@scottgee1, our federal government's lies are to keep us in fear and in line. Americans are only mushrooms - they keep us in the dark and they feed us crap. That is why most Americans have a shit-eating grin.
Indeed. I had an email conversation with Mike Ruppert (author of Crossing the Rubicon) a few years ago and touched on the subject of Bin-Laden. He essentially snorted, said "He's been dead for years" and moved on to the next subject. Clear to me that he, like other intelligence experts, has no doubt that Bin-Laden is simply being used a boogie-man by those that profit from generating fear.
Interesting how Obama's administration offends his base, but now he needs us. This is when we "turn the other cheek". I agree that we're looking at a "total economic and social disaster" if we sit on the sidelines. I believe Obama realizes the advice from Raum Emanuel for concensus building with Republicans doesn't work these days!
President Obama is Asking for Help from the Professional Left
President Obama called on progressives yesterday to get out and get active ahead of the midterm elections. The President, speaking at the University of Wisconsin, told the cheering crowd "we cannot sit this one out. We cannot let this country fall back because the rest of us didn't stand up and fight." The President continued, "progress is going to come, but you've got to stick with me. You cannot lose heart." Given that he has so often compromised with Republicans and multinational corporations, and been afraid to take on great wealth and corporate power directly, and has totally failed to message his successes, it's doubtful that the President will be able to mobilize his main base of old-line boomer liberals, youth, and people of color, all who feel he's only done a half-assed job. On the other hand, as Obama almost comes close to implying, if his base doesn't show up and Republicans take control, America may well - and quickly - begin to look like Argentina in 2001, otherwise known as a total economic and social disaster.
"Paladino has made millions renting office space to government agencies. Another "anti-government" wingnut on the public dole. The Cuomo ads are running in New York. I saw this one last night:"
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Breaking The Tax - Avoidance Corporate Cycle
By threatening to relocate, companies can be aggressive in getting local governments to offer tax breaks that are never offered for local, small businesses.. For example, by the time the decision was announced on May 10, 2001, that Boeing had chosen to move to Chicago from Seattle, the New York Times reported that the winning destination had “promised tax breaks and incentives that could total $60 million” to seal the deal. “No new jobs are created in the process” of most of these sorts of tax breaks, according to former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, quoted in the New York Times. “They’re merely moved around. Meanwhile, the public spends a fortune subsidizing these companies. But there’s no way that mayors or governors can withstand the heat once a major company announces it is thinking about leaving.”
So how do we stop multinationals from squeezing major subsidies out of local and state governments to move their operations there, or sometimes simply to continue to stay in their town or state (and threaten to move elsewhere if they are not offered subsidies)?
Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent from Vermont, suggested a simple solution on my radio show in 2008: “Just pass a law denying federal highway matching funds to any state that participates” in these efforts by corporations to play one state off against another.
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Libertarian Wayne Root says - President Obama's real agenda is super secret scary...socialism?!
It only makes sense that multinationals "put costs in high-tax countries and profits in low-tax countries," says Scott Hodge, president of the Tax Foundation. Last year GE improved on its 2008 effective tax rate of 5.3% - it not only paid no tax on its $10.3 billion in pretax income, but recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion. Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce, found data in the early 1990s indicating that the nation’s corporations were net consumers, rather than producers, of tax monies - they are major recipients of corporate welfare. They demand major tax breaks to relocate. According to a report from the Cato Institute, businesses in America receive direct tax subsidies of more than $75 billion annually.
"If you're looking for something that connects the dots between the BP oil disaster, the harm it's done to the Gulf of Mexico and the people paying the price, this book is it. In a clear and compelling voice, it explains the worst environmental catastrophe of our time, then shows the way forward to protect this national treasure, safeguard our future and break our destructive addiction to oil."
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Hour One: What's more important: Knowing the teachings of your religion? Believing what you think are the teachings of your religion (even if your preacher is wrong)? Simply having spirituality? Having certainty in your atheism? ...or having working knowledge of all religion?
Have we become the United States of Incarceration? With Robert Rooks, the NAACP's Director of Criminal Justice.
Hour Two: Should Atheists in America start training on how to burn bibles? Thom confronts Randall Terry, conservative political activist and founder of Operation Rescue.
How do we get the national focus back on civil and human rights?Wade Henderson, President of LCCR (Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights), joins Thom.
Hour Three: "Pioneers: The Frontier Family of Barack Obama" Thom speaks with Irish Journalist Stephen MacDonogh about his new book on the President's Irish roots.
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(One Nation) Fixing the Senate filibuster abuse With Darcy Burner, Executive Director, Progressive Congress dot org.
More corporate $ malfeasance...Zaid Julani, Reporter/Blogger at the Center for American Progress, joins Thom.
Hour Two: TP'ers want to take the country back...but from who??? Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor, Vice President and T. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow at the Business and Media Institute.
Hour Three: "Restoring the American Dream: The Defining Voice in the Movement for Liberty" Thom talks to Robert Ringer, author of three #1 bestsellers and a columnist for WorldNetDaily.
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Thom challenges Dr. Judith Reisman on sex-ed for 1st graders in Montana....gay cannibal sex?
Please, let us never forget that our federal government used American Blacks as research guinea pigs in testing various medical drugs and medical shots in the 1930s!!! America is not the good, holy, and saintly nation that our federal government claims we are. In fact, America is the most evil, vile, and wicked nation that the universe has ever produced.
Do you remember when the outbreak of AIDS came to the world? I remember! We were led to believe that African monkeys transported the disease to the world. Yes, African monkeys were in American research laboratories to pay homage to Leo Strauss and his theory that our world could only sustain five hundred million people. Every human being beyond five hundred million people had to be eradicated from the population census rolls. The research was started and funded by the American federal government and transported to the world’s population.
A practice run! The United States of Mortal Sin has always a trial run on germ, biological, and chemical warfare. Our nation's manifest destiny is to bring down the world population to only 500 million human beings on planet, Earth. We are an evil, vile and wicked nation.
The American people say to the Muslim community you should step up and defend yourselves. here they are participating in an outreach program and when they do this what happens they are a being put on the NEGATIVE spotlight and questioned!and in the middle of all that there is no link to WH and the President was not in that event. what?!! Why does that even matter? because the Dems/ WH are afraid of possible FALSE accusation form the Rep...bunch of ...Ghhhrrrr
this is a comment from the news viewer by dickreilly " Pretty thin, Chuck. Abudayyeh attended a WH outreach event for leaders from the Arab American community as part of an Administration effort to enlist community support for US policies. It apparently didn't work. Why else would Abudayyeh be the target of an FBI witchhunt - on Obama's watch?
@scottgee1, our federal government's lies are to keep us in fear and in line. Americans are only mushrooms - they keep us in the dark and they feed us crap. That is why most Americans have a shit-eating grin.
@Gerald:
Indeed. I had an email conversation with Mike Ruppert (author of Crossing the Rubicon) a few years ago and touched on the subject of Bin-Laden. He essentially snorted, said "He's been dead for years" and moved on to the next subject. Clear to me that he, like other intelligence experts, has no doubt that Bin-Laden is simply being used a boogie-man by those that profit from generating fear.
Why are the conservative crazies pissing on our heads and telling us that it is raining?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/04/corporate-profits_n_748889.html
Here we go again!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Here-We-Go-Again-by-Rand-Clifford-101003-719.html
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I'm confused; why the big rush to get to a studio in D.C. that wasn't/isn't even ready to go?
Interesting how Obama's administration offends his base, but now he needs us. This is when we "turn the other cheek". I agree that we're looking at a "total economic and social disaster" if we sit on the sidelines. I believe Obama realizes the advice from Raum Emanuel for concensus building with Republicans doesn't work these days!
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Here is one example if more conservative crazies gain office in Congress.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/30/linda-mcmahon-we-ought-to_n_745639.html
Midnight shopping and poverty!!!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130272928
Little tykes are enjoyable to watch.
http://comedy.video.yahoo.com/
Please, let us never forget that our federal government used American Blacks as research guinea pigs in testing various medical drugs and medical shots in the 1930s!!! America is not the good, holy, and saintly nation that our federal government claims we are. In fact, America is the most evil, vile, and wicked nation that the universe has ever produced.
Our truly sad state of affairs in our country!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/09/30/joint_chiefs_chairman_warns_of_rise_in_military_suicides/
We want representation!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/No-Taxation-without-Repres-by-Michael-Morris-100929-302.html
Dumbing down of America! We are a nation of dummies!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fox-News-and-the-Dumbing-D-by-Bill-Hare-100930-784.html
Can the Democrats avoid disastrous midterms?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Five-Ways-the-Democrats-Ca-by-Michael-Moore-101001-809.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-sorry-for-infecting-guatemalans-with-stds-in-1940s/story-e6frf7jx-1225933052857
This article reveals how truly rotten is our American federal government and her insidious ways in harming world populations.
AIDS
Do you remember when the outbreak of AIDS came to the world? I remember! We were led to believe that African monkeys transported the disease to the world. Yes, African monkeys were in American research laboratories to pay homage to Leo Strauss and his theory that our world could only sustain five hundred million people. Every human being beyond five hundred million people had to be eradicated from the population census rolls. The research was started and funded by the American federal government and transported to the world’s population.
The United States of Satan's Disciples is definitely a police state.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fbi_raids_and_the_criminalization_of_dissent_20100928
We have blank checks for wars but no money for the common good.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/30/EDET1FLJCL.DTL
Dwight was right!!!
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/30-10
Be very afraid! Is the United States of Sodom and Gomorrah the real terrorists?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/01/home-office-threat-level-fear
Our lust for human blood will never end!
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2010/09/30/the-war-addicts
A practice run! The United States of Mortal Sin has always a trial run on germ, biological, and chemical warfare. Our nation's manifest destiny is to bring down the world population to only 500 million human beings on planet, Earth. We are an evil, vile and wicked nation.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-sorry-for-infecting-guatemalans-with-stds-in-1940s/story-e6frf7jx-1225933052857
I just signed up just for this reason !
News #1 http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=7701601
The American people say to the Muslim community you should step up and defend yourselves. here they are participating in an outreach program and when they do this what happens they are a being put on the NEGATIVE spotlight and questioned!and in the middle of all that there is no link to WH and the President was not in that event. what?!! Why does that even matter? because the Dems/ WH are afraid of possible FALSE accusation form the Rep...bunch of ...Ghhhrrrr
this is a comment from the news viewer by dickreilly " Pretty thin, Chuck. Abudayyeh attended a WH outreach event for leaders from the Arab American community as part of an Administration effort to enlist community support for US policies. It apparently didn't work. Why else would Abudayyeh be the target of an FBI witchhunt - on Obama's watch?
News #2 is this http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39456324/ns/health-sexual_health How low can our goverment get?