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  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    The comparison between Nazi Germany and the US is effective because although much of US history was left out of our school textbooks, Nazi Germany was given lots of space. All of us feel horrified to be compared to Nazi Germany. It was when I realized George Bush was using similar tactics as Hitler that I got off my butt and started taking action.

    We are responsible for what our government does here and around the world whether or not the people we voted for get elected. We currently have more blood on our hands than Hitler's Germany, and unless we accept this fact, we will keep our heads in the sand and underestimate the urgency of the daily actions we need to take in order to change our country's policies.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Since people are talking about Nazis, it should be recalled that Nazi propaganda sought to demonize certain races through stereotyping, and provide Germans with scapegoats to explain the country's problems. The people who compose on this page may be upset by any implication that they may not be free from racial prejudice (and I am not suggesting that are--did that come out right?), but to sit here and deny that the right does incite hate against the "others," and to deny that the murders of Latinos in Shenandoah, PA and Long Island occurred in an atmosphere created by local officials using the same propaganda of hate that the Nazis used is simply a head-in-the-sand attitude.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    The Seattle Times reported that a local janitorial service released hundreds of workers from its employment roles. This came after a federal auditor reviewed its personnel records and determined that these people could not prove that they were in the country legally. This is the part of the new Obama administration strategy to move away from the showy ICE raids that the Bush administration was so fond of. What should be noted here is that businesses are still not being subjected to legal sanction, and in fact are being given extended time to “comply” in order to find replacement workers. The workers who are fired, in the meantime, remain on the audit list subject to interrogation and deportation.

    The janitorial service, interestingly enough, is owned by a right-wing talk show host on KVI, a notorious local right-wing talk station that is only slightly redeemed by the fact that it carries “Coast-to-Coast” in the late hours—meaning then we get interesting BS rather than just plain old BS. It was not noted the ethnicity of the workers involved, although I once worked at a site that deployed workers from this service, and many of them were Eastern European; one might recall that in 2003 a raid on a janitorial service employed by Wal-Mart netted 300 mostly Eastern European illegals in 60 stores. I point this out only because anti-immigrant fanatics tend to ignore the fact that one-quarter of all illegals are from places outside of Latin American.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    The fourteen points that states we are Nazi Americans is strong evidence of truism.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago
  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Unlike most Nazi Americans I refuse to remain in a state of denial that we are a fascist-Nazi nation.

    Nazi America

    Here are the fourteen characteristics that are necessary for a Nazi nation. America currently possesses all fourteen characteristics.

    1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
    2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
    3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
    4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
    5. Rampant sexism
    6. A controlled mass media
    7. Obsession with national security
    8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
    9. Power of corporations protected
    10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
    11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
    12. Obsession with crime and punishment
    13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
    14. Fraudulent elections

    There should be no doubt in anyway in the people’s minds that America is a fascist nation. Rapidly the self-implosion and destruction of America are starting to take hold. America is no longer America but she is now called Nazi America.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    All I can say to the people who oppose my language that the United States of Evil is a fascist-Nazi nation is HEIL COMRADES.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    The path I wish to follow is the path that Jesus has laid out for us in the Bible. He is a beautiful example of a liberal and a progressive role model.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    @Richard L. Adlof -

    The only reason for my apology to GS is that I have also objected to his overuse of the "fascist Nazi-America" meme in this venue. Seemed kinda cheap of me to make an "aryan" joke here without some level of acknowledgement that I'd criticized him for such language in the past.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Thom's host narrators had some discussion of Central Asia. We will never leave Afghanistan because we want to be close to the oil and natural gas resources in that area.

  • The Republican "no" machine on Global Warming is at it again!   15 years 26 weeks ago

    LaRouche: The Green Issue Is The Core Of All The Genocide

    November 23, 2009 (LPAC)—The breaking story today is that hackers broke into the computer server of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, which has been involved in perpetrating the lying fraud of Global Warming. The hackers exposed the entire lying conspiracy by posting 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents on the Internet. The postings show conclusively what we have already documented: the Global Warming hoax is a deliberate fraud.

    The unit involved in this lying fraud is funded by the World Wildlife Fund, British Petroleum, Shell, Greenpeace and the British Government.

    The exposure of the inner workings of the fraud comes at precisely the point that the British are escalating their drive for global genocide on all fronts. This includes the UN population report issued last week, which demanded that the upcoming Copenhagen conference on climate change include population reduction and a reduction in human consumption. It also includes the push by the moustached elements of the Obama administration for Obama's Hitler-like "health" policy, which was itself made in Britain under Tony Blair.

    Lyndon LaRouche's response was immediate. The Green issue is at the core of all the genocide, including the Obama health care policy. The health issue is a by-product of the World Wildlife Fund program. We have to strike a hard blow against the entire conspiracy.

    He continued: the aim of the green policy is to kill people. This is the policy of the WWF and of Prince Philip. The policy is to reduce the world population from the present level of 6.7 billion to less than 2 billion.

    This is a lying conspiracy to kill people so as to reduce the world population.

    This is the policy of Tony Blair as reflected in the NICE health care policy of euthanasia in Great Britain. The Blair policy is to import the Hitler policy, which the British promoted, into the United States, via the Obama administration.

    To be "objective" on this question is to be complicit in the reduction of the world population. How fast is not specified, but the net result and intention are clear.

    This is the policy of the British Royal family. It is a worse crime against humanity than that committed by Hitler.

    Honorable people will react accordingly.

    LaRouche concluded: I think we have to put moustaches on the entire crew around Obama.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    @GeraldSocha:

    I understand the point you are attempting to make about Christianity. I wholeheartedly disagree.

    The man called Salvation was not progressive. He was largely petty and had expressed an incomplete understanding of the tenets of his religious philosophy. Paul rewrote the story into a myth of Rapturian fantasy.

    Christianity is a poor model of religion and a completely inappropriate for application as the basis of any government for any society.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    @Quark:

    The issue I have with the ‘rule of the best and brightest’ argument is that the NEO-CONs fervently believe that their oligarchy is the best and the brightest.

    Give me the unfaltering, unenlightened stupidity of the common man with a cooling off period every time.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    @mstaggerlee:

    I still object to Mr. Socha’s usage of ‘Nazi’. Such frivolous, irresponsible language marginalizes serious discussion and trivializes the horrors of rampant fascism the past and the present.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Does the current atmosphere of Tea-Parties, Red-Baiting, etc. bring to anyone else's mind (besides mine) the great Rock & Roll scare of the late 50's and early 60's, when Beatles albums were being burned?

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Prior post with apologies to Gerald Socha. :)

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    @Richard L. Adlof - Spelling Correction?

    Shouldn't that be "... this Libert-Aryan free-market wet-dream..." ?

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Thanksgiving Day Thought for 11/23/09

    It is worth noting that one in seven SFH are in forclosure or behind in their payents most directly due to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which repealed the safeguards and bank regulations found in Glass-Steagull that kept this Libertarion like, free-market wet-dream from happening for 60 years.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Thanksgiving Day Thought from 11/20/09

    It is worth noting that one in eight kids in Los Angeles goes hungry all the time and over 75% of kids in LAUSD qualify for for some sort of food assistance program. The real mark of the 'free market' policies our nation has followed for the last 30 years is written in their flesh.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Those who insist that America is a Christian nation understand neither Christianity nor America.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Is it just me, or is the media intentionally persuing a campaign of disinformation with regard to health care reform, and to "how government works" in general?

    I heard several times over this past weekend that now that debate has begun in the Senate, the Democrats need 60 votes to pass the bill. This is NONSENSE! They can pass the bill with 51 votes - they only need 60 votes to end debate and bring the measure to the floor to be voted on. Do the media honchos see this as too fine a distinction for all of us mindless drones out here in the real world, or do they think that this meme makes the story more interesting (like my father-in-law often says - never let the facts screw up a good story!).

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Quark, you shared onThom's and with me a profound comment about Jeremy and others. What concerns me is that many of these vets are recruited into law enforcement. Is there any wonder why these offices over react. I try to stay away from any law enforcement officer.

    Quark, we have people who can think but our nation is divided and the sociopaths are running our governmental asylums in the WH, Congress, and the Supreme Court as well as the mass media.

    Quark, here is my belief. We need more people who possess love, mercy, and forgiveness in their heart. Jesus, a liberal and a progressive, needs to be our role model. Jesus has love, mercy, and forgiveness in His heart. I know Jesus as the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

    Quark, here is a quote from G. K. Chesterton, an English writer and poet. He past away in 1936. JESUS SPEAKS SANITY TO A WORLD OF LUNATICS.

    Quark, here is also another favorite quote from Mahatma Gandhi. I LIKE YOUR JESUS; IT'S YOUR CHRISTIANS I DO NOT LIKE.

    Quark, here is a perfect quote from G. K. Chesterton. He must have had the USA on his mind. IT'S NOT THAT CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN TRIED AND FAILED; IT'S THAT IT HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED. Maybe if the USA had more Christian thinking, we could resolve many problems regarding our inhumanity toward humanity.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Gerald,

    Thank YOU for your post. It seems insane that humanity can't be led by its BEST thinkers.

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Gerald,

    I was talking with a friend of Jeremy's (the PTSD vet who had the standoff with the police at my house a little over a week ago.) I said that, in order to get most people to kill, the military literally makes them sociopaths. Then, without undoing the harm they have caused, they drop them back into society after they are through with them. Somehow, most veterans of war seem to live a decent life without killing anyone else. (I knew an awful lot of shattered human beings who were never the same after returning from Vietnam. And we have to add all the others from the numerous wars since that time.) Put in these terms though, I realized what a crime on humanity this is... (And this is only ONE aspect of war and its effects.)

  • Highlights on the Show...November 23 - November 27, 2009   15 years 26 weeks ago

    Quark, thank you for your words on my post, "The Great Eight!"

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