Susan G. Komen Foundation criticized by Senators Boxer and Murray

Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to cut funding and ties to Planned Parenthood has generated a huge amount of criticism. Over 20 senators have signed a letter protesting Komen's decision.

Today, Senators Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray appeared on MSNBC to speak out regarding Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to stop funding critical breast cancer screenings through Planned Parenthood.

Senator Boxer released this statement:

“I was perplexed and troubled that Komen for the Cure cut off funding for life-saving breast cancer screenings because of a political witch hunt by House Republicans.  I truly hope that they will reconsider this decision and put the needs of women first.”

Watch the VIDEO

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References;

Senator Boxer’s website

http://boxer.senate.gov/en/press/videos/020212.cfm

http://foodandfitness-idea.blogspot.com/2012/02/komen-breast-cancer-foundation.html

Roseanne Barr, the Presidential Candidate

Roseanne Bar

Comedian Roseanne Barr is running for President as the Green Party candidate and has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on January 25. The candidate will be nominated when the Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention takes place July 12-15 in Baltimore. There are four candidates for the Green Party nomination: Jill Stein, Kent Mesplay, Harley Mikkelson and Roseanne Barr.

Occupy Wall Street

Roseanne took this step because she, like most people, is fed up with both republicans and democrats. Roseanne, correctly, believes that both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent   and she cannot be bought.

Roseanne advocates:

·       single-payer healthcare to all

·       forgive all credit card and mortgage debt

·       kicking out the FED-those to whom all this fake debt is owed (similar to Ron Paul’s views)

·       legalize medical marijuana

·       change the demographics of government to include more women

·       outlaw bull

·       make war illegal

·       support the Occupy Wall Street movement

Roseanne was once heavily criticized for spitting during national anthem during a baseball game. However, that incidence was misunderstood and blown out of proportion. In reality, Roseanne had spit after singing the national anthem to simulate baseball players who often chew tobacco and spit to get the game going.

Roseanne, age 60, has very good political opinions which are often expressed in her blog (roseanneworld.com). Despite being a Jew, she is highly critical of Israel’s criminal and oppressive policies towards Palestinians and its detrimental effect on Jewish name and on the American politics.

Roseanne Barr is also very active on Twitter, and, According to the Green Party website, had tweeted a challenge to Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to have both herself and Jill Stein (another Green Party candidate) on their programs. We will see if Jon Stewart and his Daily Show has balls to handle Roseanne.

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References

www.roseanneworld.com/

http://www.greenpartywatch.org/

How the Swiss Opted Out of War

by Bill Walker

Switzerland has not been in a foreign war of any kind since 1815. This would be astounding, even miraculous, for any nation. But Switzerland borders Germany. And France. And Italy. And Austria. And Liechtenstein. .  READ MORE at Antiwar.com

http://original.antiwar.com/bwalker/2012/02/01/how-the-swiss-opted-out-of-war/

Israel and the American Elections

by Real News Network
Paul Jay and Max Blumenthal at Real News Network discuss Israel and the American Elections,

Max Blumenthal: A few major Jewish donors push candidates to support Netanyahu on Iran

Watch video: Real News Network 

Ron Paul Super PAC gets funding from PayPal co-founders

Ron Paul

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is a man for principles and is popular because he advocates ideas of personal liberty, sound monetary policy and non-interventionist foreign policies. In addition, he opposes special interest favoritism and bailouts to banks.

Ron Paul is the only honest and non corrupt person among all the presidential candidates, republicans and democrats, and he does not ask corporate interests for campaign funds. His campaign funds, contributed by individual citizens, are not vast which puts him at a disadvantage to other well funded candidates Romney and Gingrich.

Reuter recently reported that a pro-Ron Paul super PAC has received some funding from co-founders of PayPal. People connected to PayPal in the early stages, co-founders Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek and Scott Banister, have donated to Endorse Liberty, a pro-Ron Paul Super PAC funding group.

According to Thiel, "Too often in this country we learn things the hard way ... With its unsustainable deficits, government spending is heading down the same path. Men and women who want freedom and growth should take action. A good place to start is voting for Ron Paul,"

Endorse Liberty was founded in November 2011. According to its website, Endorse Liberty is an alliance of entrepreneurs, inventors and creators who have come together to promote the cause of liberty as the founding principle that powers America.

Endorse Liberty is reported to have raised over $3.9 million to support Paul. They have promoted Ron Paul’s campaign by setting up YouTube channels, buying ads from Google, Facebook and StumbleUpon and building up a presence on the Web.

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Reference

Reuter: PayPal co-founders fund pro-Paul Super PAC

http://www.endorseliberty.com/home.php

The Young Turks talk show has only one Turk

The Young Turks

On youtube I came across some videos for “The Young Turks.” It is an interesting talk show where they discuss a variety of news and political topics. The Young Turks is also broadcast weeknights on Current TV which is also home to Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

According to The Young Turks (TYT) website:

“The Young Turks is the largest online news show in the world, covering politics, pop culture and lifestyle.  The show is one of the Top 50 You Tube Partners, with over 30 million views a month and half a BILLION total video views on The Young Turks YouTube Channel. 

The Young Turks received a 2011 People's Voice Webby Award for Best News & Politics: Series, 2011 News/Politics Shorty Award, and Best Political Podcast 2009 at the Podcast Awards and Best Political News Site 2009 at the Mashable Awards.

The Young Turks is the flagship show of the TYT Network, which includes What the Flick?!, TYT University, TYT Sports, TYT Interviews, TYT Shows and The Top Vlog.”

 

The show’s team members (Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz, Michael Shure, Brian Unger, Wes Clark, Jr., RJ Eskow, Dave Koller, Jesus Godoy, Jayar Jackson, Andrew Napier) seem to be all young which may account for the Name, The Young Turks,

The show was created by CENK YUGUR who is also the primary host of the show. Cenk Uygur was born in Istanbul, Turkey and moved to the United States at very early age with his family. He appears to be the ONLY TURK in the show called “The Young Turks.”

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Sources

http://www.theyoungturks.com/

http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks

Ron Paul against Internet Censorship

(Source: Congressman Ron Paul’s weekly Straight Talk)

Although Congress was back in session for scarcely more than a day last week, private citizens across the country managed to cause an uproar felt across Capitol Hill.  The uproar took the form of hundreds of thousands of phone calls to both Senators and Representatives, urging them to oppose two draconian new bills that threaten the free and unbridled flow of information on the internet.

On Wednesday last week, dozens of prominent websites like Wikipedia, Reddit, and Craigslist, were blacked out in protest of two bills known in DC jargon as SOPA and PIPA.  SOPA is the House bill; PIPA is its Senate companion. These bills ostensibly will combat internet piracy, and of course we also are told they will help us wage the never ending "war on terror."

What these bills actually do is force website owners to police the internet; create entry barriers to the only relatively free and open medium of communication; and threaten to break the technological structure of the internet itself.  They also violate our 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and our 4th Amendment freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. 

SOPA and PIPA have been drafted not only without respect for the Constitution, but also without an understanding of the how the internet works.  These bills attack the very system upon which the entire orderly organization of the web depends.  Search engines, internet service providers, advertising sites, and sites with user-generated content such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter--all magnificent creations of the market-- are directly threatened by these bills. They will be held responsible if even a single of their millions of users posts even one link to a website that a copyright holder claims is violating a copyright.

Note that under the bills as written, the Department of Justice or a copyright holder do not have to prove that their copyright was violated-- they simply have to claim copyright infringement and an entire site is shut down.  The burden of these regulations on the internet will be enormous, shifting resources away from productivity and innovation and into monitoring and censoring.  It turns internet companies into involuntary tools for Big Brother government, further eroding our Constitutional rights.

As is typical of so many bills in Congress, SOPA and PIPA were not crafted to make life better for the American people, but rather were written at the behest of big business trying to enlist the federal government as its strong-arm.  For example, the Motion Picture Association of America spent more than $1.2 million so far lobbying for their passage.

But the internet community is fighting back effectively, not just with websites that went black but with millions of users who expressed their solidarity.  Congressional sponsors of both bills have been jumping ship in response to the outrage. The House Judiciary Committee canceled the SOPA hearing they were planning to hold last Wednesday; the House leadership announced they have no intention of considering this bill; and at the end of the week Senator Reid announced he was postponing the vote until a "compromise" could be reached.  The American people are speaking, and with their continued grassroots efforts the marketplace for free ideas and communication will prevail over government controls and censorship.

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Source: Congressman Ron Paul’s weekly Straight Talk

January 23, 2012Stop Internet Censorship

http://paul.house.gov/

Brewing with Jan Brewer and President Obama

Jan Brewer, President Ob

Recent media reports showed Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer’s finger pointing exchange with President Obama on an airport tarmac in Phoenix.

It appears the issue was related to her book "Scorpions for Breakfast” and the President felt disrespected in the book. In her book, Brewer mentioned a 2010 incident about Arizona immigration laws, during which she had felt that Obama “thought he could lecture me, and I would learn at his knee.” However, the White House insists the meeting had been “cordial.”

Some republican politicians have taken advantage of this finger pointing episode to take shot at President Obama. Senator John McCain told Fox Business News “It is very well known he has a prickly personality.”  Since then, Governor Brewer had said that the reports of the meeting were "blown out of proportion," and that she simply wanted to give President Obama a letter asking him for another meeting.

About Jan Brewer

According to Wikipedia, Janice Kay "Jan" Brewer (born September 26, 1944) is the 22nd and current Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and a member of the Republican Party. She is the fourth woman, and third consecutive woman, to hold the office. Born in California, Brewer attended Glendale Community College where she received a radiological technologist certificate, but never earned a degree.

Brewer came into the national spotlight when, on April 23, 2010, she signed the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act. The act makes it a state misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents required by federal law, authorizes state and local law enforcement of federal immigration laws, and cracks down on those sheltering, hiring and transporting illegal aliens.

US Jewish Newspaper Publisher Suggests Israel Kill Obama

Op-ed in Atlanta Jewish Times says the slaying of the president may be an effective way to thwart Iran's nuclear program.

Read more:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/uproar-after-jewish-american-newspaper-publisher-suggests-israel-assassinate-barack-obama-1.408429