November 27, 2009 06:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
darkblack: Like, totally bogey
The Existentialist Cowboy: Obama's green energy plan is infinitely superior to that wingnut plan to turn over Social Security - the only government program to have ever run a surplus - to robber barons, speculators and fast buck artists on Wall Street.
Open Left: The Puke Funnel is trying to disrupt Copenhagen: The CRU Hack story continues
Words of Power: Jobs? Afghanistan? Healthcare? Climate? Where and when will something turn in our favor? It better be here and now.
Pensito Review: The Family: DC's C Street Group tied to proposed death penalty for gays in Uganda
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: The Angry Arab, angry asian man, AngryBlackBitch
Do not spend one red cent today!
I'm sitting home. No gratuitous consumption.
Oh...and as far as Social Security is concerned. Give Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid a little more time. They'll fuck that up too.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
That's right, the Chamber of Commerce has been stoking the engines of resistance to healthcare reform, not just to provide cover for the lords of the insurance rackets, but also to thwart an even more deadly enemy: action on climate change and green energy.
I brought this up over a month ago.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
The Chamber of Commerce's routine opposition to any reform that might affect anyone's bottom line has never been a secret.
...and don't like to see overfishing, Genetic mod foods, toxic waste dumping or deforestation...
But I'm glad this Carbon tax farce is being exposed!
the last thing America needs at this time in her history is to pay a global carbon tax to some sort of international "entity"
I think Alg Whore is a (for profit) fraud.
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Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdeling...
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Post below on East Anglia.
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A carbon tax is exactly what we need.
Cap and trade is program that will not reduce carbon emissions but will create another market based opportunity for the capitalists to plunder us all.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
George Monbiot who has written on Climate Change writes on the University of East Anglia email hackery here
There is lots of dust to settle before this one clears up. The science of climate change is secure, the careers of some East Anglia scientists may not be. It remains to be seen, but the central element always necessary is transparency.
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On the The Existentialist Cowboy piece, oh brother is the work cut out there.
It will require considerable work to straighten this one out, I will give it the fifteen second treatment here.
Keynes was a conservative who feared that the Great Slump as he so quaintly put it, could be the end of capitalism. His work was directed towards preserving capitalism.
In so far as he was concerned about social impact, it may well have been to keep the capitalists from the guillotine, or whatever similar mechanism of social recalibration might occur to an English economist. Or more precisely the vast numbers of disenfranchised.
Several generations earlier Karl Marx had been concerned with the social impact of capitalism. He saw it as irredeemable and he thought it would collapse from its own corruption of spirit.
It nearly did in the 1930s and Keynes intervened.
Before that, in 1917, Lenin had decided he was not going to wait for the collapse. The Russian anarchists pointed out that the Bolsheviks once in power would turn out to be as bad as the Czar, in short order.
Lenin proved them correct but that does not invalidate Marx. The capitalists will forever link the two together in a continued effort to do so. Keynes was delicate about making that case.
Today we make the mistake of defining class according to income. This is precisely the way capitalists want it so as to deny the working class the understanding that social class structure is best considered according to POWER. The rise of income for the working class after the end of the Great Slump had a mitigating affect in their concern of power. They had made significant gains with the Wagner Act et al. After the war, the propaganda campaign against social consciousness was renewed with the advent of the NSA in 1947 as was a take back of previous labor gains with the advent the Taft Harley Act. Since 1970 the economic standing itself of the working class has been eroded continously. As has the propaganda war waged against democracy.
Since 1980 their standing has only maintained through the assumption of ever greater debt. And debt slavery.
Who has power, who doesn't and what means in class structure. A previous comment on class structure here
Marx's analysis of the social structures was correct but he wrote at the beginning of the fossil fuel age. There is a great deal more to the equations today.
William R. Catton Jr author of the seminal book:
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Has a new book:
Bottleneck: Humanity's Impending Impasse, by William R. Catton, Jr.
A book review is here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
once again hit it right on the head.
The thing we need to do is hack into the computers of some of the climate-change deniers.
"Anyone who doesn't think humans impact their environment has never been in a public restroom"
Taliban Open Up Front in Once-Quiet Afghan North
By CARLOTTA GALL
Militants have had a resurgence in Kunduz, a province that American and Afghan officials did not think they had to worry about.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Out of curiosity, Jeff Sharlet mentions, "We were sitting on Ivanwald's porch, listening to the crickets and watching a silvery moon over the Potomac River wink through the trees."; The full context of that claim in his book THE FAMILY, was as follows...
"You CAN'T PUT a heart in a box," one of my Ivanwald brothers, a Senate aide named Gannon Sims, told me one night. He was trying to make me understand why political terminology, left and right, liberal and conservative, could not contain the movement's vision. We were sitting on Ivanwald's porch, listening to the crickets and watching a silvery moon over the Potomac River wink through the trees. Gannon, former student body president of Baylor University, twisted his class ring. He had blue eyes and blond hair and a voice like an angel born in Texas; he sang in a choir and wrote songs about Jesus and hoped one day to be a senator like the one he worked for, Don Nickles, then the second-ranking Republican. Gannon wanted power. Not for himself but for God. It wasn't up to him; Jesus would use him. "I don't try to explain," he told me. "I just get involved."
(He announced that he would not run again in the 2004 election on October 7, 2003. Republican Tom Coburn won the election to succeed Nickles)
So I wanted to see how close to the "Potomac" this C-Street property was and if it was indeed viewable as stated. I'll leave that to anyone's opinion, only to state... that I believe it supports his claim.
2145 24th St N
Arlington, VA 22207(Ivanwald)
Gannon Sims Scroll down
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Re: Open Thread
Wed, 11/25/2009 - 22:13 — Truth_Critic
Listened to this two days ago...
The Secret Political Reach Of 'The Family'
Study the symptoms not the virus...
The Ray McGovern piece linked at Words of Power is great.
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