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Thanks for your comment. And I agree that the economics game and greed has been going on for a long time as we inherited that trait from the animal kingdom from which we evolved..the lizard part of our brains..perhaps. My dogs will romp and play and love to beloved but when it comes to feeding time, or attention time (petting) they show an exemplary display of selfishness. But there are sparks of selflessness even in the animal kingdom. I'm afraid that some humans have evolved in ways that play down the selflessness parts of (wo)man-kind's collective evolution and have specialized in justifying atrocities in the name of selfishness.

The Republican party seems to be a bastion of these kinds of people who brazenly display their selfishness and celebrate it. The ones in the Democrat Party are sneakier and make more pretenses to selflessness. But, most of them, I believe, are really being selfish when they will do anything to get re-elected or to suck up to those greedy and selfish criminals in the Republican party.

The thing is that unless we are all vigilant and hold our elected officials and everyone else in government and show them that we are not pushovers for any old propaganda they see fit to use then it makes it easy for them to get away with anything. We have to keep their feet to the fire and make them prove what they say to be true otherwise they could tell you anything and they could get away with whatever they wanted. Don't be an easy pushover for any politician or official. Otherwise you make it very easy for corruption to flourish. It is already flourishing....because there are not enough doubters who are pushovers who will believe anything they are told. Do you think the government would release anything if the people didn't express doubt and challenge them? It is patriotic to question authority! Only simpletons who swallow everything the government tells us don't question them.

Alex Jones never excepts the official story. That's what he does as should we all. In 90 % of this interview Thom and Alex were in lock step. So these two minds potentially could be right 95 % of the time if they could better get their heads together. The problem with Alex is that when he smells a skunk and needs his listeners to be aware of it he begins to fabricate a multiple of other scenarios that may or may not prove to be the truth. More often than not he tends to be right but in that he is willing to walk out on that limb to the degree that he does , when he is wrong he tends to be disastrously wrong. Perhaps this results in a misunderstanding of his intent and mission and daring. When the official story proves to be true Alex is the fool but in the process the truth is a higher grade of sterling at Alex's expense.

Let's not be to quick to condemn those who dare to question and propose conspiracy theory as insane whak- o's one and all. Perhaps at some future date Thom might consider having Alex on the show for the explicit purpose of comparing notes that they agree upon rather than opening the forum up to Alex with Thom taking issue to one of Alex's more controversial theories in which Thom has already pretty well determined that Alex has egg on his face on that particular theory .

It seems to me that these two minds working together can potentially cover a lot of ground and bring a lot of people together opening more minds to the truth. An enterprise that gets wasted when the reasons for the conversation are more oriented to competition for the truth rather than collaboration of the truth. JMHO

I am smoking some pretty decent pot, but that doesn't change the fact that Mr. Hartmann is a jackwagon. His arguement that even if Obama released the photos, conspiracy nuts would say they were doctored. thats because THEY ARE DOCTORED. The position that you should never tell the truth because there will be somebody who calls you a liar is reaally, really INNANE. how braindead do you people have to be to fall for this crap. 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB, bin ladden and al queda are and have always been a CIA backed shadow government operation. Labeling me a conspiracy nut or deather does not change anything. There are only two ways you should live your life, one is "LIVE AND LET LIVE", this means STOP acting like you speak for anybody but yourself. dont make your opinion sound like it is NEWS. If you need leaders to tell you what to think, admit you are an idiot. The second is "JUST KILL EVERYONE AND LET YOUR GOD SORT THEM OUT", if this is what you believe, than shut the F up and pick up a gun and start killing you some muslims, and STOP sending other people's children to KILL AND DIE FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE A SELECTIVE MORALITY HYPOCRITE.

Palindromedary, almost all of the injustice you write about is the result of the absence of true democratic process , the will of "We the People". I get ,this is a no shhhht sherlock statement, but most of societys problems really do boil done to that simple statement. The comment you made in #30 yesterdays blog, about the ones who commit economic crimes against their own population being the real terrorists, is a great truth, and I applaud you for it. Unfortunately this sad truth has been going on throughout all of recorded history. This said, I still have faith many of our founding fathers intended for Democracy to evolve and progress to a point of functional representation of the majority will. We all know that "aint" the tea-bag/republicant ideology.

I also understand the distrust you have for the Democrats. Getting screwed out of the public option in health insurance reform, and continuation of the Bushwacker tax cuts for the very terrorists committing the economic crimes mentioned earlier,has almost convinced me to want to vote for the socialist candidates next time. But I realize that angry thinking is as wrong-headed as the tea party, only a reverse extreme . The answer is for progressives to get control of the message, our truth has to be loud enough to drownout the republican mainstream media lies. We need to elect more good and honest people like Senator Sanders.Then and only then will we see true Democracy take hold. Keep fighting!

I totally agree with the President Obama and I think that showing the photos would incite even more rage and hatred! Since the death news, I have been in GREAT fear for our soldiers in the Middle East! My 45 year old son is with the Vermont National Guard, and after coming home last November from deployment in Afghanistan, he returned and is currently working as a contractor at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. For those that want to see this sort of thing, then they should go join the combat fighting units of our military and see it first hand! It is all to easy for someone to demand something . . . when they have NO STAKE in the war! Americans really need to Support the Troops and not just with bumper stickers on their cars!

John Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens.

Oh! Quick! Hide under the covers....my wife just got home early.
Wife to husband: "Just what the hell do you think you are doing?"
Husband: "Nothing! Your home early!"
Wife: "Don't change the subject...who is that under the covers?"
Husband: "nobody...just a bunch of bunched up blankets...what did you think!?"
Wife: It looks like another woman!"
Husband: (acting hurt) "Don't be silly! I am not interested in other women"
Wife: (ripping off the blankets) "Aha!!! Who is this whore?"
Husband: "Now, now, honey, you have it all wrong...it isn't what it looks like..! "
Wife: "Oh no? Then explain!"
Husband: "Uh, uh, this is my sister and she just got in exhausted and well, she just fell into bed...so tired you know after her trip"
Wife: "I didn't know you had a sister"
Husband: "Uh, uh, yeah she is actually a half sister from my father's side and I just never mentioned her"
Wife: "Then why are you in bed with her?"
Husband: "We used to sleep together when we were little and had this little game that we played and she had mentioned it and well...for old times sake...it's really quite innocent."
Wife: (angry) "I'm sorry but just who the hell do you take me for some kind of idiot? You are not fooling me!" "What is her name?"
Husband: "We called her 'the ruling elite' "
No sooner said and the ruling elite rises from the bed and hovers over the both of them and cracks her whip and snaps:
"You are all my bitches now, suckers!!! Now Bow down before me and pay me homage you lowly, gullible creatures. You shall be my slaves forever more! "

I have a theory - even though we withdraw ALL of our troops out of Afganistan and Iraq, the conspiracy theorists will come out with something like this:

NOT TRUE! The troops you see coming home are not the REAL troops, but replacements sent in to fake a withdrawal! That there are still as many troops in Afganistan and Iraq, only hidden and invisible! That we are still fighting and there is still a war going on.

Any takers??

What would get me to vote for Obama again?

If he went after those Wall Street crooks and banksters and throw the cockroaches in jail and get their booty returned to the people. After all, isn't that what Hillary is trying to do in Italy with Khadafi's booty?..return it to the Libians? Why can't they do that here?

If Obama stopped appointing ruling elite criminals to high and powerful positions and put more progressive people in.

Pull the troops out of the Middle East as we have no business...and not any credible excuses (nor did we ever) for being there.

Stop blaming and punishing whistleblowers. Obama should be praising them for keeping the system honest. When you condemn and punish whistleblowers you are just admitting that you are protecting the guilty and you become part of the problem and just as guilty.

Reverse the fascist policies of suppression and oppression of American citizens through the disgusting policies and actions that are falsely claiming to be protecting us from terrorism. Homeland Security and the Patriot Act and any similar policies take away our freedoms. I am not at all comfortable with the fact that we have a President that has powers that allow him to go anywhere, do anything including murder people and including abduct, torture, or kill even American citizens. I am not comfortable with the ever increasing secrecy...as we all know usually has nothing to do with real security but more with hiding embarrassing facts about the government or military from the American people.

There are many more things that need to be addressed but I'll stop for now. Suffice it to say I highly doubt Obama will do any of these things before election and I highly suspect that he won't do any of these things if he is re-elected. I believe things will only get worse. I believe things are going to get a lot worse no matter whether we have a Democrat or a Republicant in office this next term. The alleged killing of OBL is just another distraction and a ratchet in the cog-wheel of complete slavery of the world bullwhipped into submission by the ruling elite.

I am not a Fox viewer...I detest them and consider them to be traitors to our country who constantly spout inane drivel and lying propaganda. I have not watched Fox for so long I don't even remember ever having watched it. I suppose I did occasionally many years before 911 and can hardly help but get very rare snippets when I watch Internet Cafe and even avoid watching those particular Fox videos even though they are held up to show their idiocy. I am a Democrat who voted for Obama and had high hopes and believed that he would work to change the terrible damage that the Republicants had done during the Bush years and previously. I thought they hit a real low in disgusting behavior when they went after Clinton for the Monica scandal. I believe that Reagan was a real sellout to his original ideals that made him great in the first place being merely an addle-brained idiot puppet on a stick for the wealthy ruling elites when he became Governor of California then President. I really hate the Blue dog Democrats for being such...well, Republicans in Democrat's clothing. There should be a law against that kind of misrepresentation.

But, I am not going to put my mind in "stupid" after seeing the "actions" of Obama that was treasonous to his promises of "change we can believe in". He sold us out. And you don't vote for the guy who "sold us out"! He is worse than our Republican enemies because he is a Republican in Democrat's clothes. He is a Blue Dog president....on second thought he is worse than Blue Dog Democrats because at least the Blue Dog Democrats made it quite clear what they stood for. Obama is a turn-coat to the ideals he said he stood for when he wanted us all to vote for him. I'd rather have an enemy in front of me so I know who he is, and where he is, and not some slippery pretender stabbing me in the back because I trusted him. The ruling elite controls both Republicans and Democrats and they are using a good-cop/bad-cop psychology against us. They use the Republicans (the bad-cop) to make quick and abrupt changes in their favor and then use the Democrats as a faux good-cop as a kind of pressure relief valve to keep the people from blowing a lid and rebelling. The Democrats are a bait-and-switch tactic...promising one thing then slipping in what the ruling elite really want anyway. The Democrat Party is a tool used by the ruling elite to defuse an explosive pissed off population with a really cheapo trick of hope. Give them hope and you can heard them into box cars and through the Arbeit Macht Frei gates and eventually into the gas chambers.

cuts Fact remains : GOP long record from 1981 Reaganomics Bush Cheny Rice Rummy 2008 = Long wars based on lies, fear tactics & huge war profits- 2008 global crash / TARP / unfunded tax cuts- Bush's hidden war debt- gross incompetance by ignoring strong CIA warnings such as one on Aug 6 2001 that Rice read saying ' 'Bin laden determined to hit inside the US' and as CIA 's TENET told Bush Cheny Rice Rummy 2 months before 9 / 11 ' ALL lights are flashing RED predicting an Al Quada attack ! Both were blown off. DEMS record = Clinton balanced the budget - left a huge surplus - Obama's record now speaks for itself Not bad Mr President for 2 1/4 yrs after the global crash TARP- edge of depression / daily demonizing by GOP- Baggers / Fox & loyal followers. plus 800 con toxic talk radio shows spewing the same trash every single day Hoping Obama fails - trying to cause his Waterloo !