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September 3, 2011

“Mike Adams” – Meet your new Federal Family (and don’t use the word “government” please) (satire)

http://www.naturalnews.com/033497_federal_family_Napolitano.html

“Mike Adams” – Meet your new Federal Family (and don’t use the word “government” please) (satire)

Saturday, September 03, 2011 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) As the reputation of the U.S. government is now in shambles, the feds are turning to the same bait-and-switch tactics used by the Corn Refiners Association as they tried to rename High Fructose Corn Syrup to the more innocent sounding “corn sugar.” The federal government no longer wants to be called a “government” at all. Instead, you’re supposed to refer to them as your “federal family.”

Seriously. This is the word from FEMA, which announced last week, “Under the direction of President Obama and Secretary Janet Napolitano, the entire federal family is leaning forward to support our state, tribal and territorial partners along the East Coast.”

Family? Really? Sort of like an organized crime family, perhaps?

Let’s take a look at this family, shall we?

Note: This article is obviously satire. All photos used herein are presented under Fair Use for the purpose of public commentary and satire.

“Tony Isaacs” – Enjoy a healthy change of pace for breakfast with meatless tacos

http://www.naturalnews.com/033493_breakfast_tacos.html

Saturday, September 03, 2011 by: Tony Isaacs

(NaturalNews) Try a delicious and healthy change of pace for breakfast with these breakfast tacos, which use no unhealthy processed meats and are made with healthier wheat tortillas and homemade pico de gallo (directions for the pico de gallo are included below).

While the recipe is not a strictly vegetarian one, it is perfect for lacto-ovo vegetarians (people who eat only vegetables with the exception of dairy products and eggs). Plus, with a few adjustments the recipe can be made into a strictly vegetarian one if desired, as suggested below.

Healthy Breakfast Tacos

“Ralph Nader” – Obama’s Laborious Labor Day

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/03

Published on Saturday, September 3, 2011 by CommonDreams.org

Dear President Obama:

Happy Labor Day! This is your third opportunity as President to go beyond your past tepid Labor Day proclamations.

You could convey to 150 million workers that you’re going to start doing something about your 2008 campaign promises to labor. Recall that you clearly promised to press for a $9.50 federal minimum wage by 2011. Arguing that having millions of Walmart type workers make the leap from the present $7.25 per hour will pump nearly $200 billion in consumer demand for our recessionary economy.

You can add that a $9.50 minimum is still less than what workers made under the minimum wage in 1968, adjusted for inflation, when worker productivity was half of what it is today. Besides, businesses like Walmart have received windfalls year after year due to the minimum wage lagging behind inflation for decades.

“Rueters” – Documents Show Links Between CIA, Libya Spy Unit

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/03-1

Published on Saturday, September 3, 2011 by Reuters

WASHINGTON – Documents found in Tripoli detail close ties between the CIA and Libya’s intelligence service and suggest the United States sent terrorism suspects for questioning in Libya despite that country’s reputation for torture, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

Moussa Koussa, the former Libyan Foreign Minister. Koussa defected from now-fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government and flew to Britain on March 30 amid this year’s rebel uprising.(EPA)

 The Times reported that the files cover the time from 2002 to 2007, when Moussa Koussa headed Libya’s External Security Organization. Koussa most recently had been Libya’s foreign minister but defected from now-fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government and flew to Britain on March 30 amid this year’s rebel uprising.

“Darren Goode” – Obama’s Ozone Decision: The Final Green Straw?

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/09/03-3

Published on Saturday, September 3, 2011 by Politico.com
by Darren Goode

For green groups, President Barack Obama’s retreat on ozone standards is another reason to question how aggressively they want to support his reelection in 2012.

Green groups are outraged by the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw strict air quality rules, and many of them now question how they can possibly support a president who bends so easily when the GOP opposition and the polluters lean environmental regulations. (Reuters) Even more bruising: The realization that they may not have much choice.

“We have no place else left to go but home,” said one official at a major environmental group, speaking on background Friday. “So the enviros come out looking weak once again because of today and we’re all screaming bloody murder.

“But you know what,” the official said. “At the end of the day, I don’t think the White House is unhappy to hear us complain.”

“Progressive Radio Network Host Danny Schechter, Friday’s @ 1pm(EDT)’ – HARK: The Angel Soon will Sing: Obama Readies Jobs Plan While The Right Plans to Scuttle It in a Country Facing Economic Apocalypse

By Danny Schechter

Author of The Crime Of Our Time (Disinfo)

New York, Labor Day Weekend 2011: The magic wand is being readied in the White House as the President and his minions finally unwrap the mother of all jobs plans that will be revealed to the rest of us in a speech next Thursday before the cameras and Congress with the gravitas-packed aura of a State of the Union Address.

Attention, collapsing Economy: you finally have the big man’s attention. Nearly 70 organizations are pressing the President to take strong action.

Please give him a break. He’s been busy tending Empire business — waging GWOT warfare on IraqAfghanistanLibyaYemenPakistanSomalia et.al …

Call it the greatest “long war” in American history: an unending and unbelievably expensive intervention justified as necessary to keep us safe.

We can assume that contingency plans for new wars with Syria, Iran and the Republic of Wikileaks are being drafted as we speak.

The challenge this week is to bring together all of the Administration’s sophisticated strategic planning, disciplined focus and ‘get it done’ fervor finally to straighten out this out of control economic mess.

There are jobs to produce and one big job to save.