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mani deli
total government ownership of everything, no free enterprise and it
will be forced on citizens by means of a police state. Of course
anyone aware of the different states of socialism today knows that
this is totally false.
The aim of the extreme right is to foist their definition on an
uneducated public and make the term a dirty word. They then claim that
the liberal agenda conforms to their definition of Socialism. This is
the Big Lie.
If the public believes the extreme right's big lie they then claim
that liberals want slavery for workers and 1984 style control. They
then get them to believe that this is the total state of things in
China, Cuba and sometimes even Canada, etc.
The irony of all this is that those on the extreme right who really
run the show and are striving for power, want total control of the
state by corporations and the ultra rich. In order to attain this they
need a military take over, perpetual small wars, total control of a
central bank, the media and the government..
So far they have failed at this. However since Nixon and Reagan they
have made large strides. They came close under Bush but failed, when
the truths about the wars they started, the economy and the media
leaked out.
At present I feel that the situation is in a state of flux but the
arrow of time is going for the success of a totalitarian fascist state
run by the Extreme Right. Should the economy continue to fail it will
happen sooner. The Left fails to realize that a Roosevelt model cannot
be revived because we are now a debtor nation essentially bankrupt.
Read "Socialism" in Wikipedia to get a handle on the matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
hal
wrote:
I am afraid you are correct. I fear our only unavoidable way out of
this is bloody civil war. Keep up the good posts. It's nice to see
at least a few people can still think.
John Q Public
Socialism is a dirty word and your little piece here is just a load of BS!
You don't give any evidence either cited or not to corroborate your dismal
attempt to make neo-marxism (Socialism) warm and fuzzy!
Yes Neo-marxism, because it does rely on class warfare and entitlements
to achieve its ends and once an ideology is enacted it is never
reversed but expanded!
(Medicare/Medicaid as examples)
The only thing shared under socialism is misery!
hal
wrote:
You're completely out of touch with reality, of course. And living
proof why the wealthy spend so much money on propaganda. They get
their money's worth with people like you.
mani deli
Mary Schapiro, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, said she wanted to show that her agency was cracking down
after missing Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme. In May, she
proposed that almost 10,000 money managers undergo surprise
inspections to make sure they weren't ripping off clients.
"Investors are looking to the SEC to assure the safekeeping of their
assets," Schapiro said at the time. "We cannot let them down."
On Dec. 16, she settled for something less sweeping. Schapiro joined
four other commissioners in approving a rule that requires about 1,600
U.S. fund managers to submit to unannounced audits, 83 percent fewer
than seven months ago. The revision came after lobbying by fund
companies, including executives from T. Rowe Price Group Inc., who met
with Schapiro, and Legg Mason Inc., who met with another commissioner,
SEC records show.
Read the whole story: bloomberg.com
Isn't legalized bribery wonderful
Beam Me Up Scotty
> Test
( D- )
But you did better than Obama who lied and got an ( F )
Patriot Games
>total government ownership of everything,
Wrong. That's Communism.
Socialism is the total government CONTROL of everything.
>The irony of all this is that those on the extreme right who really
>run the show and are striving for power,
If they already "run the show" why would they be "striving for power?"
You Euro-Trash sure are stupid...
jane
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:03:24 -0500, John Q Public <my2ce...@me.com>
The wealthy don't need to spend their money on propaganda. They spend
their time and money making investments and business decisions. The
wealthy know that even without propaganda, idiots like you will waist
your time and spend your money on things that rust, depreciate and
turn to dust.
Jane.
ray
mani deli <nob...@rinterlog.com> wrote:
> The extreme right claims that Socialism by their definition means
> total government ownership of everything, no free enterprise and it
> will be forced on citizens by means of a police state. Of course
> anyone aware of the different states of socialism today knows that
> this is totally false.
>
> The aim of the extreme right is to foist their definition on an
> uneducated public and make the term a dirty word. They then claim that
> the liberal agenda conforms to their definition of Socialism. This is
> the Big Lie.
Naaah. The extreme right want to keep our government the way it was
designed. What I never understood about socialists and communists is if
you think those systems are so great, why not move to a country that has
such systems and try it out for a couple of years to see how you like it
first?
--
Barock Insane Obama: The greatest joke America ever played on itself.
mani deli
wrote:
They spend it bribing politicians.
> They spend
>their time and money making investments and business decisions.
And stealing from the corporation, from stock holders, setting up
monopolies corporate, collusion and robbing taxpayers and pensioners.
> The
>wealthy know that even without propaganda,
They saturate the media with propaganda in order to get idiots like
you to vote to screw themselves.
> idiots like you will waist your time and spend your money on things that rust, depreciate and
>turn to dust.
>
In the end fools like you will pay the cost of a totalitarian
fascist regime. And hey all you older idiots, be careful because they
are coming to get your Social Security so they can give it to their
criminal friends on Wall Street and at the rate things are going
the'll get it.
"The owners of this country count on the fact that Americans will
probably remain wilfully ignorant of the big Red White Blue dick
that's being jammed up their assholes every day. Because the owners of
this country know the truth, it's called the American Dream, because
you have to be asleep to believe it."
George Carlin on who really controls America--
watch the whole video
http://www.bestcyrano.org/carlinGeorgeWhoReally407.htm
jane
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:51:49 -0800 (PST), jane <jane.pla...@gmail.com>
The social security trust fund is already gone. The trust fund is
nothing more than an accounting mechanism that indicates how much
money the General Fund owes to the SSTF.
The Money in the SSTF was spent by your congressman and two senators
passing vote buying bills that promised a Nanny State to the ignorant
constituents. Bills such as the health care bill that give you the
false illusion that the Nanny State will take care of you when you are
sick.
You have been duped thinking the business man is to blame when it is
the three idiots YOU elected to office.
Don't blame the businessman for the corruption and greed of your three
representatives.
Jane.
ray
mani deli <nob...@rinterlog.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Socialism is a dirty word and your little piece here is just a load of BS!
> >> >You don't give any evidence either cited or not to corroborate your dismal
> >> >attempt to make neo-marxism (Socialism) warm and fuzzy!
> >> >Yes Neo-marxism, because it does rely on class warfare and entitlements
> >> >to achieve its ends and once an ideology is enacted it is never
> >> >reversed but expanded!
> >> >(Medicare/Medicaid as examples)
> >> >The only thing shared under socialism is misery!
> >>
> >> You're completely out of touch with reality, of course. �And living
> >> proof why the wealthy spend so much money on propaganda. �They get
> >> their money's worth with people like you. �
> >
> >The wealthy don't need to spend their money on propaganda.
>
> They spend it bribing politicians.
You mean like Obama bribing Congress critters with hundreds of millions
of tax paying dollars for a vote? How about the trial lawyers or the
unions? We won't even go to the environment side of things.
hal
wrote:
>Don't blame the businessman for the corruption and greed of your three
>representatives.
Any economic system that rewards relentless greed and corruption is
doomed to failure. Your house of cards is coming down, and you didn't
need the socialists to help make it happen. You did it all your own.
>
>Jane.
mani deli
for the big bankers, the insurance companies, the pharma companies,
the military industrial complex, the financial sector, most any
multi-national corporation, the churches who pay no taxes, our bribed
congress and the fascists who are waiting in the wings.
Day Brown
>> At present I feel that the situation is in a state of flux but the
>> arrow of time is going for the success of a totalitarian fascist state
>> run by the Extreme Right. Should the economy continue to fail it will
>> happen sooner. The Left fails to realize that a Roosevelt model cannot
>> be revived because we are now a debtor nation essentially bankrupt.
>
> I am afraid you are correct. I fear our only unavoidable way out of
> this is bloody civil war. Keep up the good posts. It's nice to see
> at least a few people can still think.
control the flow of information; how can they control electronic
communications now?
As for bankrupt; the US military is the defacto global police, so there
are foreign holders of dollar denominated securities who realize their
investments would be worthless and that if devalued, the US troops would
all go home. What happened after troops left Lebanon and Somalia come to
mind.
The trade deficit and national debt are what the US charges the global
economy for 'security services'.
For instance, I saw a global banker tell a senate hearing that
terrorists have hit so many high rise towers that nobody would insure
them, and that therefore no more would be built. Well. That would mean
no more penthouses or executive suites, and the senators knew we could
not have that. Something had to be done.
Ergo troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, which has drawn terrorists back to
the center of the Islamic empire and away from the power elites
investments. And construction of new high rise towers now continues.
But if the dollar tanks and troops come home, then mobs will gather
around these towers to start dragging the bastards out to be shot. The
power elites "have an offer they cant refuse" to support the dollar.
zzbu...@netscape.net
> The extreme right claims that Socialism by their definition means
> total government ownership of everything, no free enterprise and it
> will be forced on citizens by means of a police state. Of course
> anyone aware of the different states of socialism today knows that
> this is totally false.
The only the idiot right even knows about Government is GE.
So, the only people who even vote anymore in their primaries is Dow
Chemical.
mani deli
favorably argues that President Barack Obama is wielding executive
powers in the same manner as his White House predecessor.
"President Obama has come to have more in common with the ends of the
Bush administration's terrorism policies than did Candidate Obama,"
Yoo writes.
Yoo points to a continued American presence in Iraq, enhanced
deployment to Afghanistan, the continuation of the NSA's warrantless
wiretapping power and the "extensive use of predator drones" as
examples of a Bush-like wartime executive operating under the reduced
(but still present) constraints of Congress and the judicial branch.
"Even ordering the CIA to follow military rules in interrogating enemy
combatants depends wholly on the president's authority to command the
military and determine operational tactics and strategy," he adds.
"Congress itself refused to place the CIA under the rules of the Army
Field Manual on interrogation."
After the fascist takeover they will appoint him to the Supreme Court.
Beam Me Up Scotty
> In his new book John Yoo Bush Attorney, known as "torture Boy"
> favorably argues that President Barack Obama is wielding executive
> powers in the same manner as his White House predecessor.
>
Yet another black eye for Obama....
mani deli
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/limbaugh-lauds-socialist_b_409378.html
According to Rush Limbaugh, the health care reform that may be passed
by Congress is socialism. Yet, it bears a striking resemblance to the
universal healthcare system that just treated him in Hawaii that
prompted his remark: "there is nothing wrong with the American health
care system. I received no special treatment."
Yes, Rush. That's the point! American medicine is superb--for those
who can get it. And, in Hawaii, no one gets special treatment, because
everyone can get it.
[Er, by the way, just to help you out, Rush, a fair percentage of your
listeners do not know Hawaii is part of the United States, so clarify
that for them...otherwise, they will wonder about you]
By accepting socialist medical treatment in Hawaii, therefore, Rush
Limbaugh has shown that, when one is ill, what matters is the
availability of quality health care, even if it is socialist.
Rush follows a long litany of conservatives, such as all Members of
Congress that have a medical office paid for by taxpayers available in
the Capitol, by Dick Cheney who had socialist pacemakers implanted
paid for by the government, and George W who had a government-paid
socialist colonoscopy while in office. Members of Congress over 65 get
single-payer socialist medical care from Medicare.
Hawaii has had nearly-universal employer-mandated health insurance
since 1974. Although its Pacific Island location makes the costs of
everything--from gasoline to milk to ice cream to housing--the highest
in the nation, health care premiums in Hawaii, for comprehensive care
with small co-pays and deductibles, are nearly the lowest and their
costs per medicare beneficiary are the lowest in the nation.
Frito Pendejo
> In his new book John Yoo Bush Attorney, known as "torture Boy"
> favorably argues that President Barack Obama is wielding executive
> powers in the same manner as his White House predecessor.
>
> "President Obama has come to have more in common with the ends of the
> Bush administration's terrorism policies than did Candidate Obama,"
> Yoo writes.
Duh, you think? And Candidate Obama ran on a platform of pretty
much nothing other than a vague promise of 'Change,' though so
far he hasn't changed anything.
> Yoo points to a continued American presence in Iraq, enhanced
> deployment to Afghanistan, the continuation of the NSA's warrantless
> wiretapping power and the "extensive use of predator drones" as
> examples of a Bush-like wartime executive operating under the reduced
> (but still present) constraints of Congress and the judicial branch.
> "Even ordering the CIA to follow military rules in interrogating enemy
> combatants depends wholly on the president's authority to command the
> military and determine operational tactics and strategy," he adds.
> "Congress itself refused to place the CIA under the rules of the Army
> Field Manual on interrogation."
> After the fascist takeover they will appoint him to the Supreme Court.
Chairman Obama isn't stupid, and isn't going to diminish his own
Executive power by repealing any of Emperor Bush's policies.
Clave
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> mani deli wrote:
>> In his new book John Yoo Bush Attorney, known as "torture Boy"
>> favorably argues that President Barack Obama is wielding executive
>> powers in the same manner as his White House predecessor.
>>
>> "President Obama has come to have more in common with the ends of the
>> Bush administration's terrorism policies than did Candidate Obama,"
>> Yoo writes.
>
> Duh, you think? And Candidate Obama ran on a platform of pretty much
> nothing other than a vague promise of 'Change,' though so far he hasn't
> changed anything.
Why do you lie like this?
Jim
Lamont Cranston
>> In his new book John Yoo Bush Attorney, known as "torture Boy"
>> favorably argues that President Barack Obama is wielding executive
>> powers in the same manner as his White House predecessor.
>>
>> "President Obama has come to have more in common with the ends of the
>> Bush administration's terrorism policies than did Candidate Obama,"
>> Yoo writes.
>
> Duh, you think? And Candidate Obama ran on a platform of pretty
> much nothing other than a vague promise of 'Change,' though so
> far he hasn't changed anything.
Except for the following:
Cut income taxes for 95% of taxpayers.
Reversed ban on financing of stem cell research.
Lifted a global gag rule barring international family
planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women
about the availability of abortion.
Ended the Second Bush Recession; worked with Congress to
pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a $787
billion economic stimulus package that has rescued the
economy from the precipice of the Bush Depression and
includes nearly $100 billion in green spending to help get
the economy back on track and to create millions of
clean-energy jobs; GDP declined by only 0.7% in the second
quarter and increased 2.8% in the third quarter; 1.6 million
jobs were created or saved.
Re-established the United States as a leader in
international climate negotiations.
Restored critical protections under the Endangered Species
Act.
Granted California the authority to regulate carbon dioxide
emissions from automobiles.
Reversed the Bush rule that opened the door to mountaintop
removal coal mining and cancelled several individual
mountaintop mining permits.
Put Utah oil and gas leases on hold.
Overturned Bush's Closed-door policy to improve the
transparency of rulemaking; requires his staff to consider
the non-market benefits of rulemaking, such as the
environment and public health.
Implemented a "Look before you lease" policy; directs land
managers to more carefully review environmentally sensitive
tracts of federal lands proposed for oiland gas development
before offering them for lease sale, especially if such
tracts contain wilderness values, sensitive species, or
other environmentally significant attributes.
Withdrew a Bush administration proposal to issue more oil
shale "research, development and demonstration" leases in
the West.
Proposed increased appropriations in 2010 for the Land and
Water Conservation Fund, national wildlife refuges, national
parks, wildfire management, and other environmental programs
that have suffered from chronic underfunding.
Extended the comment period on the Bush administration's
hastily prepared Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing
program.
Signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009,
designating more than two million acres of federal public
lands as part of the National Wilderness Preservation
System; the law also codifies the National Landscape
Conservation Systemand designates 86 wild and scenic rivers.
Created an energy/climate change task force with renewable
energy given the top priority.
Reinstated requirements that federal agencies consult with
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service before undertaking
projects that might affect threatened or endangered plants
and animals.
Reinstated coal strip-mining precautions gutted from a
federal regulation by Bush.
Appropriated $19 billion in the stimulus package to help
implement an electronic medical record system.
Implemented a new White House media system.
Approved 2,500 highway projects expected to create 260,000
new jobs.
Produced a $2,500 tax credit to help offset the cost of
tuition and other expenses for those seeking a college
education; nearly five million families are expected to save
$9 billion, according to Treasury officials.
Allocated $2 billion in stimulus cash for advanced batteries
system research.
Secured $5 billion in aid commitments to bolster the
Pakistan's destablized economy and help it fight terrorism.
Restored funding for Byrne Grants, cut during the Bush
years, to finance inner-city anti-gang and anti-gun task
forces.
Engaged the Muslim world, an achievement that foreign
affairs experts say was both remarkable and
under-appreciated.
Rescued Chrysler and GM.
Announcing plans to regulate coal-ash waste in the wake of
last December's catastrophic spill.
Cut off funding for the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear
waste repository in Nevada.
Created a Clean Energy Service Corps as part of the
expansion of AmeriCorps.
Streamlined the loan guarantee program at the Department of
Energy.
Set a date for the closing of Gitmo.
Reversed Bush ban on federal funding of stem cell research,
Banned the use of torture.
Required interrogators to follow the procedures of the army
field manual when questioning prisoners.
Removed the ban on photographing caskets returning from
Iraq.
Signed the Equal Pay for Equal Work bill.
Created a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners.
Established a credit card bill of rights.
Expanded loan programs for small businesses.
Extended and indexed the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax
temporary fix.
Expanded eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance
Fund.
Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public
health practitioners.
Increased funding to expand community based prevention
programs.
Signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities.
Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and
send money to Cuba.
Established Energy Partnership for the Americas to increase
research and development in clean coal technology, the next
generation of sustainable biofuels and in wind, solar and
nuclear energy.
Rolled back Bush administration restrictions on the release
of presidential records.
Required new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was
not due to political affiliation or contributions.
Created a White House Office on Urban Policy to develop a
strategy for metropolitan America and to ensure that all
federal dollars targeted to urban areas are effectively
spent on the highest-impact programs.
Appointed an assistant to the president for science and
technology policy.
Established special crime programs for the New Orleans area.
Rebuilt schools in New Orleans.
Appointed the nation's first Chief Technology Officer.
Appointed an American Indian policy adviser.
Banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees.
Weatherized 1 million homes.
Enacted a tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars.
Provided grants to encourage energy-efficient building
codes.
Extended unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily
suspended taxes on those benefits.
Cancelled the ill-conceived and dangerous missle-defense
shield planned for Poland and the Czech Republic.
Defined a new state secrets policy whereby it will be used
only to the extent necessary to protect against the risk of
significant harm to national security.
Won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Developed an exit strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
mani deli
Op-Ed Columnist
An Uneasy Feeling
By BOB HERBERT
I�m starting the new year with the sinking feeling that important
opportunities are slipping from the nation�s grasp. Our collective
consciousness tends to obsess indiscriminately over one or two issues
� the would-be bomber on the flight into Detroit, the Tiger Woods saga
� while enormous problems that should be engaged get short shrift.
Staggering numbers of Americans are still unemployed and nearly a
quarter of all homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their homes
are worth. Forget the false hope of modestly improving monthly job
numbers. The real story right now is the entrenched suffering (with no
end in sight) that has been inflicted on scores of millions of working
Americans by the Great Recession and the misguided economic policies
that preceded it.
As The Washington Post reported over the weekend, the entire past
decade �was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times.� There was
no net job creation � none � between December 1999 and now. None!
The Post article read like a lament, a longing for the U.S. as we�d
once known it: �No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job
growth of less than 20 percent.�
Middle-class families in 2008 actually earned less, adjusted for
inflation, than they did in 1999. The data for 2009 are not yet in,
but you can just imagine what happened to those families in that
nightmarish downturn. Small children over the holidays were asking
Santa Claus to bring mommy or daddy a job.
One in eight Americans, and one in four children, are on food stamps.
Some six million Americans, according to an article in The Times on
Sunday, have said that food stamps were their only income.
This is a society in deep, deep trouble and the fixes currently in the
works are in no way adequate to the enormous challenges we�re facing.
For example, an end to the mantra of monthly job losses would
undoubtedly be welcomed. But even if the economy manages to create a
few hundred thousand new jobs a month, it would do little to haul us
from the unemployment pit dug for us by the Great Recession. We need
to create more than 10 million new jobs just to get us back to where
we were when the recession began in December 2007.
What�s needed are big new innovative efforts to fashion an economy
that creates jobs for all who want and need to work. Just getting us
back in fits and starts over the next few years to where we were when
the recession began should not be acceptable to anyone. We should be
moving now to invest aggressively in a new, greener economy, leading
the world in the development of alternative fuels, advanced
transportation networks and the effort to restrain the poisoning of
the planet. We should be developing an industrial policy that
emphasizes the need for America to regain its manufacturing mojo, as
tough as that might seem, and we need to rebuild our infrastructure.
We�re not smart as a nation. We don�t learn from the past, and we
don�t plan for the future. We�ve spent a year turning ourselves inside
out with arguments of every sort over health care reform only to come
up with a bloated, Rube Goldberg legislative mess that protects the
insurance and drug industries and does not rein in runaway health care
costs.
The politicians will be back soon, trust me, screaming about the need
to rein in health costs.
We keep talking about how essential it is to radically improve public
education while, at the same time, we�re closing libraries and firing
teachers by the tens of thousands for economic reasons.
The fault lies everywhere. The president, the Congress, the news media
and the public are all to blame. Shared sacrifice is not part of
anyone�s program. Politicians can�t seem to tell the difference
between wasteful spending and investments in a more sustainable
future. Any talk of raising taxes is considered blasphemous, but there
is a constant din of empty yapping about controlling budget deficits.
Oh, yes, and we�re fighting two wars.
If America can�t change, then the current state of decline is bound to
continue. You can�t have a healthy economy with so many millions of
people out of work, and there is no plan now that would result in the
creation of millions of new jobs any time soon.
Voters were primed at the beginning of the Obama administration for
fundamental changes that would have altered the trajectory of American
life for the better. Politicians of all stripes, many of them catering
to the nation�s moneyed interests, fouled that up to a fare-thee-well.
Now we�re escalating in Afghanistan, falling back into panic mode over
an attempted act of terror and squandering a golden opportunity to
build a better society.
Michael Coburn
The employer of last resort is the military. What a sad state of
affairs. But it is becoming clear to some of us that the major problem
we are really having is a religious affliction with the Protestant Work
Ethic that insists that we must all "put our shoulder to the wheel" or
Satan will "get us". And that is being combined with the "envy pony" we
ride to work each day in our lust to outdo the infamous Jones's.
The 40 hour work week (which we all know is actually more like 60 hours)
is the actual problem. We seem to have more than enough houses and lots
of food (and food stamps) and the department stores are full of dresses
and shirts and underwear even though a lot fewer people are working. But
this seems to just fly right over the heads of the religiously blinded.
And as soon as you mention cutting the straight pay work week to 30
hours, the doctrinaire economist of rightrarded persuasion invokes the
"lump of labor fallacy" which is a fallacy. That is to say that the
"lump of labor fallacy" depends on the presumption that the people
proposing cutting the hours of labor are claiming that there is only a
certain amount of work that needs to be done. And that is not just a
fallacy but a lie. The "lump of labor fallacy" tenet is based on the
axiom of unlimited desire (the claim that since human wants are
inexhaustible then there can never be long run overproduction). This is
a lie of enormous proportion because among the unlimited desires of the
humans is the desire for freedom/free time. And this unlimited desire is
just as valid and unlimited as the lust for lip gloss and sex.
Yes, boys and girls... There are people who would rather have the time
to study economics and politics and/or nuclear fusion or medicine or
countless other things (includes chasing after females, drinking beer and
watching football to be sure) and have a smaller bass boat or forgo the
jacuzzi. Playing chess and bridge and poker is also on the table here.
--
"Senate rules don't trump the Constitution" -- http://GreaterVoice.org/60
mani deli
<Lamont....@Shadow.com> wrote:
>"Frito Pendejo" <fr...@pendejo.com> wrote in message
>news:iNqdnZhhS-EZQN_W...@earthlink.com
>> mani deli wrote:
>>> In his new book John Yoo Bush Attorney, known as "torture Boy"
>>> favorably argues that President Barack Obama is wielding executive
>>> powers in the same manner as his White House predecessor.
>>>
>>> "President Obama has come to have more in common with the ends of the
>>> Bush administration's terrorism policies than did Candidate Obama,"
>>> Yoo writes.
>>
>> Duh, you think? And Candidate Obama ran on a platform of pretty
>> much nothing other than a vague promise of 'Change,' though so
>> far he hasn't changed anything.
>
>Except for the following:
>
I snipped these to make my point. I don't deny that these points are
good and important.
But on the major points that deeply concern me and are necessary to
stop the advance of fascism I believe Obama has failed. To list these
without going into detail, they are in economics, Bush's fascist laws,
the refusal to investigate Bush's crimes, Israel policy, two wars,
etc. Obama's civil rights record is very bad and it pains me to agree
with a fascist like Yoo.
I believe you are one who has held faith with Obama and means well.
There are those who have faith that Obama will in time address these
problems. I can not say more about that than I have lost that faith.
I hope I am wrong.
The Dems are bad, the Repubs are absolute evil.
Clave
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<...>
> The Dems are bad, the Repubs are absolute evil.
Democrats make me ashamed to be an American, but Republicans make me ashamed
to be a human being.
Jim
Russel Reeves
Poetic Justice
...and...
"Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 � November 28, 1994) was an
American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys
� most of whom were of African or Asian descent � between 1978 and 1991,
with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His
murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture,
dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. On November 28, 1994, he was
beaten to death by a fellow Columbia Correctional Institution inmate
with a bar from a weight machine while on work detail in the prison gym."
....Jeffery Dahmer defined love while being interrogated.
Ask a crazy fool for your definitions, and you get what you asked for.
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"------ The fact that Pat Robertson was so quick to blame the
earthquake on the Haitian Slave Rebellion of 1791-1804, and the fact
that he automatically characterized that slave rebellion as a pact
with the devil reflect the fact that the Haitian Slave Rebellion
played a critical role in forging the rightwing American mindset.
The Framers of the United States Constitution drafted that document in
1787, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. While the
Constitution has been a resounding albeit imperfect success at
structuring the government and steadily advancing the rights of
ordinary citizens, its great weakness has always been how it deals
with powerful private sector entities.
The Constitution's most glaring failure was in dealing with slavery.
Remember now that slavery was a part of private enterprise. The
majority of the Framers acquiesced to a compromise insisted upon by
Southern delegates, spearheaded by the South Carolina delegation,
largely because they believed slavery to be a dying institution, a
belief that is reflected in the Constitution itself.
But the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had scarcely been ratified
before two events occurred that would radically change the future of
slavery, the political and social development of the South and the
fate of the American nation.
One was the invention of the cotton gin. The cotton gin turned slavery
from a marginally profitable or unprofitable business to a
staggeringly profitable one.
The other was the Haitian Slave Rebellion, the only successful slave
rebellion in history, one inspired by our Revolution and one which
inspired in turn campaigns for independence throughout the Americas.
The cotton gin excited greed. The Haitian slave rebellion excited
paranoia.
So great was the greed inspired by the cotton gin's stellar increase
in the profitability of slavery that nearly all of the South's
resources were concentrated on this one nefarious business to the
detriment of everything else - education, infrastructure and
industrial development. The few became wealthier and wealthier while
the many sank deeper and deeper into poverty and ignorance.
So great was the absolute terror inspired by the Haitian Slave
Rebellion that virtually all the freedoms guaranteed by the First
Amendment became a dead letter, an unaffordable luxury. Forget freedom
of speech, press, assembly and petition. Anything having to do with
the mere questioning of the lynchpin institution of southern society -
slavery - was banned outright on the grounds of fomenting
insurrections of the Haitian kind.
Out of this mess America's tradition of fake populism was born,
inspired in large part by slave-owners' fear of the Haitian Slave
Rebellion. The slave-owning plutocracy, people who were fond of using
the term "property" to refer to slaves, became experts at manipulating
poor whites through a combination of race based hatred and fear and
outright lies .
It was relatively easy to develop these skills when they could shut
down dissident speech, something they not only did completely in the
South but aggressively sought to do in the rest of the country as
well, including Congress itself.
But it was a skill they continued to develop after the Civil War. The
planter plutocracy of the South and the industrial capitalists of the
North were originally rivals for American power, but after the Civil
War, with the rise of large corporations, the interests of the two
capitalist classes fused, culminating with party unity under the
Republican banner in the Nixon years.
The result has been the USA's truly bizarre tradition of fake
populism, poorly informed masses, fired up with hate and
disinformation, amassing in angry torch and pitchfork mobs to demand
policies that favor only the very, very rich at the expense of
everybody else.
The 21st century must of necessity become the New Age of Reason, in
which we subject business leadership to the same thoroughgoing
scrutiny and reform that the 18th century Age of Reason applied to
government. We need government. We need business leadership. But in
both realms we need moral leadership that advances the interests of
the people instead of exploiting them."
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CB
over as Libs claim.
The Republican party was created in 1854 in opposition to the
Kansas-Nebraska Act that would have allowed the expansion of 'slavery' into
Kansas. The Republican activists denounced the act as proof of the power of
the Slave Power-the powerful class of slaveholders who were conspiring to
control the federal government and to spread slavery nationwide. The name
"Republican" gained such favor in 1854 because "republicanism" was the
paramount political value the new party meant to uphold. The name had been
in previous use by Jeffersonians, Jacksonians, and nationalists. The party
founders adopted the name "Republican" to indicate it was the carrier of
"republican" beliefs about civic virtue, and opposition to aristocracy and
corruption. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Republican_Party
...
(Joseph) Story (Republican) remained a force on the Taney Court (see note on
Taney the Dim.), but he was distressed by its fragmentation and its
increasingly ad hoc (Judicial Activism) concessions to states' rights. (See
State Sovereignty and States' Rights.) Especially traumatic was the
appearance of cases involving the constitutional status of 'slavery'. He was
opposed to the institution on moral as well as policy grounds; he was also
firmly convinced that the Constitution sanctioned it.
...
http://www.answers.com/topic/joseph-story
...
NOTE:
By the time Taney's term in the Maryland senate expired in 1821, the
Federalist party had fallen into disarray, both nationally and in the
individual states. Taney soon found a new political home: the Democratic
party of Andrew Jackson. (See Dred Scott v. Sandford /slaves, could never be
citizens of the United States)
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
Andrew Johnson, the other Impeached President
Al Sharpton
significant "aid" can be delivered to Haitians.
Simply the result of 200 years of culture similar to that of the GEICO
cavemen.
Actually, a bunch of rich white U.S. people could "rebuild" Haiti into
one big BANANA plantation. Shit, "those people" cleared the land of
trees and vegetation decades ago!
All that's needed are the hurricane survivors -- under U.S. masters,
of course -- to plant 'nanas, and the country would better off than
it's EVER been.
And we'd then OWN the god-forsaken nation!
From which we could launch a massive assassination attack on the
Castros!
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that we were in for BIG trouble.
When he installed Rahm Emanuel, Tim Geithner and Lawrence Summers as
power brokers in his Cabinet, I could see the Titanic heading toward
an iceberg. When he took Single Payer off the table and capitulated on
the Public Option, I knew the ship was rudderless. When he enabled
snakes like Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson to start steering the ship, I
knew that he had completely abdicated
his command of the vessel.
Now, with the Massachussetts debacle, he has decided to flex his
muscles? It's going to take more than angry rhetoric to prove to his
base that President Obama is deserving of any support. Until he fires
Geithner, Summers and Emanuel, installs true reformers, i.e.,
Elizabeth Warren, and spits right back in the eyes of his political
adversaries, Mr. Obama's lofty speech-making will fall on deaf and
very skeptical ears." jztherapist
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decade, the US would launch an expensive war in Iraq then Afghanistan,
further destabilizing its already heavily indebted balance sheet; and
by 2009, China and Japan, its primary creditors, would
significantly slow their purchases of US debt, forcing the US to begin
borrowing from itself in order to continue spending what it did not
have. When the creditor of last resort is the borrower, economic
fundamentals will inevitably reassert themselves.
Since the 1950s, Americans have serially and collectively blamed
communists, socialists, hippies, feminists, Mexicans,
environmentalists, gays, abortion, entitlements, Japan, China, etc.
for their mounting problems; and, like the veritable alcoholic, the
real cause of its problems is always assiduously avoided.
It is little wonder that as America�s serial enemies have come and
gone, America�s problems have increased. This is because the real
cause of America�s problems is not others�America�s real problem is
itself."
Darryl Robert Schoon
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train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe
and Latin America, a government official said Saturday.
China has built 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) of high-speed rail for
its own train system and President Barack Obama issued a pledge in
November with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, to cooperate in
developing the technology.
"We are organizing relevant companies to participate in bidding for
U.S. high-speed railways," Wang Zhiguo, a deputy railways minister,
told a news conference.
Wang gave no details of where China's railway builders might seek
contracts, but systems are planned in California, Florida and
Illinois. He said state-owned Chinese companies already are building
high-speed lines in Turkey and Venezuela.
Beijing plans to construct a 16,000-mile (25,000-kilometer) high-speed
rail network by 2020 in a 2 trillion yuan ($300 billion) project it
hopes will spur economic and technology development. A new line
linking the central city of Wuhan with Guangzhou near Hong Kong on
China's southern coast is billed as the world's fastest at 237 miles
(380 kilometers) per hour.
China produces high-speed trains using French, German and Japanese
technology. Its manufacturers have developed a homegrown version but
have yet to produce a commercial model.
Chinese rail authorities have signed cooperation memos with California
and Russia and state companies plan to bid on a line in Brazil linking
Rio de Janeiro with Sao Paulo, Wang said. He said Saudi Arabia and
Poland also have expressed interest.
The White House announced $8 billion in grants in January for rail
projects including the high-speed systems in California, Florida and
Illinois.
"China is willing to share its mature and advanced technology with
other countries to promote development of the world's high-speed
railways," Wang said.
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So far, China's government has completed 2,295 miles (3,676
kilometers) of rail lines with top speeds of up to 220 mph (350 kph)
and 1,795 miles (2,876 kilometers) with speeds up to 155 mph (250
kph), according to Wang.
Another 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) of lines are under
construction, he said.
Once the network is completed, it will cut travel time from Beijing to
Hong Kong from 24 hours to 10.
Some critics say high-speed train fares are too high for average
Chinese and question whether the lines can recover their construction
costs.
Wang said high-speed trains already have higher occupancy rates than
regular trains, though he gave no details.
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sex abuse scandal, has been hit by revelations of theft, opaque
accounting and extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being
forced to make cutbacks, some bishops enjoy the trappings of the
church's considerable hidden wealth.
Shortly before Pentecost, Pastor S. received an unexpected early
morning visit, not from the Holy Ghost, but from the police.
For the authorities, the words of the Gospel of Luke came true on that
morning: He who seeks finds. More than €131,000 ($158,000) were hidden
in various places in the rooms of the Catholic priest, tucked in
between his laundry or attached to the bottom of drawers. The reverend
was arrested on the spot. After several weeks in custody, Hans S., 76,
is now back at the monastery, waiting for his trial.
----
This is a large detailed article which shows how the RCC uses some of
the money provided by their poor suckers.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,700513,00.html
Day Brown
> The Catholic Church in Germany, already struggling to cope with the
> sex abuse scandal, has been hit by revelations of theft, opaque
> accounting and extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being
> forced to make cutbacks, some bishops enjoy the trappings of the
> church's considerable hidden wealth.
>
> Shortly before Pentecost, Pastor S. received an unexpected early
> morning visit, not from the Holy Ghost, but from the police.
> For the authorities, the words of the Gospel of Luke came true on that
> in various places in the rooms of the Catholic priest, tucked in
> between his laundry or attached to the bottom of drawers. The reverend
> was arrested on the spot. After several weeks in custody, Hans S., 76,
> is now back at the monastery, waiting for his trial.
> ----
>
> This is a large detailed article which shows how the RCC uses some of
> the money provided by their poor suckers.
>
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,700513,00.html
in the USA. The mass media says nothing about it. Young women are trying
to recover their ancestral Native European spiritual traditions the same
as Native Americans have. But they dont build, or even rent, churches,
hold rallies, or well advertised public events.
I went to a Solstice gathering in the Ozark woods the other day where I
saw a lot of them. I've had call to visit church parking lots in recent
months, and noted that while I see the old folks and mature women with
husbands and kids in tow. the young women are missing. As are the young
men. but we never expected them to go and not be busy playing video
games anyway.
Just as in pagan times, the young witches have altars in their own homes
now. Not that you'd notice if you didnt know what it was- just a table
or dresser with a shawl for altar cloth, some incense, candle sticks,
and maybe some curious decorative items. Some also have a fire pit and
circle of stones and/or benches in the back yard.