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Ryan Knowlton

Bellingham · Commenting Since Jan 23, 2017
3rd generation Whatcom county resident

Recent NWCitizen Articles

9/11/01-post review/City Council meeting venue
By John Servais · Mon Sep 11, 2006
What NWCitizen posted on Sept 11, 2001 seems to have stood the test of time. The cautions and concerns about democracy and hate were relevant considering the hate mongering and mindless striking out a
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Voting recommendations for the Primary Election
By John Servais · Fri Sep 8, 2006
Mail your ballot before Tuesday, Sept 19 (or by 5 pm that day if you want to take a chance).

Mary Kay Becker - re-elect her as a judge to the Appeals Court. Her opponent, Teichert, is ba
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Who wants to be mayor
By John Servais · Sun Sep 3, 2006
and what political gaming is being played to best position a candidate for the big election in the fall of 2007? I will be doing my best to sort this out for you over the next few weeks.

Gen
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Some clarification is needed here
By John Servais · Wed Aug 30, 2006
Gene Knutson is not knowingly part of any arrangement by Mark to succeed him as mayor. Below in yesterday’s post I suggested just that but today I’ve been convinced that Gene is personally on the up a
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A sweet dirty move
By John Servais · Tue Aug 29, 2006
Bellingham Mayor Mark Asmundson submitted his resignation today, effective Nov 1. My my. He continues an old corrupt practice of Whatcom County - resigning a year before his last term is up - at elect
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Are we being conditioned to hate Iran?
By John Servais · Sun Aug 27, 2006
Yes. Is there truth in what we are being told by our corporate media and the Bush administration? No. Want an example of a lie and some truths that you are not being told? Then read Juan Cole’s blog p
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Fair voting. Instant Runoff voting
By John Servais · Thu Aug 24, 2006
What might be the biggest political issue of the next two years is - voting. Fair voting. Instant Runoff voting. The elimination of the crooked Diebold electronic voting machines and bringing in the u
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Is criticism of Israel also implied criticism of Jews?
By John Servais · Tue Aug 22, 2006
Especially American Jews? Does this show a prejudice against Jewish persons? Racism? Anti-Semite feelings?

Of course I say no, but then the knowing smiles greet me. It has been suggested to me
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Hezbolah not a terrorism group
By John Servais · Sat Aug 19, 2006
Today, Israel broke the UN cease fire agreement with a helicopter raid into northern Lebanon - along with fighter jets bombing the area. Why mention this? Because it fits the pattern over the many yea
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Probably the most informed and reliable political columnist in the state
By John Servais · Mon Aug 14, 2006
You can see a new link at the top of this page - to the writing of Joel Connelly, a Seattle PI columnist. His column normally appears each Mon, Wed and Friday. He should be helpful to us progressives
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Fair voting in this country is a myth
By John Servais · Thu Aug 10, 2006
A fraud, more exactly. How did Bush get elected a second time? We may learn 20 or 40 years from now that it was the Diebold electronic voting machines that were ‘tweaked’ for final election results in
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Joe Lieberman’s website crash
By John Servais · Tue Aug 8, 2006
Lieberman lost. This is very good news for America. Hope that perhaps we Americans will overwhelm the forces of war in this country.

If you are a geek, this might be interesting. Joe L blamed h
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What is the US doing?
By John Servais · Sat Aug 5, 2006
Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog has it in a nutshell today. Check the Aug 5 post in his archive if you click this link after today. Israel is destroying Lebanon and grinding down the spirit of the p
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We have not addressed the cause
By John Servais · Mon Jul 31, 2006
So Mel Gibson is a racist - and his denials of being anti-Jewish with his film “The Passion of Christ” are quite false. Many claim it provides a very anti-semitic slant - and now we know why. Mel spen
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How the US manipulates world events
By John Servais · Wed Jul 26, 2006
Long but good article on how the US manipulates world events so as to go to war with other countries. Iraq and now Iran.

Did you know that for years, Israel and Hezbolah have traded prisoners a
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Alice in Wonderland
By John Servais · Mon Jul 24, 2006
Sec of State Rice visits Lebanon and offers $30 million to help relieve the destruction and death there that is caused by $hundreds of millions of US dollars in bombs given to Israel to destroy Lebano
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Don’t expect to see this on Fox
By John Servais · Sun Jul 23, 2006
Lebanese fleeing the Israelis - as ordered by Israel - are being strafed and bombed by the Israelis.

Nice war. An early October surprise. Takes the losing war in Iraq off the front pages. The
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Israel has never wanted peace
By John Servais · Sat Jul 22, 2006
Conservative Pat Buchanan has it right in his column posted Thursday. We should not be supporting Israel in its war of destruction of Lebanon. He rips up the extreme right wing-nuts who support Israel
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Follow the money
By John Servais · Fri Jul 21, 2006
The USA try and stop the Mid East war? Don’t kid yourself. We are air-shipping more bombs to Israel - bombs that will help destroy the city of Beirut and kill more civilians - women and children. No m
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