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We occupy. We hope you will, too.

January 31, 2012
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We occupy. We hope you will, too.

We occupy Wall Street and elsewhere to illuminate a diseased condition.

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Deer in the headlights

January 23, 2012
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Deer in the headlights

With the help of wordsmiths like Frank Luntz and a year of practice, one of the 1%’s water carriers has got that political “pivoting” maneuver down pretty well. But someone’s always going to show up with that question, the one not expected, the one that wasn’t included in the script.

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Racism run amok. Where is the “dream”?

January 19, 2012
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Racism run amok. Where is the “dream”?

Racism was celebrated by Newt Gingrich and the South Carolina Republican Debate audience last weekend. Could there have been a greater slap in the face to the heritage of King's accomplishments with his commemorative birthday just hours away.

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Neo-Liberal Economics and the decline that followed

January 9, 2012
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Neo-Liberal Economics and the decline that followed

"... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of this country will endeavor to prolong its reign..." Abraham Lincoln, 1864

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WTP: “…as slippery an organization as one finds in modern politics.”

January 3, 2012
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WTP:  “…as slippery an organization as one finds in modern politics.”

“In the real world of politics, the 'quid pro quo' of both direct contributions to candidates and independent expenditures on their behalf is loyalty. And, in practical effect, experience teaches us that money corrupts, and enough of it corrupts absolutely.”

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Presentation: Neo-Liberal Economics

January 2, 2012
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Presentation: Neo-Liberal Economics

Please join the Longmont Area Democrats for a presentation by civil rights activist Strider Benston on economics. Learn how deregulation, privatization and the so-called “rule of the market” has destroyed what was once great about America’s economy

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Demands of the 99%

November 21, 2011
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Demands of the 99%

MSM continues to ask what the Occupy Movement wants. Here's a start.

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Who’s behind the drilling curtain?

November 15, 2011
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Who’s behind the drilling curtain?

The City has the votes from council-elect to put this through and they will. The ONLY way to stop this is if the Citizens of Longmont do not allow it to happen.

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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who’s behind the ‘information attacks’ on climate scientists?

October 31, 2011
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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who’s behind the ‘information attacks’ on climate scientists?

This in depth investigative report and expose on American Tradition Institute/American Tradition Partnership/Western Tradition Partnership details the vast network of funding by interrelated businesses and think tanks who are determined to manipulate public perceptions of the threats of climate change.

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They’re baaaccckkk. With vengeance.

October 30, 2011
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They’re baaaccckkk.  With vengeance.

Is the public actually as blind, deaf and dumb as organizations like American Tradition Partnership think?

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Fracking — coming to a location near you

October 29, 2011
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Fracking — coming to a location near you

Plans are being prepared by city staff and others to allow drilling for gas and oil on Longmont properties. Drilling preparations could begin in as little as two to three months.

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“If it isn’t in your backyard now, it could be.”

October 26, 2011
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“If it isn’t in your backyard now, it could be.”

Propelling the rush is the discovery of oil in the Niobrara — a geological formation sitting more than 6,000 feet below the Front Range. Most of the leasing and drilling has been focused on Weld County — the better known and most-promising part of the Niobrara.

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American Tradition Partnership again targets Longmont

October 22, 2011
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American Tradition Partnership again targets Longmont

Citizens and voters of Longmont are losing control of their community. It has become a pawn in the political games of those with large sums of money and who will stop at nothing to accomplish their goals. Ignore what is happening in Longmont at your peril.

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Leapin’ Lizards!

October 12, 2011
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Leapin’ Lizards!

Anti Longmont fiber optics issue committee, Look Before We Leap, is on a roll to surpass the nearly $250 thousand spent in 2009.

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Occupy Wall Street angry at the right people

October 9, 2011
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Occupy Wall Street angry at the right people

The protesters' indictment of Wall Street as a destructive force, economically and politically, is completely right.

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