassajara

2008-07-09T08:19:26Z

June 29th, the Spirit moved me to leave hazy Berkeley and witness the peril threatening beloved Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Making way up half-barricaded Tassajara Road, I first witnessed the care and concern of locals, then, a mountain-swallowing smoke monster stopped in its advance just before reaching Tassajara. Now, July 3, it has gained the Tassajara Creek watershed. Check sfzc.org.

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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 01/04/08

2008-07-01T01:01:55Z

John McCain
Speech
Peterborough, NH 01/04/08

TRANSCRIPT:
JOHN MCCAIN: "I've been hard not just on the air force, but the army, the navy the marine corps and the coast guard. And bad things are going on. We recently not that long ago tried to build a ship called 'a literal combat ship.' It was not Boeing, it was Lockheed.

"It was supposed to cost $160M. It ended up costing $400M and they scrapped it. Should someone be held responsible for that? Should a corporation such as BAE not be rewarded for their efficiencies and their saving the tax-payers dollars?

"I just looked at a system that's incredibly efficient that's $9K each. Now...uh...so all that I can tell you, sir is that I know how to fix the system. And I'll tell you where we'd start is no more cost-plus contracts. Under President Reagan we built the entire military establishment both materially and morale-wise...uh...we had fixed cost contracts. So I'm not hard on the air force. I'm not hard on the navy and I'm not hard on the marine corps. But I'll tell you what I am hard on. I'm hard on people who waste the taxpayer's hard-earned dollars. And I know how the system works and I know how to fix it. And I know how to get people in who are more interested in saving the tax-payers' dollars.

"My friends, Dwight David Eisenhower, at his farewell speech as president of the United States, warned the American people about the excesses of the Military Industrial Complex. And I'll tell you what it does when something like that happens with that tanker and I'll tell you what it does with that literal combat ship that cost $400M instead of 160. It gives corporations like [BAE] a bad name. Who have done an incredibly efficient, great job at enormous savings to the taxpayers."

LABEL: JM NH 1-4 (JR#19) CHJ-ClipB

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Gore Vidal And Byron DeLear (4 of 5)

2008-07-10T18:43:05Z

More info on DeLear at www.delearforcongress.org

Topics covered include: Military industrial congressional complex, President Lincoln, select money interests and lobbyists, media reform and the HELPME Act, the radical change in the country's philosophy under Bush and impeachment.

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He's Back! (CNN Interview)

2008-10-12T14:45:35Z

Senator Mike Gravel discusses his switch to the Libertarian Party with CNN talking-head, Rick Sanchez.

http://www.gravel2008.us

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From Kosovo to Kurdistan

2008-06-14T09:33:36Z

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Pepe Escobar: Kosovo will be an EU - NATO protectorate with a massive US military base (part two)

Tuesday March 4th, 2008

Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Pepe Escobar writes The Roving Eye for Asia Times Online. He has reported from Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, US and China. He is the author of the recently published Red Zone Blues. Pepe is a regular analyst for The Real News Network.

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USA Today excludes Ron Paul

2008-06-12T09:36:27Z

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Hillary Clinton Barack Obama & John Edwards Equal No Change

2008-07-09T17:40:19Z

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Chomsky Applauds Gravel (Democratic Candidate for President)

2008-10-03T08:49:13Z

http://representativepress.googlepages.com/ChomskyGravel.html
Noam Chomsky applauds Senator Gravel's
past and present accomplishments

"Alone among members of Congress, Senator Mike Gravel had the courage to take a stand that not only helped bring the atrocious Indochina wars to an end, but also made a great contribution to breaking the wall of secrecy that governments erect to protect themselves from their own citizens. I am of course referring to his release of the Pentagon Papers, properly called 'the Gravel edition,' which provided the public with a unique opportunity to become educated about affairs of state.

In the years since, Gravel has continued to show the same moral integrity and courage, particularly with regard to war and aggression, the severe threat of nuclear war, the destructive impact of the military-industrial complex on American democracy, and the programs of aggressive militarism that have led even Europeans to rank the US as the greatest threat to world peace, far above Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or other states assigned this role in the US doctrinal system. It may be that these consistent and honorable commitments are responsible for his being largely excluded from the media, even from presidential debates. And the same integrity and courage should be an inspiration for people who care about their country, the fate of its people, and its role in the world." - Noam Chomsky

The Everlasting Battle for the Minds of Men
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2004/08/everlasting-battle-for-minds-of-men-on.html
How the average American came to view economics is not an accident, it didn't "just happen." How Americans see things today is very much the result of ENORMOUS propaganda campaigns.
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/05/selling-free-enterprise.html

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A Few Final Thoughts

2008-06-14T21:30:08Z

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The Jena 6 Part 2

2008-10-12T14:21:08Z

A report on the legal lynching underway in Jena, LA, where 6 black students face life in prison for a schoolyard fight.

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Jena 6 Part 1

2008-10-12T14:21:08Z

A report on the legal lynching underway in Jena, LA, where 6 black students face life in prison for a schoolyard fight.

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Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex

2008-06-06T09:38:40Z

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