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Guatemala's Ríos Montt Genocide Conviction Omen for US Presidents and Their Hired Assassins
By jay janson | Sat, May 18 2013DESCRIPTION:
Presiding Judge, "he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out." US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President Ríos Montt. Instead visited him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as “a man of great personal integrity and commitment. Who was more guilty?
Vermont Doctor Assisted Suicide Becomes Law Monday- I Don't Think It's Right - Do You?
By crisericson | Fri, May 17 2013Comment to "End-of-Life Bill Becomes Law Monday" Burlington Free Press in Vermont
Shumlin's List
If the " Nazi's" over at the Vermont Board of Medical Practice and the "Nazi's" "we" elected to the Vermont State Legislature would stop telling doctors how much prescription pain killers they can (and can NOT) prescribe, and stop hounding and stalking patients and trying to falsely accuse them of "selling" the scant few prescription painkillers they are allowed, while simultaneously the Police are scanning the Vermont Prescription Drug Monitoring plan patient history so they can harrass the patients; if all this wasn't going on, do you seriously think people would want a Lethal Injection if they had enough prescription painkillers to be comfortable?
Sanders to Host Danish Ambassador at Town Meetings in Burlington, Brattleboro and Montpelier
By Not Signed In | Fri, May 17 2013BURLINGTON, Vt., May 17– U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will welcome Ambassador Peter Taksoe-Jensen of Denmark to Vermont for a series of town meetings this weekend.
Lessons the United States can learn from Denmark will be explored at town meetings in Burlington, Brattleboro and Montpelier.
Sanders Welcomes Pope Francis Statement on Poverty
By Not Signed In | Thu, May 16 2013WASHINGTON, May 16 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today applauded Pope Francis for condemning a “cult of money” in the world that he said was oppressing the poor.
In a major speech at the Vatican on Thursday, Francis said the global financial system has worsened poverty while benefiting the wealthy few. “While the income of the minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority of the majority is crumbling,” Francis said.
Tree Committee Looks at Skatepark
By rootrunner | Wed, May 15 2013
Referring to front page article in today's Reformer 5/15/13 "Clements also said that the plans are only on paper at this time and machinery or changes in drainage could have a further impact on the trees. These two trees will be trashed. I don't see any other way around it, " said Clements. The Reformer article neglected to mention one of the trees to be removed as a consequence and unlikely to survive the construction of the proposed skatepark project is the majestic Norway Spruce many have come to identify with Crowell Lot as one of the original estate trees that has up to now survived at least two major hurricanes, Irene most recently, and has often been the center of this contoversy and a primary example of what's at stake for those wanting to defend the right to preserve the park as a green area and natural tree lined setting void of excess concrete.
Sanders: As Deficit Declines Don’t Forget Working Families
By Not Signed In | Wed, May 15 2013WASHINGTON, May 15 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today issued the following statement on a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal deficit is expected to total $642 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30:
“It is very good news for our country that we are making progress on deficit reduction. President Obama inherited a $1.4 trillion deficit when President Bush left office more than four years ago. This year, the deficit is on track to be cut by more than half from what it was in January of 2009.”
But What Can I Do?
By Lise | Mon, May 13 2013“But what can I do?” It’s a question that comes up a lot in conversation and one I’ve grappled with in recent months as I've tried to figure out a response to it. When nothing we do seems to make any difference, why should we even care what’s going on let alone try to do something about it? Or to put it another way, what is an ordinary person to do in the face of the kind of unsettling news that has become routine in the last ten years?
Slow and Steady
By KAlden | Mon, May 13 2013Minnesota has just passed a law legalizing gay marriage! We now have 12 states plus the District of Columbia -that are embracing marriage equality for all of it's citizens. It has taken a long time to get this much momentum but now it feels like a wave of hopefulness that can not be stopped. Slow and steady progress. Nevada may be next!
Antiwars Belatedly Cry Meaninglessly "Hands Off Syria!" Never “Nuremberg Trial for Americans!”
By jay janson | Sun, May 12 2013DESCRIPTION:
Antiwar leaders do not call for the prosecution of US homicidal crimes against humanity ALREADY committed in Syria, nor of crimes committed in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Cuba, Lebanon, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Guatemala, Congo, Korea and Greece. Crimes committed without arrest, arraignment, indictment, punishment, imprisonment, or hanging
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Antiwar leaders protest, "Hands off Syria!", but do NOT call for the prosecution of US homicidal crimes against humanity ALREADY committed in Syria by CIA, State Department, Congress, the Executive branch and investment bankers.
Governor's Misguided Views On Gun Control
By tomaidh | Sat, May 11 2013A recent LTE from Putney resident Elan Moses contained too much misinformation to be useful (Governor's misguided views on gun control).
While his point that Vermont’s lack of gun legislation opens the door to many abuses, his suggestions for curing this were naïve and disingenuous.
“It does not mean we do not make efforts to make it harder to acquire semi-automatic weapons here in
Vermont”. I don’t think he has any idea what a Semi-Automatic firearm really is. (Unfortunately, this attitude is widespread in America. The very word “semi-automatic” has a high scare factor despite the fact that the
overwhelming majority of hunting rifles used in the USA today are semi-automatic).