On my Top Ten Playlist

Gangsters At The Pentagon Got Scared:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/marc-watercus-rap-song-pentagon

What prompted Hall's arrest was his sending the song to the Pentagon, ­Klimaski said. "The alarm bells rang and they said, what's going on here?"

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Drug Pushers of Today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6981217/Millions-of-patients-should-not-be-prescribed-antidepressants.html

Millions of people should not be prescribed antidepressants because their brains resist the drugs, a study has indicated.

Smoke The Hopeium

More Stress Coming Our Way:

http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=34831989

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.

Social Distress Continues

Tis the times plague, when madmen lead the blind.

- Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i

Apathy IS Active:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/04/nato-pledges-7000-troops-afghanistan

... the Nato figures would be achieved "only by accounting tricks". He wrote: "The Europeans have repeatedly revealed their aversion to combat."

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Voice In The Wilderness:

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/03-13

"The war is a threat to our national security. We'll spend over one $100 billion next year to bomb a nation of poor people while we reenergize the Taliban, destabilize Pakistan, deplete our army and put more of our soldiers' lives on the line. Meanwhile, back here in the USA, 15 million people are out of work. People are losing their jobs, their health care, their savings, their investments, and their retirement security. $13 trillion in bailouts for Wall Street, trillions for war; when are we going to start taking care of things here at home?" 

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30,000 More? What The Hell For?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6747195/Afghanistan-more-than-300-US-soldiers-killed-this-year.html

The latest death pushed to the number of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far this year to 301, according to the icasualties.org website.

Absurdity Rules The Day

Absurdity rules the day:

http://counterpunch.org/macaray05082009.html

Oddly, in a country that prides itself on fighting for what it believes in, people who don’t make a decent wage or have company-supplied medical insurance or a company-supplied pension are often critical of labor unions for striving to obtain those things. It’s a confounding dynamic, one that can’t be explained away entirely as simple envy or resentment.

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Who would ever think the murderers in the workplace would become murderers in the workplace?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq

BAGHDAD – A U.S. soldier opened fire at a counseling center on a U.S. base Monday, killing five fellow soldiers before being taken into custody, the U.S. command and Pentagon officials said.

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How's that song go? Proud To Be An American...:

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/312