Anti-Austerity Protests Break Out In Athens And Madrid

Me, too, about Vegas.

The problem here is that to let the banks go bankrupt would have brought a world of hurt around the world on the 99%.  

The banks never should have been deregulated, and once they were bailed out, they've never been deregulated.  The Finance Reform bill is a joke, a disaster in waiting.  My biggest problem with Obama (and how I know him to be a con artist and in on the crimes) is that he didn't tie the bailout to regulations.  

As it stands now, all of the same practices that got us into this mess are continuing.  Another real estate balloon is taking place, with foreign investors buying American real estate on the cheap.  The mortgages are, again, being sliced and diced (along with all other types of loans), so that there will be no way to trace them.  
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Anti-Austerity Protests Break Out In Athens And Madrid

"so they can get back to reckless behavior"?

They've never stopped.
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Ralph Nader Says Obama Is A 'War Criminal' Who Has Been 'More Aggressive' Than George W. Bush (VIDEO)

New research shows the terrorizing impact of drones in Pakistan, false statements from US officials, and how it increases the terror threat:

An important and thoroughly documented new report on the impact of Obama's drone campaign has just been released by researchers at NYU School of Law and Stanford University Law School. Entitled "Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan", the report details the terrorizing effects of Obama's drone assaults as well as the numerous, highly misleading public statements from administration officials about that campaign. The study's purpose was to conduct an "independent investigation into whether, and to what extent, drone strikes in Pakistan conformed to international law and caused harm and/or injury to civilians".

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Ralph Nader Says Obama Is A 'War Criminal' Who Has Been 'More Aggressive' Than George W. Bush (VIDEO)

We're not in a war.  It was bogus when Bush called it, and it's a bs lie that Obama is perpetuating after running on changing the Bush-Cheney 'Long War for Empire' to the criminal justice matter it always should have been.

Obama ran on knowing that it was the US foreign policy of propping up brutal dictators that creates terrorism, and he was going to change the reason for our propping up brutal dictators (corporations wanting other nations' resources on the cheap).  No sooner was he elected than he did a 180-degree turn and continued on with just about all of the Bush-Cheney policies, even going Bush-Cheney one better when it comes to violating Americans' Constitutional rights and creating enemies for Americans all around the world.

And if you're so bloodthirsty, why aren't you signing up to fight?
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Ralph Nader Says Obama Is A 'War Criminal' Who Has Been 'More Aggressive' Than George W. Bush (VIDEO)

I get it you dislike Gore more than Bush.

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I get that you've never read my comments about BushCheney.

I think I probably dislike BushCheney more than Gore does.  And more than Obama and the Democratic Party establishment do.  I know I dislike BushCheney more than the Clintons do.

Why would I be happy with someone who wants to be put into a position of power over my life, who makes a pact with me ("give me your support and I will fight with my last breath to do a good job for you"), doesn't (Gore ran a campaign that was second only to Dukakis's in ineptness - Don't you remember the SNL debate skit, with Jon Lovitz as Gore saying after hearing the Bush character answer a debate question, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"), and then crawls off the edge of a cliff, retiring from public life, leaving me and the millions of others at the mercy of BushCheneyGOP?  

Do you realize that neither Gore nor the environmental lobby were at the Democratic Convention?  He/they weren't invited.  Obama has next to no interest in environmental issues -- We hear more about Clinton and Africa than about an issue that directly affects our lives and the future of civilization on the planet.  

There was a coup d'etat in 2000.  It was bloodless, to be sure, but it was a coup none the less.  And our future, of becoming a third world nation within the next 20 years, is sealed.
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Ralph Nader Says Obama Is A 'War Criminal' Who Has Been 'More Aggressive' Than George W. Bush (VIDEO)

New Stanford/NYU study documents the civilian terror from Obama's drones
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Ralph Nader Says Obama Is A 'War Criminal' Who Has Been 'More Aggressive' Than George W. Bush (VIDEO)

There's something else that you may want to consider: The persistent claim by Nader-bashers that Gore would have been "better" than BushCheney, wouldn't have gotten us into the Iraq war.

Gore was put on the Clinton ticket because he was to the right of DLCer Clinton, both fiscally and socially.  Clinton supported Bush's decision to attack Iraq, in spite of knowing that it was all bs (as a former president, Clinton got all the same intelligence briefings that Bush got).  Gore voted for the first Gulf War.  Gore was no dove, was himself a legacy and a part of the establishment elites that see us all as "unwashed masses".  Joe Lieberman was brought onto the ticket to balance it from the right.  The Powers That Be wanted a war - Democrats voted for it.

And if you needed anymore proof of how much of a Washington insider Gore was, look at that clusterf**k Current TV.  If you're seriously trying to launch a liberal network, a counterpart to Fox, to organize a populist movement, a more mismanaged effort you couldn't find, except perhaps the Romney campaign.  Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Just sayin'.
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