The Most Important Squidoo Lenses For American Politics Today - Part 1.
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American News And Politics On Squidoo
The Squidoo authors featured in this lens have embraced this inconvenience - for the sake of our wake-up call, our education, and our betterment as citizens of this great country. Let us be grateful for their work.


The Chapters of Squidoo America
- Taken in Alaska on September 17, 2001
- The Emperor Has No Clothes!
- A Woman With Power And Heart: Margaret Schaut
- Let's Have A Party!
- Jim Hightower on Corporations, Politics, and Media - Part 1 of 6
- Taking The Pulse...
- America In Conflict With The World
- Jim Hightower, Part 2
- We Celebrate History - But Do We Ever Learn From It?
- Saints live among us - all the time!
- Whistleblowers And Other Mudrakers
- Jim Hightower, Part 3
- Big Media - Medium Of Secretocracy?
- Jim Hightower, Part 4
- Let's Turn Off The TV And Read!
- Jim Hightower, Part 5
- Hey Monkeybrain!
- Jim Hightower, Part 6
- Hightower Lowdown
- Jim's New Book
- We Better Pay Attention!
- We Better Pay Attention - Part 2
- Why We Must Pay Attention...
- Join the Masterpiece Movement on Squidoo Group...
- America blogs on Google...
- American bookmarks
- Some Of My Favorite Authors
- Are you ready to take action?
- Squidooing For A Great Cause - Lensmaster bdkz's Charity Callenge!
- Lenses By Chef Keem
- A little more about me...

Taken in Alaska on September 17, 2001
The Emperor Has No Clothes!
A relevant tale by Danish visionary Hans Christian Andersen
It might be an unusual request to ask you at this early point of your visit to leave this lens and read something else. But I would like to encourage you to take a few minutes and read these powerful Senate Floor remarks given by US Senator Robert Byrd on October 17, 2003. "The Emperor has no clothes"
A Woman With Power And Heart: Margaret Schaut
10 Quick Steps To Destroy America...
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Ten Quick Steps to Destroy America
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Is it possible that fascism has actually been responsible for the economic problems America is now grappling with? Is it possible to hide fascistic actions in our very powerful, very intrusive government? How would you describe Fascism? Should be be...
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Margaret_Schaut: Conclusion to the Battle of the Blogs
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EuroYank, it seems, is uninterested in any opinions except his own. For the time being, I'm leaving his links on this page, in the event you want to see if you would enjoy his blog. Be prepared for a flaming hatred of Americans! Shortly I will be...
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Still Standing For Now:The Statue of Liberty!!!
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Lady Liberty MEANS America. America MEANS Lady Liberty. This beautiful statue is a critical symbol of the heart of what the United States of America is. Emma Lazarus provided the most famous work of literature supporting immigration in her 1883 poem,...
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Is Global War Inevitable?
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The Peace Movement, the AntiWar Movement, has a huge number of adherents in America and all over the world. It seems, though, no matter what we do, the antiwar people are on the losing side. What do I mean? Afghanistan... Iraq... Iran??? What are...
Let's Have A Party!
Or, a third one...
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Americans - Vote Change - Please Vote Third Party
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Why vote third party? To ensure your vote counts: As Theodore Roosevelt said "The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous ele...
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Third Party Politics
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Looking for a political affiliation that isn't Democratic or Republican? Take a look at, and learn more about some of your Third Party options. Most democratic countries in the world have many political parties, which is more what the designers...
Jim Hightower on Corporations, Politics, and Media - Part 1 of 6
A true patriotic mudraker and rebelrouser...
Jim Hightower: On Corporations, Politics & the Media 1/6
Full video: www.essentialdissent.net. Public access TV producers! Join my Yahoo Group: Public Access TV Video Exchange. Share ideas & content. Jim Hightower spoke in Syracuse, NY on 10/24/03.
Taking The Pulse...
And don't forget April 15th!
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The FairTax - How to Make Paying Taxes Easy and Fair
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What do you think of when you hear "April 15th"? Unless it's your birthday, chances are you think of the dreaded day that the annual tax return must be filed and the dreaded taxes must be paid. The day that the post office stays...
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2008 Presidential Voting Poll
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This is a lens about what YOU think. Take this unofficial but fun poll about who you think should be President!
America In Conflict With The World
These masterpiece lenses give us a historical perspective
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Vietnam: We Could Have Won
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Today, three and a half decades after our withdrawal from Vietnam, it may be constructive to look back and ask if the U.S. military ever discovered the elements of a strategy in South Vietnam that, given the proper circumstances, might have achieved...
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Thirteen Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis
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In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union dispatched a fleet of commercial cargo ships filled with nuclear missiles, launchers and anti-aircraft guns--all under false manifests--across the Atlantic Ocean to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Forty thousand Sovi...
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War in the 21st Century: A New (and costly) Paradigm
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After 9/11, the atmosphere of America -- indeed, our whole lives, and that of many other nations drawn into the mess -- changed forever. We now live in a society where leaders speak the language of Terror instead of Progress, shifting the emphasis in...
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The Balkan Wars
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The Balkan wars were a series of conflicts that led to the disintegration of the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Occurring over a decade-long period between 1991 and 2001, these conflicts ultimately affected all six former Yugoslav republics--al...
Jim Hightower, Part 2
We Celebrate History - But Do We Ever Learn From It?
We humans are slow students...
Let's consider this:We know that historical figures like Jesus, Galileo, Newton, van Gogh, Hans Christian Andersen, Richard Wagner, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ghandi, and countless others were often ridiculed during their life times.
Many of them were stigmatized with era-appropriate equivalents to "hippie", "tree hugger", "commie", "liberal", "bum", and the worst: "unrealistic".
We know that in their wisdom these great folks were far ahead of the intellectual capabilities of their peers (us! - back then).
When - years later - their ideas were finally understood by the masses (us, again!), great progress for all mankind was achieved.
We know that history repeats itself over and over. Today, in this country alone, nearly half of the "adult" population decries most of our progressive thinkers as "hippies", "tree huggers", "commies", "liberals", "bums", and the worst: "unrealistic".
When are we going to break the cycle of our mental apathy and begin to open our minds to the recognition of our true heroes during their life times?
Saints live among us - all the time!
Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country
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Whistleblowers And Other Mudrakers
It's time to be open-minded...
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Whistleblowers
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This lens tells the stories of usually ordinary people, often experts in their field, whose desire to "do the right thing" is stronger than their fear of potential threats to their own safety in the face of their actions. Whistleblowers often expose...
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Michael Moore Should Run For President
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Michael Moore Should Run For President I am a huge fan of Michael Moore. I respect and admire his ability to inform the public of what is really happening in America. I support his agenda's for Universal Health Care and the War in Iraq. I'm disheart...
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Open Letters
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Don't we all think, occasionally: "I'll write a public letter!" or, "I'll write to the New York Times!"? Sometimes we feel so hurt that all we want to do is write down our anger and issue an open letter. Write to the top. Let the world know what's wr...
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FDA Ban Of Vitamins, Minerals, & Herbs?
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With the passing of HR2900, which includes S1082, the FDA could BAN Vitamins. Read How Our Tax Dollars And Politicians Do Not Work For Us. The People's Safety, Health, and Interests Do Not Matter. Money Rules! Alternative therapies and dietary supple...
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America's Most Popular Populist - Jim Hightower
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America's icon of the populist movement shops "green", of couse! Nearly every Saturday morning, down at the farmer's market in South Austin, a man walks by my booth, always shouting a friendly greeting. Sometimes he stops for a quick chuckle about th...
Jim Hightower, Part 3
Big Media - Medium Of Secretocracy?
Faux News - anyone?
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What's Wrong With Big Media?
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Oh let us count the ways... 1. No diversity -- We get the same coverage with no depth and this also makes the media a lot easier to control and manipulate 2. Too commercial -- It is all about audience demographics not the stories of the day 3. No...
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Celebrities Should Stay Out of Politics
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I think celebrities should stay out of politics unless they - themselves - are running for a public office. I think someone like the richest man or woman in America, and people like professional wrestlers, actors, musicians, descendents of past polit...
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Exposing Our Secretocracy
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The real intent of the First Amendment was to prevent national suicide by making it difficult for the government to operate in secret, free from the scrutiny of the press. --I.F. Stone, October 3, 1966 "Reporters should be writing about the emerging...
Jim Hightower, Part 4
Let's Turn Off The TV And Read!
Here are some great suggestions!
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10 Books That Changed America
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There are books that are revered because of their effect on art, and there are books that are remarkable because they literally change the very society from which they came. Here is a list of ten books that radically changed or shaped American societ...
Jim Hightower, Part 5
Hey Monkeybrain!
I'm talking about the type of lenses featured here...
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President Bush...Is he evil or just clueless?
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and I never really got why some people liked him and respected him. Hey somebody must have (even if they don't like to admit it now) as he got voted in twice. I didn't vote for him and my feelings have never risen beyond mild dislike but when I thin...
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Is the FDA corrupted?
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The FDA is useless, even dangerous... The FDA, in my opinion, is a perfect-way-to-waste-your-tax-money administration. Do you believe that the FDA is really doing their job? Would place your health and more importantly, your children's health in an...
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The N Word vs Freedom Of Speech
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Is Your Goat Tied Here? It is hard to believe that we are at a time in our history where everything from energy shortages to wars are going on, and the hot topic of the day is the 'n' word. Verbal bullying, name calling, insult hurling, fire-breathing...
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Nipple Rings Are Not a Threat to National Security
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It's bad enough that Transportation Security Administration officers are routinely frisking eight-year-old boys and eighty-five-year-old women with aluminum walkers. Texas resident Mandi Hamlin now claims TSA officers forced her to remove her nipple...
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The Economic Stimulus Package, Horse Dookie or Happy Days?
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Horse Dookie! The check is in the mail...well almost. George Dubbya signed legislation on Wednesday Feb. 13th for Americans to get a check of up to $600 for individuals and $1,200 for couples, with an additional $300 for each child provided they mee...
Jim Hightower, Part 6
Hightower Lowdown
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Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow
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We Better Pay Attention!
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Made in USA -- Endangered Species!
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MADE in USA -- ENDANGERED SPECIES! Have you bothered to look these days at the labels inside the clothes you wear to see where they are made? Well, I make it a point to do so as I've been a seller of apparel and accessories for a number of years, bu...
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Homeless American Veterans
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American Veterans become homeless for several reasons. Among those are psychological reasons which cause veterans to not feel like they fit in. Working side by side with people who often times don’t care if they even get to know you is a...
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U.S. Veterans: In The Wake Of War
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One of the many results of war are the waves of disabled American Veterans. I have been in the V.A. System for over 30 years and have known vets from WWI, WWII, The Korean War, Viet Nam War and now Desert Storm and Afghanistan. Not to mention all the...
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Independent Politics: America and the World
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Making sense of global and domestic policy; understanding how government and private institutions distort intentions into real-life effects. "Let the Will of the People be the Law of the Land!"
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What does "Made in the USA" Really Mean When Buying Toys?
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Over 1 million Fisher-Price toys from Mattel are being recalled because of excess lead levels. These toys were Made in China. As a result I have compiled a list of sites to help educate the consumer about how to find toys that are Made...
We Better Pay Attention - Part 2
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We Can Solve It
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The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. Our ultimate aim is to halt global warming. Specifically we are educating people in t...
Why We Must Pay Attention...
So this will never happen again!
Masterpiece lens creator Zuzanna's account of her father's heroic life.-
Eugeniusz Tytyk - An Auschwitz Survivor, My Father, My Hero
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Polish Patriot, Auschwitz Survivor, Fantastic Dad - Great Role Model For Young Generation This lens is about my father - Eugeniusz (Eugene) Tytyk. I created it as my appreciation for his love and to honor his sacrifice as a young Polish patriot du...
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America blogs on Google...
- Biden Acknowledges Administration 'Misread' The Economy
- As a matter of fact, he didn't read the economy, at all, because he was too busy with Iraq. Don't recall the democRATS trying to restrict Fannie/Freddie. ...
- McCain says Palin to play leadership role as ex-Governor
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday Iraq faced difficult days ahead after taking control of its towns and cities from US forces ...
- Place blame for economy where it belongs: on Bush
- is obviously the result of eight years of spending all the money in the Iraq war. You try to blame President Obama by not mentioning that, implying that ...
- Land mines jeopardise Iraq's road to recovery-UN
- Perhaps most worrying of all for Iraq's economy, almost all of its oil fields, the world's third biggest, are mined. "Most oil fields have a potential ...
American bookmarks
Some Of My Favorite Authors
Most of these books are very funny, if it wasn't so sad...
Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose
A simultaneously rollicking and sobering indictmen more...1 point
The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken
Al Franken is the perfect guy to write a book atta more...0 points
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
This witty, scrupulously researched and expertly d more...0 points
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken
In the grand satirical tradition of Swift, Rabelai more...0 points
Bill of Wrongs by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose
Throughout her long career of afflicting the comfo more...0 points
Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back by Jim Hightower
America listens to Jim Hightower. More than eighty more...0 points
Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media by Jeff Cohen
Producer, pundit, and media critic Jeff Cohen offe more...0 points
If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote, They'd Have Given Us Candidates by Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower, America's favorite subversive, is s more...0 points
The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy) by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
Congress is the first branch of government in the more...0 points
Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values by Keith Olbermann
Short, sharp, and oftentimes shocking, Keith Olber more...0 points
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BFuniv.com wrote...
I guess we are both unrealistic, to me that is is high praise. It is hard work to separate yourself from the herd and the mooing of group think. America's founders were unrealistic also - and I'm glad they were.
What this world needs is more "purple cows" of philosophy and action; moral, religious, political, business, and in all other areas. Great lens, I'm off to follow some links.
JaguarJulie wrote...
Hmmm, so are you a fan of Jim Hightower? You know, that lens "Eugeniusz Tytyk - An Auschwitz Survivor, My Father, My Hero" is such an amazing and captivating story. Glad you included it. ;)
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There are some powerful writers on Squidoo. Thank you for showcasing them.
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American wrote...
Don't forget about God. I think it is because we have left Him out that we are in such a mess. But that is very soon to be rectified. Already 4000 out of 5000 fulfilled Bible prophecies has got to get your attention! WAKE UP? FOR SURE!
Comfortdoc wrote...
I am honored to be included in the "We Better Pay Attention - Part 2" with the We Can Solve It lens to get people involved with Al Gore's organization to halt global warming.
funwithtrains wrote...
Don't agree with all of the politics here, but you did a nice job with the lens! :-)
LeslieBrenner wrote...
Senator Byrd's speech that day was one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard on the Senate floor. Now the Bushies want to start another war with Iran. Unbelievable. 5 stars.
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