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• Thursday, September 4, 2008 08:56 AM

  It is very important to Republicans NOT to discuss the issues.

  Those issues include

  1) The tanking economy, brought on by subprime fraud and government corruption at the SEC and the Federal Reserve (not that Congress did any "oversight" of their biggest donors - real estate and finance interests).

  2) The bloody and illegal war in Iraq, set up on false pretenses using faked intelligence (the British really helped out there), and the equally bloody situation in Afghanistan.

  3) The atrocious state of the U.S. educational and public health care systems, which have created the worst educated and least healthy populace, among any of the industrialized nations. Illiteracy and infant mortality rates approach those seen in Third World countries - not that the U.S. press spends any time chronicling the fortunes of the poor and downtrodden in this country.

  4) The corrupt energy policy of the U.S., which is based on military control of foreign oilfields, expansion of the two dirtiest fossil fuels known (tar sands and coal), and gross subsidies delivered to fossil fuel interests. At the same time, the U.S. government and fossil fuel interests actively sabotage any real efforts to get renewable energy replacements online.

  That's why the U.S. Congress provided $18 billion in loan guarantees to Sarah Palin's Transcanada pipeline, intended to bring natural gas to the tar sands of Alberta, where it will be burned in order to process the tar into synthetic crude. Palin's husband is a BP employee; BP will make billions off the tar sands, but they need Alaskan gas to process it. Even Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are involved.

  For example: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080829/wl_canada_nm/canada_greenpeace_col

  "Greenpeace Canada blasts Syncrude lawsuit, Aug 29 2008"

  Those are some of the main issues that the Republicans do NOT want to see discussed in any forum. So far, they are getting their way, because the press won't talk about the issues (Inside USA with Avi Lewis is doing a great job of covering these issues, however - putting all the lefty frauds to shame).

  Remember - do not discuss these issues. The Republicans don't want you to, and neither do the owners of the consolidated American media, whether they be private foundations or the corporate entities and billionaires that pour funds into those private foundations (Ford, Rockefeller, Scaife, Packard, Sara Lee, Richardson - there's a lot of flavors of billionaire, but there are also shared interests).

  Lord forbid that this election should become a referendum on real issues like U.S. militarism and our fossil fuel industry-controlled energy policy, right?

  Yours, Ike Solem

  —CargoCult Read CargoCult's other letters
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