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All these political tactics are really a bunch of bullshit distractions; Left wing, Right wing, just a bunch of Wall St corporatists, all are to blame for playing such a egotist game...Just a bunch of arrogant honky elitist rednecks, and one house nigger all getting paid off while we the once strong, well compansated, and respected working middle class get laid off, and Wall St makes off.
So pathetic, we are in the information age; yet in general people don't know jack! What we do know we do very little about; mostly bicker, blog and complain, only to fall again for empty promises from charming smiles and twinkley eyes. Sure maybe a few people "get it" take a few minute to write their president, or St. Rep regarding their grievences and ideas...SUCKERS!!!
The water has reached boiling and the working middle class are cooked...The writing is on the wall, the United States no longer is a Democracy of, for, and by the people; It is now a Corporate Plutocratic Republic. There still is a Constitution, and a Bill of Rights. There is also a Judicial Branch, an Adminastrative Branch, and an Excutive Branch...HOWEVER it all works in favor of Unregualted Capitalism and is soley profit driven.
Soooooooooo, If you are a supporter of the Declaration of Independents, as well as for establishing; Single Payer Universal Health Care System, Affordable Education, Higher Wages, establishing a Solar Energy Policy; along with Reduced War Department Spending, enacting a Peaceful Foreign Policy, abolishing NAFTA, securing Unions and Collective Barganing, abolishing the Federal Reserve, Going back to Gold and Silver Standards, outlawing the Central Banking system, legalizing same sex marrage, or in general protecting your first 10 amendment rights...Then you better get yourself prepaired for a long and arduous bloddy fight; because these uber rich Nazis with their more more more profit driven agenda, and mine mine mine mentality, along with their "Monkey likes bananas" jingo followers (KEND & GLOBAL), will NEVER allow such a charitable equality and a truely peaceful, well educated functioning nation.
Now don't get me wrong, though I no longer have faith in "this" Democratic process, I am not for a civil war - though I am for certain the corporate nazis are.
I am however suggestiong that if people are truely fed up with being lied to and fooled by greedy self righteous corporatist politicians, and want to "change how our government operates"...Then We the People need to sacrafice and "be the change" we want our country to be. We don't have to "steal it back"...It ain't stealing when it was rightfully yours to being with.
I am also not saying that people like Global and Kend, who on a small, or large scale, bennefit from investing in the market with hopes of financley improving their future...More so NO ONE should be able to manipulate profit off of another persons loss; such profit exacerbates poverty else where and adversley disfranchises future generations.
Just got news from Politico that The American Bankers Association are trying to bring down the Credit Unions because despite earning over a Trillion Dollars in the past 5 years, they are Tax Exempt. The Banktards are really upset about this because they are not Tax Exempt. The fact that they pay no taxes anyway is of little consequence. Are these guys really for real? No, of course not or they wouldn't be bankers, they'd just be common brats. And one of the ABA's further PROOF they should not be tax exempt is that they had the Audacity to advertise at a football game. I heard the NFL is tax exempt. Is that not true? If it's true, why doesn't the banktards go after them?
My thinks that begging everyone I know online and off to get their money out of big banks and into small community banks and credit unions must be having an effect. Hurrah for our side.
First of all I'm not convinced, "We the People," should compromise on a billionaire manufactured distraction known as the austerity crisis?
Truth is, "We the People," have a frightened, ineffectual, and alcoholic House Leader who is being pushed around by a power crazed weasal. We have a reptile freak in the Senate who has an unparalleled hatred for the President.....so extreme it's likely a form of mental illness known as Obama Derangement Syndrome. We have a Republican Party that is convinced debt reduction is an economic plan designed to cut our way to prosperity. Is compromise even possible?
"We the People," are facing a billionaire's economic lie meant to keep us on the defensive and block any social progress gained by going on a populist offense. Why are we progressives always on defense even when we have the ball? It's time to reverse the dialogue and demand our representative govt. duplicate FDR's economic rescue plan, only this time go with a massive Green Energy Public Works Program . Dump the House Tea in 2014..... and put Ashley Judd in the Senate!
Obama should take that responsibility and then waive all the cuts and close the oil, bank & farm subsidies.
"I have not seen the movie, so I am not sure if it deserved any awards or not. How true or untrue a movie is, should not effect awards."
Even the most die-hard Trekkies (me included) would not think that Star Trek should be judged as a factual collection of movies. Certainly any historical movie will by definition have 2 sides, as does history. However; is it not a hallmark of fascism that movies which are made out of whole cloth to glorify the EMPIRE and its Glorious Warriors are fed to an all too willing public to distract said public from the dire consequences to their own sycophantic souls as well as to the corporal well being of the victims of the fascist state?
It is hardly a new tactic, read most any book in english on An Gorta Mór. I imagine that the Egyptians had papyri glorifying the exploits of their warriors which made Seshat wish that she had never given the gift of writing to the lying heart of man.
Face it, the voting drones have been so dumbed down with pop culture and gmo foods, and floride that they can't think for themselves. If Obamas lips are moving he is lieing, the guy is a pathological lier. His new governing style now is a mafia thug boss. The sequester will make the air travel unsafe, the borders will be open, national security will be shut down, kids will go hungry, teachers, cops and fire fighters will be fired, etc.. Does anybody really believe this BS? Threats and intimidation is the from the godfather. Where is the real journalism to call out this clown. Oh, and now I hear he is selling access to the president for a $500,000 donation. Are you kidding me?
In these so-called trying times we are told we need to cut over 85 billion. There is one answer which will not be discussed although this one program will cost U.S.taxpayers around 80 billion each year.
We continue to arrest non violent taxpaying pot smokers at a rate of one every 37 seconds or around 4,000 a day. Each arrest ends up costing other taxpayers around 40,000 dollars including jail,prison time, lost wages, court costs, lawyer fees. Which comes to around 160 million a day or about 80 billion a year.
Just so we can continue to create criminals out of people who if they lived in Colorado or Washington state would be free to consume without the federally funded discrimination surrounding a non toxic plant, and the kicker is that smoking pot is less then one percent of the uses of pot.
Main use of pot is to power our cars for almost free, to provide a healthy oil perfect for human use, to clean the air of man made pollution, to heal the sick, to feed and cloth the world, to support a legally binding U.S. Patent 6,330,507 which is held by the U.S. Dept of Health and human services. You dont get a patent for something which you cant prove, to not endorce and enforce this patent is a crime commited by the DEA, FDA and Congress, White House and Supreme court.
To use military might, political power, denial of truth, denial of rights, to deny the to people the right to petition the government to admend these laws, while at the same time arresting those whose consititional belief is considered not valid shows we can not have a democracy, and shows we like legalized terrorism better then a plant made from GOD and he told us to use it on page one of the bible,
Those in Congress are always playing "Good Cop, Bad Cop", while the PEOPLE say, OK. Until the PEOPLE get there priorities in line when it comes to the BS of their "leaders", nothing is going to change. This nation NEEDS a strong 3 to 5 party system yesterday, the present 2-party system does not, and will never, care about the citizens of these United States as long as CORPORATIONS buy "Our" elections, judges, law enforcement and those "leaders".
Just another Fascist, Republican, Corporate propagated two-hour commercial.
Timothy: Absolutely correct on all 18 counts. Now tell me how the illustrious "opposition party" is not complicit.
By their actions and statements, Republicans are sociopathic and psychopathic fascists.
Politically:
1. They have attempted to foment societal fear and hatred of minorities, gays, unions, workers, women and educators for political gain;
2. They wish to emulate Nazi Germany’s barbed wire concentration camps for law-abiding, patriotic homosexuals, protesters, union members and/or destitute Americans;
3. They wish to impose mandatory instruction in Christianity for all Americans, at gunpoint, and the suppression of religious freedom and expression of other faiths;
4. They wish to corrupt public education in America by insinuating Christianity and a Biblical presence in all schools, and by denying empirical scientific teachings;
5. They actively engage in voter suppression, intimidation, fraud and misinformation;
6. They wish to replace the Constitution with the Bible, and to repeal all laws dealing with civil rights and corporate, financial and political accountability;
7. They deny bipartisan representation to citizens by gerrymandering political districts in their favor;
8. They engage in racist political obstructionism, resulting in loss of jobs and incomes;
9. They engage in egregious deceit and character assassination in order to keep citizens from making intelligent political choices affecting them and the nation;
10.They are pro-war, pro-torture and anti-veterans’ benefits and services;
11.They favor fascist governments such as China, North Korea, Uganda and Israel;
12.They favor defunding all social services benefiting the unemployed and poor;
13.They deny health care to all uninsured persons, and those with pre-existing conditions;
14.They oppose public safety by deregulating assault weapons and defunding public services such as firefighters, infrastructure repair and construction, EMT agencies, teachers, schools, police and by refusing disaster relief to communities;
15.Economically, they favor the wealthiest citizens over the less fortunate, demand Constitutional personhood for inanimate objects such as corporations, and are opposed to a living minimum wage, hoping to create national financial chaos;
16.They favor rape and violence against women legislatively, are anti-reproductive rights and encourage the murder of those who provide such services;
17.They are pro-environmental destruction by pandering to energy companies & others;
18.They favor international policies based on fictional “prophesies” in the Christian Bible.
Unless and until we repudiate their flagitious* behavior and presence in Government, America will be a nation enslaved.
*flagitious: utterly corrupt, thoroughly villainous
Sorry, Flyguy, the voters are, in fact, abysmally stupid!
It looks to me both sides know they need to cut spending so sequester is the perfect way to blame the other guy and not take responsability. The Republicans have given in for four years and let the massive spending go on and on.
Sequester was Obama's idea in the first place, wasn't it.
Blame game, exactly. They are both to blame in my books.
Not that it will change anything, but it'll be good to see the most obvious miscreants get their asses kicked up between their shoulder blades!
Give me a break!, what kind of idiot can't find cuts of 2%! They spent more than that on Sandy victims! The Washington Bunch are supreme idiots! All of them. No balls! The Sequester is total PR bull crap on all sides! Ya all think the voters are stupid, we are not.
Can't wait until mid-term election night, 2014 .... ;-)
I have not seen the movie, so I am not sure if it deserved any awards or not. How true or untrue a movie is, should not effect awards.
I loved most of the Star Trek, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings movies, and they were not factual.
I also liked The Green Berets (I was 13 when it came out) even though I was against the Viet Nam War.
From what I have heard, I think the producers of Zero Dark 30 made a mistake. They could have included scenes of torture but made it clear that torture did not help to find Bin Laden.
But if the article in The Guardian is accurate, the CIA had a lot of control in the movie.
So if the producers goal was to make a profitable movie and show the CIA in a good light, they succeded. If the goal was to be factual they failed.
Hey I've got an idea...
STOP GIVING ENERGY TO THESE CLOWNS IN WASHINGTON, AND LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ACTUAL SOLUTION!
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http://facebook.com/OPPTinNOW
Yes, the EU has about 500 million people. But specifically, Germany has over 80 million, France and the UK each have about 60 million, Italy is just short of 60 million, Spain has 40 million. And that's pretty much the half-way point in population, just those 5 countries.
Edit: I missed that the 60 million of France and UK counts twice, so you actually hit the half-way point in Italy, with only four countries.
Teleophobically ugly? Fear of ends, as in "The End Is Near"?
moved
Was that "Abecedarian"? That's pronounced ABC-darian, not with a k sound, since a c followed by an e, i or y cannot sound like a k. Oddly, it is named from the letters ABCD. The Romans apparently didn't think ABC was enough to get the idea across.
My mom was recently surprised to be in a room of mostly liberal CFPs, including herself. They're more common than you think.
Washington, like Kristina Amonapour and half the Afghanny population, knew where bin Laden was hold up all along but chose not to do anything about it. My guess is Washington needed bin Laden "at large" in order to justify the troop deployment needed to protect ALCOA as they ushered their mining legislation through the Afgan Governmental system.
And isn't it ironic: Walker ripped Wisconsin apart and it benefited Gogebic Taconite mining, while Obama ripped Afghanistan apart and it benefited ALCOA mining.
Kristina Amonopour knew the location of where they found bin Laden years before the found him fatally shot. To the best of my recollection, she reported his where abouts was pretty much common knowledge on the street of his host town - you could even ask a passing school child where he was and they would know.
The act of producing a piece like Zero Dark Thirty leaves me speechless concerning the ethics and morality of our Media influencing national politicians.
The whole thing is like some bizarre rewrite of history that is being crammed down the throats of the citizens of some creepy Orwellian society – except its MODERN AMERICA where its happening!!!!!