Note from Tom

 

I wanted to let you know that I have to make another visit to the hospital for a medical procedure, similar to the one I had last month. (Angioplasty) This means I will be unable to update the website or send out a newsletter for a few days.  I hope to be able to return to work on Monday August 01, 2011

 

Peace and Joy

Tom Feeley

 

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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual human beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

- The language of strategy and politics is designed, so far as it is possible, to conceal this fact, to make it appear as though wars were not fought by individuals drilled to murder one another in cold blood and without provocation, but either by impersonal and therefore wholly non-moral and impassible forces, or else by personified abstractions." - Aldous Huxley - From Words and Behavior (1936)

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

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"I was one of those who survived those kinds of torture. They used electroshocks on me because I would not sign papers."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28691.htm

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I think it's time to take a look at the timeline of the latest barbarian attack on the defenceless of the world. I think it reveals far more about how the left in the West operates.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28685.htm

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Look behind the mask of false pretenses to see the awful truth: riches seeking ever more money, celebrity looking for more notoriety, propaganda masquerading as the truth and the deprivation of liberties posturing as the savior in the "war on terror"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28694.htm

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The gravest threat we face from terrorism, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28693.htm

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Reversing tax giveaways to the super-rich and the nation's largest corporations could raise $4 trillion within a decade and avert possible government closures.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28686.htm

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We are talking about a crisis beyond anything the world has ever seen. Does anyone think that President Obama is going to just sit there while the power of the US collapses?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28684.htm

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The economy is a damn wreck.  The banks are only "solvent" because they're lying about asset values.  And Wall Street is punch-drunk - again - on cheap leverage, headed for yet another utter and complete disaster.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28687.htm

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The average American had real disposable income after taxes of $33,064, according to May figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The lead debt-ceiling negotiators, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell each will earn $193,400 this year.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28689.htm

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The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28688.htm

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I asked anyone out there to explain, defend, or justify the fact that over 20% of our country's income (it was 7 percent in 1980) now goes to the richest 1 percent of Americans.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28692.htm

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We Can Stop the Corporate Machine and Create a New World.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28690.htm

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Six Taliban militants were killed in clashes with Afghan forces in Nad Ali district of Helmand province. The incident took place as fourteen other Taliban militants were killed in clashes with Afghan security forces in Musa Qala district of Helmand province, the media office added.
http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/3481-twenty-two-taliban-militants-killed-in-helmand

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At least three civilians including two schoolchildren died and six were injured following a NATO airstrike in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, regional governor Said Fazlulla Wakhidi said on Tuesday.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110726/165394250.html

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The youngsters were working in a field in Helmand province when they were hit by "stray bullets" from an Apache gunship which was targeting the Taliban.
http://bit.ly/odmlny

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 The new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said Monday that the United States is not rushing to leave the country and cautioned that what happens in the months ahead will have far-reaching effects across the globe.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/25/new-us-envoy-afghanistan-no-rush-exits/

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In further signs that ties between the United States and Pakistan continue to deteriorate, American interlocutors have now accused Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI of spying on the Pakistani diaspora in America and intimidating them.
http://bit.ly/qwugNf

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Twelve suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed in overnight bombings and clashes near Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province in south Yemen, a military officer and a local official said on Tuesday.
http://bit.ly/ocoQ35

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NATO aircraft has bombed out a hospital in the west of Libya, claim the local authorities. According to the latest reports, 8 people, including 3 doctors, died in the attack.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/26/53727826.html

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NATO said Tuesday that the bombing of regime forces in Libya will continue for as long as needed despite growing reluctance among some countries to participate, and Muammar Al Qathafi cannot "wait us out.
http://tripolipost.com/articledetail.asp?c=1&i=6493

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Libya will not begin talks on ending a conflict with rebels before NATO air strikes stop, and Muammar Gaddafi's leadership is not up for negotiation, the prime minister said on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/libya-un-idUSLDE76P1IF20110726

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A Russian plane carrying 36.2 tons of humanitarian aid left for the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Tuesday morning, according to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-07/26/c_131010917.htm

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Syrian leader Bashar Assad must step down, Israel's president declared Tuesday, sending his message to Israel's neighbor at an unprecedented news conference with Arab media.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/26/israeli-president-syrian-leader-assad-must-step-down/

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In an interview with al-Manar Channel, Galloway said, "They are trying to pressure Syria and President al-Assad because of the good things that he did such as supporting Palestinian and Lebanese resistance and rejecting to surrender to Israel.
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2011/07/26/360654.htm

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The US House Foreign Affairs Committee cut the Obama administration's $51 billion 2012 budget request for the State Department and foreign aid by $6.4 billion, but kept unchanged the $3 billion in military aid for Israel.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000666327&fid=1725

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Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is weak and refusing to eat solid food, according to a report from the country's official news agency MENA. With Mubarak due to stand trial on August 3, many Egyptians see his sickness as a gambit to avoid trial.
http://f24.my/pYdWzJ

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As many as 150,000 Norwegians poured onto Oslo's streets on Monday, raising a sea of flower-bearing hands into the air in memory of the 76 victims of last week's twin bombing and shooting attacks.
http://bit.ly/nzVlA5

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The lawyer of Norwegian terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik has said his client is part of an anti-Islam network with several terror cells across the West.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/190915.html

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Lawyer of man who confessed to Norway killings says client claims he is part of international network and may be insane
http://bit.ly/q5FUSv

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Bet you feel safer now?
US unveils sanctions against global organized crime:

The United States Monday unveiled a series of tough sanctions aimed at cracking down on international organized crime, including gangs from Russia, Japan and Mexico, as well as the Italian Mafia.
http://yhoo.it/nbe2da

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At least 122 weapons recovered at crime scenes in Mexico have been linked to a US government weapons sting operation gone awry, two US members of Congress said in a report Tuesday.
http://www.france24.com/en/20110726-guns-mexico-crimes-came-us-sting-report

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A closely divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found that the collection of DNA samples from people arrested -- but not yet convicted -- of crimes is constitutional, in an opinion released today.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11206/1162858-100.stm

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When demand for oil consistently surpasses supply, experts warn that our lives will look "very differently"
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/07/201172081613634207.html

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One upshot of the debt-ceiling debate is that politicians might finally be ready to trim the outrageously bloated U.S. military budget. That's the story, anyway, being told by the Washington Post
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=511

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Senate Democrats' inclusion in their proposed debt package of $1 trillion in savings from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may not satisfy ratings agencies threatening a credit downgrade since the wars were expected to end with or without a debt deal.
http://fxn.ws/qf365Y

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The International Monetary Fund on Monday urged the United States to swiftly raise the debt ceiling to ward off risks of a credit downgrade that could damage the global economy.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/us-imf-usa-idUSTRE76O3IV20110725

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Only seven days stand between the U.S. and the effects of a credit default. But a downgrade of the nation's stellar AAA credit rating seems a lot more likely, and a lot sooner.
http://news.yahoo.com/u-credit-downgrade-inevitable-032700785.html

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Tom Feeley