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“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Politics and Culture - February 2008

Development of Radical Independence Part III

February 29th 2008 15:07
Just wanted to document a little confrontation I had with a typical far right fear mongering guy who was on my friends list till last night. Feel free to jump in the conversation. Unfortunely he didn't understand the meaning of friendly debate and ran away when confronted with opinions (backed up by fact and reason)different then his.....

It all started when I asked you guys to way in on the possibility for Bloomberg for VP and I got this response


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Propaganda Still Sells Wars

February 29th 2008 07:01
Propaganda is a useful tool of the government to sell wars. As the character O’Brien declared in George Orwell’s novel 1984, “He who controls the present, controls the past.” Good ole Henry Kissinger famously said, “Perception of reality is sometimes more important than reality itself.”

Last summer the Bush administration formed a group named Freedom’s Watch (FW) to propagate support for the on-going occupation of Iraq. Prominent neo-conservatives from the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) created the group. On August 22, 2007 FW released a statement announcing it will “spend approximately $15 million on radio and television ads…aimed at ensuring Congress continues to fully fund the troops with the ultimate goal of victory in the War on Terror


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Development Of Radical Independence Part II

February 28th 2008 15:05
The announcement I've been waiting for finally came today...

Michael Bloomberg emphatically announced he will not be running for President in this election cycle. This would normally be time of sadness as he was my canidate from the very begining of this campaign cycle but I was able to find comfort in his words.

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The Development Of Radical independence Part I

February 24th 2008 15:00
I broke a promoise....lol

I mentioned politics in my last post so here it is. As many of you know I've spent the past years as an ardent Republican supporter voting for Bush twice. I still stand strongly behind my reasons for voting for Bush. While not everything has been perfect over the past years my reasons for voting him in were solely because I knew that going into the 2000 election our country was going to be attacked and that we were going to be at war


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CA Congressman Subpoenas EPA Over Emissions Report

February 13th 2008 03:56
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, subpoenaed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Friday requesting documents reviewed by the agency’s administrator Stephen L. Johnson before he stopped California’s tailpipe emissions law. The law would force automakers to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emission by 30 percent in new cars and trucks by 2016.

California sought a waiver request to override the EPA’s standards, and was denied in December. The federal law only raises fuel economy standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020 while California’s law would raise it to 36.8


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Bush's State of the Union Address

February 6th 2008 07:47
President George W. Bush gave his last state of the union address on January 28, 2008. Lawmakers and political experts of various political persuasions called it modest, with Bush covering issues from the economy to education.

David Gergen, former advisor to the Reagan and Clinton administrations, called Bush’s address “a modest speech with modest goals


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