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Op Ed: ALEC Proven Corporate-Dominated: Two Other State-Oriented Groups Bar Private-Interest Membership Influence

NCSL Executive Committee "Legislators Only", Reflecting 50-State Reality; CSG Serving Since Great Depression, Affiliates Include Widespread Strengths.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Oregon's ALEC-leader Rep. C. Gene Whisnant tells us that "The ALEC mission is to advance the 'Jeffersonian principles' of free market, limited government, federalism (state rights), and individual liberties."

He doesn't in any way tell us why ALEC ----with corporate and private interest members paying up to $25,000 for "a seat at the table"...

Rick Perry Gets it Very Wrong About Israel Palestine

Refusing to recognize the rights of the indigenous people of the so-called holy land is what has destabilized the Middle East.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been to Israel more than any other presidential candidate and he believes he’s on a mission from God. In his 11 years in office he also wrested much power away from that states Legislature.

This citizen of conscience for US House of Representatives has been to Israel seven times since 2005, but I spent my time in occupied Palestine, on my mission from God: seek truth and report it!

Marijuana Good, Alcohol Bad, So Prints the Oregonian

It is tremendously gratifying to read of The Oregonian’s new progressive stance on Marijuana. It is long overdue.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - To admit that The Oregonian would print BEER BONG OK, NOT BONG HITS as an OPED article on the editorial page Sunday, September 19, 2011 was like an electric shock.

Maybe some of their editors, reporters or other stringers have severe pain problems or just want to enjoy the effects of an excellent tranquillizer after an arduous days work instead of a nasty old glass of beer or wine.

Opening the Floodgates of Justice in Fullerton... Slightly

'Second-degree" Murder for one officer and a lesser charge for a second in beating death... four still on the street.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The gang-like police officer beating death of 37-year old Kelly Thomas, who cried out for mercy, and for his father as Fullerton cops savagely struck and shocked him into a mortally injured state that led to his death five days later, is a terrible reality for the citizens of this city to bear.

Mr. Thomas suffered from schizophrenia. I'm sure we all know somebody who suffers from mental health issues, it is the hand some people are dealt.

Murder and Torture, the Lasting Legacy of America

Bataan Death March, Gestapo, Russian Gulags, America Has Exceeded It All.

(CINCINNATI ) - So many Americans still think torture, murder, gang rape of children is “fair and balanced” as a way of, of what? Waging war? Afghanistan is a war? Oh come now. Its an occupation, no more.

What America is doing, has been doing for a decade, is imprisoning Muslims, mostly, from around the world, on any pretense, and killing thousands of them. We may never know but as many as 200,000 people may have been systematically murdered, not just raped or tortured, very little of which involved “waterboarding.”

Jim Crow and Troy Davis

Georgia, a traditionally racist U.S. state that carried the emblem of the slave-owning Confederacy on its flag until 2001, kills a man whose conviction had big question marks, but he was Black and now Troy Davis is dead.

(ATLANTA) - We reported earlier this evening that the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia was to be temporarily delayed, just five minutes before being killed by state officials.

Now we know that officials in Georgia went ahead anyway, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last minute stay of execution.

Troy Davis Execution Delayed - Then Carried Out

The state of Georgia killed Troy Davis.

(ATLANTA) - Officials have delayed the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia after intense public pressure. He was within five minutes of losing his life. It is only a temporary reprieve, but that does not necessarily diminish the impact.

Davis, charged and convicted for the 1989 shooting death of a police officer, he has maintained his innocence for 21 years. Supporters of Davis are widespread and watching the developments closely.

No Turkey This Thanksgiving

So why all the defensiveness about Israel when Israel is a liability and Turkey a valuable asset strategically

(WASHINGTON D.C. CNI) - .Turkey is an ally. Israel is not. Turkey has served United States strategic interests. Israel has not. Turkey has hosted American bases and committed its soldiers to support their American counterparts in combat. Israel has not.

Israel has done little more vis-à-vis the United States’ real interests than take more than a hundred billion dollars in taxpayer provided largesse, use Washington as a veto machine to protect its own interests, and betray all of that by spying and stealing defense secrets which were later traded to the Russians and sold to the Chinese.

Brzezinski: The Last American Cowboy `Spills the Beans`

Ambushing MSNBC, Zbigniew Brzezinski Lays Out A Foundation For Real Americans

(CINCINNATI) - Catching readers on the underside of the video. Save the article. We are going to be working with this video a bit more this week and I hope to be discussing it on radio and TV, if allowed. If you don’t mind, I would take a minute or two to bring out a few of the issues here that caught my eye.

First of all, over the last week or two, I have been addressing American Jews. VT already has a huge readership in Israel, seen by some as the voice of the anti-Netanyahu political parties and others as excessively pro-Palestinian.

International Day of Peace

Imagine if Obama got the courage to go to the American people and say that he has demanded a settlement freeze and rollback based on International law to achieve real and just peace.

(BETHLEHEM) - In his first speech at the UN, President Obama stated that he prohibited torture and ordered Guantanamo prisons closed.

He also said he will work to cut the nuclear arsenal of the US and Russia and move towards a world without nuclear weapons.