Most Americans don't know what kind of people 9/11 truthers really are. So they can't figure out whether or not they are dangerous. Below is a list of people who question what our Government has said about 9/11. The list proves - once and for all - that people who question 9/11 are dangerous. Email this list to everyone you know, to prove to them that 9/11 truthers are all dangerous nut cases:

"The Department of Justice's Anti-trust division has determined that the purchase of Premier Election Solutions, Diebold Inc.'s recently renamed e-voting division, by Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), has resulted in a voting machine monopoly. ... A settlement has been struck, pending approval by a federal judge, between the DOJ, nine states, and ES&S requiring that the private company find a DoJ-approved purchaser of the Diebold/Premier assets. ..." But as reported by Bev at BBV: "However, the DOJ erred by not acting promptly to protect the Premier Elections operation from being gutted by ES&S. ... resulting in the problem that they now cannot mandate full divestiture of Premier by ES&S, and instead have ordered ES&S to remove itself from Premier's current locations only partially -- or perhaps, not at all. ..." more at http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/80916.html?1268163950

I’m feeling relieved. For a while it seemed like the historic election of our first African American president would give legitimacy to the idea that we live in a “post-racial” America. The idea that race is no longer a part of people’s daily experience is not merely false. It’s potentially dangerous when a majority of people are struggling to understand what’s happening to them economically. What people are experiencing is exactly what’s supposed to happen to them under capitalism and its current variant, neoliberalism. That economic system is grounded on the idea that society must have winners and losers. It has convinced people that those categories are based on race: that people of color are, in the natural course of things, losers; and that white people, regardless of class, are supposed to win. When hard times hit, as they have recently, people who are losing their grip on their middle-class status—or those who were already poor and are getting poorer—look for someone to blame. They fall back on the official story: White people’s troubles are caused by people of color; the troubles of people of color who were born in this country are caused by immigrants. It’s a divide-and-conquer strategy that keeps people who are natural allies on a class basis from looking at who’s really causing their trouble: the people who run the capitalist system. [Note: This is good to see. Workers getting back together across racial/economic divides to attack issues that involve all of us.]

am angry. I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing, media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine. I'm going to vomit if I hear the word "bipartisanship" one more time. It was bipartisanship that gave us this activist, conservative Supreme Court, a Supreme Court that says money is free speech and corporations are persons except when real people try to hold them accountable for their greed and poisonous ways. ~~~ When some Tea Party crank says, "I want my country back," I respond, "No madam, you want your country backward." When a deficit-mongering politician says, "How do we pay for this?," why not ask, "What did you Republicans do with the surplus we Democrats left you?" When a compassionate conservative says, "Health care reform is socialism," why not answer, "No, sir, it is the moral and American way to care for people"? Yes, I can hear it now: "You are naïve and simplistic. These are complicated matters and require sophisticated solutions. Democrats are a big tent and strive for balance. But Republicans block our path at every turn. We are thinking and considering new ways to work in harmony with everyone." Bite me.

I'm with Marcia Angell, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. The Obama plan for health care "reform", as well as the two versions passed by the House and the Senate, are all devious disasters that do nothing to solve the nation's burgeoning health care crisis, and in fact, will make it worse. The only thing to do at this point is to take the whole stinking pile of paper and put it in the compost heap. Kill it. This whole effort was never about reform from the day last March when the new president called on Congress to begin deliberations on health care reform. It was about catering to the wishes of the big players in the Medical Industrial Complex--the big pharmaceutical multinationals, the hospital companies, the physicians and, most of all, the insurance industry. People and their health care needs had little or nothing to do with this. That's why we've ended up with proposals that would do nothing to control costs, that would force health young people to buy unregulated, high-cost and high-profit plans that would be money in the bank for the insurance industry, and that would finance any subsidies for the poor by cutting back on benefits for the only group of Americans who currently have a form of single-payer insurance--the elderly with their Medicare.

Although this song -- a sort of "Brother Claude Ely rings the rafters in the neurobiology lab" kind of thing -- was done awhile back, it ties in closely to this post from last week: "Unnatural Acts: Breaking the Fever of Militarism." [Note: No chains here, baby!!]

That means public money in Florida is going to a private company in Virginia called Imagine Schools. That is taxpayer money profiting an Educational Management Company instead of funding public schools. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100301/ARTICLE/3011027?p=all&tc=pgall&tc=ar. From a 2005 article regarding these same charter schools we find that they were in financial trouble back then. And still opening more schools in Florida, with taxpayers picking up the tab. http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/273428/despite_debt_school_firm_aims_to_open_more_charters/. They are pushing for development with taxpayer money, which will profit their Virginia based EMO. They have had other problems, but they are allowed to keep growing here. That same article from 2005 pointed out that the money will come from taxpayers. Few seem to be noticing. They should not call it tuition free if the tab is being paid by the taxpayers. A comment from the blog Schools Matter on the founder of these schools, Dennis Bakke. http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/03/imagine-schools-in-financial-trouble.html. Bakke is the author of Joy at Work. He and his wife are members of The Fellowship, and are involved in the anti-union movement. A further outrage to me is that Bakke considers public schools a "monopoly". His statements are very threatening to public education. What a misleading statement. His schools are surviving in spite of the schools debt so the parent company can make a profit. They are surviving because we the taxpayers are footing the bill.

In what is some bad news for the Democratic candidates in November's midterm elections, young people simply aren't that excited to vote. According to Gallup daily tracking poll data from March 1 - March 7, 18-29 year olds were the age group with the highest lack of enthusiasm toward voting, with 44 percent of respondents noting that they were "not enthusiastic" about voting in 2010.

Few things as repugnant as Westboro Baptist’s “God Hates Fags” screeds at military funerals. The Supreme Court will soon hear the question of whether free speech protections cover Westboro’s lunatic fringing. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes.

It's time for America to take a new direction. So contact your member of Congress and let her/him know what you think about the Afghanistan resolution. Let them know tomorrow is a chance that we have to be able to take a new direction. We need people's voices and their votes on H. Con Res. 248, the concurrent resolution which will take us out of Afghanistan. NOTE: H. Con Res. 248, Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan, currently has 17 cosponsors (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HC00248:@@@P) Between the Petition and the Concurrent Resolution, progressives have two opportunities to make their opinions known.

Political activist John Boncore was entitled to try to arrest former U.S. president George W. Bush for war crimes, his lawyer told a Calgary court Monday. Defence counsel Charles Davison said his client’s attempts at breaching a police barrier to gain access to Bush were justified.

Michigan’s Bart Stupak, a Democratic congressman who could help bring down health care reform over an abortion provision, is getting a primary challenge this year. Connie Saltonstall of Charlevoix said today she plans to run against Stupak for the Democratic nomination of Michigan’s First Congressional District, citing Stupak’s efforts to stop health care reform if it doesn’t ban use of government money for abortions. Stupak, a former state trooper from Menominee, has held the seat since 1993. This year and last, Stupak has made a name for himself as a thorn in the side of some congressional Democrats pushing legislation for health care reform. While largely supportive of those efforts, he successfully attached an amendment last fall to ban use of federal funds to help pay for abortions. “I believe that he has a right to his personal, religious views, but to deprive his constituents of needed health care reform because of those views is reprehensible,” Saltonstall said in a statement.

I find it amusing that a lot of people are blaming him for our problems, when the Democratic Party leadership has never listened to him anyway.

Egads! Didn't they try to do this a few years ago?

Another Janet Tavakoli piece, this one about the market for CDS on the United States. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-tavakoli/washington-must-ban-us-cr_b_489778.html I’d like someone to explain to me how trading a credit default swap on a U.S. Treasury note isn’t gambling. This is purely betting on crowd behavior — after all, nobody really thinks the U.S. will default. It’s weird enough living in a country where a man can legally own an arsenal of machine guns, but his neighbor growing a pot plant will send a team of DEA agents kicking his door in with a no-knock warrant. But this goes even beyond that. If I go online today to HaveNoLifeAndBetOnSports.com and bet fifty dollars on the Bucks against the Celtics tonight, I’m a criminal. But some gazillionaire firm in New York can legally bet against the United States of America in unlimited amounts in a trade that has nothing to do with anything, but a guess about how many other people will make the same bet. Jesus, are we a weird country.

State Senator John Thrasher of Florida filled a bill that would "dramatically overhaul teacher tenure and pay, making it tougher for classroom teachers to achieve tenure, easier to get fired, and tying half of their pay formula to student test performance."

Economist Samir Amin deciphers the latest CIA report on the state of the world. He shows that intelligence agency experts still see a single view only: the American model's dominance. In the first part of two, Samir Amin described the experts' capitalist blindness. The United States' establishments' experts are interested solely in the "possible" choices of the ruling classes of "countries that matter" (China in the first place, then Russia and India, then Iran and the Gulf countries, and finally, Brazil). Europe, does not, in their opinion, exist (and they are certainly correct on that score), and because of that, will inevitably, necessarily, stay aligned with Washington's choices. The illusion that the CIA experts construct about the Gulf countries is instructive: "rich," these countries must "matter," the fact that one may be rich and insignificant (which I believe to be the case for those ruling classes) does not seem "imaginable" to them. Nonetheless, I had written an amusing critique of Dubai's project before its inevitable collapse. Their fears concerning Iran, on the other hand - not for its "Islamist regime," but because this great nation does not agree to be resigned - are justified.

"Dennis Kucinich: When you look at U.S. foreign policy throughout the last dozens of years, we’ve been involved in one military adventure after another that would defy the concerns of people and the ability of this nation to create peace."

The Organic & Non-GMO Report published an article in January, stating that scientists are finding many negative impacts of Roundup Ready GM crops. They say the USDA doesn’t want to publicize studies showing negative impacts. They spoke to Robert Kremer, a microbiologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and an adjunct professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri. He is co-author of one of five papers published in the October 2009 issue of The European Journal of Agronomy that found negative impacts of Roundup herbicide, which is used extensively with Roundup Ready genetically modified crops.

People from all over the country are organizing to converge on Washington, D.C., to demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan and Iraq. On Saturday, March 20, 2010, there will be a massive National March & Rally in D.C. Gather at 12 noon at the White House (Lafayette Park). There will be coinciding mass marches on March 20 in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The national actions are initiated by a large number of organizations and prominent individuals.

As the outlook on passage of health reform improves, Republicans have shifted to a new obstructionist strategy: attacking the process of reconciliation. Republicans claim that reconciliation was only intended to be used for bills dealing closely with the budget. In fact, when Republicans were in power, GOP lawmakers used reconciliation numerous times to pass major domestic policy legislation, including the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 and important changes to health care policy. In fact, 34 of the 41 Senate Republicans have used reconciliation in the past to pass major pieces of domestic policy.

"Swanson: Obama pushes out Kucinich single payer amendment that enables states single payer health care. ... JAY: So you mean at the state level. So talk a little bit, first of all, about Kucinich's amendment and what this has to do with states being able to have single-payer or Medicare-for-all, and then take us [through] what's happening state-by-state. SWANSON: Well, you'll recall last July in the House Education and Labor Committee, the only thing bipartisan in this whole ordeal was the passage of this amendment from Congressman Dennis Kucinich that would facilitate states going further. States in particular that want to do single-payer health care at the state level would wave federal restrictions, ERISA, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, problems. This is to say that states will need waivers with regard to money that goes into Medicare and Medicaid, and now this new health-care exchange, if they are to use all of their money at the state level for a real health-care system, for a single-payer health-care system. JAY: So the Kucinich amendment to the health-care reform bill would allow states to opt out and create their own single-payer system."

TruthIsAll brought me to DU. I followed him religiously, along with AutoRank. In 2005, the Election Reform Forum was front and center on this site. Some may argue that the issue is dealt with. It is not. Not at all. The United States suffered an electoral coup in 2004, and the principal conspirators are still out and about and doing the Sunday talk shows. No, I haven't gotten over it.

Everyone knows about the banking industry imploding upon it's own greed and crashing the economy. Everyone also knows about them recieving a huge bailout on the taxpayer dime and deficit. Despite all of this, it has been business as usual for the big bankers on Wall St. Not one banking regulation has been reinstated and indeed the profits have rolled in proving that in the American Capatalist system, one group of folks constantly get to cheat everyone else in the market as they are allowed to never take risk in their investments. Now these folks seek to bankrupt cities and states across the country.

Bolton believes in maintaining the status quo, a world in which the United States and Russia possess 95% of the world's arsenal of 20,000-plus nuclear weapons and it's not worth even trying to use diplomacy to reduce those arsenals, much less those of other nuclear powers. In his most recent piece, he even appears to dismiss President Obama's pledge to secure "all vulnerable nuclear materials in four years, so that they never fall into the hands of terrorists." What's Bolton's logic here? Do we need to leave loose nukes and unsecured bomb-making materials lying around to show we're tough? Or is he just so intent on opposing anything that the Obama administration is for that he will oppose even the most effective policies available for reducing the nuclear danger?

"At some level of government, at some point in time, there was an agreement not to tell the people the truth about what happened." John Farmer, Senior Counsel to the 9-11 Commission in his book The Ground Truth (Page 4)

"An editorial in the Washington Post yesterday slammed Japanese member of parliament Yukihisa Fujita because he “seems to think that America’s rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax.” His “ideas” about the terrorist attacks “are too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion.”"

Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay embodies a chapter of Texas history that I wish could be forgotten. But, he keeps resurfacing in all sorts of repulsive ways, including his embarrassing turn on Dancing With the Stars. Then on Sunday, he goes on CNN's State of the Union and basically says that people are unemployed because they want to be.