http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/entertainment/video-jackson-browne-sings-to-occupy-dc-protestors-120511
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Browne
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Activism and music
In spring of 1978 Browne appeared at the site of the Barnwell, South Carolina nuclear reprocessing plant to perform a free concert the night before a civil disobedience action. He did not participate in the action.
Soon after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, during March 1979, Browne joined with several musician friends to found the anti-nuclear organization Musicians United for Safe Energy.[4] He was arrested protesting the Diablo Canyon Power Plant near San Luis Obispo. His next album, Hold Out (1980), was commercially successful — his only Number 1 record on the U.S. pop albums chart. The next year he released the single "Somebody's Baby" from the Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack, which became his biggest hit, peaking at Number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The 1983 Lawyers in Love followed, signaling a discernible change from the personal to the political in his lyrics.
Political protest came to the fore in Browne's music in the 1986 album, Lives in the Balance, an explicit condemnation of Reaganism and U.S. policy in Central America. Flavored with new instrumental textures, it was a huge success with many Browne fans, though not with mainstream audiences. The title track, "Lives in the Balance", with its Andean pan pipes — and lines like, "There's a shadow on the faces / Of the men who fan the flames / Of the wars that are fought in places / Where we can't even say the names" — was an outcry against U.S.-backed wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The song was used at several points in the award-winning 1987 PBS documentary, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by journalist Bill Moyers, and was part of the soundtrack of Stone's War, a 1986 Miami Vice episode focusing on American involvement in Central America.
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858509791/ (my second ex used to sing this and then after quite a while he told me what it meant.... I wasn't real sophisicated about musicians till I met him. OMG! I'm still not so very sure that the following is what the song is about but all the guys in the band used to believe it. :) ...cal
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without a doubt, the all-time greatest piano ballad about a gopher-pulling roadie.
05-06-2006
"It's what you look like, not who you are." This song is about a guy (possibly JB) who's girlfriend ditches him at prom for the drummer of a band. The guy is so bummed out that he goes home and 'chokes the chicken'
Rosie Jackson Browne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cT-i8NhoFA (Ok already so I lied in the above statement........ I knew it was true and if the truth be known the band at my 2nd wedding played Rosie and they probably were paid off by my brother-in-law w/drugs. cause that's just the way it was back in the early 80s and now looking back the drugs were probably from the Clinton/Bush crime families and they more than likely had my brother-in-law murdered. A year to the day after Randy was killed, there was an article in the Fresno Bee about his death and photos of his supplier on a sailboat with a dirty politician.) ...cal
Jackson Browne Cocaine (brainwashing at it's best) ...cal
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Cocaine Medicine
Before the West came to South America, the coca bush was highly revered by its indigenous population as a "divine plant".
The Incas used its leaves as currency. The Peruvians chewed them as fuel for high altitude treks and measured their journeys in "cicadas" - the time between doses of coca. In the 16th century, the Spaniards came and tried to eradicate its unholy use. They, however, learned their native slaves wouldn't work without it.
It took until the mid-19th century for the industrialized West to get a taste of Peru's 4,000-year-old secret, as German pediatrician Albert Niemann extracted cocaine hydrochloride from coca leaves in 1860.
The public got its first whiff of cocaine when it was used successfully to anesthetize the surface of the human eye in 1884. In the days before painkillers, this was very big news.
super product
For the ham-fisted pharmaceutical industry of the time, cocaine became a super product. Here was an ancient substance that could change the world, a 'miracle cure' prescribed for, intriguingly enough drug addiction, alcoholism, depression and fatigue.
Endless cocaine syrups, pastilles, wines, tonics, and elixirs appeared, alongside toothache drops, hemorrhoid creams, balms, ointments and cordials. These products usually contained huge amounts of cocaine. Rayno's Hay Fever remedy, for example, was basically a pure cocaine solution. The bottle recommended that you take it "two to ten times a day."
By 1900, cocaine was in the top five pharmaceutical products in the US and was selling for around $2.50 per gram.
This was the real thing.
Synthetic versions of cocaine without the psychoactive effects are still being used extensively as local anesthetics in medicine, mainly by dentists (Novocain) and for numbing the lower body (epidurals) in childbirth.
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Absorption of cocaine from the leaf is much less rapid and efficient than from the purified forms of cocaine,[citation needed] and it does not cause the euphoric and psychoactive effects associated with use of the drug.[citation needed] Some proponents[who?] have claimed that cocaine itself is not an active ingredient when unprocessed coca leaf is chewed or brewed as an infusion. However, studies have shown that small but measurable amounts of cocaine are present in the bloodstream after consumption of coca tea.[3] Addiction or other deleterious effects from the consumption of the leaf in its natural form have not been documented.[4][5]
[edit] History
Traces of coca have been found in mummies dating 3000 years back.[6] Other evidence dates the communal chewing of coca with lime 8000 years back.[7] Extensive archaeological evidence for the chewing of coca leaves dates back at least to the sixth century A.D. Moche period, and the subsequent Inca period, based on mummies found with a supply of coca leaves, pottery depicting the characteristic cheek bulge of a coca chewer, spatulas for extracting alkali and figured bags for coca leaves and lime made from precious metals, and gold representations of coca in special gardens of the Inca in Cuzco[8][9]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Haim_Saban (this guy was just on tv talking w/Leon Panetta) ...cal
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Buying Influence
Saban was one of the major contributors to the former California governor Gray Davis, and in return Davis appointed him to the board of regents of the University of California. However, more recently, Saban, along with Steven Spielberg, have shifted their loyalties to Arnold Schwarzenegger after the new California governor's unequivocal support for Israel's latest invasion of Lebanon. [6]
Earlier, similar contributions had earned Saban rewards from the Clinton administration:
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The Israel Corporation "is Israel’s largest holding company and a global player with core holdings in fertilizers and specialty chemicals, energy, shipping and transportation." [1]
According to a MERIP report published in 1974, the Israel Corporation was founded in 1968; Baron Edmond de Rothschild is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Sam Rothberg and Tibor Rosenbaum are members of the Board. [2]
- Nir Gilad, President & CEO
- Avisar Paz, Chief Financial Officer
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Not Just A Bond: A Bond With Israel, published October 18, 2010 by Talpiot Press, is a historical account of the founding, growth and expansion of the Development Corporation for Israel/State of Israel Bonds operation, which today is a global enterprise with cumulative worldwide sales exceeding $32.4 billion.
In his foreword to the book, President Shimon Peres calls the creation of Israel Bonds “a vital chapter in Israel’s history.”
[edit] Authors
The book, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel Bonds, was authored by husband and wife writing team Deborah and Gerald Strober. The Strobers, who have collaborated on nine previous occasions, conducted dozens of interviews in preparation for the book.[edit] Subject
Not Just A Bond: A Bond With Israel chronicles the development of the Bonds organization, starting with its uncertain beginnings at a September, 1950 conference convened by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel. At the time, write the Strobers, there was considerable skepticism regarding the viability of creating an organization to facilitate the sale of Israeli government-issued bonds, noting that “terrible arguments” took place before agreement was ultimately reached.The book explores the early stages and subsequent growth of the Bonds campaign, detailing how it expanded across the United States and into Canada, Latin America and Europe. It also examines non-Jewish sources of support such as organized labor and states and municipalities, which collectively have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Israel bonds.
[edit] Historic and Notable Personalities
Notable public figures who played a significant role in the development of Israel Bonds are featured throughout the book. Israelis include Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir[1], Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin and Shimon Peres, while Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein are among the well-known Americans shown lending support to the Bonds effort in the U.S.Not Just A Bond: A Bond With Israel highlights the many entertainment luminaries who made appearances on behalf of Israel Bonds. The list encompasses a who’s who of singers, actors and comedians: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Milton Berle and Jerry Lewis and many more.
Also discussed are the many members of the American Jewish community who played an indispensable role in ensuring the success of the new enterprise, together with subsequent generations who built on the organization’s achievements. Prominently featured is Sam Rothberg a legendary leader of the Jewish community who, the Strobers note, was “a titan of Israel Bonds.”
[edit] Acclaim for the Bonds Organization
The book states that the Bonds organization has been widely acclaimed for cost-effectiveness and dependability. In particular, it cites a Bank of Israel study: “Israel Bonds is unique to the State of Israel, and no other country has a similar organization. During years when the Israeli government had difficulty borrowing large amounts of money abroad, Israel Bonds proved itself as an organization that reacts rapidly to an increase in the government’s foreign exchange requirements.” [2]http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0029
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Sweatshop Scandal Rocks Israel
August 13, 2009 | Share
Well known Israeli labels
Jump — Pashut — Bonita — Irit
Linked to Musa sweatshop in Jordan
Foreign guest workers from Bangladesh were trafficked to Jordan and stripped of their passports at the Musa garment factory in the Al Hasan Industrial park. The guest workers are housed in crowded, primitive company dorms sleeping 10 to a room in double-level bunk beds. Water was available just one or two hours a night. The dorm was infested with bed bugs. The workers describe the food they were fed as terrible—half-cooked and too little. Before the Wall Street meltdown led to a global recession, the guest workers at Musa were forced to toil 12 ½ to 13 ½ hour shifts, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. All overtime was mandatory. They were required to work seven days a week, putting in an obligatory 6 ½ hour shift on Fridays, from 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.—supposedly their day off.
The workers are paid 75 cents an hour. Six workers were imprisoned and forcibly deported in July. Six more workers remain imprisoned. The workers are terrified and some have gone into hiding. The Musa factory is owned by two Israeli businessmen, Jack Braun and Moshe Cohen.
NLC Responds to Jordan Ministry of Labor Statements on the Musa Factory (August 13, 2009)
Full Report (July 24, 2009)
http://justworldnews.org/archives/003722.html
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The NLC report says that "Mr. Musa", the owner, is an Israeli. But Haaretz's Dana Weiler-Polak tells us, the real owners are Jack Braun and Moshe Cohen from Tel Aviv... The two employ 132 people from Bangladesh, 49 from India and 27 Jordanians. Chinese, Sri Lankans and Nepalese have also worked there in the past.
http://justworldnews.org/archives/003722.html
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The NLC report says that "Mr. Musa", the owner, is an Israeli. But Haaretz's Dana Weiler-Polak tells us, the real owners are Jack Braun and Moshe Cohen from Tel Aviv... The two employ 132 people from Bangladesh, 49 from India and 27 Jordanians. Chinese, Sri Lankans and Nepalese have also worked there in the past.
http://www.investinisrael.gov.il/NR/exeres/FDC2758D-8EF5-41DB-B52E-83FE627E1962.htm?guid=%7B59883397-C592-4926-907E-7DBFF5E4A18F%7D
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| The Monsanto Company, a US-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation, has acquired Beeologics Ltd., a developer of targeted biological pest and disease control solutions for bees and bee colonies. |
http://www.rense.com/general80/die.htm
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Another of Zbigniew's sons is Ian Brzezinski, currently the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and NATO affairs and a backer of NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia. This project means that Americans will be committed to fight and die for a gangster regime in the Caucasus, at the far end of the Black Sea. Ian is also pushing the installation of US ABM missiles in Poland and radars in the Czech Republic. He is also a protagonist of the independence of Kosovo, to be accomplished under the gun-running, drug-running KLA terrorist organization.
CFR Zbigniew Brzezinski
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUXJJFOjGZA
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/05/us-iran-us-idUSTRE7B427I20111205
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China Threatens World War Three If Anyone Attacks Iran 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-3xeP7NFRE
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/us-department-of-imperial-expansion.html
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1) The illegitimacy of the current US State Department fits in well with the overall Constitution-circumventing empire that the American Republic has degenerated into. The current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, gives a daily affirmation of this illegitimacy every time she bellies up to the podium and further makes a mockery of America, its people and its destiny.
Recently she issued a dangerously irresponsible "warning" to Venezuela and Bolivia regarding their stately relations with Iran. While America has to right to mediate its own associations with foreign nations, one is confounded trying to understand what gives America the right to dictate such associations to other sovereign nations. Of course, the self-declared imperial mandate the US State Department bestowed upon itself brings such "warnings" into perspective with the realization that the globalists view no nation as sovereign and all nations beholden to their unipolar "international system."
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It's hard to deny the US State Department is not behind the"color revolutions" sweeping the world when the Secretary of
State herself phones in during the youth movement confabs
her department sponsors on a yearly basis.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2007/10/23/seven_questions_a_conversation_with_zbigniew_brzezinski
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Seven Questions: A Conversation with Zbigniew Brzezinski
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is growing more authoritarian at home and increasingly aggressive abroad. China’s global clout seems to expand by the day. And in the Middle East, a possible conflict with Iran looms on the horizon. For insights on this dangerous new world, FP turned to Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. national security advisor, author, and all-around foreign-policy guru.
OCTOBER 24, 2007
ZB: The United States is bound to have one kind of a relationship with Egypt and another kind of a relationship with Syria. It is bound to have one kind of a relationship with Saudi Arabia and another kind with Iraq. I think one has to look at the Middle East in terms of a very diversified geopolitical terrain and fashion a policy accordingly.
FP: What are your thoughts on the upcoming Middle East peace conference, especially in light of Israels recent attack on Syria? Do you think any progress can be made?
FP: What are your thoughts on the upcoming Middle East peace conference, especially in light of Israels recent attack on Syria? Do you think any progress can be made?
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"After the NATO 'humanitarian help' to Libya, which was really a bloodbath, with 150,000 dead and now with Egypt, people are just now only realizing what it was from the beginning - there was no revolution there at all - it was a failure, and now people are beginning to understand this mistake."
Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Rice continue to encourage and promote this model of revolts, called color revolutions. But this time they are using the support of terrorist troops, mercenaries, fundamentalists, the people of Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood."
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/12/01/vietnam-style-exit-russia-could-deliver-death-blow-to-nato-in-af-pak-war-theater/ There's those damn cross hairs again. ...cal
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-05/iran-shoots-down-surveillance-drone/3712092http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/12/01/vietnam-style-exit-russia-could-deliver-death-blow-to-nato-in-af-pak-war-theater/ There's those damn cross hairs again. ...cal
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With the Russian threat to cut land routes for supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Afghan battleground may turn into a cold death trap for NATO, defence analysts believe. They say that Pakistan should utilise the opportunity for a peaceful and prosperous Pakistan by pulling it out of the American war.
Russia has threatened to cut off NATO supply routes to Afghanistan if the alliance doesn’t compromise on its missile defence plans. “If NATO doesn’t give a serious response, we have to address matters in relations in other areas,” Russian news services reported. Russia’s cooperation on Afghanistan may be an area for review, the news services reported.Excerpt:
http://nation.foxnews.com/iran/2011/09/28/iranian-navy-sending-ships-near-us-waters
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov
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- 2011-12 Mediterranean deployment
On 29 November 2011, Army General Nikolay Makarov, Chief of the Russian General Staff, said that sending ships of the Russian Navy to the Mediterranean Sea is linked to exercises and not to the situation in Syria. "In the event of necessity, namely to carry out repairs, to take water and food on board and to allow rest for the crews, Russian ships may visit Tartus but in this case this has not been included in the plan of the trip," the Interfax source said. He also noted that the size of Admiral Kuznetsov does not allow it to moor in Tartus because the port does not have suitable infrastructure, i.e. large enough mooring
http://www.amazon.com/Pact-Clinton-Gingrich-Rivalry-Generation/dp/0195322789
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During his four years as House speaker, Gingrich sometimes opposed President Bill Clinton, but he also worked closely with Clinton in 1996 to limit public welfare; in 1997 to pass a capital gains tax cut; and in 1998 to pass the first balanced budget since 1969. He was disciplined in January 1997 by the House of Representatives for ethics accusations, although a full hearing was avoided.
In the late 1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek. They continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal, when Gingrich launched the investigation of President Clinton for obstruction of justice in connection with his alleged affairs.[3] Gingrich resigned from the House on November 5, 1998, three days after being elected to his 11th term. He had "been a lightning rod for controversy ever since he steered his party to the majority in 1994 and took control of the speaker's gavel".http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-16/gingrich-said-to-be-paid-at-least-1-6-million-by-freddie-mac.html
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Gingrich Said to Be Paid About $1.6 Million by Freddie Mac
By Clea Benson and John McCormick - Nov 16, 2011 1:55 PM PT
Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.
The total amount is significantly larger than the $300,000 payment from Freddie Mac that Gingrich was asked about during a Republican presidential debate on Nov. 9 sponsored by CNBC, and more than was disclosed in the middle of congressional investigations into the housing industry collapse.
Gingrich’s business relationship with Freddie Mac spanned a period of eight years. When asked at the debate what he did to earn a $300,000 payment in 2006, the former speaker said he “offered them advice on precisely what they didn’t do,” and warned the company that its lending practices were “insane.” Former Freddie Mac executives who worked with Gingrich dispute that account.
Gingrich said this morning the payments were for “strategic advice over a long period of time.” His fees were sent to his consulting firm, The Gingrich Group, not to him personally, he said in an interview after making a campaign appearance in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Pelosi’s Unethical Gingrich Threat
According to Representative Nancy Pelosi, who served on the ethics committee that investigated Newt Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations in the late 1990s, “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich. When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
Set aside the fact that (as Gingrich said) Pelosi would be violating House rules and abusing the ethics process if she disclosed anything from the ethics investigation. My question is whether this kind of politics is what Barack Obama had in mind when, in 2008, he preached against “a politics that breeds division and conflict and cynicism.” Or when he told us, “I want us to rediscover our bonds to each other and to get out of the constant petty bickering that’s come to characterize our politics… the tit-for-tat, ‘gotcha’ game that passes for politics right now doesn’t solve problems. I want to get beyond that.” Or when he announced on a stage in Grant Park, on the night of his election, “Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.”
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Bush, for his part, issued some strange comments immediately after Wellstone's crash, even for him. He called Wellstone - who was an articulate, energetic, intelligent political science professor for 21 years before he was a senator - a "plain-spoken fellow." He said he wanted to issue his "condolences for the loss of the Senate." Did he mean the Democrats' sudden loss of the Senate, which occurred the day Wellstone died? Did he know something more than he let on?
Bush once called Wellstone a 'chicken shit'
There was no love lost between the Bush clan and Wellstone. In 1990, as Wellstone challenged the Persian Gulf War preparations, Bush Sr. even referred to Wellstone as a "chicken shit." When Wellstone first met Bush Jr. in 2001, the latter disrespectfully called him "Pablo."
As The Nation said in May 2002, getting rid of Wellstone was a passion for Bush, Karl Rove, and Cheney. "There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone," a senior Republican aide told The Nation. "This one is political and personal for them."
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Pay was routinely withheld, and when workers went on strike to recover their lost earnings Daewoosa's managers switched off the electricity, making conditions in the overheated compound unbearable. During the worst dispute in November 2000, Lee allegedly authorised Samoan managers to make an example of one of the Vietnamese seamstresses. Quyen Truong was dragged from her sewing machine by several men, before a Samoan employee gouged out her eye with a plastic pipe.
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