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Just when you thought the banksters couldn't go any lower...
"Fallen Soldiers' Families Denied Cash Payout as Insurers Profit" - http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aF133j0QyP30
Insurance companies are keeping the money owed to the families of dead soldiers, claiming they're putting the money in an interest-bearing account the families can then draw against. In reality, the money isn't placed in a bank and isn't insured by FDIC; the insurance companies are keeping it and paying absurdly low interest rates (around 1%) on it to the families, while making 4 or 5% interest on the money themselves & keeping the profits.
This is unacceptable. Thom, I hope you read the article and discuss this on the air, to get the word out. I'm sure the mainstream corporate media will try to bury this.
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Kay Granger and her outrage! http://c4ss.org/content/3271
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Newt's words recruit for Al Qaeda.
When he tries to force Muslims out of public places, he's validating the beliefs of the crazies.
It's also ironic that Newt thinks that New Yorkers are as cowardly as he is. There's a lot of New York Muslims and so far, by all accounts, the City is doing fine. Maybe old, fat Republicans are just naturally fearful.
Americans with their love for the killing God's children means that we remain in a perpetual state of mortal sin with damned souls.
Stephen Lendman is one of my favorite writers. http://www.opednews.com/articles/WikiLeaks-Afghan-War-Diar-by-Stephen-Lendman-100728-122.html
Is the killing of God's children in wrong and immoral wars - relevant or irrelevant?
Thom usually starts his show by letting us know that there is so much news to discuss. Yes, he does have guests on his show. They will have an agenda to discuss. I would prefer no news. I would prefer that life is great and we are living in harmony with all of God's children. That is not our world. Here is an important article. http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Bush-Botched-the-Afgha-by-Robert-Parry-100726-912.html
Socialism&Obama
Corporatist-style use of socialism uses destabilization to undo a society (killing the middle class), to undo an economy (repeated crashes and wealth consolidation), to undo a culture (replacing it with a pre-fab culture via media (government or corporate controlled) and production (available materials restricted, even to the point of required uniforms).
Isn't this what whas done in the process when the West's rich funded the Russian Revolution? Russian society, economy and culture crashed because of the destabilization of the Russian state (including the assassination of the Czar) and even more destabilized by the Revolution itself; then the people were promised a solution that provided some kind of fair distribution of wealth (socialist system) and -- in exchange for education and just enough to eat not to starve -- were robbed of all individuality and personal igenuity, made to wear uniforms, forced to accept totalitarianism and a tyrannical dictator who disappeared, tortured, imprisoned indefinitely and assassinated people BY LAW.
The destabilization issue is the most important and it is rarely addressed. The destabilization exists as a step everytime when the imperialists
:: used imperialism (as was used with impunity in pre-Gandhi days, dividing and conquering areas, reducing cooperation and increasing competition, cornering markets, creating shortages and forcing economic dependence),
:: colonialism (as Europeans did in Africa and Israelis do now against Palestine when they seize and settle lands),
:: use of war to destabilize and reshape a country (for example, the destruction of Iraq via "Shock and Awe" followed by the so-called "free market" template (disaster capitalism) then forced upon the Iraqi people)
:: corporate/financier-controlled growth of "socialism/communism" (as occurred in Russia and China the formation of factions which were originally financed by the certain wealthy entities in the West)
Anything that comes close to these kinds of destabilization should be scrutinized closely.
So, some claim Obama is a "socialist". I am most concerned about WHAT KIND OF socialist Obama may be. Democratic Socialist is the only safe kind so far. My concern is that Obama and the Corporatist DLC democrats are the other kind of socialist, and I say this only because they are dragging their feet in controlling the DESTABILIZING forces that are now gripping this nation and indeed are part of those forces. Forces like:
1/ UNCONTROLLED financial power in the hands of the financiers and corporations to the point of FACILITATING their actions through government-approved BAIL-OUTS and programs (like so-called healthcare reform) that keep corporations on top of the heap
2/ CONTINUED failure to take measures to halt the home mortgage collapse, the shrinking of the Middle Class, and the continuing ill-health and suffering of The People due to UNAFFORDABLE health care, and
3/ PROMOTION of unfair, tax-free loopholes and laws which favor ONLY The Richest individuals and corporations, including "subsidies" in myriad forms (such as ostensibly FREE public land leases), and freedoms to lobby and exercise unlimited campaign-finance contributions. This is a use of socialist-welfare methods for the benefit of corporations.
There are probably more examples, but I don't have time right now to go further.
So, the question is, not whether Obama is a socialist, but WHAT kind of socialist, imo.
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Left/Right Difference:
Why does the left always seem to be on the losing side? Everyone on the Right receives their marching orders and are in lock step with their talking points and message. On the Left we are all over the map. Recent examples:
Randi Rhodes claims we need to stay in Afghanistan to save the Afghan people. Thom had Robert Greenwald on yesterday saying that idea is ridiculous.
Mike Malloy screams, "I'll never, ever vote Democratic again!" Thom says we must vote democratic because Supreme Court appointees are so important.
When we figure out a way to heard cats maybe we'll finally get the upper hand.
China Calls Our Bluff: "The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation but [U.S.] Rating Agencies Still Give it High Rankings"
America's biggest creditor - China - has called our bluff.
As the Financial Times notes, the head of China's biggest credit rating agency has said America is insolvent and that U.S. credit ratings are a joke:
The head of China’s largest credit rating agency has slammed his western counterparts for causing the global financial crisis and said that as the world’s largest creditor nation China should have a bigger say in how governments and their debt are rated.
“The western rating agencies are politicised and highly ideological and they do not adhere to objective standards,” Guan Jianzhong, chairman of Dagong Global Credit Rating, told the Financial Times in an interview.http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/
@RobertGrey86: Dude! You’re harshing my question all authority, all structure be damned buzz . . . We’re liberals and don’t need no stinking rules . . . Call me, Libertine!
If you go to your User Profile . . . You can post a New Blog from there . . . Then you gotta shake your tail so all us unstructured type of folk will join you.
robertgray86@gm, you make an interesting comment. Here is what I see as a problem. There is so much information on the internet that needs to be shared with the listeners. To limit comments on Thom's blog is similar to the U. S. government limiting our use of the internet. To me America and her expansion of wars are very relevant topics. There may be listeners who favor war and to alert persons to more wars is irrelevant. I disagree.
Well if you can't vote if you don't pay your fair share of taxes, then I think there would be a strong case to prevent the wealthy from voting. Lord knows they sure in the hell don't pay a fair share of taxes.
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@Gene Savory: Ants and bees are evil because of their innate authoritarian nature . . .
Those who scream fascism, communism, socialism, islamofascism, naziism without any understanding beyond the label are, unfortunately, the voters who have been dumbed down by control freaks who have infiltrated our educational systems.
Someone correct me please if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a SCOTUS decision back in the 1990's that said the police COULD demand to see a person's identification and could arrest and charge that person if they either refused or didn't have ID to show?
Sorry about the apparent run-on sentence.
The United States of Satan's Disciples expands into another war - Somalia. What we are experiencing is similar to Germany expanding into Eastern and Western Europe. The United States of Numb Nuts is emulating Germany.
I.D. required. Vagrancy?
I.D.-checking by The Authorities is justified when police check someone for being a vagrant, I thought. Is that no longer the case?
I always get the woogy-woogy feeling that a big part of the reason the Obama Administration appointed Governor Janet Napolitano was to elevate Jan Brewer . . . .
Thom:
Is there any way we can make a discussion thread per daily topic? It seems a bit disorganized here - trying sort through the posts to see which ones are relevevant to which topic - not to mention sorting out the posts which have nothing to do with any topic.
Thanks