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Obama has been the best thing for this country...
Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation
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Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.
Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.
That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.
Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.
Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips — they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.
Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.
We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.
But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.
In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN — a taxpayer-supported organization — is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union — whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense — is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.
I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk's office and changed my voter affiliation from "Independent" to "Republican." I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they're starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.
Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years — the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.
Gary Hubbell is a hunter, rancher, and former hunting and fly-fishing guide. Gary works as a Colorado ranch real estate broker. He can be reached through his website, aspenranchrealestate.com.
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Good article....I'm proud to be a republican and obviously dissappointed in our country's current state of decay. I usually try to stay out of these chats but I agree with the posters article and believe it's going to take quite alot to vote all these deranged members of the senate out and clean up what's left of this economy. After all that has happened I don't see Obama getting re-elected any time soon.
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I'm not a Republican, I just hate them less then I do Democrats. I tend to agree more with Republicans, but I fall under Libertarianism more than anything else. I agree with the Civil Rights Act, Women's Suffrage, etc.
Not a fan of Social Security, I'd rather it be privatized and have MYSELF in control and not our government.
Democrats don't know when to stop. Once they've conquered one issue, they are on to the next way to fukc over the middle class. I'd rather have things stay the same than continuously change for the worse off.
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I guess I should rephrase and elaborate on my position. Government blows... Nough said there. And I agree with the statement of being privatized and no government. I do share some liberal views but most of my opinions lies within republican ideals. I'd much rather pay less taxes and make more of my own decisions instead of being "bullied" but it could be worse right? Ted nugent said it best "the world sucks, America just sucks less". Lol, it was something like that.
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Oh, hey Mike - since you're quoting TV Shows, ever wonder why MrFictional didn't stand up and take his deserved beating for liberals also being at least implicated in the state of Union affairs in this Country?
Or are you now going to stand up and defend the various Unions too?
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Plenty. We're all on the look out for them. MR's regularly go for more than £400 over here. Fan-made blasters might have to go for less to stay competative but there's certainly a market.
Thank you. (is 400 pounds english like $500-$600 USD?)
Look at the pics on my other thread, they are just the handles but they are made out of scrap aluminum my dad had laying around. First time making them so ya gotta start with something cheap. Any way, back on topic for me, my personal guess would be about $200-$300 per pair, I saw some rubber and resin blasters go for $120 and $240 somewere here.
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£400 is about $800 (I think) Can't wait to see some more pics of your Westars :)
Is there anybody who is interested in the westars. I wouldn't sell this first pair because I made a few mistakes. But if there is I would probally finish this pair and start on a second pair very quickly. The only thing holding me back is the barrel. The company that I would get the rod for the barrel from only sells in 12 foot rods. And thats like $100-$120. But if there is intrest I could probally convince my dad to let me get the rod, finish the first pair then get on the second pair. (lots of random info:rolleyes)
Theres lots of polishing to be done, etc. So just let me know if you are interested and they would probally run anywhere from $200-$500, I have to see how much time I spent total, the cost of the aluminum, etc, to get the final price.(There are no garrentees as to if I will get them done quickly or not or even if I'll finish the first pair yet with school, tennis practice 3 hours a day:rolleyes, and life)
I would say about $300 for a pair
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"Well we obviously didn't play very well on offense. A few turnovers, we gave them some short fields. I thought we were doing good on defense. We gave up, really one play. Came out in the second half with not much changed on the offensive side of the ball. We just couldn't hold on on the other side. I give Vandy a lot of credit,they are playing really well and we are not. Just a real tough way to finish the game and a tough way to end the season."
(On taking Tyler Bray out in the second quarter)
"No just made some real bad decisions early. When he threw the interception on first down, we went to Justin to try and settle him down and bring him back in the third. Not much really changed. Some of it really was the receivers, too."
(On bring Tyler back in the second half)
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(On the fake punt)
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(On the team's spirit)
"No, not at all. The last touchdown, we are sitting there zoning, a guy runs up and we miss a tackle and he out runs us all. I didn't see that. I saw hurt spirits. We played about the same way we did on offense all four quarters. The defense - they bounced on that long run in the second half. I didn't really see a lay down."
(On Vanderbilt)
"You can't not give the other team credit, they held us to 10 points on offense, I never thought that would happen. It was probably a combination of both."
(On the defense's performance in the second half)
"The first drive was two runs, they just ran the same power run they we have been playing, nothing different and we lost our edge. We don't do a very good job of when we are chasing. We didn't play the reverse too well. It was two runs. Then I thought, the next time we were out there we were on the two and we got some stops."
(On moving on to the next week)
"We aren't going to a bowl game. We have one more game left. I hope they go play for the seniors, go enjoy and compete. That is what you do to represent Tennessee. We didn't do a very good job of that."
(On Marlin Lane's performance)
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(On increasing Marlin Lane's touches)
"He was running pretty good the first half so we just stuck with him."
(On his job status)
"That is not my call. I don't know how to answer that."
(On Tyler Bray's stare down)
"I didn't see that and I hope he didn't do that. If I had seen it I would have addressed it. The main decision was he wasn't playing well at all and then he turned the ball over. He just wasn't playing well. I thought pulling him and letting him relax and look at it, calm down, would help. It obviously didn't."
(On Justin Worley)
"We did pretty good. We moved the ball down the field. The interception he threw, a little miscommunication between him and CP. I didn't think it was Justin's fault. He played pretty good."
(On the state of the program)
"I don't think you can say where this program is on one game. We have had a lot of really good games that we didn't win this year. The program is certainly not where we need to be. It is not anywhere close to where the fans want it to be. It is probably a little bit better than what people think it is. That is how i would assess it."
Junior QB Tyler Bray
(On being surprised to be benched during the second half)
"Not really, I was not playing to well. Everyone could see that. I just was not moving the ball and just was not getting anything done."
(On continuing to lead after being pulled from the game)
"I just told the defense that the offense needed them tonight. We were struggling early and we were not getting any better so I just told them we needed stops and that we needed those guys to pull through for us."
Junior WR Cordarrelle Patterson
(On the offensive struggles)
"I really do not know what went wrong. We were not the offense we have been all year. We were not executing like we know we can. Everything was just going wrong for us."
(On adjusting from Bray to Worley at QB)
"It was not a big adjustment because they rotate in practice so it was not a big adjustment."
(On not being able to go to a bowl)
"It is not tough at all. We just know we fight every week and just try to give it our all. Everything has just been against us this whole year so things are just not going right."
Senior WR Zach Rogers
(On the loss)
"It is tough. It is not the season. We wanted it obviously and it has been a rough go for us. We have one more game left so we have to keep playing."
(On the offense's inability to click)
"It was just one of those nights, I don't know how to explain it. Things just weren't going our way. I give them a ton of credit on defense, they did a great job stopping us."
(On putting Justin Worley in)
"It was a little weird but I don't question the coaches at all. They felt that Worley gave us a better shot. We just have to go with whoever is out there."
(On the legacy of the senior class)
"It is definitely very frustrating. It is not the legacy I wanted to leave here as a senior, coming in here and losing to these guys. That is the nature of it, that is football for you. We have one more game, we are going to bounce back and go out with a win."
(On moving on to Kentucky week)
"It is going to be a different feeling for us this next week. I know this senior class isn't going to go out with a loss. I know this one is tough for us, we have one more game, we have Kentucky ahead of us."
(On any indication of the offense not clicking at practice)
"Not at all. I thought we had a really solid week of practice. It was just one of those nights where things weren't clicking for us. I am giving all the credit to Vandy right now, they are doing some good things over there and best of luck to them in their bowl game."
(On playing in his hometown)
"I wanted to come back here and have a good game in front of my family and friends that were here to support me. Things didn't go our way and that is not what happened."
Sophomore QB Justin Worley(On being nervous when he was called into the game)
"I was a little bit (nervous). We had not really discussed it during the week; the chances of me going in. I was a little surprised but you just have to go out there and play football."
(On getting into the flow of the game)
"I did. I felt like the second drive I got in there we drove down the field and got in a little groove and it felt good."
(On the team's reaction to him entering the game)
"The guys were like alright you're in, lets get things going."
(On not going to a bowl game)
"It is very disappointing. This is my second year here and second year not going to a bowl game because of the last two games. It hurts and I feel bad for the seniors, I know how they feel. We just have to go because Kentucky is a big rivalry, hopefully we can win that one and finish this season with a win."
Junior LB A.J. Johnson(On being put in tough situations as a defense)
"I wouldn't say put in tough situations. If we had been put in enough situations we would have came up and made plays."
(On rallying the defense)
"It is hard for any team. We just have to rally up better than we did."
(On what went wrong today)
"I can't really put my finger on it. I would say for the most part it is not making plays."
(On the negative attitude in Knoxville)
"Just tone it out and keep coming in everyday and get better as a player."
(On the distractions affecting the team)
"All of the stuff going on, people have it in the back of their head. But you just have to clear it out and come in every week and play."
(On the state of Coach Dooley's job)
"You really don't think about it until the time comes or the last game and you are told about it. I am just coming in everyday and try to get better. And play for Coach Dooley."
(On what he expected at the beginning of the season)
"Far from this. I wouldn't the season to turn out the way it is. But it has happend and we just have to live with it."
(On the effort in the second half)
"The effort was there. Herman Lathers' was spitting up blood and stuff but he came back out there and came back out fighting hard, fighting hard for the team."
Junior TB Rajion Neal(On why the team is 4-7) "Words cannot explain it. I have no clue. I am at a loss for words."
(On the team's preparation this past week)
"I feel like the week went fairly smooth and normal like usual. Tonight was just clearly not our night at all. I have no clue what is going wrong, what we are doing wrong. It is crazy. It is not making sense what so ever."
(On what Coach Dooley said to the team after the game)
"He just told us that things just did not go our way. We just need to keep fighting. He was very apologetic about what took place out here today."
(On the emotion of the locker-room)
"Coaches, players, training staff, it was emotional from wall to wall."
(On Tyler being pulled from the game)
"We were a little caught off guard by it but we just had to roll with it and support him and do what we needed to do to get a couple (scores) but it caught us off guard."


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The issue will be out March 15th!! Mom just got notified that my picture will be published!! How cool is that!! I may not be on earth physically, but I still pop in now and then!!
Funny, mom submitted the picture a year ago!!
And we still miss you so much. Mom is working on a tattoo with you, Boomer and Turner. We talk about you all the time. Laugh about how you grandfather was visiting in FL when you were a pup. You walked by him while he was eating breakfast. He tripped your back legs. You stopped and looked at him, he was eating and looking away. But you knew, you cocked your head and knew he tripped you!!
Then we laughed about how no matter what time it was if you heard the refridgerator door open you would appear. Your grandma said that if you were coming to visit she would fill both of your ears with stories!! What a great listener you were!!
Your dad and I smile every time we think about you as a pup running back and forth through the same puddle - laughing the whole time!! I've never knew a dog could smile and laugh until that moment!
We talked about how you were like the Charlie Brown cartoon where Snoopy is sitting calmly, the next frame his ears go straight up, the next frame he's sitting infront of Charlie Brown who states, " You're the only dog who can hear a marshmallow crunch!!" It was so true!! Even blind you knew where and who had food!!
Baby, once again, thank you for 13 wonderful years!! You were truly our angel!!
Love to you!!
Mom, Dad, Boomer - in heaven and Turner
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Ignoring Democratic opposition, ABC's Morrell claimed Bush is "reaching out" with health care tax increase
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On the January 21 edition of ABC's World News Sunday, ABC News White House correspondent Geoff Morrell stated that President Bush is "reaching out to Democrats" with a new health care policy he will reportedly announce during his State of the Union address on January 23. In saying that Bush is "reaching out," however, Morrell mischaracterized Bush's plan and ignored the fact that Democrats oppose Bush's proposal specifically because it would raise taxes on certain workers.
The Washington Post explained Bush's plan in a January 21 article:
President Bush will propose a deep tax break for Americans who purchase their own medical insurance and would finance it with an unprecedented tax on a portion of high-priced health-care plans that workers receive from their employers, according to the White House.
The initiative, which the president briefly previewed in his radio address yesterday, has a dual purpose: It would create a financial incentive for the estimated 46 million to 48 million Americans who lack health insurance to buy it. And it would rein in the soaring cost of health insurance by encouraging workers in high-priced plans to seek more modest coverage.
The proposal, which Bush plans to fully unveil in Tuesday's State of the Union address, marks a sharp departure for a president who has been criticized for advocating tax cuts that disproportionately benefit higher-income Americans.
Administration officials familiar with the plan say it reflects the new political order in Washington, where Democrats now control both chambers of Congress. They refuse to characterize the plan as a tax increase because it raises no new money for the federal government. Instead, it would add a new tax on employer-provided health-care plans worth more than $15,000 to subsidize those who buy modestly priced plans out of their pockets.
On World News, however, Morrell reported that Bush's plan would tax health plans purchased by families and individuals -- not employer-provided health plans:
MORRELL: The president wants to make health insurance taxable income. Any family paying more than $15,000 for health coverage, or individuals paying more than $7,500, would pay tax on the excess. And anyone spending less than that would get a big tax break. The White House hopes this will encourage more of the 47 million uninsured to buy coverage, while also reining in the rising cost of health care.
Morell then claimed that the new plan amounts to "reaching out to Democrats":
MORRELL: Indeed, more and more GOP lawmakers are breaking from the president on Iraq. But rather than come up with proposals that would shore up his base, Mr. Bush is reaching out to Democrats, and he is trying to change the subject from Iraq, which the president will only touch on briefly in Tuesday's speech.
In contrast with Morrell's report, on January 21, The New York Times noted that Bush's "proposed plan is a startling move for a president who has repeatedly vowed not to raise taxes. And it is certain to run into opposition from business groups, labor unions and, most of all, the Democrats who now run Capitol Hill." The article continued:
"It's a bad policy," Representative Charles B. Rangel, the New York Democrat who is chairman of the House committee that writes tax legislation, said in an interview Friday night. "We are trying to bring tax relief to the middle class. The president is trying to increase their tax liability. This proposal is inconsistent with what the majority is seeking in the House and the Senate."
In a January 21 article, the Los Angeles Times quoted Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) also criticizing Bush's proposal:
On Capitol Hill, prominent Democrats issued statements saying they were glad Bush was talking about healthcare but were skeptical about his plan.
"To the extent that the president is now recognizing that all Americans need health coverage, that's positive," said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles). "But it clearly cannot come at the cost of undermining comprehensive health coverage for those who do have insurance."
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said he questioned "why the president thinks the way to solve this problem is through the tax code."
Media Matters for America has documented (here and here) other examples of media figures claiming that Bush was "reaching out" to Democrats after the November 2006 elections despite evidence to the contrary.
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Greg Muttitt in Charlottesville, VA, on Tuesday, July 24th
Greg Muttitt, visiting from the U.K., is the author of the brand new book on Iraq that is making a lot of news. It's called Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq.
"Nothing short of a secret history of the war" -- Naomi Klein.
Democracy Now aired this interview of Greg this week.
Greg will speak and answer your questions:
Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 7 p.m.
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The departure of the last U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 left a broken country and a host of unanswered questions. What was the war really about? Why and how did the occupation drag on for nearly nine years, while most Iraqis, Britons, and Americans desperately wanted it to end? And why did the troops have to leave?
Now, in a gripping account of the war that dominated US and UK foreign policy over the last decade, investigative reporter and activist Greg Muttitt takes us behind the scenes to answer some of these questions and reveals the previously untold story of the oil politics that played out
through the occupation of Iraq.
Drawing upon hundreds of unreleased government documents and extensive interviews with senior American, British, and Iraqi officials, Muttitt exposes the plans and preparations that were in place to shape policies in favor of American and British energy interests. But he also tells the inspiring story of how Iraqi trade unions organized not only to defend their members' rights, but also to thwart many of the USA's oil plans -- with remarkable success. Through their stories, we begin to see a very different Iraq from the one our politicians have told us about.
In light of the Arab revolutions, the war in Libya, and renewed threats against Iran, Fuel on the Fire provides a vital guide to the lessons from Iraq and of the global consequences of our persistent oil addiction.
"Excellent... a textbook example of how international pressures are put on politicians to get them to buckle" - The Guardian
"Set to turn our understanding of the war on its head" - The Independent
"Will trouble the most ardent liberal interventionist" - Petroleum Economist
"The Iraqi civil society voices resound with dignity in this brilliant, comprehensive account" - New Internationalist
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Social theorists came into existence with the birth of class history and Patriarchy. There was no need for social theory prior to class history and the birth of the deformed social mechanism which ushered in the Patriarchal class mechanism. The Social Matriarchy, with its social kinships established egalitarian relations with each other and had social control over wealth, labor, or the means of production, hence its historical mechanism was a social mechanism, under primitive conditions, correctly labeled by social theorists as "primitive Communism", necessary for the collective survival of the human species and could not produce parasitical ruling classes. The rise of the agricultural revolution and animal herding produced new wealth and surpluses which could have raised the productive conditions of primitive Communism into new higher social forms of organization, still in control of its wealth, labor and the means of production.
Instead, these new forms of productive wealth were usurped and concentrated into the hands of parasitical ruling classes, signalling the downfall of the social historical mechanism, demise of social control over civil society and the downfall, enslavement of Humanity, deforming its social, "Human Nature" into class deformed Human behavior. The Patriarchal class mechanism reproduced itself through partial, developed middle layers, as divisible, subordinated, obedient, fearful servile class elites into class hierarchies. This defacto class position, enslavement of Humanity has been the common denominator of all class systems, ongoing throughout the milleniums of class history, through the Patriarchal class mechanism. It continues its extension to today's Late Capitalism through degenerating class cycles, which has devolved into today's Global Fascism, and Empire totalitarianism/militarism. The class deforming functions of all class systems and their class hierarchies is to convert, deform, co opt, corrupt, invert social power into the hands of the parasitical ruling classes with the help of their sycophanitic class whores, class thugs, ideological class mercenaries, that make up the deformed, divisible, dependent, reactionary, middle professional shock troops operating through class hierarchies. They create class ideologies, class myths, class dogmas and class parties by establishing class deformed centers, always center right positions, hence their false claims to social principles, "centrism", is used to hide their class tyranny and invert reality by turning it upside down establishing spliced, partial, deformed social tendencies, always through class compromises, reproducing class outcomes, class principles, at the same time using false social rhetoric and making false claims to social principles, social centers and social morality. Patriarchy had to create the false religious class myth of "original sin" to hide, falsely conflate, the class deformed Human Nature imposed by the Patriarchal class mechanism, as "Human Nature" and "Greed", and to hide the enslaved Human Nature accomplished through property laws, which were class laws. Class laws are always duplicitous, always selectively enforced, and in times of class crisis are completely trashed, rejected for totalitarian rule, when CLASS DELUSIONS fail to prop up their power.
The downfall of women into property/class relations, signalled the Patriarchal, male and class usurpation, enslavement of Humanity and the destruction, end of social control over civil society, which defines real democracy. It was both the end of the social historical mechanism and the egalitarian Social Matriarchy, which made social power automatic, independent, indivisible and de facto social control. The emergence of Patriarchy and its first class mechanism would signal wholesale enslavement of Humanity for parasitical ruling classes and their reactionary class hierarchies, staffed with class whores, ideological thugs, class politicians/elites who routinely, yet falsely claimed Paternalism, social unity, The duplicitous steps of falsely claiming social principles, while rejecting them, by turning reality up side down meant that all class systems would convert, betray all social power, into the INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM, Orwellian class principle, co opted into generic class corruption through class compromises. The degenerating, deformed class cycles would morph into class tyranny through class tyrants and the permanent militarism of all class Empires. Obama's Western Fascism, NATO Fascism, repeats the same, historical, degenerating class cycles, similar to the "Weimarization", proto fascism, that took place in the crippled, class republic of Weimar Germany, which morphed into Hitler's fascist dictatorship.
All class forms, from crippled class democracies to totalitarian/Empire class systems, produce not only class outcomes, deforming civil society, but produce totalitarianism, including today's second Axis of Fascism, Western Fascism, which is now a global Fascist Matrix. Congress, Presidents and its rigged class systems have morphed into class tyrants, producing today's global, Fascist "Fuehrers", (German for leader) whose class thugs always were sociopaths, anti social, class deformed, ideological thugs, but now that they have embraced warmongering, torture, fraud andcorruption, rendition, all elements of Fascist totalitarianism, they have become War criminals and psychopaths. Today we have totalitarian, fascist corporations in a thuggish, monopoly alliance with the class state, which was condemned by Adam Smith, under the Feudal class states, as as "Mercantilism", monopoly rule and marriage with the Absolute Feudal State. This same totalitarian alliance under the Capitalist state is called Fascism, this time a global Fascist affair. All social theorists, from Adam Smith to Marx and all social movements oppose Fascist austerity, Fascist Capitalism, because "Big government" and the class state is not opposed to class tyranny, it is in alliance with it, through Fascism:
The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union
Free-market capitalism was supposed to save us from the tyranny of faceless apparatchiks. But that's not what happened.
Class systems inherently BETRAY, and all of its partial, deformed middle layers, deformed professionals, class whores, ideological thugs are by definition SOCIOPATHS, because their class system must hide their anti social behavior, class behavior, Empire thuggery, with class myths to justify PARASITICAL RULING CLASSES that falsely claim they are the source of labor, wealth, or the means of production, falsely claiming as all class ideologies do, both Liberalism and conservatism, that JOB CREATION, comes from parasitical, totalitarian class systems. The fascist democrats and republicans defend CLASS DEFORMED, TOTALITARIAN, ENSLAVING MARKETS, and call it "FREE" Markets, much like the Nazis, who claimed that the enslaved labor within their concentration camps was "FREEDOM", with their fascist capitalist slogan: "Arbeit macht frei", (WORK, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM). This is the classic totalitarian, class principle, inverting, co opting, corrupting, substituting, falsely conflating reality, social terms, for their totalitarian class deformed language, like Obama's mis use of "terrorism." Class myths, be they the secular class myth of "free markets" or the religious class myth of the Patriarchy sought to hide the class tyranny of Patriarchy and the downfall of the Social Matriarchy, the downfall of the social historical mechanism, the downfall of Humanity and its enslavement, especially women. The class myth of "original sin" is intended to hide class deformed behavior, falsely conflated into inherent in HUMAN NATURE, when it is only inherent in ALL CLASS SYSTEMS:
The Libor Scandal In Full Perspective
"As villainous as they might be, Barclays bank chief executive Bob Diamond, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan, and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs are not the main villains. The main villains are former Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs chairman Robert Rubin, who pushed Congress for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, and the sponsors of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act. Glass-Steagall was put in place in 1933 in order to prevent the kind of financial excesses that produced the current ongoing financial crisis.
President Clinton's Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, presented the removal of all constraints on financial chicanery as "financial modernization." Taking restraints off of banks was part of the hubristic response to "the end of history." Capitalism had won the struggle with socialism and communism. Vindicated capitalism no longer needed its concessions to social welfare and regulation that capitalism used in order to compete with socialism.
The constraints on capitalism could now be thrown off, because markets were self-regulating as Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, among many, declared. It was financial de-regulation -- the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the removal of limits on debt leverage, the absence of regulation of OTC derivatives, the removal of limits on speculative positions in future markets -- that caused the ongoing financial crisis. No doubt but that JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and others were after maximum profits by hook or crook, but their opportunity came from the neoconservative triumphalism of "democratic capitalism's" historical victory over alternative socio-politico-economic systems.
The ongoing crisis cannot be addressed without restoring the laws and regulations that were repealed and discarded. But putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again is an enormous task full of its own perils.
The financial concentration that deregulation fostered has left us with broken financial institutions that are too big to fail. To understand the fullness of the problem, consider the lawsuits that are expected to be filed against the banks that fixed the Libor rate by those who were harmed by the fraud. Some are saying that, as the fraud was known by the central banks and not reported, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England should be indicted for their participation in the fraud..."
Bottom line, all class elites are inherenty corrupt, duplicitous, totalitarian, turning reality up side down through its totalitarian, inverted, Orwellian class principle AND CANNOT BUT BETRAY, INHERENTLY, AS TROJAN HORSES, who falsely, like Obama, use fake social rhetoric, while serving Fascist corporate, class thugs, embrace the same class myth of Free markets, as the Patriarchal class thugs who sought to hide the SOCIAL NATURE OF HUMANITY that existed before class systems kicked in through the Patriarchal class mechanism. All SOCIAL THEORY, ALL SOCIAL THEORISTS, from Plato's ancient Greece to the Social Enlightenment, to the Socialist Movements have sought to reclaim the social historical class mechanism that once existed in the Social Matriarchy, by establishing an independent, indivisible social agency, capable of creating critical, cumulative social mass, an independent, indivisible, social middle class, established universally, internationally, to dissolve all class hierarchies which would destroy the Patriarchal class mechanism, ENDING HUMANITY'S ENSLAVEMENT AND TOTALITARIAN LINK TO WAR AND FASCISM.
We must destroy the central class myth, for all class systems, that class systems can produce social outcomes, when it only can produce partial social reforms, that can be dismantled, corrupted over time through degenerating class cycles, and CANNOT PRODUCE SOCIAL JUSTICE PERMANENTLY, AUTOMATICALLY, which only a social historical mechanism can accomplish as a de facto social outcome. When Richard Cohen, a degenerating liberal defending fascist foreign policies, aggression in Iraq was confronted with class/empire OIL links, he essentially supported Westen Fascist foreign policies, including his support for fascist policies in Zionist Israel. HE DEFENDED FASCIST ZIONISM AND THE LIE THAT OIL WAS NOT BEHIND OUR FASCIST FOREIGN POLICIES. Of course like all class shills they justify totalitarian class systems. This of course is to hide the failure of all class states, all class systems, which use WAR AND FASCISM for parasitic ruling classes, which liberals themselves endorse. His denial represents the collective failure of all class/empire shills that embrace imperialism, fascism, totalitarianism, oil grabs, resource seizures.
TO STOP GLOBAL FASCISM, GLOBAL WAR CREATED BY WESTERN FASCISM, FASCIST DEMOCRATS, FASCIST REPUBLICANS, FASCIST CONGRESS, FASCIST JUDICIAL COURTS, FASCIST NATO, FASCIST MILITARY ALLIANCES WITH FASCIST ISRAEL, ALL FAILED CLASS STATES, WE MUST STOP VOTING FOR CLASS PARTIES, WITH CLASS IDEOLOGIES, THAT ENSLAVE HUMANITY. IT IS A WASTED VOTE TO VOTE FOR ANY SO CALLED "MAINSTREAM" (CLASS PARTY) as they all support Fascist austerity, Fascist Capitalism, and Fascist, Global militarism. We must end all religious class myths, all secular class myths, by pointing out the failure of class history itself. We must reclaim all social theorists, from Plato to Adam Smith and Marx whose social theories were corrupted, co opted, inverted, to defend class systems and realize that social markets are the true definition of social wealth, real democracy, which means social control over civil society itself:
From an Unlikely Source, a Serious Challenge to Wall Street
Until social, middle classes are independent, indivisible, free from class whores, class shills/thugs, ideological class dogmatist, all institutions, including corporate news and human rights organizations are subject to the INVERTED TOTALITARIAN CLASS PRINCIPLE, with its ability to co opt, corrupt, invert reality, substitute and conflate into false class ideologies, false social rhetoric, these class systems, with their class deforming hierarchies will produce a corporate media that lies routinely, and co opt human rights into Western Fascist policies.
There have been reports, already, that the corporate media is HELD IN LOW ESTEEM, not trusted to tell the truth, and endless articles about the co option, corruption of Human rights organization polluted by Fascist Zionists, Fascist Western ideologues, all class ideologues, whether Amnesty International taken over by the class/ideological whore, Nozzel, who like Hillary and Obama defend aggression, torture, rendition, and Fascist foreign policies through Nato to justify occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq, and many Muslim states. Human right Watch has been co opted like the Security Council, itself a class hierarchy, of Western Fascist states who use NATO, to defend global fascism, overthrow of regimes with some independence of Western totalitarianism, or the placement of Western liars, puppets within U.N. agencies, like the nuclear A.E.I.A, which routinely lies about a military nuclear program by IRAN, ignoring ISRAELI NUCLEAR WEAPONS, and their military aggressions.
When such class whores, class hierarchies insert themselves into a global class MATRIX, it corrupts, degenerates into outright corrupt propaganda, outright corruption, THEY DESTROY THEIR OWN CREDIBILITY AND FALSE CLAIMS TO DEFEND INTERNATIONAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS. These Western class whores have GLOBAL MAJORITIES out in the streets, like Mexico, which calls out the UNFREE, CORPORATE MEDIA, IDEOLOGICAL THUGS, while the elites call any critique against CORPORATE NEWS an act against democracy, when it is AGAINST WESTERN FASCISM. Like Mexico, Like Ecuador, most of the coporate media elites EMBRACE WESTERN FASCISM, NOT DEMOCRACY. The Western corporate elites in the mainstream media support corrupt journalism and support Obama's fascist persecution of WIKI LEAKS, JULIAN ASSANGE AND BRADLEY MANNING. This same fascist, class/empire rot has now taken over HUMAN RIGHT GROUPS, who sit on their hands when it comes to prosecution of BUSH, OBAMA, BLAIR, ISRAELI WAR CRIMINALS......serving Western Fascist Matrix, on a global stage.
The Rights Groups that Lost the Plot on Ecuador and Julian Assange
Free speech advocates should defend WikiLeaks' founder from US spying charges, not invent a media crackdown in Ecuador
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, remains trapped in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 19 June, as he awaits the government of Ecuador's decision on whether to grant him political asylum. It is interesting, if rather aggravating, to see how people who are supposed to be concerned with human rights and freedom of expression have reacted to this story.
Although Assange has not been charged with any crime, the Swedish government has requested his extradition to Sweden for questioning. For more than 19 months now, the Swedish government has refused to explain why he could not be questioned in the UK. Former Stockholm chief district prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem testified that the decision of the Swedish government to extradite Assange is "unreasonable and unprofessional, as well as unfair and disproportionate", because he can be easily questioned in the UK.
Of course, it's not hard to figure out why Assange's enemies want him in Sweden: he would be thrown in jail and would have limited access to the media, and judicial proceedings would be conducted in secret. But most importantly, it would be much easier to get him extradited to the United States. Here in the US, there is an ongoing criminal investigation of WikiLeaks; and according to leaked emails from the private intelligence agency Stratfor, a criminal indictment for Assange has already been prepared. Powerful political figures such as Dianne Feinstein, Democratic chair of the US Senate intelligence committee, have called for his prosecution under the Espionage Act, which carries the death penalty.
For these reasons and many more, it is quite likely that the government of Ecuador will decide that Assange has a well-founded fear of political persecution, and grant him political asylum. Yet, surprisingly and shamefully, organizations whose profession it is to defend human rights and press freedoms have not only remained silent on the question of Assange's right to asylum, or Sweden's political persecution of a journalist, but have, instead, attacked Ecuador. For example, José Miguel Vivanco, director the Americas Watch division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), has stated:
"I think this is ironic that you have a journalist, or an activist, seeking political asylum from a government that has – after Cuba – the poorest record of free speech in the region, and the practice of persecuting local journalists when the government is upset by their opinions or their research."
Much of the media ran with this, perhaps not knowing a great deal about the media in Ecuador, and not realizing that any of the other independent democracies in South America would also grant asylum to Assange. When Assange was first arrested in 2010, then President Lula da Silva of Brazil denounced the arrest as "an attack on freedom of expression". And he criticized other governments for not defending Assange. If it was clear to Lula and other independent governments that Assange was politically persecuted then, it is even more obvious now...."
The class corruption of JOURNALISM does not produce Democracy, as argued by class whores like Jose Vivanco, instead promotes SLAVERY, ENSLAVEMENT, MILITARIZATION, PERMANENT WAR and calls it Democracy, inverting, co opting, corrupting, substituting reality, into its opposite, just like the INVERTED TOTALITARIAN PRINCIPLE OF CORRUPTION, BY ALL CLASS SYSTEMS, UNABLE TO REPRESENT SOCIAL POWER, SOCIAL CLASSES SINCE THEY SERVE AS SHOCK TROOPS, DEFORMED MIDDLE CLASS PROFESSIONALS FOR PARASITICAL RULING CLASSES: SOCIAL MARKETS ARE FREE FROM TOTALITARIANISM, CLASS DEFORMED MARKETS ARE TOTALITARIAN, NOT FREE MARKETS.
Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones' (VIDEO)
"There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed. Journalist Chris Hedges calls these places "sacrifice zones," and joins Bill this week on Moyers & Company to explore how areas like Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive.
"These are areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. We're talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed," Hedges tells Bill.
"It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from creating essentially a corporate oligarchic state."......"
There is an ideological flaw within Chris Hedges approach trying to find the common denominator with all "Sacrificial Zones" and Bill Moyers fundamental question, what connects them. Hedges replies with the word "greed", which is similar to the approach of the very first class system, Patriarchy, which hides class tyranny, by inverting, co opting, corrupting, substituting "original sin", with class deformed behavior, itself linked to the FAILURE TO HAVE SOCIAL CONTROL OVER CIVIL SOCIETY, which was true then, and is true today, under Late Capitalism and its Fascist corporatism. Hedges needs to connect the deformed Human Nature, to class deformed systems, which he does partially by discussing the role of the corporate, fascist state, BUT FAILS TO EXPLAIN WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO RE CLAIM, RETAKE SOCIAL CONTROL OVER CIVIL SOCIETY LAST SEEN BEFORE CLASS HISTORY BEGAN, LAST SEEN IN THE SOCIAL MATRIARCHY. Hedges must call for a rejection of all class parties, all class ideologies, which serve parsitical classes and call for the creation of independent, indivisible social, middle classes around the world, which reject all mainstream class policies, promote social agendas that dissolve ALL CLASS HIERARCHIES LINKED TO THE PATRIARCHAL CLASS MECHANISM.
Chris Hedges, along with Glenn Greenwald shows how Western Fascism and its embrace of Fascist Zionism, in Israel, POLLUTES THE CORPORATE PRESS, which lies routinely, propagandizes for both Amerikan Empire, Israel and their War criminals, to promote fascist foreign policies, Empire and bases, in order to create wars with Libya, Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, for puppet governments that serve GLOBAL FASCISM:
Journalism v. propaganda
The US and Israel blame Iran for the suicide attack in Bulgaria, but offer no evidence for the accusation
Obama Calls Shooting People "Evil Senseless" Righteously Continues to Order Thousands Shot
"We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this.
Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason."
"We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this.
Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason."
The President may have realized afterward that since he has been ordering the shooting of thousands in a half-dozen countries, the words "evil, senseless, beyond reason" could easily reflect back on himself. A later Obama statement on the massacre in a Colorado movie house did not contain the words 'evil, senseless, violence beyond reason.'
In any case, history books, in some future, probably not to distant, day will deplore Obama's pathetic 9/11 excuse for increasing and extending a ten year old military occupation war in dirt poor Afghanistan, killing, and killing easily, young and old Afghani, who are fighting invaders of theirir nation as they have always done. And perhaps one day independent investigative journalism will reveal whose instructions Obama was following from within that "financial element" that FDR confided "has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson. "*
Historians will denounce his shameful exceeding of his executive powers under the Constitution, to have assassinated even American citizens without trial, and ridicule the pack of lies he offered in sick defense of his frightening Hellfire and Predator drones murdering intentionally and collaterally while menacing all citizens in some of the most poverty-stricken populations on earth. Historians will judge his character by his once infamous joking about using a drone on his daughters boyfriends- "they'll never know what hit them."**
Very possibly, scholars will chronicle a time when Americans were no longer kept in ignorance by a commercial media blackout of the last year of Martin Luther King Jr.' life, when King called his country " the greatest purveyor of violence in the world " and condemned US wars as all meant to maintain "unjust overseas predatory investments."*** Such a time might well arrive in the racing era of instant world-wide personal communication while Barack Obama is still alive and prosecutable for crimes against humanity, or in his own words of 2012, 'for violent, evil, senseless and beyond reason,
terrorizing fellow human beings." - With the record of his words Obama would have difficulty pleading insanity....."
Israel threatens Iran over Bulgarian bombing
"The Israeli government has seized on a bus bombing in Bulgaria to issue a menacing warning of retaliation against Iran, amid the escalating confrontation initiated by the US and its allies over Tehran's nuclear programs.
Five Israeli tourists were killed, together with a Bulgarian bus driver and an alleged suicide bomber, on Wednesday when explosives were detonated at Burgas airport. At least 30 people were injured in the blast. Details of the bombing are still unclear. In particular, the identity of the suspected bomber has not been established.
Bulgarian authorities released CCTV footage on Thursday showing a man dressed as a tourist with long blonde hair and a large backpack, who they claimed was the bomber. On Friday, Bulgarian prosecutors said the man had short hair, leading to speculation that he had been wearing a wig.
Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told reporters that the bomb, reportedly made of 3 kilograms of TNT powder, was in the backpack, which had been placed in the luggage compartment of the bus carrying Israeli tourists. He said the investigation had determined that the bomber was not a Bulgarian citizen. He dismissed speculation that the bomber was former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mehdi Ghezali, a suspected Al Qaeda member.
Yet within hours of the bomb blast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accused the Lebanese Shiite organisation, Hezbollah, and Iran of carrying out the attack. Ominously, he warned that Israel would "respond forcefully to Iranian terror."
Netanyahu kept up the steady drumbeat, declaring on Thursday: "The time has come for all countries that know the truth to speak it. Iran is the one behind the wave of terror. Iran is the No. 1 exporter of terror in the world." He added: "A terrorist state must not have a nuclear weapon."
Does It Matter What Israelis Do?
"Western leaders met in Paris last week to discuss possible intervention in Syria where almost 10,000 people have died over the last year of internal conflict. The West has never even considered holding such a meeting on Israel's murderous behavior, however, despite a July 5 UN report that claimed that over the last five years Israeli forces have killed nearly 2,300 Palestinians and injured 7,700 in Gaza (statement from UNOCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.)
The UN agency said that 27 percent of the fatalities in Gaza were women and children in a report highlighting the effects of Israel's blockade.
Six years ago Israel imposed its sea and air blockade of Gaza. Under the blockade, Gaza exports have dropped to less than 3 percent of 2006 levels.
UNOCHA said, "The continued ban on the transfer of goods from Gaza to its traditional markets in the West Bank and Israel, along with the severe restrictions on access to agricultural land and fishing waters, prevents sustainable growth and perpetuates the high levels of unemployment, food insecurity and aid dependency."
Israel's naval blockade has also undermined the livelihood of 35,000 fishermen, and Gaza farmers have lost around 75,000 tons of produce each year due to Israeli restrictions along Gaza's land border, the UNOCHA report said.
Half of Gaza's youth is unemployed and 44 percent of its people are food insecure.
Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Thursday that because Gaza's ruling party Hamas is a "terrorist organization, the blockade was necessary."
"All cargo going into Gaza must be checked because Gaza is controlled by Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization," Regev told Reuters in response to a petition by 50 aid groups, including six UN agencies, calling on Israel to lift the blockade.
The West abhors the Syrian – disobedient – government, allied to Iran, and adores Israel, no matter what it does to the Palestinians. The media does little to dramatize the obvious double standard criteria used to measure the worthiness of the two neighboring governments. Iran, the West's post Cold War bad guy, found a friend in Syria and that alone has condemned the Syrian government. The fact that Saudi Arabia has armed and financed rebels entering Syria in the name of "democracy" should cause at least some news absorbers to feel a bit skeptical over the anti-Syria campaign.
It doesn't seem to matter what Israelis do. For example, Arutz Sheva, the nationalist Israeli press, reported that "declassified FBI documents from a 1985-2002 investigation implicate Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an initiative to illegally purchase United States nuclear technology for Israel's nuclear program.
"Netanyahu was allegedly helped by Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood producer with ties to Israeli prime ministers and U.S. presidents."
Grant Smith at antiwar.com had reported that "Netanyahu worked inside a nuclear smuggling ring." Here's an example of what is found in the report:
"On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially declassified and released seven additional pages from a 1985–2002 investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers out of the U.S. The newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth – who was convicted of running a U.S. front company – met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel during the smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked at the Israeli node of the smuggling network, Heli Trading Company. Netanyahu, who currently serves as Israel's prime minister, recently issued a gag order that the smuggling network's unindicted ringleader refrain from discussing 'Project Pinto'."
The Hebrew paper Ma'ariv continued the report on this incident.
"According to FBI documents released by the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was involved in smuggling in the 70s from the U.S. components of Israeli nuclear program, and assisted by the businessman Arnon Milchan, who according to previous publications was a former Mossad agent.
"The documents describe the findings of the investigation… performed between the years 1985 to 2002 on about how a network of front companies a U.S. security firm illegally smuggled equipment used for weapons seeds out of the U.S."
We live in the Golden Age of Empire Judaism, said Prof. Marc Ellis. "Greater Israel" means Jewish settler expansion in a denial of Palestinians and their rights. It also means perpetual conflict, maybe war, in the region. Is this why our Congress pledges eternal love to Israel? Is this why the Israeli lobby pays and threatens our Congress?
When will Western powers meet to decide what to do about Israel so as to lessen the damage she causes to Palestinians, her neighbors and the region? Israel has baffled the U.S. political apparatus. It gets away with imposing apartheid against Palestinians, stealing their land and stirring up war against its neighbors. One negative word from a U.S. pol on Israel brings heavy pressure, intimidation and money for opposing candidates – along with charges of anti-semitism.
How pathetic that a small group of right-wing Jews allied to right-wing Israeli parties, has buffaloed U.S. politicians and media. One former Congressman described the Israeli lobby as the equivalent of a pit bull that bites the Congressman's leg in the morning and holds on during lunch and the afternoon. The Congressman sleeps with the bull's teeth in his leg and wakes with it the next morning. No wonder Members don't want to antagonize this angry dog!


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If you believe what you hear from prominent conservatives and political reporters, the following things are true:
Media promote mutually inconsistent themes on terrorism and the election, both of which benefit GOP
If you believe what you hear from prominent conservatives and political reporters, the following things are true:
1) Anytime terrorism is in the news, it plays to the political and electoral benefit of the Republicans.
2) Terrorists who are trying to destroy America are trying to help elect Democrats because they think Democrats are weak. The terrorists are doing so by increasing violence in Iraq and otherwise drawing attention to their existence, as the Osama bin Laden videotape released shortly before the 2004 election.
Those two things are obviously incompatible. The latter is based on the premise that increased news of terrorism benefits Democrats; the former is an explicit statement of the opposite. The two are fundamentally inconsistent. (OK, there is a way the two sentiments could rationally coexist -- but it requires us to believe that The Enemy has reached depths of incompetence previously explored by only Wile E. Coyote. And, in that case, why haven't we been able to defeat them yet? This possibility can be safely dismissed.)
The fact that the U.S. political media routinely tell us both of those mutually inconsistent things reveals almost everything we need to know about the state of the profession and the quality of the political information we receive. Almost everything.
But there's something else worth keeping in mind. Both of those sentiments just happen to be favorable to Republicans: The first because it suggests that the American people know Republicans are better able to fight terrorists, and the second because it suggests that the terrorists know it, too. As Thomas B. Edsall, author of Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power (Basic Books, August 2006) and long one of the nation's most influential political journalists, says: conservatives' decades-long campaign against the media "has turned the press into an unwilling, and often unknowing, ally of the right."
Some, of course, are more willing than others. Fox News propagandist Bill O'Reilly, for example, tells viewers that "that's what the Republicans have, the security issue." But he also tells us that increased violence in Iraq is an example of Iran "ramping up the violence so Americans will turn against the Bush administration," that North Korea is "causing trouble" for the same reason, that "the insurgents" in Iraq "are trying to influence our election by raising the violence." Why, O'Reilly wonders, "does Al Qaeda want [President] Bush weakened, why does Iran want Democrats to win in November? Why does North Korea?" But, he adds, "Democrats know Republicans are still perceived to be the stronger terror fighters" and "if the terror thing stays in the news, the Republicans have a better chance in November."
Got all that? Bill O'Reilly tells us that Republicans have a political advantage on security issues and that they benefit if "the terror thing stays in the news." AND he tells us that Al Qaeda and Iran and North Korea are drawing attention to themselves because ... they "want Democrats to win in November."
Well, which is it?
O'Reilly, of course, isn't the only media figure to mindlessly repeat this GOP spin; he's just the most ridiculous -- though MSNBC's Chris Matthews gives him a run for his money from time to time. Matthews has an uncanny knack for asserting a Republican strength that is directly undermined by publicly available polling.
Last year, Matthews routinely asserted that, despite President Bush's low job-approval ratings, people liked him personally. Matthews even declared at one point that "[e]verybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left -- I mean -- like him personally." Media Matters for America repeatedly corrected Matthews, pointing out that, in fact, people don't much like Bush. (In addition to polling showing that people have a low personal opinion of Bush, a Pew survey earlier this year asked people to describe their impressions of Bush. The most frequently used word was "incompetent," with "idiot" and "liar" not far behind. As many people described him as an "ass" as described him as a "leader"; "jerk" wasn't far behind.) Finally, Matthews acknowledged that he was wrong, said he was "amazed" that people don't like Bush personally, and said "I always thought Bush was more popular than his policies. ... I keep saying it, and I keep being wrong on this."
That's something of a specialty for Matthews, as he has shown lately. "Terror and taxes are the Republican strong points," Matthews keeps telling us, and damn the facts. Think that's an exaggeration? Here's what Chris Matthews said on Hardball last night:
MATTHEWS: Republicans know from the polls they got two strengths right now. One is terrorism. Anything that reminds us of 9-11 reminds us of Bush's leadership back them -- and since then. Taxes -- Republicans are good at cutting taxes -- Democrats are notorious for not cutting them, whether the current polls back that up or not.
Got that? Republicans know from the polls that taxes are a political strength for them, whether the current polls back that up or not. Incidentally, they don't.
Over the next three weeks, journalists like Matthews owe the public the facts, not the GOP spin they've been regurgitating for far too long. One such fact is that the public now has more confidence in Democrats when it comes to handling Iraq -- and thinks they'd do a better job of dealing with terrorism, too. But recitation of public polling isn't enough.
If reporters are going to tell us The Enemy is trying to influence our elections, maybe they should tell us who the terrorists really want to win, and why.
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, CIA analysts believed that bin Laden's 2004 videotape was an attempt to swing the election in President Bush's favor.
How often have you heard that on television? How often have you read that in your newspaper? Somewhere in the neighborhood of "never," right? Excuse us, but why the hell not?
News organizations are, once again, flooding us with speculation that the terrorists are trying to influence elections. And it isn't just Fox News, in case you're wondering -- not even close. CBS' David Martin told viewers on October 19 that "the fact that the insurgency can take losses like that and still step up its attacks against American troops in what is believed to be an attempt to influence the November elections in this country is also a measure of its strength and resilience."
As they're doing so, shouldn't they tell us that CIA analysts think bin Laden wanted Bush to win in 2004? And shouldn't we insist that they do so?
After all, the notion that The Enemy wants Republicans to win isn't merely consistent with the CIA analysts' take on the bin Laden tape, it's also quite logical. More than five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration still hasn't managed to capture or kill bin Laden, the Taliban is making a comeback in Afghanistan, and it is increasingly clear to everyone except George Bush and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (CT) that things aren't exactly going well for the good guys in Iraq. The recently released National Intelligence Estimate indicates that Bush's Iraq war is creating more terrorists and making us less safe. Why would the terrorists want to change horses in midstream?
Yet rather than pointing any of this out, the media tell us things like "no one questions whether this president has been tough on terror," as NBC's David Gregory recently said. Bull. Many people question whether Bush has been tough on terror. Many people -- those who aren't employed by news organizations, at least -- increasingly understand that oversimplifying complex issues and speaking as though your audience consists entirely of third-graders and morons doesn't constitute "toughness." If the CIA analysts are correct, even Osama bin Laden apparently thinks Bush hasn't been tough on terror.
Yet we continually hear from political reporters that terrorism is "a winning issue for Republicans" and that the White House believes that national security "going to be a strong issue for the Republicans."
Meanwhile, Jeff Stein, Congressional Quarterly's national security editor wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times this week saying that an alarming number of Bush administration and congressional officials who are deeply involved in making decisions about the Iraq war and fighting terrorism "don't have a clue" about a rather basic question -- what the differences are between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Stein wrote that, among others, Gary Bald, the former head of the FBI's National Security Branch; Rep. Terry Everett (R-AL), the vice chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence; and Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-VA), chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence were stumped by his question about the differences between Sunnis and Shiites. As Media Matters wrote:
Given that Al Qaeda is predominantly Sunni, and that two of Iraq's most powerful neighbors, Iran and Saudi Arabia, are predominantly Shiite and Sunni, respectively, Stein asked: "How can they do their jobs without knowing the basics?"
While Stein raises an important question, the fact that this information first appeared in the Times on its op-ed page raises another question: How is it that the Times has let this simple, yet critical, piece of information regarding the basic competencies of the Bush administration officials and Republican legislators managing U.S. national security go unreported in its news pages?
These are the things our media should be focusing on -- not baseless assertions of the Republicans' purported political advantage. The Bush administration and its congressional enablers have been shockingly inept, criminally incompetent, and, in many cases, simply criminal in their handling of everything from Iraq and national security and the hunt for bin Laden to Hurricane Katrina to the budget. They have auctioned off legislation to the highest bidder, and shunned any vestige of oversight and accountability.
And they've gotten away with it in no small part due to a political media that can be counted on to repeat -- perhaps, as Edsall says, unwillingly and unknowingly -- bogus GOP storylines almost without fail.
One glaring example of this is the way news organizations seem to bend over backward to pretend that both parties are equally guilty of corruption. With every week bringing new examples of prominent Republicans pleading guilty, being indicted, having their associates' homes raided by the FBI, and generally behaving more like an organized crime syndicate than a political party, it's been a struggle, but reporters -- seemingly under the mistaken impression that "balanced reporting" means making the news equally bad for both parties, no matter what the facts -- are giving it an impressive try.
CNN, for example, covered news that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (NV) may have made a minor technical error in disclosing a real-estate transaction as though it were the news of the century. Again and again, CNN breathlessly reported that Reid bought real estate (which he disclosed) and sold it years later (which he disclosed) for a profit of $700,000 (which he disclosed) -- but that he had neglected to disclose a technical transfer of the property to a limited liability company in which he was a partner. CNN had devoted more than 3,300 on-air words to the story by October 17, mentioning it nearly every day for a week. By the end of the next day, the total neared 5,000. Why did such a seemingly insignificant story merit such coverage?
By comparison, CNN has broadcast only 65 words about a land deal in which Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert (IL) made nearly $2 million. The Hastert story should have gotten much more coverage on the merits -- Hastert's land appreciated after he personally earmarked federal funds for a highway nearby, while Reid is not alleged to have taken any official action that increased the value of his property. Yet the Hastert land deal got only a tiny fraction of the attention CNN gave to the Reid deal. Perhaps because CNN is desperately trying to appease Republican critics by portraying congressional corruption as something Republicans and Democrats are equally guilty of?
If that's the case, CNN certainly isn't alone. The October 19 broadcast of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson featured a report about "The Money Trail" by chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross. Gibson introduced Ross by noting that "Congress has suffered a black eye this year, after revelations that a lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, bought influence with campaign contributions and trips." During his report, Ross described a Democratic fundraiser in Nantucket as "[t]he kind of cozy relationship [between lobbyists and members of Congress] that Senate Democrats have criticized as part of the Republican program."
Sure sounds like Democrats are guilty of the same things Republicans did, right? But there is, of course, a crucial difference. The Democratic fundraiser Ross described involved Democrats legally raising money. Republicans like Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) and former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) have gone to jail for breaking the law. Cunningham, for example, prepared a bribe menu -- a sheet of paper indicating how much money he would charge lobbyists in exchange for various official actions. That's illegal, and that's why he's in jail. That's a little different from munching on a lobster roll with a donor who has just written you a check. One is illegal, one isn't -- not a subtle distinction. But one that ABC didn't bother to make; had it done so, it would have had to acknowledge that the corruption scoreboard currently shows Republicans with an overwhelming lead.
Further suggesting a complete lack of appreciation for proportionality, World News ran a report on the Reid land deal and his use of $3,000 in campaign funds for Christmas bonuses for employees of the building in which he lives on October 17. But the program still hasn't gotten around to telling viewers that the FBI has raided the homes of Rep. Curt Weldon's (R-PA) daughter and her business partner, as well as four other locations, as part of an "intensifying corruption inquiry" into whether Weldon illegally used his office to enrich his daughter. To ABC, Harry Reid's Christmas bonuses, which are not under investigation as far as anyone knows, are news -- but the FBI's raids on houses as part of an "intensifying corruption inquiry" into Curt Weldon's possible misuse of his official position to enrich his daughter is not. (After Media Matters drew attention to this disparate treatment, ABC mentioned the Weldon raid on the October 19 edition of Nightline -- but it still hasn't found its way onto World News.)
Can journalists at ABC and CNN possibly believe that Harry Reid's reporting snafu is more newsworthy that Denny Hastert fighting for federal funding for a highway that increased the value of his property? Or that Reid's Christmas bonuses are more newsworthy than FBI agents raiding the home of a congressman's daughter as part of an "intensifying corruption inquiry" into that congressman?
Or are they "overly anxious, and inclined to lean over backwards not to offend critics from the right," as Thomas Edsall says?
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DiaGenic ASA (DIAG), a Norwegian company developing tests to diagnose illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease, rose the most in more than three weeks in Oslo after saying a patent application had been approved in Canada.
The Oslo-based company gained as much as 9.7 percent, the most since March 18, and traded 4.8 percent higher at 0.65 kroner as of 2:50 p.m. local time. About 4.3 million shares have been traded so far today, more than 30 times the average daily volume during the last three months.
DiaGenic's patent claims cover the use of a set of blood gene sequences that are essential for the diagnosis of illnesses such as Alzheimer's Disease, the company said in a statement today. Once granted, the patent will be valid until 2023.
DiaGenic has a "very thorough intellectual-property protection strategy and today is just one of the supporting examples," Norne Securities analyst Jonas Peciulis said in an e-mailed reply to questions.
DiaGenic has developed gene-expression technology that uses blood samples to help researchers find patterns, or unique genetic fingerprints, which characterize a specific disease. The method helps detect illnesses including breast cancer and Alzheimer's, the sixth-largest cause of death in the U.S., according to the Alzheimer's Association.
While the news is positive, the main triggers for the share this year will be European marketing approval for DiaGenic's new versions of its Alzheimer's disease tests, subsequent marketing efforts and the results of a joint clinical study with GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Co. (GE), Peciulis said. Norne has a buy rating on DiaGenic with a 1.1 krone price estimate.
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New Movie Releases: The Wolverine, The To-Do List, Blue Jasmine
This week, movie theaters have offerings for everyone from comic book fans to teen movie lovers or Bernie Madoff haters.
The new films released this weekend include an X-Men spinoff, "The Wolverine," starring Hugh Jackman; the teen sex comedy, "The To-Do List," starring Aubrey Plaza of "Parks and Recreation" fame; and Woody Allen's latest, "Blue Jasmine," which seems to be a thinly veiled story of Bernie and Ruth Madoff.
Bringing us the reviews of these films is our Movie Date team—Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer. They weigh in with their top picks from the week and the films to steer clear of. Rafer is also film critic for Newsday, and Kristen is culture producer for The Takeaway.
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