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Subsidies are corportate greed in action and sign of corruption. We are a socialist contry, like it or not. If you took all the social programs out, what will you have? Think before you blast BS out.
@Palindromedary, I would say that I was first introduced to John Perkins from his interview with Amy Goodman and our son introduced me to Max Keiser. Both offered me some learning experiences.
@dnarnadem, yes the push is on early to elect an Anti-Life Party candidate by our 95% conservative media. I also learn from Rachel Maddow.
Here are some great articles to read.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/In-America-Being-Poor-is-by-Rania-Khalek-110514-839.html
Being poor is a crime!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/change-change-change--by-Craig-Coogan-110512-646.html
Nothing really changes!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Where-Is-The-Beef-Against-by-Curt-Day-110511-348.html
Socialism is the answer for a better world!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/DON-T-LET-THE-RICH-AND-POW-by-Brian-Enright-110515-6.html
Be proud of your progressive label!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Actually--the-Rich-Don-t-by-Dave-Johnson-110514-274.html
We create the jobs!!!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Horray-for-government--It-by-Don-Smith-110514-510.html
Hooray for government!!!
"I must now learn from Iranian television because the American media feeds us nonsense. Corporations run our country and they dictate to presidents, Supreme Court justices, the U.S Congress, and college administrators and professors what will be the course of action and behavior."
I learned from Rachael Maddow of MSNBC on Friday that the morning news programs this Sunday morning would have 9 REPUBLICANs and 1 DEMOCRAT! Last week they had 8 Republicans and 2 Democrats! Wouldn't any reasonable thinking person think that this was stacking the deck a bit!
Of course our Corporate Media is broke! Only one I watch is MSNBC, only the nightly ones, as the daily ones are a bit boring. Then there is Thomm's cable show. Other than that there is NOTHING of worth on our Corporate News networks, absolutely nothing! No wonder the American people are brainwashed! Or only see one side of things.
It's a pretty depressing picture of our times and also very dangerous for our Democracy!
"And at least one of Obama's orifices is/was wide open and was injected with bribery right up to his eye brows."
Nice ploy, like as if Matt Taibbi said this! But you did, didn't you? I would like you to prove this, as this is a load of bs that smacks of ignorance! And which orafice would you be talking about here? I also really do not like the allusion - it's sick really! And shameless! Where is YOUR moral compass?
And when you state that Obama was "Bribed", that can be construed as defamation, as Bribery is a crime one can go to prison for.
So which is it?
"Matt Taibi said in Thom's interview of him on RT was that Goldman Sachs was the largest contributor to Obama's campaign"
Largest contributor overall? Largest contributor to Obama over everyone else? How much did Goldman Sachs give to the Republicans? How much in secret?
This is a mis-leading statement. GS may very well have contributed to Obama, but they may very well have contributed 20-30 times more to the Republicans!
Interesting. I was reading "The Progressive Populist (April 15, 2011)" before I came to Tomm's blog. The Article is "Persistence Of Fascism And The Fight To stop It" By Randolph T. Holhut. Very intersting indeed! Holhut quotes VP Heny Wallace, who in 1944 stated this: "A Fascist is one whose Lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerrance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends"! This in 1944 when America was fighting the Nazi's.
How did Hitler and Mussolini get into power? Henry Ford for one supported Hitler and lent him Money until the Start of WWII! The House of Morgan (Big Bank!) and other banks fronted Mussolini to the tune of $100 Million to prop up his failing government. William Randolph Hearst did a deal to publish byline stories by Goebbels himself and other top Nazis in his publications! (I wonder if R. Murdoch and Fox Noise are not a modern version of this?)
Standard Oil ( Once Esso - Exxonmobile now) and Texaco - sold gas and other petroleum products to Fanco's Spain and to German & Italian millitary up to and after Pearl Harbor! Esso was part of the cartel as I.G. Farben and shared patents with the Germans for aviation fuel and synthetic rubber.
Alcoa, General Electric, General Motors, and du Pont were all American corporations that were members of the Nazi cartels. GMs opel plant in Germany built planes and tanks for the Pnazer divisions. Pratt & Whitney, Curtiss-Wright and Douglas aircraft all sold plane parts to Hitler!
You don't read that in our History Books! George Seldes documented this in his book of 1943 "Facts And Fascism".
Holhut then asks, "So why did the biggest corporations in America embrace Hitler, Franco and Mussolini?" His Anwser - "Because it was Profitable. As long as there was good money to be made, the moral ramifications of their various dealings were of little concern."
"That's why fascism is less about thugs in jackboots, and more about a system that Mussolini called "Coporate Control of the State". And you can draw a straight line between the industrialists who supported Hitler and Mussolini, and today's industrilists" (And Bankers!) "who support anti-democratic policies to fatten their wallets." Holhut
Holhut again - " in a globalizedworld where corporations bow to no government," (we witnessed this the other day when the big oil CEOs blamed Americans for high gas prices!) "money goes where the highest return can be gained, Dictators are propped up. Human rights are a merelegal technicality to be ignored. Genocide gets winked at. As long as there is profit to be made, it's all good."
This is a must read! What is happening today is blatant Fascism and the takeover of our Democracy to Create a Corporate State. Anyone who does not see this is asleep at the Wheel of ignorance!
The Corporate cartels and the modern robber Bankers of our day are out to destroy Democracy. It has to be stopped and soon!
Who's screwed if the republicans take control of congress? The republicans who voted them into office- including the rich republicans, because they will finish making this planet unable to support human life. So, it really would be in the republicans' best interest to always vote democrat.
But waterboarding isn't torture, every republican knows that. And to prove it, perhaps every republican should be waterboarded. Then renditioned to Syria.
Well that's all fine about profiling Muslims. Except for the fact that according to my information, Joe Lieberman, Newt Gingrich, and at least 79 other prominent republicans- including all of the republican party leaders- are actually closet Muslims who kneel on their prayer rugs four times a day and pray in the direction of Mecca. And not only that, they are also black. And Mexican. At the same time. (They wear makeup when in public.) If this ever becomes public knowledge, republicans all over America will start getting profiled, asked for their birth certificates, and deported to their home country, which of course is Liberia. So don't tell anyone, ok?
Well, see, the whole thing started when J. Edgar Hoover stopped wearing blouses and skirts, and started wearing evening gowns. You see, the gowns were not quite fitted right and they cut off the circulation to his brain, which died decades before the rest of him did. Really, he should have stuck with the blouses and skirts.
Yes, China is eating our lunch at this time. But the operative phrase is, "at this time," because in order to keep manufacturing the cheap plastic crap that we buy at WalMart, KMart, Sears, and of course at The Donald Trump Church of the Almighty Dollar and Frightening Comb-Over Emporium, Chinese manufacturers are horrifically polluting their own country. There is a very serious ongoing health care crisis in China. It started when Mao forced farmers to put crude little metal foundries in their back yards, thus polluting millions and millions of different places in China. And built dirty power plants and factories with no pollution controls or environmental laws. It is as impossible for China to escape the results of what they are doing to their own country, as it was- and is- for us to escape what we have done to our American environment. And it's not just in countries, either. 25 years ago, I fished in the Bering Sea- one of the most clean oceans in the world. Our boat had 12 people working 24 hours a day on the candling table. A candling table is a uniquely modern invention in that its only purpose is to shine a bank of powerful lights through the translucent plastic conveyer belt that that fish fillets are riding on, to enable workers to see the fillets that have tumors in them. The good fish, we turned into frozen fish sticks. The tons and tons and tons of tumorous fish fillets, we threw into 55-gallon barrels. And when the barrels were full we ground the tumorous fish into a vomitous-looking mush that was sold to Japanese companies as surimi- very popular over there. That was 25 years ago. The only time I eat any fish or other food from the oceans, is when it would be impolite to refuse. Because so much of the pollution from every country has been running into the oceans for so long, the oceans may be more polluted than the land- especially with the types of pollutants that can ride the rivers until the rivers dump their waters into the oceans. But there are some countries that are probably more polluted than the oceans, and China is right up there. The factories that are being built there, are being built there not only to take advantage of slave labor, prisoner labor, child labor, and serf labor, but also because there are no "inconvenient" pollution laws.
But on the other hand, if the Chinese government ever figures out that polluting their own country isn't a good idea, they will act far, far more quickly and effectively than the American government ever has, to turn the situation around. When corporate executives and manufacturing plant managers disagree with the Chinese government, they get imprisoned or shot. So maybe one day China's environment will be cleaner than ours.
MOVEMENTS and RESISTANCE are HISTORICALLY the ONLY WAY. Not Elections
Really! How about 1932 - that was an election. How about 1860 - that was an election. Now this works both ways of course. 1980 - that was an election. 2000 - that was an election (Stolen but still an election)! Except for our first Revoultion in 1976, I for the life of me do not know of any Movements and Resistance that has happened in our Nation that displaced Elections! Give me an example!
Oh 2009 was another election - guess who won that one? And of course the other way the elections of 2010.
And I would also like to see te "Biggest Corporate Donors" list you are talking about and the amount of money Supplied to Obama - versus the Republican "Biggest Corporate Donors" and the amount of Money they supplied! Of couse you'll never see the total amount for the Republicans due to their having bought off Supreme Court justices who gave them Citizens' United!
And as to that bit in your first sentence - looks like the Crap won out in your case!
Really! Mr. Todd you need to stop sniffing Koch! Read this! The Koch brothers are vermin Facists!
http://truthout.org/koch-brothers-fueling-far-right-academic-centers-across-us/1305206069
This piece incorporates hostile and misleading statements intended to PIT one group against another. Oil companies are personified as capitalistic monsters, without any concern for consumers. Many consumers are desperate, already stretched beyond their financial breaking point. This article will anger and enrage those consumers, while also providing a target for their hate: “…that American oligarch Charles Koch – one of the billionaire Koch brothers…”. An article concerned with improving conditions would have incorporated some salient facts to substantiate these alarming allegations, for example: How much money was paid? Who are the bribed administrators? What was the difference in the curriculum before and after the bribes, if any? What system was utilized to orchestrate the fraud and deliver bribes? These facts are not omitted by accident. They are omitted to enrage the left against the right. The author paints Charles Koch as an evil, billionaire oil monger, eagerly paying bribes to perpetuate a corrupt system. However, billionaires on the left are constantly being accused of the same sort of corruption, like allegations that George Sorros bribes union bosses and democrat politicians. The intent is the same; to manipulate, causing fear and anger directed at the perceived evildoers on the left or on the right. If these were the actions of children, they would be admonished to "grow up".
As long as the right and the left frighten and enrage each other, there will be no chance of any real, bipartisan progress. Currently, only billionaires at the top the food chain are benefiting and, I submit, the Kochs and Sorros' of the world like it that way,
John Perkins is one of my favorites and so is Max Keiser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmU9R-BaFIQ (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3Vk2AkC2U& feature=related (part 2)
Just wanted to point out that about the last thing that Matt Taibi said in Thom's interview of him on RT was that Goldman Sachs was the largest contributor to Obama's campaign just after saying that Goldman Sachs has more political pull (because of it's buy off of politicians) than any other company.
And that was said just after saying that there are 5 other law enforcement groups in our government that should have, but did not, clamped down and brought Goldman Sachs, and others, to justice. Matt also said that the same incentives for a continuation of what happened in 2008 continues today. So while the justice department found a small time scape goat in arresting that $60 million Hedge Fund criminal, Raj Rajaratnam, it has shied away from going after Goldman Sachs and other big time criminals. Matt Taibi had said in a Rolling Stone article: that Goldman Sachs is a "...great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells of money." And at least one of Obama's orifices is/was wide open and was injected with bribery right up to his eye brows.
There are a couple of new books out on Goldman Sachs one of which the author William D. Cohan, author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World", was interviewed on Cspan BookTV yesterday, Saturday...and will most likely be repeated today. He talked a lot about Henry Paulson and how he made it to the top of Goldman Sachs and how these and other financial institutions screwed us over. Very interesting.
Coming up May 23, 2011 is an HBO movie called "Too Big To Fail" which is about the economic scandals surrounding the investment bankers.
Matt Taibbi has some really good and hard-hitting articles on the more recent Goldman Sachs activities at his Rolling Stone web site at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog with headlines like: "Goldman steals tips from beer servers" and "Testimony, Golman-style; A Tour Through the Levin Report" and "Video: Talking Welfare for the Rich with Max Keiser"
Max Keiser interviews John Perkins from Iranian television. I must now learn from Iranian television because the American media feeds us nonsense. Corporations run our country and they dictate to presidents, Supreme Court justices, the U.S Congress, and college administrators and professors what will be the course of action and behavior. Americans need to learn and vote with their pocket books. The American media manipulates how Americans will think and behave. We must avoid Nike products because they have too many sweat shops. We need a consumer revolution with our pocket books. We have cheap labor in the U.S. American workers are working for slave wages. Americans are not better off than most of the world. We are worse off than European countries and their citizens. The CIA dictates and works overtime to place puppet dictators in foreign countries. Americans are currently in a non-shooting revolution with the government, the CIA, and homeland security. Americans will be more enslaved through false prophets and false prophecies.
The College Conspiracy
I was able to watch a video on the fact that college education is a scam or a Ponzi scheme. High schools are programming students to believe a college education is important. Our grade and high schools are programming students to think a certain way. The average cost per year for college is $27,000. Tuition is rising 5 to 15% per year. A college education is out of reach for most students and so they receive a government loan. Government loans are being made with taxpayers’ money. The taxpayer is being scammed to pay for someone else’s college education. College education loans in 2009-2010 were $106 billion. Completion of an education today places a person in debt and they will live as indentured servants for the rest of their lives. College loan laws are very vague. We have too many colleges in America. College coaches are overpaid and of no use for a good college education. College salaries for coaches are a waste of money. Twenty percent of colleges are projected to close by 2020 and the faculty will be reduced by 25 to 40% that same year. College degrees are worthless pieces of paper. All a college graduate receives from a college education is debt. The value of a college degree is declining and college standards have fallen dramatically. We have pharmacists, teachers, and lawyers who are unemployed. Lawyers add little value to a better world. Goldman Sachs has never created one job for the economy. Food inflation has dramatically increased in the past two years. The U.S. dollar is fiat currency. The dollar is worthless. The U.S. economy is a Ponzi scheme. The U.S. economy is on life support. We are dying daily from the real depression that is with us. The U.S. dollar has collapsed.
An internet education offers a quality education. This is one reason why the government and businesses will clamped down on an internet education. There are 500,000 Indians who have received engineering training over the internet. We have hyperinflation problems in our country. We are continually making the same mistakes. We have fourteen percent of our population living on food stamps. We need to study the U.S economy and think for yourself. “By their deeds you shall know them.” We can see this truism by studying the Anti-Life Party.
I'm pleased to see that there are no comments on this misleading narrative.
Either the censors at Thom Hartmann have deleted cogent comments, or Thom Hartmann is not nearly as effective at misleading as he might intend to be.
Judas goat.
http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/the-crumbling-of-free-trade-and-why-its-a-good-thing
Tikkun is a good source for information.
The Anti-Christ and Satan's disciples' souls are blood stained from the killing of innocent people in foreign countries. Committing of mortal sin by The Anti-Christ is common place.
The Anti-Christ’s history of her 236 years of incessant wars reveals our lust in the killing of God’s children.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Yes-They-Lied-Yes-a-Mil-by-Chris-Floyd-110513-922.html
The Anti-Christ is a murderer!!!
The Anti-Christ is a war state!!!
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=131670
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/05/13/nuremberg&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110
Time for a Nuremberg Trial for George W. Bush!
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/05/13/why_isn_t_wall_street_in_prison&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110
Time for Wall Street and a prison sentence!
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/05/13/the_republican_tax_minority&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110
What does the Anti-Life Party fear?
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/05/13/republicans_budget_taxes&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110
The Anti-Life Party is the big spender!!!
Who Are the Real Terrorists?
The Anti-Christ is the real terrorist! The Anti-Christ is comprised of our fascist-Nazi government, the American transnational corporations, the American rich, and the Anti-Life Party, aka Republican Party. These terrorist groups play on people’s fears, such as terrorism, immigration, college students, race, and non-Christian religions.