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"Today, thanks to Phil Hartman's hilarious parody on Saturday Night Live, most of us know the revelatory climax of Soylent Green as pure camp: The world's most popular new brand of food is processed from the corpses of the recent dead--a necessary evil that allows humanity to continue endlessly increasing our consumption without a care for the consequences. In 1973, that was science fiction--but how far out is it, really? No, that potato chip you're eating isn't your grandmother. But consider the clothes you wear and the screen you're staring at; they were quite possibly manufactured by children in sweatshops or migrants working in conditions we ourselves would never tolerate. Our lifestyle of comfort has been built on a foundation of systemic dehumanization; in other words, it's made out of people."

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It's nice to have lots of "loopholes," isn't it?

It's sickening to watch how far they'll go to keep them.

http://www.santafe.edu/

hear the earth

hear the water

hear the stone

we are -ALL- cousins!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qIn_ueM3Mc&feature=player_embedded#at=1

It appears the early suspicions that the Norway massacres were carried out by Al Quaida will have to be put to rest.  The guy they have in custody is another right wing extremist like the one who shot Gabrielle Giffords.

After you read this news story, ask yourself how many people you know that would agree with his motives.  And then ask yourself how many times you've read anonymous posters here at LP express these kinds of hateful attitudes.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3710902/At-least-87-people-are-killed-in-two-gun-and-bomb-attacks-in-Norway-by-a-crazed-hunting-fan.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

"What appears to be the 32-year-old's Facebook page describes him as 'single' and a 'Christian' - and lists serial killer drama Dexter as one of his favourite TV shows."

                  Eric Cantor

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He turned 93 Today!

What a class act!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31965573/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

If you really want to know what's going on here, watch this video all the way to the end to hear Senator Bernie Sanders' final comment...

http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/media/view/?id=bae82213-9904-4836-b5ba-69e9a35d113a

New studies show that America’s corporate chieftains are living like kings while the middle class stagnates and shrivels. Yet, the Tea Party and other anti-tax forces remain determined to protect the historically low tax rates of the rich and push the burden of reducing the federal debt onto the rest of society, a curious approach explored by Robert Parry.

For the full story, go to:

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/28/how-greed-destroys-america/

Rollerball is a 1975 American dystopian fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison,^[1] who adapted his own short story "Roller Ball Murder", which first appeared in 1973 in Esquire magazine.^[2]

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In the film, the world of 2018 is a global corporate state, containing entities such as the Energy Corporation, a global energy monopoly based in Houston which deals with nominally-peer corporations controlling access to all transport, luxury, housing, communication, and food on a global basis.

If you look forward to such a world, keep voting Republican!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

Without God, how can you be moral?

by Fred Edwords

"There is a tendency on the part of many theists to assume that the burden of proof is on the nontheist when it comes to the issue of morality. Thus, the individual who operates without a theological base is asked to justify his so doing — the assumption of the theist being that no morality is possible in the absence of some form of 'higher' law..."

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"Within hours of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed tens of thousands along the eastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, the world learned of another casualty of the disaster: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  The Fukushima crisis brought nuclear power safety issues into the spotlight in a way unknown since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The press and public needed clear, accurate explanations of what was going on in Japan and how it might affect the rest of the world. In the weeks following the disaster, UCS experts responded to this need by sharing their analysis of the crisis and its implications for the U.S. with the media, policymakers, fellow scientists and the public through a variety of channels..."

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"Wait ... this late-breaking score is just in: 0. That's from the special tax game that ExxonMobil consistently wins in Washington. Last year, ExMo powered through loopholes created by its slick lobbying team to pay an income tax of zero on the $19 billion it had racked up in profits the year before. But, wait again, here's a surprising update on that score: Exxon's taxes were actually less than zero! How's that possible? Because Big Oil's lobbyists have so skewed the tax system that Exxon was able to extract a $156 million rebate from us taxpayers last year."

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