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"One of the world's greatest problems is the impossibilty of any person searching for the truth on any subject when they believe they already have it." --Dave Wilbur = "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and......Read More

Posted on: 2008-10-02 20:46:52 | Rating:

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"And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war." Aristotle, Politics = "It would be some time before I fully......Read More

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"If you had only known the man you were trying to kill, you would have risked your life, to save his." Harry Pope, ww2 , - Pacific USS LSM 41, 1944 - Occupied Japan, 1950 = “I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people......Read More

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News You Won't Find On CNN - 10/02/08
Iraq: They Make It a Desert and Call It Peace By Eric Margolis Senator McCain’s insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his "surge" strategy are the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street’s shady financiers......Read More

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. - Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849 = He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be......Read More

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"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.": Georges Bernanos = "Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose": Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist = "We Americans have no......Read More

Posted on: 2008-10-07 23:32:10 | Rating:

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“This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.” - George W. Bush = “The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.” - G. K. Chesterton......Read More

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“each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run......Read More

Posted on: 2008-10-07 23:36:39 | Rating:

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Like Silt in a River
"What no one seemed to notice . . . was the ever widening gap . . . between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think......Read More

Posted on: 2008-10-08 00:01:07 | Rating:

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Tired of Fear
I am sick...and I'm tired.... By Hugh Lipsius 01/28/06 "ICH" -- -- I am sick of being told who and what I must fear. For over two centuries now, our administration in Washington has exposed demons, marginalized races of people, described threats, and effectively turned the......Read More