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		<title>Doomsday Clock: Five Minutes to Midnight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama taught constitutional law. As President, he has ordered the assassination of at least two US citizens. Not only is this unconstitutional, there was no public discussion of whether or not it was justified. Like the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, it is the sudden “Off with their heads!” The Founding Fathers could not imagine such disregard for their craft of openness and free argument.]]></description>
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		<title>Collection Agency Picked On the Wrong Lou Correa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collection agencies and their attorneys file hundreds of thousands of lawsuits every year in California, many of which are filed against debt-free individuals such as Senator Correa with no connection to the original creditor. Incredibly, these lawsuits rarely include the information needed to prove the claim is legitimate, because current law doesn’t require it. Consequently, innocent Californians wind up with a judgment on their record or have their wages garnished because they were sued for someone else’s debt.]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General William Westmoreland commanded the U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War (1964–68) during the Tet Offensive. Tet is the Vietnamese New Year. We on the ground knew that Westmoreland's highly publicized, overly optimistic assessments of the war were not true. We "won" every battle, but lost the war. The 1968 Tet Offensive, in which communist forces, having staged a diversion at the Battle of Khe Sanh, attacked cities and towns throughout South Vietnam. U.S. and South Vietnamese troops successfully fought off the attacks, and the communist forces took heavy losses, but the ferocity of the assault shook public confidence in Westmoreland's previous assurances about the state of the war.]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone is Expendable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world community is forming, the borders that stand between nations are dissolving as the evolutionary forces of human consciousness awaken to the possibility of sustainable communities. Corporations are the usurpers who cross borders to exploit labor and the environment, buying off corrupt politicians to reap their profits, while families are being ripped apart by deportations that stop people from exercising their rights to a decent living.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Groups Move to End Corporate Personhood, Restore US Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What underlies the Citizens United decision is the assumption that corporations are natural persons within the meaning of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution and therefore, have First Amendment rights.  Corporate personhood dates back to the controversial 1886 Supreme Court decision in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad.  Although the Supreme Court supposedly did not make a direct ruling on the question of  "corporate personhood," the misleading notes of a clerk finding corporate personhood were incorporated in the Court's decision.  Whether this is myth or reality doesn't matter at this point.  This result was a Supreme Court precedent finding that a corporation is a "natural person."]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Broken Promise on Gitmo&#8217;s Tenth Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the US Department of Justice advised that Guantanamo prison could be considered outside US legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002.  Guantanamo has become a place of prisoner mistreatment, torture and indefinite detention.  It is an international embarrassment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Blues Flying the Blue Skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Chapin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What prompted this sentimental journey back in time when all of these freedoms were taken for granted was a twenty-something guy standing in line behind me who appeared to be taking all of these indignities in stride. At first I admired his good-natured acquiescence to all that we have lost in our precipitous slide into a quasi police state.

But it also made me sad that he has no idea, no memories, and no chance of ever knowing all the freedoms he and his generation have lost.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Water Fluoridation Safe?</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3258/is-water-fluoridation-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fluoride can prevent and even reverse tooth decay by enhancing remineralization, the process by which fluoride “rebuilds” tooth enamel that is beginning to decay.   In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, adjusted the fluoride content of its water supply to 1 ppm and thus became the first city to implement community water fluoridation in a public water system.]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street of the Waterfront</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This type of community picket action for political purposes has a long and venerable place in ILWU history. Back in 1939 longshoremen honored a picket line set up at the Port of San Francisco by the local Chinese community to stop a load of steel being sent to then-fascist Japan for its war effort, at that time focused on mainland China, but soon crossing the Pacific. Again it was used in 1977 against a South African ship in protest of that country’s apartheid policies, in 1997 against a ship loaded by scab labor in support of the dockers in Liverpool, England, in 2003 to stop a ship being loaded with war materiel bound for the just-declared war on Iraq, and most recently just a couple of years ago against an Israeli ship in protest of the Israeli military attack on the Turkish ship bringing medical and construction supplies to Gaza.]]></description>
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		<title>Abolish the Death Penalty, Replace With Life Without Parole</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3232/abolish-the-death-penalty-replace-with-life-without-parole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-four states impose the death penalty, including California and there are 41 Federal capital crimes for which the death penalty can be applied.  Each state has its own list of capital crimes.  For example, in 1977 California reinstated the death penalty for first degree murder under special circumstances, including murder for financial gain, murder by a person previously convicted of murder, murder of multiple victims, murder with torture, murder of a peace officer, and murder of a witness to prevent testimony.]]></description>
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		<title>Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3226/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-the-wall-street-money-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed, it seems, was doing only what banks and the money market do for each other every day: making “liquidity” available at very low interest rates.  In 2008, bank liquidity dried up after Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the banks could not get the cheap, ready credit on which their lending scheme depends.  The Fed then stepped in as “lender of last resort,” doing what it had to do to keep the banking scheme going.  ]]></description>
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		<title>OccupySF: The Week That Was, Or Wasn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3223/occupysf-the-week-that-was-or-wasnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is in moments like these, and probably ONLY in moments like these, that experience with police riots comes in handy. The secret is to focus on small goals and try not to get hurt. I somehow inserted myself to the center of the struggling knot of humanity at the barrier, and I positioned myself at Hacker-Camper’s ear: “You can’t get arrested until you return my phone!” Hacker-Camper releases the barricade, hands me the phone, we trade the briefest of warm smiles, and he then dives headfirst back into the fray. I look down at my phone… he had somehow installed Ustream and I was recording live!]]></description>
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		<title>Is the American Psychiatric Association in Bed with Big Pharma?</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3217/is-the-american-psychiatric-association-in-bed-with-big-pharma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I am sure research in mental disorders account for some of this increase, I cannot help but believe that there is a certain amount of disease-peddling going on. That is, instead of promoting drugs to treat diseases, diseases are promoted to fit the drugs. For example, shyness as a psychiatric illness made its debut as "social phobia" in DSM-III in 1980, but was said to be rare. By 1994, when DSM-IV was published, it had become "social anxiety disorder," now said to be extremely common, thus, boosting sales of antidepressants. Now, social anxiety disorder is "a severe medical condition." In 1999, the FDA approved a drug for social anxiety disorder. After a successful marketing campaign, the sales of Paxil soared.]]></description>
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		<title>Mic Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We aren’t the folks with the guns. We aren’t criminalizing anyone or taking away their rights. We haven’t put thousands upon thousands of families out of their homes. We don’t evade our responsibility to care for seniors, veterans, disabled and sick people. We’ve never used the vast reaches of mainstream media to fan the flames of fear and hate.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy: The Movement We&#8217;ve Been Waiting For</title>
		<link>http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/3208/occupy-the-movement-weve-been-waiting-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This movement is larger than a single voice, a single message - or even a single person. It is larger than you or me. The mantra, "We are the 99 percent," attempts to speak for (almost) everyone. The movement’s largest criticism is that it cannot provide a clear, focused demand. What began as a movement about economic injustice has evolved into a movement of all sorts including police brutality, the right to peaceful assembly, opposition to budget cuts and tuition hikes, labor rights, homelessness, unemployment and even Utopian ideals for a better world.]]></description>
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		<title>RCV is Electing Winners with Stronger Mandates than December Runoffs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ultimate irony is that Sean Elsbernd himself is the poster child for what's wrong with the old December runoffs and what's right with RCV. Look at the results above for District 7: Supervisor Elsbernd won in 2004 in an “instant” runoff race with nearly 50% more votes than his predecessor Tony Hall had in 2000 in a delayed December runoff, 13,834 votes versus 9333 (in comparable turnout years). And Elsbernd had 43.7% of the “whole contest” vote total compared to 30.9% for Hall. No matter how you want to count it, more District 7 voters were able to have a say in who their supervisor is because Sup. Elsbernd was elected with ranked choice voting in a much higher turnout November election.]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Penn State Pedophile Scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ralph E. Stone November 13, 2011 I am an indifferent viewer of sports. If another activity such as a movie, a concert, the theater, or a social activity beckons, I choose that activity over watching a game. However, I am interested in how the 49ers, the Raiders, Stanford and Cal football did. I therefore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Super Committee to Bite the Bullet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph E. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The special committee must report a bill with its recommendations by November 23, 2011. The recommendations would then have to be voted on by the full House and Senate under special rules. If the joint committee or Congress fail to act by December 23, 2011, the Act calls for automatic across-the-board cuts, split 50-50 between defense and non-defense spending.]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Lifestyle Changes &#8211;  Not Everyone Supports It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Chapin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now how often have we seen both parties agree on anything? Yet Democrats supported it as preventative care and Republicans liked its low cost. It was killed in committee, however, decimated by three powerful interest groups. Who were these lobbyists who wanted no part of incentives for us to gravitate toward a healthier lifestyle, with all the benefits of lowered medical costs and improved vitality?

They were the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy the Noosphere, Heading Towards the Omega Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCJ Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend (November 5-6) Occupy and the Sierra Club intend to form a human chain around the White House to protest the tar sands project.  I suggest that 4 themes be joined together, one for each side of the White House.   One side for the living biosphere with Sierra Club on that side.  The opposite side is anti-military weapons and wars. Protesting Global warming on one side and global warring on the opposite side.  The third side is for social and economic equalities with many more in the middle than on top.  The last side is for the remaining 7 billion humans, the total world population estimated to have reached and passed 7 billion on October 31.  Instead of encircling the White House, ensquare the White House.]]></description>
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