THis happened outside of the last Presidential debate. Funny thing is that I hadn't heard of it until today. The only reason i even heard about it was because I was watching the third party Presidential debate which I also haven't seen reported in the press.
I really can not wait for Obama and the Democrats to control government so all the liberals, who have been complaining about the actions of the government, will have to shut the fuck up or defend their police state.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hope
Some things I HOPE for.
The reinstatement of the right to a trial.
The closing of Guantanamo Bay, completely with us giving the land back to Cuba.
The immediate removal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan.
The arrest and trail of corporate criminals who have tanked the economy.
The institution of a 1/2 of one percent tax on currency speculation and financial transactions.
The ending of the illegal embargo of Cuba.
The payment of reparations to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The total removal of taxes, including payroll taxes, to anyone earning less than a living wage.
The regulation of the financial system.
Public financing of all elections.
Equal pay for equal work.
National Healthcare.
Equal care for people who suffer from mental illness.
Full employment.
A major cut to the Pentagon.
Real investment in renewable resources.
An end to the oppression of the Palestinians by the Israelis made possible with US weapons and protection in the UN.
Just a quick list of things I HOPE for but am not naive enough to believe will CHANGE.
I could go on but Democracy Now! is on in two minutes so I must go.
Maybe in four years I can cross some of these HOPES off my list, though I highly doubt it.
The reinstatement of the right to a trial.
The closing of Guantanamo Bay, completely with us giving the land back to Cuba.
The immediate removal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan.
The arrest and trail of corporate criminals who have tanked the economy.
The institution of a 1/2 of one percent tax on currency speculation and financial transactions.
The ending of the illegal embargo of Cuba.
The payment of reparations to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The total removal of taxes, including payroll taxes, to anyone earning less than a living wage.
The regulation of the financial system.
Public financing of all elections.
Equal pay for equal work.
National Healthcare.
Equal care for people who suffer from mental illness.
Full employment.
A major cut to the Pentagon.
Real investment in renewable resources.
An end to the oppression of the Palestinians by the Israelis made possible with US weapons and protection in the UN.
Just a quick list of things I HOPE for but am not naive enough to believe will CHANGE.
I could go on but Democracy Now! is on in two minutes so I must go.
Maybe in four years I can cross some of these HOPES off my list, though I highly doubt it.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tuesday
The ABCs of Paulson's Bailout
By MICHAEL HUDSON
The most self-destructive example of financial short-termism is the decline and fall of the Roman Empire into debt bondage and ultimately into a Dark Age. The political turning point was the violent takeover of the Senate by oligarchic creditors who murdered the debtor-oriented reformers led by the Gracchi brothers in 133 BC, picking up benches and using them as rams to push the reformers over the cliff on which the political assembly was located.
Will Your Recession Be Tall, Grande, or Venti?
By Daniel Gross
My tentative theory: Having a significant Starbucks presence is a pretty significant indicator of the degree of connectedness to the form of highly caffeinated, free-spending capitalism that got us into this mess.
By MICHAEL HUDSON
The most self-destructive example of financial short-termism is the decline and fall of the Roman Empire into debt bondage and ultimately into a Dark Age. The political turning point was the violent takeover of the Senate by oligarchic creditors who murdered the debtor-oriented reformers led by the Gracchi brothers in 133 BC, picking up benches and using them as rams to push the reformers over the cliff on which the political assembly was located.
Will Your Recession Be Tall, Grande, or Venti?
By Daniel Gross
My tentative theory: Having a significant Starbucks presence is a pretty significant indicator of the degree of connectedness to the form of highly caffeinated, free-spending capitalism that got us into this mess.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Good Articles
Sunday's C-Span Opportunity: 3rd-Party Candidates Debate
by Maria Recio
Third-party presidential candidates finally will have their own debate: at 8 p.m. Sunday at Columbia University in New York.
Shattering a 'national mythology'
By Ofri Ilani
I started looking in research studies about the exile from the land - a constitutive event in Jewish history, almost like the Holocaust. But to my astonishment I discovered that it has no literature. The reason is that no one exiled the people of the country. The Romans did not exile peoples and they could not have done so even if they had wanted to.
Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?
by Mike Davis
Let me confess that, as an aging socialist, I suddenly find myself like the Jehovah's Witness who opens his window to see the stars actually falling out of the sky. Although I've been studying Marxist crisis theory for decades, I never believed I'd actually live to see financial capitalism commit suicide. Or hear the International Monetary Fund warn of imminent "systemic meltdown.
by Maria Recio
Third-party presidential candidates finally will have their own debate: at 8 p.m. Sunday at Columbia University in New York.
Shattering a 'national mythology'
By Ofri Ilani
I started looking in research studies about the exile from the land - a constitutive event in Jewish history, almost like the Holocaust. But to my astonishment I discovered that it has no literature. The reason is that no one exiled the people of the country. The Romans did not exile peoples and they could not have done so even if they had wanted to.
Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?
by Mike Davis
Let me confess that, as an aging socialist, I suddenly find myself like the Jehovah's Witness who opens his window to see the stars actually falling out of the sky. Although I've been studying Marxist crisis theory for decades, I never believed I'd actually live to see financial capitalism commit suicide. Or hear the International Monetary Fund warn of imminent "systemic meltdown.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Some thoughts
Noam Chomsky 'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Gabor Steingart of Spiegel
"The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion."
America’s Political Cannibalism
by Chris Hedges
The Patriot Act, the FISA Reform Act, the suspension of habeas corpus, the open use of torture in our offshore penal colonies, the stationing of a combat brigade on American soil, the seas of surveillance cameras, the brutal assaults against activists in Denver and St. Paul are converging to determine our future.
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Gabor Steingart of Spiegel
"The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion."
America’s Political Cannibalism
by Chris Hedges
The Patriot Act, the FISA Reform Act, the suspension of habeas corpus, the open use of torture in our offshore penal colonies, the stationing of a combat brigade on American soil, the seas of surveillance cameras, the brutal assaults against activists in Denver and St. Paul are converging to determine our future.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
What the Right is saying.
Obama in the Corner
By David Frum
Like a lot of Republicans, I’ll be swallowing a great deal in order to cast my vote....above all, I’ll be swallowing some fairly intense suspicions that a McCain administration would veer quite sharply to the left – as McCain reverts to a career-long practice of pandering to conservatives during elections and then apologizing to liberals afterward.
Throw the bums out
Washington Times Editorial
59 percent of all voters, according to Rasmussen, would like to replace all of Congress, right now. Seventy-four percent of Republicans would like to throw out the entire Congress, while 62 percent of independents and 43 percent of Democrats agree.
It may be politically prudent for McCain to throw caution, and billions, to the wind
By George Will
In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican.
By David Frum
Like a lot of Republicans, I’ll be swallowing a great deal in order to cast my vote....above all, I’ll be swallowing some fairly intense suspicions that a McCain administration would veer quite sharply to the left – as McCain reverts to a career-long practice of pandering to conservatives during elections and then apologizing to liberals afterward.
Throw the bums out
Washington Times Editorial
59 percent of all voters, according to Rasmussen, would like to replace all of Congress, right now. Seventy-four percent of Republicans would like to throw out the entire Congress, while 62 percent of independents and 43 percent of Democrats agree.
It may be politically prudent for McCain to throw caution, and billions, to the wind
By George Will
In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Some Good Reading
Secrets of Iraq's Death Chamber
by Robert Fisk
They made him stand on the bench, put the rope round his neck and pushed him off. But he jumped on to the floor. He could stand up. So they shortened the length of the rope and got him back on the bench and pushed him off again. It didn't work."
Premature ejaculation gene found
BBC News
"These men have very quick reflexes. They may be excellent at playing tennis or computer games, for example."
Make-Believe Maverick
BY TIM DICKINSON
John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity.
Voting the Fate of the Nation
By Chalmers Johnson
The American political system was not born a democracy, but born with a bias against democracy. It was constructed by those who were either skeptical about democracy or hostile to it. Democratic advance proved to be slow, uphill, forever incomplete.
by Robert Fisk
They made him stand on the bench, put the rope round his neck and pushed him off. But he jumped on to the floor. He could stand up. So they shortened the length of the rope and got him back on the bench and pushed him off again. It didn't work."
Premature ejaculation gene found
BBC News
"These men have very quick reflexes. They may be excellent at playing tennis or computer games, for example."
Make-Believe Maverick
BY TIM DICKINSON
John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity.
Voting the Fate of the Nation
By Chalmers Johnson
The American political system was not born a democracy, but born with a bias against democracy. It was constructed by those who were either skeptical about democracy or hostile to it. Democratic advance proved to be slow, uphill, forever incomplete.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
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