The Fraud lies about supporting net neutrality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP01t0Z4Hr8

The next person who tells me I need to vote for a Corporatist Democrap like Obama or Hillary Clinton because they are the "lesser evil" should expect a good, swift kick to the groin.

Evil is evil. Pure and simple.

Are bankers committing suicide or are they being snuffed-out before they can squeal on the dirty rats they work for ...like JP Morgan, et al. So far, 20 bankers have "mysteriously?" died....ostensibly from suicide. Or, is it that their conscience is bothering them? Maybe both..but I doubt that they all committed suicide. The latest was a 37 year old bankster from Stamford, Connecticut who had a nice young family and everything to live for. Turns out he knew well the bankster in London who "offed himself" under suspicious circumstances.

I can't say that I am particularly saddened by the events but it's truly unfortunate that the top guys aren't being offed as well!

http://www.maxkeiser.com/tag/banker-suicides/

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/02/18/jpmorgan-banker-suicide-hon...

By the way, there's a really great documentary that RT is currently showing called "Branding Illness".

"An eye-opening documentary about how big drug companies create diseases and then supply the medications that can cure them. It's a reversal of the traditional approach — trying to discover a drug that cures an illness — and one that relies far more heavily on marketing than research." I think the next showing on RT is on Feb 23...but not sure.

What we need, aside from all the other points we've mentioned, is a present-day German-style corporate control with representatives of the workers sitting equally on the boards of corporations. The top executives and the share holders should not be more powerful than the workers.

Really Kend? This is a change. Before you praised the Canadian healthcare system. Given your famous sincerity I'd have to conclude you're lying - again. You're either lying now or you were then, in any case. I believe your account differs from those of other Canadians and I belive the taxes are 15%, at least that's what they are in Germany for the German National Healthcare system. Maybe it's progressive and you're in a higher bracket but I don't think it's that high. After all, you're not that rich, are you?

Anyway, I had to wait over a year for a hernia operation right here in the good ol' USA because I was uninsured and uninsurable.

I'd been to the Soviet Union also in the '70s, the Brezhnev era, it was. My family comes from there, I come from the exile community of WW II refugees here in Chicago. I am pretty anti Soviet, not quite as much as I was before but still pretty much. I know the two systems well, better than most North Americans and can compare them. I can tell you the real story is more nuanced than the false dichotomy you righties like to proffer.

To be brief, the Soviet Union, by the '70s, was not genuine socialism nor even a genuine attempt at making socialism. The "for dummies" story is that state ownership is not the same as "people's" ownership if the people don't own the government. That's why Western European socialism is more genuine and successful. They didn't dispense with democracy to do it.

This radio show hour with Thom and Pap is a rerun. Was that noted?

Palendromedary

I agree with this part of your statement

"The French masses had a good idea when they lopped off heads of their dandies who thought they were too good to pay their fair share of the King's taxes leaving the burden upon the lowly poor who were struggling to survive."

And i also accept totally the false god idea - actually I believe in NO god/gods/religion - and believe that this is one of the biggest problems we have right now. Onward christian soldiers - bullshit! Religion has caused more ward and more killing and destruction that anything else - except greed - and that usually goes along with the religion anyhow.

chuckle8 I will support that totally. And with the mega amount of information they have saved if and when they needed it they would never be able to find it in time to be able to use it. Useless bullcrap is all that itis - plus puts our information where others with bad intentions can get access to it. Just purely wrong on anyone's standards who has half a brain.

The pampered rich would rather other people die than to be delayed in getting non-life threatening care for themselves. And many people in the US would be delighted to have knee surgery even if they had to wait a year or two. Better to have a system that will, even if eventually, take care of non-life-threatening problems than a system that you will only get those problems taken care of only if you have enough money. And many people are more worried about getting life-threatening problems taken care of than minor ones.

And even if we had a universal health care system that would, eventually, take care of all problems of all the people; the wealthy will still be able to pay extra bucks to their high priced, elitist doctors, in private hospitals to take care of their miniscule belly aches and sniffles (and, yes, knee problems).

It is only selfishness and greediness that emotes the sneering, namby-pamby dandies who think THEY deserve everything, leaving nothing to the riff-raff at the bottom.

The French masses had a good idea when they lopped off heads of their dandies who thought they were too good to pay their fair share of the King's taxes leaving the burden upon the lowly poor who were struggling to survive.

It's happening all over the world now...and it's only a matter of time when USians will realize that nothing will change unless they stop hiding behind Gandhism and MLKism and act more like Malcolm X and maybe even the "real" Jesus...who was, if he even existed, most likely a Zealot or even a Sicarii...violent opponents of the ruling elite of the time. See Reza Aslan's new book or even older books of Joseph Atwill.

"..a controversial new discovery: ancient confessions recently uncovered now prove, according to Atwill, that the New Testament was written by first-century Roman aristocrats and that they fabricated the entire story of Jesus Christ."

“...but this is important for our culture. Alert citizens need to know the truth about our past so we can understand how and why governments create false histories and false gods. They often do it to obtain a social order that is against the best interests of the common people.”

http://lisaleaks.com/2014/01/24/we-invented-jesus-christ-why-governments...

Today, I am afraid and intimidated to speak on this issue. But, if we remain silent then we become cowards not worthy of freedom and liberty. We were nabbing german spies as they landed on the beaches of FLA in the 30's. How could a group of persians with box cutters come in from Canada and get away with starting 911? This was the biggest failure of our intelligence community in our history. Our politicians attempted to impeach our president over a cum stain on a dress. Where was the national hearing on this intelligence failure?

Instead of finding what went wrong with the old FBI they decided to create a new one? Give it a new name? We already have homeland security. It is called the dept. of defense. The reason for a new agency, with billions spent on new personnel with six figure salaries and million dollar pensions, was to better coordinate the different agencies? We already have an undersecretary of defense for intelligence communications to perform this mission. Billions spent to form a new FBI because the old one failed? To protect us from punjab ragheads living in caves with ak-47's and laptops? Who is going to be there to protect us from the wingnut down the block with a bushmaster and a 100 round clip? How many of us are going to die without healthcare compared to taliban terrorists?

In CA, the democrat lead legislature voted for a license plate gps tag system. They will be able to track us all where we travel too everyday forever. Some tried to limit this to 60 days but failed. our state senator Fran Pavla held her hands up and commented, "I don't want to stand in the way of police business". These are repocrats and do not belong in the democratic party. Imagine the costs to run this tracking system? Compare this to the cuts in education. We have laid off 300,00 teachers nationwide at a time when we should have hired 200,000. These policies financially crippled thousands of teachers and their families and degraded our public education system. We are packing in over 30 in a class now. This is not teaching. This is warehousing. All for what? To build up the military industrial complex?

Here in Santa Cruz the county supervisors voted to build a new prison. County law enforcement has the resources to buy expensive land and build community buildings that lay idle. Homeless people die from cold here. It has been decades since we built a new school here. The old mobile ones that were meant to be temporary were armored over and made permanent. Education budget slashed while the police budget went from 40% to 60% of total budget. This is the story throughout our country.

We are Americans unlike the germans of the 30's. Are we going to tolerate this erosion of our liberties and freedoms and go quietly in the night? Speak up people. Don't be afraid. Demand a return to priorities with value. Limit class size to 20, 15 in math and science. Don't rip off the next generation. Cut the budgets of the intelligence communities to pay for it.

Re-organize the intelligence communities. End overlapping services. Change the old FBI for their failure. Transfer their resources to Homeland security for terrorism protection. Downsize and make the ATF, DEA, divisions of the new FBI. Get them out of cannabis prohibition duties. Turn that over to the states. Hold public hearings on the failures of 911 and make good re-organizing solutions. We do not have to be spending this amount of money for law enforcement and national security. As a free society we must take control of these agencies. They exist to serve us. Our society does not exist to provide them with job security.

AIW and KW -- What do you have against stray dogs? I wish Kend represented the better minds of the right, and he just might. His knee example (if true) is so definitive. Do we want to chose Israel HIlton's chance to live, over Kend having to wait 9 months for knee surgery (even if it wasn't Kend specifically).

howardb4 -- I guess we can assume you never listen to Thom or read this blog.

The U.S. Border Security at Tijuana, (San Diego, CA) has been recording automobile and trucks licenses for years. The have noted, but done nothing about this, that many stolen vehicles pass through the border each day. This illustrates how nicely the governmental agencies are interested in "Rude of Law" and enforcement. If they can recognize, identify and record such information on felony activities and do nothing, something is wrong! Herbert Hoover spied on many people illegally and blackmailed Congress to increase his financial budgets each year, all of which was illegal but nothing was done.

Do you really think giving the power of the East German Secret police or the KGB will improve Democracy, or destroy it?