death and resurrection

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There needs to be a peaceful, loving purge in this country in order to get to a better world. Many people, including many politicians, will have to step down.

We've got to go through the bad to get to the good.

There have been times and places, such as Spain in the early thirties, in which people find themselves without a financial system. Think about this: In a cooperative environment, such as a healthy family or commune, within that system money is not needed. International financiers installed the dictator Franco in Spain because they could not allow Spain to function without money. There is a book called Beyond Barter which I think says that a loss of one's economy doesn't necessarily mean a return to the enormously inefficient just trading things. By treating each other as family, e.g. through cooperatives, we can weather this approaching storm.

From The Real American History 101 those of us who know know that treason is as old as our government. The origin of the phrase "October Surprise" (if I understand correctly) is that when Carter was running for a second term some Republicans worried that he was succeeding in getting the hostages released (which would have improved his chances of beating Reagan, and so they made a deal with Iran to sell them 40 million dollars worth of arms to be delivered via Israel in return for the Iranians to NOT release the hostages until after the election...

I think that those of us humans who survive the next few years will see a world without the need for money.
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From:
Leaders duck and hide while Wall Street steals from us
by Jim Hightower
jimhightower.com
creators.com/opinion/jim-hightower/leaders-duck-and-hide-while-wall-street-steals-from-us.html
...the Bushites have secretly created two additional bailouts for America's financial barons. First, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has quietly slipped some $2 trillion in emergency rescue loans to bankers. Yes, trillion! Which banks? That's a secret, says the Fed. How much did each get? A secret. What did the banks put up as collateral to protect taxpayers? A secret.

The second giveaway involves an astonishing power play by Paulson. He recently issued an executive decree to nullify Section 382 of the tax code. Passed by Congress 22 years ago, this provision makes it illegal for banks to play a shell game that uses dummy corporations to dodge taxes that they owe. Bush's treasury secretary, however, wants big banks to be able to use these scams as a backdoor way of subsidizing their takeovers of smaller bank competitors. So — Shazam! — Paulson imperiously declared the law void.

Can he do that? No, say legal experts. But he did. Thus, when Wells Fargo took over Wachovia in October, it got about $25 billion through this tax dodge — more than the total price it paid for Wachovia. Overall, Paulson's "veto" is expected to cost our public treasury another $140 billion.

And what has Congress done about his rank usurpation of power? Nothing. A top congressional staffer says, "We're all nervous about saying that this was illegal because of our fears about the marketplace."

The marketplace? What about the Constitution?

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flag.blackened.net
ww4report.com/links
mediareform.net
pittsburghinnovates.com
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Greater Oakland Keystone Innovation Zone
universitypartnership.com/links.php?id=28
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Sustainable Systems Terrance wind
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Green Party of Iran
iran-e-sabz.org/eindex.html
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workingtv.com/main8.html
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Naomi Klein on the Bailout Profiteers and the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene
democracynow.org/2008/11/17/naomi_klein_on_the_bailout_profiteers

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Celebrating Pittsburgh's Untold History & Unsung Heroes
When
Fri Nov 21 7:30pm – Fri Nov 21 10pm

20081121T193000/20081121T220000

Where
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Carnegie Lecture Hall, Oakland
Created By
Arts events, screenings, theater, concerts, exhibits
Description

www.pointofpittsburgh.com
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/
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Julia Christensen’s forthcoming book “Big Box Reuse” will be shown in an exhibition that examines how communities are changing in the shadow of corporate real estate. Also featured is the architectural construction “UnBox,” a reaction to the megastore big-box concept. Transportable, modular, and easily resusable, the UnBox will be used for creative and social uses, challenging the values and conventions of corporate retail.
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Ilyusian IL76 Water-Bomber
"Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh" "FISA Foundation"

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