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What makes people happy for the long term? Romance, friendships, good health, puppies, and kittens.
What doesn't? Money.
You've heard it ad infinitum, "Money can't buy happiness." Now there's scientific data to give the old saw new teeth.
University of Southern California economist Richard Easterlin surveyed 1,500 people over nearly three decades to see what puts a kick in their step and a smile on their faces. His results, published in September in the online edition of Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, reveal that time with family and good health are the stuff of happiness.
Wealth, on the other hand, doesn't necessarily lead to joy and contentment. One reason: People with more money usually want more things. More McStuff.
Your Happy-o-meter
Easterlin tested two opposing theories of happiness:
First, the psychological theory that claims we're wired with an internal happiness "set point" to which, despite job loss, divorce, or a torn ACL, we eventually return.
Then there's the economic theory that an increase in wealth brings an increase of a sense of well-being.
Guess what? Wrong-o on both counts. Easterlin found that neither theory was supported by the data. Even though we do need a little pick-me-up after our newly refinished basement washes down the Potomac in a hurricane, the emotional turmoil subsides in a short time.
And as for money curing the blues? Sure, a $1,000 increase in salary lifts the spirits. But it's more like a caffeine buzz than a higher plateau of enlightenment.
If we're not wired for a certain level of happiness, and the annual bonus can't turn our frown upside down, why the heck are we working so hard?
Pedaling faster -- for what?
One reason we aspire to the fast track of wealth and power is a phenomenon scientists call the "hedonic treadmill" -- how the acquisition of commodities and clout provides a short-term emotional lift that makes us want more. We get a raise, spend it, the extra dough becomes moot, and we want more.
Been there. Done that. Evidently, so have 60% of my fellow Americans. The Department of Labor's annual report on consumer expenditures reveals that just 40% of Americans live below their before-tax means.
The sad truth is that we're twice as rich as we were in 1957, but only half as happy. As Dr. David G. Myers, an authority on the psychology of happiness, wrote in Does Economic Growth Improve Human Morale?: "Never has a culture experienced such physical comfort combined with such psychological misery. Never have we felt so free, or had our prisons so overstuffed. Never have we been so sophisticated about pleasure, or so likely to suffer broken relationships."
Myers dubbed us "the doubly affluent society." In nearly 50 years, we have twice as many cars per person, microwave ovens, plasma screen TVs, home computers, and $200 billion a year spent in restaurants and bars -- two-and-a-half times our 1960 inflation-adjusted restaurant spending per person.
Despite air conditioning, TiVo, low-fat cupcakes, and high-speed Internet access, we're not as happy as our parents and grandparents.
Even the most prosperous among us -- the Forbes' 100 wealthiest Americans surveyed by University of Illinois psychologist Ed Diener -- are just slightly happier than average.
Those who didn't make the Forbes list are unmoved by our growing affluence, either. According to Easterlin, the effect on subjective well-being of a $1,000 increase in income becomes progressively smaller the higher the initial level of income.
So, the more you make, the less more money matters.
How to be happy
What does matter? According to the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center:
- People with five or more close friends (excluding family members) are 50% more likely to describe themselves as "very happy" than respondents with fewer.
- A loving marriage: 40% of married American adults report themselves as "very happy," vs. 26% of those who are not married.
- Good health.
- A connection with a congregation such as your community or a religious group.
On the other hand, a survey of 800 college alumni showed that classmates who valued high income, job success, and prestige more than close friends and love were twice as likely to be "fairly" or "very" unhappy.
Happy people, it seems, concentrate on their own successes and don't compare themselves -- their income, their family time -- with others. They do not judge others or dwell on negative feelings. If they do dwell on the better performance of a colleague or friend, it is to learn ways for self-improvement.
"By far the greatest predictor of happiness in the literature is intimate relationships," Sonja Lyubomirsky, a researcher at the University of California-Riverside, told a Chicago Tribune reporter. "It's definitely not money."
Or, as the authors of "How to Be Happy, Dammit" say in Life Lesson #40: "It's not 'he who dies with the most toys wins.' It's 'he who has the most time to play with his toys and the most fun playing with them who wins.'"
In the end, happiness is about wanting and managing what you already have. And perhaps taking that $1,000 raise and treating your loved ones to a special night out.
Dayana Yochim has never taken a happiness survey, but she rates herself as "pretty darn happy." This column originally ran in Sept. 2003. But really. Is happiness ever not timely? The Motley Fool has a peppy disclosure policy .


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It Disgusts Me
When I think of Lou Gehrig, I see him in a hotel room somewhere in the summer of 1938. It is the middle of the night, nearly silent, sweltering in Cleveland or St. Louis or Washington. If there is any air conditioning it is feeble and no match for humidity sitting like a giant sweater on the city.
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Bravo Keith! I only wish more people thought this way…
Thank you for the reminder. To dismiss or even justify steroid use because it has become a common part of the "new" atmosphere is lazy. This was very moving; keep giving 'em hell, Olbermann.
And Fox, bless their hearts, is breaking away from the Mets-Phillies game for every Manny AB, and showed, on tape delay, a small bit of Chris Coste reading Gehrig's speech before the game.
amen Keith…..thanks for that blog!
I'm a third generation Dodger fan and it made me sick to my stomach when the Dodger's acquired Manny. That was before the PEDs, but after his bizarre behavior in Boston, including the attack on the, I think, traveling secretary.
I still love the Dodgers, but I don't wish Manny well, and if that means LA doesn't get to the playoffs, well, that's the price of dancing with the devil.
Thanks for the contrast with Lou Gehrig.
Thanks Keith……I miss the days when Baseball players had the spirit of the game rushing through their veins……They would have played for nothing. (and often times did!)
These days, it is hard for me to get excited about any particular team winning or losing…..I watch, because I love the game SO much, I can't help myself. Thanks for being brave and bold and telling it like it is!
Great job Keith! I agree all the way. That was beautiful writing and a great job summing up something I believe as well.
Rest in Peace, Lou.
yJuzWp Wow! That's a really neat answer!
I think there should be a no tolerance policy on PEDs in ALL sports. As an endurance athlete, I currently train 3 1/2 hours a day 6 days a week (and I'm in my off season!). When I am training for an event I bump it up to 4-8 hours a day 6-7 days a week. It would be a heck of a lot easier and a hell of a lot less painful to stick a needle in my *** and train only a few hours a day for an event (and there are a lot of people who do, especially young female athletes, who are never caught) but I love myself way to much to do that crap. After all, I may not win the race but I go home afterward, go to bed, and wake up the next day ready to start training for the next event. Juicers go home, beat the crap out of anyone around, and wake up the next morning to find they are now a classic carnival side show…the bearded lady! To me people like Manny and A-Rod are not athletes, just poseurs out for a pretty penny and some photo ops.
A very true and elegant post today. I think of my son's best friend , a corporal in my beloved Marine Corps, on a ship in the Gulf, and of my friend's son, a paratrooper getting ready to go back to Afghanistan. (again, after having been wounded there once) I also remember my time with the 70-71 Spokane Indians:Tom Lasorda, Paciorek,Lopes,Garvey Cey, Russell, Von Joshua, Bobby V. and all the other great ball players, and especially Dodgers, of my youth.
So now we have this clown, this knucklehead, who is now a Dodger, and he's getting all this ink and TV time, and I'm a little sick to my stomach.
Your article brought tears to my eyes.
I have read so many biographies about athletes throughout my life, I have lost count. All I know is the very first one I ever read was a biography about Lou Gehrig, way back when I was 15 years old. May we never forget how lucky we were to have had a baseball player and man like Lou Gehrig to look up to. The very essence of dignity and class.
"There is no room for discrimination in baseball. It is our national pastime, and a game for all." Lou Gehrig
Keith, I'm a cancer survivor. I can assure that the first thing these diseases rob us of is our dignity. I had to stand in front of my wife, with excrement running down my legs admitting that I thought I needed to go to the hospital. We spend years at the mercy of a stream of doctors and other health care professionals. We become a case, not a person.
That being said, what we go through has nothing to do with idiots like Manny Ramirez. Put all the patches on uniforms you want. Hold fund raisers and telethons. It all comes down to a doctor and a patient in a small room, with the doctor given the bad news and the patient either surrendering or resolving to fight. Critical illness is perhaps the most solitary battle a person can face. We are alone, in a way most people cannot fathom, since our own bodies have betrayed us.
So Manny hit a homer. Who cares? He's a proven cheater. People like me don;'t let morons like him distract us from the sheer glory that is seeing another day. I'm almost 14 years past my diagnosis; and I bloody well *refuse* to die until my beloved Giants win the World Series.
Today, I am the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. I went to see a baseball game.
In a world filled with sportscasters and fans who worship sports stars, no matter what they do wrong, it is refreshing to see someone finally speak out against those who think the rules don't apply to them.
Shining the light of Lou Gehrig's bravery into the faces of such cheaters should, by rights, make them scurry away in shame, like roaches under the glare of an overhead light. But sadly, people like this seem to be unable to feel shame. What little regret they do feel is solely the regret of getting caught.
Your compassion, sense of decency, and outrage shine in every word of this moving article. Thank you for not letting your love of this game blind you to the sins committed by some of its players.
We are all humbled by your perfection. But being so dang perfect how about you spare us some of your smugness and notice that Manny isn't as good as you (point of your blog post, right?). And shut up. If I wanted to read Costas, I'd uh read Costas. Yeah we get it, things were better when you did whatever it was you did when things were better. Was it throwing games Denny, or coke?
So one-note tiresome, should be your nickname.
No black people when St. Lou played. Good old days, huh St. Keith?
This amazes me. How can a man who is such horse's *** and display such a contempt for the truth when it comes to his politics and MSNBC commentary, be so correct and dead on when it comes to baseball, especially Manny. It is amazing, but when you are right you are right. And I am a Dodgers fan.
Thank you Keith and keep reminding us what baseball is all about
A-friggin-men KO. It was Lou Gehrig's day damn it.
For raising a giant middle finger to sportsmanship. ~ There are lots of reasons for why cheering Manny's return is wrong, but that one really stands out for me.
Right on Keith! Thank you!
I agree wholeheartedly with your take on this being Gehrig's day. The whole dichotomy of celebrating Manny's minor league "tour", and subsequent return, while throwing other players who have tested positive under the bus, is what irks me more than anything. I even heard Peter Gammons pull out the old(and tired) "it's just Manny being Manny" phrase. I just don't understand.
This just in: 106 sportswriters reportedly test positive for sanctimony.
This is almost as embarrassing and pathetic as the time you tried to excuse then-candidate Obama's about-face on warrantless wiretapping. The squeakers showing up here to twist their panties in public are clearly outnumbered by those in the stands who couldn't give a hoot what Manny was taking.
Well sure, scareduck, if most people are ok with it it must not be wrong. That's the laziest argument I've ever heard.
Manny did the crime, but he has served his time. Unlike A-Rod, Bonds, McGwire, etc………………….Manny served his punishment. Now he is back and Dodger fans are happy to see him back.
People mess up in life……..nobody is perfect. If somebody makes a mistake and PAYS FOR THAT MISTAKE, then I have no problem with it.
As a christian, forgiveness is one of the core principles at the center of my life………….as is humility. We should always remember that at one time or another in life………YOU will mess up and you will need forgiveness from others as well. Yes, Manny messed up, but he served the punishment like a man and now he's back to help his team. I gladly root for him and don't lose any sleep at night doing so.
Its only baseball for god's sake………..there are people dying in unjust wars and people suffering all over this country from a broken health care system and a broken economy……….lets all get some perspective here and focus our anger on where it really needs to be.
I am a cancer patient with 3 operations and 2 1/2 years in chemo. I had a best friend die of ALS at the age of 36. The pain, suffering, and declining use of her limbs makes my past 3 years look like a walk in the park. I am not a Keith Olberman – MSNBC fan, but the man who wrote this article has my complete respect. And like Dberry, I spent Friday and Sunday at a ballgame. I watched the Dodgers and Manny beat my Padres both games. I was at the playoffs in 2005 and 2006 and World Series for the Pads in 84 and 98. None of these ended in victory, but I was a happy man just watching the games.
hartbreak — no, that's not the laziest argument available. The laziest argument out there is to lie, which is what the government does repeatedly about any kind of drugs they don't approve of, the list of which changes but grows ever-larger.
"We're dirtbags, like 99 percent of the world.
Maybe worse, because we are baseball players."
— Rockies 1B Todd Helton
"Corked bat, steroids and I bet on games. "
–Braves 2B Marcus Giles on why he has so much success against the Reds
"This is the first time in baseball history the players have more additives in them than the hot dogs."
–Jay Leno
"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player.
It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."
–Casey Stengel
"I only have a high school education, and I had to cheat to get that."
-Sparky Anderson
"Ten million years from now, when the sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen ice ball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out."
–Tug McGraw
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
–Mickey Mantle
Outrage over major sports professionals, especially baseball, jumped the shark for me back in 1994. I have as much fondness for baseball as any person. My fondness is now directed towards my local single A team. I have no disgust left for the disgusting. The only way to avoid scum and cheaters is to, well, avoid them. The only way to not be disgusted is to just be done with it. I don't like it that major league baseball has dirtied itself beyond the ability to be laundered clean. I decided 15 years ago that I can't do anything about it. The baseball legends suffer from the dirt too. Life isn't fair. I've moved on. Keith tries to live in the dirty world and the clean world of baseball by attempting to launder the dirt. It can't be done. Keith is disgusted and writes about it therefore attempting to absolve himself when Keith is part of the problem to begin with. Print, radio, TV, and the internet provide the void which the fat heads can expand in to. I assume Ramirez has notoriety because he is often noted. I don't know much about him and assume that he was not in the majors prior to 1994. The media is almost exclusively negative story driven, hence the scum and cheaters are given ink, air time, and bandwidth.
CK3HAq Cool! That's a clever way of looking at it!

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Donald Wolfensberger
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Donald R. Wolfensberger is director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a position he had held since June 1999.
U.S. Congress
Wilson Center Projects
Bringing the House Home: To Restore Trust in Congress
Full Biography
Donald R. Wolfensberger is director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a position he had held since June 1999. He first came to the Wilson Center in February 1997 as a guest scholar where he wrote the book, Congress and the People: Deliberative Democracy on Trial (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Prior to that he worked for 28 years as a staff member in the House of Representatives, beginning in 1969 as a legislative assistant to his own Congressman, Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). He joined the House Rules Committee staff as Anderson's subcommittee counsel in 1979, and subsequently served on the committee as subcommittee counsel to Rep. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) from 1981-88, and Rep. Lynn Martin (R-Ill.), from 1989-90. In 1991 he was named Republican Staff Director of the Rules Committee by Ranking Minority Member Gerald B. Solomon (R-N.Y.), and in 1995 Solomon named him chief-of-staff of the Committee in the 104th Congress. He is an expert on parliamentary rules and procedures and played a key role in developing House reform proposals for the Republican leadership over the years, culminating in their adoption as House rules when the GOP won majority control in 1995. He earned a B.A. in English from North Central College (1964) and successfully completed course work towards an M.A. in political science at the University of Iowa (1966). During his freshman year at North Central College he was sports editor of the college newspaper, The Chronicle, and yearbook, The Spectrum, and as a sophomore was named editor of the newspaper. While in graduate school he worked part-time as newscaster and reporter for KXIC radio in Iowa City. After graduate school he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, East Africa (1967-68), teaching English in a secondary school. He currently writes a twice-monthly column, "Procedural Politics," for the popular Capitol Hill Newspaper, Roll Call. He lectures frequently on Congress to student groups, foreign diplomats, and executive branch officials. He and his wife, Monty Tripp, live in Arlington, Virginia.
Major Publications
- "Congress and Policymaking in an Age of Terrorism," in Congress Reconsidered, 8th ed., ed. Oppenheimer and Dodd (CQ Press, 2005)
- Democracy and the Internet, co-editor (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002)
- Congress and the People: Deliberative Democracy on Trial, (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
- Author of essays on the "Rules Committee" and "Special Rules" in the Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, Simon and Schuster, 1995


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No Knead Bread-Lahey's version vs Artisan bread in 5mins a day
I've been baking the no knead bread for about 3 yrs now from the original recipe of Jim Lahey. I've had real good luck with this recipe and used it for Ciabatta, Focaccia and pizza dough. I also have Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois's book Artisan Bread in 5 min a Day. I never tried their method till yesterday. I now know why. Although you have enough dough for 2-4 loaves of bread in the fridge, that particular dough is only good for being the master recipe or basic. I took out a portion of the dough to make olive bread but found I had to incorporate the olives, rosemary and oil in the cold dough. The dough never rose like Lahey's dough so it was kind of dense maybe from being cold. Lahey's dough method is made for a peticular recipe. I believe I prefer making no knead dough to suit a recipe as in the basic no knead method. I have made Lahey's dough and could not bake it the next day, put it in the fridge and baked it 2 days later with no problem.
Another thought is the Artisan method, you cut off a piece "the size of a grapefruit". To me this is not to exact and with Lahey's method, you know 3 cups flour, 1.5 c water etc goes in a 5 qt dutch oven for X amount of time. This is a science. The sizing "grapefruit" can vary so therefore I would imagine baking times would change.
I would like to get your opinions and maybe I can elaborate more as to my findings.


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Forum Post: Benghazi, shameless plug for my channel.
Posted 7 years ago on June 17, 2013, 9:04 a.m. EST by factsrfun
from Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 7 years ago on June 17, 2013, 9:04 a.m. EST by factsrfun
from Phoenix, AZ
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OK, you like Hitlary Clinton - I get that !!! However one video link deserves another so I'm bumping your ''shameless plug'' with one my own on behalf of a really good guy who the Democratic Party got rid of :
And I'm defying a died in the wool Democrap voter like yourself, to not shed a tear over your lost prince.
multum in parvo ...
[-] 2 points by bensdad (7746) 4 days ago
If you want public healthcare, vote for people who support public healthcare and yes, that means voting for the Rs worst nightmare can you image where American healthcare would be today if we passed her plan in the 1990s ↥twinkle ↧stinkle reply permalink
we still need public healthcare
If you want public healthcare, vote for people who support public healthcare
and yes, that means voting for the Rs worst nightmare
can you image where American healthcare would be today if we passed her plan in the 1990s
I don't know
hilary's push for healthcare was a 1 year push with no results
the CRAPITALISTS fought against it with millions of dollars in PR
just like the willard campaign
just like the Iraq war lies
just like the anti-gay lies
just like the anti-choice lies
and millions of American lemmings who are to lazy to think * reason & learn
Thats what we thought we were doing in 2008. Instead we got the Republican's alternative to Hillarycare. Total bust. Totally used us.
Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz
Fri Jun 08, 2012 at 08:15 AM PDT
On January 20, 2009 Republican Leaders in Congress literally plotted to sabotage and undermine U.S. Economy during President Obama's Inauguration.
In Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" Draper wrote that during a four hour, "invitation only" meeting with GOP Hate-Propaganda Minister, Frank Luntz, the below listed Senior GOP Law Writers literally plotted to sabotage, undermine and destroy America's Economy.
The Guest List:
Frank Luntz - GOP Minister of Propaganda
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R).
Non-lawmakers present Newt Gingrich
During the four hour meeting:
The senior GOP members plotted to bring Congress to a standstill regardless how much it would hurt the American Economy by pledging to obstruct and block President Obama on all legislation.
These Republican members of Congress were not simply airing their complaints regarding the other party's political platform for four long hours. No, these Republican Congressional Policymakers, who were elected to do 'the People's work' were literally plotting to sabotage, undermine and destroy the U.S. Economy.
SO: Health Care and every progressive thing else was sabotaged by the GOP/RepubliCons/1% as well!!!!!
There are no leaders here. Only paid hacks. In Congress and the internet. Everywhere.
This is just further proof that this entire system is garbage.
1 points by TikiJ (287) 5 minutes ago Your obsession with the Greens is strange. Perhaps the entire concept of parties is destructive? ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink
as I have have said before you know nothing of human nature....
but since you got here late, I'll toss you something, (you should go back and read some), it is like saying the sky is blue to say political parties are destructive, and it is just as useful to talk of changing the fact they exist.
I haven't even been active yet dropped 400 points over night guess people like me aren't welcome around here, it's such a shame really we could have done so much, but the ego is strong and in the end people care more about themselves and their ambitions than the country.
Not sure what has happened to your points but don't get too attached to these ultimately meaningless numbers and stop feeling so sorry for yourself. Of course you're welcome and you've been here a long time - it's just that you're a bit of a stuck record sometimes, lol. Further consider :
We can all reflect that - as ''a young man in college I was not always the most diligent student. One weekend, near the end of term, was particularly eventful and I found myself on Monday morning sitting, looking at a Dynamics final and no memory of any of the fine formulas we had studied that semester. Then I remembered F=ma. From that kernel I was able to derive all of the formulas I needed and ended up doing pretty well. More importantly, I realized the importance of fundamental concepts; I found that if one has a good understanding of core principles the smaller details are easier to work out. This led me a few years ago to ask myself, aside from the individual policies which align my thinking with "liberals"; why am I a liberal?'' &
''It is only natural that parents do all they can for their children, however as wealth accumulates this presents a threat to democracy. This is the threat that concerned Jefferson when he spoke of the need for inheritance taxes, not as a form of revenue but a means to protect the democracy from citizens that might become too powerful, and then threaten the will of the people. It is easy to see how this has become the case in America today.'' +
''The dangers of inherited wealth to our economy are not unlike monarchy to the health of any nation, when power is derived from birthright rather than one's labor it is more often foolishly applied. As more and more of our economy becomes "inherited wealth" it becomes more of a target for con men and less a tool for innovators. The world's financial power has been diverted from improving the human condition into money making schemes designed to enrich those who create them.'' from your profile.
Further, we're both Paul Buchheit fans right ? So at least we can agree on THAT ! :-)
http://occupywallst.org/forum/here-may-be-the-best-article-i-have-seen-about-the/ & don't forget :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6niWzomA_So (A Great OccuDoc)
fiat lux ...
Oh! And you're not "a stuck record"?
English, anti-American, anti-DEM, pro-anti... is all you espouse, with a few exceptions. Hardly deserving of criticism of F.
E Pluribus Unum
By PAUL KRUGMAN
It's that time of year — the long weekend when we gather with friends and family to celebrate hot dogs, potato salad and, yes, the founding of our nation. And it's also a time for some of us to wax a bit philosophical, to wonder what, exactly, we're celebrating. Is America in 2013, in any meaningful sense, the same country that declared independence in 1776?
The answer, I'd suggest, is yes. Despite everything, there is a thread of continuity in our national identity — reflected in institutions, ideas and, especially, in attitude — that remains unbroken. Above all, we are still, at root, a nation that believes in democracy, even if we don't always act on that belief.
And that's a remarkable thing when you bear in mind just how much the country has changed.
America in 1776 was a rural land, mainly composed of small farmers and, in the South, somewhat bigger farmers with slaves. And the free population consisted of, well, WASPs: almost all came from northwestern Europe, 65 percent came from Britain, and 98 percent were Protestants.
America today is nothing like that, even though some politicians — think Sarah Palin — like to talk as if the "real America" is still white, Protestant, and rural or small-town.
But the real America is, in fact, a nation of metropolitan areas, not small towns. Tellingly, even when Ms. Palin made her infamous remarks in 2008 she did so in Greensboro, N.C., which may not be in the Northeast Corridor but — with a metropolitan population of more than 700,000 — is hardly Mayberry. In fact, two-thirds of Americans live in metro areas with half-a-million or more residents.
Nor, by the way, are most of us living in leafy suburbs. America as a whole has only 87 people per square mile, but the average American, according to the Census Bureau, lives in a census tract with more than 5,000 people per square mile. For all the bashing of the Northeast Corridor as being somehow un-American, this means that the typical American lives in an environment that resembles greater Boston or greater Philadelphia more than it resembles Greensboro, let alone true small towns.
What do we do in these dense metropolitan areas? Almost none of us are farmers; few of us hunt; by and large, we sit in cubicles on weekdays and visit shopping malls on our days off.
And ethnically we are, of course, very different from the founders. Only a minority of today's Americans are descended from the WASPs and slaves of 1776. The rest are the descendants of successive waves of immigration: first from Ireland and Germany, then from Southern and Eastern Europe, now from Latin America and Asia. We're no longer an Anglo-Saxon nation; we're only around half-Protestant; and we're increasingly nonwhite.
Yet I would maintain that we are still the same country that declared independence all those years ago.
It's not just that we have maintained continuity of legal government, although that's not a small thing. The current government of France is, strictly speaking, the Fifth Republic; we had our anti-monarchical revolution first, yet we're still on Republic No. 1, which actually makes our government one of the oldest in the world.
More important, however, is the enduring hold on our nation of the democratic ideal, the notion that "all men are created equal" — all men, not just men from certain ethnic groups or from aristocratic families. And to this day — or so it seems to me, and I've done a lot of traveling in my time — America remains uniquely democratic in its mannerisms, in the way people from different classes interact.
Of course, our democratic ideal has always been accompanied by enormous hypocrisy, starting with the many founding fathers who espoused the rights of man, then went back to enjoying the fruits of slave labor. Today's America is a place where everyone claims to support equality of opportunity, yet we are, objectively, the most class-ridden nation in the Western world — the country where children of the wealthy are most likely to inherit their parents' status. It's also a place where everyone celebrates the right to vote, yet many politicians work hard to disenfranchise the poor and nonwhite.
But that very hypocrisy is, in a way, a good sign. The wealthy may defend their privileges, but given the temper of America, they have to pretend that they're doing no such thing. The block-the-vote people know what they're doing, but they also know that they mustn't say it in so many words. In effect, both groups know that the nation will view them as un-American unless they pay at least lip service to democratic ideals — and in that fact lies the hope of redemption.
So, yes, we are still, in a deep sense, the nation that declared independence and, more important, declared that all men have rights. Let's all raise our hot dogs in salute.
And Unite and Win!
Do you remember what I was saying about how the right equates freedom with money then attacks any attempt to limit the power of money by saying it attacks freedom, well read this and watch the Koch bros video at the end...
Bumpage for your ''shameless plug'' and to follow your good link :
"Why I Am a Socialist ?" by Chris Hedges : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21586.htm ;
"The Mean Team Piles on Jobless Americans'', by Jim Hightower : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35517.htm ;
"Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging ?" by Paul Craig Roberts : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31377.htm ;
"Poverty as a Weapon of Mass Destruction and the Economic Policies That Loaded the Chamber'', by Dylan Charles : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35530.htm &
"The Decline Of Breadwinner Jobs Has Now Resulted In The Longest Bread Lines In American History'' by M. Snyder : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35506.htm .
I'm beginning to wonder if you ever click on my links and as that disgusting fkn Koch says : ''We want to do a better job of raising up the disadvantaged and the poorest in this country, rather than saying 'Oh, we're just fine now.' We're not saying that at all. What we're saying is, we need to analyze all these additional policies, these subsidies, this cronyism, this avalanche of regulations, all these things that are creating a culture of dependency. And like permitting, to start a business, in many cities, to drive a taxicab, to become a hairdresser. Anything that people with limited capital can do to raise themselves up, they keep throwing obstacles in their way. And so we've got to clear those out. Or the minimum wage. Or anything that reduces the mobility of labor.'' - now do you imagine that the wholly Corporate Controlled Democraps, who are also so in thrall to Crapitalism, are really going to fight this b-s like a true Labor Based Party would ?
minima maxima sunt ...
How do you imagine that the GOP will implement better policies when they are in office?
That being the certain outcome if you attack the Ds, until such time that you can present me with a link that explains how the GOP is better on a certain issue or how you actually intent to defeat at the polls, you have done nothing, I think the time to act is NOW and that action must be done with the real weapons that are at hand, and those that dream of being in charge vise vie their own political party are the very worst, ego driven bunch of all, worst even than the GOP. I may sound harsh, but the one who taught me was much more harsh when telling people the truth, but we were asking for it.
"vie their own political party are the very worst, ego driven bunch of all, worst even than the GOP. "
Your views become more and more hateful of pure democracy and the people the longer this goes on.
and your intend to co-opt OWS should be clear to all by now....it doesn't matter really if you succeed OWS will be as dead as Ralph Nader, so no real harm done, nobody was talking about wealth inequality and 1% ran everything before so all it means is the OWS has done nothing....
Occupy doesnt back political parties, it's job is to expose the corruption in ALL of them.
here I don't think you've seen this, oh and I thought OWS was about getting something done....
Nader the traitor has crawled under a rock,
It's the only place safe from the things that he wrot.
As millennia approached us, we had one last shot,
To keep the planet we're on from getting, too damn hot.
But Nader thought better his name should be heard.
And Gore was left standing with only his word.
Ten times ten thousand thought Gore couldn't lose
And a statement was needed to make the world choose
Are we to be puppets and dance on a string?
Or will we be spirits and let our hearts sing?
December reality came crashing in
The court has decided that Bush got the win.
Where was the outrage where were the cries?
Believers were muted they bought all the lies
How could they scream, how could they roar?
When even their ballots weren't marked for Al Gore?
The Court burned the votes on that day
So it would be safe for the Royals to play.
Tax cuts are sweet
We love all the meat
But Bush had a fear
What if folks start to hear?
An appointment or two
And I give you C-U.
You act as if repealing Glass Steagall, sending all the jobs overseas, and bombing Iraq three times wouldnt have led to the same mess.
How you managed to turn Gore from the lackey he is into this brave soul who would have made a stand against the establishment is beyond me.
you, shad,z BW, and a few others find NO corruption in the GOP I guess, at least none worth talking about, odd it doesn't seem that hard to find to me, seems you bunch are letting OWS down quit a bit... too bad really, of course when you lie your lies are designed for one outcome that of building your own party in your case the Green Party, you work for the very worst of the bunch...
I have never voted for a single Republican in my life. I think what they stand for is all wrong. However, I've been voting Democratic and nothing seems to get better. Democrats don't seem to stand for much these days. They have their hand in the pot the same way the Republicans do. In fact, they are maybe worse, because they talk the good talk and then never follow through, far more specious, you could say. They also seem much more fearful, afraid of rocking the boat, so to speak, so they get nothing done and sit and quake on the sidelines. So, don't go telling me who I think is corrupt. They are all corrupt. You are the misguided one. You are the one who doesn't understand what a revolution is. You think a global revolution will be brought about by supporting the status quo. Are you serious?
Hey bw, glad to see that you're posting a little more again.
I'm on mainly in the evenings, so I may just have missed them, but it felt like you were posting less and less for a while at a time when we're losing some regulars...and it was worrisome. You, of all people personify what the people of this world need, and what OWS & this forum need, a 'beautifulworld'. :-)
I miss 'jrhirsch' as well, and 'quantumystic' too. Hopefully they're just away briefly and will join OWS again in the fight against TPTB, and advocate for dignity for all of our fellow human beings.
The forum goes through 'growing pains' at times, and I think we're in such a phase right now, with incessant down-votes and decorum problems. But, we'll get through it like any other growing pains we have had in the past, and come out with a COMMUNITY that encourages empathy and fairness for ALL.
Great to see your posts again!
Thanks, Renneye. You're very sweet. Mainly, I'm just busy, but I am not exactly thrilled with the "Occupy Cabal" that the forum is listed as nowadays. It kind of belittles what we do here and I don't find it funny.
I will never give up on the 99%, though, as I know you won't either. So, regardless of who runs things here, and how they run things, I will keep posting and saying what I believe, because, in the end, this movement has changed the dialog in this country and the seeds we planted, though they may take a while to blossom, will eventually do just that.
And, how about trevornemonic? Where did he go?
Well thanks, 'bw'. You're quite cherished, yourself...not to mention esteemed.
I hear you loud and clear regarding the "Occupy Cabal" label. I was thinking about it again last night. It was supposedly a joke. Isn't the joke over?! Why is it still there? It's also made it harder to log on and off from this page, and newcomers get put off by 'inconveniences' not to mention 'unprofessionalism'.
'Trevornemonic' indeed! And other good posters too. I'll usually send a PM to regulars that I haven't seen in a while, and invite them back to the discussion. Sometimes that's all it takes, if someone has just become discouraged about the forum or the state of current affairs. It helps if they know that their contributions are appreciated and missed. We've all been there, I think.
Solidarity, beautifulworld!
I have PMd Trevor, and heard nothing back, because I do the same thing, Renneye. We have to stick together. I wonder what happened to him?
Thanks for all your kind words. You are cherished, too. The forum wouldn't be the same without you. Solidarity always.
You cannot change the world by posting on this forum. Join the Occupy Political Party: http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-occupy-political-party/
Nothing seems to get done? Did you know that the budget was balanced in 2000? Did you know that real wages were raising in the 2000's? You do know that had Gore gotten full support from the real left he would have continued those policies and wages would be much higher today, and we would be addressing climate change. The world is not prefect but elections have consequences.
The Democrats are a right wing party. Vote left wing. Vote for the Occupy Political Party. http://occupywallst.org/forum/the-occupy-political-party/
That domain name, occupyparty.org is for sale. Good try.
Yes, Brooke has not changed the parked site since we purchased the domain. We have already contacted Brooke. Our site will be up in a few days so they have not bothered changing it. If you try to purchase the domain you will not be able to. You can see our ownership credentials with a whois search. Thank you for looking into this.
We will make an official site announcement on this forum.
No, we own it.
You can check domains here: https://secure.dotster.com/register/registration.bml?flowid=21&dom_lookup=occupyparty.org
We have the .org, .com, and .us. We don't know who has the others.
No, it's for sale:
The domain OccupyParty.org is for sale. To purchase, call Brooke at DomainNameSales at 1-800-818-1828 or direct 480-389-3813. Click here for more details.
You better call Brooke.
I believe the GOP is filled with corruption.
I dont believe Occupy wants to be involved with any political party.
It's you, as that link I posted, that is actively attempting to co-opt. Good luck.
oh do you? yet you never seem to find any time to talk about it, oh well I guess you're busy...bashing Obama...
'Cause the mthrfkr has had 6 years already and has done WHAT exactly ?!!! You are a total fkn nut job - 'cause being a Hitlary Clinton loving Democrap in Replicunt Arizona has you all befuddled and perplexed as to the difference in location between your ass and your elbow !! Here now, go get a fkn clue, will ya ?!
Bill Moyers' ''Two American Families'' : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/two-american-families/ ;
''Some Outrageous Facts about US Inequality", by Paul Buchheit : http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/02-0 &
'Alternate Unemployment Charts' : http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts .
Obummer - Obomber the Oblahblah has turned out to be all hat and no cattle !!! So how did a one term senator, come from out of the fkn blue to be El Pres of The U$A then ?!! Let's get outlandish shall we ?! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35505.htm even though I'm beginning to think he's a long term Agency Asset [ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29234.htm ] - pretty much just like his predecessor GWB, who is a clear scion of The Deep State Oligarchy !! 'Blazing Saddles' anyone ?!!!
e tenebris ...
maybe someday you will see past your own huge EGO and see what the Bush administration did and realize it didn't have to be that way, how many more Bushes will we have because of people like you? Who refuse to set aside your EGO and do the right thing for once.
I'd rather say I dont like parties in general than to roll with a bunch of war criminals and monsanto lovers and bailouts and wall st cronies.
Good luck with that. I'm sure your lone vote for those people in a couple years is really going to rock the world.
Are you just trying to prove my point?
You fucking GOP loving SOB.
Above & below, thanx for further confirmation of your inability see past your duopoly delusion and your Demoblican / Republocrat fixation. So, with my last bump of your forum-post - I append for you here :
vale ...
"The enemy of of my enemy is my friend"
you guys are all great friends of the GOP
The Green Party Rap
I'm living the pure life, crystal clean
I'm not even human I'm a new machine
Me and Jesus just one and same
We're so pure you can't say our name
All them other's living in that world
Grabbing up the cash like a hungry squirrel
Well they're all nasty, ugly, and mean
I'm the one you got to believe
Look at me, my shit don't stink
And all my gums are a perfect pink
I tell you what! You can't go wrong.
Just do as I say and I'll bring you along.
I don't like your political party because I want my own political party is a pretty bullshit argument.
You are worst than any Republican or Democratic because your ego towers above all the rest.
Obama deserves to be bashed. He's a warmongering traitor to the American people. He's reneged on just about every promise he made during his campaigns, which makes him just another lying p.o.s. politician.
keep doing what you're doing and you can look forward to many more Bushwacks, there is a way but people like you with heads up their butts smelling their crap and thinking it's great that prevents any real change, if you think I put my "trust" into anyone you haven't been paying attention, it is only in the narrow minds of fools like you that says because you work like hell to elect somebody that you like them, I use a hammer to drive down a nail, i need not like the hammer to do so, it is merely a tool, the Ds serve as a tool to keep the GOP from making things worse, till we can get this thing turned around, people like you just elect Republicans, I guess you more to bitch about that way.
" the Ds serve as a tool to keep the GOP from making things worse, till we can get this thing turned around"
What a pathetic view of self governance.
"Until"... when?
And keep doing what your doing, facts. Electing people like Obama and Clinton and then boasting "Hey, at least I kept the Republican out." Hahahah, what a fucking joke. If enough of you morons would get off that bandwagon, then maybe, just maybe, we could finally get shit done.
I guess you'll be voting for Hillary in 2016, right? I guess you think eight years with that evil bitch in the big seat will finally turn things around. My god man, WTF is wrong with you people?
What is really sad is that you could have ever seen Jill speak and still thought she was up to the job, it is the poor judgement of the America people that got us in this mess, and will most likely keep us there.
Voting is an action not a message your actions help elect Republicans if you're good with that, well, that pretty much explains why we're in this mess.
I was going to vote for Rocky but he wasn't on the ballot.
Keep sucking on the hind teet of that dead cow, facts. It's brainwashed dumb fucks like you that are the reason we're in this mess. Keep voting for 'heroes' like Clinton and Obama. Because obviously they've helped out the little guy immensely.
I mean, are you really that blind that you can't see Obama's been Bush 2.0? Or are you just that fucking stupid?
Oh, riiiight, it was the Republican's fault Obama sold out. My mistake there, buddy.
It's a fair question there is a thing called reality, in that world it was Obama or Romney which would you pick?
If there had been only those two choices, I'd have stayed home. But there you go, facts, that should be enough ammo for you. I anxiously await you screed about how much irreparable damage I did voting for Jill.
I am sure you would have much preferred Romney which of the GOP policies do you like the best? Their constant tax cutting for the rich or their constant war mongering?
Or are you just another dreamer that thinks we got all the time in the world to do something?
and I guess you'll be voting for Bush, or you might as well be....
my comment on your post was sarcasm. you didnt say anything that is racist. whnever anyone criticizes obama, the repsonse never has anything to with the criticism it is generally that the criticizer is " racist".
Pretending like it's OK for the GOP to be in office, like Nader did in 2000 is killing us. Until we all agree on that the 1% will keep winning, as you can see the 1% has restored their control over the media message hardly do we ever hear about wealth inequity and if we do hear from a OWS founder/supporter it's about some other subject, in spite of the fact, that with virtually no coverage more than 50% of Americans feel it's a big deal, can you imagine if OWS stopped this Obama bashing and turned their guns on the enemy instead?
Specious crap !!! The only ''pretending'' here is yours - that The Democraps somehow are not a 0.01% Corporate Controlled 'party' !! OWS would NOT be doing it's job unless it fkn bashed Obomber The Oblah-blah often - even if that's Obummer for u 'frf' !
"Poverty as a Weapon of Mass Destruction and the Economic Policies That Loaded the Chamber'', by Dylan Charles : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35530.htm & ...
''Wealth Inequality In America" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM [6:24].
Re. your question below : ''How do you imagine that the GOP will implement better policies when they are in office?'' - I know that it's hot out there right now but has the sun cooked your brain ?! The GOP are completely beyond the pale & The Democrap Party Machine - especially in The Whitehouse and on The Hill (as opposed to increasingly desperate Dem Voters, NB !!) - barely less so !!! You're a Dem addict with a short attention span, unable to see past the next election cycle and still fighting Gore v Bush !! The thing about trying to move forward whilst constantly looking backwards is that invariably you'll fall and keep landing on your ass !
ad iudicium ...
Could you tell me please why do you work so hard to elect the GOP?
Your disgusting comment is noted and will be remembered ! Not the stupid one to me above !! No, this one - http://occupywallst.org/forum/benghazi-shameless-plug-for-my-channel/#comment-987192 !!!
That you are simply a reactionary, status-quo loving, mere right-wing Democrap partisan and with more in common with The Republicunts than u know, is summed up right there and YOU 'frf' are THE real co-opter in chief on this forum !!!
You've flown under the radar for long enough and despite my better judgement, I've tried to engage you however, you are hung on your own petard and irredeemably self-exposed for the incorrigible Dem-Shill that you now so clearly are !!
Now please feel free and don't hesitate to share with us here your real views re. the Trayvon Martin case ( http://occupywallst.org/forum/benghazi-shameless-plug-for-my-channel/#comment-987195 ) but please don't be under ANY illusions about the true & deep nature of your beloved 'Demoblican/Republocrat' One Party/Two Factions System !
e tenebris, lux ...
God, the 1% just love people like you....
You're looking in a mirror talking to yourself, when you say that - so subconscious self-awareness & a bi-polar disorder and projection and transference, is progress of sorts but I'm here to tell you that your 'factsRfukt' and your head's so far up your ass that you can't help but talk shit & also fyi in case u look :
multum in parvo ...
Without people like you the GOP would never win an election....
The establishment of the Democratic party want the GOP to win some elections. Understanding that will be key for your enlightenment. It is important to both sides that there is the other side to blame.
the proven failure is voting for third parties, 1980, 1993, 2000, 2004...
I see from the clock on your profile you haven't been thinking about these things very long maybe in time you will gain some understanding, who knows.
[-] 2 points by windyacres (706) 21 hours ago Your scenario is impossible because the control of the media would not allow what you desire, in addition to the fact that both sides will protect the status quo. We have to kill the current system, to do so will require that we all form a united team against the current system. ↥twinkle ↧stinkle permalink
You are ego driven, your desire is for your own glory, you care nothing for the people, your agenda is obvious, on one hand you say we are too small to kill the GOP on the other you say we are so large we can take it all down, your real goal is your own control.
We can do nothing but tell the truth we may be few in number but a single candle can light a room, the truth is powerful, you and the other Green Party hacks come here to tell your useful lie that there is no real difference when the truth is there are huge differences, it is that central but useful lie that poisons all you do.
So all is lost, there is no hope? They won't allow change. oh well, I disagree i think if we commit ourselves to truth it is possible, truth is very powerful.
There is hope. It's just that your method of voting for Democrats has been a proven failure. The entire two party system is set up for gridlock, easy lobbying, and blame shifting.
Read this:
If you want to work within the system, I suggest you start getting local people together and run them on the national stage. Shake the system.
Waiting 4 years for the corporations to choose you new masters is a pathetic view of self governance.
I see down below you, like all before you to want to have it both ways on one hand you claim we can grow so large as to kill them both, but in your opinion there is no way to grow large enough to kill one. Your logic is flawed. The truth is we can affect the debate on the margins enough to revel just how committed the GOP is to increasing the wealth of the wealthy. In times like this people could be turned against them in huge numbers, then the Ds would be split wide open before they knew what was happening.
Your scenario is impossible because the control of the media would not allow what you desire, in addition to the fact that both sides will protect the status quo.
We have to kill the current system, to do so will require that we all form a united team against the current system.
you are half way there, you see the path that is actually available to us is to knock out one of the legs to the ladder of power and by doing so knocking the whole thing down, but that path does not feed the egos of the Greens and others who would be King...
if we move now we can destroy the power center but those that would rather back bite and bicker for their selfish reasons don't want that...
The path you advocate is hopeless because neither will allow one of the legs to be knocked down. You are playing the game exactly the way they want you to play. We will get more of the same.
You mean we can't redeem our posting points for something?
Fox News fails to mention two important facts. The U.S. is allowed to issue disinformation regarding a terrorist attack to demoralize the terroists. Fox's wet dream that Hillary Clinton gets on the air and truthfully states everything that happened so Fox's funders can make billions more on more wars is outrageous.
On top of that, 22 veterans commit suicide EVERYDAY in the U.S. and Fox would rather blather on about Benghazi day after day after day. I hate those arseholes.
As wealth inequality grows so does the partisan divide it is not disconnected. It's required for the supporters of "the rich should be richer" party to be ever more extreme as the conditions become ever more extreme.
good to see your face
I intented to keep these up each gets a little better on the tech side, but then I got a job and it started taking all my time, the flim work on "Money rap" was delibrate, let's call it artistic choice i just have to keep telling myself it doesn't matter if it's good, it matters that you do it (when it comes to art)
shadz stop by let's do a little "tit for tat" if you throw up some shit if you like let's see how you do.
I think that I've seen them all actually factsy but I will re-check later !!! It is only because you look and sound a little like my Dad {RiP} that I have a wee soft spot for your bellicose moderation !! Remember mate, that today's moderate 'Middle Of The Road' .. is just tomorrow's 'Road Kill' & scavenger lunch !
https://occupywallst.org/forum/years-of-living-dangerously/#comment-1031627 and ..
https://occupywallst.org/forum/what-the-1-dont-want-you-to-know-by-bill-moyers-a-/ .
Got things to do now factsy, so I'll leave you & the LoonDog to your 'MOR' DNC ramblings.
vale ...
so what do you think is "moderate" about my positions, and please share some of yours..so we can see how moderate they are, where do you stand on this wealth thing anyway? we know you hate Democrates but we know nothing else about you
so you're like 5 years old? that explains the "factsy" childish shit, ever write anything yourself or are you only allowed to share links and copy others? they don't trust you with a pen of your own?
Huh re. ''childish'' ?!!! Were you insulted by ''factsy'' - factsy ?!! So sowwy !
It appears that a recent reply of mine is also rather apt to your b-s, above !!
Furthermore, I tried to engage u fairly & honestly on your other thread too :
but frankly your cantankerous, contrary & curmudgeonly nature, precludes any further effort on my part.
Do consider my reply as also wholly applicable to your other rather needy, attention seeking response :
My oh my, you parDy hacks and parDisans really are rather cranky !!! Mid-term mania ?!! Sheeeeesh !
nosce te ipsum et vale ...
you call this effort? you're lazy as well as blind, all you ever do is post links to this and that if you got something to say spit it out, you are just a shameless political hack trying to take the energy from OWS to build your own party full of another bunch of power hungry ego driven fools like Nader.
Yawwwwn !!! Again, see above factsy !! Sorry I bumped your post but I gotta go - got work to do !
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/15/the-corporate-gods-of-america/ and also do see ..
http://www.15now.org/ ; http://higherednotdebt.org/ and http://www.popularresistance.org/ !!
Hmm, ''shameless political hack'' ?!!! Me ?!! You will need to get a mirror - to actually find one imo !!!
My reply @ u b4 : https://occupywallst.org/forum/have-you-been-to-bunkerville/#comment-1031213 !!!!
temet nosce ...
no no say it isn't SO
(more links)
you are lazy as hell
Right factsrfukt ! I am ''lazy'' !! And you're extremely in love with the sounds of the different voices in the echo chamber of your own so called 'mind' - so what are you .. the world's only surviving brain-donor ?!!!
And fyi : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDtSSFEZY38 [17:47m] - Tom Hartmann @ TEDx &
https://occupywallst.org/forum/years-of-living-dangerously/#comment-1032407 my rply @ u there.
nosece te ipsum ...
I do wonder have you ever posted a single word on wealth inequality. Hating Dems is all you ever do trying your best to grab a few followers for political party so you too can be a deal maker, you are pathetic.
The meanness of your mind .. fits really well with the smallness of your spirit doesn't it ?!!!!
Who-tf has made you an authority on my postings and clearly you can not search either !!!
I don't ''hate'' Dem voters - and all my friends & relatives stateside - vote that way for sure !!
Dem Pols On The Hill are of course another kind of creature altogether but you love them !
''Democracy for Dollars", by Bill Moyers : http://vimeo.com/59723498 [4:43] & ...
But of course there's no reasoning with u is there factsRfractious as you know everything ?
ad iudicium ...
now who would 'remove" one of your comments shadz? It is funny as hell reading you telling someone they are being "mean" what do they say about pots, and kettles and blackness? But anyway go ahead and reason with me about how it was good for Nader to put his name on the ballot in FL and ensure the Bush victory which led to the CU ruling and the Iraq War reason with me about how that was good for America...go ahead.
Are you still bleating about Nader ?!!! But not a word - EVER, about the stolen votes, negated votes, the constitutional gerrymandering OR, Gore folding his hand and not going to the courts in order to maintain the illusion of deMOCKERYcy in The U$A - because 0.01% Patrician WASP that he was/is ... he knew what was important for him & his class !! You're a stuck record on this matter but here is the salient link from both of my previous 'removed' comments and do see if you can work out why they were ''removed'' !
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24294-thomas-piketty-and-elizabeth-warren-discuss-why-the-rich-get-richer-and-the-rest-get-shafted [Video, 47:47] & fyi, perhaps consider :
''Left-Right Alliances Can Make Major Changes for the People'', by Ralph Nader : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/left-right-alliances_b_5229181.html .
multum in parvo ...
Do you see anyone on the site promoting stealing votes? As you always say about the GOP why talk about what no ones promotes the problem with Nader is that there are still idoits like you here saying people should do that again, that a third party is something besides a gift to the GOP.
Are you saying 'Dem Party Pols On The Hill' are the answer to OWS & The 99% Struggle ?!!! C'mon frf - just be out and clear, once and for all, will ya, please, lol ?!! Do you have an attention span longer thn 1, 2, 3 or even 4 election cycles, OR d'u just keep knee jerk reacting to the next contrived (s)election faux contest ?! My £/$ is on Hitlary btw, but d'you think that she'll move The 99% Struggle forward one iota - when she's actually a wholly owned created creature of the 1% & puppet of The 0.01% Parasite Class ?
''For a Global Brotherhood Among The Peoples'' -- Evo Morales, President of Bolivia : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38923.htm ;
https://occupywallst.org/forum/rg-why-this-may-be-the-most-important-equation-you/#comment-1036409 ;
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24532-the-sharing-economy-and-the-mystery-of-the-mystery-of-inequality ;
http://truth-out.org/news/item/24550-data-storms-and-the-tyranny-of-manufactured-forgetting & ..
Sure 'Kill The GOP' (as if that were possible!!) BUT never doubt The Conservative Nature of Dem Pols !
Have I helped bump your ''shameless plug for your channel'' enough now, or do you need some more ?
ad iudicium ...
i have had too many of these discussions - they go nowhere. i feel your pain. i do think the name is correct here since facts are not things to use to bolster your argument but things to have fun with! after all nader has done this is the one thing they beat him up about. in addition to what you said about gore there is this - he was a straight forward extension of slick willie. that would be the guy who said he would help the poor and middle class and then did just the opposite - sound familiar? clinton ended welfare as we know it - raised taxes on the middle class - destroyed yugoslavia - bombed the world - took credit for 500,000 children shitting themselves to death in iraq - and drove brooksley born out of government and ended glass steagel - should i go on??
oh was I too mean in attacking those trying to destory the movement?
IF ''defeatist'' applied in any way to me, then I would not be here - would I ?! A rump 10,15,20% of those militarist, nationalistic, right wing MSM programmed USers will vote Repugnant no mater what you, I or we say !! Your aspirations to a One Faction ; One 'Bankster / Mic' Party .. rather than the present Two Faction ; One - 'War / Empire / Austerity' PaRDy is duly noted .. again !!!
Here's what we're all up against Mr. Short Term Realist / Long Term Deluded : ''The destruction that the US oligarchs have wrought in the Middle East, with all of its terrible human consequences, is the external manifestation of their destructive role within the US itself.'' from :
''Who is Responsible for the Catastrophes in the Middle East?'' (& @ Home!) .. by Bill Van Auken : http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/06/30/pers-j30.html & consider ...
''How to Create the Ideal Government and Society'', by Roger Copple : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38949.htm ~*~ + ..
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/24651-pikettys-new-class .
Think of your Repugnant voting neighbours there in AZ and then look past them & beyond just 2,3 or 4 election cycles. The pressing reasons for the birth of OWS have not diminished or changed one iota ... they are even more profound and urgent. It's The 99% Struggle in The U$A & elsewhere - not just a 1% organised attempt at demoCRAZY deMOCKERYcy and more of the same but with a few more crumbs from The 0.01% Parasite Class table !!! Fk thAt !! Because THAT would actually be ''defeatist'', right ?!
& btw GOOD LUCK USA IN THE WORLD CUP v BELGIUM --- 4pm EST Kick Off 1st July, 2014 !!! +
respice, adspice, prospice ...
You are here because you are driven by your ego, if you wanted to help America or OWS to stem the rise of inequality you would work to defeat the GOP, you work to feed your ego.
You duopoly deluded numbskull !!! Bleating ''Kill The GOP'' in a right wing nut controlled country where 10%+ of people will always vote for The Repugnants .. is NOT a political (never-fkn-mind 'revolutionary') strategy - you nincompoop !! Stick to planning your hotel, so that you can collect some 1%ers' dollars and maybe even a few crumbs from the 0.01%s' table & keep dreaming of sucking Hitlary's Neoliberal, Neocon cock, mthrfkr !
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/24830-joseph-stiglitz-no-spiraling-inequality-isnt-inevitable &
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/24807-bill-moyers-jim-hightower-on-grassroots-growing-against-greed .
I'm seriously wondering whyTF I keep bothering to bump your posts - but I keep doing it all the same - oh, I know - it must be my ego, lol. Solidarity @ The 99% & to hell with The 0.01%, their 1% lackeys and their wannabe lickspittles - wherever they may be.. in AZ or elsewhere.
fiat lux et fiat justitia ; nunc et semper ; hic et ubique ...
great video
I especially liked how you tied so many things together so briefly I look forward to the next one
There are four so far, don't think I'll post about Zimmerman might get thrown in jail.
oh and thanks I was surprised how much got fit into about a minute in this first one
The mature approach for republican politicians to have taken would have been to talk to the administration behind closed doors and figure out what could have been done differently to prevent the outcome that did occur, and implement that plan of action in the future.
Republican politicians are confused about coverups. They think that since the WaterGate cover-up resulted in the impeachment of a Republican president, that all cover-ups are both illegal and impeachable acts.
This is a patently ridiculous position to take by Republican politicians.
the republican party is gone... they sold out to koch's tea party.... they signed allegiance to them... what ever they say goes... the republican party is done
The same could be said about the democrat party when they sold out to George Soros.
George Soros? WTF? What the hell is this? Are we lining up behind warring Royal Families?
The real point is the rich are too damn rich!
I'm just pointing out that the real political destruction in the U.S. comes from the decimation of the moderates. Koch bros equal neo cons, Soros equals progressives.
Soros has virtually no influence over the Democratic Party so I don't know what the hell you are talking about. Now Kock and Murdock over the GOP that's a different story, facts are facts. So when you lead off with such an obviously flawed statement it is a little difficult to see where you are coming from.
However you touch on an actual issue, so what the hell might as well explain it here as anywhere.
You see the rich have been winning, now it's getting really tough hide just how well off they are compared to the rest of us peasants. This is best understood by considering a couple of trivial tidbits. Last night I was watching an episode of Shark Tank (one of my very favorite shows) a couple of ladies were there pitching a company that sells bedroom stuff for girls, bedding and such, when the sharks discovered that the full room ran around $1400 and the average orders ran $800 to $1200 they were all saying it's way too much for kids room. Now a few years back my Lady and I were walking by a Nordstom's when she saw a cute top, and said I'm going in to try that on. Now I have a broad economic background so i thought to myself this should be fun. To cut to the chase as she was trying it on she discovered it was $600 that was a bit of a shock, (to her), I was somewhat aware of Nordstrom. My point here that Nordstrom is doing pretty well I think and for folks that shop there $1400 on a kids room is like buying a top and skirt to go with it and the sharks are well aware of this, but sitting there in front of millions of peasants watching on the TV, well the Royals don't want to say it out loud.
You may be trying to figure out what has this got to do with the loss of moderates, well here it is, the GOP exist only to defend the economic interest of these rich people as these people got filthy rich they needed to find other reasons for folks to vote for them and all the folks paying attention can see what evil bastards they are so they reach out to those that hate mostly and so we end up with a party devoted to the ultra rich and filled with hateful people. As the economic conditions get more dire the interest of the majority become a source of fear for those in control, so even the most common sense things like America matching at least Italy when it comes to health care are painted as liberal overreach we are at the bottom of the modern pile when it comes to standard of living and life span but we spend more than the next ten put together on war. America is in the grips of Monarchy with the Royal Class building a fearsome army while the people of the land go homeless and hungry all the while we point a figure at North Korea and tell the world "Look we're not the worst!"
Soros totally runs the democrat party. Soros>Huffington Post>MSNBC....then those sources permeate Newsweek, Time, The Atlantic, who in turn influence late night talk shows immensely.
pearls before swine
What has Soros got to do with Huffington or MSNBC?
Is it really just knowing stuff that you're against? It seems you think anybody that's not reading off the GOP talking points list is in some kind of cabal I think you have stumbled on a little known fact, the truth is very liberal what I mean is that given the condition of the world today anybody who tells the truth is going to sound like a liberal (because the right lies so much they own that) but that's just because the rich have been winning so much and so often, it's got nothing to do with anybody pulling anybody's strings. don't get me wrong they all fall way short, that's why I started my YouTube channel, to get more truth out there:
Is it so difficult for you to understand that Koch brothers manipulates the republican party AND George Soros mainpulates the democrat progressive wing party?
You are corresponding with the guy who studied this stuff back during the 2008 democrat nomination process. Soros and Arianna Huffington go back well over a decade. Soros and Huffington appeared on the same Charlie Rose show hawking their own books well over a decade ago. Soros and Huffington ran the Shadow Government conventions in 2000 and 2004. MSNBC is hooked into Huffington Post and Soros as well. It was SOOOOOO OBVIOUS how quickly everyone in the progressive media abandoned Hillary Clinton and glommed onto Obama even when Hillary Clinton still had more delegates.
First the argument was that Hillary Clinton should not win the nomination because she had more super delegates, because that would be racist. Then suddenly when Hillary Clinton was winning 61% of the total democrat vote over the final 10 weeks of the race, but the super delegates had been convinced to switch to Obama, the argument was that Obama better win because he had the super delegates.
It's really sad that you have no knowledge of this.
influencing elections outcomes is what folks do, that's a world of difference than the policy effects seen in the Murdock-FOX-Koch Bros-GOP alignment,
The person I'm corresponding with is a political hack here to co-opt OWS for the Green Party so he will tell any lie to support that end, serious discourse with such people only encourages them and confuses others who do not understand their intent, evidence of this is obvious in that it is intellectually impossible to at the same time have such detailed and reason understanding of politics while at the same time being ignorant of the affects a Nader and green Party endorsement would have had on the Gore campaign.
Yes, it was strange to see the GOP appear to have less influence on their presidential candidate (McCain had 1% approval one year before the presidential election) than the democrat party and media has over their candidate.
Loyd Blankfein and Bernake are just puppets as well. But whoever is the shadow that runs them is the shadow that runs the D/R power structure.
I'm pretty sure it's Lex Luther.
You better hope there is a shadow, because if this is how our elected leaders really feel on these issues and there is no unknown pressure on them, then we elect the sickest bunch of people on the planet every election, so whats that say about us?!
you know nothing of human nature, or on the other hand you are what you appear to be a Green Party asshole looking for glory....
"you know nothing of human nature"
That would be a very interesting topic to expand upon. I think I agree with you on where you are going with it.
I understand you just got here but I've been through this extensively over the past year.
If you take pay-offs or even buy a little stock you lose credibilty in the push for single payer.
There's only one person who could defeat Hillary in a dem primary- Tammy Baldwin. It doesn't look like she'll run at this point. The mafia princess Hillary will be the new president in 2016 if she runs. If not, it will be the GOP due to lack of voter interest.


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Ask anyone. Anyone with even just a slightest interest in pop music and they will all have a different take on The Television Personalities... Someone will mention that they were Kurt Cobain's favourite band. Someone else will go on about how they were the inspiration behind Creation Records and Alan McGee's biggest heroes. And a third person will call them the Original Babyshambles. From across the room someone will ask if they really did support Pink Floyd on the back of their "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives" single. And didn't they have the cheek to call an album They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles?
You see, Daniel Treacy is not your typical boy... Born in Chelsea, London, Dan Treacy is The Television Personalities. Ever since releasing their first DIY-single in 1977, ''14th Floor',' and the classic follow up "Part Time Punks" later the same year, The TVP's have always been about Dan's songwriting, his honest words and unique voice. Regrets, he's had more of them than most. They're there for everyone to see in every line of his songs. Sometimes Dan's songs scare me because they're so helpless, seldom have songs about loss and love been so defenceless and therefore so true. It doesn't even feel like they've actually been written – they're just part of life, they just needed to happen. Just like falling in or out of love. They capture something you can't plan, something so strong that you can't ever wish to lock it up and throw away the key. If you've seen or read The Collector you know you can't put love in a basement and keep your fingers crossed it'll understand.
Luckily, in Dan's music there's always a sense of humour present. Rarely does it feel as important, as necessary, as when you hear someone who's been to hell and battled his way up again being able to be something as simple as cheerful. You'll hear it in songs like "She Can Stop Traffic," the almost tin pan alleyish homage to The Velvet Underground called, well, "The Velvet Undeground" and in the upbeat spoken word of "They'll Have To Catch Us First." But ever since his first nervous breakdown (yes, also a title of a TVPs song), the dark and sad side of Dan's songwriting is the one that seem impossible to shake off. It's always been there, at first hidden behind a mod attitude or under the sweetest melodies, but for every year she's been away Dan's become one of his generation's – if not The – most perceptive chroniclers of heartbreak, jealousy and lost love. He wouldn't like us calling his songwriting confessional or honest. But he'd accept it's real. Because, like most of us, he just wants someone to share his life with.
In the 1990s, Dan lost the plot. Drugs took over his life. He disappeared, no one knew where he was and for a while he was even presumed dead. Two summers ago he turned up. While serving a prison sentence on a boat on the shore of Southwest England, he googled his own name and posted a note saying he was OK on a website devoted to his music. Something had happened while Dan was away. The history of The Television Personalities was being revised, rewritten by a new generation of fans and artists. They heard something else, something far deeper and much more important, in Dan's music and words. Slowly a new story of The Television Personalities emerged.
Beneath the '60s imagery of the artwork and album titles like I Was A Mod Before You Was A Mod there was a darkness that very few wanted - or were even able - to see or accept at the time. Dan Treacy was always out of time. He never fit in. Even when punk was just starting to happen he was already mocking it, moving on. He still is.
My Dark Places is the first Television Personalities album in 11 years. It's the record some of us always knew he'd do one day. It's as sad as it is uplifting, as genteel as it is noisy. And lyrically, you won't hear anything else that touches you more than "No More I Hate You's" or "There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye." Does he fit in today? With "All the young children on smack in the news yet again? It's not really the point. Why should he? The only point is Dan Treacys words. And his voice, still that of a bullied catholic London schoolboy, as full of dreams and expectations as it was when it first broke at 13.
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The Carrie Underwood remake of The Sound of Music, AKA the time NBC destroyed one of your precious childhood memories live on the air, was such a stunning achievement in gratuitous innocence pummeling that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has nominated it for four (4) Emmy awards.
The "bad, but not fun bad" live special was nominated for Outstanding Music Direction, Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special, Outstanding Special Class Program and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, according to Rolling Stone.
Despite the initial audible eyeroll that emanated from America's skull-holes when NBC announced the project, 18.5 million people tuned in to watch, which means it was a ratings success. And if TV networks' propensity to stick with what works in the past is any indication, we've got tons of memoryfucking to look forward to; if Carrie Underwood can play Maria von Trapp, then who knows what sadistic bullshit networks will pull in the future. The King & I, starring Adam Levine as both The King and I. West Side Story, starring Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber (that I'd watch, actually, if only to see Biebs get pretend shot). A Charlie Brown Christmas, starring Nick Cannon and those screaming little girls Ellen Degeneres loves.
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Police: Speed contributed to crash that injures 4
Teen flown to UW Hospital in serious condition
BELOIT, Wis. — Four people were injured in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning in a residential neighborhood of Beloit, according to police.
Authorities said they were called to Eighth Street and Euclid Avenue at 4:50 a.m. and firefighters were needed to help extricate victims from both vehicles.
A vehicle driven by Spenser T. Hubbard, 22, was speeding north on Eighth Street when it struck a vehicle driven by Salvador Cabrera-Ortega, 40, of Beloit, which was traveling east on Euclid Avenue, according to police. Hubbard's vehicle landed against a house at 502 Eighth St.
A 17-year-old girl in Hubbard's vehicle was flown to University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison and is in serious condition. Hubbard was sent to Mercy Hospital in Janesville with non-life-threatening injuries. Neither was wearing seat belts, according to police.
Cabrera-Ortega and his 6-year-old daughter were sent to Beloit Memorial Hospital, treated and released. The child was not restrained with a seat belt or car seat, according to police.
Investigators said they were on the scene until 8 a.m., with accident reconstruction assistance from the State Patrol.
Police believe alcohol or other drugs were a contributing factor in the crash.
Hubbard is being held on suspicion of causing injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle. Police said additional charges are possible.


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Olympic athletes appear to live longer than the general population -- but only by a few years, researchers found.
In a retrospective study, Olympic medalists lived an average of 2.8 years longer than controls, David Studdert, ScD, MPH, of the University of Melbourne in Australia, and colleagues reported online in BMJ.
"The elite warrior Achilles in Greek mythology was forced to choose between a short glorious life and a long obscure one," they wrote. "There is no such trade-off for Olympic medalists."
But another report in the BMJ holiday issue -- known for its tongue-in-cheek selection of studies -- found no such advantage for athletes whose sports were more cardio-intensive, and there was actually a higher risk of death if they played contact sports.
Action Points
- Olympic athletes appear to live longer than the general population, but only by a few years, a study has found.
- Note that in another study of former Olympic athletes, engagement in sports with high-intensity exercise did not bring a survival benefit compared with sports involving low-intensity exercise.
Studdert and colleagues looked at the records of 15,174 Olympic athletes from nine countries who won medals in the Olympic games between 1896 and 2010. The data came from the OlyMADMen consortium of Olympic historians and statisticians who've been keeping track of Olympian data since the 1980s.
The researchers compared those data with matched cohorts in the general population.
Overall, more medalists than controls in the general population were alive 30 years after winning a medal (relative conditional survival 1.08, 95% CI 1.07 to 1.10), they found.
Medalists in eight of the nine countries in the database -- which made up the majority of worldwide medal winners -- had a significant survival advantage compared with controls, Studdert and colleagues wrote, and the advantage persisted regardless of whether the athletes won gold, silver, or bronze.
Also, medalists in endurance sports and mixed sports -- including running and soccer -- had a larger survival advantage over controls (RCS 1.13, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.17 and RCS 1.11, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.13) compared with medalists in power sports such as weightlifting and wrestling (RCS 1.05, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.08).
The advantages may be explained by genetic factors, physical activity levels, a healthy lifestyle, or "the wealth and status that come with international sporting glory," the researchers wrote.
They cautioned, however, that intense training and competition may only make up a minority of athletes' lives overall. Once they go into retirement, they may have higher rates of smoking, heart disease, depression and anxiety, as well as more musculoskeletal problems, as some studies have shown.
Indeed, a second study in BMJ found that high-intensity sports didn't offer a survival benefit compared with less intense sports.
Frouke Engelaer, a PhD candidate at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study of 9,889 athletes who participated in the Olympic games between 1896 and 1936. The data came from the Sports Reference database, an online database of Olympic athletes.
Their results showed that participating in sports of higher cardiovascular intensity weren't associated with any survival advantages, though they weren't associated with a higher risk of death, either.
"This would indicate that engaging in cycling and rowing had no added survival benefit compared with playing golf or cricket," they wrote.
But contact sports did increase the risk of death during the period studied. Those competing in games with a greater risk of collision had an 11% higher risk of death than those that don't typically involve colliding (95% CI 1.06 to 1.15, P<0.001).
There was also a 16% higher mortality risk with sports that had high levels of physical contact compared with those that had low levels (95% CI 1.11 to 1.22, P<0.001).
It's likely that the risk "reflects the effect of a gradual accumulation of multiple bodily injuries during sporting activities," rather than being a product of young athletes dying due to trauma, they wrote.
In an accompanying editorial, Adrian Bauman, MD, PhD, of Sydney University, and Steven Blair, PhD, of the University of South Carolina, noted it's long been the case that "mixed epidemiological evidence pervades this literature."
They noted, however, that there generally appears to be a slight advantage in longevity for athletes compared with the general population, but the upper threshold for benefit seems to be around 300 minutes of exercise a week.
"Although the evidence points to a small survival effect of being an Olympian," they concluded, "careful reflection suggests that similar health benefits and longevity could be achieved by all of us through regular physical activity."
Neither the researchers nor the editorialists reported any conflicts of interest.
Primary Source
Source Reference: Clarke PM, et al "Survival of the fittest: Retrospective cohort study of the longevity of Olympic medalists in the modern era" BMJ 2012; DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e8308.
Secondary Source
Source Reference: Zwiers R, et al "Mortality in former Olympic athletes: retrospective cohort analysis" BMJ 2012; DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e7456.
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Source Reference: Bauman AE, Blair SN "Everyone could enjoy the 'survival advantage' of elite athletes" BMJ 2012; DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e8338.


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The suspicious among you may think we're a little kale crazy at Serious Eats HQ, but really we're just giving credit to a vegetable that more than deserves our thanks. There aren't many other veggies that can be served raw, roasted, deep fried, or braised while delivering intense flavor and an incredible range of texture—not even potatoes can claim that versatility.
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