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This country's founders believed in the idea of "commonwealth": the nations resources should benefit all citizens.

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Thanks to Nomi Prins for the $13 trillion Wall Street bailout tally.

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You need a net worth > $9 million to make the 1% ...

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Miss Hissy is watching the human with the camera carefully.

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Uploaded on Oct 6, 2010

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Hopefully, she will find a nice, big roof rat for dinner. Since we live close to the river, there are plenty.

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We have no idea of its sex, so tossed a coin, and named her Miss Hissy. She must be close to full-grown at around five feet long.

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Miss Hissy, the gopher snake, is catching some morning sunshine in our front yard. I was trimming back...

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Saint John of the State Controllers Office - the patron saint of California State Employees

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Lady bugs are generally viewed as beneficial bugs. They like to eat aphids, of which we have an...

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A metallic-green native bee on an erigeron blossom. The flower is about 2cm across. This bee is about half the size of a honeybee.

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A female carpenter bee in the penstemon. These bees are the largest we get. They work all the flowers from first light until nearly dark.

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This native bee is about the size of the green bee, but brown colored.

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Another female carpenter bee is enjoying some agastache nectar.

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This one is about the size of a honeybee, but with black and white stripes on the abdomen, a furry thorax, and long antennae.

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Uploaded on Nov 20, 2009

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