For example, I found this quote on http://www.evanfleischer.com:

“ It was incredible. Unification of so many different types of people from all over Italy and the world. Almost the entire protest was very peaceful, music, signs, dancing. There were the violent few, I saw windows crashed in and shot into. Anarchy symbols painting everywhere. And paint that read “FUCK BIG BROTHER” everywhere. I saw cars on fire, and cop cars crashed into one another. But that wasn’t what most of the protest was about. I walked for over 8 hours and most of that time I saw people coming together for each and everyones different causes. Many signs read “noi siamo il 99%” and other creative things. I think the insane feeling of unification among 100,000+ people was the most incredible thing. ”
— planetsurferr — after I asked her what today’s #OccupyRome protests were like.

But the following video is so important, so cleverly done, that you can show it to kids, or to people who have no clue, and maybe they will get the point through this gentle cartoon. Take a look:

Show it to others who are not so progressive, still lulled by mainstream assurances. Maybe you can get a conversation going. Maybe you can break through the ingrained propaganda that keeps them ignorant.

If you do, please leave a comment relating your experiences. Inquiring bunnies want to know.

Not surprisingly Dunev is not impressed with the President’s healthcare proposal. She thinks it does not go nearly far enough.

Dunev urges us to do away with insurance entirely, because it costs too much and contributes nothing to healthcare. In fact, she feels that insurance companies by their nature are counterproductive to healthcare.

She also takes aim at the bloated and cynical pharmaceutical industry, which spends more on advertising and promotion than on research and development. Properly prescribed prescription drugs now kill 2 1/2 times as many people as car wrecks ever year.

Not only that, properly prescribed prescription drugs kill three times a many people each year as illegal drugs. And the FDA, filled with former and future big pharma executives is the fox guarding the hen house.

In both insurance and pharmaceuticals, Dunev marshals the facts to show that the profit motive corrupts absolutely.

As Dunev says, “Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.”

Read her column for yourself. It is concise, insightful, and based on factual evidence. It is also chilling! Read it and weep.

And then get busy and do something about fixing the problem!

Lobby your congresspersons, write to your newspaper. Become an online activist. For that matter, lobby your friends and neighbors to take action, too.

Taking action now could save your life or that of someone you love.

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A new site lists who gave money to help pass Proposition 8 (which banned gay marriage) in California. The site, http://www.eightmaps.com, uses Google Maps to show where the contributors live.

Would you like to know who contributes to the klu klux klan, for example, or other white-supremacist groups? What about contributors to anti-women’s-rights groups? I thought so.

Would you like to know how many of those yoyos live in your area? Could this be a trend?

If so, it is a controversial one. Some callers on AirAmerica worried that right-wingers would turn the tables to endanger liberals in right-wing communities. One man worried that right-wing copycat sites might endanger his daughter and grandchildren, who live in Georgia.

What do you think?

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… C: wait… SD: wait…