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		<title>By: Don Hawkins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don Hawkins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sent this to media this morning.

 
   Oh dear,

Jan. 7) -- Amid this week&#039;s speculation about potential Tea Party leaders comes word that Sarah Palin has agreed to deliver the keynote speech at the movement&#039;s first national convention next month.

It will be Palin&#039;s first political speech in months, and The Washington Independent&#039;s David Weigel thinks it&#039;s significant that she chose the Tea Party event after twice passing on chances to address the well-established Conservative Political Action Committee.

  

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is wildly popular among Tea Party activists.
The Feb. 6 appearance in Nashville gives Palin the opportunity to &quot;take up the mantle that has been waiting for her as the movement&#039;s most visible and popular hero,&quot; said The Atlantic&#039;s Chris Good. 

Among the other conservative luminaries who will speak at the convention is Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who has been a headliner at other Tea Party events (and won&#039;t repeat her line comparing the movement to the doomed &quot;light brigade&quot; this time). But Palin is by far the event&#039;s biggest attraction. And she&#039;ll take center stage at a time when the Tea Party is showing it can influence election results.


While it remains to be seen who, if anyone, will become the face of the Tea Party, it appears the movement has found its theme song. &quot;We the People,&quot; a new tune from Ray Stevens (of &quot;Everything Is Beautiful,&quot; &quot;The Streak&quot; and &quot;Ahab the Arab&quot; fame) is a hit among tea partiers, CNSNews reported. Sample lyric: &quot;You vote Obamacare, we&#039;re going to vote you out of there.&quot; sphere

  We the people a new tune is it. Wait don&#039;t tell me drill baby drill we don&#039;t need government takeover of the banks. You have to admit that whole government and bank&#039;s is an interesting concept. The private sector and there song, &quot;In The Arms Of The Angles.&quot;  Yes 2012 will not be boring as the big push is on ignorance is strength and illusion of knowledge is in the lead and who will win well nobody but heck they will have fun doing it. The amazing part is all done on the third planet from the Sun a miracle of the Universe and life we the people Sample lyric: &quot;You vote Obamacare, we&#039;re going to vote you out of there,&quot; amazing absolutely amazing.  By far the event&#039;s biggest attraction come one come all step right up come a little closer that&#039;s good. For the small price of your soul gain admission to the greatest show on Earth who want&#039;s to be first and watch that first step. You with that sign that say&#039;s we want our country back come on down or you over there Capitalism is the best path to prosperity come on down wait I see one who is John Galt have I got a deal for you, absolutely amazing. 

   Don</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sent this to media this morning.</p>
<p>   Oh dear,</p>
<p>Jan. 7) &#8212; Amid this week&#8217;s speculation about potential Tea Party leaders comes word that Sarah Palin has agreed to deliver the keynote speech at the movement&#8217;s first national convention next month.</p>
<p>It will be Palin&#8217;s first political speech in months, and The Washington Independent&#8217;s David Weigel thinks it&#8217;s significant that she chose the Tea Party event after twice passing on chances to address the well-established Conservative Political Action Committee.</p>
<p>Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is wildly popular among Tea Party activists.<br />
The Feb. 6 appearance in Nashville gives Palin the opportunity to &#8220;take up the mantle that has been waiting for her as the movement&#8217;s most visible and popular hero,&#8221; said The Atlantic&#8217;s Chris Good. </p>
<p>Among the other conservative luminaries who will speak at the convention is Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who has been a headliner at other Tea Party events (and won&#8217;t repeat her line comparing the movement to the doomed &#8220;light brigade&#8221; this time). But Palin is by far the event&#8217;s biggest attraction. And she&#8217;ll take center stage at a time when the Tea Party is showing it can influence election results.</p>
<p>While it remains to be seen who, if anyone, will become the face of the Tea Party, it appears the movement has found its theme song. &#8220;We the People,&#8221; a new tune from Ray Stevens (of &#8220;Everything Is Beautiful,&#8221; &#8220;The Streak&#8221; and &#8220;Ahab the Arab&#8221; fame) is a hit among tea partiers, CNSNews reported. Sample lyric: &#8220;You vote Obamacare, we&#8217;re going to vote you out of there.&#8221; sphere</p>
<p>  We the people a new tune is it. Wait don&#8217;t tell me drill baby drill we don&#8217;t need government takeover of the banks. You have to admit that whole government and bank&#8217;s is an interesting concept. The private sector and there song, &#8220;In The Arms Of The Angles.&#8221;  Yes 2012 will not be boring as the big push is on ignorance is strength and illusion of knowledge is in the lead and who will win well nobody but heck they will have fun doing it. The amazing part is all done on the third planet from the Sun a miracle of the Universe and life we the people Sample lyric: &#8220;You vote Obamacare, we&#8217;re going to vote you out of there,&#8221; amazing absolutely amazing.  By far the event&#8217;s biggest attraction come one come all step right up come a little closer that&#8217;s good. For the small price of your soul gain admission to the greatest show on Earth who want&#8217;s to be first and watch that first step. You with that sign that say&#8217;s we want our country back come on down or you over there Capitalism is the best path to prosperity come on down wait I see one who is John Galt have I got a deal for you, absolutely amazing. </p>
<p>   Don</p>
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		<title>By: Mulga Mumblebrain</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/the-american-elite/#comment-63418</link>
		<dc:creator>Mulga Mumblebrain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marvellous, as ever. When the facts are laid out, clearly but not dispassionately, the wretched reality is plain, yet again. The United States was from its inception and remains the greatest force for evil in human history, due not just to the number of its victims, but to its brutal, totalitarian ideology. The US Empire, even today under the confidence-man and House Negro Obama, must encompass the entire world. And the totalitarianism is absolute. Not only must the entire world obey the Masters and be ruled by collaborators who love the Empire more than their own lands, but we must think and behave  like Yanks, or die. We must see greed as the highest virtue. We must treat others as competition or enemies. We must worship the rich, and ferociously desire to emulate them. We must put our immediate self-gratification above the interests of future generations. We must consume, consume, consume. We must never act together collectively. If we disobey these or any of the myriad other commandments of the Yankee Reich, we must expect the death-squads, the torture teams, the midnight Hellfire missile obliterating our families as the fiends bath themselves in human blood, yet again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marvellous, as ever. When the facts are laid out, clearly but not dispassionately, the wretched reality is plain, yet again. The United States was from its inception and remains the greatest force for evil in human history, due not just to the number of its victims, but to its brutal, totalitarian ideology. The US Empire, even today under the confidence-man and House Negro Obama, must encompass the entire world. And the totalitarianism is absolute. Not only must the entire world obey the Masters and be ruled by collaborators who love the Empire more than their own lands, but we must think and behave  like Yanks, or die. We must see greed as the highest virtue. We must treat others as competition or enemies. We must worship the rich, and ferociously desire to emulate them. We must put our immediate self-gratification above the interests of future generations. We must consume, consume, consume. We must never act together collectively. If we disobey these or any of the myriad other commandments of the Yankee Reich, we must expect the death-squads, the torture teams, the midnight Hellfire missile obliterating our families as the fiends bath themselves in human blood, yet again.</p>
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