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The Electronic Intifada is pleased to publish this excerpt of Belén Fernández's new book The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, which is also reviewed today by David Cronin.
Thomas Friedman's predilection for double standards favoring Israel is visible time and again, as is his predilection for calling attention to double standards not favoring Israel. When Turkey and Brazil broker a fuel swap deal with Iran in 2010 with the aim of peacefully defusing the Iranian nuclear issue, Friedman declares the maneuver to be "as ugly as it gets" and asks how two alleged democracies can embrace a "Holocaust-denying" president who "uses his army and police to crush and kill Iranian democrats."
He never questions how the United States can embrace a nation that crushes American peace activists with bulldozers, and his own recommendation for dealing with Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions appears to be for the United States "to stop saying … publicly" that Israel will not strike Iran, and to instead follow the example of former Vice President Dick Cheney in order to "keep alive the prospect that Israel could do something crazy" – an obvious prescription for regional stability. In the same article in which he accuses Turkey and Brazil of supreme ugliness and teetering democracy for ignoring human rights violations and "violently repressed labor leaders" in Iran, meanwhile, Friedman parrots the assessment by his friend Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy, that Colombia is "one of the great democratic success stories" of Latin America. This is the same Colombia, of course, that presently enjoys the worst human rights record on the continent, and where more trade unionists have been assassinated in the past two decades than in the rest of the world combined.
As for other bouts of hypocrisy, consider Friedman's reaction to the revelation in the late 1990s that Swiss banks are withholding the assets of Holocaust victims after having tolerated Nazi use of their services during the Second World War. Friedman declares that "some of the Swiss people's most cherished national self-images [are] myths," that it is necessary for the Swiss to "have an accounting with themselves – one in which they acknowledge that just because they host the Red Cross and the UN doesn't absolve them of moral responsibilities in the world," and that it is up to the current generation of Swiss to counteract this "moral bankruptcy" by using "some of their money … to build a Holocaust memorial in Switzerland that would teach the Swiss about their own unspeakable, and unspoken, chapter of history."
Now consider Friedman's analysis of the moral responsibility of the nation that, in addition to regularly targeting Red Cross and UN installations and vehicles in Arab areas, continues to this day to pursue the ethnic cleansing project it began in 1948: "Israel doesn't have to assume explicit responsibility, but it should be generous in saying to Palestinians that they have suffered a historical injustice and have a moral right to return to their original homes," because "for Palestinians to limit themselves they need to feel that their narrative as a dispossessed people struggling to recover their homeland is also affirmed." Thus the Swiss, who did not perpetrate the Holocaust, are morally accountable to its victims and urged to erect a memorial, while the Israelis are merely encouraged to charitably allow the Palestinians the amount of gratification required for them to abandon their demand for a literal rather than moral right of return for refugees.
The idea that justice can be sufficiently approximated via symbolic concessions from Israel is advanced in less politically correct terms in Friedman's 1988 interview with the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, in which he announces: "I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands." Noam Chomsky has questioned whether journalists can also achieve promotion to the post of New York Times chief diplomatic correspondent by suggesting Sambo or Hymie be given a seat in the bus.
Ahmed's promotion to a bus seat meanwhile appears to be a more complicated matter, seeing as he resurfaces – this time with a friend – in the section of Friedman's 2002 book Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 in which Friedman is gleaning post-11 September 2001 insights from the Israeli army on how to deal with suicide terrorism: "There is no way [the Israelis] will ever know Ahmed from Mohammed the way Ahmed and Mohammed do." It is possible that Friedman has already understood the importance of co-opting members of the terrorist-producing population during Ahmed's original apparition in 1988, when Chomsky notes that Friedman also "proposed the brutal Israeli-run regime of south Lebanon as a model for the occupied [Palestinian] territories" – clearly not the bus seat envisioned by Ahmed.
During the second intifada in 2002, Friedman declares that "the Palestinians have long had a tactical alternative to suicide: nonviolent resistance, à la Gandhi," which "would have delivered a Palestinian state thirty years ago." Given that Friedman resided in Jerusalem at the start of the first intifada in 1987, he is well aware that the Palestinians have long employed tactical alternatives to suicide, something he confirms with his suggestion in his 1989 book From Beirut to Jerusalem that stone-throwing is compatible with "the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi." Friedman elaborates on the Palestinians' "operational" adoption of stones, "encouraged and exploited by Yasser Arafat and the PLO leaders":
"What the Palestinians under occupation were saying by using primarily stones instead of firearms was that the most powerful weapon against the Israelis was not terrorism or guerrilla warfare … The most powerful weapon, they proclaimed, was massive non-lethal civil disobedience. That is what the stones symbolized."
The sudden possibility in 2002 of a thirty-year-old Palestinian state is also called into question by the fact that 2002 minus thirty years is 1972, which is sixteen years before Friedman advises giving Ahmed a seat in the bus. Moreover, Friedman goes to great lengths in From Beirut to explain that the Jew who "got a seat" on the "subway of life" in 1948 has now "gotten used to the whole seat" and thus "keeps The New York Times locked in front of his face," while the little old shopping bag-laden lady (played by Arafat) shouts in reference to the seat: "I am ready to share. I am ready to share." In 2004 Friedman nonetheless claims that, had Arafat informed Palestinians that "Palestine will have to be divided with the Jews forever," and "had he ever adopted the nonviolence of Gandhi, Arafat would have had three Palestinian states by now – Israel's reckless settlements notwithstanding." Although this is presumably not what Friedman intends, the statement is accurate insofar as reckless settlement patterns ensure the foundation of any Palestinian "state" on multiple, noncontiguous plots of land.
Additional doubts are cast on the feasibility of a thirty-year-old state in 2002 when Friedman pens the following passage around the time of the hypothetical state's 26th birthday in 1998:
"In May, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in London, presented them with a carefully balanced US peace plan and told them each they had until the next week to say yes. If they did, the president himself would oversee the opening of final-status talks between them. If they said no, reporters were told, the US would make clear publicly its plan and who was blocking it. Mr. Arafat said yes, Mr. Netanyahu said no. Ms. Albright has barely been heard from on this issue since."
Friedman's historical revisions also excise from the record his own previous reports on Israeli brutality, mass arrests and other forms of popular suffocation such as the fact that, "by simply pressing a few buttons on a computer, an Israeli officer could restore or revoke all the documents a Palestinian needed to survive under the Israeli occupation." Despite reporting that "there was a real attempt [during the first intifada] by Palestinians to set up their own schools and food-sharing and communal-support programs" but that the "Israeli system was too powerful for the Palestinians to elude its grasp easily," Friedman blissfully decrees in 2002 that Palestinians "would have had a quality state a long time ago" had they announced: "We are going to build a Palestinian society, schools and economy, as if we had no occupation." According to this newfound logic, nothing in the world is really impossible, and cities can be built in the middle of the ocean simply by pretending the water is not there.
The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work is published by Verso Books. This excerpt is reproduced here with permission.
Belén Fernández is an editor at PULSE Media and writes for Al Jazeera and various other venues.


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Creator The Evolutionary 2 days ago
Does Activision actually one stakes in Gabriel Knight?
Creator The Evolutionary 2 days ago
I've just read the the Gabriel Knight remake is being block by Activision for Linux. Is this true?
Creator Paskarl on October 25
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Creator Sean on October 17
That is my understanding. Although GK1 Remake is not funded by KS, they're still offering it as part of CSG, in addition to Mobieus and the already released iPad kid's game (also outside funded).
Creator Scott M. Bruner on October 15
I have a question - what is the CSG cycle? Will this model be kept after Moebius/GK1 v 2.0 are released? I liked the idea, but since game development cycles are usually much longer than a year, can it be done again?
Creator wilco96 on October 12
so everybody who pledged 50$ or more gets Moebius AND the Gabriel Knight remake, right?
Creator Sean on October 10
I'll admit I had my fingers crossed for GK4, but I'll take a remake of GK1. Breathe some life into one of my favorite characters again. Is Tim Curry going to be voicing GK?
Creator Greta - KG Pinkerton Rd AGL589 Mem. AGRM on October 8
Finally - I can stop biting my tongue every time speculation starts up!
WooHoo - can't wait!
Creator @Wowdane | AG - OotG | on October 8
MGX = Gabriel Knight 1 REMAKE.
Creator Tomimt on October 8
No offense towards Moebius, but I just lost all interest towards that game.
Creator Alex Novikov on October 8
It's a GK remake folks.
Creator Joseph Austin on October 8
soon :,D
Creator Dan Robert Polsrød | Dream Traveller on October 5
Has anyone gotten the survey for the t-shirt sizes yet? I'm not sure if they've been sent out yet. If they have, I need to change the size I've chosen. :-)
Creator Rinu on September 1
@Greg: Hmm, I don't think the survey has been sent yet but if you want to be sure, better to send PM to Jane.
Creator Greg on August 23
I'm going through all my backed projects and changing my address. Couldn't remember if the survey for this one had gone out yet. Anyone remember? Thanks!
Creator PegasusOrgans on August 10
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Creator OddBall on July 18
Fellow adventure gamers , Jim Walls Police Quest spiritual successor has begun and it needs you!
Creator Robert Holmes on July 16
@Tommy Thorn: We understand your frustration, and when it comes to MGX we share it. But as covered here earlier, the KS was actually for the origoinal game which became Moebius (when selected by the backers). This game has progressed steadily and is well on it's way to completion as reflected in the many press reviews from E3 regarding the demo. And in fact monthly updates incluing many features and assets have been done consistantly each month since the closing of the KS. The studio also delivered on its promise to throw an open house and give further visibility into projects and status as promised. The additional games (lola and Lucy and the painfully delayed MGX) were not funded by the kickstarter, but were games we either funded by ourselves prior to the KS (Lola and Lucy), or were funded by the publisher (MGX). We decided to include these games as additional benefits to the members, not as a part of what they were funding, but as part of our appreciation for the support. Just as Moebius will be delivered to members, these additional games will be as well, and while MGX has been insufferably delayed by publishing complexities, when it is delivered we feel our CSG members will feel it was worth the prolonged wait. We would also wish things had been simpler, but when the possibility of MGX arose we felt we owed it to our members to include it. Thanks for your feedback on this Tommy.
Creator Marty *MEMBER of the MARTIAN MILITIA* on July 8
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Creator The Evolutionary on July 7
@Andrew Tuckett: it wasn't planned, but it is an odd coincidence. :D
Creator Tommy Thorn on July 7
Of the many KS I have backed, this one had the most confusing reward structure. I thought I was getting Morbius but instead I got a stream of other news with abundance of acronyms and code names and seaming talk about lots of other games. I only backed it because the Leisure Suit Larry team encouraged it. I regret it.
A good KS has one clear goal, one clear message, regular updates, and delivers! Delays are expected, but this is ridiculous. All this talk of the publisher is infuriating. If you didn't have the control yourself you should never have done a KS. Shame on you and your studio.
Creator Robin Beckett on July 1
The CSG "Year" has ended. I pledged at above £50 so hope I'll still get your second game release.
Creator Andrew Tuckett on June 30
@The Evolutionary
The irony of your doctor who picture and you talking to Robert Holmes who was a writer on doctor who is just mind-blowing. Did you do this on purpose? Also - I'm such an uber-geek for knowing that lol.
Creator Ann Williams ~ Dream Traveler ~ on June 25
Oh, doh, nm figured it out.
Creator Ann Williams ~ Dream Traveler ~ on June 25
Whatever happened to the backer part of the forum? I can't find it anymore - I wanted to comment on the beta that I've played so far.
Creator Paskarl on June 23
...downloading beta... ...downloading beta... ...downloading beta... ...downloading beta...
Go an help Armikrog. getting funded!!! ;-) -
Creator Daniel Yañez on June 11, 2013
E3 trailer is up: http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/cbdkex/jane-jensen-s-moebius-e3-2013--trailer
Creator The Evolutionary on June 11, 2013
@Robert Holmes: I understand the costs of production, or at least I did historically. I had researched GK2 in particular and I know it cost a movie budget which was unheard of in those days. That a major game often costs 1-2 million I am very aware.
I suspect you are also frustrated with this publisher. At least one public comment expresses weariness at this, who I'd quote but semi-explicit wording is involved. But he is expressing what many others are thinking but may have failed to say publicly about MGX. Perhaps passing on these various comments will get this "camera shy" publisher the message; that its hurting your PR, and will certainly hurt theirs.
Creator Sean on June 8, 2013
The vast majority of kickstarter projects I've backed have yet to materialize anything. Those that have have delivered pretty solid results. A spot check on the progress of them seems to reveal some that are shaping up well, some that aren't shaping up to anything at all, and one or two that seem to have gone dark. This one, however, has been by far the most interesting to watch.
I know they've released a kids game for a platform I don't have that is a separately financed work and made good on the (digital) backerstuff excluding the finished game(s). There are the PDF updates, which indicate decent progress on Moebius, and certainly make the game look well worth playing given the limited view they present - content but little context besides location and chapter information.
Then there's MGX.
... ... ...
I tire of this cocktease and holding. It either is or isn't "I dare not speak his name." I don't rightly care anymore. This is the game I've been most interested in, also separately funded but also promised like the dog game. I'd assume it's pretty far along, having been talked about for so long, and I don't want to assume anything about the hold-up on the big announcement, but with how long it has dragged on I have to think it's a big problem. Even if that doesn't materialize or is something other than "I dare not speak his name," now I just really want to know what all the fuss was about. The whole thing has played out like a Jane Jensen authored mystery, but has yet to reach any sort of conclusion.
However things turn out the lions share of the weight is now on Moebius's shoulders. If nothing else, it should present another opportunity to explore Jane Jensen's fantastic writing, which is really what I signed up for. MGX has turned to popcorn, but the story really needs a new development. -
Creator Paskarl on June 1, 2013
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Creator Robert Holmes on May 29, 2013
@Blues Brother: I agree that we could have made the campaign simpler, and we would given another effort. We have tried to be wide open as things evolved in terms of potential offerings in the campaign as the complexity grew with the addition of MGX and a publishers involvement. We have also communicated in steady monthly updates and in the in person presentation at the open house ALL possible information we could without entering into lawsuit territory. We certainly wish it had been a simpler path, and that the impact of issues outside our control on MGX had not occured, and as I have mentioned we are investing much additional time and money to help mitigate them on behalf of the CSG members, with no certainty of any profit on our end. We will continue to do all we can to deliver what we beleive the CSG members would want as final products, and to give you as much visibility into the process as we can along the way.
Creator Blues Brother on May 29, 2013
one thing is for sure: the whole campaign was a mess of bad, misleading communication. I wasn't so much confused, but apparently many other people were. Oh well, I hope next time things will be laid out more clearly. :)
Creator Joseph Austin on May 29, 2013
It sure is hard to see Robert being directly accused of intentional scamming after having chatted with him online and in person a few times. *deep breath*
Creator Robert Holmes on May 29, 2013
@evolutionary: Jane and I are doing all we can to ensure that we deliver everything we have communicated as even potential rewards to our CSG members. From our perspective, that includes our desire to deliver MGX and Lola and Lucy, though we feel we have tried to be as clear as possible that those were not funded by the CSG. We have invested countless hours, a great deal of our own dollars and more to make this all happen. To give you some perspective, GK1 alone back in 1995 cost over 1 million dollars, GK2,GK3, and Grey Matter much more than that each. Whether we commited, implied, or merely intended, for us to deliver 2.5 games (as Joseph has said) on less than 400k (after fees and taxes) seems like a more than fair return to our members. Our other Kickstarter peers who have raised much more than us are only delivering one title. Our intention was and is to reward the support we have received by delivering as much as we possibly can. We hope at the end of the day, when all the products have released, that our members will feel they have received great value for their contributions. We'll continue to do all we can to make this the case
Creator The Evolutionary on May 28, 2013
Okay, replay to my message 28th message. (not May 28...still the point remains...and I should check for replies to my comments more often...)
Creator The Evolutionary on May 28, 2013
Wow....people are making remarks at me outside the space of my original posting. Okay....let's have it: A number of people specifically asked how many games were in the offerings. The response was 2. Many people asked especially during the middle of the campaign as I remembered. I may have even asked the question myself. The answer we got back was 2 games in the cycle which was why I increased my pledge from $30 to $51 in the first place. I submit that due to answers given to the public, MGX WAS in the original Kickstarter campaign as an incentive to increase pledges. I Stress again, many people were confused and SPECIFICALLY asked and were answered in writing. Otherwise I could have simple put in the $16 ("Studio releases this CSG cycle (your choice) and gotten the same. The >1 was implied directly and it was said in writing that there were 2 releases for the first cycle. That WOULD mkae MGX in the campaign (unless there is a 3 game in the works floating around somewhere that is unknown to all).
Creator randalthor on May 24, 2013
I'm going to echo OddBall's suggestion. You guys should check out CIty Quest: A Point & Click Adventure.
It's got really old school graphics. It's a combination of the Space Quest and Lesure Suit Larry. You die frequently in the game. But always in humorous ways. Plus, it's got a perverted sense of humor similar to Lesure Suit Larry. -
Creator OddBall on May 13, 2013
Anyone interested in a AGI style point and click adventure, then check out City Quest!
The project is the definition of indie but seems very promising.
Creator Rinu on April 29, 2013
@Bob: Yeah, I'm glad MGX is a part of KS rewards too. I don't really care when it will be delivered as long as it is someday ;). Moebius is a main focus of this project. I understand that Jane can't really do much about announcement date.
Creator Palindrome Bob-XSF-I'm in AGL589-AA496 on April 29, 2013
@The Evolutionary: technically speaking MGX isn't part of this Kickstarter. That means the publisher is in charge of everything apart from the game design. In short, Pinkerton Road is doing the game, and the publisher everything else. I'm just thankful for Jane being able to put it into the Kickstarter-rewards, which in no way influenced the tier I'm at.
@queenkate: You should have received an e-mail around April 1 for the Alpha information.
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Creator queenkate on April 28, 2013
Hi - altho I'll update my email as requested when I opened this today, it has not changed and I do get project reports. However, did contribute at the $100 level and see in most recent update that Alpha A for Moebious went out for testing but I didn't get anything. Just trying to track and make sure I'm in the loop I thought I was in. So excited by developments, please let me know.
Creator The Evolutionary on April 28, 2013
Hey ANOTHER delay on MGX? Okay, this is getting stretch a bit thin. This publisher, basically I'm starting to feel we've been sold out to this publisher since we don't even know what it is. I'm sure I'm not along in saying that it gets weary hearing the same "waiting approval" bit . I won't be backing any future projects if I find a 3rd party publisher is involved since they seem to own it more than the backers do and we at the $50+ level were told we paid for both.I'm getting a bad feeling about this.
Creator Rinu on April 18, 2013
@Paskarl: Ah, it seems like I missed a memo. Okay, thanks for tellng me :).
Creator Paskarl on April 5, 2013
@Rinu: Jane herself said that it´s ok that we post a pic or two.
She doesn´t want let´s play videos or every single piece screenshoted for the rest of the non-backer-world. -
Creator Rinu on April 5, 2013
@Industrial Scribe: No, it hasn't been announced yet. I used it as an example of another thing Jane Jensen explicitly asked us to not share publicly when it will be revealed to backers.
Creator Industrial Scribe on April 4, 2013
Errr... I'm a backer and I don't know anything about MGX? Has it been announced on the forums yet?
Isn't it the same engine from the "Cognition" guys over at Phoenix Online Studios. They do good stories and the still artwork is good but the lighting and animation is quite crude in general and the models deform quite seriously.
I would of preferred any cut scenes to be purely illustrated stills but I guess the budget was to tight.
Hopefully more care will be taken with Moebius cut scenes but I think the engine and the small budget are going to be telling. We are here for the story and the puzzles more than the art anyway.
Creator Rinu on April 2, 2013
Do you really need to post private project information on public Comments, people? Will you post here a name of MGX here before the official announcement too? I don't have any issue with it myself but talk about slap in the developers' face if they marked it as backer-only.
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Sgt. Saral Shrestha, a Fort Bragg soldier from Nepal, has been selected as the 2012 Soldier of the Year, the Army announced Monday.
"It was a big surprise," Shrestha said. "You are competing with the best of the best."
Shrestha, 24, from Katmandu, is assigned to Group Service Support Company, Group Support Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Army Special Forces Command, as a power generation equipment repairer.
He came to the United States in 2007 to go to college in Nebraska and joined the Army in 2009, which he said was a good fit for him because his parents taught him discipline. He has deployed to Afghanistan.
The competition included urban warfare simulations, board interviews, physical fitness tests, written exams, and battle drills simulating what soldiers would encounter in combat.
His wife, Elisha, and unit members helped him prepare for the competition.
"I got so much help from everybody," he said.
The hardest part of the competition was knowing Army regulations and appearing before a board of sergeants major, he said.
He plans to attend officer candidate school, and his goals are to get a master's degree in computer science and attend the selection course for Special Forces.
He was among 24 soldiers representing 12 commands from across the Army who competed at Fort Lee, Va., on Oct. 15-18. This is the 11th competition.
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Ray Chandler oversaw the annual competition, which names the Department of the Army's Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer of the Year.
Contestants for Soldier of the Year included the ranks of private through specialist. Shrestha has been promoted to sergeant since he began the competition.
NCO of the Year candidates were corporal through sergeant first class. All Army active-duty, National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers are eligible to compete.
The contestants represented U.S. Army Forces Command, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, U.S. Army Europe, U.S. Army Materiel Command, U.S. Army Medical Command, U.S. Army Pacific Command, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Installation Management Command, U.S. Army Reserve Command, U.S. Army National Guard, and the National Capitol Region.
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-- -- Bill O'Reilly thanks for watching us tonight the ghost of Ronald Reagan hunting President Obama that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.
-- -- -- -- up a new front in his battle against Mitt Romney today by going back to the tax the rich Vontrell.
The president trying to -- Romney into defending wealthy Americans by opposing tax increases on that.
So say hello once again to our little friend class warfare.
But here's an interesting sidebar.
The ghost of Ronald Reagan may be haunting personal bomb.
32 years ago America was also and that economic -- the incumbent president Jimmy Carter had expanded the federal government lost control the private sector.
Unemployment and inflation were very big problems the challenger Ronald Reagan took full advantage of that portraying -- is incompetent.
And of course Reagan won the election and January 20 1981.
Ronald Reagan said this in his inaugural address.
Those who do work.
Friday -- a fair return for their labor by -- tax system.
Which penalizes success but achievement.
And keeps us from maintaining full productivity.
But great as our tax burden and it's.
It has not kept pace with public spending.
And mr.
Reagan kept his promise in that address dropping the federal income tax rate for the highest earners from seven.
Reagan went on to say that a large federal government was a problem.
Not a solution.
It is no coincidence.
That our present troubles parallels.
And our proportionate.
The intervention and intrusion and I have is that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.
Reagan kept the federal government mostly in check during his eight years in office adding about 121000.
Workers in that time.
By contrast.
Jimmy Carter and it almost 100000.
Federal jobs in just four years.
During mr.
Obama's first three years in office the feds -- it.
About a 130000.
Employees more than ten times would Reagan added an eight years.
So you can say the mr.
Obama's philosophy is the exact opposite.
Of mr.
But history shows President Reagan was successful in reviving the American economy so that's why mr.
Obama's policies are a bit perplexing.
In June just 80000 jobs are created in the USA according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But 85000.
Workers 85000.
Left the marketplace.
In order to get disability.
Since June of 2009.
There have been two point six million jobs created in America.
But three point one million people have gone on disability.
The math is clear American workers -- leaving their jobs to get paid.
By the taxpayers.
A disability payments are at a record rate that's a disaster for America.
-- mr.
Obama continues to believe that he can tax is way out of the situation that raising taxes on the wealthy will somehow stimulate the economy.
But listen to -- Safe President Obama gets his way and he's able to raise taxes on those making more than 250000.
Dollars a year saying that happens.
That rate hike.
Would generate about 85 billion dollars a year -- increased revenue.
But right now.
Defends -- spending 85 billion dollars every eight and a -- detainees.
According to the church street apartment so it's all a ruse.
This whole tax the -- deal means little.
In bringing down the deficit or -- -- positive.
Look at this tax chart put together by the ISI -- which invest money for institutions.
It shows -- Obama wants to raising income tax rate the wealthiest Americans to 39 point 6%.
Governor Romney wants agreed to drop to 28%.
Like Ronald Reagan.
Obama would tax dividends stuff you get French shavings at 43 point 4% in the top bracket.
Governor Romney would tax them at 15%.
-- Obama would double to cap gains tax rate to 30% for every body.
Romney would keep it at 15%.
Now if you double capped gains that would prevent media private investor from aggressively putting any money in a market.
The -- reward is simply too great and I'm sure I'm not alone in that thinking.
So let me ask you.
If Ronald Reagan was successful in reviving the American economy by dropping the tax rates for everybody why would anyone think.
President Obama can revive the economy by doing the exact opposite by raising rates for investors and the -- -- make any sense but still the president is betting big on that vision here's what he said again today.
I'm calling on congress to extend the tax cuts for the 98%.
Of Americans.
Who make less than 250000.
Dollars for another year.
Congress of course not good at.
And if the Republicans win in November federal tax rates will fall ironically a few years ago mr.
Obama was saying the exact opposite.
Of what he said today.
The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of recession.
Because that would just suck up.
Take more demand the economy and put businesses.
In a further hole that's right.
Talk -- -- would support federal tax hikes on the wealthy.
If I thought they would help the folks but there's absolutely no evidence more revenue the government would do anything other than allowing President Obama.
To hired -- more federal workers.
The president is not behind cutting spending he's not stimulating the private sector and he doesn't seem to be worried about America's massive -- But the ghost of Ronald Reagan must be worried because this is 1980.
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. Television roles in Off the Map and A Gifted Man followed. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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The Caller
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Mary Kee is tormented by sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break contact, but the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying ways. Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way...
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Barney's Version
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This seriocomic adaptation of Mordecai Richler's award-winning 1997 novel stars Paul Giamatti as Barney Panofsky, who meets the great love of his life, Miriam (Rosamund Pike), at the most inopportune time imaginable: his marriage to his second wife (Minnie Driver), a wealthy Jewish princess and compulsive shopper. Narrated by Barney as a confessional, the film covers 30 years of his unusual journey -- from his first marriage to the chronically unfaithful free spirit Clara (Rachelle Lefevre) and their life in Italy together, through his third marriage to Miriam, with whom he has two children. Standing in the wings is Barney's father, Izzy (Dustin Hoffman), who continues to stick by him as his loyal right-hand man. Through it all, Barney experiences numerous highs and lows, but manages to consistently surprise everyone with unforeseen acts of altruism and kindness that turn him into the quintessential modern hero. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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The Pool Boys
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A high school valedictorian winds up with the last job he ever expected, and scrambles to save his future by transforming a hedonistic party into a haughty Harvard soiree. Alex Sperling (Brett Davern) is fresh out of high school, and Harvard bound. That is, until his big summer internship goes up in flames. Now, in order to stay on the right track, Alex sets his sights on Los Angeles, where his cousin Roger (Matthew Lillard) runs a successful business. But when Alex arrives to find that Roger has dropped out of Harvard and taken up cleaning pools, his Ivy League dreams start to wither. A new opportunity presents itself, however, when one of Roger's biggest clients leaves town, and the ambitious pool boys meet Laura (Rachelle Lefevre), an entrepreneurial escort seeking to start her own business. With a sprawling mansion now at their disposal, Roger and Alex team up with Laura to start an escort service that caters to a wealthy clientele. Before long all three are swimming in cash. Trouble arises, however, when Alex's parents drop in with some old friends from Harvard. Now, unless Alex can convince them all that the kinky bash is catering to the Harvard elite, his entire future could very well go up in flames. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Casino Jack
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Self-professed "super-lobbyist" and double-dealing high roller Jack Abramoff (Academy Award-winner Kevin Spacey) watches in vain as his highly lucrative empire starts to crumble thanks to one fateful mistake in this high-energy comedy inspired by real events from director George Hickenlooper (The Man from Elysian Fields, Factory Girl). When Jack and resourceful businessman Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper) team up to exert their influence over some the biggest players in Washington, D.C., their bid to strike it rich pays off, big time. But somewhere between the high-profile deals, high-roller hotel suites, and million-dollar yachts, the profit-loving pair makes the mistake of recruiting a motor-mouthed mob flunky (Jon Lovitz) to earn some extra income under the table. At first the cash is rolling in, but when word gets out that Jack and Michael have ties to the Mob, the resulting scandal turns their life of luxury into a living hell. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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The supernatural tale of star-crossed lovers continues as the Cullen family flees Forks in order to protect Bella (Kristen Stewart), and the heartbroken high-school senior discovers that vampires aren't the only creatures in town. Realizing that Bella will never be safe as long as he's around, Edward (Robert Pattinson) makes the difficult decision to leave his beloved behind shortly after her 18th birthday. Reeling from her loss, Bella embraces self-destruction after being comforted by Edward's image during a moment of mortal peril. But as heavy-hearted as Bella may be, her old friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) distracts her from her sorrows by helping her renovate a weather-beaten motorbike. When Bella encounters a former adversary with a sizable grudge, she's rescued from harm at the last second by pack of enormous, ferocious wolves. Subsequently delving into the history of the Quileutes, Bella discovers the secrets of Jacob's tribe while looking forward to a reunion with Edward that may have deadly consequences. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Prom Wars
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The boys in the graduating classes of two private schools compete for the rights to take the seniors from Miss Aversham and Miss Cronstall's School for Girls in this comedy starring Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development). The girls at ACS have finally blossomed, and as prom draws close they know they've got the upper hand on the boys at Selby and Lancaster. When the girls announce a series of intense challenges designed to separate the winners from the losers, the boys' competitive instincts kick in, and the game is on. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a passionate relationship with a variety of significant setbacks, including Edward's special-needs diet (he doesn't eat humans, but Bella's scent inspires a nearly impossible to harness bloodlust) and the human girl's mortality. Though things proceed relatively smoothly at first (Edward even introduces Bella to his adoptive vampire family), a visiting vampire clan consisting of James (Cam Gigandet), Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), and Laurent (Edi Gathegi) catches Bella's unique scent and threatens the young couple's budding, if dangerous, happiness. James, known for his powerful tracking ability, becomes obsessed with making Bella his next victim. Fearing for Bella's safety and that of her loved ones, the Cullens must combine their collective talents in order to stop the highly predatory James before his goal is accomplished. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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Fugitive Pieces
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Author Anne Michaels's poetic novel comes to the screen courtesy of director Jeremy Podeswa in this period drama concerning a Holocaust survivor who remains eternally haunted by the uncertain fate of his beloved sister. Athos (Rade Sherbedgia) is an archeologist conducting a dig in Nazi-occupied Poland. When Athos discovers a seven-year-old boy named Jakob (Robbie Kay) hiding near the work site, he smuggles the frightened boy back to Greece and promises to shelter him when the Nazis come knocking there as well. Having previously witnessed the brutal massacre of his family at the hands of Hitler's henchmen, Jakob longs to find out what fate befell his sister, Bella (Nina Dobrev) -- who wasn't executed with the majority of his other relatives but subsequently disappeared without a trace. After the war, Athos and Jakob emigrate to Toronto in hopes of starting a new life. But even after all these years, Jakob (Stephen Dillane) can't seem to shake the grief of losing his family and not knowing what ever became of Bella. Later, when Jakob marries the radiant Alex (Rosamund Pike), the bright-eyed beauty does her best to illuminate the dark corners within her husband's soul. To maintain one's connection to ghosts requires a certain shunning of the living, however, and only when Jakob discovers the strength to let go of his painful past will he finally be able to move forward into the future. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Hatley High
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The Canadian teen comedy Hatley High sends up high school sports rituals by placing a most unlikely competitive game at the center of its story: that of chess. Tommy (Nicholas Wright) is a new arrival in his parents' hometown of Hatley, whose mother recently died. He discovers, after the fact, that his mom was once a chess pro and thus a legend in the community. Tommy's chess-fixated peers accept him almost instantly, inferring that he must have inherited his dear mother's skills, but in time Tommy carves out a niche for himself independently of his mom's legacy, and strikes up an enduring romance with Hyacinthe (Rachelle Lefevre) a "chess cheerleader." Two fictional British filmmakers "frame" the tale by filming it for a documentary that they are producing, and thus provide witty, ongoing narration. Phil Price directs, from a script penned by Myles Hainsworth. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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The River King
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The body of a prep school student has been discovered in a nearby river, and though the death was originally listed as a suicide one detective believes that it may have actually been the result of a fraternity hazing gone awry in director Nick Willing's snowbound mystery. Detective Abel Grey (Edward Burns) isn't willing to write off the case as a suicide just yet, and with a little help from sympathetic teacher Betsy Chase (Jennifer Ehle) he hopes to uncover the truth behind the mysterious and untimely death. As a series of elusive clues lead Detective Grey ever closer to the truth, he is forced to confront not only the increasingly complex facts in the case of the student death, but his own repressed emotions related to the suicide of his older brother years earlier as well. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Picking Up and Dropping Off
Divorced Denver TV weatherman Will (Scott Wolf) only has custody of his son during holidays. Divorced mom Jane (Amanda Detmer) has custody of her daughter every day of the year except holidays. Inevitably, Will and Jane meet at the Denver airport while picking up and dropping off their respective children. And inasmuch as this is a made-for-cable romantic comedy, Will and Jane are destined to run into one another at the same airport again and again on subsequent Holiday weekends. And of course they will ultimately fall in love, despite such complications as the effort by Jane's ex-husband to win her back. The first film project of Friends star Lisa Kudrow's Is or Isn't Entertainment, Picking Up and Dropping Off made its ABC Family channel debut on December 7, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Based on a novel by Melissa Senate, this made-for-cable romantic comedy stars Charisma Carpenter as Jane Grant, a New York bachelorette with a moderately successful job at a publishing company. At the behest of her Aunt Ina (Linda Dano), Jane must find a suitable date to escort her to her cousin's wedding in four weeks. Our heroine experiences a number of romantic misadventures with a steady parade of "Mr. Wrongs" (one of whom is played by Joe Millionaire's Evan Marriott) before hitting upon a man who might be "the One" -- and then again, might not. Making Jane's task all the more difficult is the presence of her former high school nemesis Natasha Nutley (Holly Marie Combs), now a soap opera diva whose autobiography Jane has been assigned to edit. See Jane Date debuted August 16, 2003, on the ABC Family Channel. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Erin (Dina Meyer) is a young actress who has enjoyed little success in her profession and even less in her love life. Seeking out some easy money, Erin occasionally hires herself out to a detective agency as a "decoy", employed to lure married men into compromising positions so that their wives can establish grounds for divorce. All goes smoothly until someone begins making threatening phone calls to Erin. Can her stalker be an ex-client, her sex-hungry boss, or her new boyfriend--or someone that no one, but no one, would ever suspect? Filmed in Quebec under the title Decoy, Deception was released directly to video in 2003, then had its American TV debut the following year, courtesy of the Lifetime cable network. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Charmed: Love's a Witch
The love Paige (Rose McGowan) expresses for her new sweetie, Richard Montana (Balthazar Getty), embroils the Charmed Ones in a deadly "magic feud" between the Montanas and the Callaways. Things reach the crisis stage when Richard's dead lover Olivia Callaway (Rachelle Lefevre) takes over Paige's (Rose McGowan) body. Elsewhere, Leo (Brian Krause) is suspicious when Chris (Drew Fuller) embarks on a secret Whitelighter mission to the Underworld; and Phoebe's (Alyssa Milano) empath powers cause her to obsess over her sisters' innermost feelings -- and to talk about them at great and tiresome length! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Legend of Butch and Sundance
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Saddle up and ride along as two of the most infamous outlaws in the American West set out to seek their fortunes, and blaze a path that will serve as the foundation for a modern mythology while forever earning them a place in the annals of American history. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he
a hired killer working with the CIA? That's the take-it-or-leave-it premise of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on the memoir of the same name by Chuck Barris. Barris (Sam Rockwell) grows up dreaming of success in show biz and winning the hearts of beautiful women, but early on, he meets with plenty of resistance from both women and the television industry, despite writing the hit tune "Palisades Park" and scoring a job with Dick Clark on American Bandstand. The 1960s proves more fortunate for Barris; he meets the love of his life, Penny (Drew Barrymore), and sells ABC on the idea of The Dating Game. However, after the show has made him wealthy and successful, Barris is approached by the mysterious Jim Byrd (George Clooney), a CIA agent who wants to recruit Barris as a covert operative. Barris finds the notion of playing spy games intriguing and agrees, but soon discovers what Byrd and his partners really want is for Barris to assassinate uncooperative figures around the world. Soon, Barris finds that his life has been all but taken over by Byrd and another CIA agent, the mysterious and sexy Patricia (Julia Roberts). As he hops the globe, killing people in the name of American security (using his status as a Dating Game chaperone as a cover), Barris learns that the KGB has discovered his not-so-little secret and that his own life is in great danger. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind marked the directorial debut of actor George Clooney, working from a screenplay adapted by Charlie Kaufman from Barris' book. Dick Clark, Dating Game host Jim Lange, frequent Gong Show panelist Jaye P. Morgan, and Gene Gene Patton appear as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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President George H.W. Bush's 'Read my lips: No new taxes' declaration is considered one of the biggest whoppers in American politics. But President Barack Obama might've topped it with a claim that people who don't prefer Obamacare would be able to keep their original insurance, unaffected. (DIANE BONDAREFF / AP)
The words �If you like the health insurance plan you have now, you can keep it� will be etched in political infamy along with �Read my lips, no new taxes,� �Mission Accomplished� and �In five years, you�ll be blown away.�
The assurance from President Barack Obama that those who have insurance coverage can keep it if they want and won�t have to pay higher premiums to do so was a key selling point of the Affordable Care Act.
But Americans are now finding out those promises won�t be kept, even though Obama keeps repeating them.
Millions of people are getting letters from their employers or insurance companies warning of the seismic changes Obamacare is wreaking on the private insurance market. The one I got last week said that because of the Affordable Care Act, the policy I currently have � and like � is going away. I�ll be covered instead by a different insurer, with sky-high deductibles that assure my annual out-of-pocket health care costs will soar.
Maybe some of the folks getting similar notification think that paying more for less coverage is a worthy trade-off to implement universal health care. But I bet most feel like they�ve been sold a bill of goods. My experience is that these �Oh by the way, because of Obamacare ...� letters make the recipients angry and fearful.
An angry, fearful electorate should be bad news for the Democrats, who arrogantly shoved Obamacare down our throats.
That�s why I don�t understand the defund tactic Republicans are employing.
Before the GOP forced the spotlight away from the Obamacare train wreck and onto their own government shutdown circus, the Affordable Care Act was self-destructing at an accelerating pace. Business and labor groups were confirming the warnings that Obamacare would lead to less hiring and more part-time jobs.
Individual policyholders were seeing huge spikes in their premiums and workers were losing their employer-provided coverage. Anti-Obamacare sentiment was starting to boil.
And then Republicans overreached. Dumb.
Better to let Obamacare proceed uninterrupted so voters could experience its full consequences before they go to the polls in 2014. Let them feel the economic destruction wrought by this law that belongs wholly to the Democrats.
Give them a chance to ask Democratic congressmen who voted for the law and then exempted themselves from its impact (Gary Peters, for example) why it�s good for us but not for them. See how they react to IRS agents chasing them down to pay fees for not buying something they don�t want.
Instead of a futile fight to save America from Obamacare, give voters the opportunity to punish those politicians who inflicted it on the country. And hang the words �If you like the health insurance plan you have now, you can keep it� around the necks of every Democrat on the ballot.
Follow Nolan Finley on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nolanfinleydn, on Facebook at nolanfinleydetnews and watch him at 7:30 p.m. Fridays on �MiWeek� on Detroit Public TV, Channel 56.