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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
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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Anatomy of a Victory: Occupy Wall Street Wins a Big One
Post Date: 2011-10-15 19:28:32 by Brian S
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Wednesday night visit to Liberty Plaza Park, during which he delivered news (on behalf of his girlfriend’s corporation) that the park would be cleaned Friday morning, made me very nervous. I found myself with a lay-over in Charlotte early Thursday morning and took the opportunity to pen a quick blog post to express my concerns. Boarding my next flight, I tweeted the following: “Okay, internets. About to take off for Seatac. No one do or say anything interesting for several hours, yes? Yes.” The internets declined. Over the next 20-or-so hours, there precipitated one of the most impressive single days of organizing I can recall or even imagine, and by ...
After the Storm: The Instability of Inequality
Post Date: 2011-10-15 18:47:16 by Brian S
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New York - This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London; Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squeeze on living standards; protesting Chilean students; the destruction in Germany of the expensive cars of “fat cats”; India’s movement against corruption; mounting unhappiness with corruption and inequality in China; and now the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York and across the United States. While these protests have no unified theme, they express in different ways the serious ...
Why I'm A Conservative Republican
Post Date: 2011-10-15 01:01:14 by A K A Stone
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The Neocon GOP: By Design or Default?
Post Date: 2011-10-14 12:52:58 by Brian S
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With 44,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and another 94,000 in Afghanistan, and with powerful events shaking the international system in the Middle East, Asia and Europe, one might think that the race for the Republican presidential nomination would spawn plenty of discussion and debate on the state of the world and America’s role in it. But no such discourse has emerged. There hasn’t been much engagement on foreign-policy issues. Still, based on the candidates’ occasional pronouncements and proposals on their websites, we can discern in general where the Republican party stands on foreign policy. A National Interest review of those pronouncements and prescriptions indicates the ...
FBI Account of “Terror Plot” Suggests Sting Operation
Post Date: 2011-10-14 11:46:56 by Brian S
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(IPS) — While the administration of Barack Obama vows to hold the Iranian government “accountable” for the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the legal document describing evidence in the case provides multiple indications that it was mainly the result of an FBI “sting” operation. Although the legal document, called an amended criminal complaint, implicates Iranian-American Manssor Arbabsiar and his cousin Ali Gholam Shakuri, an officer in the Iranian Quds Force, in a plan to assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir, it also suggests that the idea originated with and was strongly pushed by a undercover DEA informant, at the ...
Buchanan: Is the New World Order Unraveling?
Post Date: 2011-10-14 11:24:18 by Brian S
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With Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril. Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for economic nationalism is rising in Europe. Which raises a larger question. Is the New World Order, the great 20th century project of Western transnational elites, unraveling? The NWO dates back as far as Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, which a Republican Senate refused to enter. FDR, seeking to succeed where his mentor had failed, oversaw the creation of a United Nations, an International Monetary Fund and a World Bank. In 1951 came the European Coal and Steel Community, love ...
We Have a Problem in This Country....How Are We Going To Solve It? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-13 07:18:37 by A K A Stone
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We have a problem in this great nation. There are liberals in the United States. Their values are anti American. They think that killing babies in the womb is a virtue. They think the President can assassinate American citizens with a secret star chamber. They don't want to work but want free healthcare, food and shelter. If you earn more then them they become jealous and want what you have or will kill you for it. Or threaten to kill you for it. They are anti science and believe that frogs turn into princes over millions of years. They hate people driving cars yet they drive them themselves. They have made up a global warming theory in order to scare us into giving up our way of ...
Economist Blasts GOP’s ‘Seven Biggest Economic Lies’
Post Date: 2011-10-12 14:08:48 by Brian S
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The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society – unless more Americans know the truth about the economy. GA_googleFillSlot('RS_V3_STORY_EMBEDDED_300_2');Below is a short (2 minute 30 second) effort to rebut the seven biggest whoppers now being told by those who want to take America backwards. The major points: 1. Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else. Baloney. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both sliced taxes on the rich and what happened? Most Americans’ wages (measured by the real median wage) began flattening ...
Michael Savage Praises and Agrees with Ron Paul on al-Awlaki Assassination - 10/3/2011
Post Date: 2011-10-11 23:26:32 by A K A Stone
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Patrick J. Buchanan: The Religion Card Is Turned Face Up
Post Date: 2011-10-11 19:16:27 by Brian S
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Is a religious war breaking out in the Republican Party? On Friday, Pastor Robert Jeffress of the 10,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas took the podium at the Values Voter Summit to introduce and endorse Rick Perry. Gov. Perry, said Pastor Jeffress, is a leader with "a strong commitment to biblical values" who defunded Planned Parenthood, that "slaughterhouse for the unborn." He contrasted Perry with an unnamed rival. "Do we want a candidate who is a conservative out of convenience or one who is a conservative out of deep conviction? Do we want a candidate who is a good, moral person or one who is a born-again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ?" ...
They Are Going To Come For You… …Why Are You Helping Them?
Post Date: 2011-10-09 03:31:46 by A K A Stone
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“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.” Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) As I was recently reading through the journals written by Sister Bohdana, who in 1943 was executed by Nazi Forces for the “crime” of helping the German people, I was struck by the many similarities that are now occurring in the United States, specifically how the majority of its citizens remain compliant to the ever growing police state arising ...
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