France’s lower house of parliament has voted decisively in favor of recognizing Palestine as a state. Similar resolutions were recently approved separately by both British and Spanish MPs. Sweden has also voted to recognize Palestine as a state .. (from this article)
“The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.” .. (Mark Haskell Smith)
‘Informed citizens’ ? Apparently viewers of America’s main ‘news’ channels, especially Fox ‘News’, may be less well informed than people who don’t watch any news at all .. (story here)
“Who will protect the public when the police violate the law ?” .. (Ramsey Clark)
“We’ve got to be more than the ‘Party of No” ~ Republican Govenor Bobby Jindal
“Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.” .. (Noam Chomsky)
“Whites and racial minorities speak a different language when they talk about racism” .. (from this article)
Sig Nordal 