The Mandaean community in Iraq faces extinction. Out of more than 60,000 Mandaeans in Iraq in the early 1990s, only 5,000 to 7,000 remain, most having fled since 2003 in the face of murder, kidnapping, rape, eviction, and forced conversion. We're calling on the United States government to help preserve the Iraqi Mandaean culture, heritage, and existence by funding a Mandaean language school and programs to assist Iraqi Mandaean refugees in returning to Iraq. The United States has a responsibility to this community that is almost extinct because of the United States' war and occupation.

Notwithstanding being outspent 25 to 1, Tom Barrett is within the margin of error in Wisconsin's recall election. Everyone agrees that this will be the second most important election in our country this year. Tea Partiers and other right wing fanatics are furiously working to defend the indefensible: Scott Walker, the most dishonest governor in the country, a known dirty tricks artist, an unindicted coconspirator, and an admitted puppet of the Koch Brothers and other corporate and billionaire conservative extremists who are bound and determined to make the lives of ordinary working people as burdensome and intolerable as possible. A Walker defeat would energize liberals throughout this country, whereas a Walker victory would dishearten those Wisconsinites who have worked so hard for a year and a half to stop the toxic flow of right wing extremism in their state and beyond. Please, Mr. President, no one can rally the troops like you can. And, by so doing, you will also enhance your own chances of prevailing in November. If you won't travel to Wisconsin to invigorate liberals who have been courageously trying to prevent their state from being overrun by right wing extremists with their anti-worker and anti-consumer agendas, please ask the First Lady, the Vice President, and/or President Clinton to stand in for you. The entire future of this country could well be hanging in the balance pending the outcome of this election, and this might well be your only opportunity to cut off the head of the snake before we all are poisoned.

In light of the fact that the Diebold voting machines, and diabolical plots are suspected of messing with elections, let's set up independent exit polls and find out more!

When I retired in 2008, I was not told that the Medicare Prescription Plan was mandatory and I would be assessed penalties for not signing up. I was not on any medication at that time and saw no need to pay premiums to the insurance companies that I did not need. When I signed up with Medco in 2012, I was assessed a penalty for the period between 2008 and 2012. I feel this is very unfair. Especially since the amount they pay for prescriptions does not decrease my cost. By the way, I was paying 100% for any prescriptions I needed in that 4 year period. On a fixed income, it is very difficult to pay for all of these insurance premium and still have to pay the same amount for my prescriptions that I was paying before I signed on to the prescription paln.

President John F. Kennedy was killed because he tried to stop the Military Indusrial Complex of America from robbing Americans blind. President Eisenhower warned of this problem in his ferwell address to the nation, and he was ignored by most everyone except President Kennedy, who was killed for trying to change the culture of war and weapons that were grabbing hold of our nation and now controls it. I ask you all why do we allow this to continue. Why? Is this not a free country, cann we not make a change for the better,

Prosecutors or attorneys who knowingly withhold evidence resulting in a wrongful conviction should be held criminally liable and fined.

The continuous TV advertising of mens sex drugs, especially for cialis and also viagra are so offensive. Then we know they are paid for by the costly prescription prices poor people must pay for drugs. The drug companies actually spend more for advertising than they do on medical research.

President Obama recently put forward his New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a plan to improve agriculture in poor countries through private investment from companies like Monsanto and Cargill. The problem is that these companies claim that through Genetically Engineered (GE) seeds and crops they can end hunger, but GE food has been around for more than two decades and hunger is still rampant in many parts of the world where the technology washas been used. Top researchers confirm that the results of genetic engineering are unpredictable. This is why unexpected harmful substances may appear in GE food. This is important because about 70% of the food in supermarkets is GE and consumers don't even know it. Now this technology is going to be spread in parts of Africa, starting with Tanzania, Ghana, and Ethiopia. The leaders from the three countries attended the G8 conference and were eager for the investment. But they may be putting profit ahead of public interest by ignoring the needs of their small scale farmers in their home countries. GE has wreaked havoc in India and been boycotted in France, Brazil, Spain and Argentina, just to name a few. The people in those countries didn't want GE in their countries and now lawmakers are rethinking their decision. The lawmakers in Africa don't have an option because their countries are impoverished and they need all the help they can get, but not thorugh a destructive product and a damaged environment.

Politicians offering free money in exchange for votes is stupid but popular. That collapsed the economy in 2007. Politicians bribed voters by promising lower taxes that came from eliminating federally-funded depression-era education reform (No Child Left Behind). The dropout rate exploded but runaway inflation provided employment in construction and real estate until 2007. The Patriot Act allowed states to outlaw Mexicans, so about 1.7 million left between 2007 and 2010. The resulting housing abandonment collapsed the construction and real estate industries, resulting in an unemployment boom. Freedom of Speech in the First Amendment does not guarantee the right of wealth people to freely lie to the public with no oversight in order to do these kinds of things.

Comparing the status of the New York City subway system to many international models, there is much work we could do to clean the subway areas, and replace old models with newer, quieter, faster ones. This would highly improve the infrastructure of New York, an extremely international city, in an area that has been neglected for far too long.

We demand that The Chamber of Commerce either stop funding and laundering 100's of millions dollars each year for anti-labor, anti-middle class legislation and candidates. If not, we demand that businesses members of the Chamber who disagree with these policies drop out of the Chamber, or we pledge to target them as consumers and as pickets.

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