Reality Check. . .

Some Have The Ability To “Put It All Together” - Here Are But A Few...
by The Old Hippie Because it is Getting Worse by the Hour, as the “Allowing” Continues.

-  “Why Japan is Eating America's Lunch on Broadband”       Not just in Japan, speeds that are 30x faster, and it cost much less.   -  Just How Low Have [you allowed] War-Profiteers To Go?       A Rolling Stone report, and extra video “Below The Fold”, explains.   -  “CheneyBush’s “Mercenary” Legions”       Taking private enterprise way beyond what is reasonable, (or safe.)   -  “Strikingly Negative” GAO Iraq Report Leaked...       Why was it leaked?  “To keep Bush from watering it down.”

In Case You Have Forgotten. . .

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.  In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

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The following video is from Mark Taibbi's article in Rolling Stone linked above.
I present it here correctly embedded, as Rolling Stone for some reason used
the less standard "iframe," which many web surfers can not see correctly, and
because the above linked CommonDreams copy of the article didn't include it...

“In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi reports on how President George W. Bush-appointed contractors in Iraq are exploiting American tax dollars.  Here, Taibbi narrates a video exploring the grim details of the situation even further.”