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The man who never paid

The man who never paid

When Berlusconi says he never paid a woman, I believe him. I think he's telling his truth.
Of course, he presents them with a lot of cadeaux: bracelets, necklaces, cds with Neapolitan songs composed by himself. And a job in a tv show, sometimes (or in the European Parlament, better still). But that's not paying, that's not expecting for something in return. It's just... how did the ancient kings call that... Munificence, that's it. That doesn't mean he ever paid a woman.

The girls with an Eastern European accent, dressed like Santa Claus. The bunch of semi-naked ladies sailing to Villa Certosa, his Sardinian residence... the escorts who admit they've spent a night with him... Someone will become a showgirl, someone a Minister, but no-one of those women have never been paid by Berlusconi, how can you think such a thing? They all came to see him because they really like him. They love to spend an evening with him, cheerfully laughing to his jokes, watching clips of his speeches and his villas on the big screen, enjoying his old-fashioned songs. An evening like that may happen just once in your lifetime, and you'll never be the same again. Your history will be divided in “Before” and “After You Went To Berlusconi's Party”. Who in the world should ask money for something like that? You just get on your knees and thank God.

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italy

Torture Accountability Action Day

Dear all,

In support of Torture Accountability Action Day, we're taking our protest to
the Internet. With one simple click, you can send a fax to Attorney General
Eric Holder calling for a Special Prosecutor for Torture.

Send your fax now!
http://www.peaceandjustice.it/torture-accountability/

As a large coalition of human rights groups marches to the Department of
Justice in Washington D.C. on June 25 to demand a Special Prosecutor for
Torture, let's flood the Attorney General's office with our calls for
accountability on torture.

See below the text of the fax message. For more information on Torture
Accountability Action Day, see: http://accountability4torture.com/

Send your fax now!
http://www.peaceandjustice.it/torture-accountability/

U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice - Rome
info@peaceandjustice.it
http://www.peaceandjustice.it

Dear Attorney General Holder,

Today, June 25, 2009, people across the U.S. will hold demonstrations to
mark what has been designated Torture Accountability Action Day,
demanding that government officials who authorized torture be held
accountable for their crimes. In Washington, a coalition of human rights
groups will march to the Department of Justice calling on you, as Attorney
General, to appoint a special prosecutor for torture.

As detailed by government documents, hundreds of detainees in U.S.
custody have been tortured, in some cases resulting in death. Memos from
the Justice Department reveal that involvement in formulating and
developing the torture policies reached into the highest echelons of our
government.

These are indisputable facts. Crimes were committed. In our country, no
one is above the law and those who commit criminal acts must be held
accountable. Indeed, both domestic law and international treaty obligations
require that our Justice Department investigate acts of torture.

Only with a thorough investigation and prosecution of those who
commissioned, developed and authorized the torture policies will we have a
fair chance at restoring the rule of law, and the image of our country in the
world, as well as ensuring that the U.S. will never again commit torture.

 

I stand together with my fellow citizens in calling for the appointment of a
special prosecutor to conduct a criminal investigation into torture.

If we ignore the abuses and brutal crimes of the past eight years, then we
render our laws meaningless, and our claims to uphold values and
principles hollow.

Sincerely,
 

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us, war, torture

Cuba - Miami - Madrid - ---Cuba

 

"IMPOSIBLE IS NOTHING".

Ya sabemos todos de sobra que Estados Unidos de Norteamérica es un gran país en general y ha sido hasta ahora, un país muy creíble económicamente hablando. Políticamente ha estado cuestionado siempre por una buena parte del mundo, pero en lo que a su prestigio, credibilidad económica y seriedad de sus funcionarios, Instituciones financieras, Bancos y Ejecutivos se refiere, tenían todo el prestigio del mundo, cuestionado solo por una persona, Fidel Castro.

Prácticamente, se veía a los norteamericanos como una raza superior, incapaz de cometer fechorías como las que ahora salen a la luz, se decía que esas eran cosas de nosotros los latinos que éramos muy proclives a la corrupción y muy poco serios, pero resulta que los norteamericanos son tan proclives como cualquier otro ser humano y hasta mas, solo se diferencian en una cosa, guardan mucho las formas, por eso han sido tan difíciles de descubrir.

U.S.A, y sus recetas económicas neoliberales, eran seguidas con los ojos cerrados por todo el mundo, y las recomendaban con una autoridad y una seguridad absoluta y resulta que, como dice ahora el presidente Lula....”esta crisis fue creada por los blancos de ojos azules, que se pensaba lo sabian todo y ahora resulta que no sabian nada".....era una locura a ciegas, no habia seguridad de nada, como tampoco habia control ni seriedad, lo que si habia era mucha mentira, mucha locura y mucha corrupcion, denunciada solamente, repito, por Fidel Castro, al que por supuesto, no le creia casi nadie, se decia que estaba loco, que no sabia lo que hablaba, pues su pais, Cuba, esta muy lejos de ser un ejemplo de logros economicos.

Pero Fidel, como es costumbre ...continua

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us, cuba

Gaza

Hi all,

Sharing an article I wrote on the trip to Gaza and the siege. It has been
published on OpEdNews, AfterDowningStreet, Global Research, Ma'an
News Agency and Palestine Telegraph.

It draws largely from the blog, so apologies for the repetition. Just wanted to
get a shorter article out there...

Stephanie

Absurdity Is the Norm in the Gaza Strip

Upon returning home from Gaza, a friend commented, "It must have been
horrifying seeing all the destruction." And it was. The 22-day Israeli assault
on the Gaza Strip laid waste to an already ravaged territory.

The landscape is dotted with piles of rubble of bombed out buildings, the
twisted iron and aluminum of destroyed factories, once green fields reduced
to sand and dirt by Israeli tanks, apartments with 2 meter holes in the walls
and toppled minarets of mosques turned to ruins.

But as devastating as bearing witness to the destruction was, it was the
absurdities of the siege, the total blockade of Gaza imposed by Israel and
Egypt, that really affected me. Gaza itself remains frozen in time; for nearly
five months after the ceasefire, aside from a few rare cases in which cinder
blocks have been used to fill gaping holes in the sides of buildings, no
reconstruction whatsoever has begun. The blockade keeps the necessary
building materials out of Gaza.

While traveling throughout Gaza with a delegation of mostly U.S. citizens
organized by CodePink, the absurdities of the siege presented themselves
over and over.

At Al Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza, we saw state of the art isotope
scan and radio therapy machines in the oncology department that cannot
operate because the radioactive material as well as a calibration tool have
been refused entry by Israel. A row of dialysis machines sat unused, lacking
the required fluids.

As medical conditions in Gaza deteriorate due to the siege, many look for
medical care abroad. However, the sealed borders prevent them from
traveling. We met the director of an orphanage who had already lost the
vision in one eye, was losing it in the other, but had been unable to obtain
permission to travel to Egypt for eye care.

Power outages are regular occurrences. The Gaza power plant simply
cannot keep up with the demand due to a lack of fuel, which is blocked by
Israel, as is supplemental electricity produced in Israel. There are both
scheduled blackouts of 8-10 hours, as well as spontaneous outages.

While touring the Al Shifa Hospital, the Minister of Health apologized for the
heat in the room, saying their generator must be reserved for higher priority
uses than air conditioning. Families are forced to carry their loved ones up
the stairs, the elevators shutdown during blackouts.

The centers working to create employment opportunities for Gaza's women
inevitably fall prey to the siege. Power cuts bring the sewing machines
making dresses and linens to a stand still. Even the embroidery thread
used to make traditional handicrafts must be smuggled in through the
tunnels.

The siege has also taken its toll on the father figure. According to Dr.
Zeyada of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, with well over 50%
unemployment due to the siege, children see their fathers as unable to
provide for them. And during the war, they saw that their fathers were also
unable to protect them. Children have started looking to other role models,
and make easy targets for those who, unfortunately, have no desire for
peace.

Education suffers under the siege. At a UN vocational training center in
Khan Younis, the library consists of roughly 12 bookcases, but only two had
any books at all, with half being photocopied manuals. The textbooks
destined for the center have been held up in a storage facility in Jerusalem;
the Israelis simply refused to allow them in. The center is also unable to get
the raw materials for their metal and woodworking courses.

Sharif, a university student studying business administration in his second
year, is understandably proud of having top marks in his faculty. His friends
have nicknamed him 'The Genius.' Sharif has been awarded a scholarship
at Portland University in Oregon starting this fall. Unfortunately, the
irrationality of the siege is likely to prevent him from being allowed to go. "If I
can´t get authorization by August, there goes my scholarship."

A professor at Al Aqsa University has been offered a position at the
University of Manchester, however, he has been denied permission to
travel. Professors are also unable to travel to attend international
conferences. And students of the English department have a tough time
finding native speakers with which to practice the language; getting into
Gaza is almost as difficult as getting out!

Numerous projects for which funding has already been approved are
currently suspended for the simple fact that the materials to complete them
are not allowed in. Turkey has donated funds for a new university library and
PalTel, the Palestinian telecommunications company, has allocated funds
for an Information Technology Center. Both projects remain in limbo,
victims of the siege.

An official with the UN Relief and Works Agency remarked that it is also a
problem to get the actual banknotes in. UNRWA, which provides services
to more than 1 million registered refugees in the Gaza Strip, is often only
able to get money in to pay the salaries of their 10,000 employees, while
money to fund projects is blocked.

Not only are Palestinians restricted in their movement in and out of Gaza,
but also within. In late May, Israel began dropping thousands of leaflets
near the border areas warning the people of Gaza not to come within 300
meters of the border or they would be fired upon. Farmers are forced to risk
their lives in order to work their fields that fate has placed too close to the
border. The same restrictions are imposed on Palestinian fishermen. The
sound of shots pierce the silence nightly, as Israeli gunboats fire on fishing
boats that dare to venture far enough away from the shore in order to catch
fish to sell and provide a living for their families.

These are the absurdities that have become the norm in Gaza. But perhaps
most absurd of all is how anyone can believe that Israel's severity in the
closures, the destruction of the economy and social fabric of the Gaza Strip,
will serve to convince Palestinians to place their trust in international law.

What we in the international community must do is to heed the call we
heard repeatedly from the people of Gaza: work to break the siege so that
they can take care of themselves.

Stephanie Westbrook

 

• Life in Gaza

• 

  Medical emergency

  Video (3min 53sec): In the first of his three exclusive films for Guardian Unlimited focusing on life in an increasingly isolated Gaza, Clancy Chassay finds hospitals deserted as doctors and nurses are forced to take sides in the political infighting between Hamas and Fatah.
• 

  Patients caught up in middle of Fatah and Hamas tug of war

  One of the few journalists in Gaza reports on the Fatah-imposed doctors' strike in force last month for a series of exclusive Guardian films.

• Background

• 

  Inside Gaza: the main players

  Conal Urquhart in Gaza City profiles the three main groups vying for power.

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gaza

PALESTINE, GAZA, WEST BANK...

NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTS IN EGYPT, PALESTINE, GAZA, WEST BANK, ISRAEL AND JORDAN, 7th - 13th JUNE 2009

Luisa Morgantini represents the European Parliament

Rome, 8th June 2009

A large delegation of National Parliaments of the European Union - Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia- and of the EU candidates countries -Turkey and Croatia- led by Miloslav Vlcek, Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, is visiting Egypt, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Gaza and West Bank, Israel and Jordan, from 7th to 13th June 2009. The Parliamentarians composing the delegation hold different charges, such as Presidents of  Committees on Foreign Affairs or Presidents of the Parliament or of the Senate. The Italian Parliament does not participate to the delegation. 

Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament, who is participating to the delegation representing the EP, reminded that: "This is the first delegation created jointly by Parliaments of the EU with the presence also of Parliaments that are not yet part of the European Union but Members of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA). This mission is extremely important in order to understand and to know the situation in the region and, I really wish, also in order to carry on with decision and commitment the EU policy: the end of the Israeli occupation and violence by all sides with the creation of a democratic and independent Palestinian State that will peacefully coexist with the State of Israel. The visit takes place after the historical speech by US President Obama, who shows the determination and the right language in order to stop the daily humiliation and suffering of Palestinians under military occupation and to the fears of the Israeli population".

The delegation foresees meetings with representatives of local Authorities, Institutions, Parliaments - including the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Israeli President Shimon Peres, the Secretary General  of the League of Arab States Amre Moussa, the President of the People's Assembly of Egypt Fathi Sorour, the Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament and President of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Association (EMPA) Al-Majali- and with representatives of Egyptian; Palestinian, Israeli and Jordanian  politics and civil society.

Parliamentarians will go in Gaza on 9th June, entering by Rafah border crossing, they will meet Representatives of UNRWA, of the Palestinian Legislative Council, of NGOs and associations of civil society and will visit the population and the industrial and rural areas mostly hit by the Israeli military aggression Operation Cast Lead. In Israel the delegation will visit the town of Sderot hit by the rockets of armed Palestinian groups.

Luisa Morgantini is available for interviews and declarations. Contact:

+ 39 348 39 21 465/ +972 527 251612

INFO Luisa Morgantini's Office  0039 06 69 95 02 17; 0032 22 84 51 51

luisa.morgantini@europarl.europa.eu; www.luisamorgantini.net <https://webmail.europarl.europa.eu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://webmail.europarl.europa.eu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://webmail.europarl.europa.eu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.luisamorgantini.net/> ;
 

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israel, palestine, gaza

Gaza:It was an incredible experience.

Hi all,

Maria and I left Gaza last Thursday. I made it back to Rome on Friday. We
wanted to thank you all for your support, and in particular, Anna for helping
to get updates on the trip out to our group and the Italians.

Blogging proved to be difficult due to our tight schedule and the regular
power outages. Now that we are back, the blog has been updated, though
there is still much to tell.

http://peaceandjustice.it/gazablogging/

I would also highly recommend reading blogs from fellow delegates (see
links on right side bar), especially Booknut by Pam who went on with the
delegation trying to enter through Israel.

Some photos from the trip have been added to our site:
http://www.peaceandjustice.it/g-gaza.php

See also CodePink's flickr page, which includes photos from Israel:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepinkalert/

Thanks again for the support. It was an incredible experience.

Stephanie
 

posted by: Whitebeard at 10:49 | link | comments |
us, israel, italy, palestine, gaza

La cosa Berlusconi

By JOSÉ SARAMAGO

No veo qué otro nombre le podría dar. Una cosa peligrosamente parecida a un ser humano, una cosa que da fiestas, organiza orgías y manda en un país llamado Italia. Esta cosa, esta enfermedad, este virus amenaza con ser la causa de la muerte moral del país de Verdi si un vómito profundo no consigue arrancarlo de la conciencia de los italianos antes de que el veneno acabe corroyéndole las venas y destrozando el corazón de una de las más ricas culturas europeas. Los valores básicos de la convivencia humana son pisoteados todos los días por las patas viscosas de la cosa Berlusconi que, entre sus múltiples talentos, tiene una habilidad funambulesca para abusar de las palabras, pervirtiéndoles la intención y el sentido, como en el caso del Polo de la Libertad, que así se llama el partido con que asaltó el poder. Le llamé delincuente a esta cosa y no me arrepiento. Por razones de naturaleza semántica y social que otros podrán explicar mejor que yo, el término delincuente tiene en Italia una carga negativa mucho más fuerte que en cualquier otro idioma hablado en Europa. Para traducir de forma clara y contundente lo que pienso de la cosa Berlusconi utilizo el término en la acepción que la lengua de Dante le viene dando habitualmente, aunque sea más que dudoso que Dante lo haya usado alguna vez. Delincuencia, en mi portugués, significa, de acuerdo con los diccionarios y la práctica corriente de la comunicación, "acto de cometer delitos, desobedecer leyes o padrones morales". La definición asienta en la cosa Berlusconi sin una arruga, sin una tirantez, hasta el punto de parecerse más a una segunda piel que la ropa que se pone encima. Desde hace años la cosa Berlusconi viene cometiendo delitos de variable aunque siempre demostrada gravedad. Para colmo, no es que desobedezca leyes sino, peor todavía, las manda fabricar para salvaguarda de sus intereses públicos y privados, de político, empresario y acompañante de menores, y en cuanto a los patrones morales, ni merece la pena hablar, no hay quien no sepa en Italia y en el mundo que la cosa Berlusconi hace mucho tiempo que cayó en la más completa abyección. Este es el primer ministro italiano, esta es la cosa que el pueblo italiano dos veces ha elegido para que le sirva de modelo, este es el camino de la ruina al que, por arrastramiento, están siendo llevados los valores de libertad y dignidad que impregnaron la música de Verdi y la acción política de Garibaldi, esos que hicieron de la Italia del siglo XIX, durante la lucha por la unificación, una guía espiritual de Europa y de los europeos. Es esto lo que la cosa Berlusconi quiere lanzar al cubo de la basura de la Historia. ¿Lo acabarán permitiendo los italianos?

 

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europe, italy

Goodbye, GM

Goodbye, GM

by Michael Moore

June 1, 2009

I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.

As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?

It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh -- and that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the "inferior" Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers for no good reason other than to "improve" the short-term bottom line of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record profits, it moved countless jobs to Mexico and elsewhere, thus destroying the lives of tens of thousands of hard-working Americans. The glaring stupidity of this policy was that, when they eliminated the income of so many middle class families, who did they think was going to be able to afford to buy their cars? History will record this blunder in the same way it now writes about the French building the Maginot Line or how the Romans cluelessly poisoned their own water system with lethal lead in its pipes.

So here we are at the deathbed of General Motors. The company's body not yet cold, and I find myself filled with -- dare I say it -- joy. It is not the joy of revenge against a corporation that ruined my hometown and brought misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction to the people I grew up with. Nor do I, obviously, claim any joy in knowing that 21,000 more GM workers will be told that they, too, are without a job.

But you and I and the rest of America now own a car company! I know, I know -- who on earth wants to run a car company? Who among us wants $50 billion of our tax dollars thrown down the rat hole of still trying to save GM? Let's be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM. Saving our precious industrial infrastructure, though, is another matter and must be a top priority. If we allow the shutting down and tearing down of our auto plants, we will sorely wish we still had them when we realize that those factories could have built the alternative energy systems we now desperately need. And when we realize that the best way to transport ourselves is on light rail and bullet trains and cleaner buses, how will we do this if we've allowed our industrial capacity and its skilled workforce to disappear?

Thus, as GM is "reorganized" by the federal government and the bankruptcy court, here is the plan I am asking President Obama to implement for the good of the workers, the GM communities, and the nation as a whole. Twenty years ago when I made "Roger & Me," I tried to warn people about what was ahead for General Motors. Had the power structure and the punditocracy listened, maybe much of this could have been avoided. Based on my track record, I request an honest and sincere consideration of the following suggestions:

1. Just as President Roosevelt did after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the President must tell the nation that we are at war and we must immediately convert our auto factories to factories that build mass transit vehicles and alternative energy devices. Within months in Flint in 1942, GM halted all car production and immediately used the assembly lines to build planes, tanks and machine guns. The conversion took no time at all. Everyone pitched in. The fascists were defeated.

We are now in a different kind of war -- a war that we have conducted against the ecosystem and has been conducted by our very own corporate leaders. This current war has two fronts. One is headquartered in Detroit. The products built in the factories of GM, Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. The things we call "cars" may have been fun to drive, but they are like a million daggers into the heart of Mother Nature. To continue to build them would only lead to the ruin of our species and much of the planet.

The other front in this war is being waged by the oil companies against you and me. They are committed to fleecing us whenever they can, and they have been reckless stewards of the finite amount of oil that is located under the surface of the earth. They know they are sucking it bone dry. And like the lumber tycoons of the early 20th century who didn't give a damn about future generations as they tore down every forest they could get their hands on, these oil barons are not telling the public what they know to be true -- that there are only a few more decades of useable oil on this planet. And as the end days of oil approach us, get ready for some very desperate people willing to kill and be killed just to get their hands on a gallon can of gasoline.

President Obama, now that he has taken control of GM, needs to convert the factories to new and needed uses immediately.

2. Don't put another $30 billion into the coffers of GM to build cars. Instead, use that money to keep the current workforce -- and most of those who have been laid off -- employed so that they can build the new modes of 21st century transportation. Let them start the conversion work now.

3. Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years. Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year. Now they have dozens of them. Average speed: 165 mph. Average time a train is late: under 30 seconds. They have had these high speed trains for nearly five decades -- and we don't even have one! The fact that the technology already exists for us to go from New York to L.A. in 17 hours by train, and that we haven't used it, is criminal. Let's hire the unemployed to build the new high speed lines all over the country. Chicago to Detroit in less than two hours. Miami to DC in under 7 hours. Denver to Dallas in five and a half. This can be done and done now.

4. Initiate a program to put light rail mass transit lines in all our large and medium-sized cities. Build those trains in the GM factories. And hire local people everywhere to install and run this system.

5. For people in rural areas not served by the train lines, have the GM plants produce energy efficient clean buses.

6. For the time being, have some factories build hybrid or all-electric cars (and batteries). It will take a few years for people to get used to the new ways to transport ourselves, so if we're going to have automobiles, let's have kinder, gentler ones. We can be building these next month (do not believe anyone who tells you it will take years to retool the factories -- that simply isn't true).

7. Transform some of the empty GM factories to facilities that build windmills, solar panels and other means of alternate forms of energy. We need tens of millions of solar panels right now. And there is an eager and skilled workforce who can build them.

8. Provide tax incentives for those who travel by hybrid car or bus or train. Also, credits for those who convert their home to alternative energy.

9. To help pay for this, impose a two-dollar tax on every gallon of gasoline. This will get people to switch to more energy saving cars or to use the new rail lines and rail cars the former autoworkers have built for them.

Well, that's a start. Please, please, please don't save GM so that a smaller version of it will simply do nothing more than build Chevys or Cadillacs. This is not a long-term solution. Don't throw bad money into a company whose tailpipe is malfunctioning, causing a strange odor to fill the car.

100 years ago this year, the founders of General Motors convinced the world to give up their horses and saddles and buggy whips to try a new form of transportation. Now it is time for us to say goodbye to the internal combustion engine. It seemed to serve us well for so long. We enjoyed the car hops at the A&W. We made out in the front -- and the back -- seat. We watched movies on large outdoor screens, went to the races at NASCAR tracks across the country, and saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time through the window down Hwy. 1. And now it's over. It's a new day and a new century. The President -- and the UAW -- must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon.

Yesterday, the last surviving person from the Titanic disaster passed away. She escaped certain death that night and went on to live another 97 years.

So can we survive our own Titanic in all the Flint Michigans of this country. 60% of GM is ours. I think we can do a better job.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

 

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us, science, democracy, environment, war, censored news, world trade, resisters