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LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES Florida throws no-hitter Michael McGuire pitched a four-inning no-hitter as Florida routed Rapid City, S.D., 10-0 in the opener in South Williamsport, Pa. Maracaibo, Venezuela, defeated White Rock, British Columbia, 8-1.

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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell SUCH AS… If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.” – Noam Chomsky OR… “It makes no difference who you vote for – the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people” – Gore Vidal For the first time in 14 years, weapons manufacturers are donating more to Democrats than to Republicans. The Dems have received 52 percent of the defense industry’s political donations in this election cycle–up from a low of 32 per cent in 1996. That money is about shaping foreign policy, and so far, it appears to be well spent. Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill * PLAYERS NOT CHEER LEADERS Let alone the fact that most of the voting will be done on Diebold & friends machines, exposing American democracy as the sinister & cynical farce it has become under the proto-fascism Bush/Cheney junta. LYNCHING BY LAPTOP 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCR6IdTQTeE ELECTION INTEGRITY ? http://www.nowpublic.com/world/election-integrity 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. Back at the ranch… GOING UP ! Top 1% share of total income Income gap between rich and poor Foreign debt as a percent of GDP Age at which one can receive Social Security Hunger Consumer credit debt Housing foreclosures Severe poverty rate GOING DOWN ! Real income Real manufacturing wages Percent of single women and mothers in the workforce The bottom 40%’s share of national wealth Older families with pensions. Workers covered by defined benefit pensions. The savings rate US manufacturing jobs ALL THE WHILE… Protest restricted/ignored Dissenter labeled terrorist/traitor Fake-flags Elections suspect Leaders benefit from wars/disasters Use of propaganda/lies & partisan mass-media Claims that War is needed for everchanging fake reasons Secret/extrajudicial/torture camps Curtailed/suspended civil rights/liberties Wiretap/intercept/surveillance net Stealthily expands int’nl influence/power Judiciary/Opposition ineffective/ignored Legislation to defy Constitution “When will the American people really vote to give to the world more than bombs and missiles, sweatshops, dubious science, frankenfood, poverty and misery?” – Cynthia McKinney Everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. – Ellen Key ” We need to lay siege to empire with everything we’ve got. You know? Deprive it of oxygen, shame it, mock it, tell our own tales. This corporatist revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they’re selling … their thoughts, their wars, their notion of inevitability.” – Arundhati Roy Ignorance is the downfall of all cultures and we are about to hit bottom.

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AP – Far ahead halfway through his 100-meter Olympic quarterfinal, Usain Bolt casually swiveled his head to his right, to his left, then back to his right.

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