Darren Wolfe talks about peace, liberty, gun rights, and security from the point of view of arming the people to protect themselves while disarming the government. The talk was based on his opening statement at the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society (http://www.meetup.com/thinkingsociety/events/88133332/) sponsored gun control debate where he took the pro-gun side.

Tags: war | speech | self defense | rights | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | peace | militia | liberty | guns | gun control | firearm | Federal reserve | End the Fed | Debate | Darren Wolfe

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by Norman Finkelstein

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Israel has just suffered a historic defeat.

One only had to watch the international news coverage.

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Note that this is only a subset of UN Resolutions which Israel remains in violation of to this day; e.g. those regarding Gaza and Lebanon

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GAZA CITY, 18 November 2012 (IRIN) - It was, he said, a horrible twist of fate.

When air strikes began over the Gaza Strip on 14 November, Othman Abdel'Al made what seemed a wise decision. The Israeli air force was targeting, among other things, government offices belonging to the militant group Hamas. Abdel'Al and his family live near a police station; he knew they were not safe.

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It is not a war, it is murder
by Noam Chomsky 

The following statement by Noam Chomsky indicates a different stand toward Israeli aggression than Prof. Chomsky has revealed in the past:

"The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel, it is not about achieving peace.

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Takers are parasites that stand upon the shoulders of great Thinkers, holding them under heel with the false “wealth” of commodified “money” and stealing their ideas that they may “profit” of them.

Tags: Barack Obama | United States | economy | elite | money | banks | banking cartel | capitalism | Labor | Abraham Lincoln | profit

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Initiating signers of the following proposal include Daniel Ellsberg, Cornel West, Frances Fox Piven, Barbara Ehrenreich, Marjorie Cohn, Jim Hightower, Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon.

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On October 28, 2012 the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police threw a fundraiser for the fired Officer Josey. Many different groups and communities came together to protest, so great was the outrage. You can see in the video the solidarity of the people opposing helping this woman beating cop.

Tags: Puerto Rican | protest | police | Philadelphia | Josey | Guzman | fundraiser | Fraternal Order | cops | brutality | abuse

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With a rapidly growing population, increasing pressures of development and unconcerned public authorities wildlife in India do not seem to have a chance. A recent list of most threatened species of animals, plants and fungi jointly compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Zoological Society of London includes four Indian species. Questioning whether these are “Priceless or worthless” species and, therefore, whether we have the right to drive them to extinction the two organisations have surmised that humans seem to care more for economic benefits that certain species provide if they are conserved. The rest, it seems, could be left to their native ingenuity to either adapt to the ever-changing environment or to perish.

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by Adam Keller

The city of Gaza is on the shore of the Mediterranean. Like in many other coastal cities, there are inhabitants of Gaza who are interested in sailing as a sport and hobby. But putting such interests into practice is far more complicated in Gaza than in most other coastal cities. In 2006 Qatar donated ten small sailing boats to the newly-founded Gaza Sailing and Surfing Association, but it took until September 2012 for the Israeli military inspectors to make up their minds and conclude that there was no security threat involved in letting them through.

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The other day while listening to a programme on the fm of Radio Mirchi my mind traveled back long years to 1948 when we got the first radio in our house. My late second brother got a first division in his intermediate examination. The examinations were held then by the Ajmer Board of Secondary education to which a number colleges in Rajputana, United Provinces, Central India, etc were affiliated. With thousands of candidates competing, getting a first division in those days in any board or university examination was no ordinary matter.  Elated by the distinction achieved by him, my father went and bought a radio as a gift for him – a small one, of five valves made by Phillips of Holland. Its price was Rs. 350/-, an amount that was more than my father’s monthly salary.

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by Luke Hiken and Marti Hiken

Recent figures indicate that for every soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, 25 veterans commit suicide upon their return to the U.S. That is an astonishing statistic! How can this be?

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By Phil Rockstroh

What is astonishing about the contents of the recently released film of Mitt Romney, secretly filmed, speaking before a high-end klavern of plundering class criminals…is not so much his insular, spoiled rich boy condescension toward those he perceives as the rabble at large, shambling through their lives, beyond his birth-bestowed bubble of privilege.No shock there, at least for me. I was born in a company town, Birmingham, Alabama. I apprehended very early in life the manner by which economic hierarchies operate. Then my family moved to a working class neighborhood near a university, Emory, in Atlanta, Georgia, where the privileged class sent their scions, thus I know how the arrogant frat boy mindset regarded us wretched townies.

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(With The Rocky Anderson Campaign)

By Tim Gatto with Ben Shaw

During radio show last night I had problems with the audio that were very suspicious. Every time my guest, Ben Shaw (who works with the Rocky Anderson campaign) tried to mention specific problems that the campaign faced on getting Anderson on the ballot in various States, the audio would become garbled to the point where it was very difficult to understand his speech. He would stop talking about these instances and the audio would clear up. This is the link to the show so you can hear it for yourself.

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An obscure slapstick film said to be entitled Innocence of Muslims or Life of Muhammed has been cited as the cause for riots at US diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya.

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by Patty Culhane

I'm at the airport in Charlotte, waiting to go home, and I've just realised I'll be on one of those small planes.

I hate these planes, and I think my pilot may still be in high school, so I'm going to try to focus on what we learned this week at the Democratic National Convention.

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by Alan Fisher

Before the commencement of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the gas-affected people of Union Carbide, Bhopal and their several organisations mounted a protracted campaign against the Dow’s sponsorship of it. The Dow funded the £7 million wrap around the Olympic Stadium and also has negotiated a 10-year £100 million sponsorship with the International Olympic Committee. The Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) is now a subsidiary of The Dow Chemicals, the latter having bought it in the late ‘90s.

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Dear Hon. Al Gore,

I faxed you a letter yesterday about making Current TV into a News Show. This nation desperately needs a venue where the truth is told instead of “sanitized” news that bolsters the government’s agenda. I’m serious about this and I’m not the only one that thinks this way. There are millions of people that don’t accept the pap that is delivered on the networks and cable stations. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and you station Current TV.

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My radio show, Tim Gatto Uncut and Uncensored, is carried by Blog Talk Radio every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:00 PM EST. The show runs for two hours and brings listeners the best and brightest from the left side of the political spectrum. The show, originally called Liberalpro, has been on the air (off and on) for about five years. This year has been the most successful, garnering more listeners than all of the previous years combined.

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