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Maranello (Italy), January 29th 2007 - The marathon relay celebrating Ferrari's 60th anniversary started this morning from the Italian Embassy in Abu Dhabi at 10 a.m. local time. The relay will involve over 10,000 Ferrari owners and their cars of all ages. These will act as symbolic "bearers" of a specially commissioned relay baton adorned with 60 badges symbolising the most extraordinary events in the Marque's 60-year history. Abu Dhabi was chosen as the start point for the relay - which after the Middle East makes its way across China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, America and the whole of Europe - as a result of plans to build a major Ferrari theme park plus a motor racing circuit on the island of Yas in the most rapidly developing area of the Emirates' capital.
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Ten things San Francisco should fund -- and 10 things it shouldn't -- to create a fair, equitable, and forward-thinking city budget
Business tax cuts The Mid-Market Tax Exclusion Zone — more commonly known as the Twitter tax break after the company whose threat to leave the city extorted millions of dollars from city coffers — is just one of series of business tax breaks aimed at the booming technology industry by Mayor Ed Lee and his allies. Not only did they also get stock options excluded from taxation (repealing a law signed by tech-friendly ex-Mayor Gavin Newsom), but they also subtly crafted 2012's Proposition B, the complicated business tax reform measure approved by voters, to give the tech sector a substantial tax cut with little public discussion about that provision.
Central Subway We at the Bay Guardian are huge fans of public transit, and we generally believe this is all money well spent. That said, the Central Subway is a costly boondoggle whose false promises and high cost per rider we'll all be covering for years to come. That money could have been better on a variety of other transit projects that would improve service to Chinatown and other hard to access parts of the city. And the cost overruns in the project — which have been hidden from public view by sneaky and unethical according tricks, as the SF Weekly reported this spring — are likely to continuing sapping resources from Muni and the SFMTA for a generation to come.
Repeal of Sunday metering It made no sense for Mayor Ed Lee to insist that the SFMTA repeal having to pay for parking meters on Sunday, a program that the agency found was causing more turnover and thus more parking availability and less traffic congestion in busy commercial corridors. Drivers, businesses, and Muni riders all benefited from the paid meters. That repeal will cost taxpayers about $11 million per year while transit riders are paying Muni fares that are being increased to $2.25 and the SFMTA is claiming to have no money to provide free transit service to senior and those with disabilities. This decision amounted to a $11 million annual expenditure with negative environmental impacts that were never studied — a violation of the California Environmental Quality Act, as the Board of Supervisors should rule when they hear that appeal this summer. This is money that could be better spent.
Nonprofit Inc. The city spends millions of dollars every year on hundreds of contracts with nonprofit organizations, much of which goes to politically connected groups in a sort of political patronage system. For example, Randy Shaw and his Tenderloin Housing Clinic have dozens of contracts with the city to perform a variety of services, all while he writes glowing puff pieces on Mayor Lee for his Beyond Chron blog. Shaw even recently got a $20,000 city contract to help find tenants for commercial spaces in the Tenderloin — as if that's actually a problem in a booming city with an overheating economy. The city's contracts should be thoroughly reviewed by an independent party — in addition to the Board of Supervisors — to weed out the political patronage.
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SFBG thinks that SF should adopt old-school "tax, borrow and spend" socialism and kill our great economy, all so their favorite causes can have good money thrown at them after bad.
Yeah, I tried skimming it. Another rant against every money making thing that Steven hates, regardless of its relevancy. Some things were listed multiple times. For example there is both "Repeal of Sunday meters" AND "Stop subsidizing car owners".
Then he complains that we promote tourism and there is a different section against the America's Cup from last year.
I'm not a Progressive but I do think the city would be stronger if they had a compelling, coherent voice at the SFBG.
He even rants about "Twitter tax break after the company whose threat to leave the city extorted millions of dollars from city coffers", while everyone who understands the issue knows that Twitter did not get a dime from the city and were not going public in one of the few jurisdictions in the state that taxes stock options. Why is why Campos and Mirkarimi sponsored a bill to make them exempt.
Steven Jones = lost opportunity for the city's progressives, he is a disaster for their credibility. #fail
"great economy" for whom?
how about throttling back on the unnatural "natural areas program" that is swallowing millions, will continue to need intensive volunteer hours, water, herbicides - and is "replacing" (destroying) non-native (150 year old mature) trees with native plants - that are not taking hold?? (many of which are easily available at nurseries)??
please put "nap"on the list of "do not fund".
and - about bike safety - maybe someone could take a look at what's been done recently vs. amerstam's bike safety. some of our bike lanes lead right into the paths of cars.
"great economy" for whom?
how about throttling back on the unnatural "natural areas program" that is swallowing millions, will continue to need intensive volunteer hours, water, herbicides - and is "replacing" (destroying) non-native (150 year old mature) trees with native plants - that are not taking hold?? (many of which are easily available at nurseries)??
please put "nap"on the list of "do not fund".
and - about bike safety - maybe someone could take a look at what's been done recently vs. amerstam's bike safety. some of our bike lanes lead right into the paths of cars.
"great economy" for whom?
how about throttling back on the unnatural "natural areas program" that is swallowing millions, will continue to need intensive volunteer hours, water, herbicides - and is "replacing" (destroying) non-native (150 year old mature) trees with native plants - that are not taking hold?? (many of which are easily available at nurseries)??
please put "nap"on the list of "do not fund".
and - about bike safety - maybe someone could take a look at what's been done recently vs. amerstam's bike safety. some of our bike lanes lead right into the paths of cars.
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add a penny to services, which is really just a way of paying city workers and SEIU even more.
If nothing is done to plug the black hole that is the unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, then the day will come when we will have no city services because all the money will go to aging former city workers living to be 100.
Some good points here about tourism and non-profit inc.
But surging pension/healthcare liabilities are a serious problem calling for urgent action.
City workers have defined-benefit pension plans (just like Fortune 500 CEOs; nobody else gets them today) that GUARANTEE 6-8% returns compounded annually.
Harvey Rose has analyzed this, saying these guarantees will bankrupt the city unless action is taken.
Meanwhile, funding needed for schools, infrastructure, healthcare, etc., will continue being diverted into the ballooning pension pot.
Why wasn't this on your list of 10 Shouldn'ts?
(And don;y forget the healthcare liabilities too).
They will probably say "just tax the rich" like they always do. But when they try, they will find that those rich guys have vanished.
Detroit is already in banksruptcy because of this, as are Stockton and Vallejo. Oakland is avoiding it only through financial trickery.
Come the next recession, the shit will hit the fan even in more affluent places like SF. And the rich will leave, just like in Detroit.
In fact, some observers are saying that the rich will all live in unincorporated areas where these liabilities are much less.
Or some place like Switzerland, of course.
Progressives don't care about debt because they're anticipating the imminent revolution, in which private assets are seized and all property declared to be state owned. If anything, fiscal irresponsibility will hasten that day. It's a little like how some Christians are with the environment...its demise is inevitable and in fact fighting it is struggling to delay Armageddon and the return of Jesus, both impossible and contrary to the will of God.
the great revolution, so why not hurry it along a bit?
Too bad all the rich will be In Switzerland long before it happens.
now exists solely to redistribute wealth and to ensure progressive priorities which aren't popular with the public are enacted using other means. I mean - at least their open about that and have jettisoned the "living according to our ideals" crap they used to push.
establishment of a rainy day fund.
They just want to spend, spend and spend again.
Most progressives pay very little in the way of taxation, so they're quite happy to spend what comes in and demand more, more and more - because it's not coming from their pockets.
Progressives play plenty of taxes, just like everyone else. Yet the wealthiest individuals and corporations are paying less taxes now than they have through most of this country's history and the result has been unfair and unsustainable consolidations of wealth (see Pikkety, Reich, Krugman, and other excellent sources on this), little investment in the important infrastructure that previous generations left for you but you've denied to future generation, and the underfunding of crucial public services (recently compounded in San Francisco by tax cuts for the entire technology sector, with extra corporate welfare for Twitter and the other mid-Market companies). Important psychiatric and public health services are severely underfunded, placing us all at risk, while the political lip services given to affordable housing, Muni, and safe streets is belied by funding levels far below the actual need. And all you trolls can come up with is union-bashing, red-baiting, and pension-alarmism -- so predictable and so pathetic. You're supporting the selling off of a once-great city to the highest bidders and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Is that what you mean by fair or do you want more, ever more?
You're the one being pathetic and predictable.
onerous - despite the fact those are really pension contributions, not taxes. Most people pay very little in the way of income or capital gains taxes and those are exactly the main sources of revenue which are keeping CA afloat right now. And a major reason our budget falls and rises so dramatically too. We badly need to expand the tax base in this state because we're overly dependent on the wealthy. But try getting a nickle out of Steven - he'd scream so loud you'd hear him in Brooklyn. This is a guy who opposes a $10 yearly registration fee for cyclists, does anyone think he'd pay more to help those indigent people he's always bleating about.
I smack you down over and over, did listening to too much Rush Limbaugh rot your brain or something?
Maybe you are Rush Limbaugh and the Oxycontin rotted your brain.
"pension-alarmism -- so predictable and so pathetic."
Yes, Harvey Milk is an alarmist. He's a paid lapdog of the 1%.
So is Jeff Adachi for trying to attract the public's attention to the pension time bomb.
So is Matt Gonzalez.
Fascists, 1%-ers, one and all.
Steve said: "Progressives play plenty of taxes"
Your logic was PLAYING with you whilst you were getting paid today.
You are in desperate need of a copy editor. Hire a freelancer (no pension, no healthcare liabilities for the SFBG; Bruce would be proud). He/she can handle the task.
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of the great recession you were complaining that it wasn't going up fast enough, not that it was going down.
The city brings in plenty of money, it just has terrible priorities.
Steven ignores the pension timebomb because he knows that any solution to it will take money away from the services that he claims the voters want (but of course do not want to pay for).
Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon when the root of the issue is where and how the city spends money. I happen to agree that everything should be on the table and i'm sorry but the ability for grandma who served SF for over 30 years and loved it should not have to live an undignified life because we want to spend money on a boat race! First and foremost, let's get our priorities in order! People first!
into account the indirect revenues from having the world's richest people here spending money like water.
City government took a loss on the boat race.
Take into account indirect revenues like extra hotel and sales tax, and the city was way ahead.
No, they counted that revenue in (a late bait-and-switch from earlier presentations) and the city still lost about $6 million.
was from an AC visitor or a regular tourist or a resident?
Steven writes: "No, they counted that revenue in (a late bait-and-switch from earlier presentations) and the city still lost about $6 million."
Thanks Steven! Accurate info as always.
You can stop reading now, I want to say something to those awful trolls
Everyone else: According to the Bay Area Council Economic Institute the race generated $364 million for the city's economy. You may have noticed people packing the waterfront from Crissy Field to the Ferry Building.
Steven is deceptively referring only to the $5.5 million that the city had to lay out for services while ignoring the $364 million that was being pumped in. There is a reason why cities all over the world fight to get these events.
Every analysis I saw said that the America's Cup was a net positive for the city's economy, which is what supports all this stuff.
I know that the Cup wasn't as big as expected and the city did have to lay some money out in exchange for a documented big return.
So when you talk about grandma having to go hungry because we spent money on a boat race....is there ANY basis for that or are you just saying whatever you feel like saying?
Just curious.
God I hope the America's Cup comes back because at this point it would be just the thing to make Progressive's heads explode, I believe. "But.. but... but that's money that could be used to put vagrants and meth addicts, er, Campos voters, er, most vulnerables into downtown housing so that we can free up more space on the streets for those arriving by bus each day"...kaboom!
Parking Meters that currently accept only coins are slated to be replaced with new credit-card technology. Thats right san Francisco, the parking is now so expensive that the city of San Francisco needs you to finance it on your credit cards. Now that SFMTA has artificially inflated 9via SFpark) the cost of parking city motorists can now finance their time at parking meters with high interest credit card debt.
So lets put this into perspective:
1. City residents pay property taxes with the understanding that the city and county will direct a portion of property tax revenues toward road maintenance.
2. The city then borrows more money from taxpayers by passing bonds and then uses that money to pay for bicycle lanes, road diets, and other streetscape projects under the guise of "calming traffic" to appease bicycle lobbyists.
3. Now that MTA has created traffic congestion SFMTA then installs expensive high priced parking meters on the street to control the traffic congestion that they engineered with bicycle lanes and road diets.
4. SFMTA then funnels cash back to the transportation reform groups (lobbyists) who helped them to engineer the traffic congestion that they are now profiting from.
5. Now that SFMTA has artificially inflated the cost of parking at meters city motorists will now pay for the roads a fourth time with high interest credit card debt.
The SFMTA has found a fabulous way to transfer public debt on to private citizens by getting us to take on more high interest credit card debt. Privatize profits, socialize losses call it "market rate" pricing and call it innovation. It is quite simply the evil of two lessers.
Its time for restore transportation balance at http://www.restorebalance14.org/
No interest that way
Obviously it self serving opinion.
It's news that you want the government to do what you want?
Opinion I suppose is when right wingers conflate self serving with what they want to force on people/
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According to the Buddhist writer Pema Chodron, "not harming ourselves or others is the basis of enlightened society. It is how there could be a sane world." In Chodron's view, "the first and most fundamental harm" is done by and to our selves. It is "to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly." When we do exhibit that courage, she argues, "it comes as quite a shock to realize how much we've blinded ourselves to the ways in which we cause harm. Our style is so ingrained that we can't hear when people try to tell us, either kindly or rudely, that we're causing harm by the way we are or the way we relate to others. We've become so used to the way we do things that somehow we think that others are used to it too."
George W. Bush's recent speech before the National Endowment for Democracy ("President Bush Discusses Freedom in Iraq and the Middle East," available online at www.whitehouse.gov) is an excellent case in point. It epitomizes the cowardly, moral self-blindness that Chodron sees at the heart of global insanity. According to the arch-conservative New York Times columnist William Safire, it is "Bush's best speech," and it "is worth reading." (Safire, "The Age of Liberty," New York Times,November 10, 2003). Bush' address certainly merits a careful reading, though not for the reasons Safire thinks.
It is an eloquent, well-crafted monument to self-delusion and the deep resistance powerful people and nations have to taking an honest look in the mirror of past and current history. Focused largely on the Middle East, it is a gold mine for students of elite ideology, one of whose core projects is precisely to prevent the powerful from feeling the "shock" to which Pema Chodron refers – to keep, in other words, the mirrors turned away from the main architects of harm and shining back at the victims and others with the blinding light of mass confusion. Again and again, Bush reveals his utter inability to grasp why the majority of the world's people view him and his government as the greatest threat to world peace, a rogue state of greater danger than any of the states he once absurdly lumped together in an "Axis of Evil." He is equally oblivious to the intimately related harm and alienation that is experienced by masses of people in his own country, thanks to his own actions and to the broader domestic power structures he works to represent.
"Respecting The People?"
Take, for example, Bush's opening approval of Ronald Reagan's statement that (in Bush's words) "Soviet communism…failed…because it did not respect its own people." This statement contains no small measure of truth. We are entitled, however, to follow up by asking what sort of "respect" the White House under Bush has shown for "its own people." Beneath the cover of the "war on terrorism" since the terrible jetliner attacks of September 2001, the president and his "posse" (as he likes to call his inner circle) have launched a deeply contemptuous two-pronged assault on the American population. The first prong is a radical and elaborate campaign to redistribute American wealth and hence power yet further upward through massive tax cuts consciously calculated to overwhelmingly benefit the richest Americans and to devastate the nation's ability to meet basic social and civic needs, including even basic homeland security against terrorist attack. The second prong is an attack on American civil liberties, democracy and public space, the worst such assault in fifty years, designed to marginalize dissent, restrict the spectrum of acceptable debate and constrict democratic imagination.
The two prongs are inseparably linked. Policymakers and corporate interests seeking to increase the already extreme concentration and centralization of American wealth and power have found it useful and all-too-easy to smear their critics as "anti-Americans" in the post-9/11 environment. A time of (apparently endless) public emergency is not an appropriate moment, we are told, to question the Leaders' noble schemes to stuff Fat Cat pockets yet fuller with cash originally marked for the most vulnerable among an increasingly insecure populace. To criticize such vile plutocracy "while we are fighting our war on terrorism" – to quote the not-yet-disgraced close Bush ally Trent Lott rebuking that subversive radical Tom Daschle last year – is to flirt, we have been told, with treason.
"Respect" for the people? When George W. Bush spoke on behalf of "free trade" (corporate globalization) and his regressive tax cut in a St. Louis trucking company warehouse last January, he huffed and sneered about the superiority of the American System in front of "a printed canvas backdrop of faux cardboard boxes, which featured 'Made in America' in large black letters" (New York Times, January 23, 2003). The canvass read "STRENGTHENING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY." A handful of warehouse officials applauded in the background, framed by two American flags. But the only real warehouse boxes that White House "volunteers" could find to arrange in front of Bush had large pieces of dark brown duct tape placed on their lower left corner. When reporters peeled the tape off, they found three magic words the White House wished to hide: "Made in China."
When many millions across the world, including masses of angry Americans took to the streets against the "war" even before it was technically launched, consistent with US public opinion numbers showing majority opposition to unilateral war, Bush and his "posse" dismissed this remarkable outpouring of pre-war antiwar sentiment as irrelevant. Telling reporters that he also remembered many Americans and others wrongly (in his view) protesting "trade" (his Orwellian description for the top down corporate globalization that global-activists actually oppose) and refused to directly answer reporters' questions about the reasons for mass opposition to his Iraq policy at home and abroad. Following standard White House doctrine, Bush, Rice and Rumsfeld lectured us on how fortunate we are to possess the very right to protest, unlike the people of Iraq, as if this was granted to us conditionally by benevolent masters and not a longstanding freedom won through deadly struggle and asserted as our birthright. As if this birthright was more seriously endangered by Saddam Hussein than by the Christian Fundamentalist Confederacy enthusiast John Ashcroft and other sponsors of the Patriot Act and Total Information Awareness.
Last July, Bush expressed his respect for American working people by taunting Iraqi guerillas to attack their many children deployed inIraq. "There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on." Like many of fighting age from his privileged, super-wealthy circle, of course, "bring 'em on Bush" avoided real military service during the Vietnam War. He dodged the central military engagement of his time by "making occasional appearances at the Texas National Guard." Given the opportunity to express his rugged, West-Texas sentiments against the "Communist" enemies of American "freedom" in the jungles ofSoutheast Asia, he was content to leave the bloody and dirty work to the sons of the American working-class, who are joined now by blue-collar daughters to comprise to the core basis ofAmerica's armed forces today. He recoiled in horror at the supposedly "elitist" anti-war movement but was pleased to eggAmerica's predominantly poor and working-class soldiers on to murder and death from the sheltered sidelines of aristocratic advantage.
The list of plutocratic and authoritarian outrages inflicted on theUSpopulace under the guise of the "war on terrorism" and the "leadership" of the Bush administration – by far the wealthiest White House in history – goes on and on. Perhaps nothing, however, epitomizes the sheer contempt in which that administration and its allies hold the American people and democracy more perfectly than the propaganda campaign it conducted since last September to convince Americans to accept the utterly false notion that Saddam posed a serious threat to Americans and world peace, linking him to 9/11 and Islamic terrorism. This idea cannot withstand scrutiny, which is why it was quickly replaced byAmerica's supposed mission to spread "freedom" and "democracy" – the main theme of Bush's recent speech – as the reason we illegally and immorally invadedIraq. But, of course, Bush's deceptions are so monumentally profuse that authors are already filling entire books with lists and diagnoses of the president's many lies.
Love for Democracy: Plutocracy At Home, Polyarchy (and Worse) Abroad
Later in "Bush's Best Speech," the president claims that the world has undergone the "swiftest advance of freedom in the 2500-year story of democracy" during the last 30 years, which have seen the number of democracies in the world rise (according to the calculations of the right-wing think-tank "Freedom House") from 40 to 120. It is "no accident," Bush argues, that "the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was a democracy."
But is America truly "a democracy" in the true (dictionary) sense of one-person vote, one vote, with an equal policymaking influence for all, regardless of wealth and other factors of socially constructed inequality?. Not exactly: the top 1 percent owns more than 40 percent of the nation's wealth and possesses vastly greater capacity to fund campaigns and win policies tailored to its interests than the non-affluent majority. That top hundredth makes more than 80 percent of campaign contributions above $200 in theUS, helping contribute toAmerica's reputation as the "best democracy that money can buy"and generating truly remarkable levels of voter disengagement and political apathy in theUS. Reflecting the massive media-driven costs of American campaigns, the candidates who win the race for private dollars tend to win elections in the great preponderance of cases. Candidates serious about winning are beholden to wealthy corporate donors, who possess massive stashes of political cash they use as a profitable investment in the policy process. American elections are generally "wealth primaries," with incumbents routinely out-raising challengers because officeholder's position in policymaking power means they can most effectively act on the political investments of the wealthy.
Thanks to this and a host of related factors including highly concentrated media ownership, it is absurdly difficult for people who might dare to speak against concentrated wealth within (Kucinich) our outside (Nader) the two-party system to win elections or even get a meaningful public hearing. Such candidates are censored by the nature of the nation's political system, as American elections are becoming little more than a recurrent celebration of big capital's permanent dictatorship. The democratic ideal is widely understood by Americans to have been negated by the harsh realities of "dollar democracy" and the "golden rule" ("those who have the gold rule"). "As theUnited Statesapproaches the 2000 presidential race," columnist William Pfaff wrote three years ago, "the fact must be faced thatAmericahas become a plutocracy, rather than a democracy."
In 2000, of course, even record-breaking private financial investments inAmerica's electoral process were not enough to guarantee Bush's ascendancy over the expressed popular will. He also required some help from the vote scrubbers ofFloridaand some scandalous support from high-placed allies in the most explicitly aristocratic branch of the federal government – the Supreme Court.
The policy and related socioeconomic consequences of American plutocracy are all too evident. American governmentlacks the resources to provide universal health coverage (leaving more than 42 million American without basic medical insurance), to properly match unemployment benefits to millions out of work, and to meet the needs of veterans. It can afford, however, to spend trillions on Fat Cat Tax Cuts that reward those least in need and to spend more on the military than all of its possible enemy ("evildoer") states combined many times over, providing massive subsidy to the high-tech corporate sector, including billions on weapons and "defense" systems that bear no meaningful relations to any real threat faced by the American people.
Turning abroad, many if not most of Bush's 120 "democracies"(a count generated by the right-wing think-tank "Freedom House"),supposedly brought to life under the benevolent influence of the freedom-lovingUnited Statesare democracies in name only. The real term for the prevailing political system in many of them (as in the homeland) is "polyarchy," a US-favored "system in which a small group actually rules and mass participation in decision making is confined to leadership choice carefully managed by competing elites. The polyarchic concept of democracy," notes sociologist William I. Robinson, "is an effective arrangement for legitimating and sustaining inequalities within and between nations (deepening in a global economy) far more effectively than authoritarian solutions." Under this watered down system of "democracy" promoted by the NED and theUS, Noam Chomsky has noted, the big decisions belong to "leading sectors of the business community and related elites." The "public are to be only 'spectators of action,' not 'participants' …They are permitted to ratify the decisions of their betters and to lend their support to one or another of them, but not to interfere with matters – like public policy – that are none of their business. If segments of the public depart from their apathy and begin to organize and enter the public arena [as in Venezuala today] that's not democracy. Rather it's a crisis of democracy in proper technical usage, a threat that has to be overcome in one or another way: in El Salvador, by death squads – at home by more subtle and indirect means."
When democracy and elections are perceived as incompatible with perceived USeconomic and military interests, as in Vietnam during the 1950s, Chilein the 1970s, or in Iraq today, to give just three of many possible examples, US policymakers have always preferred dictatorship and authoritarianism. From the 1950s through the 1970s, this preference cost millions of Vietnamese lives, snuffed out in the interest of freedom's salvation. It claimed hundreds of thousands inIndonesia during the 1960s and in Central America during the 1970s and 1980s. Other examples are abundant.
The Bush administration recently displayed its love for democracy in Venezeula, a leading oil exporter to the US. In April 2002, it actively fostered a short-lived coup against that nation's popularly elected leader Hugo Chavez, whose commitment to national self-determination, social justice, and popular political engagement and related critic of US imposed neo-liberal globalization made him a target for US efforts at regime change. The NED, interestingly enough, provided nearly $900,000 to dissident anti-Chavez forces from within Venezuela's socioeconomic elite and military in the year leading up to the coup, which the White House immediately welcomed – only to be embarrassed when a mass popular rebellion of the nation's newly empowered non-affluent majority put that country's supposed "hated" dictator back in office (see the amazing documentary, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," screenings available at www.chavezthefilm.com ).
Nearly one year later, American leaders' commitment to the democratic ideal was displayed in the Bush administration's biting rhetorical division between an archaic "Old [because officially anti-war]Europe" and a progressive, forward-looking "New [because officially pro-war]Europe" – a distinction that neglected to note that the very preponderant majority of all (including "New") Europeans opposed Bush's attack onIraq. The White House criticized Turkey's refusal to serve as an imperial staging ground as anti-democratic when it knew full well that refusal was demanded by a huge majority of the Turkish population.
Meanwhile, authoritarian US-sponsored war- and drug-lords have replaced the Taliban as the American-approved rulers ofAfghanistan. The US enrages the people of South Korean by reversing previous policies of engagement with North Korea and turns a wary eye at a heroic but (for US policymakers) disturbing outburst of mass protest in defense of national resources in Bolivia. Americacontinues to supportIsrael's bloody, illegal occupation ofPalestineand deepens its alliance with authoritarian and state-terrorist forces inRussia,Indonesia, andColumbia. It does so in the name of supposed "wars" "on" "terrorism" and "drugs" that have emerged from and displaced the war on Communism as official new pretexts for a permanent imperial campaign in the not-so post-Cold War era.
Sacrificing for "Rescue and Liberation"
Beyond the inspiring influence exercised by America's brilliant model, Bush's speech claims that part of the explanation for the planet's supposed spectacular "advance of freedom" is found in the willingness of America's "free people" to "sacrifice for liberty" with their blood. This "sacrifice" has occurred through battlefield activities he made sure to avoid "in the trenches of World War I, through a two-front war in the 1940s, the difficult battles of Korea and Vietnam, and in [unspecified] missions of rescue and liberation on nearly every continent," including the recent operations in Iraq. "Because we and our allies were steadfast," Bush noted, "Germany and Japan are democratic nations that no longer threaten the world" and 'every nation has learned" that "freedom is worth fighting for, dying for, and standing for"…unless you happen to be a child of privilege who counts on connections to keep you out of the booby-trapped jungles where freedom's march is measured in brown-skinned body counts.
Too bad America's supposed historical and ongoing supposed mission of "rescue and liberation" couldn't have been put into practice in Rwandaor, more recently, Liberia, where Bush was shamed into making small gestures towards humanitarian intervention by the population's resort to the practice of literally piling up corpses outside the US Embassy in Monrovia. This mission does not extend to the whole of Africa, where the Bush administration resists trade, health care and other reforms that might stem the ravages of AIDS and poverty.
Too bad, for that matter,America's passion for "rescue" and "liberation" did not extend to European Jewry during the 1930s and the Second World War. Truth is, beneath all of Republican's recent talk about saving Europefrom Hitler, the US was relatively pleased with German's fascist, racist, and pillaging ways well into the late 1930s. It saw Italian and even German fascism as understandable and even useful development in America's efforts to keep theSoviet Union and the left at bay. It was only when history's real "evil Axis" moved to seriously attack US global interests that US policymakers undertook to battle it in the name of "liberty," making sure along the way to expand the global "open door" for US corporate power and working afterward to keep both West Germany and Japan firmly under strict US control. During the war, American rejected repeated Jewish pleas to make special efforts to halt Hitler's genocide.
In Vietnam during the 1960s, young Bush watched from the sidelines of privilege while 56,000 Americans were "sacrificed" to the cause of preventing national self-determination and social revolution. A good portion died simply to save presidential and establishment face after the White House and Pentagon had given up on full military victory. Ever since Vietnam, US policymakers have been terrified by the volatile political affect of civilian casualties on a US population that repeatedly learns all-too well who does and doesn't [get] sacrifice[d] for empire.
During the first Gulf War, the US actually called Iraqis out to rebel for "liberty" and then stood by while the US-designated monster butchered his opposition. The rebels were sacrificed to America's drive to control Iraqi affairs, as were the 500,000 or more Iraqi children who died as a result of US-imposed economic sanctions that killed without a single American sacrifice. Consistent with this ruthless insensitivity, our "rescue" instincts have not led us to acknowledge the large number of innocent civilians we have killed and injured during our recent liberation ofIraq, whose numbers US policymakers don't even bother to count
Speaking of sacrifice, liberty, and Iraq, we can safely predict that Bush's speech writers will never have him reference one of John Stuart Mill's famous arguments in his classic text On Liberty [1857]) – the one where Mill noted that people need to fight and sacrifice for their own rights to truly cherish them. "Freedom" imposed by foreigners, Mill argued, inevitably reverts to slavery, an argument that calls into question the very possibility ofAmericaliberating anyone other than itself. You cannot export democracy through the barrel of a gun.
"Inclusion and Justice"
And speaking of theMiddle East, where the US has long worked to subsidize, equip and otherwise sustain widespread dictatorship and authoritarianism, Bush's speech claims that "working democracies always need time to develop – as did our own. We've taken a 200-year journey toward inclusion and justice – and this makes us patient and understanding as other nations are at different stages of this journey."
Well, that's nice to know, but if America is so advanced on the long and winding road to "inclusion and justice," why doesthe average white person in metropolitan America live in a neighborhood that is 80% white and only 7% black while a typical black American individual lives in a neighborhood that is only 33% white and as much as 51% black (see the work John Logan and colleagues at the Lewis Mumford Center, online at www.albany.edu/mumford/ census)?. Why are African-Americans twice as likely to be unemployed as whites and why is the poverty rate for blacks in the US is more than twice the poverty rate for whites? Why is black families' median household net worth less than 10 percent that of whites? Why are blacks still disproportionately concentrated in the country's worst urban ghettoes, in neighborhoods that host the worst public school systems in the country and are home to a tragic tangled web of pathologies that emerge wherever disadvantaged people are concentrated and cordoned off from "respectable society"? Their predominantly African-American populations live, writes African-America writer and activist Elaine Brown, "in conditions of deterioration and disrepair, lacking needed services, with few community-based businesses." A shocking number and percentage of their younger residents now provide crucial raw material for the nation's massive prison-industrial complex, one of the great growth industries to emerge in the wake of the loss of industrial jobs that used to employ millions of urban African-Americans. Such are just a tiny share of the many disturbing facts of life in the savagely unequal nation that Madeline Albright said "stands taller and sees farther" than the rest of the world – the country that Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson calls "the beacon to the world of the way life should be."
The Making of "Successful Societies"
"Bush's best speech" reaches new depths of narcissistic self-delusion when he sermonizes on the "essential principles common to every successful society, in every culture." Among these principles he includes the requirement that "governments respond to the will of the people and not the will of an elite," "invest in the health and education of their people," and recognize the "impartial rule of law." Successful societies, Bush notes, "allow room" for "healthy civic institutions," including "labor unions and independent newspapers and broadcast media" and they "prohibit and punish official corruption."
All true but the problem is that America's economic "elite" routinely dominates US policy to cut investment in health and education for the populace, rollback the power of organized labor (targeted for major diminishment under the design of Bush's Department of Homeland Security), stack the decks of justice and prevent serious punishment of powerful corporate criminals (who go free after demolishing droves of jobs and savings accounts while hundreds of thousands of impoverished African-Americans rot in Hellish jails and prisons for minor narcotics offenses), deepen the ever-increasing corporate concentration of print and electronic media ownership, and relentlessly manipulate public opinion ("taking the risk out of democracy" in the late Alex Carey's wonderfully suggestive words) from inside and outside that dominant media. This is a structural, bipartisan reality, graphically evident under a Bill Clinton as well as a Bush, though the latter is an especially dedicated, energetic, shameless, and resolute agent of the American "elite's" agenda of starving the left (social and democratic) hand and feeding the right (regressive and repressive) hand of the state. The corporate-plutocratic "welfare reformer" Clinton, who worked to distance the "new" Democratic Party from its social-democratic New Deal (and related Great Society) legacy, is appalled by the depth and degree of his successor's commitment to socioeconomic and policy regression.
Speaking of shamelessness, consider Bush's last line on what makes a good society. "Instead of directing hatred and resentment against others," Bush says, "successful societies appeal to the hopes of their own people." This from the president who told the world it is "either with us or against us" in an apparently permanent and borderless war against "the enemies of freedom." This from a sneering violator of the most basic edicts on the books of post-Nuremberg international law who pushes fear and loathing of shifting and falsely merged Evil Others to marshal mass support and divert attention from the consequences of his aristocratic domestic policies.
Perhaps a psychoanalyst should be sent to the White House to examine the remarkable inversion that occurs in Bush's depiction of the rest of the world's problems: he and his team are masters of almost everything he reproaches in others – the fiendish foes of "freedom." In the meantime, fellow Americans, let us reflect on the harm we are doing ourselves and others by permitting "leaders" like Bush to remain so dreadfully oblivious to the painful reality of how America relates to itself and the world.
PaulStreet([email protected]) writes on race, class, imperialism, and thought control. His book Empire Abroad, Inequality at Home: Writings onAmericaand The World(Paradigm Publishers) will be published next year.


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Snowflake Cookies Recipe
- 2 cups butter, softened
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups cake flour
- 2 tablespoons edible glitter
- In a large bowl, cream butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually add flour and mix well. Divide in half. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out one portion of dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 4-in. snowflake-shaped cookie cutter. Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake at 300° for 8-10 minutes or until firm. Repeat with remaining dough. Chill and reroll scraps if desired.
- In a small resealable plastic bag, combine edible glitter and remaining sugar. Seal bag; crush mixture to break glitter into smaller pieces. Sprinkle over warm cookies. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. Yield: 4 dozen.
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This is another Christmas Snowflake Cookie. Use it to add to your decorations, trying not to delete your edible decorations for dressing up your house & ornaments. You are going to make enough to give as gifts for home, work, committees, clubs, etc. Do not forget the plate of cookies that your children will want to leave for Santa on Christmas Eve! Remember to contact Wilton for cookie cutters, glaze, edible glitter, color bases, etc. The way to see their available products upon your computer is to email
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Target had a set of three different snowflake cookie cutters by Wilton today for under $4.00. Anywhere Wilton products are sold you might be able to find them. I had just found this recipe earlier today and wondered where you could find them. Now I have some and will try this recipe soon!
where can one get the cookie cutter/cutters used for the snowflake cookies. PJ
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Approximately two miles south of the museum that commemorates Ray Kroc's first franchised McDonald's restaurant, opened in Des Plaines in 1955, a new generation of sandwich purveyors is offering its rendition of the iconic hamburger. American WildBurger, 1550 E. Oakton St., became the latest to join the gourmet hamburger trend when it opened its doors for the first time on Saturday.
Alfredo Esparza, one of five co-owners in the venture, said American WildBurger would sell hamburgers for $7.50 that might cost $14 at a competitor such as Five Guys or Epic Burger in Chicago.
"We're opening up something that's going to be gourmet burgers, but without the gourmet burger price," Esparza said.
Esparza said their beef, chicken and turkey does not contain hormones, antibiotics, preservatives or fillers. Additionally, patties are cooked on a char grill, Esparza said, as opposed to a flattop grill similar to competitors.
"It's health conscious eating without having to sacrifice flavor and taste," Esparza said.
Esparza said American WildBurgers taste different than competing burgers because, in part, no fillers are used in the hand-packed patties.
"There's no fillers, there's no breadcrumbs, no extract or nothing," Esparza said. "When I say it's 100 percent meat, you're really eating a 100 percent meat burger; there is no fillers whatsoever."
Luke Tworek, another one of the five co-owners, said competitors that use frozen hamburger patties, in some cases, use paper products as fillers.
"It's all processed; our's isn't," Esparza said.
American WildBurger has six signature hamburgers, and customers can create their own custom burgers. French fries, Cajun fries and cheese fries, organic and regular pop round out the menu. Frozen yogurt will be added to the lineup in the next few weeks, Esparza and Tworek said.
With plans to open five more franchised restaurants in the next year, the American WildBurger entrepreneurs were optimistic on the night before their business' debut.
"We're here for longevity, not the quick fad," Esparza said.
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The trippy new film from acclaimed director David Cronenberg reframes Pattinson as Eric Packer, a young billionaire trying to get across Manhattan in his high-tech limousine for an appointment with a barber. Unfortunately for Packer, society is beginning to crumble just outside his limo, and his day is filled with angry protestors, illicit affairs and deadly violence.
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No funeral services are planned for Deer Park resident Frances J. Dalton, 86, who passed away on April 19, 2012.
Mrs. Dalton and her husband, Richard, lived in various locations as a Navy family.
She enjoyed cooking, reading, knitting and the Atlanta Braves.
Her husband of 59 years, Richard, predeceased her as well as her parents, Obed and Millie Loomis, her siblings and a great-grandson, Jeremy.
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This is a spacious 2 bedroom plus den, 1900 sq. ft. villa with a 2 car attached garage. The second bedroom/bath and den can be closed off for privacy. The villa has a a front & back lanai, including a a private pool and spa overlooking the golf course. It is newly decorated and fully furnished. The features include a king size bed & large walk in closet, double sink in the master bedroom area, queen bed in the guest w/ private bath, and a pull out couch/tv in the den. Internet and cable service provided.
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In a game featuring the co-players of the year in Ohio's Division III, Adolphus Washington and Taft's full-court pressure were too much for Anton Grady and Central Catholic in the Senators' OHSAA title-winning 95-52 victory on Saturday at Value City Arena in Columbus.
The 95 points by Taft set a Division III title game record, breaking the mark of 90 set in 2006. The 43-point margin of victory set a state record for a championship game.
Taft (26-1), only the second Cincinnati public school to win a state championship in basketball, took control of the game early, leading 16-6 after the first quarter.
Central Catholic (19-8), of Cleveland, wasn't able to handle the Senators' pressure defense, shooting 20 percent in the first quarter after seeing its star player, the Cleveland State-commit Anton Grady, head to the bench with two quick fouls. Grady set a tournament record with 22 rebounds in the semifinals and finished with 22 points and 14 rebounds despite his foul trouble.
Playing for its second title in three years, Central Catholic was unable to respond in the second quarter, as Taft took a 46-16 lead into halftime on 62 percent shooting (64 percent from beyond the arc), while turning Central Catholic turnovers into 19 points.
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See UGA flanker Chris Conley's 26-minute take on Star Wars
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Remember that time you built yourself a steel suit to wear so you could stand inside a fireworks show?
Gift-giving can be an expensive proposition. Most of the ideas that tend to pop into people's minds when it comes to exchanging gifts are expensive ones – or, at least ones that add up to a lot if you have to buy many of them.
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Vize makes his debut on Ridiculoud with a dirty, bouncing track made for those who like a little bit of filth in their sets. 'R U There' slams in with a nasty, electro bassline and continues building with some wicked synth programming and precise editing. Second, Quadrat Beat handles the first remix, emphasizing a driving and raw bass to create a dynamic and heads-down groove. Finally, 8*B1T takes a trip on the wild side with pumping bass, stutter synth lines, and some fun effects to remind us all what nu-skool used to sound like.
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The mandate that requires you have health coverage is one of the most controversial provisions of the Affordable Care Act. But there are exemptions. However, if you're not exempt, there's a price you'll have to pay.
You can choose to stick with your current health care plan, or choose a new one through the Marketplace. But the new policy's requirement is that you must have a minimum essential coverage, whoever it may be through. And if you don't, there will be a tax penalty.
"The penalty that's associated with those individuals who decide not to purchase insurance, if they're not exempted, is phased in over the course of three years," says Monica Lindeen, Montana Insurance Commissioner.
For an individual, the tax penalty is $95 for 2014, or one percent of your income, whichever is greater. For 2015, the penalty is $325, or two percent of your income, whichever is greater. And for 2016, $695 or 2.5 percent of your income, whichever is greater.
For a family, that penalty is up to $285 for 2014, or one percent of your family income, whichever is great. The penalty increases to up to $975 for 2015, or two percent of your family income, whichever is greater. And in 2016, that number is up to $2,085 or 2.5 percent of your family income, whichever is greater.
But there are exemptions. You are exempt from the individual mandate if:
-You have to pay more than 8% of your income for health insurance, after taking into account any employer contributions or tax credits;
-Your family income is below the threshold for filing a tax return;
-You are part of a religion opposed to acceptance of benefits from a health insurance policy or your are a member of a recognized healthcare sharing ministry;
-You are an American Indian, an Alaska Native, or your are married to an American Indian or Alaska Native;
-Your are not a citizen or not lawfully present in the U.S.;
-You are incarcerated.
But if you don't want to pay the penalty and would like an inexpensive option for coverage, Catastrophic Coverage could be an option for you.
"Well the catastrophic plans obviously are cheaper and they're for younger people who don't have a lot of health concerns and make sure they have coverage in case something really bad should happen to them. But overall, they're probably not going to use it except for some preventative needs," says Lindeen.


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My plan is to meander up the west side of Denmark to Hirtshals as the time allows. I have to catch the ferry to Iceland (only one a week) on Tuesday 21st June at 10:00, so I can have one more stop on my way north.
The countryside is green and pleasant, heavily under agriculture. To those who know it, it is a bit like the A11 at Elveden, with no traffic lights and very little traffic.
I stop at Ribe for a bit of lunch. It is a nice town, the outskirts has modern housing, but the centre retains some of it's quaint past.
I do of course have to have a genuine Danish and coffee while I study my maps.