from: Bill Hughes

On Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, Peace and Justice activist Ralph Nader ripped President Barack Obama for his “anti-union stroll” across Lafayette Park to meet this morning with the “corporate barons” in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. His comments came at sidewalk rally hosted by the National Nurses United/California Nurses Association and “other friends of Labor.” The demonstration was staged just north of Lafayette Park, in Washington, D.C. To learn more about Nader’s views on “Obama/Bush” go to: http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2238-Open-Letter-to-President-Obama.html

"What a powerful book ! Everyone who has believed the "official" story for us going to war against Iraq - must read this book. It's clear after reading Susan's book that the intelligence was not there for an invasion of Iraq. Since 9/11, brave people that told the true facts on Iraq - like Susan Lindauer - were silenced. The Patriot Act was - and still is - being used as a weapon against our citizens to control the narrative on the "War on Terror"... Susan is courageous and a true patriot for publishing this book - her story of abuse by our government needs to be read by the President and every Congressman before the next vote to extend the Patriot Act is taken."

Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq
by Susan Lindauer

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Cops in America are heavily armed and trained to be bullies, routinely hurting people. After a number of mistakes committed by SWAT teams breaking into the wrong home of citizens and constant confrontations with people, are police overstepping their boundaries? Former Reagan Administration advisor Paul Craig Roberts says people who are attracted to police forces are bullies and sociopaths. anthonyww713- "The police protect and serve the state. They do not serve the people. The police are paid to build evidence against citizens. The police are never here to help anyone except themselves."

With all the commotion over the invasiveness of the naked-body scanners used by the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA), one question that has been ignored is who is profiting from TSA’s use of the body scanners? Mark Hemingway and Tim Carney at The Examiner discovered the shameful answer: George Soros, Michael Chertoff, and a number of lobbyists. Both Soros and Chertoff are profiting from the naked-body scanners by way of the company Rapiscan, whose contract is worth $173 million. Lobbyists for this company include Susan Carr, a former senior legislative aide to Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) who is coincidentally chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee. Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff was “flacking for Rapiscan,” writes Tim Carney of The Examiner: After the undie-bomber attempt on Christmas 2009, Chertoff went on a media tour promoting the use of these scanners, without disclosing that he was getting paid by Rapiscan, one of the two companies currently contracted by TSA to take a nude picture of you at the airport. Just days after the attempted Christmas attack, the New York Times explained: Screening technologies with names like millimeter-wave and backscatter X-ray can show the contours of the body and reveal foreign objects. Such machines, properly used, are a leap ahead of the metal detectors used in most airports, and supporters say they are necessary to keep up with the plans of potential terrorists. "If they’d been deployed, this would pick up this kind of device," Michael Chertoff, the former homeland security secretary, said in an interview…. http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43/5240-getting-rich-from-the-naked-body-scanners

Let’s be clear about what Obama’s health care plan really is. Whenever a person is forced against their will to give the fruits of their labor to another person so that it enriches that person, its called slavery. In the case of obama’s health care plan the American people will be forced by the IRS to give their money to the privately owned HMO’s, profiting wealthy individuals and stockholders and non-governmental concerns, which again is slavery. Florida judge rules against Obama's health reform

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A massive croud of about 5000 protesters compleatly overwelms some 600 Egyptian police, pushing them back across a bridge. The American people will never stand in such defiance against their government because the US government would use pain ray vehicles, helicopters, stinger missiles, fifty caliber machine guns, and if that wasn't enough, 500 pound depleted uranium bombs, and nuclear bombs. Under no circumstances would the regime that now enslaves the American people, ever relinquish power.

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Violence escalated in two cites outside the capital Cairo on Thursday as anti-government protests continued to grip the country and challenge President Hosni Mubarak's regime, while Egypt's top democracy advocate returned to the country declaring he was ready to lead the grass-roots protest movement to a regime change. In the northern Sinai area of Sheik Zuweid, several hundred Bedouins and police exchanged live gunfire, killing a 17-year-old man. The name of the teenager was confirmed as Mohamed Attef.

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I couldn't find statistics for local utility shut offs in my area, but I knew we would start to see more and more of this.

Houses everywhere are going vacant. People don't say goodbye, they don't leave a number, they just disappear. With their disappearance we add another vacant house to the street. But families living in housing without utilities is a new sight for me to behold. I spoke recently with a rep from So Cal Edison who, full time contacts residence who have had their electricity turned off due to non payment. She has a negotiator sent in and they work on a reduced payment. It's amazing to me, that now, it is becoming acceptable in California to camp out in your home.

People are losing their homes, losing their cars and losing their dignity. How are we going to afford kids clothes and school supplies for the coming year? How can we expect families to pay for all these additional costs when the economy is in the shape it in. I ask myself this everyday.

Requests for help paying utility bills surge upward

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from Gilad Atzmon

The American foreign policy is at cross-roads. For decades, Washington has advertised equality and human rights in international circles. But, at times, the U.S. has contradicted its own alleged values, philosophy and democratic approach.

Some argue that America's self-interest supersedes the spread of democracy worldwide. However, there are those who say Washington's approach serves neither the national interest of Americans, nor does it promote equality and democracy.

So, the question arises: who then benefits from current American policies?

Press TV's U.S. Desk discussed the issue with Gilad Atzmon who is a political activist, musician and author in London.

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By Bill Hughes

Slideshow by Bill Hughes’s - 26 photos from the rally at the Egyptian Embassy, in D.C., on January 29, 2011.