OCTOBER 28, 2011 GENERAL STRIKE AROUND THE USA AND WORLD ---> For One Day...We Shut The System Down! (VIDEO)

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WE SHUT THE SYSTEM DOWN!

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A momentum is occurring...
People are uniting across the world...
They are sending a message...
The next step is fast approaching...

On Oct 28th 2011
WE SHUT THE SYSTEM DOWN.

For one day we peacefully protest in a symbol that will be felt across the globe.

We step out of the system and step back into ourselves.

Turn off all lights
Unplug all electrical devices
Abstain from using TV, radio and internet or phone.
Abstain from making any purchase of any kind
Choose that morning to cancel any services you feel you no longer need
That morning call in sick to work

Do NOTHING that generates money into THE SYSTEM.

We will send a message
We will unite

Most importantly, for one day...
We live without distraction
Read a book
Meditate
Play
Sing
Dance
Create
Frolic in nature
Love

On Oct 28th 2011
Step out of the system and get back to yourself

Spread the word!

SHUT IT ALL DOWN!

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The US lost the war in Iraq and is being kicked out so it will cut diplomatic programs

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The US built it's largest US Embassy in Iraq. It could accommodate over 16,000 employees working and living in the compund. All paid with your tax dollars.

Beyond the final withdrawal of troops that President Obama announced Friday, U.S. fiscal troubles are dictating a drastic scaling back of plans to expand diplomatic and cultural programs.

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Iraq By The Numbers: The World’s Costliest Cakewalk

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According to George W. Bush, the illegal US Invasion & Occupation of Iraq ended May 1, 2003

8 years, 260 days since Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence of Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program

8 years, 215 days since the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq

8 years, 175 days since President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln

4,479 U.S. military fatalities

30,182 U.S. military injuries

468 contractor fatalities

103,142 – 112,708 documented civilian deaths (may be over one million)

2.8 million internally displaced Iraqis

$806 billion in federal funding for the Iraq War through FY2011

$3 – $5 trillion in total economic cost to the United States of the Iraq war according to economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Blimes

$60 billion in U.S. expenditures lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001

0 weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq

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The United States Loses Another War - Obama Announces Leaving Iraq By Year End

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Throughout the discussions, Iraqi leaders adamantly have refused to give U.S. troops immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts, and the Americans have refused to stay without it.

I am very glad our troops are leaving Iraq, although that may be to free them up for Iran, but that is a topic for another post.

Forget Obama's speechification about the 2008 deal. If the new government in Iraq granted immunity, the US troops would stay. In denying immunity, the new Iraqi government has shown the US to the door and handed them their hat, er, their helmet.

In other words, the United States just lost the Iraq war.

1. We never got Saddam's nuclear weapons, because they did not have any.

2. We did not revenge 9-11 because Iraq had nothing to do with it.

3. We did not punish Iraq for supporting Al Qaeda because Saddam and Al Qaeda were enemies.

4. We did not get all that much oil because the new government of Iraq is made up of people the US tortured, or of people who know people the US tortured, and the oil contracts were handed out to everyone else.

The new government the US installed in Iraq does not like the US, because the new government of Iraq is made up of people the US tortured, or of people who know people the US tortured, and they just told the US to get out, or face war crimes charges!

There is no real tangible way to claim that this war was a win for the United States. Billions spent, hundreds of thousands dead. The only real winners are the bankers to whom both sides are now deeply in debt.

But hey, I guess that makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it?

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Iraq's Secret War Files : What really happened in Iraq (VIDEOS)

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The only TV documentary to have advance access to the biggest WikiLeaks release ever. This is what really happened during the Iraq war, not what the US PR machine of the time wanted us to believe. The reality behind the civilian death count; al-Qaeda's fictitious presence; torture, torture and more torture. A wall of truth revealing unprecedented levels of unwarranted aggression.


Dispatches, Channel 4's flagship current affairs strand, exposes the full and unreported horror of the Iraqi conflict and its aftermath, revealing the true scale of civilian casualties; and allegations that after the scandal of Abu Ghraib, American soldiers continued to abuse prisoners; and that US forces did not systematically intervene in the torture and murder of detainees by the Iraqi security services.

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Donald Rumsfeld confronted on Aspartame killer sweetener and over one million killed in Iraq War (VIDEO)

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Whoops: Trump claimed he would commit war crimes if elected president

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In a little-noticed admission last week, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump, who currently leads all likely Republican candidates for the presidential nomination in 2012, admitted that he would commit war crimes if he were elected president.

The startling claim went without controversy until today, when Good Magazine pointed out that Trump's "plan" to seize $1.5 trillion from Iraq's oil profits to "reemburse ourselves" for the invasion and subsequent occupation would actually be an explicit violation of international law -- a violation considered to be a war crime.

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Former Nobel-winning UN Inspector Suggests Iraq War Crime Probe of Bush Administration

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The former chief United Nations nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the shame of a needless war in Iraq.

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Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

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Graphic: Iraq's burgeoning oil industry




Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

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U.S. combat troops may stay in Iraq for ever, Gates admits

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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that American forces were prepared to stay in any role beyond a scheduled pullout late this year, but time was running out for Iraq to ask. But Iraq has not run out of oil. Oil is well that ends well.

Largest US Embassy in the world, based in Iraq, to Double Staff to 16,000 workers plus 5,500 private US security guards

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Trump: If We Don’t Take Iraq’s Oil, U.S. Soldiers ‘Would Have Died In Vain’

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O’Reilly later mocked Trump’s policy on Fox and Friends: “You’d basically be re-invading the country you already invaded to try and get their oil.

Come on, can you imagine the world reaction to that?”

Unswayed, Trump doubled-down in a Fox and Friends segment this morning.

Still convinced Iran will pounce on the oil fields once the U.S. withdraws, Trump insisted that if we don’t “take the oil,” the 5,885 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq “would have died in vain“

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Largest US Embassy in the world, based in Iraq, to Double Staff to 16,000 workers plus 5,500 private US security guards

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In the US we don't have money for schools, hospitals, roads, medicaid, police, fire departments...

The US Embassy in Baghdad, already the largest in the world, is expected to double its staff after American forces pull out of the country later this year.

"We'll be doubling our size if all of our plans go through and if we receive the money from Congress in 2011 and then again in 2012," James Jeffrey, the US ambassador in Iraq, said.

Will the Washington White House move to Iraq?

Security firms like Blackwater get about $300,000 per year per man and they pay their mercenaries about $100,000 to $150,000 each. In one year, we the US taxpayers, will pay One-and-a-half BILLION dollars just for security guards in the US Embassy in Iraq.

If these were US Marines guarding the embassy, like they always did, we would only pay eleven million dollars.

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Trump says we should stay in Iraq and keep their oil

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In an interview on Fox News, potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outlined his Iraq strategy to Bill O’Reilly.

“In the old days when you had wars, you win, right?” Trump began. “You win. To the victor belonged the spoils. So when we go to Iraq, we spend $1.4 trillion so far and thousands of lives are lost, right? … And we’re going to leave and 15 minutes after we leave, Iran is going to go into Iraq.”

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George Carlin - We Like War (VIDEO)

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Donald Rumsfeld admits the Bush Administration Knew the WMD information to invade Iraq was incorrect

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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday that the Bush’s administration’s erroneous belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was not the only reason for invasion, but it was “the big one.”

“I think the concern I had was that the information we had was imperfect,” Rumsfeld told CNN’s Candy Crowley.

“It was more than imperfect,” Crowley interrupted. “Some of it was just flat wrong.”

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Colin Powell was ‘manipulated’ by Cheney into justifying Iraq war

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Colin Powell's ex-chief of staff said Thursday the former Secretary of State was lied to and manipulated by Vice President Dick Cheney into justifying the US invasion of Iraq.

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