Joe the Plumber? Nope. Joe the Tax Dodger. Joe the Relative of Charles Keating. Hilarious.

Joe the Plumber appears to be Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.
According to Lucas County, Ohio court records, there is a Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher who has a state income tax lien of $1,182.98. According to the court record he lives on a street that is part of the Lincoln Green subdivision.
And Joe the Plumber’s Father appears to be [...]

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Zionism, Militarism, and the decline of the US Power

by Stephen Lendman

 

Global Research, October 16, 2008

James Petras is Binghamton University Professor Emeritus of Sociology. His credentials and achievements are long and impressive as a noted academic figure on the left. A well-respected Latin American expert, and a longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles.
He’s also a prolific author of hundreds of articles and dozens [...]

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When the Federal Government Fails the People

 

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

15/10/08 “Information Clearinghouse” — – The hardest thing for Americans to do right now in this presidential election season is to fight distraction and, instead, focus on the failure of all three branches of the federal government.  And also to resist the propaganda masquerading as patriotic obligation that voting will fundamentally fix [...]

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Organic Agriculture Is Better Than Industrial Agriculture

Posted by Gail the Actuary on October 16, 2008 – 10:05am
Topic: Environment/Sustainability

Today is World Food Day. To celebrate the day, we are publishing an excerpt from Aaron Newton’s and Sharon Astyk’s forthcoming book, A Nation of Farmers. We are publishing two sections from this book:
• Industrial Agriculture: Stealing from the Future
• Organic Agriculture Can Feed [...]

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No Dog in this Fight By P Jerome

By P Jerome
10/15/08 “Information Clearinghouse“
For those of us who are antiwar, anti-government spying, anti-torture/rendition, and in favor of improving the lives of working people, this election season has been a nightmare. Most presidential elections are awful — months/years of commercials, punditry, and lying — but this year is particularly terrible.
Contrary to the accepted “wisdom” of [...]

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The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down

by Juan Cole

The Republican Party that Nixon invented melded the moneyed classes of the Northeast with the white evangelicals of the South. This odd couple went on to simultaneously steal from and oppress the rest of us. The moneyed classes were happy to let the New Puritans impose their stringent morality, since they could always [...]

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Andrew Johnson’s Letter To Merseyside Police Chief Constable

Posted by: Andrew Cheetham in Announcements, Flyers

 
Dear Bernard Hogan-Howe,
 
I am writing to inform you of my dismay to learn of events of 11th October on
Church Street in Liverpool city centre. The main instigating officer involved was P.C Wilson – he and others seized leaflets and property of a peaceful group of people.
 
I am most surprised [...]

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EU Calls For Summit To End Bretton Woods

 
The European Union is Pushing to Overhaul the Post-World War II Financial System.

European Union leaders pressed for an overhaul of the global financial system to prevent a repeat of the credit crunch that sparked the biggest stock-market selloff since the Great Depression.
EU leaders called for a global summit as soon as next month to rewrite [...]

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Capitalism Without Capital?

by Ron Paul
by Ron Paul
It has been long understood that our federal government is going deeper into debt, consistently raising the debt ceiling and demonstrating no fiscal restraint. In recent years, debt ceiling increases have been placed in “must pass” legislation as a means to guarantee that Republicans as well as Democrats would vote for [...]

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