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I am sick and tired of Republicans playing games with our economy. The republicans think America doesn’t have enough problems so they manufacture a crisis out of the debt ceiling. The problem is that America has been cutting taxes on the most affluent among us for the last thirty years while failing to aggregate the demand side of the economy ( The middle class). It is simply stated that revenue and spending must come in line with one another to have a balanced budget. While the Democrats and the independents see this as the solution, the republicans think America only has a spending problem. They say never mind the facts that wall street billionaires only pay a 15 percent capital gains tax while hard-working people like you and I pay in the thirties. They say raising taxes on the rich is much more deplorable than raising the retirement age for our moms and grandmas. I want to remind republicans that the debt ceiling was raised thirteen times during the Reagan Administration and several times in every administration since, which was always a result of ridiculous tax cuts not increased spending. So ask yourself what kind of America do you want to live in. One where we take care of our people and where we have strong middle class, with strong social safety nets, and strong infrastructure. Or an America that allows the wealthy to rule our politicians, a system that lets our sick and old fend for themselves in a marketplace that only cares about turning a profit, and an America that is falling apart with crumbling infrastructures. We must all unite and vote out those republicans that want America to be a feudalist society.
And how many people initially thought that "terrorist" attack in Oslo was caused by Muslims?
He was a Christian Fundamentalist who went on to murder over 80 young people and/or children at that island camp.
Just keeping things fair and balanced here. Of course, many other "Christians" will immediately try to disassociate him with their beliefs even though the have most likely associated what a few Muslims may have done to all the rest. I believe it was not even "what a few Muslilms have done" because 911 was an inside job and the Muslim "terrorists" were patsies set up to take the fall for what an insidious and powerful neocon group did inside their own country against their own people.
Gerald: Good advice about the heart. Wish you well!
Is that supposed to be a scoop? All politicians dupe the electorate to get elected! Where have you been for the last 100 years?!
Obama seems to be playing along with the notion that we have a debt problem, why doesnt he wake up and fight for the USA. The Republicans are unpatriotic, traitors. They have no interest in helping increase jobs, improve the stability of the US, make the "American Dream" attainable by all, etc. The Corporatist Republicans are self-serving, greedy, power-hungry and care nothing about the USA much less the people of this country. They keep saying Obama should "listen to the people" because the people are on the side of the Republicans? Every poll indicates that people are for raising taxes on the rich, raising the debt ceiling, and maintaining social security and medicare; so yes he should listen to the people. But why doesnt he pay attention and use the bully pulpit since that is what he is there to do; use the presidency to push the policies in the direction his party stands for.
Why is it the terrorists and lone gunmen are always right-wing, religious fundamentalist?
Although I have shared with you a health issue that I have, there are many health issues even more serious, such as cancer, severe case of diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease or the long good bye. The brain has died but the body can linger on for several years and that is why Alzheimer’s disease is called the long good bye.
Let me focus on the heart issue! You must not only take care of your heart you must love your heart.
Recently, I had a second generator implant into my pacemaker. The first generator’s life span was 2 years, 10 months. The norm is 3 to 5 years. The generator was functioning at 81 or 84% of power and my heart was functioning at 16 or 19% of strength. I forget the exact percentage for the first generator. I do know the exact percentage for the second generator because I was at the medical center office as my generator was being programmed. The second generator is functioning at 87.1% of power and my heart is functioning at 12.9% of strength. The life span for the second generator may be less than 2 years, 10 months. What I have learned from these generator implants that the more power needed by the generator to help my heart, the more energy is zapped from me. Please remember to take care of your heart and please love your heart!
Where've you been, Tom? I talked about this weeks ago. See an article by Mary Bottari on HuffPo about a shadowy group called ALEC...apparently part of the legacy of the great Milton Friedman. It's all theatre!
During Obama's first year in office, the official unemployment rate (which does not count underemployment or those unemployed workers who are so discouraged they have stopped looking for work) went from 7.8% to 10% in little more than six months, so Obama is "crashing the economy" all by himself. Next year, we'll see if the electorate chooses to vote for 4 more years of jobless "recovery." Obama truly is the Jimmy Carter of this century, a clueless, one-term wonder, and he instinctively seeks "consensus" with the slash and burn GOP. It was *Obama* who recently put Medicare and Social Security "on the table," that is, on the chopping block, which proves the Prez is NO "progressive.".
Now that a corporation is considered to be a "person" (according to the Supreme Court), they should also be prosecuted for crimes such as murder. Of course, since capital punishment in this country is legal, the corporation should be sentenced to death. Once that occurs, the corporation would be dismantled and never again allowed to incorporate. All we have to do is prove that the whistle blower who recently died, was murdered by a representative of or someone hired by the corporation.
With that said (partially in jest ), many corporations have become too big to be able to effectively manage. As with the phone companies of the past and the media conglomerates and banks of today have proven, the losers in the end are "we the people". They must be broken up.
On a personal note I enjoy watching birds. I am not an expert on birds but there is something special about birds. I have just seen three Yellow Finches. These tiny birds are beautiful to watch.
I have great information for persons who stress job security. Here are the three educational and training areas that will never have you unemployed in the United States in Mortal Sin – join the military services and be trained in the killing of God’s children, complete studies as a minster in the Old Testament where God is depicted as a punishing and vengeful Creator, and for truly a safe and secure job with one hundred percent employment complete a degree from the School of Americas on torture. The torture of human beings in the United States in Mortal Sin is the wave of the present and future with no end in sight.
The 6:30pm news on ABC, CBS and NBC are, as Tom Wolfe said, "just a doily for the mind." It seems that the content of the news is decided in the boardrooms of holding companies.
I give to the poor and to working Americans a famous quote.
SUCK IT UP AND COPE – Charles Munger
What truly astounds me is the amount of hatred, corruption, and lies that we face daily in this country!
Polls indicate that 67% of the voters will dump their incumbent politician, such as a House and Senate politician. These figures do not bode well for the Democrats. I give you this poll because Republican voters are very protective of Republican incumbents. They are as protective as a junkyard dog that is protecting a junkyard. Their thought processes are as similar to a junkyard. Progressive voters are patriotic and thoughtful. They stand ready to dump junkyard politicians who exhibit little brain matter in their thought processes.
How does an adult (Obama) communicate with spoiled brats (Boner and his goons)? Even though Obama is an adult, he does not seem to possess the guts to do what is right for the American people. Obama will cave into the Reichwingers’ demands.
http://news.yahoo.com/phone-tag-wrong-numbers-collapse-debt-talks-060105421.html
The United States in Mortal Sin, aka the Anti-Christ, is rotten to the bone! Hypocrisy is embedded into the American psyche!!! We are Satan’s disciples!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyxPJakuSbA
John Boner of Ohio is behaving like a spoiled brat. If I can't have it my way, I'm taking my ball and bat and I'm going home.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-press-statement-2200-gmt-220257502.html
When W was in office, the Reichwingers voted every time to increase the debt ceiling. They ran up these huge deficits and now they refuse to pay the bill with shared sacrifices by the rich, the politicians, and the transnational corporations.
Personally, I predict that Obama will cave!!!!! That has been his MO since he became president. He is the Grand Experiment that has failed America and the American people.
It's time to get the machettes out from under the beds. When Washington no longer heeds the will of the people, then the people must rise up.
It's not just a corporatization of America...it is a criminalization of America....I must have blinked because I have run into a number of YouTube videos about last year's Wachovia/Bank of America drug money laundering scandal. Actually, it is not just those banks...it is a systemic problem among many major banks. Banks don't really care where the money comes from and have accommodated drug lords in laundering money. In fact I heard this years ago...that if it wasn't for all of the drug money in our banking system...and in other businesses...our economy would collapse...and that was, like I said, years ago.
Man, I just watched a very exciting show on The Young Turks TYT July 20, 2011
Cenk Uygur tells how MSNBC management was being hastled by powerful people in Washington for Cenk to tone down his rhetoric against those powerful people in Washington. He tears into Republicans and Democrats and gets very expressive about it. The MSNBC management offered Cenk another job for twice the money but the job was really kind of a way to get him out of the public view even though his ratings beat other channels like Fox. He turned them down! Luckily, he has his own internet show. After telling his story, he goes into the news and really goes to town. Man, this guy is really exciting to watch and listen to. He previously had on Bernie Sanders who Cenk said was really ticked off about the Gang of 6. Watch it! You won't be sorry! Watch the 41 minute version...not the shorter versions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AD4gMt2ig
It is happening here. The corporatization of America is in full swing. While it may be another day for you and me in paradise, we may soon find paradise lost. We need democracy, not corporatocracy.
The Nazis eventually succumbed to the overwhelming powers that defeated them.
The US, the most powerful nation in the world, has become a corrupt criminal empire with no one powerful and righteous enough to set things right. Maybe all we can hope for now is that the aliens attack and enslave our current ruling elite. Unless we revolt from within?
Did some congress members make a killing on drug money from Afghanistan and Pakistan then two Senators smuggled hundreds of millions of dollars to Zurich banks?
"Truth Jihad"-talk show-Kevin Barrett-2011/07/18-guest second hour- Gordon Duff of http://www.veteranstoday.com
The radio talk show is here:
http://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archive/Truth-Jihad-32k-071811.mp3
Skip forward to the second hour
Gordon Duff and Kevin Barrett talk a bit about 9/11, the couple of vans with two tons of explosives that were stopped by police on that date. Mentions the USS Liberty. Talks about Rupert Murdoch for a while.
~1hour 35 minutes
Talks about a number of highly suspect "suicides" from people...journalists who knew too much and said too much.
1:37:~
Barrett: So I guess that means the details on this drug money financing the congressional..Duff cuts in...Oh, uh..Barrett continues...will have to wait till another day when you are in a ????
1:37:20
Duff: Oh, I can tell you how the money is moved. The money is moved in financial instruments in the form of standby letters of credit and it is carried by members of ?? who in particular are, uh, Senators one of whom is an ??independent?? but I won't name him; and, the other one I won't name either. Yeah and I won't...I refuse to name him...and they will pick up in the hundreds of millions of dollars at a time. If you check the travel records of the members of congress pertaining to Afghanistan or Pakistan...who they meet with...and you follow their trail back to Dubai, to Tel Aviv, to Zurich...that means they are moving financial instruments that are at least...(then Kevin Barrett interrupts and says to save till after the break)..
1:43:20
Barrett: Welcome back.......we have Gordon Duff, editor of VeteransToday....saying things that most other media.....cannot say.....Gordon you're talking about drug money going to finance congressmen, which I guess, doesn't surprise me.
Duff: .........of course billions of dollars have been bilked from the American public in Afghanistan. 58 billion dollars have been spent there on projects, nation-building projects, and yet most of the things that were supposed to have been built don't even exist........the money was stolen and nothing was built.
Duff goes on to tell how he was there in Iraq with the UN taking pictures of the sites that were supposed to cost billions of dollars and the sites were all empty.
Duff: The members of congress saw how much money was being stolen and they felt left out so the looked for an opportunity...for business opportunities and their plan was this..Afghanistan was exporting Opium paste...so they set up two businesses...one to ship fertilizer...for growing opium....and made millions in profit doing that...their other was to set up German companies...chemical laboratories to product heroin....using chemicals that are used in dry cleaning shops...so current and former members of our government got USAID funding and opened businesses for ordering dry cleaning chemicals which were used for processing heroin....several journalists were on this trail as long as two years ago...and their stories never hit...but they talked to me about it and now I'm telling you......
Duff: .......when it was discovered that 58 billion dollars was stolen by non-governmental organizations...that get contracts...keep the money..then pay off the CIA, or payoff the army, or pay off someone...and it's why the US is in so much debt...because trillions of dollars disappeared.
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I read another article where flight records have recently been closed to public inquiry if requested by certain people. So, by now, it might not be easy to check on the flight records.
What's going on here? Republicans must know these poll results. For years Republicans quietly chipped away at safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. This year they are going after these programs on steroids. They appear not to have any concern for negative public perception. What caused this change? Surely, the 2010 election couldn't be the only reason. War has been declared but Democrats appear not to have gotten the message. They apparently have decided to put all their marbles on the table at this time to once and for all create a single party system by destroying unions, creating obstacles to voting, redistricting, and otherwise destroying all programs created by Democrats and coveted by average citizens. The question is how dumb are Americans really? They swallowed the Kool Aid in 2010 and Republicans ran the table and took over the House. How much BS will Americans actually swallow? Are Americans really dumb enough to also give them the Senate and Presidency in 2012? Republicans are determined to block raising the debt limit and putting our economy further in the tank. Are Americans really dumb enough to actually believe it will be the Democrats fault? Closing 50,000 factories, exporting 8 million jobs, determined to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, cutting taxes on the rich and corporations on backs of poor and middle class, shutting down the EPA to allow corporations to ruin our air, water, and land, allowing Wall Street to self regulate and implode the economy. Just how much do REpublicans need to do for people to recognize them for what they are. Bought and paid for, Ayan Rand disciples, whose goal is to make us a Third World Economy.
I think we should all, as progressives, be alarmed about a group calling itself Americans Elect which was founded by Peter Ackerman. They have set up petition spaces at Malls trying to get signatures on petitions. The one at our local mall had 3 different petitions...one...something about preventing the government from deducting from workers paychecks for campaign contributions...but there was other stuff on it as well which my radar flags it as not what you think it is. Another petition is from Americans Elect...which claims that they are not a political organization and doesn't represent any particular party.
If you are unhappy with the current political climate, with Obama, and who isn't now a days...then you are likely to sign the petition. In fact I watched quite a few people sign the petitions and none of them looked like they were conservatives who wanted to do away with social security or privatize it. If you check into the background of Americans Elect...and Peter Ackerman (I believe his son is now running Americans Elect) you will find that he made a fortune in CDOs, sits on the advisory board of the right wing CATO Institute Project on Social Security ....which wants to privatize social security. He also is part of group that sounds great having to do with non-violence but when you look at it ...it has more to do with taking over other countries through the use of non-violence...not because he necessarily cares for human life but because it is cheaper and more easily done...or so it is presumed. Many believe he is an imperialist. Now, having said that, and check it out for your self at www.sourcewatch.org , can you believe that this Americas Elect group will act in our best interest...or add to the power of the conservatives who want to push the tax burden on the non-rich, who want to privatize social security, who want to overthrow other countries using the economic methods that have been in effect effectively overthrowing governments, and further exploiting and abusing us?
I went around the corner to another part of the mall where there was a petitioner who said he was representing President Obama and was trying to find out how many people intended to vote for Obama in the coming election. I watched that for a while and no one wanted to talk to the guy. I talked to him and told him that I had voted for Obama the first time but considered Obama a fake Democrat or a Republican who has sold out his constituents, sold out social security. He tried to tell me that Obama just had too much Republican opposition to be able to do anything and that he had to compromise. And I told the guy that Obama compromised way too easily and didn't even try to fight for us...over and over again he sold us out. So I would probably be voting Green or not at all.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Ackerman
"Americans Elect Web Page Posts New Signature Total for Ballot Access Petitions
June 23rd, 2011
Americans Elect’s web page now says 1,348,312 signatures have been obtained on petitions around the nation, to get that party on the ballot. The page seems to update that figure each Thursday. Last week’s total had been 1,262,665. The vast majority of these signatures have been obtained in California, where 1,030,040 valid signatures are needed.
In California, Americans Elect petitioners are being paid $1.25. However, if a petitioner submits at least 400 signatures per week, the pay for all signatures for that petitioner that week is raised to $2.00 per signature."
http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/06/23/americans-elect-web-page-posts-n...
So it looks like they have the petitions by telling people that they have no political affiliations and only seek to make government responsible to the people again. But they won't tell you who will be running for President...he is to be selected sometime later and just before the elections. How much do you believe that they will select a progressive? They will likely be selecting yet another faker which will end up screwing us even more.
I was abused as a child, im lucky i got the help i needed because who knows how fucked up i would have been if i had not! Im glad i had my parents to help as well!