No, not boneheaded at all. HP's been tinkering with it for weeks; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but remnants remain, or only parts of rich text are usable. I send everything I write to a mirror site (mainly due to the prickly moderation these days), and the on-again-o
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I can tell you that rich text (with the ability to hyperlink) comes with the pundit badge, but I can't tell you how to get a pundit badge -- I have no idea how I got one.
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Because tax cuts expire, it's not a tax increase.
It's what you should have been paying all along, instead of borrowing from China and Saudi Arabia, who then financed Al Qaeda, which allowed the defense contractor
Wake up!
There should be tax HIKES on corporatio
Democratic politician
Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Social Security cuts, privatizin
How cowardly of Democratic politician
Has anybody seen the Democratic leadership lately? Where is Obama? Where is Harry Reid? Where is Nancy Pelosi? Where is Steny Hoyer? Where is Jim Clyburn? WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE'S LEADERS???
Come to think of it, where's Elizabeth Warren? Weren't her supporters
Obama's been a quisling from the very beginning. Pro-corpor
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"Politics may be a bargain between beggars, but compromise between good and evil is never possible. God's work does not blend with power or greed." -Prior Philip to Waleran, Pillars of the EarthThere's truth in this.
Even if Sarah Palin is the GOP's presidenti
Now do you understand why Obama's and Rahm Emanuel's first action after getting into the White House was to elevate Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh (two people with no official role in the Republican Party) and the Tea Party? Obama and Emanuel didn't go after actual Republican
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If Bush's tax cuts are allowed to expire as they are set to on December 31st, the deficit would be cut in half, instantly.
If the tax cuts are continued for the rich, we would have to borrow $700 billion to pay for it.
If the tax cuts are continued for everyone, we would have to borrow $3 trillion to pay for it.
And if there is a 2-year extension "compromis
Obama is expanding the wars into Yemen.
Obama's broken yet another promise (to begin ending the Afghanista
Obama wants to expand drone strikes in Pakistan.
The costs for reconnaiss
Pilots, who fly them from trailers halfway around the world using joysticks and computer screens, say some of the controls are clunky. For example, the missile-firing button sits dangerousl y close to the switch that shuts off the plane’s engines. Pilots are also in such short supply that the service recently put out a call for retirees to help.
There should be tax HIKES on corporatio
Democratic politician
Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Social Security cuts, privatizin
How cowardly of Democratic politician
Has anybody seen the Democratic leadership lately? Where is Obama? Where is Harry Reid? Where is Nancy Pelosi? Where is Steny Hoyer? Where is Jim Clyburn? WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE'S LEADERS???
Come to think of it, where's Elizabeth Warren? Weren't her supporters
Obama's been a quisling from the very beginning. Pro-corpor
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David Axelrod on Hardball today, spewing the GOP'S talking points!:
"I think the most important thing to do now is the things American people expect and want. One is to make sure they don't wake up on January 1st with a very large tax increase because the tax cuts were scheduled to expire at that time and there's a great sense of urgency on the part of the president. I think that is shared on the part of the republicans to make sure that doesn't happen."
They don't care about your making a statement. As a matter of fact, they love that making a statement is all you seem capable of doing.
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Where was this passion for getting Osama Bin Laden?
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If Bush's tax cuts are allowed to expire as they are set to on December 31st, the deficit would be cut in half, instantly.
If the tax cuts are continued for the rich, we would have to borrow $700 billion to pay for it.
If the tax cuts are continued for everyone, we would have to borrow $3 trillion to pay for it.
And if there is a 2-year extension "compromis
It's entirely likely that even without borrowing these monies, Social Security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid and all public health programs (veterans care, SCHIP, CHAMPUS, etc.) will be slashed, and the Social Security trust fund will be privatized
Increasing the deficit harms ordinary people and further wrecks the economy.
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There should be tax HIKES on corporatio
Democratic politician
Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Social Security cuts, privatizin
How cowardly of Democratic politician
Has anybody seen the Democratic leadership lately? Where is Obama? Where is Harry Reid? Where is Nancy Pelosi? Where is Steny Hoyer? Where is Jim Clyburn? WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE'S LEADERS???
Come to think of it, where's Elizabeth Warren? Weren't her supporters
Obama's been a quisling from the very beginning. Pro-corpo rate, pro-war and military industrial complex. That's what the DLC is all about.
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You're rich if you go for flat taxes. How fortunate for you, you thieving criminal d0g.
About Mitch McConnell
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^ - Got the White House's talking points, I see.
They're the same as the GOP's talking points, that to let Bush's tax cuts expire is "raising taxes".
I heard David Axelrod mouth the GOP's talking points this afternoon on Hardball. If that isn't enough to convince Obama's 'most ardent admirers' that they're id-jits for thinking he's on their side, nothing will.
Obama is a corporate t00L, p@ndering to the rich. What else can you expect from Goldman Sacks' 'Golden Boy'?
About Mitch McConnell
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I beg to differ.
While Gore holds some positions that appear left, he's as pro-corpor
Gary Hart, by the way, is no liberal. We seem to make the mistake of presuming that being liberal s3xually means a person is "far left".
Dean, too, is not the answer, not the second-com
The answer is going to have to come, if we have any time left, from outside of the Democratic Party. Both parties are far too corrupted to salvage any populism,
About Mitch McConnell
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And your problem with Rachel Maddow is?
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln
About Mitch McConnell
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Yes. As Alan Greenspan said, "Bill Clinton is the best Republican president we've had in a while."
And Al Gore was to the right of Clinton.
But that's all you have to say? That's your point?
Most Democratic voters who voted Clinton-Go
About Mitch McConnell
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Let Bush's tax cuts expire.
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If Bush's tax cuts are allowed to expire as they are set to on December 31st, the deficit would be cut in half, instantly.
If the tax cuts are continued for the rich, we would have to borrow $700 billion to pay for it.
If the tax cuts are continued for everyone, we would have to borrow $3 trillion to pay for it.
And if there is a 2-year extension "compromis
Obama is expanding the wars into Yemen.
Obama's broken yet another promise (to begin ending the Afghanista
Obama wants to expand drone strikes in Pakistan.
The costs for reconnaiss
Pilots, who fly them from trailers halfway around the world using joysticks and computer screens, say some of the controls are clunky. For example, the missile-firing button sits dangerousl y close to the switch that shuts off the plane’s engines. Pilots are also in such short supply that the service recently put out a call for retirees to help.
Look at what Rachel Maddow had to say on her program last night about Obama's pattern and habit of conceding before negotiatio
Here we go again.
Obama = DINO
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What's the big accomplishment of getting 420 pieces of legislation passed in one chamber of Congress but not the other? It only becomes law when both chambers pass it and a president signs it. I know most of you know this, but for those who don't: Professional Democrats, all Democratic politicians in office, whether they are calling themselves progressives, liberals, Blue or Yellow Dogs, are the same and working to achieve the aims of the DLC and transnational corporations over the best interests of the People. If they are a professional political and member of the Democratic Party, and in Washington, they have bought into and are supporting the culture of transnational corporations as their real constituents. Their only problem with this is that corporations don't vote, and politicians need votes to get into office. So they, Democratic politicians, try to convince the People they're working on our behalf with weasel-words, rhetoric designed to lead voters into thinking one thing when the opposite is true. Obama can say, "I got health insurance for the People", but having health insurance isn't what Americans wanted and isn't what Democratic voters put Obama and Democrats into power to get for them. Having health insurance isn't the same thing as everyone being able to get affordable, quality medical treatment. Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corporate legislation) and then strategize how to get it while saving each other's hides with constituents come election time. Those in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislation (like a public option or access to abortion), the DNC will make sure they are covered come election time, with massive infusions of money into their campaign war chests and crushing any principled challenges to them from the left in their primaries. Here's an example of how they tag team us: Lynn Woolsey, head of the Progressive Caucus, likes to brag that she was the first to bring a resolution to end the war in Iraq. She, and congressional Democrats, and Obama, ran on ending the practice of paying for the wars through supplemental emergency spending bills, and putting the wars on budget (see why that is significant here). Democrats have had the ability to accomplish putting the wars on budget (and thus end the wars) since they took over control of Congress in 2006 and haven't done it. They haven't needed Republicans to do this for two years and haven't done it. As the head of the Progressive Caucus, Lynn Woolsey led 79 of the 82 members of the caucus to pledge that they would not vote for any healthcare reform legislation that didn't include a public option. Woolsey then led the 79 to renege on the pledge. Unbeknownst to Lynn Woolsey's constitutents (it was never reported in her district's newspapers): Progressive Congresswoman Woolsey Endorses Pro-War Blue Dog Jane Harman Over Progressive Marcy Winograd Democrats have let Obama continue with just about all of Bush-Cheney's policies, and wars, and let Obama go Bush-Cheney even better, by letting Obama assert, unchallenged, that presidents have the right to kill Americans with no due process or oversight, push for 'preventive detention' and no transparency of anything a president asserts should be his secret. Democrats have abdicated their Constitutionally-required role of oversight of the executive branch; they failed to perform it during the Bush-Cheney administration, and still don't with one of their own in the White House. The problem is with the Democratic Party as a whole; primarying Obama (and/or running liberal candidates against imcumbent Democrats in primaries) isn't going to solve the problem, if it's even possible to solve it and save us all (if they haven't managed to game the entire system to keep them in place until we descend into banana republicanism).
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too." -Oscar Levant, 1951
Oh, a true believer, right here in our midst.
Shawn, what do you think Obama is going to do differentl
About Financial Crisis
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I linked it. Click on the blue highlighte
You can always go to msnbc online and watch the shows there, by the way.
http://www
The clip that I was talking about is here - http://www
About Financial Crisis
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Look at what Rachel Maddow had to say on her program tonight.
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Yes the companions
About Financial Crisis
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If Republican
Why are Obama and Democrats continuing the war crimes of Bush & Cheney, and blocking investigat
How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminal and corrupt administra
Democrats are in the same business as Republican
I suggest that you consider Democrats and Republican
Once in power, Democrats consolidat
Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan
Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Define success.
It boosted foreign car sales and knee-cappe
About Financial Crisis
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“The Democrats & Republicanhttp://wwws give the illusion that there are difference s between them,” said Flowers. “This keeps the public divided. It weakens opposition . We fight over whether a Democrat or a Republican will get elected. We vote for the lesser evil, but meanwhile the policies the two parties enact aren't significan tly different. There were no Democrats willing to hold the line on SinglePaye r. Not one. I don’t see this changing until we radically shift the balance of power by creating a larger & broader social movement.”
The corporate control of every aspect of American life is mirrored in the corporate control of healthcare. And there are no barriers to prevent corporate domination of every sector of our lives.
“We're at a crisis,” Flowers said. “Healthcare providers, particular ly those in primary care, are finding it very difficult to sustain an independen t practice. We're seeing greater corporatiz ation of our healthcare . Practices are being taken over by these large corporatio ns. You have absolutely no voice when it comes to dealing with the InsuranceC ompany. They tell you what your reimbursem ents will be. They make it incredibly difficult & complex to get reimbursed . The rules are arbitrary & change frequently .”
“This new legislation doesn't change any of that. It doesn't make it easier for doctors. It adds more administra tive complexity . We're going to continue to have a shortage of doctors. As the new law rolls out they're giving waivers as the provisions kick in because corporatio ns like McDonald’s say they can’t comply. Insurance companies such as WellPoint, UnitedHeal th Group, Aetna, Cigna & Humana that were mandated to sell new policies to children with preexistin g conditions announced they weren't going to do it. They said they were going to stop selling new policies to children. So they got waivers from the ObamaAdmin istration allowing them to charge higher premiums. Healthcare costs are going to rise faster.
The CenterForMedicare & MedicaidSe rvices estimated that after the legislatio n passed, our healthcare costs would rise more steeply than if we'd done nothing. The CensusBure au reports that the number of uninsured in the US jumped 10 percent to 51 million people in 2009. About 5.8 million were able to go on public programs, but a third of our population under the age of 65 was uninsured for some portion of 2009. The NationalHe althInsura nceSurvey estimates that we now have 58 or 59 million uninsured. And the trend is toward underinsur ance. These faulty insurance products leave people financiall y vulnerable if they have a serious accident or illness. They also have financial barriers to care. Co-pays & deductible s cause people to delay or avoid getting the care they need. And all these trends will worsen.”
“You can’t effect change from the inside,” she has concluded. “We have a huge imbalance of power. Until we have a shift in power we won’t get effective change in any area, whether financial, climate, you name it. With the wealth inequalities, with the road we are headed down, we face serious problems. Those who work and advocate for social and economic justice have to now join together. We have to be independen t of political parties and the major funders. The revolution will not be funded. This is very true.”
“Those who are working for effective change are not going to get foundation dollars,” she stated. “Once a foundation or a wealthy individual agrees to give money they control how that money is used. You have to report to them how you spend that money. They control what you can and cannot do. Robert Wood Johnson [the foundation], for example, funds many public health department s. They fund groups that advocate for health care reform, but those groups are not allowed to pursue or talk about single-pay er. Robert Wood Johnson only supports work that is done to create what they call public/pri vate partnershi p. And we know this is totally ineffectiv e. We tried this before. It is allowing private insurers to exist but developing programs to fill the gaps. Robert Wood Johnson actually works against a single-pay er health care system. The Health Care for America Now coalition was another example. It only supported what the Democrats supported.
There are a lot of activist groups controlled by the Democratic Party, including Families USA and MoveOn. MoveOn is a very good example. If you look at polls of Democrats on single-payer, about 80 percent support it. But at MoveOn meetings, which is made up mostly of Democrats, when people raised the idea of working for single-pay er they were told by MoveOn leaders that the organizati on was not doing that. And this took place while the Democrats were busy selling out women’s rights, immigrant rights to health care and abandoning the public option. Yet all these groups continued to work for the bill. They argued, in the end, that the health care bill had to be supported because it was not really about health care. It was about the viability of President Obama and the Democratic Party. This is why, in the end, we had to pass it.”
We didn't get healthcare reform. Obama & DLCers schemed to get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land:
Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatriciKEEP READINGan from Maryland who volunteers for Physicians for a National Health Program, knows what it is like to challenge the corporate leviathan. She was blackliste d by the corporate media. She was locked out of the debate on health care reform by the Democratic Party and liberal organizati ons such as MoveOn. She was abandoned by those in Congress who had once backed calls for a rational health care policy. And when she and seven other activists demanded that the argument for universal health care be considered at the hearings held by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, they were forcibly removed from the hearing room.
“The reform process exposed how broken our system is,” Flowers said when we spoke a few days ago. “The health reform debate was never an actual debate. Those in power were very reluctant to have single-payer advocates testify or come to the table. They would not seriously consider our proposal because it was based on evidence of what works. And they did not want this evidence placed before the public. They needed the reform to be based on what they thought was politicall y feasible and acceptable to the industries that fund their campaigns. ”
“There was nobody in the House or the Senate who held fast on universal health care,” she lamented. “Sen. [Bernie] Sanders from Vermont introduced a single-payer bill, S 703. He introduced an amendment that would have substitute d S 703 for what the Senate was putting together. We had to push pretty hard to get that to the Senate floor, but in the end he was forced by the leadership to withdraw it. He was our strongest person. In the House we saw Chairman John Conyers, who is the lead sponsor for the House single-pay er bill, give up pushing for single-pay er very early in the process in 2009. Dennis Kucinich pushed to get an amendment that would help give states the ability to pass single-pay er. He was not successful in getting that kept in the final House bill. He held out for the longest, but in the end he caved.”
So.
What's this 'genius' strategy on Obama's part?
Anyone?
Anyone?
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“The Democrats & Republicanhttp://wwws give the illusion that there are difference s between them,” said Flowers. “This keeps the public divided. It weakens opposition . We fight over whether a Democrat or a Republican will get elected. We vote for the lesser evil, but meanwhile the policies the two parties enact aren't significan tly different. There were no Democrats willing to hold the line on SinglePaye r. Not one. I don’t see this changing until we radically shift the balance of power by creating a larger & broader social movement.”
The corporate control of every aspect of American life is mirrored in the corporate control of healthcare. And there are no barriers to prevent corporate domination of every sector of our lives.
“We're at a crisis,” Flowers said. “Healthcare providers, particular ly those in primary care, are finding it very difficult to sustain an independen t practice. We're seeing greater corporatiz ation of our healthcare . Practices are being taken over by these large corporatio ns. You have absolutely no voice when it comes to dealing with the InsuranceC ompany. They tell you what your reimbursem ents will be. They make it incredibly difficult & complex to get reimbursed . The rules are arbitrary & change frequently .”
“This new legislation doesn't change any of that. It doesn't make it easier for doctors. It adds more administra tive complexity . We're going to continue to have a shortage of doctors. As the new law rolls out they're giving waivers as the provisions kick in because corporatio ns like McDonald’s say they can’t comply. Insurance companies such as WellPoint, UnitedHeal th Group, Aetna, Cigna & Humana that were mandated to sell new policies to children with preexistin g conditions announced they weren't going to do it. They said they were going to stop selling new policies to children. So they got waivers from the ObamaAdmin istration allowing them to charge higher premiums. Healthcare costs are going to rise faster.
The CenterForMedicare & MedicaidSe rvices estimated that after the legislatio n passed, our healthcare costs would rise more steeply than if we'd done nothing. The CensusBure au reports that the number of uninsured in the US jumped 10 percent to 51 million people in 2009. About 5.8 million were able to go on public programs, but a third of our population under the age of 65 was uninsured for some portion of 2009. The NationalHe althInsura nceSurvey estimates that we now have 58 or 59 million uninsured. And the trend is toward underinsur ance. These faulty insurance products leave people financiall y vulnerable if they have a serious accident or illness. They also have financial barriers to care. Co-pays & deductible s cause people to delay or avoid getting the care they need. And all these trends will worsen.”
“You can’t effect change from the inside,” she has concluded. “We have a huge imbalance of power. Until we have a shift in power we won’t get effective change in any area, whether financial, climate, you name it. With the wealth inequalities, with the road we are headed down, we face serious problems. Those who work and advocate for social and economic justice have to now join together. We have to be independen t of political parties and the major funders. The revolution will not be funded. This is very true.”
“Those who are working for effective change are not going to get foundation dollars,” she stated. “Once a foundation or a wealthy individual agrees to give money they control how that money is used. You have to report to them how you spend that money. They control what you can and cannot do. Robert Wood Johnson [the foundation], for example, funds many public health department s. They fund groups that advocate for health care reform, but those groups are not allowed to pursue or talk about single-pay er. Robert Wood Johnson only supports work that is done to create what they call public/pri vate partnershi p. And we know this is totally ineffectiv e. We tried this before. It is allowing private insurers to exist but developing programs to fill the gaps. Robert Wood Johnson actually works against a single-pay er health care system. The Health Care for America Now coalition was another example. It only supported what the Democrats supported.
There are a lot of activist groups controlled by the Democratic Party, including Families USA and MoveOn. MoveOn is a very good example. If you look at polls of Democrats on single-payer, about 80 percent support it. But at MoveOn meetings, which is made up mostly of Democrats, when people raised the idea of working for single-pay er they were told by MoveOn leaders that the organizati on was not doing that. And this took place while the Democrats were busy selling out women’s rights, immigrant rights to health care and abandoning the public option. Yet all these groups continued to work for the bill. They argued, in the end, that the health care bill had to be supported because it was not really about health care. It was about the viability of President Obama and the Democratic Party. This is why, in the end, we had to pass it.”
I want you to read this:
Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatriciKEEP READING”an from Maryland who volunteers for Physicians for a National Health Program, knows what it is like to challenge the corporate leviathan. She was blackliste d by the corporate media. She was locked out of the debate on health care reform by the Democratic Party and liberal organizati ons such as MoveOn. She was abandoned by those in Congress who had once backed calls for a rational health care policy. And when she and seven other activists demanded that the argument for universal health care be considered at the hearings held by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, they were forcibly removed from the hearing room.
“The reform process exposed how broken our system is,” Flowers said when we spoke a few days ago. “The health reform debate was never an actual debate. Those in power were very reluctant to have single-payer advocates testify or come to the table. They would not seriously consider our proposal because it was based on evidence of what works. And they did not want this evidence placed before the public. They needed the reform to be based on what they thought was politicall y feasible and acceptable to the industries that fund their campaigns. ”
“There was nobody in the House or the Senate who held fast on universal health care,” she lamented. “Sen. [Bernie] Sanders from Vermont introduced a single-payer bill, S 703. He introduced an amendment that would have substitute d S 703 for what the Senate was putting together. We had to push pretty hard to get that to the Senate floor, but in the end he was forced by the leadership to withdraw it. He was our strongest person. In the House we saw Chairman John Conyers, who is the lead sponsor for the House single-pay er bill, give up pushing for single-pay er very early in the process in 2009. Dennis Kucinich pushed to get an amendment that would help give states the ability to pass single-pay er. He was not successful in getting that kept in the final House bill. He held out for the longest, but in the end he caved.”
Lynn Woolsey, head of the Progressiv
Democrats have had the ability to accomplish putting the wars on budget (and thus end the wars) since they took over control of Congress in 2006 and haven't done it. They haven't needed Republican
As the head of the Progressiv
Woolsey then led the 79 to renege on the pledge.
Unbeknowns
Democrats have let Obama continue with just about all of Bush-Chene
Democrats have abdicated their Constituti
About Elections 2010
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420.
What's the big accomplish
Profession
Their only problem with this is that corporatio
Democrats in both chambers of Congress work as a team. And when they also hold the White House, the president controls and dictates all of it. They identify what they hope to achieve (pro-corpo
Those in liberal districts get to talk a good game about being champions of the People, but when push comes to shove, if their votes are needed to cross over and k!ll liberal legislatio
Here's an example of how they tag team us:
KEEP READING
About Elections 2010
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There are so many other cables and issues raised by these leaks, it's hard to know where to begin. But what do you think about this one that Americans don't know about?:
In 2004, a German citizen was snatched in Macedonia and allegedly taken to a secret prison by the CIA. Agents had apparently mistaken him for an al-Qaeda suspect.
A 2007 cable from the US embassy in Berlin details the efforts the US made to persuade Germany not to issue international arrest warrants for the CIA agents accused of involvemen t.
If Republican
Why are Obama and Democrats continuing the war crimes of Bush & Cheney, and blocking investigat
How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminal and corrupt administra
Democrats are in the same business as Republican
I suggest that you consider Democrats and Republican
Once in power, Democrats consolidat
Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan
Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
I cannot imagine any American citizen supporting what our government has been doing IN OUR NAMES, to other people around the world, and to Americans. Our government
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zardinuk
"Second batch of leaks were pretty boring, military dispatches
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They're only boring if you don't recognize their significan
Yes, they are what CENTCOM puts out daily, just in more detail, and the significan
While our government was lying to us about how many innocents it was k!lling in our names, it was actively engaged in trying to justify attacking a sovereign nation after no provocatio
AND WE'RE STILL IN THAT WAR!
We're still illegally occupying a sovereign nation. Two, as a matter of fact, going on five.
That's just one among many other points and l!es being told to us by our government
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Talk of Democratic politician
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.
Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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Talk of Democratic politician
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.
Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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Oh come now, you can't really believe that? State is one of the top venues for CIA guys, embassies and diplomats always are. I'd guess a third of every nation's diplomatic personnel are spying in one manner or another. Maybe more.
You do realize State has it's own police force and espionage units right?
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You, are misinforme
Attaches assigned to embassies are often covers for covert activity, for example cultural or military attaches. But they're not part of the regular diplomatic corps.
Diplomatic corps personnel should be insulated from espionage activities and to have that barrier breached is very troubling.
Other nations do have spies in their diplomatic delegation
State has their own privately contracted bodyguards (not "police", and not any "espionage unit"), and that, too, is something that just happened under Bush, and is also a huge mistake.
About Wikileaks
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The spies who are most in danger are known as "NOCs" for "No Official Cover."
The more common type of spy has "official cover." And what is official cover? Diplomats, i.e. STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES.
And much of that "official cover" spying is going to happen at the U.N. Every country knows it.
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You're misinforme
Attaches assigned to embassies are often covers for covert activity, for example cultural or military attaches. But they're not part of the regular diplomatic corps.
Diplomatic corps personnel should be insulated from espionage activities and to have that barrier breached is very troubling.
Other nations do have spies in their diplomatic delegation
About Wikileaks
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Apparently a rogue moderator is scrubbing perfectly non-abusiv
I'm hard-copyi
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I also have a mirror-sit
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Not SPYING.
And NOT at the UN!
There is a world of difference between providing informatio
About Wikileaks
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NOT the State Department
About Wikileaks
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Explain to me how that happens?
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I would've thought the time for Wikileaks to dump these were now, while Democrats still control both Houses of Congress, right before the vote to extend Bush's tax cuts.
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Operative word: "launches"
It's a stalling tactic.
Holder's launches never land anywhere except, "Case closed, no action taken".
About Afghanistan
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And neither Richard Armitage or Arthur Sulzberger went to jail (or were waterboard
It looks to me like it's a war against We The People by our elected government
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lucyring 2 minutes ago (8:13 PM)
"Do we have the right to know? My read of the Constituti==========on is the President of the United States has the right to decide what secrets to share with us, and that there are checks and balances (National Security Council, House and Senate Intelligen ce Committees , etc.) If we think the fourth estate has failed and we know need to know about secret military operations and so forth, we have the right to elect new officials. "
zardinukIn a democracy, We The People are responsibl
Second batch of leaks were pretty boring, military dispatches. Seems like the same stuff that the CENTCOM puts out daily, just in more detail.
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They're only boring if you don't recognize their significance, as you apparently don't.
Yes, they are what CENTCOM puts out daily, just in more detail, and the significance of them is that they verify what had been suspected for a long time (but what the military and our government had been denying): They confirm that many more civilians were k!lled, and identified , too, for the first time, than our government has been admitting. It shows that while the government was saying, "Oh we don't keep numbers, we don't know how many civilians we've k!lled", in fact the government did know, did keep track, and was actively deceiving American citizens for whom these government employees work.
While our government was lying to us about how many innocents it was k!lling in our names, it was actively engaged in trying to justify attacking a sovereign nation after no provocation, after Iy!ng us into the war in the first place.
AND WE'RE STILL IN THAT WAR!
We're still illegally occupying a sovereign nation. Two, as a matter of fact, going on five.
That's just one among many other points and l!es being told to us by our government.
In 2004, a German citizen was snatched in Macedonia and allegedly taken to a secret prison by the CIA. Agents had apparently mistaken him for an al-Qaeda suspect.
A 2007 cable from the US embassy in Berlin details the efforts the US made to persuade Germany not to issue international arrest warrants for the CIA agents accused of involvemen t.
lucyring 2 minutes ago (8:13 PM)
"Do we have the right to know? My read of the Constituti==========on is the President of the United States has the right to decide what secrets to share with us, and that there are checks and balances (National Security Council, House and Senate Intelligen ce Committees , etc.) If we think the fourth estate has failed and we know need to know about secret military operations and so forth, we have the right to elect new officials. "
zardinukIn a democracy, We The People are responsibl
Second batch of leaks were pretty boring, military dispatches. Seems like the same stuff that the CENTCOM puts out daily, just in more detail.
==================== ========== ========== ========== ==========
They're only boring if you don't recognize their significance, as you apparently don't.
Yes, they are what CENTCOM puts out daily, just in more detail, and the significance of them is that they verify what had been suspected for a long time (but what the military and our government had been denying): They confirm that many more civilians were k!lled, and identified , too, for the first time, than our government has been admitting. It shows that while the government was saying, "Oh we don't keep numbers, we don't know how many civilians we've k!lled", in fact the government did know, did keep track, and was actively deceiving American citizens for whom these government employees work.
While our government was lying to us about how many innocents it was k!lling in our names, it was actively engaged in trying to justify attacking a sovereign nation after no provocation, after Iy!ng us into the war in the first place.
AND WE'RE STILL IN THAT WAR!
We're still illegally occupying a sovereign nation. Two, as a matter of fact, going on five.
That's just one among many other points and l!es being told to us by our government.
zardinuk
My government
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I'm not surprised that you don't see anything alarming in this batch -- You spend all your time spreading disinforma
The US government doesn't share your view that it "doesn't look too bad" -- It's been doing damage control for months overall, and weeks on this latest release.
I'm appalled that Hillary Clinton ordered US diplomats to spy on other nations' representa
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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And neither RIchard Armitage or Arthur Sulzberger went to jail (or were waterboard
It looks to me like it's a war against We The People by their elected government
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
RT @jeremyscah
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Obama and Democratic leadership have already indicated they're on board with Social Security cuts, privatizin
There should be tax HIKES on corporatio
Democratic politician
How cowardly of Democratic politician
Has anybody seen the Democratic leadership lately? Where is Obama? Where is Harry Reid? Where is Nancy Pelosi? Where is Steny Hoyer? Where is Jim Clyburn? WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE'S LEADERS???
Come to think of it, where's Elizabeth Warren? Weren't her supporters
Obama's been a quisling from the very beginning. Pro-corpo rate, pro-war and military industrial complex. That's what the DLC is all about.
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