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'60 Minutes' exposes the 'sovereign citizens' as the nation's most serious domestic-terrorism threat |
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Jon Stewart Knocks Romney For Saying He's 'Not Concerned About the Very Poor' |
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Alan Grayson's Opponent's Creepy Slave Ship Ad |
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Michael Steele Loves States' Rights Argument Against Gays, But Not Against Blacks |
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SNL: GOP 2012 Undeclared Candidates Debate |
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Jon Stewart Explains What Happened to Rick Perry During His Bizarre Speech in New Hampshire |
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Guardian UK: Binyam Mohamed launches legal fight to stop US destroying torture images
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
the hundreds who were murdered all in the name of protecting us from being tortured and murdered.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/0...
From The Sunday Herald (Scotland) by way of Common Dreams:
Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib... Bagram?
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
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That's some scary math with scarier implications.
So, did they torture almost everyone to death? Hopefully not. How about killing only one out of every ten people they tortured? Still pretty bad. One out of a hundred? Still not good.
What if they were really careful and only killed one out of every thousand people they tortured? One out of every ten thousand? Those numbers translate into the torture of over 100,000 to over 1,000,000 people!
There's no good way out of this for these monsters. Either they were so incompetent or bloodthirsty that they killed a ridiculously high percentage of those they tortured or they tortured of whole hell of a lot of people.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
They were busy bees the CIA and the contractors.
Binyam Mohamed was "beaten so badly that it was difficult for the guards to identify him"? Just thinking about what he (and many others) went through makes me sick.
I wish him luck in his legal fight. He'll need it.
HOLY CRAP!!!
Daniel Tencer at Raw Story here
and NYT here
WELL, as IF we had functioning Democracy as is.
Nevertheless, I am getting my little dinghy ready to row to Greenland if this does happen, though that may not be far enough.
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Chris Floyd here with a list of disturbing news:
1 - Disturbing news of Barack Obama's embrace -- and extension -- of the Bush Regime's program to seed the nation's university classrooms with covert students being secretly groomed for service in the security apparatus: Obama's classroom spies - David Price at Counterpunch here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I just get this:
Corruption favors the wealthy.
No post since Jan. 09, but just so you know...go to:
http://www.empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
I had no problem with the link ... thanks for posting it. After fiver's post, I tried it again and suddenly it's not working .... hmmm .... very strange ....
Really, I didn't.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Sure, fiver. Whatever you say .... ;}
Thanks for the headsup on the Supreme Court's apparent effort to further subvert the intent of the Constitution, which was written to secure the Rights of People, not the Rights of Corporations.
It is the responsibility of our democratic government to regulate the corporations so that they benefit the people, not rule the people to benefit the corporations.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
The military and police power of the state is harnessed to impose the will of a foreign corporation on its own people:
Guardian UK (Video): Brother Paul and the fight for the Peruvian rainforest
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
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The US government has a long history of exceptionalism (if it is even a word) wherein they are excluded from all noble causes they champion for the rest of the world. Be it arms treaties, emission standards or geneva convention. it doesn't apply to us. President Obama is not going to change it (maybe some historian in the thread can enlighten us on the origins of this idea). we are and will remain "special". God bless America (screw the rest)
Our schools have trained us well in exceptionalism, he says, however, what they often miss is the context of international historic processes at work. For example, the American Revolution borrowed its ideas about liberty and freedom from Europeans who had been developing them since the seventeenth century British Revolution and the eighteenth century Enlightenment.
European political rivalries and struggles also influenced America's development because they brought dispossessed immigrants to our shores. We were exceptional in that we offered the immigrants land they couldn't get in Europe. However, these lands became available through our expulsion of the indigenous tribes who once lived on them. In this way we were not exceptional to the Europeans who built their colonial empires in the same way.
Full article Happy Birthday America: How Exceptional Are You?
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
thanks for the link. i am keen to get my hands on the book now.
(maybe some historian in the thread can enlighten us on the origins of this idea)
Germany. Seems oddly appropriate, eh?
Strangely enough, it was a Frenchman, de Tocqueville, who first applied the concept of exceptionalism to America.
Powell admits we underestimated the insurgency in Iraq. Despite GOP talking points, not all of Iran's clerics are "Islamo-fascists". Our troops spent the holiday weekend marching in grueling Afghan heat. The AP tries to frighten us away from Eurocare. The suckonomy's given us a lot of empty box stores. Biden ends up being one of those "With friends like these" Dems, by admitting he wasn't aware the economy was that "bad". But hey, instead of another stimulus, he suggests the country continue to tank for another couple months, because that's how the last bill was "planned".
Healthy Examples: Plenty of Countries Get Healthcare Right
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
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'What recession ! Our lobbyists never told us...'
C'mon, I can't be the only one who would love to such a letter...
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/sar...
'Congrats to Uncle C' – how his wife's Facebook page exposed new MI6 head.
LMAO-Nobody EVER looks a the pictures on Facebook!!!
You really can't make this stuff up.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
I've never even been to Facebook. No interest whatsoever.
2 people are using my YouTube account to have a fight about Sarah Palin and Bush. When they're done, I'll just delete it. See, they've blocked comments on their own accounts. I don't care what they do in there.
If that's what social networking is all about...
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Honduros was real news last week and this weekend it never even got a mention. Can we finally let MJ and SP go by the wayside?
... with the AP story and some video here.
Evidently it's tough to return from exile when your plane can't land.
Ditto on by the wayside.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
it's even harder for the MSM to focus on real news. Unfortunately, C&L decided to follow their lead.
... clearly, Sarah Palin doesn't know jack about the media, because she launched her 'higher calling' into the Friday news hole on a holiday weekend with the Jackson funeral/memorial on Mon/Tue.
you don't think she planned it that way? I know she is brain dead but someone was thinking up there...
http://www.soaw.org/presente/index.php?option...
Main page, scroll down to view pictures of the protesters
http://www.soaw.org/
–Matthew Goldstein is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own.–
Snip - Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce?
While most in the United States were celebrating the Fourth of July holiday, a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey was being held on federal charges of stealing secret computer trading codes from a major New York-based financial institution.
[ http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/07... ]
Study the symptoms not the virus...
"The criminal case has the potential to shed a light on the inner workings of an important profit center for Goldman and other Wall Street firms."
For that reason alone I hope the source code is widely publicised and even printed on t-shirts like the DVD crack.
I found this interesting, since I'm interested in living to be extremely old, at least presently in what is now considered my middle aged years.
The painful side effects of Obama's healthcare reform
There are warnings signs that the president and his allies are looking at government-run rationing of care for the oldest and sickest.
By Charlotte Allen
July 5, 2009
Here's a way for America to cut its spiraling healthcare costs: ice floes.
This idea isn't mine. It's President Obama's. Or rather, it's where we're likely to end up if the president prevails on Congress to pass the adventurous healthcare reform proposal currently being discussed, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost about $1 trillion over the next 10 years. That's on top of Medicare's annual $327-billion budget, whose massive deficits, if they continue at the same rate, are predicted to bankrupt the Medicare system by the end of the next decade...
must be a fan of Logan's Run.
Death to everyone who reaches 30! I liked Logan's Run, but I sided with the people who wanted to live.
... the age limit was 21.
Enacting those provisions would result in an estimated net increase in federal budget deficits of $597 billion over the 2010-2019 period—reflecting net costs of $645 billion for the coverage provisions, which would be partially offset by net savings of $48 billion from other provisions of title I. (CBO has also estimated the budgetary impact of provisions in titles III and VI of an earlier draft of the legislation, which would add another $14 billion to the net cost of the proposal.)
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=315
The new revised CBO estimate is here, and they now are saying about 660 billion. Considering she wrote the article on July 5, she could have done a little research and used the revised estimate.
This morning on Morning Joe, Mika was saying that the press hounded Palin all during the campaign. Then she said maybe the press should have done more investigating in Chicago. I heard that as an implication there should have been more investigating of then candidate Obama. I guess Mika forgot about the Rev Wright tapes played in loops and the other crap they tried to throw at Obama.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
There's really no tv show on in the mornings for progressives. CNN's American Morning is all I can stand and even that has a rightward tilt.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
CNN covered the tea parties this weekend. I think they are jealous of Fox or something. I didn't see the parties covered anywhere else but I'm sure Fox must have covered them at some time.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Its surprising that she would be such a suckhole for Palin when her old man was mentoring Obama behind the scenes.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
a mavericky thing to do, such as.
I'm calling it her 'Piccolo Pete' imitation - a shrill noise followed by an explosion, laughter, and a smattering of applause.
So now Palin was a victim of the press? So now she's having a hard time because she has five kids to raise? So now she realizes she isn't ready for the big time? So now it's all because she's a woman? Who put the gun to her head and made her join McCain on the campaign trail?
Andrea Mitchell said this morning that Palin wasn't having fun being the governor any longer. What the fu*k would have happened if she had become president and decided that wasn't "fun" any longer? Palin just isn't mentally capable of being anything more than a talk show host and I'm guessing that's where we see her next. The big bucks look like more "fun" than being governor.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
She has a show on Faux starting on July 27th.
Follow the Money.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
By the Palin Faux minions/puppet masters 'Xenu Xenu Xenu'
She's quitting because of people like me, someone at YouTube told me.
I had no idea we Canadian ESL teachers in Asia weilded such power. Aaah... Poor widdle Sarah.
(douchebag)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Now Todd can publicly admit he's in the AIP again! Yipee! Secession! Maybe Perry from Texas & your husband can form a new party with Joe the dumber as your faceman... Glenn Beck can do your PR!
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
And the rock in my yard can write the speeches
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
the really sad thing is, that rock is more useful than all the names mentioned above...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
can give the speeches.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO: Counting Senate votes on climate and energy - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-senate-clim...
Here's a breakdown of senators who are likely to support and oppose a climate bill, and the many more who haven't made their positions clear.
30 Likely supporters, 25 likely opponents, and 45 'undecided'.....
Obama to seek climate deal with Russia - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/ju...
"Barack Obama will move to seal a deal with Russia for joint action on climate change during his summit in Moscow next week, the Guardian has learned. Obama arrives in Moscow on Monday at the start of a trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana that will focus heavily on energy and climate change. From Moscow, Obama travels on to Italy for a meeting of the G8 and a gathering of the major polluting countries.
... The overture to Russia — the third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after America and China — furthers the strategy adopted by the Obama administration to enter into separate deals for action on climate change with each of the world's biggest polluters."
Report: Administration plans for end of ‘too big to fail.’ Megabanks may be slimmed down, told to prepare plans for own demise. The devil will be in the details, and it will be very hard to understand the details, you can be sure.
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31711461/ns/busin...
Our Healthcare: Greed and Sleaze or Choice and Freedom ...by Donna Smith - http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.ph...
Healthcare is a basic human right. And we ought to start acting like it. And we ought to legislate like we knew it and meant to protect it.
WP: Health-care companies have hired An Armada of more than 350 former government staffers and members of Congress to try and keep the cost of healthcare up and defeat a government option that would reveal the private industry's gross profiteering and denial of care
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Republicans, a Threat to the Republic? - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/05-2
Sarah Palin's abrupt decision to resign as Alaska's governor - and her rambling explanation - underscore again how the Republican Party over the past dozen years has put up candidates for top national offices who are unqualified or ill-suited for those sensitive positions.
Like Palin, George W. Bush was a charismatic underachiever who hadn't accomplished much in life and showed little intellectual firepower but was nevertheless presented by the GOP as its candidate for one of the most powerful jobs on earth. However, unlike Palin who lost her vice presidential bid, Bush won the presidency for two terms - in two dubious elections - with disastrous consequences for the nation.
The incomparable: Howard Zinn: Untold Truths About the American Revolution - http://www.progressive.org/zinn070309.html
Must Read: How About Independence Day from Corporations Controlling Our Government? Now That Would be Change We Could Believe In. -- A BuzzFlash "Mad as Hell" Editor's Blog
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/8898
"Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father's birthplace."
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090705/ap_on_go_...
Whose Country is it anyway? A political-economic oligarchy has taken over the United States of America - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?contex...
Integrity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Scientists are increasingly worried that the beautiful fireworks millions of Americans watching on Independence Day contain toxic chemicals that may pose a threat to the environment. A particular focus is perchlorate, which helps “create the combustion reaction needed for the explosion.”
- http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/04/perchlora...
Danger: Supreme Court Unfriendly to the Environment - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/us/04scotus...
Meeting Agent Orange - http://www.blackcommentator.com/331/331_aw_me...
Michael Pollan: We Are Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System - http://www.alternet.org/environment/141072/mi...
You can't write comedy this good: Republican Senator Grassley tells constituent: If you want good health insurance, ‘go work for the government.’
- http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/03/grassley-...
Grassley....gets that 'socialized' medicine but doesn't want you to have it....
Glenn Beck Promotes Another 9/11 Attack on U.S. Send Him to Gitmo. He's as Dangerous as Osama bin Laden.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HtSb7kwTFE
This magic underwear cokehead is absolutely worthless and anyone who watches/listens is his equal...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
So if I go and watch the Youtube, is it of Beck? I'm afraid to watch it because I don't want to be "absolutely worthless" ;)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3CR0faCExw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"What" in tarnation was that? Marilyn Manson with a cat up his pants clawing on his legs?
in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Diplomatic presence on the scale of Iraq prompts concerns in Pakistan about American meddling
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p90s01-wos...
rates on course to double
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetop...
Yikes?
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