John Denver - The Strangest Dream - 1971

Lets Dream a new dream...even a strange dream

Feature: Crossroads

To call war the soil of courage and virtue
is like calling debauchery the soil of love

--George Santayana

quotes from http://www.rangeragainstwar.blogspot.com/

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Feature: Doorways

Everyday people....doing everyday things......with INTENTION & PURPOSE !!!!!!!

http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=3

Feature: Shifters

From: http://www.truthout.org/

A Look at the Biggest Winners and Biggest Losers Under the Bush Administration

By MicCheck Radio January 28, 2008

Of course not everyone had a tough time over the past seven years. Here are the five who came through their Bush Years relatively footloose and problem-free.

Big Oil
Even as oil companies raked in record profits, the White House fought to make sure they kept $7.6 billion in tax subsidies and the legal loophole that lets them dodge paying $10.7 billion in royalties from oil found in public U.S. lands in the Gulf of Mexico. IHT IHT

Contractor Mercenaries
President Bush has thrown billions of dollars—and undue faith—behind corrupt contractor mercenaries to fight his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And like members of his administration, the president lets these contractors act outside the law. Take Blackwater: top State Department officials knew about incidents of the contractor killing innocent civilians in Iraq for more than two years—and it turned a blind eye. ABC

The Filthy Rich
Welcome to the new Gilded Age. From 2003 to 2005, the increase in income from the richest one percent of Americans was higher than the total income of the poorest 20 percent. How’d we get this way? Bush’s tax cuts for the uber-wealthy.NY Times

Cronies and Bushies
From the Department of Justice to FEMA, from the Coalitional Provisional Authority to the FDA, Bush has packed his administration with friends and partisans, prizing loyalty over experience and ideology over competence. Washington Post Washington Post CNN NY Times

People Who Fear Human-Animal Hybrids
President Bush was able to keep one promise from his previous State of the Union addresses. In 2006, he pledged to fight the creation of “human-animal hybrids,” sparking visions of fearsome ManBeasts terrorizing the nation. As of today, we’ve spotted no half-man/half-animal creatures. Breaking News: We may have given the president credit too soon—just this week, we’ve discovered, British scientists created a ManCow clone. State Of The Union BBC

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As President Bush’s days of power draw to a close, one thing is clear: We’ve got a lot more problems now than we did seven years ago. Here are 99 of them, everything from less money to more war and a planet in crisis. It’s not a comprehensive list, so we have one question for you:

What’s your problem? check this out...do not miss this one:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/01/99problems.html

Feature: Doorways

THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO
WINS AT SUNDANCE! http://www.wmm.com/index.asp

"The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo"
Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4 million people have died. And there are the uncountable casualties: the many tens of thousands of women and girls who have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army.

The world knows nothing of these women. Their stories have never been told. They suffer and die in silence. In The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo these brave women finally speak.

Emmy Award winning producer/director Lisa F. Jackson spent 2006 in the war zones of eastern DRC documenting the tragic plight of women and girls in that country°¶s intractable conflict. She was afforded privileged access to not only the grotesque realities of life in Congo (including interviews with self-confessed rapists) but also to examples of resiliency, resistance, courage and grace.

Jackson was herself gang raped in 1976 and shared her experience with the survivors she interviewed. These women in turn recount their stories with an honesty and immediacy pulverizing in its intimacy and detail. The film is a journey into a literal heart of darkness, a search for survivors who pay witness to their own experiences, and break the silence.

Background, context and opinion are provided by interviews with peacekeepers, politicians, activists, doctors and priests. But above all there is the wrenching testimony from dozens of survivors of sexual violence who recount stories of chilling barbarity. This film gives them dignity, a face and a voice that will finally break the silence that surrounds their plight.

View the Trailer for the film.......http://www.thegreatestsilence.org/trailer.htm

Clinton Got a Blow Job with Visuals

Well this sums up the last 7 years...I just have one thing to say...The emperor is Naked.

Feature: Crossroads

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision
of what is before them, glory and danger alike,
and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it
--Thucydides


Brought to you by those truth seekers at : http://www.libertystreetusa.blogspot.com/

"King George the 43rd signed the FY 2008 defense authorization bill today, and then immediately declared four provisions in that new law to be nonbinding:(this should be a red flag)

Bush’s signature yesterday came with a little-noticed signing statement, claiming that provisions in the law “could inhibit the President’s ability to carry out his constitutional obligations.” CQ reports on the provisions Bush plans to disregard:
Even though he forced Congress to change its original bill, Bush’s signature yesterday came with a little-noticed signing statement, claiming that provisions in the law “could inhibit the President’s ability to carry out his constitutional obligations.” CQ reports on the provisions Bush plans to disregard:

One such provision sets up a commission to probe contracting fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Another expands protections for whistleblowers who work for government contractors.

A third requires that U.S. intelligence agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents.

And a fourth bars funding for permanent bases in Iraq and for any action that exercises U.S. control over Iraq’s oil money.

In his “Memorandum of Justification” for the waiver, Bush cited his Nov. 26 “Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship” between Iraq and the United States. This agreement has been aggressively opposed by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress as not only unprecedented, but also potentially unconstitutional because it was enacted without the agreement of the legislation branch."