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December 18, 2009
Mark P. Mills
It is sheer hubris for humans, even the supposedly smart ones, to believe they can predict the future with any accuracy.
Suppose its the year 1910. Could anyone forecast the iPhone and all the technology that underlies and surrounds it? Can anyone forecast today the iPhone equivalent in 2110?
A central conceit in the climate change debate is not just that experts can forecast the planets weather a century from now. It is the implicit, and explicit, assumption that anyone might forecast technology in the year 2110. The worlds future energy choices and appetites are the central features of all climate mitigation schemes. But it is not todays technology that is relevant here, but the technology of the 22nd century that will determine how we will then obtain energy and what kind, how it is used, how much is used and for what.
The challenge of forecasting 2110 is readily illustrated by looking back 100 years ago to 1910. Consider what sages a century ago might have guessed about the impact of just a handful of technologies invented circa 1910: the washing machine, vacuum cleaner, vacuum tube, air conditioner, central telephone exchange and airplane.
If thinking backward or forward a century seems a stretch for tech forecasting--it is a long time, although to repeat, this is the time-frame engaged by serious climate-related policy wonks--how about 50 years? Fewer years ago than even that, many of us of a certain boomer age were still using slide rules. A representative list of world and energy-changing inventions centered around 1960 would include the first video tape recorder, integrated circuit, laser, light emitting diode, the first communications satellite, and the ARPANET (mother of the Internet). Who forecast their impacts?
President Kennedys America of early 1960 was still a world of rotary dial phoning, vinyl LPs, AM radio music, and the early days of color TV (tube of course). It was world in which no one forecast the GPS or iPhone. Most of what happened wasnt forecast; not least by government agencies and their NGO pilot fish. And most of what was forecast didnt happen, like the Jetsons flying cars, colonies on the moon and under the seas, to name a few. Four decades ago, experts surveyed by U.S. News & World Report--as part of a future look at America in AD 2000--forecast the demise of the internal combustion engine. There are almost a billion more such on the road today than then.
Over century-long time frames, a lot can change. In 1910 the idea of global air commerce was a gleam perhaps in a poets imagination, but hardly forecast. Global air miles exploded by 1960, and continued ballooning for the next 50 years. The central challenge is not forecasting how many air miles well fly in 2110, or gigabytes of bandwidth grandsons-of-iPhone will consume (a lot by the way--data centers already consume more energy than civil aviation). We can only dimly guess--never mind plan nor create--a specific technology future.
In a century, it is possible (even likely) that some of the very precepts of physics could change, yielding who knows what outcomes. Circa 1910 we saw the dawn of the modern physics of relativity, quantum and nuclear energy that defined a centurys modern physical science. The notion that were at the end of new science has been laid to rest by the utter failure of science to explain so much that is fundamental about the universe we inhabit. For heavens sake, we not only cannot yet explain something as ubiquitous as gravity; we dont even know what the basic constituents of matter are, nor how much and what kind of fundamental energies exist. Scientists have conjured up the undefined and totally opaque ideas of both "dark matter" and "dark energy" to explain the inconvenient energized expansion of the universe.
The more-than-reasonable underlying assumption for the next 50 to 100 years is that technology progress will continue, even accelerate as it has over the past century. But exactly what technologies lurk below the radar screen, soon to emerge? What will flower and dominate new products and services? Hindsight will make picking the impactful inventions easy. Likely many will emerge from things like genetic engineering, quantum computing, single-atom-thick grapheme materials, cloud computing (the emerging knowledge, never mind phone, exchange), remote-piloted vehicles, holographic storage, and meta-materials.
It is tempting for governments and reflexive central planners to try and come up with schemes, incentives, policies, and regulations to direct and cherry pick from the well of innovation. They get lucky episodically, but history shows they mostly fail. "Successful technologies are pulled along by the needs of the buyers, not pushed along by the ideology of the sellers," says Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus at Princeton and one of the great scientists of the 20th century still living and lucidly pontificating.
We do know a few things about the 50 or 100 year future that are locked in. First, people will be the same and there will be more of them. Theres no evidence that human or social evolution has changed or will change peoples basic proclivities. Even in the very far future, people will still have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth--the same desires and emotions, both good and bad. Second, new technologies will emerge and will be rapidly pulled into widespread use if they yield opportunities to live more comfortably, pleasantly and safely. And third, over many centuries these two inexorable trends in combination increase energy consumption--met by new energy sources and techniques.
Wood used to be societys primary energy source; its now shrunk to a few percent of the total pie, yet we consume more total wood now. Coals trajectory was the same; used to dominate (1910) as two-thirds of the worlds energy but its share has declined since, though total coal use is up. Oils share of world energy peaked in 1973; still total consumption has since risen as economies expanded. New energy sources and techniques to sustain and propel society dont displace old ones in absolute terms, just relative ones. Likely some combination of solar and nuclear will take the next slot in this long line, expanding choices, but not replacing what came before. After that, in a century? Dark energy? Who knows.
Policy makers, elected and otherwise, like to suppose the far future can be forecast with such precision that we should today engage concrete expenditures and policies to make that clear future happen sooner. Permit me to paraphrase Mark Twains famously irreverent observation about Congressmen: Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a forecaster. But then I repeat myself.
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I really feel bad for her to begin with having to go through that. The kid was probably nowhere near as scared as she was.
That being said... I don't have kids and never plan to, but my heart skipped a beat when I saw the train coming.
she made an honest mistake. but just the fall alone could have killed that baby.
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Simply stuffing her foot underneath the wheel before pulling up her trousers.. blows my mind how many parents remove their hands and don't place their feet when stopped on a sidewalk corner pushing a stroller with traffic flying by.
Yeah, it was a horrible mistake, but poo happens.
Historian's fallacy. Everyone thinks that way, but the reality is most people would've done the same thing, no matter what you think you would've done.
And even if it was, I'm sure the driver didn't think "Oh, well, I'm stopping here anyway, I might as well stop at the correct part of the platform", some people actually care about other humans, and even moreso about babies.
Well said
i hope this puts an end to these debates.also, i'd tap that.
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Around midnight on Westville Street at Boyd Street, midway between Bowdoin and Geneva. One car was hit.
Around 4:20 p.m. at Dudley and Nonquit streets, Stanley Staco reports.
The Herald reports the Baker administration has stopped plans to buy "diesel multiple unit" trains that would have allowed the Fairmount Line to run at subway-like frequencies, saying now's not the time to load up on new technologies on the T. Read more.
DMUs are passenger coaches with their own diesel engines, which can be more easily assembled into smaller trains at non-peak hours; the Patrick administration had touted them as a way to improve service on the line - and also to serve the proposed West Station stop in Allston on the Worcester Line and connect Back Bay with the South Boston convention center.
Around New Year's, FBI agents made some unusual phone calls: Warnings to members of a Dorchester gang to lay low because a leader of the rival Columbia Point Dawgs had been shot and was convinced they were behind it - and was vowing revenge.
Demetrius Williams had reason to suspect somebody in the Greenwood Street Posse had shot him as he sat in his Mercedes outside a 6 Metcalf Ct. drug "stash" house. His Columbia Point Dawgs and Greenwood Street had been engaged in an increasingly violent feud for several months - which included turning Edinboro Street in Chinatown into a free-fire zone early one August morning that left six people with gunshot wounds. Read more.


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Best: Brock Lesnar Is Exceptional At Being Brock Lesnar
So, that was something.
I was expecting Lesnar/Cena to be "heated", but I wasn't expecting it to be THAT kind of heated … the kind where you think Lesnar's wrenching in that kimura a little to hard and throwing Cena around a LITTLE too hard and you start elbowing the people you're watching with and having little micro-discussions about how much of what you're seeing is "real". That's an interesting approach, and a logical continuation of Brock's "I'm not a pro wrestler, I'm a guy who beats you up, so here goes" thing. I wasn't sure if Brock was gonna start taking liberties and rip Cena apart for real, because seriously, I don't have a hell of a lot of confidence in John Cena's shootfighting abilities.
And there's no reason to think he WOULD take liberties, that's the kicker. There's no real reason (besides precedent, I guess) to think Lesnar would hurt Cena and bail on WWE again. But he's such a convincing IRL dickface who doesn't give a sh*t about anybody except Sable and Jimmy John that the thought creeps into your head, and against all reason you kinda want Cena to tear him up.
Interestingly enough, that never happened.
Worst: Yeah, Not Loving That Finish
I can see why Cena winning was the right call, and I don't feel like Brock losing to him (especially after his turn as Jumbo Tsuruta to Cena's Misawa when Cena pulled him up and Brock realized he wasn't fighting that same weak rapper guy from 8 years ago) does anything to hurt Brock. Cena's injuries (legit or not) leave Brock looking like a crazy monster, and the Extreme Rules stipulations and the Attitude Adjustment onto the stairs leave Brock open for any number of excuses as to why he lost. He should spend the next however-long-Cena's-out F-5'ing the weird pecs off of Kofi Kingston and powerbombing Sin Cara through a ladder the second he reappears. He should use this as MONSTER FEUL~ and make everyone's life a nightmare. Cena can rehabilitate (or film the Marine 3, or whatever he's doing) and come back with a refocused purpose and reason for ridding WWE of Brock for good.
But yeah, how sh*tty was that finish?
Cena's "moves of doom" are agonizing to watch, but he didn't even really hit them last night … he just popped Brock a couple of times and Critical'd him out of nowhere and that was it. Maybe they can blame it on the diverticulitis again and turn Brock into a King Hippo type who opens his mouth and bashes you with an overhand right, but if you hit him in the stomach enough times his knees go weak and he collapses and he's too blown up and diseased to continue.
Best: Brock's Touching Tribute To Sabu
Get well soon, buddy.
Best: John's Planet Needs Him
And the touching finale. Six months of Raw without Cena would be a breath of fresh air. Lesnar could continue his rampage. The WWE Championship could become the focus of the show, and Daniel Bryan can stop over to try his luck with a smaller, less abrasive champion (and bring his awesome stalker ex with him). People like Ricardo Rodriguez, David Otunga and Alex Riley can come out of hiding without fear of being tossed into the ring as an accessory and having their attitudes adjusted. Lord Tensai can take partial credit for softening Cena up. New babyfaces will rise in those moments when John Laurinaitis needs to handicap someone because "be mean to nice people" is the only text under "General Manager job description". Maybe Zack Ryder can get out of Cena's shadow and do something besides being Ducky to Cena's Blaine. Then, in six months, Cena can return with some wrestling gear and a new perspective and it'll all be fresh and gravy.
Of course you're aware that a Cena time-off announcement means he'll open the show tonight, but whatever.
Best: Top 10 Comments Of The Night
CBattles6 (note: both of these options would be incredible)
Cena's taking a vacation so he can rest his back after carrying all these rusty has-beens. Who's he supposed to fight next PPV? Bob Backlund? Sycho Sid?
Dirty Dilfer
Cena looks like the guy from Doom when you have 15% of life left.
Why did they name the stick after Ken Doane? He wasn't even the best member of the Spirit Squad.
This is like Passion of the Cena.
I'm mostly disappointed that CM Punk's street fight gear wasn't basketball shorts and a hoodie.
Generic Username
I like how Cena and Sheamus switched colors
Pfft, they weren't saying "No", they were saying "No…urns!"
chudleycannons, in response to M4G3RK
Went to make a pizza and my stream froze. Missed DBry's promo. FML.
That's what you get for eating dairy!
and there go the Bellas….forever
See you guys tonight for the Raw open thread, and tomorrow for the Best and Worst of Raw.


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Anthony Leviege, a dockworker at the Oakland port and union member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. He participated in the Occupy protest of West Coast ports.
Jorge Gonzalez, national board member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and executive director of Coffee Strong, a veteran-owned, veteran-operated GI coffeehouse just outside of Ft. Lewis, Washington.
The Occupy Wall Street movement moved from the streets to the docks on Monday with a series of actions along the West Coast, including San Diego, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Portland, Tacoma, Longview, Seattle, Bellingham, Anchorage and Vancouver. Many actions led to confrontations with police, resulting in scores of arrests, and in some cases, the use of pepper spray and flash grenades on demonstrators. Several ports were forced to temporarily cease operations, with terminals in Portland and Seattle completely shut down. In Oakland, an evening march to the port was led by Scott Olsen, the Marine Corps veteran struck in the head in October allegedly by a police projectile. For more, we are joined by Jorge Gonzalez of Iraq Veterans Against the War. "I see the struggle that's going on with the port workers and the truck drivers down in Seattle and across the West Coast," Gonzalez says, who was pepper-sprayed on Monday while taking part in the Seattle protest. "They deal with the same issues, like mental health, homelessness. Veterans, they see themselves connected with all these issues." We also speak with Anthony Leviege, a dockworker at the Oakland port and member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. [includes rush transcript]
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AMY GOODMAN: The Occupy Wall Street movement moved from the streets to the docks on Monday with a series of actions along the West Coast. Thousands of protesters descended on ports in San Diego, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego; Portland, Oregon; Tacoma, Longview, Seattle, Bellingham, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska; and Vancouver, to disrupt the commercial traffic of major corporations in the name of the 99 percent, they said.
Many actions led to confrontations with police, resulting in scores of arrests, in some cases the use of pepper spray and flash grenades on demonstrators. Several ports were forced to temporarily cease operations, with three terminals in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle completely shut down. In Bellingham, Washington, 16 people were arrested after laying down on tracks in an attempt to stop trains from reaching the local port. In New York, 17 people were arrested at Manhattan's World Financial Center in a show of solidarity with the port actions. Around 20 people were also arrested in Houston. Police there placed a large red tent over protesters while cutting PVC pipes used to band their arms together. In Oakland, an evening march to the port was led by Scott Olsen, the Marine Corps vet struck in the head in October allegedly by a police projectile.
To talk more about Monday's actions on the West Coast, we're joined by two people. In Seattle, Jorge Gonzalez, on the national board of Iraq Veterans Against the War and executive director of Coffee Strong, a veteran-owned, veteran-operated GI coffeehouse just outside Fort Lewis, Washington. He was pepper-sprayed Monday while taking part in the Seattle protest. And joining us in Berkeley is Anthony Leviege, a dockworker at the Oakland port, a union organizer with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, who helped to organize Monday's protest.
Anthony, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union did not endorse this, but you're an organizer with them. What was the difference?
ANTHONY LEVIEGE: I would like to make a correction with that: I'm not an organizer with the union. I'm just a rank-and-file member.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, why did you choose to do this?
ANTHONY LEVIEGE: I'm part—I live in Oakland, so I'm part of Occupy, but I'm also a member of the ILWU. And the call was out in solidarity of the ILWU to what's going on in Longview, Washington, with EGT and not using ILWU labor. So I felt, as a rank and file, I had to be out there to support it, and being part of Occupy.
AMY GOODMAN: And Jorge Gonzalez, tell us what happened to you in Seattle.
JORGE GONZALEZ: Thank you, Amy.
Well, personally, I was pepper-sprayed and then shot by tear gas canisters after police started getting more violent towards the protesters. They started using their bikes and horses, as well, to try and get us off the road. They succeeded, but they still started using flash grenades and tear gas.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the connection of Goldman Sachs, people arrested here in New York at the World Financial Center protesting Goldman Sachs, to your actions in Seattle and Oakland and around the West Coast?
JORGE GONZALEZ: Definitely. It's all connected. As a veteran, I see it as the—Goldman Sachs plays a big part in what—what veterans want to do. We are trying to organize in the military. The port workers down in Seattle are trying to also organize. Goldman Sachs does not let them organize, apparently. But the profits that Goldman Sachs makes could definitely go to veterans and regular, normal working people of the United States. And that's what we want.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Anthony Leviege, the whole issue of Goldman Sachs owning a large stake in port operator SSA Marine?
ANTHONY LEVIEGE: I think all corporations are targeted at this point, not just pointing out one of them. But yeah, I think they do play a big stake in the SSA terminal.
AMY GOODMAN: And the media quoting many of the truckers saying, "Why are you doing this? You're hurting us more than you're hurting the corporation. We are the 99 percent," they are saying, Anthony?
ANTHONY LEVIEGE: That question was asked a lot throughout Monday's protest. And I decided that I'm not going to even respond to that question, because that's just a device to keep people from dealing with the real issues at hand, because today's action, if that hurts the trucker or anybody, that's a sign of the times, that we do need change, that people are so dependent on missing one day's pay, that they can't make it if they miss one day's pay. Those are some of the reasons why we definitely need to have change.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to get your response to Robert McEllrath, the president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union, who opposed Monday's port actions. In a letter to local branches, he wrote, quote, "Support is one thing, organization from outside groups attempting to co-opt our struggle in order to advance a broader agenda is quite another." What do you think about that?
ANTHONY LEVIEGE: I think Bob is a representative of the rank and file, and I think that the rank and file didn't have the chance to vote against it or for it. So I think the position of our leadership has been that we have no position. We have nothing to do with this, because there was no vote taken by the rank and file. So I think they acted too much into stopping something that they really didn't have nothing to do with.
AMY GOODMAN: And finally, Jorge Gonzalez, can you talk about your being in Iraq war veteran and what that has to do with your protests?
JORGE GONZALEZ: Definitely. It's all connected, Amy. Being a veteran, I see the struggle that's going on with the port workers and the truck drivers down in Seattle and across the West Coast. They deal with the same issues, like mental health, homelessness. Veterans are—they see themselves connected with all these issues. We are in solidarity with the truck drivers and the port workers, whereas, like I said earlier, we—as a soldier, I would have loved to have been represented by an organization that would help me and my interests and my working conditions. And that's what Goldman Sachs is trying to prevent down in Seattle.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you both for being with us. Jorge Gonzalez, speaking to us from Seattle, with Iraq Veterans Against the War. Anthony Leviege, dockworker at the Oakland port.
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by sherry clark
*Note: NO! photo or video is available for this story. Please see "Pat Tiberi Seeks to Silence the Free Press" for details.
On Monday, September 29 Representative Pat Tiberi and Democratic challenger David Robinson faced off in their first debate. This was following at least four previously held events where "Our Congressman" had disappointed the 12th District electorate by being unable to attend while the Democratic challenger David Robinson maintained perfect debate attendance.
The Delaware, Ohio debate was held in a local vocational school. Tiberi flew in from Washington just hours after he went "His Own Way" and said NO! to the $700 Billion bailout package.
That evening, Tiberi confidently addressed the audience of approximately 150 Delawareans saying:
"We had a vote today that I told the President, 'NO!'
"Some say I can't tell the president, 'NO!'
"But I told my party leadership, 'NO!'
"Because at the end of the day, when I look into my daughter's eyes, it's about her.
"It's about the next generation of Americans. It's not about party. It's about doing the right thing."
Based on his opposition to the bill, The Liberty Voice posted our support on our website saying, "We salute Pat Tiberi on this choice."
The Delaware Gazette reported, "Tiberi felt the bill didn't adequately protect consumers and was jammed through Congress."
According to Tiberi on Monday, his NO! vote represented the will of his constituents. He said,
"Main Street wasn't protected in that bill. That's who I got the phone calls from.
"The phone calls from Central Ohio were AGAINST it!!!
"We've got to deal with the reality of what we can do, cause at the end of the day, guess who's going to pay for it–WE ARE!"
Good, honest Pat told us the way it really was, and Columbus Dispatch printing company seemed to agree with their 9/25 article entitled, "To many people, bailout 'stinks'" by Stever Wartenberg and Jonathan Riskind. It included such phrases as,
"'No one was protecting the consumers from the predatory and unethical lending practices. Where is my bailout?'
"The overwhelming majority of the 4,000 people who have contacted the offices of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, '…think they're being had.'
"Ohio lawmakers are getting flooded with hundreds of calls, e-mails and letters, and the reaction has been almost completely hostile, according to Brown and the office of Ohio's other senator, Republican George V. Voinovich.
"Brown, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, told Paulson and Bernanke during Tuesday's hearing that, 'Like my colleagues, my phones have been ringing off the hook. The sentiment from Ohioans about this proposal is universally negative.'
At the debate, 12th Congressional challenger David Robinson criticized his opponent's role in the current economic crisis saying,
"We're not just talking about Wall Street–we're talking about your 401Ks," as he pointed to the crowd, "your pension funds and the safety of your retirement funds."
Robinson continued,
"The thing we need to ask ourselves long-term is, how did we get into this mess?
"Failure of oversight by those in government who should have been watching the financial industry–again including my opponent who's been on the Housing Subcommittee for FOUR years on his watch–this problem arose.
Meanwhile, "Our Congressman" modestly[?] removed his current and long-time service as a member on the Housing Subcommittee from his official and congressional campaign websites.
Of course, in addition to the Housing Subcommittee, Tiberi also sits on the Budget Committee which has watched over the largest debt increases in United States history, bar none.
At the debate, Tiberi said with a straight face,
"I'm for a balanced budget. I'm for the line-item veto.
"Federal spending is out of control! The federal government should have to balance its budget!"
As the CDPC continued to display their unwaivering endorsement of "Their Congressman" the printing company pronounced,
"Most candidates are fiscal conservatives during the campaign season; the proof is what happens when they get to Capitol Hill."
Tiberi is also a former member of the House Financial Services: Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises and was present when that committee held a series of hearings on accounting irregularities at Fannie Mae way back on February 9, 2005 where the following statements were recorded from a line-up of Tiberi's fellow committee members and guest experts:
"The Office of Federal Enterprise Housing Oversight, known as OFHEO, [conducted] … a forensic accounting audit of Fannie Mae. This was the first [such examination] in the enterprise's history.
"The audit, resulted in … sufficient concern to result in a report to this committee of those findings.
"The unfortunate [but corroborative] findings of the Securities and Exchange Commission is that the accounting practices of Fannie Mae were not just a mere exercise of bad judgment or a one-time aberrant act, but a consistent misapplication at best, or at the worst an intentional act of accounting misrepresentation."
"I am concerned that if Fannie Mae encountered difficulties in accounting for these contracts, then other financial services providers may also have comparable problems that could cause difficulties for our economy."
"Although the accounting restatement amounts to approximately $9 billion, Fannie Mae has taken certain actions to recapitalize and to increase its capitalization with … negotiations ongoing.
"Mr. Chairman, this hearing will play an important role in determining the type of legislation, if any, Congress will introduce and consider this Congress to reform the Government-Sponsored Enterprise system.
"We're all aware of the economic damage that took place in the wake of other corporate accounting scandals, be it Enron, WorldCom or Tyco. And in 2001–in terms of assets–Enron was only about one- sixteenth the size that Fannie Mae is today, and WorldCom and Tyco were about one-tenth the size of Fannie in terms of assets. These facts cannot be ignored.
"No one should dismiss this matter as inconsequential or not worthy of continued and detailed scrutiny. These are serious allegations that should not be politicized.
Meanwhile, 3 year and a half years later Tiberi sent glossy campaign postcards complete with sunny family photos–duly noted as having been paid for by US taxpayers–to his base back home. These publicly-funded postcards failed to tell the rest of US any of the aforementioned [yet inconsequential?] details of systemic economic failure, yet wouldn't that have been a better use of our resources?
In Tiberi's defense he did advise these same voters at Monday's debate that,
"If you break the law, there's a consequence to this. We are a nation of LAWS and people have made fun of the laws of this country. You have to have order in the United States."
For example, Pat Tiberi at the beginning of each of his four terms as United States Representative has made the following sworn statement:
"I, Pat Tiberi, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
Yet while others in the market and throughout Congress appeared to be shocked, shocked! that such a massive bailout was suddenly necessary, "Our Congressman" feigned ignorance for 3 years, 7 months and 21 days as he strategized his own exit.
Of course, there is the possibility that his ignorance wasn't feigned.
The Democratic opponent, David Robinson described the need for oversight and taxpayer protection from bad debt at the debate. He told the voters,
"We need true oversight of the financial industries so we do not have this problem arise again.
"We have to protect taxpayers. We have to protect the taxpayers to make sure we aren't the ones caught holding the bag of toxic debts, while those that caused the problem get off scot free."
New York University's Nouriel Roubini said the plan was "totally flawed." and was,
"A disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders, and investors that provided little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that it would come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer."
Earlier in September, in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson said that he was shocked, shocked! to learn just over two years ago that no federal agency regulated mortgage-lending, and that this was an area entirely left to the states.
Amendment X.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What Paulson (the appointed 'King Henry' of the Treasury as of Friday, October 3) did not say was that every state in the Union had attempted to avert the disaster for the past 5 years, but they were prevented from doing so by the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
In a February 14 article published in the Washington Post, New York governor Eliot Spitzer, less than just one month before resigning in shame wrote:
"In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks.
"The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules. But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration's goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation."
After years of such unbecoming (prostitution) activities, Spitzer was politically assassinated just 29 days following his warning to the American public of the looming sub-prime lending crisis and accusing the Bush administration of protecting the banks as well as forbidding the states from protecting their own consumers.
What an unlikely co-incidence. Is this how our society rewards such prophesy?
At the debate on September 29, Tiberi said,
"I'm [a] tool of [the] financial services industry!"
This statement was later confirmed by his vote on Friday, October 3.
Tiberi continued,
"And yet I voted against their biggest bill in the history of the United States today.
Oh, so he voted against it before he voted for it. Tiberi continued his belittling tone,
"It's just an amazing thing. [It was the financial services industry] who wanted the bill today folks!
"It wasn't you all!
"It was the financial services industry! It was Wall Street!"
Despite Pat Tiberi's long-standing 93% lockstep Republican record "Our Congressman" listened to the sentiment of his constituents and was willing "go his own way," stand up and say NO! to those financial institutions lobbying in Washington!
Tiberi Campaign industry contributions in 2008:
Insurance $158,531
Securities & Investment $83,293
"Because at the end of the day, when [he] looks into [his] daughter's eyes, it's about her…"
It was after all, the largest financial bill in the history of the United States, and Tiberi told one local paper that Monday's vote came like a "gun to our heads." This comment may have felt like understatement to Tiberi, as every back-room mafia trick "ta-git-da-money" was probably employed.
David Robinson was asked about the unconstitutional P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and said:
We do not need to chose between defending our country and defending our Constitution. The Congress has failed to hold the Executive branch [accountable]–which has overreached and infringed on our privacies in ways that as Americans we should NEVER have allowed.
Congress has lacked the backbone in standing up to this administration, but if you send me to Congress, I will not tolerate infringements of our Constitution –which is the bedrock of this country that we all love.
On Monday, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) warned the American people of:
"Constitutional enemies of the Republic and the fraudulent bailout."
Kaptur continued,
"My message to the American people is don't let Congress seal this deal. High financial crimes have been committed.
"The normal legislative process has been shelved. Only a few insiders are doing the dealing–sounds like insider trading to me. These criminals have so much political power, they can shut down the normal legislative process of the highest law-making body of this land.
"We are Constitutionally sworn to protect and defend this Republic against all enemies foreign and domestic. And my friends, there are enemies.
"The people pushing this deal are the very ones who are responsible for the implosion on Wall Street. They were fraudulent then and they are fraudulent now."
Michael Burgess, ( R-TX) also said on Monday,
"I understand we are under Marshall Law as declared by the speaker last night."
He then insisted that "the largest fundamental change in our nation's financial system in its history" be posted on the internet for 24 hours so the American people could see "what we have done in the dark of night."
If Marshall law [a suspention of normal House rules and procedures such as a minimum 24-hour time for legislative review] has been imposed in the People's House of the United States to pass such an egregious bill, how much longer will it be before Marshall Law comes to the houses of the rest of US?
Is it acceptable to US that "Our Representatives" were forced to vote under duress for or against a contract binding the American people to pay exorbitant sums of money, rewarding bad behavior and against the best interests of the rest of US?
Civil unrest resulting from from the financial meltdown is a distinct possibility, given the broad impacts of financial collapse on lifelong savings, pension funds and homeownership.
Oddly enough, The Army Times reported that beginning October 1,
"The 3rd Infantry's 1st Brigade Combat Team, following their return from Iraq would defend the Homeland, as an on-call federal response force for natural or man-made emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one."
With US forces overstretched in Iraq, why would the Pentagon decide to undertake this redeployment within the USA, just one month before the presidential elections?
The American rallying cry of "No taxation without representation" is an echo of a quote attributed to William Molyneux, who said,
"To tax me without consent is little better, if at all, than downright robbing me."
Leading up to the 9/29 vote, the largest daily newspaper in Pat Tiberi's District–the Columbus Dispatch printing company [CDPC] ran headlines like, "Bad-News Reports Fan Fears About Recession" which at least one reader described as, "[screaming] in 1 & 1/2 inch letters."
Another headline read, "OUR ECONOMY IS IN DANGER" and seemed uncharacteristically dramatic for the daily publication's well-known conservative printing style.
The only such dramatic headlines have been traditionally reserved for great victories of the local source of pride, the OHIO STATE BUCKEYES!
Following Tiberi's rejection of the bailout and his NO! vote, "Our Congressman" enjoyed a chorus of praise by local print, radio and television "journalists," but by Thursday the coverage swerved back toward the far-right and the CDPC quoted Tiberi as saying,
"This [bailout bill] is clearly headed in the right direction, and the concerns I had on Monday morning are being addressed, and I think we'll have something by the end of the week."
By the next morning, Columbus Dispatch printing company readers were surprised to read two letters to the editor which were uncharacteristically critical of Tiberi's NO! vote on Monday.
The printing company's apparent opposition to "Their Congressman's" position appeared on the very morning that Tiberi changed his vote to YES! on the "the largest fundamental change in our nation's financial system in its history" and following four financially, fear-filled days, the bill had fluffed from a fit 102 pages to a fattened 451, with a proportional amount of pork to fill the fascist-funded feeding frenzy.
The coverage of "Our Congressman" in the CDPC seemed to be carried by the proverbial, prevailing and parallel winds which propelled their perfected political propaganda past unphased faithful followers fortified by the parading partners promoting their co-ordinated corporatist dance. Upon approval for his past 'Pat'sy-play performance which preys on the People through papers of propaganda, if history is a judge, not only will this pair get off "scot free," their timely two-step will be "praised in the parishes and in the public places."
Was this coverage, which in hindsight has benefited Tiberi immensely, a matter of mere coincidence, or was it part of some political ploy planned in pretty [not-so] public-places?
Is it possible that the Columbus Dispatch printing company knew in advance of Tiberi's changing position and thus sought to justify "Their Congressman" by printing these two challenging letters on Friday–the very morning of Tiberi's switch to, 'YES!'?
According to CDPC reporter Jonathan Riskind's Friday, October 3, 3:08 p.m. post,
"Tiberi said this morning before the vote that the Senate bill was better than the first House measure because…" blah, blah, blah.
Of course the CDPC would never aid in the political strategy of "Their Congressman!"
Yet, how many times was "Their Congressman's" Democratic challenger David Robinson's position reported in regards to the largest bailout appropriations bill in United States history? It's one month before the elections on the largest piece of legislation passed in the history of the United States and challenger David Robinson hasn't been asked to respond to Tiberi's latest two-step?
How can that brand of "fair and balanced" be anything but a grave disservice to the constituents of the twelfth? Then again, if the printing company has endorsed "Their Congressman" how could the CDPC give Robinson any attention on this matter since Tiberi would appear to be just another bought and paid-for politician?
At the debate, David Robinson addressed his opponent and advised the voters,
"If you look at how he's voting and who he's serving, my friends, it is the special interests. Whether we're looking at health care policy, energy policy, or most recently, banking and financial policy, he is not representing the broad middle class–and YOU would be the ones I would be serving in Washington."
The CDPC further defended Tiberi's October 3 vote on their website posting,
"[Tiberi] said that while 'Joe Six Pack' might still be against a bailout that is perceived as coming to the rescue of Wall Street, 'Joe Six Pack's employer' was in danger of having to lay people off or not continue with planned expansions."
"Joe Six Pack" is the kind of guy who:
Like Tiberi, Sarah Palin likes to refer to herself as a normal "Jo[sephine] Six-pack" in front of voters, but they can both afford the really good stuff.
Tiberi's personal worth exceeds that of his Republican Vice-Presidential counterpart, but should the McCain-Palin ticket prevail on November 4, that status will likely be reversed.
To sum, according to Pat Tiberi's latest two-step last week, he used to be for "Joe Six-Pack" but now he's for "Joe Six-Pack's employer."
More specifically however, Tiberi said YES! to "Joe Six-pack's employer's bank's highest executives" who are slipping out the back of corporate jets in golden parachutes and two-stepping their way behind closed doors. And once again, to hell with "Joe Six-Pack" and his family.
"Cause at the end of the day, guess who's going to pay for it–WE ARE!"
~Pat Tiberi


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