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VIDEO OF TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR COUNTRY MAY BE GOING FACIST - OH MY GOD!!!

Is America moving towards Facism? Is George Bush and the Republican Administration taking us to the edge?

Here's a video that shows the top ten signs if your country may be going Facist.

WHO'S MAKING THESE DUMB DECISIONS AT HARVARD

Harvard Alumni stop giving money to an institution that doesn't need your money. Harvard already has 35 billion in their coffers and is giving financial aid to families earning as much as $180,000, And other schools might follow this example. Link

Harvard Alumni you might give money to people who are poor and need an education. The problem is worldwide.

Here are some Universities and organizations that need your help.

American Negro College Fund. Link

American Indian College Fund. Link

Poorest of the Poor Education. Link

Kanye West on Education

THE CHEAP BASTARD VETOED HEALTH INSURANCE FOR CHILDREN AND NOW HE'S GOING TO VETO AN INCREASE IN PAY FOR THE TROOPS

Bush - what a guy and you elected him, whoever your are. Let's not make the same mistake twice and vote a president who has his own agenda and not one representing the majority of the American people.

HILLARY CLINTON WOULD NEVER DO THIS, NEVER.

"Part of what troubled Bush about the legislation is that it would permit US troops to seek compensation for having been tortured by Saddam during the first Gulf War.
The provision that is causing problems would have allowed the victims of the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam to seek compensation in court, Democrats said. The Iraqi government has warned that former U.S. prisoners of war from the first Gulf War might cite this legislation in an attempt to get money from the Iraqi government's reported $25 billion in assets now held in U.S. banks, they say." Link

Bush vetoes Children's Health Insurance. Link

This Is Not America - David Bowie

BRAD PITT'S MAKE IT RIGHT PROJECTS 13 COOL HOME DESIGNS FOR NEW ORLEANS

"...Brad Pitt has been able to bring serious innovation to the Lower Ninth Ward -- this cool concept is becoming a serious reality. The Make It Right Project ("MIR Project") involves some of the most talented architects in the country, and they're building low-income, high-design, sustainable homes. More Designs: Link

"The actor is leading a project to build 150 affordable and ecologically sustainable homes in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. Link

Make It RiIgt Project: Link

BUSH GOOSESTEPS ON OUR BILL OF RIGHTS WHILE THE SUPREME COURT FIDDLES - CHECK OUT THE TIMELINE

A comprehensive timeline that illustrates Bush's assault against our rights, as well as Supreme Court decisions, and Acts of Congress that have occurred to limit our freedom. This is scarry. if the powers that be can coup another election. Well, Hello Fascism. Link

HELP THE WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS RAPED IN THE CONGO

There are horriific conditions in the Congo:

Girls as young as three and women as old as seventy-five have been raped and mutilated in Eastern
Congo. “Women are dying two types of death,” says Christine Karumba, Country Director, Women for Women International — DRC. “The two types of death are the physical and the emotional death. The physical death is where you are no longer alive to walk the earth, and the emotional death is where
you no longer see signs of hope and are dead inside.” Link

Victims of rape -How you can help

The [NYT] piece painted a horrifying portrait of mass rapes in war-torn Eastern Congo. According to the UN, 27,000 women were raped in the South Kivu Province in 2006, and “[t]he sexual violence in Congo is the worst in the world." These rapes are particularly brutal: "Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair," wrote Jeffrey Gettleman, the East Africa bureau chief of the Times. "'We don’t know why these rapes are happening, but one thing is clear,' said Dr. Mukwege, who works in South Kivu Province, the epicenter of Congo’s rape epidemic. 'They are done to destroy women." Link

Via Boing Boing

THE GREEN TEAM - A SATIRICAL LOOK AT THE ENERGY CRISIS

Sometimes people become too enthusiastic with new ideas and create an environment that leads positive concepts to a negative reality. We have to watch that we don't become too dictorial in our actions but allow others to realize things for themselves even if it is a slow evolvement. Bring the message not the bootstrap.

This is a case of people becoming too green.

The Green Team

MAP OF WHO HAS THE OIL AND WHO USES THE OIL

Saudi Arabia controls 262.3 billion barrels of oil reserve. The United States leads oil consumption with 20 million barrels of oil a day.

Iraq has 115 billion barrels of oil reserves - third in the world. Why are our oil prices going up? Don't we really control the oil fields in Iraq. Who makes the deals in Washington that cripples our economy and every citizens pocket.

Why does the oil industry control our government?

Why has a Republican administration sold America out?

Map of who has the oil and who uses the oil. Link

WOMEN HAVE NO RIGHTS IN SAUDI ARABIA

This is a picture of a woman who had fifty lashes inflicted on her in Iran. link Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine, Wahhabism based on Islamic law. Link

A woman in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 200 lashes for being raped and a six month jail sentence.

"The 19-year-old woman - whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms - was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape", the Arab News reported." Link

NORWAY SHOWS THE WORLD HOW TO GIVE

With nations at war and many nations at each others throat ready for war, it's nice to see one nation help another nation which will benefit the world.

"Norway said Tuesday it would donate 130 million kroner (17 million euros, 24 million dollars) to help protect the Amazon rainforest, the deforestation of which is leading to rising greenhouse emissions. Link