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  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    The Great Eight

    I need to share with you a dream I had. President Obama had sent his secret service staff to take me to Washington, D.C. I was taken to Camp David in the mountains of Maryland. The president said to me when we met that he had read some of my comments and he wanted me to put together a team to share information with him in helping our world move forward, especially the United States. I could not leave Camp David until I had a list of names to be on my team.

    I have many names for the list but I wanted to keep the team small enough to be a workable team. Here are the names for the team – Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (a peace activist cleric), Thom Hartmann, Paul Craig Roberts, Ray McGovern, Stephen Lendman, Rachel Maddow, Karen Kwiatkowski (a retired military officer), and Joan Walsh (writer and editor for Salon magazine). These eight names are the core for my team.

    I have four names to be called in as consultants from time to time – Doug Soderstrom, to offer inspirational words, Ed Schultz, to offer passionate pep talks on various subjects, Robert Reich, to share his economic information, and John Perkins, to keep us informed as to the United States’ predatory ways to take control over a country’s human and natural resources.

    At the start of each meeting we would read the lyrics from John Lennon’s song, “Imagine.” Some words may be altered to meet current times but the central theme of his song will be evident to all who read the words.

    The date, time, and place were not set because my wife in her melodic voice asked me a question that awakened me from my dream, “Jerry, what time is it?”

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Palindromedary - I (POWER CORRUPTS) was censored by Louise Hartmann who also deleted my user ID from the site. So I created this ID just to answer your question and let you know who is doing the censoring. WTF is wrong with what I said!?

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Privatization of the entire United States of Mortal Sin is not the answer!!!!!

    Do you sense a never ending feeling that someone is constantly jamming your behind whether it is on taxes, wars, bailouts, slave wages, etc. I feel a BOHICA 24/7. That is right - 24/7!!!

    http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/13/obama-and-the-pursuit-of-endle

    Endless wars!

    We have a volunteer military service and the persons who join it are true patriots. What do we do with our patriots? We screw them and take them off of help so there would be more money for endless wars. Where is the shared sacrifice by the transnational corporations, the rich, and our politicians??? Let these three groups pay more in taxes!!! Since they have the most to lose, they should pay a much higher percentage in taxes!!!

    http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=133039

    The Anti-Life Party wants to screw our military veterans!!!!!

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    I watched the Sunday CNN show about Wikileaks and they had on some retired US General (Mark Kimmitt) to comment on the "Collateral Murder" video and other things about Julian Assange. This is the same General Mark Kimmitt who back in 2004 after the US murdered many civilians at a wedding party:
    "After days of US General Mark Kimmitt saying over and over again that the US has no evidence that an Iraqi wedding party was attacked by US forces or even existed, the Associated Press gets its hands on a multi-hour video of the wedding."

    "There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday. "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too."

    "But video that APTN shot a day after the attack shows fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around the bombed out tent.

    The wedding videotape shows a dozen white pickup trucks speeding through the desert escorting the bridal car decorated with colorful ribbons. The bride wears a Western-style white bridal dress and veil. The camera captures her stepping out of the car but does not show a close-up."
    http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/001792.php

    So this is the "expert" mouthpiece that CNN uses to counter what Julian Assange and/or Wikileaks says? Almost everything this guy says sounds so ridiculously protective of the military atrocities that it is laughable.

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THOM!!! HE IS FREE TO ASK ANYONE ON HIS PROGRAM BECAUSE IT IS HIS PROGRAM. THAT IS NOT MY ISSUE WITH HIM. HIS GUESTS ARE FREE TO FILIBUSTER HIS QUESTION OR ANSWER AND MANY DO FILIBUSTER. THAT IS NOT EVEN THE ISSUE. HERE IS THE ISSUE. THOM, PLEASE I BEG AND PLEAD WITH YOU TO HAVE CONSERVATIVE AND REPUBLICAN GUESTS TO ANSWER HOW, WHAT, AND WHY THEY WOULD DO CERTAIN INTERVENTIONS TO RESOLVE OUR PROBLEMS. THEY DO NOT ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. I HAVE FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WHO COMPLAIN AND WHINE ABOUT OUR MANY PROBLEMS BUT THEY ALSO REFUSE TO GIVE ME A HOW, WHAT, AND WHY TO RESOLVE MANY OF OUR PROBLEMS. IS THE ANSWER IN SHARED SACRIFICES WHERE THE RICH, POLITICIANS, AND TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS PAY A HIGHER PERCENTAGE IN TAXES THAN THE WORKING CLASS SLAVES??? I SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH A GRADUATED INCOME TAX UP TO NINETY-ONE PERCENT!!!

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Yes, many of those "captured Taliban" were just civilians who the US government paid money "rewards" for. And the war lords, and others, made lots of money by turning in anyone they didn't like to the US Military. The US wasted lots of money in rewards and then even more in building and running the US gulags in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gitmo.
    In the process, they created more potential enemies for the US. This, of course, is all planned and meant to replace the "Red Menace" of Communism. The Capitalist elites who used Communism as an excuse to rape the world of it's capital and commons is now using the fabricated "terrorism" excuse. The more "terrorism" the ruling elite can create the more they can get away with a "disaster capitalism" pillaging of the world. Would these criminals balk at murdering a few thousand Americans in tall buildings..or a few thousand more American soldiers to control the world? People have to get out of the mind-set that "we are too civilized" or "that could never happen here" mentality. "Our elected officials or other powerful groups would never do such a thing?" They would and they did!!! The evidence is compelling...but people just have a problem with challenging organized anything...until after the damage is done and it is really too late to do anything about it.

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Wow! PC you either chickened out and deleted your comment or you were censored! And the question is censored by whom? Should I be paranoid here?

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Yes...this is very scary when you consider how Fahad Hashmi has been treated for mostly just, and justifiably, speaking out against the criminal acts of the US.

    quotes from the article:
    "We no longer have freedom; there is only the appearance of freedom. We are consumed by an endless and vague war on terror in which the perfidiousness of our enemy, whose number, location and nature are never clearly defined, justifies the shredding of constitutional rights, torture, kidnapping, detentions without charges or trials and an occult-like battle against an absolute evil. And if you think the state intends to limit itself to the persecution of Muslims, especially once there is an increase in domestic unrest and instability, you know little about human history."(my emphasis)

    “special administrative measures,” known as SAMs. SAMs are the legal weapon of choice used by the state when it seeks to isolate and break prisoners."

    "SAMs, which were renewed by Barack Obama (my emphasis) in October, severely restrict a prisoner’s communication with the outside world. They end calls, letters and visits with anyone except attorneys and sharply limit contact with family members. Fahad, once in this legal straitjacket, was not permitted to see much of the evidence against him under a legal provision called the Classified Information Procedures Act, or CIPA. CIPA, begun under the Reagan administration, allows evidence in a trial to be classified and withheld from those being prosecuted."

    "Anyone who has contact with a prisoner under SAMs is prohibited by law from disclosing any information learned from the detainee. This requirement, in a twist Kafka would have relished, makes it illegal for those who have contact with an inmate under SAMs—including attorneys—to speak about his or her physical and psychological condition."

    http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/no_justice_in_kafkas_america_20110613/

  • Daily Topics - Monday June 13th, 2011   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Reagan deregulated the enforcement of the Sherman Anti-trust Acts . . .

  • Daily Topics - Monday June 13th, 2011   14 years 7 weeks ago

    I see you have Dan Gainor scheduled for today also . . . I am soooooo outside my happiness zone.

  • Daily Topics - Monday June 13th, 2011   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Peter Ferrara continuously displays impolite behavior, leads with inappropriate accusations and works frantically to filibuster every discussion Thom attempts to have with him. This bombastic behavior combined with his lack of fact-based appraisal of reality makes listening to him . . . bad radio.

  • So is that our new strategy in Afghanistan – capture innocent people just to boost numbers?   14 years 7 weeks ago

    HISTORY REPEATING, indeed - Where is our Habeas corpus?!?!?!?!

    http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/no_justice_in_kafkas_america_20110613/
    No Justice in Kafka’s America - Chris Hedges
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    This story scares me out of any protest ideas that I may have had. I don't want to resist and be tortured like Bradley Manning or Syed Fahad Hashmi.

    Is this why Thom hasn't participated in any civil protests?

  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Absolutely, but that's NOT how Republicans roll. Remember Newt? He's STILL at it!

  • The Thom Hartmann Radio Program   14 years 7 weeks ago

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  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    I hope this isn't a thread ls so long it will not be read. Regarding the Florida police chase/shooting, I had a conversation with a friend who is a Sergeant in a local police force, and my description of the scene caused him to just shake his head. When the video is viewed, especially from one view taken from a third or fourth story window above the stopped car, one can see the police surrounding the car, and then shooting into it as in a circular firing squad - with onlookers on both sides of the street. My friend asked how many police and bystanders were shot. Answer unknown, but a truly logical question, and a miracle if nobody else was injured.

  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Over the years I have sensed that our country has been in the toilet and the Anti-Life Party has been trying to find someone to flush it. Someone will flush the toilet but we do not know who and when it will be flushed.

  • Welcome to the United States – a nation of 80-year-old bricklayers, burger-flippers, and Wal-Mart workers   14 years 7 weeks ago

    One can only hope that most of those working to death will be those same real American, evangelical Christians.

  • If you want workers’ rights – move to South Africa...   14 years 7 weeks ago

    And what is my Political Idelogy? Like I said you know nothing about me.

  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Just watched CBS Sunday Night News and they did a piece on Teacher's pension plans that was so slickly biased against teachers it was beyond the pale. Peddling bias as news used to be the domain of Fox but CBS just served up a huge slice of GOP pie... and since it was on national news it will be eaten by the populace like so much slop... before the pigs are lead to slaughter.

  • If you want workers’ rights – move to South Africa...   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Did you read my post? People with your political ideology vote a certain way, thats a fact. Unless you don't understand your own rhetoric, I find it very easy to grasp what you're up to! By the way I respect everyones opinion on this blog including yours, but the idea is to exchange these in a constructive manner, as opposed to attacking one another!

  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    Imagine balls, say 2-3 feet in diameter, flying around and hovering over our streets, watching us and even, perhaps, murdering us in our back yards. Well, they already have helicopters flying around spying on "us?" someone anyway. But what if these flying, hovering, and very maneuverable "balls" were patrolling our neighborhoods en masse? Well, check this out...the future is here....
    http://www.electronicsinfoline.com/New/Robotics/spherical-military-drone...

  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    @Palindomedary, thank you for the information! I added the Prison Planet article to my June list of articles.

  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    72? Wow! I would never have thought it! You run rings around me in reading interesting articles. Great articles by the way! I know...it's scary...but it's happening! And maybe we need to get Elizabeth Warren into the Presidency.

    Yes, America has become a great big "racket".

    I was listening to a podcast of a Guns and Butter show with Bonnie Faulkner. They were doing a fundraiser and they played audio excerpts of a documentary called "Loose Change: 9/11, An American Coup" and one part was telling about the story of:
    "In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush the current President's grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

    According to the BBC, the plotters intended to impose a fascist takeover and 'Adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.' "

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/240707fascistcoup.htm

    That, along with Operation Northwoods, and all of the other treasonous affairs that rich and powerful men in the US have tried and failed, or tried and succeeded, in undermining democracy makes it very believable that they would not hesitate to orchestrate and carry out 911. And with the smoking gun of explosive residue and high tech nano-thermite in the 4 different dust samples taken from around the WTC just minutes after the collapse of the WTC buildings, and all of the other evidence, there is no doubt in my mind that these treasonous criminals in the US were responsible for carrying out a coup against Americans.

  • As long as Senator David Vitter, a client of the DC Madame – keeps his job – then Republicans should shut up on Anthony Weiner   14 years 7 weeks ago

    I have admitted to you that I am sinner. I am not proud of my sins but I am trying to be a better person.

    An Open Confession

    Catholics have the Sacrament of Reconciliation and non-Catholic Christians are now discussing the importance of counseling by Protestant ministers. There is a belief that confession is good for the soul.

    I, too, believe that confession is good for the soul. Here is my open confession to the readers. Actually, it is my confession to a priest in California while we were visiting our son. Our son’s parish church is a very conservative church.

    Bless me father for I have sinned! It has been about a month from my last confession. I have committed the following sins.

    After reciting my litany of sins from various sources like the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the Seven Cardinal Sins I asked the priest a question. I cannot deny that I am a sinner.

    Father, I am starting to want and wish that Americans would feel the pain and suffering like other countries so we might have more sympathy for their plight. Wanting and wishing pain and suffering to any of God’s children is a mortal sin and it is similar to people who believe that the Iraq war is right and moral. Believing in the Iraq war is a mortal sin!!! The priest said to me that I did not have to want or wish for our country to experience pain and suffering because we are presently feeling this pain and suffering. Americans will continue to feel pain and suffering because they will not repent. Unless Americans repent, there will be ongoing pain and suffering.

    What the priest said to me made me feel good because I no longer had to want and wish pain and suffering for any of God’s children. As I look around, I can see Americans feeling the pain and suffering. This pain and suffering is ongoing because Americans refuse to repent.

    I asked the priest for forgiveness for the sins I can remember and for the sins I cannot remember.

    I concluded my confession by thanking the priest for answering my question. The priest gave me my penance to complete and the absolution and I said an Act of Contrition. He also said “Go with God” and I thanked him. This is my open confession to all who care to read it.

    Numb Nut Americans will never repent because they believe their way is the right way. They are never wrong. Every day Numb Nut Americans commit the Cardinal Sin of Pride. We can do no wrong. A false belief is embedded in their psyche that we, Numb Nuts, are good, holy, and saintly. Actually, we are the devil’s disciples.

    Here is the answer for Americans and the world population!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VGuqk5sleA

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