I AM A DIASPORAL JEW OF THE ASHKENAZ TRIBE AND I HEREBY DECLARE BUELAHMAN AND LYNDA OF BUELAHMAN'S REDSTATE REVOLT TO BE ABSOLUTELY FREE OF ANTI-SEMITISM OF ANY KIND. THEIR VIEWS ON AMERICA'S ISRAEL POLICY IS THE SAME AS MINE. IT IS THE SAME AS WELL OVER 30% OF THE ISRAELI PEOPLE AND OVER 70% OF THE DIASPORAL ASHKENAZ COMMUNITY IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL.
http://ftc.gov/opa/2009/07/redflag.shtm
To assist small businesses and other entities, the Federal Trade Commission staff will redouble its efforts to educate them about compliance with the “Red Flags” Rule and ease compliance by providing additional resources and guidance to clarify whether businesses are covered by the Rule and what they must do to comply. To give creditors and financial institutions more time to review this guidance and develop and implement written Identity Theft Prevention Programs, the FTC will further delay enforcement of the Rule until November 1, 2009.
The Red Flags Rule is an anti-fraud regulation, requiring “creditors” and “financial institutions” with covered accounts to implement programs to identify, detect, and respond to the warning signs, or “red flags,” that could indicate identity theft. The financial regulatory agencies, including the FTC, developed the Rule, which was mandated by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA). FACTA’s definition of “creditor” includes any entity that regularly extends or renews credit – or arranges for others to do so – and includes all entities that regularly permit deferred payments for goods or services. Accepting credit cards as a form of payment does not, by itself, make an entity a creditor. “Financial institutions” include entities that offer accounts that enable consumers to write checks or make payments to third parties through other means, such as other negotiable instruments or telephone transfers.
The FTC’s Red Flags Web site, www.ftc.gov/redflagsrule, offers resources to help entities determine if they are covered and, if they are, how to comply with the Rule. It includes an online compliance template that enables companies to design their own Identity Theft Prevention Program through an easy-to-do form, as well as articles directed to specific businesses and industries, guidance manuals, and Frequently Asked Questions to help companies navigate the Rule.
Although many covered entities have already developed and implemented appropriate, risk-based programs, some – particularly small businesses and entities with a low risk of identity theft – remain uncertain about their obligations. The additional compliance guidance that the Commission will make available shortly is designed to help them. Among other things,
Commission staff will create a special link for small and low-risk entities on the Red Flags Rule Web site with materials that provide guidance and direction regarding the Rule. The Commission has already posted FAQs that address how the FTC intends to enforce the Rule and other topics – www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/redflagsrule/faqs.shtm. The enforcement FAQ states that Commission staff would be unlikely to recommend bringing a law enforcement action if entities know their customers or clients individually, or if they perform services in or around their customers’ homes, or if they operate in sectors where identity theft is rare and they have not themselves been the target of identity theft.
The three-month extension, coupled with this new guidance, should enable businesses to gain a better understanding of the Rule and any obligations that they may have under it. These steps are consistent with the House Appropriations Committee’s recent request that the Commission defer enforcement in conjunction with additional efforts to minimize the burdens of the Rule on health care providers and small businesses with a low risk of identity theft problems. Today’s announcement that the Commission will delay enforcement of the Rule until November 1, 2009, does not affect other federal agencies’ enforcement of the original November 1, 2008, compliance deadline for institutions subject to their oversight.
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Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry
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Document was found on file-sharing network
By Ellen Nakashima and Paul KaneWashington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 30, 2009
House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
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Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry
PDF: Ethics committee statement on release of documents
7 on defense panel scrutinized
The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer.
The ethics committee is one of the most secretive panels in Congress, and its members and staff members sign oaths not to disclose any activities related to its past or present investigations. Watchdog groups have accused the committee of not actively pursuing inquiries; the newly disclosed document indicates the panel is conducting far more investigations than it had revealed.
Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, the committee chairman, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), interrupted a series of House votes to alert lawmakers about the breach. She cautioned that some of the panel’s activities are preliminary and not a conclusive sign of inappropriate behavior.
“No inference should be made as to any member,” she said.
Rep. Jo Bonner (Ala.), the committee’s ranking Republican, said the breach was an isolated incident.
The 22-page “Committee on Standards Weekly Summary Report” gives brief summaries of ethics panel investigations of the conduct of 19 lawmakers and a few staff members. It also outlines the work of the new Office of Congressional Ethics, a quasi-independent body that initiates investigations and provides recommendations to the ethics committee. The document indicated that the office was reviewing the activities of 14 other lawmakers. Some were under review by both ethics bodies.
A broader inquiry
Ethics committee investigations are not uncommon. Most result in private letters that either exonerate or reprimand a member. In some rare instances, the censure is more severe.
Many of the broad outlines of the cases cited in the July document are known — the committee announced over the summer that it was reviewing lawmakers with connections to the now-closed PMA Group, a lobbying firm. But the document indicates that the inquiry was broader than initially believed. It included a review of seven lawmakers on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee who have steered federal money to the firm’s clients and have also received large campaign contributions.
The document also disclosed that:
– Ethics committee staff members have interviewed House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) about one element of the complex investigation of his personal finances, as well as the lawmaker’s top aide and his son. Rangel said he spoke with ethics committee staff members regarding a conference that he and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus attended last November in St. Martin. The trip initially was said to be sponsored by a nonprofit foundation run by a newspaper. But the three-day event, at a luxury resort, was underwritten by major corporations such as Citigroup, Pfizer and AT&T. Rules passed in 2007, shortly after Democrats reclaimed the majority following a wave of corruption cases against Republicans, bar private companies from paying for congressional travel.
Rangel said he has not discussed other parts of the investigation of his finances with the committee. “I’m waiting for that, anxiously,” he said.
– The Justice Department has told the ethics panel to suspend a probe of Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.), whose personal finances federal investigators began reviewing in early 2006 after complaints from a conservative group that he was not fully revealing his real estate holdings. There has been no public action on that inquiry for several years. But the department’s request in early July to the committee suggests that the case continues to draw the attention of federal investigators, who often ask that the House and Senate ethics panels refrain from taking action against members whom the department is already investigating.
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Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry
PDF: Ethics committee statement on release of documents
7 on defense panel scrutinized
Mollohan said that he was not aware of any ongoing interest by the Justice Department in his case and that he and his attorneys have not heard from federal investigators. “The answer is no,” he said.
– The committee on June 9 authorized issuance of subpoenas to the Justice Department, the National Security Agency and the FBI for “certain intercepted communications” regarding Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). As was reported earlier this year, Harman was heard in a 2005 conversation agreeing to an Israeli operative’s request to try to obtain leniency for two pro-Israel lobbyists in exchange for the agent’s help in lobbying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to name her chairman of the intelligence committee. The department, a former U.S. official said, declined to respond to the subpoena.
Harman said that the ethics committee has not contacted her and that she has no knowledge that the subpoena was ever issued. “I don’t believe that’s true,” she said. “As far as I’m concerned, this smear has been over for three years.”
In June 2009, a Justice Department official wrote in a letter to an attorney for Harman that she was “neither a subject nor a target” of a criminal investigation.
Because of the secretive nature of the ethics committee, it was difficult to assess the current status of the investigations cited in the July document. The panel said Thursday, however, that it is ending a probe of Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) after finding no ethical violations, and that it is investigating the financial connections of two California Democrats.
The committee did not detail the two newly disclosed investigations. However, according to the July document, Rep. Maxine Waters, a high-ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, came under scrutiny because of activities involving OneUnited Bank of Massachusetts, in which her husband owns at least $250,000 in stock.
Waters arranged a September 2008 meeting at the Treasury Department where OneUnited executives asked for government money. In December, Treasury selected OneUnited as an early participant in the bank bailout program, injecting $12.1 million.
The other, Rep. Laura Richardson, may have failed to mention property, income and liabilities on financial disclosure forms.
File-sharing
The committee’s review of investigations became available on file-sharing networks because of a junior staff member’s use of the software while working from home, Lofgren and Bonner said in a statement issued Thursday night. The staffer was fired, a congressional aide said.
The committee “is taking all appropriate steps to deal with this issue,” they said, noting that neither the committee nor the House’s information systems were breached in any way.
“Peer-to-peer” technology has previously caused inadvertent breaches of sensitive financial, defense-related and personal data from government and commercial networks, and it is prohibited on House networks.
House administration rules require that if a lawmaker or staff member takes work home, “all users of House sensitive information must protect the confidentiality of sensitive information” from unauthorized disclosure.
Leo Wise, chief counsel for the Office of Congressional Ethics, declined to comment, citing office policy against confirming or denying the existence of investigations. A Justice Department spokeswoman also declined to comment, citing a similar policy.
Staff writers Carol D. Leonnig and Joby Warrick and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
There is a scummy asshole that sticks her ignorant head in every now and again to add some commentary (that I normally just delete). She had the audacity to call me a liar on a subject I never lied about, so I banned her worthless ass. But, her worthless ass still shows up every now and again to add some comment about Medicare in New York or that a Single Payer system would cost more than our current insurance controlled system. I am pretty sure the worthless bitch works in health insurance, so this is no surprise. But for the kettle to call the pot black is an amazing amount of hypocricy.
The problem is that there is no documented proof she shares, just the same old horseshit from a lying worthless bitch.
The fact is that the basic Medicare premium for New Yorkers is going to radically go up… to a whole $110.50/month. Yes, No-Slappz, you worthless, lying scumbag, bitch. I just left a plan that cost me and my family over $23K/year (BCBS). My premiums were $1,173/month (and this is not out of line with many others that I have spoken to). Add whatever out of pocket costs you can imagine to your imaginary lies and there is still no freaking way Medicare costs more than any insurance plan in this country.
You are a damned liar. And a bitch. (Not to mention your undeniable racism)
Single Payer, Not-for-profit healthcare, after removing the plight of the scumbag’s employer, health insurance companies, is the ONLY viable way to fix our healthcare system. Don’t let the likes of these fools such as No_Slappz lie to you.
Lest we forget who exactly started this mess… again! … and when! AND who did not speak up with knowledge and take a stand!
Many of us all ignored everything out of laziness and ignorance. .. or sheer exhaustion– And hells bells look where all of that ignorance got us! Grapes with wars too… what a cocktail of sorrow!
But.. with every breath, I shall be exactly like the last lines of this movie. ” whenever and where ever there is wrong, I shall be fighting against it… [paraphrasing terribly!]
… and when do we ever use the law …I wanted to touch on the topic of legislating Hate Crime Laws. Many say they are not needed. And that funding for the follow thru is needed. Well the follow thru need I agree with. But I agree in the long run that the law needs to be on the books. Why? well then Genocide can be fully charged… not just discussed as it comes down. Hell Hitler would not even be charged with mass murder! Anyway, I am rushing around this morning. Hope to get back to this more.
I’m back–
… and why don’t we? I wanted to get some chat going about the law of Hate Crimes. I have my opinion regarding charging a criminal with a hate crime. The examples below to me should of also carried the charge of hate crimes. Besides being here in K-town and awaiting word on the Double murder/torture case– I was also traveling to Huntington WV taking my brother to the VA Hospital, and accidently joined in a protest regarding this very issue about the woman who was held an tortured by whites. I know we have this law… but for the life of me I can’t figure out why in the hell it is used rarely. Are towns and cities afraid?? of what?? riots? I do not feel any city, town nor people should remain silent about a wrong, out of fear of retaliation or anything else. Watch these… and then let’s talk. [I told you I see Channon’s father fairly regularly. HE knows the truth, and it is true about the torture and mutilations. Hell, just one issue about his daughter being in more than one trash bag goes to mutilation!! Anyway– I look forward to opinions. The trials are currently underway in Knoxville.
The link has much information, but I just c/ped this part for you–
“A hate crime, also known as a bias crime, is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society which is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.”
I will stick to the “…or in part” part– and state IMO to commit a horrific crime, there must be hate somewhere!!
KELSO´S NUTS; What the hell was wrong with Cynthia McKinney on the Green Party ticket thent? She had a veteran Democratic front-bencher until she ran afould of AIPAC. They sent out the useless Majette to beat McKinney in the primariy a few years ago, but McKinney fought her way back into the seat where she cast only anti-war, pro-people, votes over and over again. Her warchest for 2006 just wasnt big enough to fend of the AIPAC supported Johnson.
A McKinney presidency would have featured NO WARS, NO PROXY CIVIL WARS, NO COERCIVE USA MILITARY BASES, A FAR MORE “CONSERVATIVE” APPROACH TO FISCAL POLICY AND NO GODDAMED GIVEAWAYS TO WALL STREET BILLIONAIRES.
So, why was OBAMA the “milestone” candidate instead of McKINNEY? Because Obama raised more money from MALIGN Wall Street and polluting industrial sources than McKINNEY ever could.
More´s the pity.
JAY MIDNYTE: I really did think Obama would change a FEW things, maybe ONE thing for the better. Maybe more peace talks and negotiation. But nah, he hasn’t done ONE thing for poor people (he claimed to be for the people), and he negotiates with wild teens my age that know how to shoot M16’s to back him up.
KELSO: @ JAY: This is a very big problem and if I could pick one issue (two really) beyond the economic and foreign policy problems in whose teeth the USA finds itself, it would be the DOMESTIC YOUTH HOMELAND SECURITY AUXILIARY FORCE, and, perhaps, the very real confluence of forced vaccinations and the so-called FEMA camps.
The DOMESTIC YOUTH HOMELAND SECURITY AUXILIARY FORCE as envisioned by Emanuel and Obama is even frightening to me and I live 5000 miles away! It´s frightening not because I´m either a psycho left wing extremist or sociopathic right wing exremist bigot.
LIVING IN PANAMA, I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE USA GOVERNMENT CEDES LAW ENFORCEMENT POWER TO UNACCOUNTABLE 18-25 YEAR OLDS. There´s plenty of precedent: in 1989 there was the Powell-ordered El Chorillo massacre yet another “table top exercise” in which new model ordnance was tested outs on a lower middle class neighborhood of CIVILIANS, killing 5000 and make 100,000 people homeless. This after Bush Sr had given the stand-down order. The story which never made the US papers was the city-wide rampage by US military personnel who used rape as a terriorist weapon in the same way Milosevic and Karadzic did against the Kosovar Muslim women. Call it psyops to the extreme.
This plan of “the fierce” and their prison jumpsuit uniforms, will become an even more violent version of the soldiers at El Chorillo USA domestic style. The saddest part of it is that this corps will be made up of probably pretty nice kids before the indoctrination. The administration PR team will characterize this project as both a version of FDR´s “CCC” while the FEMA camps will be characterized as a progressive step forward in the event of another Katrina. The liberal press and the “liberal” people will lap this up like a kitten presented with fresh milk.
American liberals like this because the old insults like “boy” or “nickel nose” are out of vogue whereas “skell” (law breaker) carries no ethnic basis but is a treat for liberals seeing what hard-working people are in for in PROGRESSIVE BARACK OBAMA´S DECADE.
The Republicans will do their usual number and reflexively opposite because they are Democrat plans, not because they harken back to Nazi Germany (Hitler Youth) and Stalin´s USSR (Komsomol). Huey Long and General Smedley Butler are spinnng so fast in their graves, they may just awaken from the dead!
How else would Panama give me an insight into this besides the massacre at El Chorillo? Basically, unless you have REAL power here, you DO NOT EYEBALL US military on shore leave, BlackwaterXe contractors, or even American tourists if you know what´s good for you. I preted to ONLY speak Spanish because Il´d rather get called “wetback, spic, greaser, Noriega-lover, tax cheat, drug dealer, money-launderer, etc, while I smile and look at my shoes,. hoping he´ll lose interest in fucking with me and move on the next person over whom this raw recruit acrually has power.
This story has been told countless times in countless ways by African-Americans, Latino-hispano residents of the USA, and Slavic-American residents of the USA. It´s not really a racial thing, though. It is a SOCIAL CLASS THING. And it´s fucking humiliating. I am an accomplished man. I graduated from and excellant high school, college and MBA program. I´ve been petty successful in all sorts of business and I am committed to non-vioilence except in circumstances of self-defense. It aint pretty but I feel like I´ve reached a station in life in which I don´t have to tolerate imbelic drunk American Privates insulting me. Not at all. If this were a wasted Swede in a cardroom, say, I could respond any way I liked with the full blessng of the power structure on the SW side of LaCdP.
If the “liberals” iknew my story, they´d hate me exactly for be¡ng a successful man. The “liberal” mantra in the USA is: “Capitalism for me but not for thee.” The fake BIG GOVERMENT “conservative” mantra is “kill them all.”
And a 20-year old private is WAY MORE MATURE than these Civilian Teenage Brigades. What´s happening here is way more malign than either or both of THE GUARDIAN ANGELS and SAFE HAVEN. As far as FEMA goes, I assign a small probablity of the camps being AN EMPROVEMENT over Hell-Of-A-Job-Brownie and Barbara Bush. I also see a small probabiity of quick ethnic-cleansing of “disposible people in concentration camps.” Most likely, it falls somewhere in between with Nazi like seizure of all valuables in plain sight and a rather oppressive CAMP FEMA to follow.
I believe that the only way to stop this plan in the USA is to have a strong dissent by career military officers and career law enforcement agencies if only because it violates about ten convenants of a lot of public union/management contracts OF THE AMERICAN POLICE UNIONS, the FBI, and the National Guard, plus “loose cannons” (READ TRUTH TELLERS!) Admiral Fallon and General Casey. That, too, is playing with fire because Obama´s being neither fish nor fowl on every issue, he´s lost the respect of the underclass he seeks to oppress as well as the officers and para-militaries he supports.
The only first best and only way through.: peace, freedom,social justice, steady econimic growth, smaller less coercive government, a fair system of taxation, and
generally speaking a return to the Constitution and a social contract which gives at least 80% of the people a feeling and reality of being societal STAKEHOLDERS.]
[The same argument applied to Colombia in next post, an answer to Jay about what really happens when a head-of-state uses affectless children to "wetcha" ]
I think it was during a conversation with my attorney here sometime in August that I first noticed that there was a pattern to every conversation I had with a non-corporatist power-player.
I´d lay out my concerns to someone experienced in either getting clear of Big Sammy or standing in there toe to toe and fighting the powers that be only to be frustrated by the pure hypocritical Stalinism of the Big Pink Country with its Big People.
My attorney here, Sra Dra Lynnette Yaritzel Arosemena Murad, Abogada — she´s a 2nd time newlywed to a Turk — who was Panama´s head prosecutor in her early 20s during the Moscoso Administration, became disenchanted with the Mosoco Admin´s zeal for locking people up, even the non-violent, to the point of crippling migraines. In private practice she only litigates civil cases, criminal trials for the defense, and because we are on the QC system for major criminal cases, she will only prosecute cases of extreme violence.
Her best childhood, school-age, and law school friend is our current Vice President, Juan-Carlos Varela. Thus, I personally, could not be more politically-connected than I am. During the times leading up to Obama´s 23/9/09 deadline for those “subjects of the United States Of America,” to turn themselves in to American authorities, she explained to me that by reading of the law, without a criminal record in either Big Sammy or Panamá,and with USA taxes on USA cap gains paid at the well-head, I was governed by Panamanian law and did not have to obey USA law as a “Permanent Resident Investor,” especially not with only 3 months left until full citizenship.
I mentioned Frank DeLima´s “decision” to walk a narrow path with Big Sammy on the tax information demands, giving up possible 9 figure accounts but not that of all citizens´ and residents deemed to be SUBJECTS OF THE EMPIRE. I qualify for this under Big Sammy´s 15 year residency rule. This was said in context of the Naval/Dept of HHS covering Sept 11-25. The navy acted out war games involving the invasion of Venezuela (Panama cannot participate because it has no military) and the occupation of Colombia and Peru (Panama can allow any passage of any military transport, however.). I posed the question; “in the wake of the defacto deposition of President Hans-Rudolf Merz of Switzerland by the CEO of UBS, NA, Robert Wolf and POTUS Barack Obama, couldn´t an ARMED Big Sammy re-take Panama by force?
She said she didn´t think so because as crazy as he is, President Martinelli is, first and foremost, a BILLIONAIRE and knows that should Panama become once-again a US client state, he would owe 100,000,000s of B./ in taxes while ruining the banking system and country former presidents Ernesto “El Toro” Perez-Balladares, Miryela Moscoso and Martin Torrijos effectively built as the world´s 2nd largest private banking power after Switzerland. Less still by a USA president he deems his social inferior. [It´s not pretty, but any port in storm, oiste?]
As I pressed her for some more detail on this, she said ¨you are not only my client but you are also my friend for life so accept this; ´What Can I Do Beyond What I´m Doing for all of my clients on this history `[sic: "historia" means "story" in Spanish] ?”
The penny dropped. My New York attorney, Russell Gioiella, of Litman Asche Gioiella, said something similar “Take Your Pick, Augustinian paranoia or Kafka-esque paranoia. What More Can We All Do? We´ve been through the statutes and the case-law and it comes down not as a matter of law but a matter of political caprice. As your attorney, I insist you leave the USA asap,but haven´t I been telling you that since 2002?”
Cindy Sheehan: “You know I think of you as my knight in armor, but what more can I do for you: I´ve been tear-gassed and have chained myself to the White House gates for all of you? What can I do individually for any of my comrades? It´s either bring down the system with non-violence or learn to live with fascism up here and fear down there.”
Mike Gimbel of AFSCME and Workers´World Party: “I´ve walked into a FARC compound unarmed to see what exchange of prisoners deal was available and to test that cell´s willingness to join AFSCME…we are the most effective organization in America on Latin issues, but I can´t do better for you and yours than walk unarmed into a FARC compound, right?”
“El Flaco”: “Let´s forget about this, wait for the new Alex Jones movie, either shoot pool or play Blackjack and pretend Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich is president. What else can we do? The US government is fucked worse with Obama than ever before, but Bush was bad, too, he and Obama belong in the movie IDIOCRACY…twin Presidents Upgreydd!”
Marc “Dr Boom Gloom and Doom” Faber: “Bush and Obama are war criminals and the two worst presidents in US history. What can we do otherwise but use our brains and get ourselves loose of USD”
Gerald Celente; “What can a bunch of intelligent investors and traders do but make good decisions with the information available., and hope we´ve made good financial decisions…the alternative is violent revolution from below…”
There´s liberalism that is individualist. That´s good, but when I read the transcript of Obama´s “Health Care” speech that had some fol-de-rol about “a public option which is not the key to reform,” let alone any reference to Conyers/Kucinich, yet vanden Heuvel and Maddow are wet about Obama insisting on more BIG GOVERNMENT IN ALL FACETS OF AMERICAN LIFE, “I get scared. And when I´m scared, I´m nervous, and when I´m nervous…”
Say what you want about how badly Alex Jones “makes you feel” versus “how safe you feel about Big Sammy´s GOVERNMENT.” That´s good for you. For me, BULLSHIT!
I´ve always had a fondness for Jones and I “feel” good about that, knowing Cindy Sheehan is a close friend of his and Celente, Faber, Ron Paul, Rogers, Roubini and Schiff are in the same blog collective, I´m going to trust Jones a lot more than I trust vanDen Heuvel and Maddow.
Kelso´s Nuts love you
nb: The comments were pretty thought-provoking, too.
Ichabod said…
Hi Kelso;
Interesting history. Glad the powers that be can’t reach around the world to grab you.
It is a little ironic, how many tea party people were criticized, many rightly so, but the original tea party goers were against taxation without representation if my memory serves me correctly.
In the case of people who no longer live in the US, but still citizens, I think this holds true.
Why pay when you aren’t there?
It’s screwed up there and will get worse, transportation figures, shipping dropping, bodes no well for Main Street or Government Coffers.
It will get ugly in the US in a few years unless it reverses, but I don’t see the shift leaver changing.
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Blogger Jay Midnyte said…
That Ice Cube is the truth! Thanks for the links.
I was talking to these two 40+ year old men today, one was my uncle. I heard them talking and my Uncle’s friend was saying he didn’t think oil had anything to do with supply and demand. He said when oil dropped from 147 to 30, demand didn’t significantly change. Then he concluded that it was the Mid East oil cartel just trying to squeeze America for a big profit temporarily, then bring it back to normal.
Then I interrupted them like, no, actually when oil hit $147 the dollar hit it’s lowest point EVER on the index. Since the dollar lost som much strength, our suppliers wanted more dollars to make up for the loss in purchasing power. This is true because if you look at the dollar index when oil dropped back down to $30 a barrel, the dollar actually dramatically strengthened all the way to about 90 on the index, causing the sharp decline in oil prices.
They didn’t really agree with me. I agreed that it wasn’t ALL supply and demand. So I went an pulled up a historical chart with oil compared to the dollar index, showed it to them, and they said OH! that looks like an inverse relationship! (Threw all their theories about the evil mid east oil men out the window lol)
They both knew generally the dollar was losing value over time. But I could tell they only knew mostly because of what the news said, because before I SHOWED them the charts, they never knew the dollar dramatically strengthened recently, only to start it’s collapse again.
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The reason the dollar strengthened is because when the world economy was collapsing, everybody ran to the SAFE HAVEN US DOLLAR. But now we see the same thing is happening again, but the dollar keeps falling faster and faster.
THIS TIME THEY’RE ALL RUNNING TO REAL STORES OF WEALTH. GOLD AND SILVER!
25/10/09 04:48
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Blogger Carlton Pryor said…
Jay Midnite,
You hit a six with this comment just as Ser Kelso hit a six with his post!
For a “real world” connection to the loss of value the dollar is seeing in the suburbs of America take note that people are trading the copper they have stolen out of homes to grocery store workers who are in fear of foreclosure for food. Now there are few dozen or so reports of this taking place in Florida and Georgia so far and more rersearch needs be done. If this is a trend ity is a stunning example of how truly far down the US economy has fallen and how worthless to the desperate the dollar is.
25/10/09 05:55
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Blogger Jay Midnyte said…
Yea my cousin was stripping incomplete housing developments for copper not too long ago and making good money!
@ Jay – yo ass need some sleep, what kinda hours you keeping? lol
@ kelso – everybody’s fighting battles on multiple fronts, it’s tearing at the cohesion of men and giving way to this pervasive feeling of helplessness. Fuck that, we gotta stand and hold our post!
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Blogger KELSO’S NUTS said…
@ ICHABOD: Big Sammy is forbidden from having a command and control presence in the Republic Of Panama by virtue of the Carter/Omar Torrijos pact and the Bill Clinton/Perez-Balladres pact. But the president of the united states,as proven by Bush starting two illegal wars, is essentially omnipotent as to immediate capriciousness.
Panama has three weapons should Obama, like Bush, decide to do something aggressive on a whim (1) With so much debt and such big deficits, Amerikkka will at some point run up against a financial and economic stopper [Ron Paul would disagree with me here to some extent but in the end I´d have to admit that Paul is correct] (
2) A pretext for any sort of aggression beyond a “table top exercise” in which Panamanian children were given H1N1 vaccines by the USA Dept of HHS as anohter “tabletop exercise” would be a case of brinksmanship. There is a Ruso-Latino-Iran Mutual Defense Pact of 2008 which is signed, sealed and delivered at the World Court — we´re talking MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION here. There is no framework to DENY Russia the right to attack the USA should the latter aggress on any Latin self-governing nation or Iran
(3) The Obama administration has no idea how close to a very bad problem they caused themselves by asserting a 23/9/09 deadline for private financial submission, while it was using Panamanian children as Guinea Pigs for H1N1 “vaccines,” the “vaccine” STILL LOADED with Thimerosol and a dosage of H1N1 itself far beyond what an anonymous Senate two years ago insisted was too high and would require going forward NO THIMEROSOL…the USA really got away with murder here because of Russian patience.
CORROLARY: So far, the Russians fearing a full WWIII, have overlooked the overthrow of J Mel Zelaya in Honduras, the 23/9/09 “deadline” and the Costa Rica, Plan Colombia squeeze for the sake of their own ENORMOUS Andean investments and those of their BRIIC partners (Brazil, India, Indonesia and China). They have let the Bush and Obama governments a lot of slack in the line, because once they excercise their Ruso-Latino-Iran Pact rights, there´s no turning back. It ends in Global Thermonuclear War.
And yet again, the USA is playing with fire. They´ve created a whole fiction involving Assemblyman Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, who during the 1992 George H W Bush “victory visit” and concurrent protest let by Herrera, supposedly killed US Sergeant Zak Hernandez,a crime for which he was exonerated in Panamanian court.
I worry that the Obama government´s PR AND MARKETING TEAM will use Gonzalez as “the new Noriega.”
FINALLY (4): Should the Gonzalez affair be run concurrently with a mandate from the USA and OECD New World Order style tha DeLima´s compromise was not good enough, OBAMACO faces a public embarrassment far worse that any he suffered so far.
To wit: if full disclosure of the “datos y hechos” of all Panamanian citizens and residents who fall into the 15-year taxation without representation category, DeLima, Martinelli and Varela would make Obama choke on those records.
Aside from being a mountain of pen and paper documents, the private accounts in Citibank, HSBC, BNP PARIBAS, Banistmo, BBVA, BAC, St. George´s, New Stanford, Banesco, and Coutts would reveal so much hypocrisy and corruption on the part of Obama´s moneymen, that practically the only people with clean hands would be Jesse Jackson and ME!
POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
25/10/09 14:24
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@ JAY: Actually from the moment George W. Bush was given the –by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, breaking a 4-4 tie in Bush v Gore, or even going back to the impeachment of Clinton, ALL HUMAN DECENCY WAS DRAINED OUT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT. I acknowledge, of course, that Gore himself is a full-on corporatist and no great shakes and would have been equally bad as either Bush or Obama.
From 9-11 on,PR GAMES of Bush´s perversion of Christianity and Patriotism, from their oft-times valuable lessons of Peace & Love, and Pride & Honor, respectively, into Theocratic Authoritarianism, the USA itself coerced and cajoled a good portion of the rest of the world to join “the coalition of the willing,and that´s where your compartive charts come in.
You are using the basic captialist arguments we all understand and accept (especially Chavez and Correa!!!) because of its military might and huge debts, deficits and unfunded mandates, the USD is either uncorrelated or anti-correlated with ALL COMMODITIES, F/X, AND DEBT MARKETS. Yes, it´s a RYDER or PRESIDENT´S CUP match for all of our lives.
Here at THE PITCHFORK, we discussed this a 18 months or so ago, and Ser Carlton Pryor wrote an invaluable piece whose headline was a pun on ABBA´s “Fernando”. Carl substitued that with “CONTANGO” (upward sloping futures curves with time).
You prove the same point Carl and I did back then with the charts you brought out in a family discussion. I don´t know if you ran the analyis of variance on the charts as well, but on dead reckoning, your “Rs” couldn´t be much south of 0.85. That combined with a recession is an economic holocaust. The fatalist in me says that we may never again observe BACKWARDATION in any American futures market.
Politics is a power game people play to win, but economics never go away and the absolute lack of responsibility (READ:THEFT) of the USA governments coupled with 8 years of lies and theft by the Theocratic Bush Administration and 10 months of lies by the Limousine Liberal Obama Administration have brought Big Sammy to a weird crossroads in which its military might is unsurpassed in human history but absolutely unequipped to fight in IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, and (?) COLOMBIA.
The US GDP which dwarfs all others, is compromised by BushBama borrowing and spending on War abroad and a police state at home. Paradoxically, Big Sammy is by far both THE STRONGEST AND WEAKEST power on Earth. The jumping-off-USD process has begun AND WILL NOT END UNTIL THE USA IS A BIG THIRD WORLE NATION.
25/10/09 14:54
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@ CARL: Stepping back from the copper stripping as a social ill in the USA, and taking in the big picture, once again Russia and Chile hold the keys to the base metal needs of Big Sammy. This reinforces Medvedev/Putin´s effective control over whether the world gets blown in 2 or not (check out the copper output of NORILSK NICKEL JSC) in one MORE futures market. It also puts to the acid test just how much longer Michelle Bachelet has to be wedded to the Nelson Mandela model of a successful peace process as the Pinochet loyalist Senate of Chile and Big Sammy block every peaceful pan-Latin issue she supports, e.g., return of Mel Zelaya to Hondureño presidency, NO TO PLAN COLOMBIA.
Russia´s NORILSK and Chile´s CODELCO are the game right now. Jay´s stories of street level finished copper raids tell a story of hunger for copper in Big Sammy, yet you see the US government going out of its way to insult Russia and Chile at every turn, when the Cold War wounds continue to fester.
Medvedev, Putin and Bachelet are about the last three people on Earth Obama needs to be fucking with right now, given the impending death of Phelps-Dodge and ASARCO. If Rahm Emanuel and the other owners who tell Obama what to say REALLY believe that fucking with Medvedev, Putin and Bachelet are PR-friendly “Sistah Souljah” moments good for Obama´s favoribility ratings, then there is NOTHING STOPPING ME FROM BELIEVING AT LEAST 90% OF WHAT ALEX JONES SAYS.
The frustrated novelist in me kind of believes that Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachelet´s enjoying a private laugh while Obama was hectoring away may have been all the push Obama needed to abandon whatever commonsense he had about copper (if he even knows the meaning about it).
Worse times coming either tomorrow, in three months, or nine months.
25/10/09 15:18
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@ NICKI NICKI TEMBO:
@ Jay – yo ass need some sleep, what kinda hours you keeping? lol
NNT: Jay´s only 20 years old. Of course, he still has the stamina to go to his classes, run his side music business, and get involved in the NEW PRO-BUSINESS PEACE MOVEMENT
@ kelso – everybody’s fighting battles on multiple fronts, it’s tearing at the cohesion of men and giving way to this pervasive feeling of helplessness. Fuck that, we gotta stand and hold our post!
NNT: This is exactly why I´m OPTIMISTIC about the emerging peace movement. Everywhere you look there´s another issue of Corporatist malevolence and a small dedicated movement to fight back. I could start naming then and after 8 hours, I´d still have more examples of exploitation and affronts to human decency!
What encourages me is that the three mainstreams of the movement — the (real) socialist and social-democratic LEFT, the new Black Power/Nationalist priorities, and the White Southern Christian libertarians who hate Theocratic Authoritarism have all set aside silly issues which too often divide a strong pro-people movement, have joined forces making PEACE, FREEDOM AND A MODEST AMERICAN REPUBLIC the key issues.
It´s something I´ve written in a lot of spots drawing no comment because despite all the evidence in the world, this PHONY LEFT/RIGHT, BLUE/RED, DEMOPUBLICAN/REPUBLICRAT paradigm cannot deal with this. I´d instruct ALL to check out THE BLACK AGENDA REPORT and READ what intellectual Black activists have to say about the Town and Tea people. In essence, they feel that ALL WHITES are exploiters (Bruce Dixon acknowledges the hyperbole knowing that BAR has over 30% White contributors and donors), so they see no difference between Town and Tea people who have legitimate gripes which the equally repellent Liberals won´t respect.
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The Pachuca’s say the image is more than a coincidence especially since it happened on the 12th.
The family says in Mexico, Dec. 12 is celebrated as the day of The Virgin Guadalupe.
Onlookers say the image is a miracle because the distinct colors and outline of the image on the truck match the image of Virgin Guadalupe.
The Pachuca’s say they will continue to welcome anyone who wants to see the image, because the image isn’t going to go away anytime soon.
“I think we’re going to just put it on a shelf outside, probably take off the mirror and keep it there cause its something special to us. I’m not going to wash it off,” says Cristal Pachuca.
I need an excuse NOT to wash my car and this one is as good as any other I have ever seen.
Ok, so no one read the Patriot Act but voted it thru– and here they say this was a ‘comprehensive plan’… and where exactly was the detailed plan written and read??? Hell I remain mad since 1965… ; so the stupid half ass fence and the missing billions on palettes in Iraq are nothing… just a fart in the f-cked up scheme of things we as citizens just allow to go by, but to our own detriment. Hell I am broke and tired and we are spending what! for what???
Border projects mostly met stimulus goal, DHS review finds
By Spencer S. HsuWashington Post
A spokesman for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said a new review by the department’s inspector general answers criticism by lawmakers that politics influenced plans to spend $680 million in stimulus funds on border security projects.
A report by DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner, required under the $787 billion relief package approved in February, concluded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection “generally developed practical, thorough, and comprehensive expenditure plans.”
The Associated Press reported in August that DHS allowed low-priority projects — such as a sleepy checkpoint in Whitetail, Mont., that received $15 million but only sees about three travelers a day — to leap-frog more pressing needs. The AP cited statements by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) boasting that he and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) successfully pushed for funds.
A border station in Nogales, Ariz., — Napolitano’s home state — received $199 million, more than any other site, while one of the nation’s highest-priority stations at Laredo, Tex., received none, according to the AP, which said DHS allowed it to review but would not publicize a list of most urgently needed repair programs.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking Republican on the House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, has called on Napolitano to disclose the border agency’s selection criteria. Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) wrote Napolitano saying DHS’s plan “lacks common sense and would represent a terrible waste of taxpayers’ money.”
According to Skinner, however, the border agency selected 23 checkpoints for improvements based on “operational priorities, facility assessments” and project risk, although investigators did not evaluate how the border agency set its priorities or determined its costs.
The 28-page report, which was released Friday to Congress for a 30-day review and obtained by The Washington Post, noted that the $420 million of DHS stimulus funds that were designated for border checkpoints could be spent on only the 43 of 163 stations, known as land ports of entry, that the department owns. The DHS-owned ports are primarily low-volume checkpoints on the Canadian border.
The other 120 ports, including the one in Laredo, Tex., are owned by the U.S. General Services Administration, which received another $300 million for upgrades. DHS officials acknowledged that both agencies coordinate improvements based on the same priority list.
Also, none of the DHS projects met the legislation’s goal to “quick-start” spending by using half the money for work that could begin in June, Skinner said.
A DHS official said the department would not release the list because it is “constantly changing.” Some projects may have been passed over because full funding was not available, or because they required potentially lengthy environmental or historical reviews and were not “shovel-ready,” the official said.
“The report released today demonstrates that [Customs and Border Protection] has effectively and objectively managed its Recovery Act projects, bolstering security while investing in local communities across the country,” Napolitano spokesman Sean Smith said in a statement.
Napolitano has halted new border construction projects pending a separate, 30-day department review. A DHS official said the secretary expects to receive the results Friday, which she will review before making her own recommendations soon.
In an e-mailed statement, Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella said, “It appears that DHS followed their procedures properly in allocating stimulus funds,” but that officials were hamstrung by how the administration and Congress split the money between agencies.
Bardella said DHS “had to scramble to re-prioritize… projects based on this strictly artificial delineation of funding, the rationale for which remains non-transparent.”
Tester has said he had no role in the decision making.
Dorgan, in an interview, maintained that the spending was nonsensical, and noted that DHS declined an offer by Skinner to review why it was spending some $220 million on 22 Canadian border checkpoints, which Dorgan said on average saw four cars and one truck each per day.
“My point is, that’s way out of line,” Dorgan said. “I’m all for border security, but we can do it for much less than we’re spending.”
PHIL OCHS FIRST THEN JELLO AND MOJO´S UPDATE: Grooveshark
Lyrics to new version included because neither Jello nor Mojo have the best singing voices in the whole world!
I cried when they shot John Lennon
Tears ran down my spine
And I cried when I saw “JFK”
As though I’d lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X and Ice-T had it coming
They got what they asked for this time
CHORUS
So love me, love me, love me
I’m a liberal
I go to pro-choice rallies
Recycle my cans and jars
I’ll honk if you love the Dead
Hope those funny grunge bands become stars
But don’t talk about revolution
That’s going a little bit too far
CHORUS
I cheered when Clinton was chosen
My faith in the system reborn
I’ll do anything to save our schools
If my taxes ain’t too much more
And I love blacks and gays and Latinos
As long as they don’t move next door
CHORUS
Rush Limbaugh and the L.A.P.D.
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can’t understand where they’re at
Arsenio should set them straight
But if Neigborhood Watch doesn’t know you
I hope the cops take your name
CHORUS
Yeh, I read the New Republic(an)
Rolling Stone and Mother Jones too
If I vote it’s a Democrat
With a sensible economy view
But when it comes to terrorist Arabs
There’s no one more red, white and blue
CHORUS
Once I was young and had an attitude
Stickers covered the car I drove in
Even went on some direct actions
When there weren’t rent-a-cops to be seen
Ah, but now I’ve grown older and wiser
And that’s why I’m turning you in
CHORUS
There´s no more time for bullshit. When it “affected me personally,” I went FAR LEFT and FAR RIGHT, not “10 degrees left of center”. It´s maddening and frustrating when you try your hardest and the Evil Empire of Corporate Fascism still grinds everything into peanut butter.
Last week I witnessed both BuelahMan and Cindy Sheehan go through the same anomie that I suffer all the time: They just got fucking sick of it.
They pour their hearts and souls into teaching, explaining and of course NON-VIOLENT DISSENT. They come up with all manner of ways to get the message of peace across: B´Man in the buckle of the Bible Belt writes from the heart but does his research from the brain as a multi-generation Redneck for peace, freedom, and social justice. Cindy Sheehan is a whirling dervish of ideas and action. She has come up with a Mario Savio-inspired idea to fight the powers that be. Aware of the new — old — gender-gap Barack Obama has created with his vanity, Cindy will move to DC and do non-violent social action and protest EVERY DAY no matter if she´s the only one to attend.
She has adopted deeply finessed and male-friendly names for the project: PEACE OF THE ACTION and ALL-IN FOR PEACE. Both of which mirror B´Man´s multi-faceted blog name BUELAHMAN´S REDSTATE REVOLT.
Both B´Man and Cindy are non-partisan and both see the screaming need for the new model peace movement to speak to MEN. Both are well-aware that Big Sammy´s peace movement has three mainstreams: the leftist (real) socialist activist community, the new Black Power movement, and the Southern Christian libertarian movement, all of whom share certain cultural mores as well as a love of peace and freedom. They (We, really, as I lend the support which I´m able legally to do) never back off and always present themselves as they are. Non-violence — other than in self-defense — is the touchstone, but LANGUAGE INCLUDING DIRTY AND CRASS JOKES is a tool in the toolkit especially when trawling for disaffected men. So, sure both B´Man and Cindy spare nothing at all in their contempt for Bush, Cheney, Obama, and Emanuel.
I am happy to report that their disaffection and fatigue lasted only ONE DAY and they are back at their posts with all their usual enthusiasm and drive. NB: I suffer from this, too, and usually require three days to recover. (Thanks, B´man, Cindy Sheehan, D-Val, Pain, Itself, Ichabod, Jay Midnyte, Dr Marc Faber, and Fredrick Schwartz for kicking me in the ass and getting me back in the game). I´m angrier than ever but I´m not stopping until Big Sammy´s corporate fascism is crushed by the weight of public opinion or I die, whichever comes first!).
Yes, that does mean continually fucking around and busting on Barack Obama mercilessly and it means fucking around and busting on President Mittens Romney in 2012, too. It means calling out the Town peoples´ archaic views on Single Payer health insurace (Baucus and ObamaCare suck cock.). It means calling out “Teabaggers” for misunderstanding American history and trashing Ron Paul´s vision of Southerners en masse using their own history, Declaration Of Independence, Constitution to express their own legitimate gripes for yet another opportunity to mis-characterize “socialism” and alienate themsleves completely from a peace movement which would have accepted them as brothers and sisters without question had they not made hateful assholes of themselves.
The tea-baggers and Town people are hardly the Southern Christian libertarians I refer to. The latter HAVE NO BIGOTRY BECAUSE BIGOTRY IS A SECULAR SIN IN LIBERTARIAN PHILOSOPHY OF TODAY. Jeez, I guess I have to give the fine folks at Black Agenda Report credit for being more tolerant of TeaBaggers and Town People than I do. While I understand it, Mr Dixon, Mr Ford and Ms Kimberley ENCOURGE it because they feel the bite of the fascist teeth more than I do. For B.A.R. if it´s loud, angry, and peaceful dissent against Obama and the Big Sammy Elitist Cartel, it works for B.A.R.!
El Espiritu De La Escalera
Even though I´m boring on this subject, I´m staying with it. I don´t want to end up as “Stan”.
BuelahMan, Cindy Sheehan, Joshua Smith, Hans Michael, Sovereign John, and Jason Bermas of Antiwar.com are not giving up no matter what obstacles are placed in their way:
Upon the gears, wheels and levers, folks. I know I did and will continue to do the same. I cannot reveal my direct action against The Fascist State Of Big Sammy, but as always my home is open asylum to whoever fought this battle in earnest. Bush/Rush dittoheads and Obama-luv-bots as well as varied and sundry Republicrats and Demopublicans ARE NOT WELCOME!
Dennis kicked ass. The only point of disagreement I had with his presentation was his advocacy of subordinating a NEW CENTRAL BANK or a FED that has the same modest role and all the restrictions which Central Banks all over the world have, in a role subordinate to the US TREASURY. I understand his not wanting it under direct Congressional control because of the moral hazard implicit in all politicians´doings. I also llike the idea of the Treasury and Fed working to support each others´ONCE UPON A TIME goals of balance, savings and investment in times of plenty, of small direct transfers to the neediest in times of lean from the Treasury with a less iinflation hawkishness.
FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING MUST GO BECAUSE OF THE MOST BACCHANALIAN POSSIBILITIES INHERENT IN THEM. NO BANK NO MATTER IF TOO BIG TO FAIL SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH 200-1 LEVERAGE.
I know that there are special “liiberal” American code words that Demopublican “liberal” peiople don´t like, but I´m writing them, anybody. There actually are many good reasons why younger Americans have given up on Obama.
Lots of students and recent graducaTES are beginning to see Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Peter Schiff, Adam Kokesh, Barbara Lee,Sheila Jackson-Lee, Tom Campbell and Cynthia McKinney as the intelligent ones on peace, freedom, social justice, and STEADY ECONOMIC GROUTH IN CONDITIONS OF PEACE as the way forward in a bi-partisan way: Campbell Kokesh, Paul are libertarian Republicans. Kucinich, Jackson-Lee, and Lee are Democrats. McKinney is a Green.
What does label or skin-color have to do with the USA correcting past wrongs? What do “developed pectoral muscles and “feeling good about America” have to do with a society whose government does its share to help the people instead of rob from them and their grandchildrens´ futures. What does cheerleading over a dark complected fascist instead of a Big Pink Fascist have to do with being able once again to use fiscal and monetary policy in the ways the great minds like Adam Smith,Bellegarigue, Marx (for social understanding) Ricardo,Keynes,Veblen, Galbraith, Fisher, Markowitz, Tobin,Coase, Fama, Roll, Ross, Scholes, Marcuse, and Angela Davis?
As polticians, sadly only two have captuared the eye of the younger student activist community as ObamaRahma fades: Reps Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, the LIBERTY TWINS. One can break with the old a bit and include last year´s USA Green Party nominee, former Democratic front-bencher in the House, Cynthia McKinney whose actions with FREE GAZA have made her a name once againg, and call them the LIBERTY SET. Add in the great contrarian, and now candidate for the Republican nomination for Junior U.S. Senator from CT, Peter Schiff, and call them the LIBERTY QUADS.
Kucinich, McKinney, Paul and Schiff. The people are the REAL CHANGE if t hey if choose to be and I can´t think of more able people to represent the peoples wishes than Kucinich, McKinney, Paul and Schiff.
The public in America may be a little slower on this stuff than people who live elsewhere, because of the infantilizing corporate media. I se nse that Americans are tired of being told THEMATIC overtures of “only in America can an upper middle class multi-racial prep school fancy-boy rise from the gutter (jajajajaja!) of Kansas and Maui to become RULER OF THE UNIVERSE”. That´s BULLSHIT.
People want to live in a society which offers the maximum personal freedom and presents a social contract designed to bring out the maximum personal responsibility. Constant War. Confiscatory taxation which merely lines he pockets of war profiteers — 53c out of every tax dollar collected funds war and exploitation abroad and at home. A domestic police state. An irrelevant constition and a perfect set-up for VOLUNTARY FASCISM because of a corporatist meda. People want neither the ANGRY FASCISM OF SARAH PALIN or the DO-GOODER SMILING FASCISM OF OBAMA´S NANNY STATE.
Those four prove with every TV and radiio interview how South America got it right by being fiscally and monetarily prudent so as to create the budget supluses that go to create a large social sector inclusive of Universal Single Payer care, not give-aways to Big Pharma, Big HiMOs, and Big Insurance. And guess what? Even with the social spending there´s plenty of surplus left in AMERICAN´S #1 NEW VILLAIN, PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ´s national income accounts.
The gossip I´ve heard is that the USD as a reserve currency and a currency with any power at all could crack as early as this coming Monday or two weeks from Monday or 3 months from Monay, but IT´S COMING. Even if Obama and team ended all US wars on Monday and closed all the bases and stopped stealing from the poor to give to the Ultra Rich, it´s too late. Obama should be FORCED to do those things anyway, but the debt´s too big, the deficits are too big, and the police state and taxes are crushing entrepreneurial enthusiasm as the prospect of STATUS QUO IN HEALTH CARE or the WORSE option: O´BaucusCare is creating a work force and mangerial force whose medical bills could break them and certainly robs them of a stake in society.
Ger mad at me for writing this stuff. I was the one who cashed up in January 2007, thogh, so who´s the fool in the game. The FOOL who´s writing these words made a good decision then and in promoting the profiles of Kucinich, McKinney, Paul and Schiff doesn´t expect automatic assent. Just using critical thinking skill instead of “feelings” to contradict me would be a baby step in America´s sef-deinfantilization.
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