Hillary Clinton: Libya No-Fly Zone Must Have International Support, Not Be U.S. Led
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Are you signing up to serve?
About Libya Protests
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Are you signing up to serve?
About Libya Protests
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Where have we seen this show before?
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That's a great program.
Americans are losing our jobs, our homes, our Social Security, Medicare, police, firemen, teachers, and going into debt to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, (even our grandchild
The American people derive only increased risk to our personal safety because those Afghans and Iraqis frustrated over the k!lling of their families and friends and of being occupied turn terr0r!st because they can't get at the political leaders ordering the bombing and occupation of their country (Obama doesn't fly commercial
Just a few months ago, Rachel Maddow walked the dusty, garbage-st
http://www
This has been going on under Obama and a Democratic
About Libya Protests
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What Obama's surge has wrought - Amputation
Doctors and nurses treating soldiers injured in Afghanistan have begun speaking of a new "signature wound" - two legs blown off at the knee or higher, accompanie d by damage to the genitals and pelvic injuries requiring at least a temporary colostomy.
It's official: Obama signed executive order institutio
"It is virtually impossible to imagine how one closes Guantánamo in light of this executive order."
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
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Bates said he has been assured that states have procedures to produce birth certificat==========es if the original records have been destroyed or a birth certificat e was never issued.
I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati ons) that, if they were people, would be diagnosed as sociopathi c character disorders. Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio n's charter was required to be dissolved after 40 years, so suspicious and cautious were the earliest Americans about corporatio ns. Now, corporatio ns are immortal, which is another abzurdity about their being considered 'persons' under the law. Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio ns as people, if you look at them as people, the vast majority of them could be diagnosed as sociopaths . They're completely self-absor bed, their only motivation is profit and destroying competitio n (other corporatio ns or by the same legal definition other people), they have no conscience , no capacity for empathy. The only time they do something that could be construed as generous or for the greater good is when their consultant s tell them it's good for business. It's like they display all of the lower qualities of human beings - greed avarice predatory nature. The same behavior in a flesh and blood human being would elicit cries of shame in the community and considered appalling, but somehow it's just fine for a corporatio n to behave that way. And they can't be criminally prosecuted . We're not going to get the kind of leadership to end this travesty from either the Democratic or Republican Parties.
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I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati
Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio
Now, corporatio
Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio
We're not going to get the kind of leadership to end this travesty from either the Democratic or Republican Parties.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati
Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio
Now, corporatio
Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio
We're not going to get the kind of leadership to end this travesty from either the Democratic or Republican Parties.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
This is exactly the "bunch" Obama wants in office. Obama and the transnatio
New faces within the Democratic Party would be any different from those already there. The party machinery recruits and backs those who will carry the same torch, and that's true for both the Republican and Democratic Parties.
Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv
Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv
Republican
Republican
Republican
By the way, by getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.
Citizens have little enough of a Constituti
About Bush Tax Cuts
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3 million foreclosur
This is going to spur new rounds of firings, another spike in unemployme
The economy isn't improving. What Obama's doing is presiding over the end game of America, letting the 'Haves' pick the (our) bones clean. The more we see of Obama in action, the more 'deals' he makes, the more people realize that Obama's a continuati
We need another FDR.
About Bush Tax Cuts
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Oh, stop with that BS list. It's spin, and mostly REPUBLICAN legislatio
About Bush Tax Cuts
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That was Obama's first broken promise.
He campaigned on imposing 'Windfall Profits Taxes on the Oil & Gas Industry", then immediatel
Oil hit over $80/barrel (the amount that, had Obama kept his promise, the windfall profits tax would have been triggered) long ago.
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The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation
The DLC-contro
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. I've never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting. I will NEVER vote for any candidate who isn't talking about economic justice and actively working for it, making it his first priority in all that he does, whether it's in reproducti
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That is entirely in your hands -- You and all who knee-jerkl
Every one of you who says things like, "Like McCain would have been better", or "Would you rather Sarah Palin be in the White House" has made it so that Obama and Democrats can do anything as long it doesn't have an 'R' attached to it.
It's Obama's 'most ardent supporters
Explain to me how you think any differentl
Why would Obama and Democrats do a thing for you, against corporatio
About Bush Tax Cuts
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Operation Independent Libya
And just say no.
About Libya Protests
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A sobering Chris Hedges:
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Only when you're in a position to turn the boat around, instead of having to convince 50 percent plus one voters of the necessity (with the clock fast running out).
A sobering Chris Hedges:
http://www
About Bush Tax Cuts
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I suspect Dean, Obama and the DLC-contro
I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati
Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio
Now, corporatio
Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio
We're not going to get the kind of leadership to end this travesty from either the Democratic or Republican Parties.
About Wisconsin Protests
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
All of these politician
Under the DLC's control, Democratic politician
The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when Ronald Reagan, Lee Atwater and Karl Rove were demonizing the word. Instead of educating the public about liberalism
What we are dealing with is a corporate takeover of the US government
Blue Dog Democrat = REPUBLICAN
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, changing its name to 'bee' isn't going to get you any honey.
About Wisconsin Protests
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By the way, when informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies, populist policies. Neither they nor I would characteri
For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans do not want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicamen
Profession
Most voters judge politician
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Howard Dean's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not 'married' to what I would say are sacrosanct Democratic Party positions, like pro-choice and public health care. He's a politician
You do not rise within either political party unless you have run the gauntlet and proven you're one of the team. You have to buy into the group think, and that group think accepts the status quo that they are beholden to transnatio
Political parties have platforms, written documents, that state clearly what the party stands for, with an agenda and list of goals. The Democratic Party's platform is crystal clear on reproducti
The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'. That's certainly true of Howard Dean. During Howard Dean's tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the Democratic Party from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews
January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights
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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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The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation
The DLC-contro
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. I've never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting. I will NEVER vote for any candidate who isn't talking about economic justice and actively working for it, making it his first priority in all that he does, whether it's in reproducti
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation
The DLC-contro
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. I've never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting. I will NEVER vote for any candidate who isn't talking about economic justice and actively working for it, making it his first priority in all that he does, whether it's in reproducti
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation
The DLC-contro
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. I've never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting. I will NEVER vote for any candidate who isn't talking about economic justice and actively working for it, making it his first priority in all that he does, whether it's in reproducti
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation
The DLC-contro
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. I've never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting. I will NEVER vote for any candidate who isn't talking about economic justice and actively working for it, making it his first priority in all that he does, whether it's in reproducti
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation
The DLC-contro
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. I've never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting. I will NEVER vote for any candidate who isn't talking about economic justice and actively working for it, making it his first priority in all that he does, whether it's in reproducti
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Big Pay Day For Hill Staffers:
Departing members of the House of Representatives awarded millions of dollars in extra pay to aides as they closed down their offices, according to lawmakers' spending records.
The 96 lawmakers paid their employees $6.7 million, or 31%, more in the fourth quarter of 2010 than they did, on average, in the first three quarters of the year.
That's about twice as much as the 16% increase awarded by lawmakers who returned to the 112th Congress, according to LegiStorm, an organization that tracks congressio nal salaries.
The disparity suggests retiring or defeated members used remaining funds in their official expenses budgets to boost salaries for staffers before they left Washington, cash that might otherwise have been returned to the U.S. Treasury.
Big Pay Day For Hill Staffers:
Departing members of the House of Representatives awarded millions of dollars in extra pay to aides as they closed down their offices, according to lawmakers' spending records.
The 96 lawmakers paid their employees $6.7 million, or 31%, more in the fourth quarter of 2010 than they did, on average, in the first three quarters of the year.
That's about twice as much as the 16% increase awarded by lawmakers who returned to the 112th Congress, according to LegiStorm, an organization that tracks congressio nal salaries.
The disparity suggests retiring or defeated members used remaining funds in their official expenses budgets to boost salaries for staffers before they left Washington, cash that might otherwise have been returned to the U.S. Treasury.
Big Pay Day For Hill Staffers:
Departing members of the House of Representatives awarded millions of dollars in extra pay to aides as they closed down their offices, according to lawmakers' spending records.
The 96 lawmakers paid their employees $6.7 million, or 31%, more in the fourth quarter of 2010 than they did, on average, in the first three quarters of the year.
That's about twice as much as the 16% increase awarded by lawmakers who returned to the 112th Congress, according to LegiStorm, an organization that tracks congressio nal salaries.
The disparity suggests retiring or defeated members used remaining funds in their official expenses budgets to boost salaries for staffers before they left Washington, cash that might otherwise have been returned to the U.S. Treasury.
Big Pay Day For Hill Staffers:
Departing members of the House of Representatives awarded millions of dollars in extra pay to aides as they closed down their offices, according to lawmakers' spending records.
The 96 lawmakers paid their employees $6.7 million, or 31%, more in the fourth quarter of 2010 than they did, on average, in the first three quarters of the year.
That's about twice as much as the 16% increase awarded by lawmakers who returned to the 112th Congress, according to LegiStorm, an organization that tracks congressio nal salaries.
The disparity suggests retiring or defeated members used remaining funds in their official expenses budgets to boost salaries for staffers before they left Washington, cash that might otherwise have been returned to the U.S. Treasury.
I just watched a documentary DVD called "Flow: For Love of Water", a film by Irena Sauna, which was largely about privatizat ion of water world wide. It showed how those twin institutio ns of global villany, The World Bank and the IMF, have driven the process.
One piece of dialogue struck me as telling, spoken by one of the privatizing executives : "We have to force them to pay to teach them that they have to pay so they'll learn to want to pay."
They apparently believe that those who can't pay are wholly to blame for their financially deficient condition and, being unable (and/or unwilling) to pay, they are unworthy of survival. Only people glad to pay can be allowed to continue to exist. They hold these beliefs with such a total unshakable well defended certitude that even if you take them and show them live and in person how terrible harm is being done through lack of access to potable water, they will scoff and reassert the correctnes s of their way of thinking. That, dear hearts, is the mentality we're up against. There is no chance people who are like that will see the light and change the error of their ways.
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