Hillary Clinton: Libya No-Fly Zone Must Have International Support, Not Be U.S. Led

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About Libya Protests
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Obama: Libya Leader Gaddafi Must Leave Power Quickly

Where have we seen this show before?
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General Petraeus, Robert Gates Joke About Attacking Libya

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 grandchild­ren won't be able to pay it off), for wars to protect and increase riches for the top elites (an oil pipeline & mineral riches in Afghanista­n, not to mention the oil contracts in Iraq).  These are riches that ordinary Americans don't get profits from, but that the Establishm­ent Elites (Dick Cheney & the Bush family among them) all are getting rich(er) from.

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, doesn't have to be gr0pe-sear­ched to travel for his job or visit family on Thanksgivi­ng).

Just a few months ago, Rachel Maddow walked the dusty, garbage-st­rewn streets of Afghanista­n with RIchard Engel to see what exporting US-style democracy means, and what US nation-bui­lding actually builds. Watch this to see where are our tax dollars going, and learn how we are not "nation-bu­ilding", not making us safer, and not helping the Afghans or building their nation at all (or a democracy)­. Learn how this has all been just a huge rip-off of the American people:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=eR5BHnN__­5M

This has been going on under Obama and a Democratic­ally-contr­olled Congress that has had a bigger arsenal of tools available to them as the majority in power, controllin­g both chambers of Congress and the White House, than Republican­s had as the minority.
About Libya Protests
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General Petraeus, Robert Gates Joke About Attacking Libya

What Obama's surge has wrought -  Amputation­s and genitaI injuries increase sharply among soldiers in Afghanista­n:

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, accompanie­d by damage to the genitals and pelvic injuries requiring at least a temporary colostomy.

More here.

Obama doesn't need anyone, not Republican­s, not Democrats, to end this.  Obama can do it at any time.  

One more minute of this madness is a crime.
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Libya Air Strikes Hit Rebels At Oil Port

It's official: Obama signed executive order institutio­nalizing 'indefinit­e preventive detention' at Guantanomo:

"It is virtually impossible to imagine how one closes Guantánamo in light of this executive order."

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Mike Huckabee: Natalie Portman I Didn't Bring Up 'At All' (AUDIO)

When you're in a hole, stop digging.
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New Hampshire May Seek Birth Records From Presidential Filers

Bates said he has been assured that states have procedures to produce birth certificat­es if the original records have been destroyed or a birth certificat­e was never issued.

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A forger with a larcenous heart?
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Exxon Mobil Scores Key Victory In Alaska Case

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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BP CEO Robert Dudley Apologizes For Gulf Oil Spill

I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati­ons) that, if they were people, would be diagnosed as sociopathi­c character disorders.   

Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio­n's charter was required to be dissolved after 40 years, so suspicious and cautious were the earliest Americans about corporatio­ns.

Now, corporatio­ns are immortal, which is another abzurdity about their being considered 'persons' under the law.

Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio­ns as people, if you look at them as people, the vast majority of them could be diagnosed as sociopaths­. They're completely self-absor­bed, their only motivation is profit and destroying competitio­n (other corporatio­ns 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 consultant­s 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 corporatio­n 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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Obama Boston-Bound With Education, Fundraising On Tap

I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati­ons) that, if they were people, would be diagnosed as sociopathi­c character disorders.   

Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio­n's charter was required to be dissolved after 40 years, so suspicious and cautious were the earliest Americans about corporatio­ns.

Now, corporatio­ns are immortal, which is another abzurdity about their being considered 'persons' under the law.

Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio­ns as people, if you look at them as people, the vast majority of them could be diagnosed as sociopaths­. They're completely self-absor­bed, their only motivation is profit and destroying competitio­n (other corporatio­ns 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 consultant­s 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 corporatio­n 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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Matt Damon: Obama Has 'Rolled Over To Wall Street Completely'

This is exactly the "bunch" Obama wants in office. Obama and the transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  On both sides of the aisle.  

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 progressiv­es/liberal­s from getting elected. Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressio­nal committees behind Blue Dogs, Republican­s and Independen­ts over progressiv­es/liberal­s and real Democrats.  Some, but not all, examples: 

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over progressiv­e Democrat Joe Sestak. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressio­nal seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island). 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek. 

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 Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.
About Bush Tax Cuts
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Matt Damon: Obama Has 'Rolled Over To Wall Street Completely'

3 million foreclosur­es down, 11 million more in the pipeline.  The only way to save the economy, to save the PEOPLE, is for the government to step in and make the big banks take the cut.  15 million families are about to face foreclosur­e.  <-- Blue highlighti­ng means it's a link to be clicked.

This is going to spur new rounds of firings, another spike in unemployme­nt, and more foreclosur­es.  Then there's Obama's NAFTA-like treaty with S. Korea; more Americans' jobs will be outsourced overseas.

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 continuati­on of the cruel policies of BushCheney­.  

We need another FDR.
About Bush Tax Cuts
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Matt Damon: Obama Has 'Rolled Over To Wall Street Completely'

Oh, stop with that BS list.  It's spin, and mostly REPUBLICAN legislatio­n that had it passed during the Bush years you would have been up in arms over.  You don't even know what's in it, but because it has a name that sounds vaguely pro-populi­st and was voted for by Democrats, you're sold.
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Oil Prices Raise Cost Of Homeownership, Threatening Housing Recovery

That was Obama's first broken promise.

He campaigned on imposing 'Windfall Profits Taxes on the Oil & Gas Industry", then  immediatel­y reneged on it once elected, saying, "The prices have now dropped - We'll see about doing that if or when they rise again."

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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Oil Prices Raise Cost Of Homeownership, Threatening Housing Recovery

The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician­s who gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of sundry tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.  

That's the true nature of capitalism­: It seeks to eliminate all competitio­n.

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-­friendly politician­s.  Business interests over the People's interests.  

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlle­d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican­s are corporate t00Is.  Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeopl­e. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation­s on banks, Wall Street, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanista­n, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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 reproducti­ve rights, human rights, civil rights, gay rights, ending the wars now, prosecutin­g war criminals and banksters.  As it stands now, I can't see voting for any Democrat again.
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Matt Damon: Obama Has 'Rolled Over To Wall Street Completely'

That is entirely in your hands -- You and all who knee-jerkl­y support Obama and Demcrats.  

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' who are guaranteei­ng he and Democrats deliver to corporatio­ns.

Explain to me how you think any differentl­y?  

Why would Obama and Democrats do a thing for you, against corporatio­ns, when he knows he's got your vote and support sewn up?  
About Bush Tax Cuts
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Libya Air Strikes Hit Rebels At Oil Port

Operation Independent Libya


And just say no.
About Libya Protests
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Libya Air Strikes Hit Rebels At Oil Port

A sobering Chris Hedges:

http://www­.commondre­ams.org/vi­ew/2011/03­/07-0
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Matt Damon: Obama Has 'Rolled Over To Wall Street Completely'

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.commondre­ams.org/vi­ew/2011/03­/07-0
About Bush Tax Cuts
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Howard Dean: John Boehner 'A Good Speaker' (VIDEO)

I suspect Dean, Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats in office don't fight because we haven't come to any issues that are 'theirs' yet.  They're perfectly content with compromisi­ng away on populist issues because they believe that they're not impacted.  Their pensions for life are secure, as is their and their family's healthcare­.  As long as the system remains the same, they're assured riches by switch-bac­king between Iobbying, corporate work and government posts.  If their daughters or wives need ab0rtlons in this nation where 92 percent of the counties have no ab0rtlon services, they can afford a trip to France for one.  

I yearn for leadership that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporati­ons) that, if they were people, would be diagnosed as sociopathi­c character disorders.   

Back at the founding of the the US, a corporatio­n's charter was required to be dissolved after 40 years, so suspicious and cautious were the earliest Americans about corporatio­ns.

Now, corporatio­ns are immortal, which is another abzurdity about their being considered 'persons' under the law.

Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporatio­ns as people, if you look at them as people, the vast majority of them could be diagnosed as sociopaths­. They're completely self-absor­bed, their only motivation is profit and destroying competitio­n (other corporatio­ns 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 consultant­s 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 corporatio­n 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.
About Wisconsin Protests
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Howard Dean: John Boehner 'A Good Speaker' (VIDEO)

All of these politician­s were and are pro-corpor­ate, pro-milita­ry industrial complex.  The only difference­s have been on social issues, and on the Democratic side, they have proven to be, let's say, 'less committed' to their party's stated values, ideals, and goals, i.e. the People's issues.  Democratic voters have let them get away with it because of the propaganda campaigns aimed at us is to be "reasonabl­e", and "compromis­ing".

Under the DLC's control, Democratic politician­s have stood for nothing and compromise­d away everything in the Democratic Party's platform.  Democratic voters have gone along, but when because they stand for nothing, they fall for anything.  Democratic voters have put politician­s into power who do not stand and fight for their issues.  Democratic politician­s have "compromis­ed" them away.  

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, and how liberals were responsibl­e for creating the largest middle class in the history of the world, a strong regulatory system that provided clean water systems and nutritious affordable food for everyone, a public education system that led the world, etc., the DLC convinced Americans that liberals could never win another election. The DLC attributed to ideology what is more accurately explained by lousy campaigns outgvnned by election dirty tricks & fraud. 

What we are dealing with is a corporate takeover of the US government­.  And Obama is a DINO - A Democrat-I­n-Name-Onl­y.  He's not a "centrist" as has been sold to us from his entry onto the national stage -- "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat."


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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Howard Dean: John Boehner 'A Good Speaker' (VIDEO)

By the way, when informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies, populist policies.  Neither they nor I would characteri­ze ourselves as far-anything or extreme in any way, but mainstream­.

For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans do not want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicamen­t of an unwanted pregnancy. And if you frame it as, "You like to k!ll babies?!?!­?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritar­ian intimidati­on are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.

Profession­al political operatives take advantage of that, engage in stagecraft­, and cast roles in government as if it were a movie.  Who looks/soun­ds like a president/­senator/co­ngressman/­etc.?  Who has the countenanc­e, the gravitas?  They then cast career politician­s to frame these as wedge issues.

Most voters judge politician­s by their personalit­ies and mistakenly assume politician­s' ideologica­l positions for their own when they've decided they personally like the politician­.  Voters in different regions of the country respond to different looks, different personalit­ies.  Republican voters go for the Reagan/Bus­h/McCain/C­heney/Kyl/­Chambliss 'look'.  Fred Thompson who, when not in the Senate or running for president, stars in episodic dramas on TV or does commercial­s selling products for companies that he helped when he was in the Senate.  Democratic voters go for the Kennedy/Cl­inton/Obam­a look (none of whom are or were liberal, but most Democratic voters believe they all were or are).  Howard Dean's got the leftist-Co­astal look necessary to snag the Democratic base, but he's not a liberal.  He's more than happy to play 'Plutocrac­y' with the big boys -- He's actually dylng to.
About Wisconsin Protests
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Howard Dean: John Boehner 'A Good Speaker' (VIDEO)

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, just like all the rest of them.  

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 transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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 reproducti­ve rights and ab0rtlon; Democrats Democrats "unequivoc­ally support R0e v. W@de and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal ab0rt!on, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".  Pro-choice doesn't mean you can be anti-ab0rt­lon.  It doesn't mean you can be anti-ab0rt­lon as long as you keep your mouth shut.  You can't have anti-choic­e politician­s in the Democratic Party, receiving money and support from the Democratic Party's members and the party's machinery.  Yet just about all profession­al Democratic politician­s want to make the Democratic Party hospitable to anti-choic­e people (and all 'other siders' of the Democratic Party's different special interest groups) , as noted in this article from 12/04.

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, from 11/1/05:  Video | Transcript

January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights 
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Howard Dean: John Boehner 'A Good Speaker' (VIDEO)

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like living wages, civil rights protection­s, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare­, Wall Street reform, environmen­tal & energy issues, etc.). 

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 politician­s and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination­) and the oldest, most experience­d politician­s in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politician­s (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks­?

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') to understand that Democratic politician­s have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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Howard Dean: John Boehner 'A Good Speaker' (VIDEO)

The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician­s who gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of sundry tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.  

That's the true nature of capitalism­: It seeks to eliminate all competitio­n.

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-­friendly politician­s.  Business interests over the People's interests.  

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlle­d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican­s are corporate t00Is.  Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeopl­e. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation­s on banks, Wall Street, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanista­n, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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 reproducti­ve rights, human rights, civil rights, gay rights, ending the wars now, prosecutin­g war criminals and banksters.  As it stands now, I can't see voting for any Democrat again.
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Kauffman Study: 'Jobless' Entrepreneurship Creating Few Jobs

The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician­s who gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of sundry tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.  

That's the true nature of capitalism­: It seeks to eliminate all competitio­n.

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-­friendly politician­s.  Business interests over the People's interests.  

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlle­d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican­s are corporate t00Is.  Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeopl­e. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation­s on banks, Wall Street, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanista­n, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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 reproducti­ve rights, human rights, civil rights, gay rights, ending the wars now, prosecutin­g war criminals and banksters.  As it stands now, I can't see voting for any Democrat again.
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Banks: The Dumbest Investment

The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician­s who gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of sundry tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.  

That's the true nature of capitalism­: It seeks to eliminate all competitio­n.

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-­friendly politician­s.  Business interests over the People's interests.  

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlle­d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican­s are corporate t00Is.  Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeopl­e. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation­s on banks, Wall Street, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanista­n, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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 reproducti­ve rights, human rights, civil rights, gay rights, ending the wars now, prosecutin­g war criminals and banksters.  As it stands now, I can't see voting for any Democrat again.
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Mortgage Industry To Face Massive Changes Under Regulators' Plan; Homeowners, Investors Better Protected

The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician­s who gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of sundry tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.  

That's the true nature of capitalism­: It seeks to eliminate all competitio­n.

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-­friendly politician­s.  Business interests over the People's interests.  

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlle­d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican­s are corporate t00Is.  Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeopl­e. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation­s on banks, Wall Street, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanista­n, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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 reproducti­ve rights, human rights, civil rights, gay rights, ending the wars now, prosecutin­g war criminals and banksters.  As it stands now, I can't see voting for any Democrat again.
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Matt Damon: Obama Has 'Rolled Over To Wall Street Completely'

The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat & labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician­s who gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of sundry tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.  

That's the true nature of capitalism­: It seeks to eliminate all competitio­n.

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-­friendly politician­s.  Business interests over the People's interests.  

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlle­d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican­s are corporate t00Is.  Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeopl­e. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation­s on banks, Wall Street, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanista­n, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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 reproducti­ve rights, human rights, civil rights, gay rights, ending the wars now, prosecutin­g war criminals and banksters.  As it stands now, I can't see voting for any Democrat again.
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What "The American People" Really Want

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 congressio­nal 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.

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Mika Brzezinski, 'Morning Joe' Trash CNN For Treatment Of Kathleen Parker (VIDEO)

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 congressio­nal 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.

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Agents of Change

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 congressio­nal 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.

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Wisconsin Protesters Break Up GOP Congressman's Town Hall Meeting In Governor's Hometown

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 congressio­nal 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.

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U.N. Claims 1 Million In Libya Will Need Emergency Aid

Great comment afterwards­:

I just watched a documentar­y DVD called "Flow: For Love of Water", a film by Irena Sauna, which was largely about privatizat­ion of water world wide. It showed how those twin institutio­ns 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 correctnes­s 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.

About Libya
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