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America's monopoly on stinking thinking!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/09/hudson.afghan.war/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2Brss%2Fcnn_latest%2B%28RSS%3A%2BMost%2BRecent%29
Michael Hudson, economist:
"I almost feel naïve for being so angry at President Obama’s betrayal of his campaign promises regarding taxes. I had never harbored much hope that he actually intended to enact the reforms that his supporters expected – not after he appointed the most right-wing of the Clintonomics gang, Larry Summers, then Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke and other Bush neoliberals.
But there is something so unfair and wrong that I could not prevent myself from waking up early Tuesday morning to think through the consequences of President Obama’s sellout in the years to come. Contrary to his pretense of saving the economy, his action will intensify debt deflation and financial depression, paving the way for a long-term tax shift off wealth onto labor.
In achieving a giveaway that Democrats never would have let George Bush or other Republicans enact, Obama has laid himself open to the campaign slogan that brought down British Prime Minister Tony Blair: “You can’t believe a word he says.” He has lost support not only personally, but also – as the Republicans anticipate – for much of his party in 2012.
Yet Obama has only done what politicians do: He has delivered up his constituency to his campaign backers – the same Wall Street donors who back the Republicans. What’s the point of having a constituency, after all, if you can’t sell it?"
"The bottom line is that after the prolonged tax giveaway exacerbates the federal budget deficit – along with the balance-of-payments deficit – we can expect the next Republican or Democratic administration to step in and “save” the country from economic emergency by scaling back Social Security while turning its funding over, Pinochet-style, to Wall Street money managers to loot as they did in Chile. And one can forget rebuilding America’s infrastructure. It is being sold off by debt-strapped cities and states to cover their budget shortfalls resulting from un-taxing real estate and from foreclosures.
Welcome to debt peonage. This is worse than what was meant by a double-dip recession. It will be with us much longer."
http://michael-hudson.com/2010/12/obamas-bushism/
http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/112701/class-2011-most-indebted-wsj
Here is one sink hole for the twenty something crowd.
@stonesphear, if I have your words correctly, you are saying that the left (progressives) need to tend to our garden or home better. I believe that the right (fascist-Nazis) only tend to taxcuts and the spewing of hate messages. It is the fascist-Nazis who have completed their agenda in one area; they made our country, the Anti-Christ nation. They have also enhanced evil across the board in every area in our country, such as wars, torture, the killing of God's children, and the enslavement and impoverishment of the poor and working American classes.
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This is a very interesting 1 hour long video of an interview of Joseph Atwill who wrote "Caesars Messiah- The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus"
http://www.youtube.com/user/caesarsmessiah?blend=22&ob=5#p/a/EE2421311F3...
or if you prefer just to go directly to the youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCNJf83bqjs
Two part (about 13 minutes each) of more recent interview (2011)..different host.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW1GIhWm7c0&feature=related
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHa4MOkXalM&NR=1
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dnarnadem:
You get my vote on that one...that is exactly right...they are all psychotic religions despite the fact that they try to hide it with countering words like love, charity, kindness...whatever. When it gets to the bottom line...it's as you quoted "Thou shall have no OTHER gods but me! All others you shall disown and anyone else who worships other than ME you will kill and destroy!"
The thing is that most believers are really atheists when it comes down to someone else's god. They easily dismiss the ancient gods, like Thor, and Odin, and Isis, and on and on as superstition based on ignorance and lack of knowledge but when it comes to their own ridiculous superstition they will often kill in his/her/its name.
But, as for kicking two Muslim Imams off the plane, I say that they should sue the airlines big time.
I believe in one god less than today's believers...I believe in no god. God is just an idea invented by the imagination of man to help him pretend that he has some control over life, his enemies, and to combat the fear of death. God (all of them) is just make believe! Pretend! And prayer to that God has no more chance of succeeding than a 50-50 chance at best. Nothing fails like prayer!
All the gods demanded loyalty and fealty to them but all but one last one has remained to haunt the world. This is not an example of the god's existence, in reality, but it is an example of how people can be continuously fooled by fiction spawned on by those preachers, priests, and other equally duplicitous detractors of reality.
I just watched an interesting new movie called "Thor" today. Good movie...excellent graphics...they just keep getting better...and I didn't even see the 3D version. It's one thing to temporarily suspend reality in a movie theater for entertainment value but another to believe in such things, of course. Some people have never left the theater and still see Jesus walking on water, splitting two loaves and fishes feeding the mulitudes, bringing people back to life, casting out demons, turning water into wine, preaching love and forgiveness on the one hand then condemn children to death for disobeying their parents, or condemning neighbors to death for working on Sunday. The closing scenes of his dying on a cross and rising up again 3 days later. What a story...borrowed or stolen from more ancient myths by hundreds or thousands of years. And even the early church fathers were aware of this particular knowledge which was quite an embarrassing contradiction to their own story of Jesus. So they said that the Devil made all of these ancient gods just to confuse believers in the newest myth that they were all concocting.
http://www.truthbeknown.com
I personally believe that the Romans invented Jesus to help counter the rebellious Jews. They had knowledge of all of those previous myths that they conveniently packaged together to form a relatively tame Jew willing to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar...and don't worry about worldly, material things when you will be rewarded in Heaven. And there are a number of biblical quotes that I won't even go into on that matter. Anyone ever hear about the story of Cannibal Mary? No, that particular story is not in the bible but in Josephus Roman Jewish Wars. But you can read about it here:
http://caesarsmessiah.com/blog/tag/cannibal-mary/
But as far as kicking two Muslim Imams off the plane, I say the Imams should sue the airlines big time.
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"They have proven for a long time now, that they are crazier, more violent, and less true to their religions than just about any other groups on the planet: radical Muslims, radical Christians, and radical Jews."
Bingo! They all trace their roots to the same God - Abrahamic that is! And Yes, Islam is a direct descendent religion of Abraham!
Just read the Old Testament and you'll know WHY they are so violent and murderous! It all comes from that quote - Thou shall have no OTHER gods but me! All others you shall disown and anyone else who worships other than ME you will kill and destroy!
Any wonder why radical fundamentalists who believe in NOTHING but a book will kill and murder in the name of THEIR GOD!
Millions have died and unfortunately many millions more will die until these psychotic religions disappear into the dust-bins of history!
It's not the people in obvious costume giveaway that they are Muslims but the one dressed like the rest of us we have to worry about. Terrorists do not dress like Mulsim Imams. They dress like American Presidents and their neocon/neoliberal underlings...or is it the other way around..that the Presidents are the underlings of the neocon/neoconservatives. Anyway, if you are going to be afraid of the next airplane you get on of being hijacked and crashing into tall buildings, forget about the Imams, you had better check out the on-board electronics to make sure they have not been tampered with. The 911 planes were tampered with and control of the planes was removed from the pilots, all communications were cut and the pilots were probably gassed in their cockpits anyway before the planes controls were taken over.
Of course most of you probably think this is a pretty ridiculous conspiracy theory...but you sure did get suckered by the "official conspiracy theory" which has so many holes in it that it is totally unbelievable.
Some of you believe that a class war has been waged against us for at least 30 years but you have reservations about some of those same people committing treason and murdering their own people. Hell, some people will kill their own brothers, sisters, or parents for financial gain...it is not inconceivable that these class warriors created the whole 911 false flag operation to create the effect that it created....frightening us out of our freedoms, liberties, and money(including our homes and ability to afford healthcare)...it'll get much worse.
We are on the brink. Some have already slipped over into the abyss. Many of you are next. As long as you continue going along with the official lies and don't question the dominant paradigm, as engineered by the ruling elite, you will have helped to make it all come about.
The one thing worse than the masses of useful idiots who listen to and side with the fascist right is the masses of deluded suckers who think that the institutional Democrat Party is going to save them. They only give you false hope "hope you can believe in" but hope that stabs you in the back after the politicians get their votes. I was one of Obama's useful idiots the first time when I voted for him but never again. What is worse than a one time useful idiot is a second time useful idiot one who did not "get it" the first time and keeps making the same mistake.
It is undeniable that the ruling elite has sent thousands of our own soldiers to their deaths...they had no problem in doing that...for a lie...and for greed...using the excuse of 911 and images of WMD and mushroom clouds...yet you have difficulty believing that these same people would not "sacrifice" thousands in an important deal-breaker...that was 911? Had 911 not happened do you really think they would have been able to invade the middle east?
Many insiders in the ruling elite knew that our financial collapse was inevitable. Many companies that went bust like Enron and Worldcom, and many others like them were just the tip of the iceberg....and many records of companies being investigated were housed in the WTC buildings....lost forever on that day. And the war in the middle east has help disappear a lot of our countries treasure...Billions of dollars went missing...and no one is demanding en masse that the Pentagon account for this. Hardly anyone made a dent by their objections to the bailouts of these criminal banksters...largely due to their man Obama who acted as a kind of relief valve and a distraction. Had Bush still been in office when that went down the whole country would have risen up in defiance. Smoke and mirrors...bait and switch....that's the games being played to further bury any semblance of people power in the US. We are all being turned into the starving masses to be peons for the undeserving few.
Right wing bigots acting like dumb-asses from 1692 does not surprise me. But what does, is somebody with the responsibility of an airline pilot reacting that way. He needs to be screened for post traumatic stress disorder resulting from the Bush reign of terror. By the way was Glenn Beck one of the passengers?
Do you dremember when people acted crazy when they first learned about Aids. How they shunned and discriminated against an 11-year ole boy in Indiana who had received a blood transfusion which contaminated him? People were just plain ignorant and awful! So, now we have a a few people who are once again arousing the fear and anger of these same people. Most Americans think they are very strong but actually this is sort of a scaredy-cat, wimpy country.
Personally, IF I were a Muslim and was going to fly on an airplane, I would dress as an American. I would certainly not dress in traditional Muslim clothes if I had evil intentions, either. Sometimes people don't know Arabs from Indians, Italians, etc.All Christian leaders who inflame people should be put on a no-fly list because they could be dangerous.
I hope
"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Well, I'll tell you, there are three groups of people who scare me more than any other groups, because they have proven for a long time now, that they are crazier, more violent, and less true to their religions than just about any other groups on the planet: radical Muslims, radical Christians, and radical Jews. In fact, other than the languages they speak, the clothing they wear, and the names of the religions they PRETEND to follow, there isn't any difference between them. No difference whatsoever.
Yes, religion is simply a coping mechanism for trying to comprehend the incromprensible. There are philosophies that help us to focus down to daily life, to achieve daily successes, and to understand simple consequences. Example: If EVERY family had 8 children over the last 50 years, what would the world population be today? UNSUPPORTABLE!!! This is an unequivocable fact. Simple math. Given the truth of the matter, what then, is the justification for ANY one family to decide they are so special that they can go ahead and have 8 children (or more)??? Isn't this supreme selfishness? Isn't this thumbing your nose or giving the middle finger to whatever diety (if any) you believe in?
The short answer to almost all questions of "Why are Republicans choosing this tact?" or "Why do conservatives disbelieve global warming?" or "Why are corporate CEOs getting such exhorbitant salaries?" is extremely simple. We are in a class war. Pure and simple. Think about every wierd decision your representative or senator has made and just ask the question: "How does this person PERSONALLY benefit from the decision they are making?" In almost every case you will see it is personal greed, personal power, a Machevellian level of selfishness that persists accross the centuries. The ONLY weapon the rest of us have against this level of personal agrandizement is our numbers. We MUST cooperate and band together. While it is true that the top 400 wealthiest Americans control more money and property than the bottom 180,000,000 (yes, MILLION), it is NOT true that they could withstand the combined effort of those 180,000,000 to strip them of their hubris.
Some of the frantic right-wing activity occurring now is from the sheer fear that these 400 feel that the 180,000,000 are starting to wake up. To paraphrase a famous historical quote: "These wealthy individuals are feeling the first twinges of panic that they may have woken a slumbering giant."
Sorry But, as a progressive I can't support a religion that seems to subordinate women. I am agnostic and really don't care about religions since I think that they have been taken over by people that use superstition to get wealth. I also don't support christianity or any other religion since organized control over people is just plain wrong.
Give the pilots a break. They were probably hallucinating from lack of sleep.
Every incident and evaluation in the public discourse needs to be taken in context! There are always problems with any report of this kind and details need to be noted, verified, and accurately reported. Did they say something, did they look really out of place, etc.
At the same time...yes, Muslims, or any minority, regarless of some presumed orientation toward politics and pecking order in the vast, complicated, and decidedly ignorant political and social landscape of America, need serious consideration, protection, and social relief from the overwhelming ignornace and predjudice of the general media and political rhetoric of this time which seem to inform the population of the US. Ignorance and its cousin, racial/religious predjucide, are oddly coincident with the goals of corporate America, the very rich, the far right, the power crazed, and stupidity everywhere.
More comprehensively speaking, can we, as a nation, please stop the process of dumbing down our citizens, increase education, instill in our children tolerance and cooperation? Can we? Will we? If we don't, our country, and the world, will fall into the abyss of ignorance and death.
My husband and I live in Redford, MI next to Dearborn Heights and Dearborn. We moved back to the Detroit area 5 years ago after spending 14 years on the west side of the state. We are still trying to absorb all the change we came back to see, from the state of the City of Detroit to the very large Muslim and Arab population. We are 67 and 71 and so we have plenty of interaction with the medical field here, being of the age where we need to consume more. We use the Henry Ford Health system and our doctors have been Indian, Pakistanian? Lebanese and I wish I could tell you all the others. My primary care, my husbands first primary care, his surgeon for a incisional hernia from an AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm), two dentists, my neuorologist ( I actually had her spell her name which I couldn't get (Grover)) we had a good laugh over that one. There are others that escape me at this time, but you get the picture they were all from that part of the world or second generation minimally. Even on the west side of the state we had a Lebanese dentist who along with his forenic dentist father went to NY for 911. It would be really bad if we got to the point where we did to those who looked like Muslims were interned like the Japanese during WWII. Being the age we are and being in the Detroit area we have a heightened awareness of what the civil rights movement was all about, in fact we went from a northern suburb back into the city in 1979 when every other white person was running for the hills to get out of Detroit. I feel so strongly that it should be in the atmosphere.
Its amazing what clothing one wears makes you a target. We are living in a insane asylum! I for one dislike suits =, Very military looking. I know you could wear a suit looking very smart by looking sort of out side of the suit. That's brilliant. Kind of a mockery to the suit if you will in a intelligent way. .
Sad to say, other than the references to the devil, I agree with almost everything you wrote (see my post later on in this blog). Here is a little ray of hope: In Washington State, we recently passed a law where ALL voting is to be done by absentee ballots. No voting machines!! All paper, traceable, ballots. I think there are other States attempting the same thing.
Most importantly, all that you predict will likely come true unless we overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court case. Although, even with Citizens United in place, I predict Obama will win. He is, in my opinion, the most intelligent and politically savvy President we have had in at least the last 75 years. I don't agree with a lot he has done (or not done), but, his administration has actually put in place more effective legislation, in the face of rabid opposition, than any administration in my life time.
This is all interesting and relevant to the issue. BUT, we ALL need to focus on the ONE thing that is threatening the foundation of our democracy: The Citizens United Decision. Everything else is a diversion. Everything else PALES in comparison to the unbelievable corruption that has been unleashed by that decision. I am asking EVERYONE to FOCUS on overturning that decision. Unless unlimited and undisclosed campaign contributions are TAKEN OUT of the equation for democracy, we have NO democracy. We are left to be ruled by the wealthy and by Corporations. Please, FOCUS on getting this abhorrent, amoral and reprehensible situation corrected!!!
How about a new Civil Rights movement for EVERYBODY, starting with repeal of the "Patriot" Act?
Geraid,
It would be helpful if the left tended better to our garden. Waste, reduncy, and inefficiency for starters.