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Ohhh, but if the government creates jobs...that's Socialism!!! A guy with a county job commented on my Bernie bumper sticker the other day. He asked.... don't you realize Sanders is a Socialist??? So I told the guy with the Socialist job, who is against Socialism, to read Bernie's platform and get back to me on anything he disagrees with.
Unregulated Capitalism is the problem....Democratic Socialism is the solution. Next time I see a Trump for President bumper sticker, if I get a chance, you can bet I'll ask , don't you know that Trump is an out of control Capitalist?
CEOs try to sell us BS but I'm not buying. What? We should be grateful that they exploit workers, many of them children, in other countries for us? They say they're outsourceing jobs we don't want to do. Sure not for $2 a day!
Ouch. Dare we talk about the hypocrisy of Democrats and liberals on the very rare occasion that they mention our poverty crisis (and then, only in self-serving terms)? It is the (Clinton) Democrats, not the Republicans, who brought the war on the poor to fruition, and moved on to begin "reforming" Social Security, targeting the disabled. Liberals said, "Cool," and have been waving the banner of middle class elitism ever since.
The US created a hell of a poverty crisis. In real life (and to my knowledge, we're stuck with reality), not everyone can work, and there aren't jobs for all. The US shipped out a huge chunk of our working class jobs since the 1980s, ended actual welfare in the 1990s. In defiance of all logic, our bourgeoisie imagine there are no consequences. Conditions in the US are so bad that the overall life expectancy of our poor (unlike those in the modern nations) has actually been on a downhill slide. Liberals respond with... right.
I think Bernie appeals to Republican voters for the very simple reason that he also appeals to everyone else. He tell the truth and stands with the people instead of the very wealthy and corporations. Even simple little wedge issues carries no weight any more. People on the other side of the isle are so fed up and disgusted with the corporatist agenda that is being shoved down our throats that Bernie is a breath of fresh air. As he has overwhelmingly appealed to Republican voters in his home state of Vermont, I predict he will also appeal to Republican voters in every other state as well. Once they learn about him they will be so hooked you'll see former Republican voters canvassing neighborhoods and volunteering at phone banks. I predict a landslide victory as more and more people "FEEL THE BERN!!"
How is the TPP different than NAFTA ,CHAFTA ?
I've wondered about the philanthropy of the billionaires. Do the so called not for profit T-Party groups count as a charity?
you do realize that the government needed them out of jail more than they needed them in jail during that period. The Treasury perp marched all of the money center bankers on a lovely friday evening in NY into an office building to sign equity control of their Banks over to the FED? Since that evening back in '08 the Bankster has been an agent of the Federal Reserve Bank just like ISIS ISIL Doesch or takfari's are today? Dirty half dozen banksters trick fornicated themselves into being controlled by instead of sponsors for The Federal Reserve!
@ dianhow; This is the result of the two majority political parties in this country merging to become a two party duopoly thirty years ago, two sides of the same coin selling out to the 1% at the top of the economic ladder ! To some extent we can blame the generations that came after us who were never required to contribute anything to a system that basically promised them a free ride. Well, now the bill is coming due and those recent generations who were the beneficiaries are about to experience the real costs. It appears that it is going to take yet another Great Depression, lhe second one in less than a hundred years, to wake the complacent masses ! We really can't blame them because they have repeatedly been lied to by the people they elected to public office. You and I learned about the brutal conditions that afflicted most Americans during the last Great Depression from our parents who were forced to live through it, unfortunately these recent generations are in complete denial over what they are about to face !
Yes, Obama SHOULD have thrown those banksters in jail. But Obama & Eric Holder are CORPORATISTS, and corporatists don’t do that. They’re spineless.
And by the way, fuck Bernanke. Too little, too late. As usual.
I can only hope the new Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, has more balls than her male predecessor. But if she’s another corporate Dem, forget it! Time to brace ourselves for the next BIG CRASH.
Agreed There have been so many 'should haves' Wall ST crooked Banksters have only gotten more greedy & arrogant sinc e being bailed out by taxpayers. My family saved & worked all ouir lives, then lost our Earned pension, savings going fast, caretaking a sick family member, paying bills, & buying meds, dealing with serious illness WHO will bail us out ? NO ONE GOP says ' People are lazy bums !! They call SS an entitlement NO Its an earned benefit. I detest the anti worker anti labor anti women pro wealth GOP . This is NOT the GOP I grew up with Most have NO family Values and are NOT true Christians . As a 72 yr old widow...I am about to give up...
The US justice system's DUTY is to protect the many from the few, try and punish lawbreakers, a job they have been remiss in performing when the wealthy/corporations are involved.
Or the 99% CAN SEEK their own justice and have that right according to our US Constitution.
We are getting stronger every day.
At first glance, Thorium does look promising:
- there is 3 times as much of it available as uranium
- it would produce around a tenth of the waste of uranium
- a nuclear bomb cannot be made out of its byproducts
On the other hand:
- it is still in the early stages of R&D and it would take too long to complete research and build enough powewr plants to make a difference
- it would still be highly centralised and therefore at risk from terrorism, war and natural disasters
- "Thorium has been proposed as an alternative to uranium because of its abundance in nature and the hope that it might pose fewer waste and safety risks. In principle, thorium could be used in a variety of reactors, including conventional light-water reactors used in the United States, but it cannot sustain a nuclear chain reaction by itself. It must be combined with a fissile material such as enriched uranium, uranium-233 (an isotope created from thorium), or plutonium. However, the Department of Energy has found that reactors fueled with thorium and uranium do not provide any clear advantages over uranium-only reactors in terms of waste management, proliferation risk, safety, economics, or sustainability.
Liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs), which use a fuel made of molten salt, have been proposed as significantly safer than current-generation reactors, but serious safety issues associated with the retention of fission products in the fuel may not be resolved. LFTRs also present proliferation and terrorism risks because they involve the continuous “reprocessing” of the spent fuel to separate out uranium-233, which could be used in a nuclear weapon. Moreover, disposal of the used fuel could pose a major challenge; an experimental LFTR that operated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s still has highly radioactive spent fuel on site that is proving very costly and difficult to clean up." http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/earthwise/dialogue-earthwise-summer-2...
Solar energy actually began in the 1860s. But development was halted in the 1890s because of competition from cheap coal. http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/environment/augustin-mouchot-the...
Solar power resumed in the 1910s with Frank Schuman building a solar farm in Egypt. Then, development was halted by World War 1 and the advent of cheap oil. http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/technology/the-promise-of-solar-...
Since then we have learned that fossil fuels are not so cheap after all - they come at the cost of ill health and death for many, war, degradation of land, greenhouse gases threatening the existence of the planet as we know it. The industry has received massive subsidies from us - from the normal tax subsidies that any business can claim to the cost of the military to safeguard supplies and supply lines and for wars involving energy (would we give a toss about the Middle East if they did not have oil?), and not having been forced to pay in full for the medical costs they have caused us or for cleaning up after disasters or normal business. And the enormous wealth that fossil fuel barons have amassed allows them to have a major impact on our democracy.
There is no way that fossil fuels are going to last forever, and they will get more and more expensive to extract (we do not 'produce' them) over time, particularly since with increasing population and development of countries, demand will increase unless we make a major effort to reduce energy use.
So, it make an enormous amount of sense to invest in renewable energy, and we should not balk at the cost of R&D or if it takes a temporary subsidy to consumers to raise demand to the point where it is worth building large factories to bring economies of scale.
Once we put our mind to it, we developed the technology to put a man on the moon, and have made enormous strides in the development of computer chips and computers. So do not judge solar energy by what we can do now, we could do so much more with a little effort. It is time to give solar its day in the sun.
When reading statistics about renewables, you have to notice whether they say energy or electricity. Energy includes transport, which is a great user of fossil fuels, and has different characteristics to other fuel uses, so will be solved in different ways on different timescales.
Righties Eat Lefties
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America stumbles
in disarray.
A Leftie grumbles
in {dismay} dis-a-may
that if things continue this-a-way,
the future’s historians will surely say
that Righties ate Lefties, their willy-nilly prey, -
- that Corporations had their day, -
- that against the People they voted their nay.
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Those few small numbered stupid oil people WON....and being "authentic" doesn't SOLVE the PROBLEM.....so he might have the "majority" with him, but that doesn't SOLVE the problem either.
He doesn't know how to solve the problem, nor has he addressed the military industrial complex, which represents 1.7 trillion of the present budget, when off book items are included. He has actually been part of this problem.
He also "likes, admires and respects" Hillary, so how "principled" is he? He will support the "nominee" and the "platform", how principled is he? Hillary will also have a PAC which has no limitations.
By the way, admittedly "not so great mind" Jonathan, Thom Hartmann will also support Hillary.....and thinks she will be a "good president"....and he can't and couldn't think his way out of a "paper bag" even if it was open at one end during the day.
"WE ( the people ) OUTRANK YOU.....DO YOUR JOB!!!!!!!!"
The only "real" political revolution available.
Jail the banksters?!? Maybe we should follow China's example and EXECUTE THEM! After all, there are a lot of deaths, possibly hundreds, that can be directly blamed on the economic disaster the banksters created.
But these days, justice is mercurial creature in this country.
Great line of inquiry.
However, suggest the article needs some finishing paragraphs:
Why did Obama allow such limited federal prosectuiion?
A charitable guess: he was about fixing the immediate disaster
and then much later was too busy with other national problems
to "put the bastards in jail".
A cynical guess: he gets a great deal of money from Wall Street and wants more.
So what says Tom Hartmann?
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I seems to be a lost cause,hopefully not though.
Feeling the Bern
Could this bombing be due to Doctors Without Borders being in opposition to TPP?
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/statement-msf-conclusion-tpp-negotiations-atlanta?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=social
I'm new here, and I'm sorry I have to learn how the blog works. I just wanted to tell you that I found the video to back up what Merrily posted about Andrea Mitchell saying the NRA supports Bernie.
At Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC page, it's the story titled: Clinton Emotional with Sandy Hook mother.
Link: http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/clinton-says-gop-exploited-bengha...
There are minds perhaps "greater" than this noble woman at Amnesty International - will you have them on to present a balanced view of this contentious issue? Isn't criminalizing the buying of such services putting millions at risk as well? Here is the Q&A from Amnesty's web site - many of their answers were not covered in your one-sided interview. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press-releases/qa-on-the-policy-to-protect-human-rights-of-sex-workers
The rrwnj are so obvious in their approach to voter suppression. What will they try next? Can't they just let everyone who wants to vote, vote. Stop throwing up road blocks.
Quelle intéressante après ce qui a été. Jamais vu ce genre de poste utile. Je suis reconnaissant à vous et attends plus nombre de postes comme ceux-ci. Merci beaucoup. replique montres