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No, the Democrats have been bought off by the ruling elite. "Gridlock" is just their poor and unbelievable excuse. We don't believe it anymore. The Democrats are part of the problem so why vote for them? Teach them a lesson they won't forget next time they think about telling us more lies. The Democrats are as much owned by the ruling elite as are the Republicans. The system is corrupt and there is only one way to fight it...and it is to not play into their hands by voting for the lying twits that pretend to be on our side.
FDR was forced into war? More like FDR forced the US into war! The people in the US did not want to get into Europe's war.
"...the Japanese were provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. The majority of Americans, and even service men, were unaware of what was going on behind the scenes, but not all were. FDR had been charged in public with agitating for war since 1939. FDR had to push the Japanese into attacking the United States because the overwhelming majority of Americans opposed getting involved in the war and Japan itself had no intentions of attacking the United States, their interest was Asia. Without FDR's antagonisms towards the Japanese, Congress and the American people never would have allowed FDR to declare war on Japan or Germany; FDR knew this, and he also knew how important it really was that America join in the war against fascism and imperialism.
The most direct evidence of antagonisms toward Japan is the McCollum Memo written October 7th 1940 (declassified in 1994) that was given to FDR as well as the actions that were later taken by the administration."
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/fdr_provoked_the_japanese_attack.htm
The fact is that FDR knew about the Japanese ransacking Manchuria, China, and Southeast Asia and taking all their thousands of years of accumulated treasures...like gold and jewels. After the US gained control of the Philippines they managed to get a lot of that buried gold and other treasures that the Japanese hid on those Islands and scuttled just offshore. At one time, the US had 80 per cent of the world's gold...much of it from Operation Golden Lily...the Japanese operation of looting their neighbors. The US never gave any of this back to their rightful owners...largely the Chinese.
I watched part of a program on Link TV about Chinese Kindergarten kids who all had a deep hatred for the Japanese. They wanted to grow up to be scientists to build tanks and weapons in order to attack the Japanese. They said that the Japanese were enemies that did very bad things to the Chinese and stole all their money and things.
The US probably will deserve their eventual downfall, at the hands of the Chinese and/or the rest of the world, for having kept all of that gold and for not only helping the Japanese become an economic power once again but also hanging only a few token Japanese war criminals and letting the real bad war criminals go...and even assisted them in many ways. The Japanese war criminals, who should have been hanged, were helped to attain prominent positions high up in the Japanese government.
They even gave Ishii, the head of the Japanese biological warfare experimental camp in Manchuria where they did horrible things to people, a nice cushy job as a consultant at Ft. Deitrick, Md. chemical/biological warfare compound.
The Japanese had their own special propaganda that tried to hide all of their horrible things they did to the Chinese...like making sport of cutting off heads and bayoneting many of the civilians and making prostitutes out of the young Chinese girls.
Interesting Hawaiian court case of Roger Roxas against Imelda Marcos: read the Background portion:
http://uniset.ca/other/cs6/969P2d1209.html
i have to see it every day on paper. that 1% who claim to have negative income yet live in mansions and drive a benz or asscalade, tak etrips to europe, lots of liquifiable assets,holdings and stuff like that. me? just stuck getting stuck by the stickers that have pretty much stuck it to us all over and over again!lolol Iknow, I know...in the words of herman pain... i'z gots noboby 'da blame but m'self. and as far as romney? that guys just scary...he epitomises some of the people i have had the pathetic pleasure of working for in my life! peeps like me were brought up thinking good old hard work would be good enough if we hunkered down did our jobs and contributed golden eggz to our illustrious employers. I'm so sick layin the golden egz that pay for the mansion and the benz! get it? and in the meantime they just keep ripping out more money from education in an effort to make the kids even stupider then they are. holy crap! what has America come to! and i"m still tryin to find the right combo of words to sell the masses in respects to the poor people that wind up havin to fight the rich mans war. what the hell is that all about anyway?
Of course they're getting away with it, and the worse part is, Democrats have done nothing to stop it.
Berry, our soldiers aren't all phlegmatic dummies. It's just you guys who don't get it. And you just don't give a darn if fellow Americans starve and have no medicare. You let homeless verterans starve, Berry. You're not for the troops. You're windbagging -- fake from head to toe.
Anyway, if you see some soldiers on YouTube and reason all soldiers are the same, this is silly.
The progressive FDR was forced into war. A progressive isn't necessarily a naive radical-pacifist. When Bush took on Iraq, Americans didn't very much oppose. Now tipping over to the other extreme position would be crazy. Can't we be just realistic and not overdo in either direction?
Ron Paul's fans remind of those pro-life people who are pro GOP only because of abortion -- being ready to vote for true predators who have no mercy on their neighbor and ergo can't be considered Christians.
No, Ron Paul can't be considered a progressive if he has just one or two nice points and the rest aims at flatout negligent homicide.
How about Ron Paul ! Ron Paul is the choice of the Troops > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v0LxI7_v9vA
DRichards, Ron Paul might change to an independent and those liberals who tend to be blind on both eyes might fall for that nut. Paul will never be President -- he won't get that much votes. But he might take away tooooo many votes from Obama. If the result then will be another four years gridlock, because the GOP will control the house again, this will be deadly!!! You want four more years with nothing happening in America? You know, the tea party blocks anything that comes from Obama.
Please consider this, DRichards: Ron Paul is never a progressive!!! A progressive doesn't talk libertarian phrases, negating even the necessity of medicare. No, in this you're wrong. This doesn't fit to the definition of a progressive.
Paul's followers aren't very smart and we have to wake them up. Berry was downright campaigning for Paul, I just had to take on him.
It seems to me that Paul winning the republican nomination would be the democrats worst nightmare; as the Democratic Party could no longer consider the progressives a shoe in because "they have nowhere else to go" (at least not from those who consider themselves progressives first, rather than democrats first and foremost).
Ron Paul: "O'er the land of the rich and the hell of the poor."
That's what you actually should sing here Berry, for this is the whole truth about Ron Paul.
You're just repeating the typical phrases of a brain-mothballed ex-liberal: "I'm a liberal and I came to the conclusion Ron Paul is the solution." Blah- blah-blah....
Paul comes over the media as nice ol' uncle Ron, but in fact he is a beast. He says he wants to do away with medicare and that's horrible. It'll kill more Americans at home than in a war!!
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The wars were started by the Republican Bush! And Obama always wished to get out of them. But it's easier to get in, than to get out of a war. In global politics you cannot do as pleases you. You're can't be Thom's listener, otherwise you were able to present real facts.
I'm not "upset" -- this is campaign season and I just do what I got to do. Maybe you're not tough enough to stay in the fireline....
Okay, from what I can remember, according to Karl, the results of the New Hampshire primary are:
1. Phony (Romney)
2. Racist (Paul)
3. Who? (Huntsman)
4. Serial Adulterer (Gingrich)
5. Homophobe (Santorum)
6. And I can't remember the sixth one (Perry)
I actually can't remember how Karl referred to Perry, but that works out well.
OK, there is no excitement in the GOP primaries over the nominee, since we have known since 2008 that Romney is 'next in line'. But actually there IS a race on - it is for who will be 'next in line' for the next time.
The 'next in line' rules are
1) any member of the Bush Dynasty (if Jeb ever decides to run, he is automatically "next")
2) a sitting vice president
3) the VP candidate and/or runner up in the primaries.
#3 is what the race is all about right now.
Smith > See how our laws are eroding ~ "Good luck ! Everything is already perfect. I don't wish to convert you. Obvious you have hit a wall by the sound of your words . Stuck on somethings ? Look to something new, to Something old . Ha! The writings are on the wall. Vote who you please! I will not stop you. Don't be so upset. ~Join the military if you like to fight. "Save the world! Peace ! Its only my opining !
Who’s a real progressive?
Obama and Paul both hold positions anathema to liberals. Voters need to choose which ones to overlookBY DAVID SIROTAhttp://www.salon.com/2012/01/10/what_makes_a_progressive_president/
’s a real progressive? Yesterday, 12:13 PM
It's rather sad that nearly every article written by a non-libertarian about Ron Paul begins with a disclaimer that the writer is not endorsing Paul for president. Yet, with a virulent case of Ron Paul Derangement Syndrome plaguing partisan Obama loyalists, it bears repeating if only to preempt future mischaracterizations and slander: I am not endorsing Ron Paul for president.
That said, I believe the argument being forwarded by progressive-minded Paul supporters is significant because it embodies a calculating pragmatism that highlights uncomfortable truths both about liberal priorities and about presidential power.
To review the basic Paul profile: When it comes to government social spending and regulation, Paul is more antithetical to progressive goals than any candidate running for the White House. This is indisputable. At the same time, though, when it comes to war, surveillance, police power, bank bailouts, cutting the defense budget, eliminating corporate welfare and civil liberties, Paul is more in line with progressive goals than any candidate running in 2012 (or almost any Democrat who has held a federal office in the last 30 years). This, too, is indisputable.
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Berry, what is to read between your lines is about starving Americans. Taking away even their medicare, which is insane! Ron Paul plans that too and he said so. I just can't take you seriously: Ridiculous blah-blah with really terrible things between the lines. Ron Paul is ruthless, he doesn't give a darn for common people. As he is a racist.
Berry, this is the most hypocritical stuff I had to take these days. Whoever President would sell out my country I couldn't like at all. But Obama never did that. It's a lie and just a silly phrase. Obama did a lot for America, although your teapartiers tried to stop him all the time. You're infesting Thom's progressive website with poisonous thoughts. Berry, I just gotta watch that -- it can't happen uncontradicted here....Clarissa Smith > Try and read between the lines all listen closely to the calling. You sound like a worry ward of a me. So killing is better for you? How many different ways ? Continue spending for wars and handing over our money to the military complex over seas is good for you, so our children can go hungy and live in the streets? Ron is for the people, listen closely.. The money will be spent here. There will be a lot he will not be able to do.. I do not agree with everything Ron says. No one is perfect... Perhaps Ross Perot. Ha! There is only about 19% of the people that really know whats happening.We are in a mess! Paul just could Bring back law and order in the W.H . Not disregarding the constitution.
Berry, you really need a lot of help to understand you're playing with fire. Ron Paul gives a darn if you should get cancer someday. He will let ya die.... He will laugh at you if you should loose your work and home. How can you fall for that crazy guy, Berry? I just can't understand it.
Berry, get it: Obama is rich, Ron Paul is rich. Only Obama has goodness and Ron Paul is merciless. Remember that wealthy man who asked President Obama to raise his taxes? There are decent wealthy Americans, but Ron Paul is NOT one of them.
Ron Paul is gonna buy off America for himself and his wealthy class. He's gonna buy you and me. His program won't kill us in wars -- Ron Paul is gonna kill many Americans at home. Stop bumping your own heads liberals, it hurts ya!
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Real question thom is at what time did the government think we the people ever surrender our rights as a citizen to the banks
for their enrichment? Because if we do this will the new slaves of america.
Flip flops:
1. As Obama said against Bush for invading Iraq: "The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." Yet he later intervened in Libya without approval by Congress. Their drones have killed many innocent civilians in a number of Middle Eastern countries and Africa now. And the only reason why Obama is "pulling out of Iraq" (sort of) is because that was determined by the Bush Administration long before Obama. Obama really can't take much recognition for this. And we're still in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and probably Syria, Iran, and elsewhere..Africa.
2. Obama pledged to shut down Guantanamo but he didn't.
3. Obama had said (in 2005) that the Patriot Act "puts our own Justice Department above the law" He said it was "just plain wrong"! Yet he has done nothing to abolish the Patriot Act...it has gotten worse. Now Obama can haul any American out of his or her bed, special rendition him to some gulag and have him or her tortured...with no access to any legal system...no lawyers...just disappear people down the rabbit hole like they used to in the Soviet Union.
4. Obama said (in 2006) that "increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally...America deserves better."
5. Obama warned against demonizing Wall Street only a few days before he sympathized with the Occupy Wall Street protestors who do exactly that.
6. After all his pre-election rhetoric about Bush and the Republicans that got him elected...he has become...one of them...or maybe he was one of them all along!
Both the Republicans and the Democrats have lost hundreds of thousands of registered voters...the Democrats twice that of the Republicans. And they are shifting their hopes to Independents. The major two party system is corrupt and needs to be taken down for a change.
I voted for Obama and would have done so again if he had not been such a useful idiot for the ruling elite. But he is just such an embarrassment now...he was just a pushover for those forces who are trying to destroy liberalism....or even just a truly democratic system.
It's not democracy when the handful of extremely wealthy people control the elections, under false pretenses, by "owning" the President we voted for. We all voted for a President who said one thing before we elected him and got someone we had not imagined he would morph into after the election.
I got nothing against him, personally, but he is just not worthy of our votes again. If you vote for him again you will just be showing them that they can get away with this illusion of democracy. And just like the other Republican candidates, Obama is also a flip flopper. And I think Ron Paul is the least guilty of this. And perhaps who ever represents one of the other independent candidates may be a good choice this time. But we'd still be keeping our fingers crossed no matter who wins the Presidency.
The system, itself, is corrupt and very corrupting. But we need to send a very strong message to both the Republican and Democrat Parties that we do have other choices and do not need to be locked in to them.
Let's work together to overthrow that stranglehold that both of those arrogant parties have on us. If you even bother to vote this time...vote for someone other than Republican or Democrat. We need to send a wake up message now or we are ruined.
National exposure of Mitt's job killing spree for self enrichment makes society the winner! This parasitical capitalist makes one hell of a fine REPUBLICAN, and the party deserves him as their poster boy. The whole thing truly warms my heart.
Mitt supports the anti union right to work without rights states......or is it support for the right of a 1%er to be able to force the 99%ers to work without rights states?