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    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    European Commission is Bank Busting

    ING to be broken up in wake of bail-out. The US government should do this also.  The big banks are too big to not fail.  And the failure has already happened.

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    human rights day

    Let’s all hope that by next year’s Human Rights Day, Guantanamo is closed, and torture and warrantless eavesdropping are no longer S.O.P. for the U.S. Government.

    Because regardless of how Condi Rice might object, the U.S. is guilty of civil rights abuses, human rights abuses, and torture:

    The International Committee of the Red Cross found “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment of detainees at [...]