tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30112017645322175082024-03-12T19:55:21.480-07:00 - Mad-Dam-Mad - Midwest Music Mafiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873780096665213019noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011201764532217508.post-53812610951655425892017-03-18T22:00:00.000-07:002023-07-14T19:24:31.654-07:00- Here an Idiot - There an Idiot - Everywhere an Idiot - Idiot - <br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />-<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">62 agencies and programs <br />FreetoHead 45 wants to eliminate</span> </h2>
-<br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">FreetoHead 45's</span></b> proposed budget takes a cleaver to domestic programs, with many agencies taking percentage spending cuts in the double digits.<br />
<br />But for dozens of smaller agencies and programs, the cut is 100%.<br />
<br />Community development block grants. <br />The Weatherization Assistance Program. <br />The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. <br />The National Endowment for the Arts. <br />The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. <br />
<br />Also proposed for elimination are lesser-known bureaucracies like the ;<br />McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program, <br />Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program <br />Inter-American Foundation.<br />
<br />Not every program would disappear overnight. <br />The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which now receives $485 million a year, <br />might still get some federal funding in 2018, <br />
<br /><span style="font-size: large;">FreetoHead 45's</span> budget says hundreds of programs and agencies would be eliminated — with more than 50 in the Environmental Protection Agency. <br />But his first budget proposal identified 62 specifically. <br /> The list:<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Agriculture</span></h3>
<br /><b>Water and Wastewater loan and grant program</b> ($498 million): <br />"Rural communities served by federal investments in rural water infrastructure .<br />
<br /><b>McGovern-Dole International Food for Education program</b> ($202 million): <br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Commerce</span></h3>
<b>Economic Development Administration</b> ($221 million): <br /><b>President Obama's</b> 2017 budget touted the agency as " the only federal government agency <br />with a mission and programs focused exclusively on economic development." <br />
<br /><b>Minority Business Development Agency</b> ($32 million): <br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Education</span> </h3>
<b>Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants program</b> ($2.4 billion): <br />
<br /><b>21st Century Community Learning Centers program</b> ($1.2 billion): <br />The formula grants to states support before- and after-school and summer programs<br />
<br /><b>Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program</b> ($732 million): <br />This financial aid program, known as SEOG, help give up to $4,000 a year to college students based on financial need.<br /><i> (( If they are too poor to go to college - <br /> let them get a student loan - <br /> and give the banks a chance to make some money off them - <br /> or just not go - college-after all is for the rich ... ))</i><br />
<br /><b>Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program</b> ($190 million): <br />The grants are targeted toward students with disabilities or limited English proficiency. <br />
<br /><b>Teacher Quality Partnership</b> ($43 million): <br />A teacher training and recruitment grant program. <br />
<br /><b>Impact Aid Support Payments for Federal Property</b> ($67 million): <br /> <i>(( this one might be OK ... ))</i><br />
<br /><b>International Education programs</b> ($7 million): <br />This line item funds a variety of exchange programs, <br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Energy</span></h3>
<b>Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy</b> ($382 million): <br />This alternative energy research program - funding projects that the private sector would not.<br />
<br /><b>Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program</b>: <br />This loan fund finances projects that combat <b>global warming</b>.<br />
<i>(( why bother - It's all Chinese propaganda ...??? ))</i> <br /><br /><b>Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program</b>: <br />Helps finance fuel-efficient vehicle research. <br />
<br /><b>Weatherization Assistance Program</b> ($121 million): <br />The program helps homeowners make their homes more energy efficient with grants of up to $6,500.<br />
<br /><b>State Energy Program</b> ($28.2 million): <br />Gives grants to states to help them work on energy efficiency and anti-climate change programs.<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Health and Human Services</span></h3>
<b>Health professions and nursing training programs</b> ($403 million): <br /> <i>(( an option would be to provide scholarships and student loans in in exchange for service <br /> In areas with a nursing shortage. ))</i><br />
<br /><b>Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program</b> ($3.4 billion): <br />LIHEAP helps the elderly and low-income people pay their heating and power bills. <br /><i> (( If they are too poor to pay for heat - let them freeze - right ...<br /> that's the republican way ... ))</i><br />
<br /><b>Community Services Block Grants</b> ($715 million): <br />CSBG is an anti-poverty grant program .<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Housing and Urban Development</span></h3>
<b>Community Development Block Grant program</b> ($3 billion): <br />CDBG has been a bread-and-butter funding source for local communities for 42 years, <br />
<b><br />Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing </b>($35 million):<br /> <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Department of the Interior</span><br /><br /><b>Abandoned Mine Land grants</b> ($160 million): <br /><i> (( Let the rich make the money from the mines - <br /> Let the poor people pay for the mess the rich people make -<br /> that's the republican way ... ))</i><br />
<br /><b>National Heritage Areas</b> ($20 million): <br />State-and-federal partnerships to preserve natural, historic, scenic, and cultural resources. <br />
<br /><b>National Wildlife Refuge fund</b> ($480 million): <br />Maintains the Fish and Wildlife Service's 563 wildlife refuges throughout the country. <br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Justice</span></h3>
<b>State Criminal Alien Assistance Program</b> ($210 million): <br />Reimburses states for the cost of incarcerating criminal immigrants. <br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of Labor</span></h3>
<b>Senior Community Service Employment Program</b> ($434 million): <br />SCSEP is a job training program for low-income people 55 and older .<br /><i> (( If they want job training - they should not be poor ...<br /> that's the republican way ... ))</i><br />
<br /><b>Occupational Safety and Health Administration training grants</b> ($11 million)<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development</span></h3>
<b>The Global Climate Change Initiative</b> ($1.3 billion) <br />To support the Paris climate agreement. <br />Includes the ;<br />Green Climate Fund ($250 million), <br />Strategic Climate Fund ($60 million) <br />Clean Technology Fund ($171 million). <br /><i> (( It's all a Chinese Plot - Just like pretending the world is round ... ))</i><br />
<br /><b>Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund</b> ($70 million): <br />To "provide humanitarian assistance for unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs worldwide," <br /> <i>(( If they needed assistance - they should not have been refugees - right ? ))</i><br />
<br /><b>The East-West Center</b> ($16 million): <br />Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, <br />the Honolulu-based nonprofit has a mission of strengthening relations among Pacific Rim countries.<br /> <i>(( Let the Chinese do it - it is <b>their century</b> after all ... ))</i><br />
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Department of Transportation</h3>
<b>The Essential Air Service program</b> ($175 million) <br />Provides federal subsidies for commercial air service at rural airports. <br />Rural communities could be served by other modes of transportation.<br /><i> (( If you want to get to rural communities - <br /> you can just use your private jet ... ))</i><br />
<br /><b>Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery</b> grants ($499 million): <br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">Department of the Treasury</span></h3>
<b>Community Development Financial Institutions</b> grants ($210 million): <br />23-year-old program to support community banks and credit unions .<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</span></h3>
<b>Geographic watershed programs</b> ($427 million) <br /><b>Great Lakes Restoration Initiative</b> ($40 million) <br /><b>Chesapeake Bay Restoration Initiative</b> ($14 million): <br />
<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fifty other EPA programs</b></span> ($347 million) <br /><b>Energy Star,</b> <br /><b>Targeted Airshed Grants,</b> <br /><b>Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program,</b> <br /><b>Infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native Villages and the Mexico border.</b><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Idiot's budget takes a sledgehammer to the EPA</b></span><br />
<br /> The proposal by the White House would slash the EPA's budget by 31 percent — <br /> — from its current level of $8.1 billion to $5.7 billion. <br /> It would cut 3,200 positions, more than 20 percent of the agency's current workforce .<br /> The proposed budget, would discontinue funding for the Clean Power Plan — <br /> the effort to combat climate change by regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.<br />
It would sharply reduce money for the Superfund program - <br /><br /> It also would eliminate “more than 50 EPA programs.” Among them: <br /> the Energy Star program, to improve energy efficiency and save consumers money;<br /> infrastructure assistance to Alaska Native villages and the Mexico border; <br /> a grant program that helps cities and states combat air pollution; <br /> an office that focuses on environmental justice issues.<br />
<br /> Funding for the massive Chesapeake Bay cleanup project, which receives $73 million each year, would be cut to zero. <br />Similar cleanup programs in the Great Lakes — a massive undertaking would suffer the same fate ...<br />The agency’s new ANTI-leader, former Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, <br />has been a key critic of the efforts to fight climate change and reduce fossil-fuel-related pollution.<br />
<br />Cynthia Giles, who headed the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance said - that enforcement staff has already been reduced 20 percent over the past eight years, bringing it to its lowest level since the enforcement office was created in 1995.<br />
<br />“[More cuts] won’t just drastically reduce EPA enforcement, it will bring it to a halt,” “Not only will the staff be a shadow of its former self, the inspectors, lawyers and criminal agents who would be left would be unable to do their jobs, because these cuts would zero out the already small amount of funds used to do inspections, monitor pollution and file cases.”<br />
<br />John O’Grady, a career EPA employee who heads a national council of EPA unions, said the agency “is already on a starvation diet, with a bare-bones budget and staffing level” . *<br />
<br />National Aeronautics and Space Administration<br />
Office of Education ($115 million), <br /> (( if people want to get educated -<br /> they can get their rich parents to pay for it ... ))<br /> <br /> The planet Donald Trump doesn't want you to see<br />
<br />NASA has a little program with a big view of Earth, but Russian-Chinese-Joint Venture President Idiot 45 wants to shut it down. If a new budget outline released by the FreetoHead administration Thursday goes through, it will cancel funding for the instruments on the DSCOVR spacecraft that face our planet from 1 million miles away. It's a relatively small budget cut -- though it's unclear how much would be saved -- in a proposal to trim billions of dollars from many agencies, but the Idiot's's desire to cancel this one specific part of a mission speaks volumes. <br />
<br />NASA's Epic instrument on DSCOVR beams back a full view of the sunlit side of the Earth every day. <br />The photos are made publicly available through a NASA-run website, and it's a great place for any journalist or member of the public to go for a daily view of our home planet. <br />These images allow climate scientists to get a good look at what the atmosphere is doing on any given day<br />
<br /> Epic's photos are also simply beautiful. It changes a person's perspective to see the Earth from 1 million miles away, without borders or any human-made objects visible. Everyone you've ever cared for is right there in that image. <br />
<br />Canceling this program doesn't make a lot of sense from an operational point of view. <br />
<br />The mission is already in space, so a major part of the money allotted for the camera and other Earth science instruments has already been spent. Plus, it's not like the administration is planning to cancel the entire mission of the satellite -- it will still monitor the environment around it, keeping tabs on the sun's activity.<br />
<br />This proposal is like a dig at former REAL Vice President Al Gore .<br />
<br />REAL Vice President Gore is the person who lobbied heavily for this mission, and specifically the camera showing humanity a full view of Earth every day. <br />
<br />This may be some kind of personal beef between Gore and Trump -- <br />even if it isn't, the proposal reveals the idiot's true intent when it comes to programs focused on our home planet. <br />
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<br />Republicans in Congress have long-lobbied for an end to NASA's Earth science programs, and imaginary president idiot's outline delivers on that. <br />
<br />Along with the imaging program for DSCOVR, the administration is also calling for the cancellation of PACE, OCO-3 and CLARREO Pathfinder, all missions that observe our planet.<br />
<br /> (( none of the longterm future missions may get off the ground if climate change puts NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida - underwater <br /> in the coming decades. ))<br />
<br /> Plus, who knows where the next generation of space explorers will come from without NASA's office of education, which would get totally dismantled .<br />
<br />Independent agencies and commissions<br />
<br />African Development Foundation ($26 million): <br />An independent foreign aid agency focusing on economic development in Africa.<br />
<br />Appalachian Regional Commission ($119 million): <br />A 52-year-old agency focused on economic growth in 420 counties.<br /> (( All those coal miners can pay for their own economic growth ... ))<br />
<br />Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board ($11 million): <br />Investigates chemical accidents.<br />
FreetoHead's proposal to scrap Chemical Safety Board <br /> draws criticism <br />
<br />The Idiot's proposal to do away with the federal agency that investigates chemical accidents drew sharp criticism from environmental, labor and safety advocates, who said that eliminating the watchdog would put American lives at risk.<br />
<br />Christine Todd Whitman, the former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head, on Thursday called the proposal to get rid of Chemical Safety Board (CSB) and cut EPA funding short-sighted, saying both have long been an industry target for advocating greater public information on chemicals.<br />
<br />"If you want to put the American people in danger this is the way to do it," <br />she said of the idiot's proposal to cut the CSB's funding entirely from the 2018 federal budget. "The chemical industry has fought back from the beginning."<br />
<br />The CSB investigates major chemicals accidents to search for their causes and makes recommendations that could prevent a recurrence. It has no regulatory power, but is influential because its recommendations are often adopted by industry, labor, government officials, the EPA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration.<br />
<br />The CSB, which has an annual budget of about $12 million, defended its work, saying its work has broadly improved safety. "As this process moves forward, we hope that the important mission of this agency will be preserved," the agency said in a statement.<br />
<br />Petroleum and refining industry groups, Exxon Mobil Corp, BP plc and Tesoro Corp did not respond or declined to comment directly on the potential phase out.<br />(( when the government is run by these groups - what would you expect ... ))<br />
<br />Michael Wright, director of health, safety and environment at the United Steelworkers union, said the CSB's recommendations generally have been welcome by labor and industry. <br />
<br />The board's reviews of major accidents have proved significant. Its probes have led to industry standards on worker fatigue, greater reporting of hazardous chemicals to first responders, and have prompted companies to keep workers not directly involved in projects out of harm's way.<br />
<br />In California, many of the board’s safety recommendations have been drafted into law. <br />
<br />"This is one of the best bargains in Washington," said the USW's Wright. <br />"If it has prevented even one accident, it has saved far more money than its budget over its entire history."<br />
<br />Its probe of the fatal Deepwater Horizon rig explosion was controversial because of its two-year length and extensive need for outside help. The work led to new standards for safety in the offshore oil industry and in well equipment.<br />
<br />Some recommendations have not been yet been implemented. <br />After a fatal 2013 explosion in West, Texas, that killed 12 first responders the CSB proposed facilities that store large amounts of fertilizer be covered by emergency planning laws that give first responders more information. That remains open.<br />
<br />Beth Rosenberg, a former CSB board member and now an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, said the CSB "does excellent work; other countries admire this agency." <br />She said opponents <br /> "don't know what they're doing here or how useful this board is."<br />**<br />
<br />Corporation for National and Community Service ($771 million): <br />Best known for its Americorps community service program.<br />
<br />Corporation for Public Broadcasting ($485 million): <br />Supports public television and radio stations, <br />including the PBS television network and, <br />indirectly, National Public Radio.<br />
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Idiot 45's Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for <br /> PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts<br />
<br />Russia - Chinese Joint Venture Subcontractor Pretend President Cheetohead 45 <br />made good on a long-time conservative goal in his first proposed budget - targeting <br />the Corporation for Public Broadcasting <br />and <br />the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities <br />for complete elimination.<br />
<br />’Idiot 45’s budget would zero out the $445 million budget for <br />the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, <br />a relatively small source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide, *<br />
<br />The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016, <br />as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, <br />which supports libraries and museums. <br />Additional cuts would affect two tourist mainstays in Washington, D.C., <br />the Smithsonian Institution <br />and <br />the National Gallery of Art.<br />
<br />’Combined, the four arts organizations account for less than 0.02 percent of the U.S. government’s $4.6 trillion budget.<br /> (( That's 2 Cents of each $ 100.00 Dollars the government steals ... ))<br />
<br />In 2016, the NEA allocated $47 million to 50 states and five jurisdictions, funding that that helped to leverage $368 million from state governments to support arts organizations via more than 24,000 grants, according to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. <br />In 2015, funding for the NEA was less than one-third <br />of what the U.S. budget allocated for military bands.<br />
<br />’Republicans have long put the NEA and the CPB in their budget crosshairs. <br />In 1981, Worthless Criminal Reagan attempted to shut down the NEA, <br />but backed down -<br />Reagan did, however, make major cuts to the NEA’s budget .<br />
<br />CheetoHead's staff suggested that the incoming idiot would consider appointing <br />Sylvester Stallone to head the NEA, <br />Stallone later declined.<br /> (( Would have been the smartest - and most articulate one there ...))<br />
The NEA and the NEH — which supports <br />museums, <br />archives, <br />libraries, <br />universities — <br />were created in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson. <br /> “An advanced civilization must not limit its efforts to science and technology alone, but must give full value and support to the other great branches of scholarly and cultural activity in order to achieve a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better view of the future,” <br />the congressional act.<br />
<br />Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is unlikely to cripple either PBS or NPR. <br />NPR received less than 1 percent of its revenue from the CPB, <br />PBS less than 7 percent, <br />according to data from 2014 *<br />
<br />The CPB has relatively low overhead and paid out 99.3 percent of its $445 million appropriation in 2014 in grants, more than 90 percent of which went not to the national networks but to local affiliates in less populated cities .<br />
<br />(( Maybe Idiot 45 thinks that these people are to stupid to watch PBS anyway ... ))<br />
<br />Delta Regional Authority ($45 million): <br />Economic development agency for the eight-state Mississippi Delta region.<br />
<br />Denali Commission ($14 million): <br />A state and federal economic development agency for Alaska.<br />
<br />Institute of Museum and Library Services ($231 million): <br />Provides money to the nation's 123,000 libraries and 35,000 museums. <br />
<br />Inter-American Foundation ($23 million): <br />Promotes "citizen-led grassroots development" in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br />
<br />U.S. Trade and Development Agency ($66 million): <br />Promotes U.S. exports in energy, transportation, and telecommunications.<br />
<br />Legal Services Corp. ($366 million): <br />Helps provide free civil legal advice to poor people.<br /> (( Poor people do not need any civil legal advise ,<br /> Let the government and the rich run amuck and trample the poor peoples' <br /> broken lives and bodies ... <br /> that's the republican way ... ))<br />
<br />National Endowment for the Arts ($152 million): <br />
National Endowment for the Humanities ($155 million): <br />Supports scholarship into literature and culture.<br />
<br />Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. ($175 million): <br />Supports local affordable housing programs.<br />
<br />Northern Border Regional Commission ($7 million): <br />Regional economic development - parts of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont.<br />
<br />Overseas Private Investment Corp.($63 million): <br />Encourages U.S. private investment in the developing world.<br /> (( Let the Chinese do it - it is their century after all ... ))<br />
<br />U.S. Institute of Peace ($40 million): <br />
<br />U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness ($4 million): <br />An independent agency coordinating the federal government's efforts to reduce homelessness.<br />
<br />Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ($11 million): <br />A program to provide scholarships and fellowships in social sciences and humanities.<br />
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welfare and entitlements for the top </b><b>1</b><b> % - .</b></span> </h2>
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A few of the giveaways to the rich - and how much they cost the US :</h4>
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<b>1. Tax Breaks for CEO bonuses
($7 billion/year)</b></h3>
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The biggest corporations exploit
a 20-year-old loophole that allows them to write off <br />
inflated compensation packages for
CEOs, <br />
billing stock options, <br />
performance-based bonuses <br />
to taxpayers. <br />
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In 2010, <br />
the biggest corporations cost Americans <a href="http://www.epi.org/press/corporate-tax-deductions-executive-pay-cost/" target="_blank"><b>$7 billion</b></a> by writing off inflated executive
pay. <br />
<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> - That <b>$7 billion</b> could fund the annual budget for the <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2014/" target="_blank"><b>National
Science Foundation</b></a> — <br />
- 11,000 scientific research
projects each year <br />
- 26 Nobel laureates in the last 5
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Between 2007 and 2010, this
loophole accounted for more than <b><u>$30
billion</u></b> in corporate welfare. <br />
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<b>2. Tax cuts for luxury
corporate jets ($300 million/year)</b></h3>
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Currently, corporations get huge
tax deductions by writing off purchases of <br />
corporate jets, fancy cars-limousines , …<br />
and chauffeurs … <br />
These tax breaks for some of the wealthiest Americans cost the rest of us <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-06-29/jet-tax-break-cited-six-times-by-obama-would-cut-debt-by-about-3-billion" target="_blank"><b>$300 million</b></a> each year. <br />
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<b>3. Big oil subsidies ( $37.5
billion/year )</b></h3>
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Between $<b>10</b> billion and $<b>52</b>
billion per year on corporate welfare for the fossil fuel industry .<br />
OCI estimated that total subsidies to big oil – approximately - <a href="http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/" target="_blank"><b>$37.5
billion</b></a> in 2014, <br />
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<br /><b>4. Pharmaceutical subsidies
($270 billion/year)</b></h3>
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The pharmaceutical industry gets
roughly <a href="http://www.cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/liberals-working-for-the-right" target="_blank"><b>$270 billion a year</b></a> <br />
This is over $<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">1,900</span></b>.- per household in corporate welfare. <br />
This is mainly due to the bill that George W. Bush signed into law in 2003, <br />
which prevents Medicare from negotiating drug prices with pharmaceutical
companies. <br />
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The biggest drug companies also make (a <a href="http://usaction.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/4/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/DrugCoEarnings2013.pdf" target="_blank"><b>combined $711 billion</b></a> in profits between 2003
and 2012) <br />
by buying patents for drugs - largely developed with taxpayer-funded research, <br />
then jacking up the price …<br />
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<br /><b>5. Capital gains tax breaks
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Capital gains, are taxed at a <b>20 %</b> - <br />
real, actual work <b>35</b> %. <br />
<a href="http://www.mybudget360.com/stock-market-sham-most-americans-own-no-stocks-who-owns-us-wealth/" target="_blank"><b>53 percent</b></a> of Americans own no stock at all, <br />
The <a href="http://www.mybudget360.com/stock-market-sham-most-americans-own-no-stocks-who-owns-us-wealth/" target="_blank"><b>richest 5 percent</b></a> own two-thirds of the stock. <br />
Only <a href="http://www.mybudget360.com/stock-market-sham-most-americans-own-no-stocks-who-owns-us-wealth/" target="_blank"><b>10 percent</b></a> of Americans have pensions, <br />
The total amount of lost revenue was <a href="http://www.tcf.org/blog/detail/10-reasons-to-eliminate-the-tax-break-for-capital-gains" target="_blank"><b>$256 billion</b></a> between fiscal years 2012 and
2016, <br />
or $<b>51</b> billion a year over the last
5 years. <br />
If investment income was taxed at the same rate as wages,<br />
<a href="http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/Content/PDF/T08-0051.pdf" target="_blank"><b>75 percent</b></a> of that revenue would come from the
richest <b>0.3</b> % of Americans; <br />
<b>92</b> % of that revenue from those
making $<b>200,000</b> or more per year. <br />
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6. Corporate tax subsidies from state and local governments ($80.4
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breaks in <b>1,874</b> programs cost
taxpayers <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/01/us/government-incentives.html" target="_blank"><b>$80.4 billion</b></a> every year for corporate welfare
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then - make money from insurance claims ... <br />
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The <b>10</b> biggest banks get <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-02-20/why-should-taxpayers-give-big-banks-83-billion-a-year-" target="_blank"><b>$83 billion</b></a> per year in corporate welfare.<o:p></o:p></div>
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9. Export-Import bank subsidies ($112 billion)</b></h3>
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of which $<b>90</b> billion went to
multinationals. <br />
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The combined cost of these <b>10</b>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> <a href="http://usuncut.com/author/tom/" title="Posts by Tom Cahill"><b>Tom Cahill</b></a> | October
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Economic Policy Institute<br />
Oil Change International (OCI),<br />
healthcareforamericanow.org.<br />
Pew Research<br />
The Guardian,<br />
Century Foundation<br />
Tax Policy Center<br />
New York Times<br />
Bloomberg report<br />
Sunlight Foundation<br />
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37 Lies Americans Tell Themselves To Avoid Confronting Reality</h1>
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Have you noticed the incredible detachment from reality exhibited by the masses these days? The continued operation of modern society, it seems, depends on people making sure they don’t acknowledge reality (or try to deal with it). “Denial” is what keeps every sector of civilization humming along: medicine, finance, government, agriculture and more.</div>
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The trouble with the denial approach is that eventually the lies collide with reality. Until that day comes, however, happy-go-lucky Americans are merrily enjoying their courtship with self delusion, repeating the following 37 lies to themselves as if they were true:</div>
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Lie #1) All FDA-approved medications are safe to consume in any combination, because the FDA protects the public.</div>
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Lie #2) Food prices keep going up because inflation is a natural force that can’t be halted.</div>
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Lie #3) The mainstream media is telling me the truth when it reports on world events.</div>
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Lie #4) Chemical food additives are tested for their safety before being widely used across the food supply.</div>
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Lie #5) We can all pump groundwater out of the ground forever, and it will never run out.</div>
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Lie #6) We can also pump fossil fuels out of the ground forever, and they will never run out, either. Why worry?</div>
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Lie #7) If anything bad happens in terms of a national emergency or natural disaster, the government will take care of me.</div>
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Lie #8) It doesn’t matter where my food comes from as long as it’s cheap and delicious.</div>
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Lie #9) GMOs must be safe to eat because a bunch of scientists paid by the biotech industry all tell each other that GMOs are safe and therefore have reached “scientific consensus.”</div>
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Lie #10) Government debt doesn’t matter because the government can simply create more money any time they want.</div>
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Lie #11) Mercury in vaccines must be safe to inject into children, otherwise the CDC and FDA wouldn’t allow it to be used in vaccines.</div>
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Lie #12) Organic produce is a waste of money. I’ll buy conventional produce treated with pesticides and herbicides because the cost of all the cancer treatments I’ll need 20 years later will be covered by Obamacare anyway.</div>
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Lie #13) The history taught to children in public schools is a true and accurate history. Columbus was best friends with the Indians, too!</div>
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Lie #14) Swallowing fluoride chemicals is good for babies and children, and that’s why cities put fluoride into public water supplies.</div>
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Lie #15) Flu shots prevent the flu. That’s why the package inserts for flu vaccines openly state there is <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/045434_influenza_vaccines_pregnant_women_mercury.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #e87a25; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">no scientific evidence to support any conclusion that influenza vaccines prevent influenza</a>.</div>
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Lie #16) Whatever is backed by “science” must be true. Science is never <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/036328_Merck_mumps_vaccine_False_Claims_Act.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #e87a25; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">falsified by corrupt scientists or corporate agendas</a>, and scientific conclusions are never wrong.</div>
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Lie #17) The global ecosystem can handle unlimited human pollution without any negative consequences. We can all continue to dump unlimited toxins into the environment.</div>
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Lie #18) Cell phone radiation is harmless. The reason we know that is because the cell phone companies hired scientists to say so.</div>
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Lie #19) If everybody else is doing something, it must be the right thing to do. After all, how could so many people be wrong?</div>
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Lie #20) We don’t need to store food for emergencies because there will always be more food available at the grocery store.</div>
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Lie #21) There’s no need to be concerned about Ebola or other infectious diseases in America because the vaccine companies can always and instantly create a new vaccine that works 100% of the time, with zero side effects.</div>
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Lie #22) Local police departments need battlefield military weapons, armored cars and body armor because the drug war demands it.</div>
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Lie #23) If I buy something at Whole Foods, it must be healthy and free from contaminants like toxic heavy metals. (<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/045999_whole_foods_market_class_action_lawsuit_heavy_metals_contamination.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #e87a25; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Or is it really?</a>)</div>
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Lie #24) My vote really counts in national elections. We live in a democracy where the People have power over the government.</div>
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Lie #25) My checking and savings accounts are perfectly safe no matter what happens because my bank is FDIC insured.</div>
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Lie #26) Raw dairy products are dangerous and deadly because the FDA told me so. Those horrible farmers selling raw dairy products should be locked away in prison.</div>
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Lie #27) My oncologist recommends chemotherapy treatment for me only because he cares about my wellbeing, not because his clinic sells the chemotherapy drugs at a huge profit.</div>
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Lie #28) The government isn’t secretly recording my phone calls or reading my emails. Why would they? I’ve done nothing wrong!</div>
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Lie #29) Commercial dog food is healthy and nutritious for dogs. Dog treats made in China are also trustworthy and free from contaminants like lead.</div>
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Lie #30) The only way to prevent infectious disease is with a vaccine. Vitamin D and healthy immune support have nothing to do with it.</div>
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Lie #31) After I pay off my house, I own it free and clear. (Think again: Property taxes mean you’re only “leasing” it from the county. Stop paying those taxes and you’ll find out very quickly who really owns your home.)</div>
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Lie #32) Google will do no evil, and the fact that the company is developing humanoid battlefield robots, autonomous drones and super-human quantum computing brain chips is nothing to worry about.</div>
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Lie #33) Cancer is caused entirely by bad luck (or smoking) and has nothing to do with the food I eat or chemicals in my personal environment.</div>
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Lie #34) The radiation release from Fukushima wasn’t that bad. Sure, it was many times larger than the Chernobyl disaster, but authorities say we have nothing to worry about.</div>
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Lie #35) Autism isn’t caused by vaccines, and the way we know is because <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/046630_CDC_whistleblower_public_confession_Dr_William_Thompson.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #e87a25; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the CDC scientist who admitted to a massive conspiracy of scientific fraud</a> to bury the evidence linking vaccines to autism should not be believed.</div>
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Lie #36) All foods certified as “organic” are automatically free of toxic heavy metals and contaminants.</div>
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Lie #37) Human civilization is the only intelligent civilization in the entire galaxy. Anything else would simply be too scary to contemplate.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Manipulation of Facts, Governments, Peoples - </u></b></span>___</h2>
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“<strong>The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society</strong>.<br /><strong>Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. </strong><strong>We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.</strong>” – </div>
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Edward Bernays (“the father of public relations”),<br />( Bernays’ book, <em>Propaganda</em>, begins with the above quote).<br /><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">Theodore </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">Roosevelt - </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">26th U.S. President </span></h3>
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<strong>Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.</strong> (<a href="https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=AS73VZnhNOmM8QfOwYKwCQ#q=Behind+the+ostensible+government+sits+enthroned+an+invisible+government+owing+no+allegiance+and+acknowledging+no+responsibility+to+the+people" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)<br />---</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;"> </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">Woodrow Wilson - </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">28th U.S. President </span></h3>
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Woodrow Wilson, - his book <em>The New Freedom</em>. <br />The book also contains several other, similar statements:</div>
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<b>Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. <br />Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. <br />They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.</b><strong> (<a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=wObVs3ft9C8C&pg=PT17&lpg=PT17&dq=The+New+Freedom+Since+I+entered+politics,+I+have+chiefly+had+men%27s+views+confided+to+me+privately.+Some+of+the+biggest+men+in+the+United+States,+in+the+field+of+commerce+and+manufacture,+are+afraid+of+somebody,+are+afraid+of+something.+They+know+that+there+is+a+power+somewhere+so+organized,+so+subtle,+so+watchful,+so+interlocked,+so+complete,+so+pervasive,+that+they+had+better+not+speak+above+their+breath+when+they+speak+in+condemnation+of+it&source=bl&ots=WJhC1OxAQQ&sig=w5jKSDr525aCh_xAjT4Lk3RfxuU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCGoVChMI8Om8xar3xwIVQRqSCh2tGQnP#v=onepage&q=The%20New%20Freedom%20Since%20I%20entered%20politics%2C%20I%20have%20chiefly%20had%20men's%20views%20confided%20to%20me%20privately.%20Some%20of%20the%20biggest%20men%20in%20the%20United%20States%2C%20in%20the%20field%20of%20commerce%20and%20manufacture%2C%20are%20afraid%20of%20somebody%2C%20are%20afraid%20of%20something.%20They%20know%20that%20there%20is%20a%20power%20somewhere%20so%20organized%2C%20so%20subtle%2C%20so%20watchful%2C%20so%20interlocked%2C%20so%20complete%2C%20so%20pervasive%2C%20that%20they%20had%20better%20not%20speak%20above%20their%20breath%20when%20they%20speak%20in%20condemnation%20of%20it&f=false" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)<br />---</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">John F. Kennedy - </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">35th U.S. President </span></h3>
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<strong>The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. <br />We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. <br />Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. <br />Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. <br />And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. <br />That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. … For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily <br />on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–<br />on infiltration instead of invasion, <br />on subversion instead of elections, <br />on intimidation instead of free choice, <br />on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. <br />It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.<br />Its preparations are concealed, not published. <br />Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. <br />Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. <br />No expenditure is questioned, <br />no rumor is printed, <br />no secret is revealed. </strong>(<a href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/JFK-Speeches/American-Newspaper-Publishers-Association_19610427.aspx" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">source</a>)</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">John C. Calhoun, <br />7th Vice President of The United States</span></h3>
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- from 1825-1832. </div>
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<strong>A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many, and various, and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.</strong> (<a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=6Etx__aVlYYC&pg=PA568&lpg=PA568&dq=A+power+has+risen+up+in+the+government+greater+than+the+people+themselves,+consisting+of+many+and+various+powerful+interests,+combined+in+one+mass,+and+held+together+by+the+cohesive+power+of+the+vast+surplus+in+banks&source=bl&ots=xYeqMQ89lt&sig=c7mSZLgl2R_wbxTic3VjKCl8WgQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMI-vCC0qv3xwIVChuSCh2x4Q7G#v=onepage&q=A%20power%20has%20risen%20up%20in%20the%20government%20greater%20than%20the%20people%20themselves%2C%20consisting%20of%20many%20and%20various%20powerful%20interests%2C%20combined%20in%20one%20mass%2C%20and%20held%20together%20by%20the%20cohesive%20power%20of%20the%20vast%20surplus%20in%20banks&f=false" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)</div>
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((?- x - clip from the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV5AFFcZ-s" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">Thrive</a> documentary by Foster Gamble, <br />heir to the Proctor Gamble corporation. ))</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">John F. Hylan - </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">Mayor </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">New York City </span></h3>
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- from 1918-1925. </div>
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<strong>The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation … <br />The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. <br />They practically control both parties … [and] control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. <br />They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. <br />It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection. </strong>(<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F07EED6153AEF33A25753C1A9649D946395D6CF" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)(<a href="https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=4Sr3Vdf7KMaC8QeL6anoDQ#q=The+real+menace+of+our+Republic+is+the+invisible+government%2C+which+like+a+giant+octopus+sprawls+its+slimy+legs+over+our+cities%2C+states+and+nation%E2%80%A6+The+little+coterie+of+powerful+internationalbankers+virtually+run+the+United+States+government+for+their+own+selfish+purposes.+They+practically+control+both+parties%2C+%E2%80%A6+and+control+the+majority+of+the+newspapers+and+magazines+in+this+country.+They+use+the+columns+of+these+papers+to+club+into+submission+or+drive+out+of+office+public+officials+who+refuse+to+do+the+bidding+of+the+powerful+corrupt+cliques+which+compose+the+invisible+government.+It+operates+under+cover+of+a+self-created+screen+%5Band%5D+seizes+our+executive+officers%2C+legislative+bodies%2C+schools%2C+courts%2C+newspapers+and+every+agency+created+for+the+public+protection" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)<br />---</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">Senator William Jenner</span></h3>
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<strong>Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means … <br />We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state … <br />It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government … This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… <br />This group … is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. <br />It is practically irremovable. </strong>(<a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=RlTpI2oiB_4C&q=Today+the+path+to+total+dictatorship+in+the+U.S.+can+be+laid+by+strictly+legal+means%E2%80%A6+We+have+a+well-organized+political-action+group+in+this+country,+determined+to+destroy+our+Constitution+and+establish+a+one-party+state%E2%80%A6+It+operates+secretly,+silently,+continuously+to+transform+our+Government%E2%80%A6+This+ruthless+power-seeking+elite+is+a+disease+of+our+century%E2%80%A6+This+group%E2%80%A6is+answerable+neither+to+the+President,+the+Congress,+nor+the+courts.+It+is+practically+irremovable&dq=Today+the+path+to+total+dictatorship+in+the+U.S.+can+be+laid+by+strictly+legal+means%E2%80%A6+We+have+a+well-organized+political-action+group+in+this+country,+determined+to+destroy+our+Constitution+and+establish+a+one-party+state%E2%80%A6+It+operates+secretly,+silently,+continuously+to+transform+our+Government%E2%80%A6+This+ruthless+power-seeking+elite+is+a+disease+of+our+century%E2%80%A6+This+group%E2%80%A6is+answerable+neither+to+the+President,+the+Congress,+nor+the+courts.+It+is+practically+irremovable&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI2OOd7Kz3xwIVxQmSCh2gBAvN" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)<br />---</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">Senator Daniel K. Inouye</span></h3>
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<strong>There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself</strong>. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbFphX5zb8w" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)<br />---</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">Dwight D. Eisenhower - </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">5 Star General, </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">34th U.S. President </span></h3>
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<strong>In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. <br />The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. … <br />Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defence with our peaceful message and goals. </strong>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">Benjamin Disraeli, First British MP</span></h3>
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<strong>The world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.<strong> </strong></strong>(<a href="http://public-library.uk/ebooks/23/61.pdf" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">Coningsby, Book 4, Chap. 15.</a>) – Page 131<br />---</div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff;">Paul Hellyer - </span><span style="color: #00ccff;">Canadian Defence Minister </span></h3>
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Former Minister of National Defence, Paul Hellyer, is one of Canada’s best known and most controversial politicians.<br />First elected in 1949, - youngest cabinet minister appointed to Louis S. St. Laurent’s government eight years later.<br />Held senior posts in the governments of Lester B. Pearson and Pierre E. Trudeau.<br />He achieved the rank of senior master (Deputy Prime Minister),<br />Became the Canadian Defence Minister. </div>
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<strong>It is ironic that the U.S. would begin a devastating war, allegedly in search of weapons of mass destruction, when the most worrisome developments in this field are occurring in your own backyard.<br />It is ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy, when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects about which both the Congress and the Commander in Chief have been kept deliberately in the dark. </strong>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_OyIMl_gXw" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">source</a>)<br />---</div>
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If you told somebody 10 years ago that there existed some sort of secret group or “secret government” pulling the strings behind the scenes of government policy, international law, various global rules/regulations, and more, they would have called you a “conspiracy theorist.” Today things have changed, largely as a result of information leaked by Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and various other whistleblowers and activists in recent years. Their bravery has shed light on the world of secrecy that’s been blinding the masses since its inception.</div>
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I’ve mentioned this before, and I’ll mention it again, did you know that the U.S. Government classifies more than 500 million pages of documents each year? Did you know that the United States has a history of government agencies existing in secret? For example, the National Security Agency (NSA) was founded in 1952, but its existence was hidden until the mid 1960’s. Even more secretive is the National Reconnaissance Office, it was founded in 1960 but remained completely secret for 30 years. Then we have the entire black budget world, a world dominated by secrecy that was officially revealed by Edward Snowden a couple of years ago. This deals with what are known as “Special Access Programs.”</div>
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It’s not just statements that these “high-level” people are making. It’s all of the proof and evidence that goes along with it.</div>
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***You can read more about the black budget <a href="http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/08/31/snowden-reveals-first-ever-public-disclosure-of-secret-black-budget-programs/" style="color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">HERE</a>***</div>
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Midwest Music Mafiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873780096665213019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011201764532217508.post-40158670414949246892015-10-26T11:55:00.001-07:002015-10-26T13:09:22.470-07:00 - United States of America - 26th or 42nd best country in the world today ?<div class="MsoNormal">
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- The quality of life in the US has been seriously eroding.</div>
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It's difficult sometimes to get perspective on how far our country has fallen.</div>
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Every year for more than three weeks in August, I travel to the US to visit family and friends.</div>
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just spent … three weeks in …Colorado.</div>
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(something Bernie supports, …).<br />
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free college education</div>
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He knows that we have the wealth to improve our nation's infrastructure—</div>
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every time I return to the US, I'm horrified by how dilapidated this country has become.</div>
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… Republicans are committed to obstructing social progress. - … this attitude reflects just</div>
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how far right our discourse has gone,</div>
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how deeply disconnected we are from the rest of the world,</div>
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unemployment benefits,</div>
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none of the social values (we) should support will be realized.<br />
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I'll tell you that the only way to bring this country back from the abyss the right has taken us is to fight for these values and support the candidates that best represent them.</div>
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ORIGINALLY POSTED TO BEACHTEN ON SAT AUG 29, 2015</div>
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American children are on average worse off than children in Western Europe</div>
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barely better off than their counterparts in the Baltic states and the former Yugoslavia,</div>
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Midwest Music Mafiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873780096665213019noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3011201764532217508.post-36626797203342292892015-09-24T12:08:00.000-07:002015-09-24T12:12:07.693-07:00 - Pope Francis - Speech - Bolivia - July - Good Stuff - -<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">((( Don’t go for all this god stuff, religion … but this
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Made it
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Read it – it’s pretty good -</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pope Francis spoke about the
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"I wish to join my voice
to yours in calling for land, lodging and labor for all our brothers and
sisters."</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… I have kept you in my thoughts
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I am happy to see you again,
here, as you discuss the best ways to overcome the grave situations of
injustice experienced by the excluded throughout our world. …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The Bible tells us that God hears
the cry of his people, and I wish to join my voice to yours in calling for land,
lodging and labor for all our brothers and sisters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I said it and I repeat it: these
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is important, it is well worth
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">May the cry of the excluded be
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… I am speaking about problems
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">so many
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without rights, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">so many persons
whose dignity is not respected?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Do we realize that something is
wrong where so many senseless wars are being fought and acts of fratricidal
violence are taking place on our very doorstep? </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Do we realize something is wrong
when the soil, water, air and living creatures of our world are under constant
threat?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">So let’s not be afraid to say it:
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we need
change; we want change.</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… many forms of exclusion and
injustice which you experience </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">in the
workplace, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">in neighborhoods
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">throughout the
land. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">They are many and diverse, just
as many and diverse are the ways in which you confront them. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Yet there is an invisible thread
joining every one of those forms of exclusion: can we recognize it? </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">These are not isolated issues. I
wonder whether we can see that these destructive realities are part of a system
which has become global. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Do we realize that that system has
imposed the mentality of profit at any price, </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">with no concern for social exclusion or
the destruction of nature?</span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">If such is the case, I would
insist, let us not be afraid to say it: </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">we want
change, </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">real change,
</span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">structural
change. </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">This system is by now
intolerable: </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">farmworkers find
it intolerable, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">laborers find it
intolerable, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">communities find
it intolerable, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">peoples find it
intolerable … </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The earth itself – our sister,
Mother Earth, as Saint Francis would say – also finds it intolerable.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">We want change in our lives, in
our neighborhoods, in our everyday reality. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">We want a change which can affect
the entire world, since global interdependence calls for global answers to
local problems. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The globalization of hope, a hope
which springs up from peoples and takes root among the poor, must replace the
globalization of exclusion and indifference!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… I would like to speak of change
in another sense. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Positive change, a change which
is good for us, a change – we can say – which is redemptive. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… : in my different meetings, in
my different travels, I have sensed an expectation, a longing, a yearning for
change, in people throughout the world. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Even within that ever smaller
minority which believes that the present system is beneficial, there is a
widespread sense of dissatisfaction and even despondency. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Many people are hoping for a
change capable of releasing them from the bondage of individualism and the
despondency it spawns.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Time, … seems to be running out;
we are not yet tearing one another apart, but we are tearing apart our common
home. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Today, the scientific community
realizes what the poor have long told us: </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">harm, perhaps irreversible harm, is
being done to the ecosystem. </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The earth, entire peoples and
individual persons are being brutally punished. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">And behind all this pain, death
and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called “the dung
of the devil”. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">An unfettered pursuit of money
rules. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The service of the common good is
left behind. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Once capital
becomes an idol and guides people’s decisions, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">once greed for
money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">it ruins
society, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">it condemns and
enslaves men and women, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">it destroys
human fraternity, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">it sets people
against one another … </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">it … puts at
risk our common home.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I do not need to go on describing
the evil effects of this subtle dictatorship: you are well aware of them. Nor
is it enough to point to the structural causes of today’s social and
environmental crisis. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">We are suffering from an excess
of diagnosis, which at times leads us to multiply words and to revel in
pessimism and negativity. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What can I do, as collector of
paper, old clothes or used metal, a recycler, about all these problems if I
barely make enough money to put food on the table? </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What can I do as a craftsman, a
street vendor, a trucker, a downtrodden worker, if I don’t even enjoy workers’
rights? </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What can I do, a farmwife, a
native woman, a fisher who can hardly fight the domination of the big
corporations? </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What can I do from my little
home, my shanty, my hamlet, my settlement, when I daily meet with
discrimination and marginalization? </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What can be done by </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">those students, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">those young
people, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">those activists,
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">those
missionaries </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">who come to my neighborhood with
their hearts full of hopes and dreams, but without any real solution for my
problems? </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">A lot! They can do a lot. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">You, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the lowly, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the exploited, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the poor and
underprivileged, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">can do, and are doing, a lot. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">I would even say that the future
of humanity is in great measure in your own hands, … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Don’t lose heart!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">2. …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… changes of structure which are not
accompanied by a sincere conversion of mind and heart sooner or later end up in
bureaucratization, corruption and failure. …</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Each of us is just one part of a
complex and differentiated whole, interacting in time: </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">peoples who struggle to find
meaning, a destiny, and to live with dignity, to “live well”.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… you carry out your work
inspired by fraternal love, which you show in opposing social injustice. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">When we look into the eyes of the
suffering, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">when we see the faces of </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the endangered campesino,
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the poor
laborer, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the downtrodden
native, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the homeless
family, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the persecuted
migrant, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the unemployed
young person, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the exploited
child, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…. when we think of all those
names and faces, our hearts break because of so much sorrow and pain. And we
are deeply moved…. We are moved because “we have seen and heard” not a cold
statistic but the pain of a suffering humanity, our own pain, our own flesh. …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… You, dear brothers and sisters,
often work on little things, in local situations, amid forms of injustice which
you do not simply accept but actively resist, standing up to an idolatrous
system which excludes, debases and kills</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… We do not love concepts or
ideas; we love people… </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Commitment, true commitment, is
born of the love of men and women, of children and the elderly, of peoples and
communities… of names and faces which fill our hearts. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">From those seeds of hope
patiently sown in the forgotten fringes of our planet, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">from those seedlings of a
tenderness which struggles to grow amid the shadows of exclusion, great trees
will spring up, great groves of hope to give oxygen to our world.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is essential that, along with the defense
of their legitimate rights, peoples and their social organizations be able to
construct a humane alternative to a globalization which excludes. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">You are sowers of change. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">May God grant you the courage,
joy, perseverance and passion to continue sowing. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Be assured that sooner or later
we will see its fruits. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">3. Lastly, I would like us all to
consider some important tasks for the present historical moment, since we
desire a positive change for the benefit of all our brothers and sisters. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… We desire change enriched by
the collaboration of governments, popular movements and other social forces. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I would like, … to propose three
great tasks which demand a decisive and shared contribution from popular
movements:</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">3.1 The first task is to put the
economy at the service of peoples. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Human beings and nature must not be at
the service of money. </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Let us say NO to an economy of
exclusion and inequality, where money rules, rather than service. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">That economy
kills. </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">That economy
excludes. </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">That economy
destroys Mother Earth.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The economy should not be a
mechanism for accumulating goods, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">but rather the proper
administration of our common home. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">This entails a commitment to care
for that home and to the fitting distribution of its goods among all. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A just economy must create the conditions for
everyone </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">to be able to
enjoy a childhood without want, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">to develop their
talents when young, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">to work with
full rights during their active years … </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">to enjoy a
dignified retirement as they grow older. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is an economy where human
beings, in harmony with nature, structure the entire system of production and
distribution in such a way that the abilities and needs of each individual find
suitable expression in social life. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The available resources in our
world, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the fruit of the
intergenerational labors of peoples …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">the gifts of creation, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">more than suffice for the
integral development of “each man and the whole man”. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… There exists a system with
different aims. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">A system which, while
irresponsibly accelerating the pace of production, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">while using industrial and
agricultural methods which damage Mother Earth in the name of “productivity”,
continues to deny many millions of our brothers and sisters their most
elementary economic, social and cultural rights. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">This system runs counter to the
plan of Jesus.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Working for a just distribution
of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is a moral obligation. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is about giving to the poor
and to peoples what is theirs by right. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The universal destination of
goods is not a figure of speech found in the Church’s social teaching. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is a reality prior to private
property. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Property, especially when it
affects natural resources, must always serve the needs of peoples. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is not enough to let a few
drops fall whenever the poor shake a cup which never runs over by itself.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">3.2. The second task is to unite
our peoples on the path of peace and justice. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The world’s peoples want to be
artisans of their own destiny. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">They want to advance peacefully
towards justice. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">They do not want forms of
tutelage or interference by which those with greater power subordinate those
with less. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">They want </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">their culture, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">their language, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">their social
processes …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">their religious
traditions to be respected. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">No actual or established power
has the right to deprive peoples of the full exercise of their sovereignty. …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Despite the progress made, there
are factors which still threaten this equitable human development and restrict
the sovereignty of the countries of the “greater country” and other areas of
our planet. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The new colonialism takes on
different faces. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">At times it appears as the
anonymous influence of mammon: </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">corporations, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">loan agencies, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">…“free trade”
treaties, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… the imposition
of measures of “austerity” </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… always tighten the belt of
workers and the poor. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">At other times, under the noble
guise of battling corruption, the narcotics trade and terrorism – </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">grave evils of our time which
call for coordinated international action – </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">we see states being saddled with
measures which have little to do with the resolution of these problems and
which not infrequently worsen matters.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Similarly, the monopolizing of
the communications media, which would impose alienating examples of consumerism
and a certain cultural uniformity, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">is another one of the forms taken
by the new colonialism. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is ideological colonialism. … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">poor countries are often treated
like “parts of a machine, cogs on a gigantic wheel”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Every significant action carried
out in one part of the planet has universal, ecological, social and cultural
repercussions. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Even crime and violence have
become globalized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Colonialism, both old and new, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">which reduces poor countries to
mere providers of raw material and cheap labor, engenders violence, poverty,
forced migrations and all the evils which go hand in hand with these, … </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">That is inequality, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">… inequality generates a violence
which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Let us say NO to forms of
colonialism old and new. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Let us say YES to the encounter
between peoples and cultures. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Blessed are the peacemakers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">3.3. The third task, perhaps the
most important facing us today, is to defend Mother Earth. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Our common home is being pillaged, laid
waste and harmed with impunity. </span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Cowardice in defending it is a
grave sin. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">We see with growing
disappointment how one international summit after another takes place without
any significant result. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">There exists a clear, definite
and pressing ethical imperative to implement what has not yet been done. We
cannot allow certain interests – interests which are global but not universal –
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">to take over, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">to dominate
states and international organizations, … </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">to continue
destroying creation. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">People and their movements are
called to cry out, to mobilize and to demand – peacefully, but firmly – that
appropriate and urgently-needed measures be taken. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I ask you, in the name of God, to
defend Mother Earth. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I have duly addressed this issue
in my Encyclical Letter <i>Laudato Si’</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">4. In conclusion, I would like to
repeat: the future of humanity does not lie solely in the hands of great
leaders, the great powers and the elites.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is fundamentally in the hands
of peoples and in their ability to organize. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It is in their hands, which can
guide with humility and conviction this process of change. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I am with you. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Let us together say from the
heart: </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no family
without lodging, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no rural worker without
land, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no laborer
without rights, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no people
without sovereignty, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no individual
without dignity, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no child without
childhood, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no young person
without a future, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">no elderly
person without a venerable old age. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Keep up your struggle and,
please, take great care of Mother Earth. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I pray for you and with you, and
I ask God our Father to accompany you and to bless you, to fill you with his
love and defend you on your way by granting you in abundance that strength
which keeps us on our feet: that strength is hope, the hope which does not
disappoint. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Thank you and I ask you, please,
to pray for me.</span></div>
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It is, an out-of-control flow of death and destruction.<br /><br />300 to possibly over 450 tons of
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<b>---</b>Boots on the ground to keep America free<br />But it sends the boys back with ptsd Our Commander in Chief doesn't own a gun<br />But he'll send the boys to war because its not his son<br /><br />Democrat republican nobody cares Just hunt us down some truth in the drones cross hairs<br />Our poison politics have gone too far<br />With a president who acts like he's a rock star<br /><br />One day we'll see we built a house of cards<br />Terror on our soil has gone too far<br />If you don't care now you never will Lets revolution now before the...</div>
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<i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i><br /><br /><b>Oscar Wilde, Published 1890</b></div>
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