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Steve Keen: Harvard Starts its Own PAECON Against Mankiw
Post Date: 2011-11-04 10:25:22 by lucysmom
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Several correspondents have just told me that some of Greg Mankiw’s students at Harvard are staging a walkout from his first year class. They’ve written an open letter to Mankiw to explain why: An Open Letter to Greg Mankiw I applaud them for this move. Mankiw’s various economics texts are among the most simplistic of the many neoclassical textbooks that parade this flawed paradigm as a flawless jewel of human reasoning. I’m delighted that his students have taken the rebellion against this paradigm to one of its key promulgators. I did likewise forty years ago–against far less well-known advocates of neoclassicism. At the time, I probably knew as much as these ...
Tony Blair And Obama Meet / Thiland / Syria / NATO/ Money
Post Date: 2011-11-03 21:33:45 by A K A Stone
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Theologian Paul Begley of Indiana runs down the news as the middle east peace process, Blair and Obama meeting, Syria's Assad and more.....
Occupy the Koch Brothers - and Stop the American Nightmare
Post Date: 2011-11-03 19:09:37 by Brian S
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The very name of a Washington conservative conference this weekend is the height of subterfuge. It's called the "Defending the American Dream" conference, which is not about defending the actual American dreams of most Americans (the focus of our own "Take Back the American Dream" conference), sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, which is not an organization that promotes what is needed for broad American prosperity. This actually is the latest effort by the billionaire Koch brothers, founders and key funders of Americans for Prosperity, and their corporate and political allies to hijack our democracy and pillage our economy. It's their attempt to perpetuate ...
How Playing the Race Card Backfired on the Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-11-03 15:51:09 by Brian S
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This is a moment of cognitive dissonance for Tea Party voters. Assume the mindset of a Rush Limbaugh listener. You like Herman Cain. For weeks, you've heard on the radio about how he's a successful businessman, how unlike liberals he hates it when people play the race card. Last you heard the show, Rush was explaining how the liberal media is targeting him because he's black. Another hi-tech lynching, just like Clarence Thomas, is the explanation you got. The next day you're on the web. Cain himself says that although he can't prove it, racism probably played a role in whoever spread these stories about him. Damn those dirty liberals, you think.Of course, you might not ...
Informal Republican Poll For President [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-11-01 21:59:49 by A K A Stone
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Ok it is election morning. Pretend. Who you voting for? Jon Huntsman Rick Santorum Michelle Bachman Ron Paul Mitt Romney Rick Perry Herman Cain Newt Gingrich Gary Johnson Buddy Roemer
Bill Clinton Allegedly Raped a Woman, Herman Cain didn't!
Post Date: 2011-11-01 13:42:58 by A K A Stone
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Bill Clinton was said to have committed rape. Herman Cain never raped no woman. Bill Clinton should have been put in jail. Herman Cain is qualified to be president.
Buchanan: The Coming Church-State Wars
Post Date: 2011-11-01 11:37:41 by Brian S
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Appearing the other night on the Catholic network EWTN, I was asked by Raymond Arroyo what should be done about Muslim students at Catholic University demanding that the school provide them with prayer rooms, from which crucifixes and all other Catholic symbols that they found offensive had been removed. After a nanosecond I replied, "Kick 'em out!" Let them go to George Washington, the university on the other side of town. Indeed, had Muslim students shown so little loyalty to a school that welcomed them, and of whose Catholicism they were aware when they entered, expulsion would have been justified. Looking further into the matter, that was a rush to judgment. For it ...
Trashy Michelle Obama Plans To Go On Attack
Post Date: 2011-10-31 19:24:18 by A K A Stone
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Michelle’s back, and she’s madder than ever. She was already pretty angry, seemingly unhappy with just about everything. As her husband wrapped up the Democratic nomination in 2008, she let fly her real feelings: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country.” A few months into her job as first lady, her French counterpart asked how she liked the gig: “Don’t ask!” she reportedly spat. “It’s hell. I can’t stand it!” She even seems to be mad at her silver-tongued husband. When the two were to set off on a luxurious 10-day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, she left early - four hours early - and flew up ...
I AM NOT MOVING - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street
Post Date: 2011-10-30 15:31:12 by Ferret Mike
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Date Only Teachable Negroes - Lay A Patch 4 The Rest
Post Date: 2011-10-30 14:12:54 by Ferret Mike
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Buchanan: The Conquest of the West
Post Date: 2011-10-28 19:26:01 by Brian S
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On Oct. 31, the U.N. Population Fund marks the arrival of the 7 billionth person on Earth and raises the population estimate for the planet at mid-century to 9.3 billion people. There is a possibility, says the United Nations, that, by century's end, world population may reach 15 billion. What does this mean for Western civilization? It may not matter, except to identify who inherits the estate. For while world population is exploding, Western peoples are dying. Not a single European nation, except Muslim Albania, has a birth rate that will enable it to replace its present population. By mid-century, Western man will be down to 12 percent of world population. By century's end, he ...
The Obama Miracle, a White House Free of Scandal
Post Date: 2011-10-28 11:11:03 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that may doom his reelection. But he has one asset that hasn’t received much attention: He’s honest. The sight of Texas Governor Rick Perry tumbling out of the clown car recently as a “birther” (or at least a birther- enabler) is a sign of weakness, not just for the Perry campaign but for the whole Republican effort to tarnish the president’s character. Although it’s possible that the Solyndra LLC story will become a classic feeding frenzy, don’t bet on it. Providing $535 million in loan guarantees to a solar-panel maker that goes bankrupt was dumb, but so far not criminal or even unethical ...
Who Isn’t Obama Lying To?
Post Date: 2011-10-28 06:37:29 by CZ82
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Who Isn’t Obama Lying To? If you placed all of Obama’s lies end to end they would probably stretch around the world. And what I don’t understand is still how many people worship the man. In yet another typical Obama hypocrisy, Obama hired long time Wall Street lobbyist Broderick Johnson as his new senior campaign advisor. For the past month, Obama has openly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and joined them in pointing the finger at Wall Street and the banking elite. Yet, in another move that defies logic, the very elite that are being blamed for our economic woes are among some of the largest contributors to Obama’s re-election campaign. So now Obama stands ...
The Wandering Who: Examining Alan Dershowitz's and Abe Foxman's Arguments
Post Date: 2011-10-27 19:10:03 by Brian S
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Earlier this week I learned from the Jerusalem post how desperate notorious Zionists Alan Dershowitz and ADL’s Abe Foxman are to stop my new book ‘The Wandering Who’. It seems that Foxman, Dershowitz and their allies amongst the Jewish ‘anti’-Zionists (aka ‘anti-Zionist Zionists’ or AZZ) are in a state of total hysteria. So far, the book has been endorsed by some of the most distinguished academics, writers and humanists in contemporary discourse. It has been praised on every dissident outlet around the world. But it’s also obvious to every person who reads me that there is not a drop of racism, bigotry or anti Semitism in any of my ...
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 ...
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