Hey You Guys & Gals!
Join the Critcal Bike Mass, Next ride: June 6
2008, gathering at the top of the
Santa Monica Pier, if not raining!
Get yer bikes out , make sure you have
headlights, required according to the
vehicle code, helmets for underage
riders, and follow rules of the road,
and meet 200 other bicyclists at the
S.M. Pier, 1st Fridays of the month
at 6:45pm. We will take over the
Santa Monica, Venice, and Marina
Del Rey streets in the name of
'healthy emissions' for a couple
hours then end up at the after party!
for further information:
drjohnmichel@yahoo.com

DemocracyNow! segment....
www.youtube.com/watch

"Never doubt that a
small group of
thoughtful committed citizens
can change the world.
Indeed it's the only thing
that ever has."
Margaret Mead

"The Capitalist Conspiracy"

www.youtube.com/watch

48 fact-packed minutes...
go ahead and cross-check this historical text!

KPFK Pacifica Radio 90.7fm Los Angeles,
98.7fm Santa Barbara, www.kpfk.org
“Man must evolve for all human conflict
a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Film: "The World According to Bush (2004)"
IMDB TITLE: www.imdb.com/title/tt0416043/
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1. PNAC/Neocon Crusades - World According to Bush
CENSORED BY YOUTUBE:
www.youtube.com/watch
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2. PNAC/Neocon Crusades - Who Pulls the Strings?
www.youtube.com/watch
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3. PNAC/Neocon Crusades - Pin 9/11 on Iraq
www.youtube.com/watch
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4. PNAC/White House Leak - Story of Joseph Wilson (CIA)
www.youtube.com/watch

What do Presidents John F. Kennedy, James Garfield
and Abraham Lincoln, and Congressman Louis McFadden
all have in common?

They all believed in the necessity of
dismantling what has evolved into what is
now known as the Federal Reserve Banking System
("The Fed")

They were unique in that they all had the
understanding and power to act on their
beliefs, but never got the chance to because
they were assassinated before got the chance.

What's the big deal about the Fed?

For starters, it's not, contrary to
popular belief, a part of the government.

It's privately owned...which means the
United States does not control its
own money supply.

Strange but true.

The Fed was created around the same time
that the US adopted such charming practices
as taxing the income of working people
and conscripting its citizens against
their will to fight and die in overseas
wars.

Who really rules America? It's not who
you think.

www.brasschecktv.com/page/135.html

Blog: Real History Archives
realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/

Book: "The Assassinations,"
by Jim DiEugenio & Lisa Peas

The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X (Paperback)
by James DiEugenio (Editor), Lisa Pease (Editor), Judge Joe Brown (Author), Zachary Sklar (Author) "This opening section consists of entirely new looks at the three major investigations of President Kennedy's assassination: the Warren Commission,the Garrison inquiry, and the House..." (more)
Key Phrases: New York, Warren Commission, New Orleans

"Wolves In Sheep's Clothing: The New Liberal Menace In America," by
Stephen Marshall of GNN
Book excerpt...
www.wolvesbook.com/excerpts/

I'm sharing the link for this
amazingly revealing movie
to everyone i know globally
cuz it lives up to it's PR:
"The greatest "unspin" movie
of all time."
[For true-believer religious folks,
after the cartoon in the beginning,
narrated by George Carlin,
a must-see for a belly laugh,
skip forward to pt 2.]

www.brasschecktv.com/page/130.html

for more interesting vids from same site, go to:

www.brasschecktv.com/index.php

"It's called the American Dream,
but you have to be asleep to believe it."
-George Carlin

"Cowardice asks the question: Is it Safe?
Expediency asks the question: Is it politic?
Vanity asks the question: Is it popular?

But conscience asks the question: Is it Right?

And there comes a time one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular -- but one must take it simply because it is right."

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There comes a time when to be
silent is betrayal."-MLK

"All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently
opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-
1860

Dear Friends of Peace, Justice and a Sustainable American Way of Life,

Democracy Needs You Now! If you couldn't make it to San Francisco for the Green Party Presidential "Debate," you can now watch segments of it, indexed to links below, by the issues that are relevant to you. Now is the time to review the issues of our day, and get involved with the party whose actual goal is not campaign finance, but to make your childrens' sustainable, egalitarian planet a reality. So we need volunteers!

Agreeing on practically everything from immigration to peak oil and bringing our troops home, there isn't much debate between the Green candidates. They all see the obvious and aren't receiving a paycheck from the duopoly's peeps somewhere to be silent about what they see. These videos reflect campaigns of unity and solidarity, not competition and smear campaigns. But what else would one expect from a party whose preferred decision-making process is decentralized consensus, where every voice can be heard. In a party that stands for more than winner take all, a debate should be like this, a synthesis of ideas toward agreement :-)

Heroic Georgia Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, makes a strong plea for unity within the Green Party and progressive communities in the "Greens Unite Progressives" segment. McKinney's moral compass and integrity led the Democrat Party to purge her, leaving no choice for her clearly political future but with the Greens and independents. I hope you will honor
the stand she took in Congress, her strength, courage and attempts to build a grassroots movement, and stand with her now.
Please watch at least the first three videoclips to find hope for a sustainable future, then vote your conscience:

*Opening Statements - www.youtube.com/watch
*Greens Unite Progressives - www.youtube.com/watch
*Closing Statements - www.youtube.com/watch
The Spoiler Question - www.youtube.com/watch
Immigration - www.youtube.com/watch
Israel & Palestine - www.youtube.com/watch
Terrorism/Protect Bill of Rights - www.youtube.com/watch
Peak Oil/First Act in Office - www.youtube.com/watch
Iraq war - www.youtube.com/watch
Farm Bill - www.youtube.com/watch
Education/No Child Left Behind - www.youtube.com/watch
Tax Policy - www.youtube.com/watch
Green Elected Officials - www.youtube.com/watch

VOLUNTEERS: supporters.runcynthiarun.org/sup....cgi

Thanks to the public backlash to the past abuses of our system of privately financed elections, Congress in the wake of the Watergate scandal adopted a system of partial public financing. Under this system, public tax dollars are available to match the first $250 of each individual contribution that an eligible Presidential candidate receives during the primary campaign.

With your help, Cynthia McKinney can qualify as a candidate eligible for these Federal matching campaign funds. To do so, she must certify that she has met the "threshold requirement" for eligibility by raising at least $5,000 in each of at least 20 states. While any contribution up to $2,300 per donor is welcome in support of this campaign, only the first $250 of each individual contribution counts toward that total.

We must channel our efforts into the kind of movement that has been successful in the past in our country. A movement that unites us all, regardless of the labels usually used to divide us. We the people must run for office and vote the current, non-representative crew out of office. We must become the government that is supposed to represent us. It is time for all of us to become involved now.

There is room for everyone in this movement. I shudder to think what our country will become if we fail to act.
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For all the coverage of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this stuff; you might be surprised by some of it.
Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends, family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the real John McCain—but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.
How many people you can pass it on to?
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban water-boarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."9
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out—forward this email to your personal network.
Sources:
1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April 3, 2008
blogs.abcnews.com/political...cated.html
"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008 colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/
2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg News, March 12, 2008
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news
"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'" ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008 thinkprogress.org/2008/02/0...hi-mccain/
3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008 thinkprogress.org/2008/02/2...ture-veto/
4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/
5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer
"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007
www.cnn.com/2007/POLITIC...in.interview/
6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3, 2008
ap.google.com/article/ALe...tMgD8VQ86M80
"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News, March 25, 2008
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news
7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16, 2008
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory
"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
www.boston.com/news/natio...r_is_tamed/
8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008 thinkprogress.org/2008/04/0...-lobbyist/
"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29, 2008
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story
9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine, March 12, 2008
www.motherjones.com/washingt...uide.html
"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?," ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008 thinkprogress.org/2008/03/1...-anti-gay/
"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008 thinkprogress.org/2008/02/2...dorsement/
10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008 www.alternet.org/blogs/env...ent/77913/

Inspired by the courageous leadership of Shirley Golub in San Francisco, challenging the majority leader herself for the
Democratic congressional primary nomination there, we have been told that there are now primary challenges is most of the districts in the state of Oregon, running on an impeachment now platform.

And we could not have asked for a more valiant candidate than Joe Walsh, who has been leading his fellow constituents in their
own weekly rally in front of Earl Blumenauer's district office in OR-03, demanding action on impeachment, and on ending the indefensible and ruinous occupation of Iraq.

Joe needs your help before the vote on May 20th. This is critical in the state of Oregon to get our message out, as it is a completely vote by mail state. This should be so easy for us to do. Please make whatever contribution you can make now, small or large.

www.usalone.com/donations_walsh.php

Joe Walsh is a long time dedicated peace activist, who gave up a Navy career he already had, by filing as a conscientious objector in 1970 during the Vietnam War, and received an honorable discharge. He has put his own body on the line many times as a political activist also, for demonstrations in front of Oregon senator Smith's office last year, for another example.

But more than that, Joe is well known to his local community for his generous volunteer work, also donating many hours on a weekly basis working for Portland's "Fish", who distribute emergency food to people in serious trouble.

The primary in Oregon is coming up fast on May 20. So your contribution can have an immediate impact on Congress right now, by demonstrating that any incumbent who does not get it can, and will, face a serious primary challenge.

Won't you make a contribution to Joe now if you can, so that he can carry the banner of impeachment, and all the other issues we are fighting for, in the official Oregon voter pamphlet. We need his voice. Without him there would be no challenger in his district, and people like Blumenauer would just blithely think that they forever disregard the will of the people.

And even if you can't make a contribution, please spread the word about the growing "On The Table" impeachment movement, and take heart that in just the next couple weeks we can apply enough pressure through these primary challenges to make impeachment an actual reality.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
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Major article called for impeachment in Washington Post by GEORGE McGOVERN

On the front page of the Outlook section in the Sunday Washington Post (Jan. 6, 2007) is a major article calling for Bush's impeachment written by George McGovern. As we enter the last year of Bush's term as President, the call for impeachment is only becoming stronger. The demand for accountability and the principled insistence that we must Save the Constitution has mobilized hundreds of thousands of people across the United States.

The fact that the Washington Post has so prominently presented a call for impeachment is a testament to the grassroots movement of the people that has become a force in American politics. Not content to just rotate presidents in and out, we understand that the promise and aspirations of constitutionally guaranteed freedoms, and the hope that the country can live in peace with the world, rest on the people uniting to demand action. ImpeachBush.org

"In Germany first they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to speak up." -- Pastor Martin Niemoller

S.1959
Title: "A bill to establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes."
This bill states that "The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens."

Diane Feinstein's San Francisco office says S.1959 is still in committee. If it passes there it goes to the senate floor. We should pressure committee members below to kill the bill on the spot. Flood them!

Thanks to Greg Collins for the following research:
On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, a House Homeland Security Subcommittee had a hearing on "Using the Web as a Weapon: the Internet as a Tool for Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism". The hearing featured presentations from several groups, including a former employee of the RAND Corporation [Bruce Hoffman], and Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The hearing was chaired by Democratic Rep. Jane Harman, and ranking Republican, Rep. Dave Reichert.

Toward the end of the hearing, Weitzman rolled out a PowerP