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In an unprecedented meeting with VaxChoiceVT coalition members, last week Tracy Dolan from the Vermont Department of Health acknowledged the Health Department’s awareness of our concerns regarding compelled speech on their self-proclaimed Religious and Philosophical Vaccine Exemption Form.
Dolan is the Deputy Commissioner of Health. A native of British Colombia and herself a mother of two, she indicated that...
What is the world’s most powerful and violent “ism”? The question will summon the usual demons, such as Islamism, now that communism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Harold Pinter, is only “superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged,” because only one ideology claims to be non-ideological, neither left nor right, the supreme way. This is liberalism.
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In an age of gross zeitgeist dysfunction -- when untruth, delusion, and deception rule - politics is mere advertising, which is to say surface shimmer playing on the public's wish-fulfillment fantasies. The trouble at this moment in history is that the American public's wishful fantasies are inconsistent with the circumstances that reality offers to us and the choices for action that they present.
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Tampa- Despite a seductive tango with Hurricane Isaac and more than a few opportunities to cut a rug with the Tampa Police Department’s $50 million budget, the Occupy movement turned out in Tampa with remarkable enthusiasm and endurance... despite less than remarkable numbers.
The view of Occupy presented in the sweltering heat of South Florida is one that is full of radical contradictions and escapes any easily gained assumptions or analyses.
Only a few Occupiers actually showed up (compared to thousands at Chicago’s hosting of...
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The Vermont Department of Health is inviting public comment now through August 31 (today!) on the draft goals and objectives for Healthy Vermonters 2020, a supposedly comprehensive set of 10-year goals for supposedly "improving the overall health of the state."
How will the proposed goals actually improve the actual health of Vermonters? The answer is, it does not matter. This plan is part of a larger CDC agenda, an overreach into our state and into our lives so that we may all be subject to their so-called "...
Dear ORION,
We encourage our neighbor Sue Halpern, one of Vermont's best wordsmiths, to probe more deeply next time she interviews our junior Senator Bernie Sanders. Her simplistic portrait of "Bernie" masks more disturbing elements embedded in his so-called "Man of the People" record.
For example, Bernie’s campaign literature decries corrupt and wasteful military spending. He says “we have tripled military spending since 1997, we must take a hard look at a bloated and wasteful Defense Department”. Yet he supports the Vermont National Guard receiving 18-24 more F-35 fighter planes! The F-35 program is THE poster child for...
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Petition of Grievances
We, citizens of this American land, haunted by the nihilism of separation, meaninglessness, and powerlessness, subsumed by political elites who use corporate, state, and military power to manipulate our lives, pawns of a global system of dominance and deceit in which transnational megacompanies and big government control us through money, markets, and media, sapping our political will, civil liberties, collective memory, traditional cultures, sustainability, and independence, and as victims of affluenza, technomania, cybermania, globalism, and imperialism, do issue and proclaim this...
Friends and Neighbors,
Many of you are concerned about the F-35 being based in Vermont. The best way to encourage debate on this matter (with a Governor, U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative who have indicated support for the F-35 before any of the important facts were known) would be to take one of the following actions at the primary elections August 28, 2012.
1. PROGRESSIVE: The coalition strongly urges this action, because there are many openings on this ballot and therefore good chances to elect a nominee. Please vote in the primary election on the Progressive ballot, including the...
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