And if we don't get nuked with thermonuclear devices, we are likely going to be "nuked" financially (again..but worse this time) on the same order as is happening in Cyprus.

The rich people (over 100 multi-nationals...likely tipped off by the IMF) sent their money abroad... including the Cypriot President's family member. They all evidently knew what was about to happen and they pulled all their money out of Cyprus banks. And now, Cypriot people's bank accounts are being raided to pay for the country's debt...anywhere from 40-80%...will be robbed from savings accounts...they claim from anyone with over $100,000 in the accounts. Yeah, like those people haven't already pulled out their money? The less well off will bare the brunt of this fiasco as they always do.

And on the Breaking the Set show today they posted this statement (but as I did not have today's show on the internet yet, I found it here**):

"Rest easy, Canadians, for your bank accounts are going to be made as safe as those bank accounts in Cyprus. Just take a look at the Canadian government's budget plan for 2013, particularly pages 144 and 145 of Economic Action Plan 2013. There the Canadian government promises to use Canadian deposits to save "systematicaly important" banks (emphasis ours).

The Government proposes to implement a "bail-in" regime for systemically important banks.This regime will be designed to ensure that, in the unlikely event that a systemically important bank depletes its capital, the bank can be recapitalized and returned to viability through the very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital. This will reduce risks for taxpayers. The Government will consult stakeholders on how best to implement a bail-in regime in Canada. Implementation timelines will allow for a smooth transition for affected institutions, investors and other market participants."

** http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article39743.html
"very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital"...like people's saving accounts..like in Cyprus?

It will soon hit the US as well. The banksters are not through financially nuking us all.

So North Carolina Republicans just effectively declared that states should be able to control guns as much as they want.

It is really in the best interests of all (no matter what religion or non-religion one subscribes to), even if you happen to be a member of the predominant one, to prevent a government from dictating a "state sanctioned" religion. The state should be neutral and not favor religion or even one religion over another.. or over non-religion.

Even if you happen to be a Southern Baptist in N.C. (near Raleigh, perhaps) you should be shaking in your shoes over the terribly misguided idea of state sanctioned religions. Those who fight for the freedom of all (no matter what their beliefs are) will have no worries in the future about being able to believe as they desire. But once you start singling out a predominant one to rule over the rest you are putting nails in your own belief's coffin. One day, the tide will turn against you...as it did in Russia during, and after, the Tsars when the State sanctioned religion ... communism ruled. Priests were executed and people's bibles were ripped away from them and religious people were put in gulags and insane asylums.

yes, i do support the fast food workers in New York and throughout the country.

The fast food restaurants, e.g. McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell and the like make

millions. They need to pay their workers a living wage. Frankly, i think this fast food is toxic and is making our country sick with their putrid crap. Obesity and Diabetes is so out of control and these fast food joints are poisioning our people.

Check into how Obama got on the ticket for senate. Other side of the coin isn't all that pretty!

revised 3/11/13

https:///www.facebook.com/groups/152631684794770 We have written our voting rules, care to comment?

Whereas we the people are created equal, and

whereas we the people are endowed with certain inalienable rights, and

whereas we the people instituted a government to secure these rights, and

whereas we the people lay the foundation on such principles, and organize its power in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect the above objective, do require the following Bill of Rights for Voting Equality.

1.

Each citizen of the United States at or exceeding the age of majority has the right to vote in any public election in the jurisdiction where he or she resides. That right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, any State, agreement, person, or entity. After incarceration all rights shall resume.

2.

a) All citizens of the United States, residing in all states, shall have equal access, (the same requirements), to creating a political party and achieving a ballot line.

b) All candidates and parties shall have equal time constraints to qualify for ballot access.

c) All proofs will be received by a multi-partisan regulatory board, such as the Board of Elections.

3.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall elect Senators and Representatives in the Congress in such number and such manner as it would be entitled if it were a State.

4.

All citizens must be able to verify that the vote has been counted accurately. All ballots must be counted by hand. All counting must be supervised by multi-partisan personnel and recorded.

5.

a) The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every Thirty Thousand.

b) Each state shall divide its population by 30,000 to determine its number of representatives.

c) Each Representative shall have the voting power equal to the number of citizens that voted for them.

6.

a) All citizens that desire to be candidates, shall register at their local Board of Elections.

b) The Board of Elections shall divide equally, the campaign tools for election purposes. All tools must be properly labeled as citizen provided.

c) Elections shall be publicly funded. No private money may be used for a public office, or seat in the government. The citizen must have full confidence that no bribery or appearance of bribery is taking place.

7.

All citizens shall have equal early voting hours in which to cast their vote. sufficient voting places, materials, and personnel shall be provided to reduce the voting time to within an hour.

8.

The Presidential/Vice-Presidential election shall be counted by (score or approval) counting.

Every 14th of the month, we gather together at a predetermined location. We give a short speech on as many issues as possible. Then we engage the public and hand out information. The goal is to educate people on the progressive values, and the reasons why we believe the things we do. And hopefully show the reasons why that person should agree with us. A success would be such growth that by next summer people would be coming out every 14th at MANY locations around the country.

One thing I ask you all to do. Copy/Paste this message everywhere you post. http://www.causes.com/actions/1739911-14th-amendment-equality-pledges

If you listen to progressive radio, you know that our presence is needed in the streets. Let's work together and have activity everywhere there was an occupy group. We MUST educate the low information voter before 2014!

Did you say the "N" word!?!?!?Shhhh don't say that you may get targeted!

All silliness aside...You make the bigest and most profound point yet...The U.S. with all its Nukes and military might is the biggest threat to everyones safety and wellbeing. I'd even go so far as to say that the reason ( er one of the reasons) that N.Korea has/is beefing up it's military is mostly becasue of the bully U.S. governments hostle Foreign Policy.

And guns or no guns, if WE the People of the United States of America do not collectively organize and fullfill not only our right, but our duty as the People of the U.S. to ..."alter or abolish a government that becomes destructive" of the basic principles stated in the Declaration of Independence - the Equal Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - then we just may be witness to mass destruction here within our own country...One that would be 100x's worse than that of Sept 11th and Pearl Harbor combined.

I bet North Carolina would be all up in a tizzy about some Satanic worshiping organization (religion) in their state. They are all for freedom of religion as long as it is the right religion as dictated by their pious and narrow-minded Torquemada overseers. It wouldn't be long before the guys in white sheets burned voodoo dolls in front of atheist's, or Satanic worshiper's, houses.

I have lived in a theocracy, in Saudi Arabia, and you had to watch everything you said. You had to bite your lip when they did things that you would find abhorrent. There's no freedom of speech. And you had to put up with things like the police barging in to your privately held religious service demanding baksheesh (bribes) to continue. (Not that I, personally, had this experience....I'm atheist...but I heard stories) The people of other religions that lived and worked in Saudi Arabia were generally allowed to have a 'closed' service as long as they kept it secluded and quiet (no loud hymns or church bells or loud bellicose pulpit verbosity was allowed). You couldn't proselytize in any way. If you tried to even have a discussion about religion with a Muslim...that was very dangerous territory. I certainly didn't tell anyone I was an atheist. They probably would have cut off my heathen head. Well, at least they would have kicked me out of their country after holding me in a jail cell. I had read about all of the journalists who were held in Saudi jails for reporting on the "wrong" things. They are not very amenable to criticism. Women's hair couldn't be too long or they would have the matawas come by and shave heads. Women's dresses couldn't be above the knees or the matawas would swat the bare legs with switches. And they were especially rabid during the month of Ramadan. But dirty old men were able to get away with humping women as they boarded family buses. And the husbands just couldn't do anything about it without risk of being in a great deal of trouble. The women could swat them off, though, but the men could take no action.

I'm sure the Republicans in North Carolina would not hesitate to make North Carolina like Saudi Arabia...except not Muslim but Deep Southern Baptist.

I do agree with you. The Republican party people are blinded by their own beliefs. Then they sit with glazed eyes and wonder why they did not win the Presidential election.

This move is specifically to prevent Lamar Alexander from having a primary challenger who would open his mouth and tell everybody what the party is really about. Note that the Dems held the state legislature until 2008, and now that the Repubs were able to redistrict and gerrymander the districts in 2010, they have a supermajority. Thanks, everybody that stayed home and didn't vote in 2010. The crazy bills that are currently under consideration and being passed are a direct result of letting Republicans take control. They didn't run on school vouchers, gutting Workmen's comp, and cutting a family's food stamps if one child gets failing grades, but that's what they do when they are unchecked.