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The Tea Party Vs. Occupy Wall Street: Guess Which One Is The Real Populist Movement
Post Date: 2011-10-26 18:32:04 by Brian S
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OWS demonizes powerful banks. The Tea Party demonizes the poorest and weakest of us all. Host David Gregory complained about Occupy Wall Street protestors “demonizing banks” and wondered, “Is this not a reverse tea party tactic?” Gregory is right. In many respects Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is indeed a mirror image of the Tea Party. To the Tea Party government is the enemy. To OWS the huge corporation is the enemy. OWS wants to raise taxes on billionaires. The Tea Party wants to considerably reduce them. OWS wants to rebuild and strengthen the safety net. The Tea Party wants to weaken it. Both OWS and the Tea Party are mass movements but their attitude ...
Godwinson Resigns [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-26 10:22:45 by Godwinson
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The American right wing as presented here has degenerated into a KKK party in all but name.
This website continues to post pro-racist images despite requests to the moderator to remove them and since I visit this website in mixed company, I can't continue posting on here - even if it is to show how wrong you kooks on the right are.
I don't even think this web forum is worth hacking in retaliation, either. Just the same handful of pathetic conserva-kooks that can be pointed to and laughed at.
You are not a threat, conserva-kooks, you are a joke. All you talk about "2nd amendment solutions" and waving the Gadsden flags does not make you scary, but points out how impotent and all talk ...
Russia Seeks Syrian Foothold in Mideast
Post Date: 2011-10-25 18:52:55 by Brian S
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Storming out of a recent Security Council meeting after China and Russia vetoed a resolution condemning Syria's ruthless clampdown on protestors, America's U.N. ambassador Susan Rice expressed Washington’s "outrage" and labeled the veto “a cheap ruse by those who would rather sell arms to the Syrian regime than stand with the Syrian people." But Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin termed the threat of heightened sanctions "unacceptable" given that it reflected a "philosophy of confrontation." Churkin has criticized the United States and the EU for their previous actions in Libya—turning a UN resolution against Muammar Qaddafi, designed ...
The End of the American Era
Post Date: 2011-10-25 18:50:55 by Brian S
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THE UNITED States has been the dominant world power since 1945, and U.S. leaders have long sought to preserve that privileged position. They understood, as did most Americans, that primacy brought important benefits. It made other states less likely to threaten America or its vital interests directly. By dampening great-power competition and giving Washington the capacity to shape regional balances of power, primacy contributed to a more tranquil international environment. That tranquility fostered global prosperity; investors and traders operate with greater confidence when there is less danger of war. Primacy also gave the United States the ability to work for positive ends: promoting ...
Buchanan: What Is It We Wish to Conserve?
Post Date: 2011-10-25 13:07:16 by Brian S
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A conservative's task in society is "to preserve a particular people, living in a particular place during a particular time." Jack Hunter, in a review of this writer's new book, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? thus summarizes Russell Kirk's view of the duty of the conservative to his country. Kirk, the traditionalist, though not so famous as some of his contemporaries at National Review, is now emerging as perhaps the greatest of that first generation of post-World War II conservatives -- in the endurance of his thought. Richard Nixon believed that. Forty years ago, he asked this writer to contact Dr. Kirk and invite him to the White House for ...
The Iraq War Is Finally Over. And It Marks A Complete Neocon Defeat
Post Date: 2011-10-24 13:09:35 by Brian S
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Thanks to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iran's greatest enemy, Tehran's influence in Iraq is stronger than America's Jonathan Steele, Sunday 23 October 2011 The Iraq war is over. Buried by the news from Libya, Barack Obama announced late on Friday that all US troops will leave Iraq by 31 December. The president put a brave face on it, claiming he was fulfilling an election promise to end the war, though he had actually been supporting the Pentagon's effort to make a deal with Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to keep US bases and several thousand troops there indefinitely. The talks broke down because Moqtada al-Sadr's members of parliament and other Iraqi ...
Buchanan: Is America Disintegrating?
Post Date: 2011-10-24 13:03:44 by Brian S
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In Federalist 2, John Jay looks out at a nation of a common blood, faith, language, history, customs and culture. "Providence," he writes, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in their manners and customs ..." Are we still that "one united people" today? Or has America become what Klemens von Metternich called Italy: "a mere geographical expression"? In Suicide of a ...
Rant on the Leader of Black Panther Party Calling Obama an Uncle Tom...SMH
Post Date: 2011-10-23 01:13:59 by A K A Stone
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Gadhafi's Demise And The Arab Spring
Post Date: 2011-10-22 12:04:32 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- Three gone (Gadhafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali), two holding on in the face of daily protests (al-Assad, Saleh), two more (Kings Abdullah of Jordan and Mohammed of Morocco) trying to stay ahead of the curve of protest: After 10 months of the Arab Spring, the region is still in the throes of a heady and unpredictable transformation. Moammar Gadhafi's demise, after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, means that three rulers in power collectively for 95 years are gone. Scholar and author Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, says that 2011 "is to the Arabs what 1989 was to the communist world. The Arabs are now coming into ...
The Occupy Movement Has Lit A Fire For Real Change
Post Date: 2011-10-20 15:40:33 by Brian S
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It's not hard to see why the Occupy Wall Street protests have gone global. What kicked off a month ago in relative obscurity – drawing inspiration from this year's Spanish indignados occupations and the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia – has now spawned protests in more than 900 cities around the world. The only surprise is it didn't happen sooner. Three years after the banks that brought the west's economies to their knees were bailed out with vast public funds, nothing has fundamentally changed. Profits and bonuses are booming for financial oligarchs and corporate giants, while most people are paying the price of their reckless speculation with falling living ...
The Neocons Are Coming!
Post Date: 2011-10-20 15:11:57 by Brian S
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They’re back! The neoconservatives who gave America clueless, unpaid-for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus a near doubling of military expenditures, during the Bush years have risen from their political graves. Someone, maybe a media tiring of President Obama’s interminable plight, pulled the stake from their heart. Now they’ve returned to the op-ed pages, the talk shows, the think-tank discussions, and the advisory ranks of Republican presidential candidates. Once again, the neoconservatives mount their steeds. They hint that we need another war or at least a little military strike, this time against Iran. They’re pushing to increase military spending; the China ...
The End Of Free Trade Is The Only Way Out Of This Depression
Post Date: 2011-10-19 19:16:25 by A K A Stone
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October 19, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Right from the very beginning there was only one possible outcome if free trade ever took hold in America. Industrial and economic collapse. Ross Perot knew it and tried to warn everybody. Very few listened. What is going on in America today, the factory closures, the unemployment, the debt, the experiment with globalism could not have come out any other way. Economic ruin was predestined right from day one when America signed on to NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and a raft of other free trade deals that have been signed in the last 20 to 25 years. A national economy is very much like what the American family farm was at the turn of the 20th ...
Occupy Wall Street (Hearts) Wall Street
Post Date: 2011-10-19 18:17:13 by CZ82
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Occupy Wall Street (Hearts) Wall Street by Ann Coulter, 10/19/2011 The worst thing about Occupy Wall Street is that it's ruining a good cause: hating Wall Street. Just when opposing Wall Street was gaining momentum, these brain-dead zombies are forcing us to choose between thieving bankers and them. If the Flea Party were really concerned about the greedy "Wall Street 1 Percent," shifting money around to make themselves richer and everyone else poorer, their No. 1 target should be George Soros. Of course, we don't know exactly how much money Soros has, since he keeps all his money in offshore bank accounts. We do know that Soros has been convicted of insider trading. ...
Crashing the Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-10-19 12:54:17 by Brian S
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GIVEN how much sway the Tea Party has among Republicans in Congress and those seeking the Republican presidential nomination, one might think the Tea Party is redefining mainstream American politics. But in fact the Tea Party is increasingly swimming against the tide of public opinion: among most Americans, even before the furor over the debt limit, its brand was becoming toxic. To embrace the Tea Party carries great political risk for Republicans, but perhaps not for the reason you might think. Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a ...
The Tea Party's Fiscal Agenda Is Already On Its Death Bed
Post Date: 2011-10-19 12:46:14 by Brian S
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Where are the jobs, Mr. Boehner? You stood on the House floor in 2010 and hollered, "where are the Jobs, Mr President"? I saw dozens of clips of Republicans and tea partiers asking the same. What have you done about jobs? Nothing. You made a big deal about jobs and yet you have done nothing. Here is what you did last week, Mr. Speaker. You had "ABORTION DAY" in the House of Representatives for the seventh time this year but you have not offered one jobs bill. Seven abortion related votes in nine months and not one single jobs bill. Seven attacks on women's health and rights and zero jobs bills. On Thursday your House voted to allow a hospital emergency room to turn ...
NUGENT: Nobody Needs Michale Moore Poster boy for the morbidly obese and natural leader of the hygiene-challenged,
Post Date: 2011-10-19 09:00:52 by A K A Stone
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Idiots are easily manipulated. They are useful pawns, and that’s about it. Consider the stooges of the fledgling movement “Occupy Wall Street.” These useful idiots are clamoring for social justice, as if they don’t have enough of that already. From what I can tell, the softheaded numskulls of Occupy Wall Street want investment bankers to give up their wealth, as in “spread the wealth around.” They are blaming Wall Street for the sad state of our economic malaise and for all the other problems of the world. Poster boy for the morbidly obese and natural leader of the hygiene-challenged, uber-lefty America-haters, Michael Moore spoke out in favor of Occupy Wall ...
Why Rush Limbaugh Is Freaking Out About Occupy Wall Street
Post Date: 2011-10-18 15:38:47 by Brian S
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Got a flurry of emails yesterday after the inimitable Rush Limbaugh lumped me and Dylan Ratigan in with the behind-the-scenes power structure. Apparently Rush got hold of Breitbart’s story about the email list and decided to run with it: Journalists have been advising the protesters – emails have been found. Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC and some guy named Matt Taibbi… Dylan Ratigan and Matt Taibbi are sending emails back and forth with organizers , telling them how to position their demands, how they can improve their coverage. Here Rush paused before making his Sherlock Holmesian deduction from these facts: This whole thing is a construct of the media-Democrat complex, ...
A.D. 2041--End of White America?
Post Date: 2011-10-18 15:27:13 by Brian S
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John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize." In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: "In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States." The graduates cheered. The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to "free white persons" of "good moral character." With publication today of Suicide of a ...
America Must Manage Its Decline
Post Date: 2011-10-18 15:26:15 by Brian S
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Recently I met a retired British diplomat who claimed with some pride that he was the man who had invented the phrase, “the management of decline”, to describe the central task of British foreign policy after 1945. “I got criticised,” he said, “but I think it was an accurate description of our task and I think we did it pretty well.” No modern American diplomat – let alone politician – could ever risk making a similar statement. That is a shame. If America were able openly to acknowledge that its global power is in decline, it would be much easier to have a rational debate about what to do about it. Denial is not a strategy. President Barack Obama ...
So Much For That Neocon Plan For Iraq
Post Date: 2011-10-17 17:16:56 by Brian S
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Looks like as of January we will have pretty much nothing to show for the big neocon war in Iraq. Former Vietnam Green Beret and Mideast expert Pat Lang weighs in: The fact is that the Iraqis won. The various insurgents and terrorist groups fought us to a standstill. The "Surge?" What crap! The Sons of Iraq ended the insurgency. They will be back in opposition to the Shia run government of Iraq. The Iraqis won politically as well. Proof? They have now shown us the door. Oh, yes! The Iranians won as well. That's my assessment too. A debacle from Day One. The Bushies never knew whether they were invading to help the ...
A Plot by Iran? Or a "False Flag" or "Wag the Dog" Operation?
Post Date: 2011-10-17 14:06:41 by Brian S
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In the past week U.S. Attorney General Holder and the F.B.I. announced that a plot involving agents of the Iranian government had been uncovered. It was reported that a member of a Mexican drug cartel had been hired by Mansour Arbabsiar, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen, to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. Soon after, government officials within and without the Obama administration lost no time in beating the drums of retaliation. A call for retaliation, so quickly after the announcement, with only the barest details and no evidence of any direct linkage to the government of Iran? Of course. The promoters of war don't need hard evidence, they just need the slightest ...
One Month In, Occupy Wall Street Protesters Appear Poised to Change US Politics
Post Date: 2011-10-17 14:05:13 by Brian S
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What a difference a month makes. Not only has OWS survived, it has captured the imagination of multitudes of embittered Americans. By Michael Cohen, October 16, 2011 Late last month, a ragtag group of several hundred liberal activists ventured to the centre of America's economic universe – Wall Street – to protest against what they saw as the country's growing income inequality and the stranglehold of corporate money over US democracy. The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement hoped to attract thousands of protesters, but the turnout ended up being disappointingly smaller. Coverage of the protests was largely restricted to liberal media outlets and a snarky piece in the New ...
Wall Street Loses Its Immunity
Post Date: 2011-10-17 13:00:40 by Brian S
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As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, the response from the movement’s targets has gradually changed: contemptuous dismissal has been replaced by whining. (A reader of my blog suggests that we start calling our ruling class the “kvetchocracy.”) The modern lords of finance look at the protesters and ask, Don’t they understand what we’ve done for the U.S. economy? The answer is: yes, many of the protesters do understand what Wall Street and more generally the nation’s economic elite have done for us. And that’s why they’re protesting. On Saturday The Times reported what people in the financial industry are saying privately about the ...
In our time .... the people will rise up ...
Post Date: 2011-10-17 10:51:22 by A K A Stone
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In our time .... the people will rise up ... and their wrath will be visited on people like this and the BO regime .... and they will wish for a safe and comfortable prision ... In our time..... our time... in our time.
I Hate Black History Month [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-16 17:38:27 by A K A Stone
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