Will the Right Turn (More) Violent? Post-health care reform will the Right's gloves really come off? And has the GOP made a horrible political miscalculation?...
The Democrats are the new Republicans, and the Republicans are batshit crazy...and the left is totally ignored!
Obama health insurance requirement taken from GOP
GOP assails health coverage requirement … even though they invented it
Health reform and you: A new guide - Who pays? Who benefits? And what about those in between?
In health bill, Obama attacks wealth inequality. Gap between economic well-being of the sick, healthy has been growing
Jesus Camp: The American Taliban (French Documentary)
GlennBeckistan:
MMFA President Burns: "Glenn Beck Is The Single Most Dangerous Person In This Country"
Welcome to Glennbeckistan - Where the Tea Party Rules and Tea-hadis Roam
Below: Where the American Taliban gets their one-sided "news", and when they're polled it shows they're not reality-based...but who cares about reality and facts??? (see the "Jesus Camp" video above)
A Harris poll released on March 24 found that a majority of Republican respondents believe that President Obama "is a socialist," "wants to take away Americans' right to own guns," "is a Muslim," "wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one world government," and "has done many things that are unconstitutional." The findings follow a year of such smears and attacks on Obama by conservatives. Fully 24% of Republicans believe that "he may be the Anti-Christ" and 22% believe "he wants the terrorists to win."
No surprise that Harris poll finds Republicans believe GOP smears of Obama
The Harris Poll - "Wingnuts" and President Obama: A socialist? A Muslim? Anti-American? The Anti-Christ? Large minorities of Americans hold some remarkable opinions
Quarter of Republicans Think Obama May Be the Anti-Christ
"Conservative Woodstock?" Fox News' all-day promotion of anti-Reid tea party rally
Editor’s Note: Oklahoma-based journalist Richard Fricker was with his wife on a spring-break vacation to Washington when he came face to face with the Tea Party furor.
In this first-person account, Fricker describes how a cell-phone comment apparently upset the protesters, who chased him and called him (cover your ears!) a “professor”:
When I visited the Capitol grounds on March 21, the day the House of Representatives passed healthcare reform, I was aware that some protesters there had been directing violence, threats and insults against members of Congress, but I was surprised when I ended up on the receiving end of some abuse myself.
"You need to riot": Right-wing uses violent rhetoric
David Bender and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., discuss some of the biggest news stories of the past week that the mainstream media either didn't cover in depth, or just didn't cover at all.
Helen Thomas talks about how the White House Press Corps rolled over and played dead during the Bush years and was gung-ho for war, and how Obama lost credibility when he dodged her question about Israel having nukes:
Netanyahu Humiliates Obama with another E. Jerusalem Housing Expansion; Israeli Troops allegedly used live Ammo; UK expels Mossad Chief
Israel rules, Washington follows
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Who's to blame for the Iraq war?
Dogs attack police cruiser:
THis is the guy that has been advocating all this shit.
ReplyDeleteTOo bad he does not talk about his SOCIALIST DISABILITY check that he receives from the gubmint. This is one crazy guy with a huge following. check some of the wacked comments.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/
Hello, everyone!
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The BRAD SHOW interview
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http://www.bradshow.com/Transcripts/RayMcGovern_061105.htm
ProudPrimate [Moderator] 17 hours ago in reply to xyoungblood
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I see it the same way you do. I would frame it this way:
Ever see an episode of that BBC series "DANGER UXB" (UXB standing for "unexploded bomb")? The stories were about the Blitz in London, and the men who found unexploded bombs in the basements of buildings, and with pistol drills and wrenches had to remove the firing mechanism. Sort of "grandpa's version of The Hurt Locker".
If Obama is truly the Antichrist, as 24% of Republicans suspect, or a puppet of Brzezinski as many good honest Truthers assume, or just a sellout and extremely slick fraud, as Libertarians seem to think, it will not be certain for a while yet. The mere fact that he has not reversed decades of US militarism in his first year in office is not proof of the above. Remember how long this has been going on.
Gen. Smedley Butler said, in a speech in 1935:
I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras “right” for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested....
I too am deeply troubled and sorrowful to see Sec. Clinton seem to be furthering the longstanding regime-change machinery of the State Dept. in Honduras, and against Venezuela.
But I am hedging my bets. When you are removing the detonator from a bomb that big, you don't want to be hasty, and drop the damn thing. After all the millions of innocent victims of American militarism since Vietnam and even before (think Philippines ca. 1900) scores of new victims, as tragic as they are, must be seen in perspective.
With a stronger political position, as I expect will be evident in six months or a year, Change is still credible. Nuclear reduction will have to pass the Senate, and how many Republicans do you think will vote for it???
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-41955389
ProudPrimate [Moderator] 17 hours ago in reply to Terrible
ReplyDeleteI suspect it's less the AEI crowd than the Alex Jones crowd who use the expression "God Emperor". People I used to have the highest respect for, including Jones and Webster Tarpley, have been promulgating this meme for a couple of years now. On the opposite side of the table you've got other prominent voices, well publicized by Jones over the years, like Ray McGovern and John Perkins, who see Obama's position as quite difficult and dangerous, McGovern quoting (to Brad Friedman) at some length from James Douglass's awesome book, JFK and the Unspeakable, and Perkins in a more direct if less intense way talking to Jones about what serious limits BHO faces, at least so far.
I find it head shaking time, whenever I hear some of the Ron Paul gang (and I love Ron Paul, and put in my $100 for the first moneybomb) expressing belief that if he were president, we'd have pulled all the troops out of 700 bases by now, &c.
Bit of a rosy view, in my opinion.
Indeed, one of the clearest voices on the subject of The Deep State, as he likes to call it, referencing the crash at Susurluk (q.v.), Peter Dale Scott, considered it bold of Obama not to commit any more than 30k troopers into Afghanistan, calling it a sign of resistance on BHO's part.
And even Tarpley expressed some benefit of the doubt in talking about the comment by Richard Wolffe, "conspiracy or cockup", referring to the Christmas Bomber, and how the Obama team were angry when Patrick F. Kennedy of the State Department, a Neocon Bushist holdover, told a January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security that "revocation action would've disclosed what they were doing," Kennedy said that allowing the alleged terrorist to keep his visa would have "helped" federal investigators take down the entire network "rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort."
In short, the CIA overruled the policy that Abdulmutallab should have been put on the no-fly list.
Instead he appeared on Christmas Day, when all the politicians were far from the cameras, so they could be portrayed as feckless and ineffective.
If Tarpley with two books painting Obama as the most dangerous man in history can give him the benefit of the doubt, ie., that he was the victim of a False Flag propaganda attack by the CIA, that should give some of these talking-points-spewers some thinking to do.
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-41958422
ProudPrimate [Moderator] 16 hours ago in reply to plunger
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Ah, Plunger! So good to see your byline as always. You put me in mind of an awesome little quiz that I found thanks to Kevin Barrett. Have you seen it?
"Who's to blame for the Iraq war?"
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/03/13/whos-to-blame-for-the-iraq-war/
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-41960003
ProudPrimate [Moderator] 1 hour ago in reply to vince j
ReplyDeleteYes — and the heroic Sy Hersh who exposed the My Lei Massacre forty years ago was they guy the Abu Ghraib whistleblower knew he could trust.
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-42019331
ProudPrimate [Moderator] 1 hour ago in reply to LIVE FREE OR DIE
ReplyDeleteThat sure is the way to think if you want to use the least mental energy. So easy on the old noggin — just lump them all together and feel smug about it. No sense wasting time reading all those old dusty books, listening to all those old black and white videos, filling up notebooks and getting paper cuts.
No point in reviewing the work, say, of the Church Committee, how much excellent evidence they compiled against the dogged resistance of Richard Helms and his cohorts, an indelible record that still today in many important ways protects the republic from those same conspirators.
Just say, "they're all equally bad".
Or, just say "sorry Mrs. B — the dog ate my homework."
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/wikileaks-release-video-civilians-journalists-murdered-airstrike/#comment-42018789
Proud Primate's website, I've had it in my links on the right for a long time:
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Big Jim [Moderator] 22 hours ago
ReplyDeleteHat tip, schmat tip. If it's good stuff, pass it along post haste.
PS- I wish I got to the draft sooner. "Communication breakdown."
Exactly! Just pass important information and fuck the hat tips. If you're worried about a hat tip, then you're not worried about passing information.
Did you fall for the propaganda to be against the college loan bill? I hope not:
ReplyDeleteChalking Up a Win on Student Loans
By Jeff Cohen
March 28, 2010
Editor’s Note: Many progressives are angry at President Barack Obama’s concessions to corporate interests -- and even to Republicans -- on healthcare reform, essentially embracing Mitt Romney’s industry-friendly plan for Massachusetts and throwing away the sliver of a public option that the House had approved.
But, as Jeff Cohen notes in this guest essay, progressives won an important consolation prize when Congress tacked on to the healthcare "reconciliation" bill a direct student loan program, which cut bank subsidies out of the process:
We won!
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032810c.html
A Surprise Tea-Party Confrontation
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March 28, 2010
Editor’s Note: Oklahoma-based journalist Richard Fricker was with his wife on a spring-break vacation to Washington when he came face to face with the Tea Party furor.
In this first-person account, Fricker describes how a cell-phone comment apparently upset the protesters, who chased him and called him (cover your ears!) a “professor”:
When I visited the Capitol grounds on March 21, the day the House of Representatives passed healthcare reform, I was aware that some protesters there had been directing violence, threats and insults against members of Congress, but I was surprised when I ended up on the receiving end of some abuse myself.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032810d.html
The GOP's Double Standard on Anger
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March 27, 2010
In the wake of the bitter health-care debate and some ugly incidents of violence against Democratic members of Congress, there have been some belated – and halfhearted – appeals from Republican leaders to tamp down the fiery rhetoric on the Right.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032710a.html
The Politics of 'Corrections'
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March 25, 2010
Perhaps nothing measures the imbalance of media and political power in the United States better than the decision-making by major news organizations about when to issue “corrections.”
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/032510.html
City Of Chicago To Modernize Outdated Graft Programs
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FBI raids in Washtenaw, Lenawee counties tied to Michigan militia group pt 1
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Students Make 8,000 mpg Vehicle
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Megan Fox... and totally not health care reform
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Don't you "love" Meghann Kelly?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVwFzXFsveg
The End of the World 2 (Part 1)
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Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian militia group
ReplyDeleteFrom The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100328/METRO/3280313/Seven-arrested-in-FBI-raids-linked-to-Christian-militia-group=#ixzz0jX5vBcu1
Dan - it's matt.. wanted to check what you thought on healthcare, was hoping for some positive coverage and glad you gave some. It's not perfect, but far better than anything else brought to the 'reality' table in my lifetime. Especially for people who went through, or are going through, what you and the wife did.
ReplyDeleteDid you go to that blog meeting? I decided to get involved again and helping the O'Brien campaign. Give me a shout and we can talk. later...
PS. my email is matthew.l.(lastname)@fisglobal.com (just put the last name in the parens.. )
ReplyDeleteFinally some recognition for all our hard work and contributions,..
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His humor is so dry and his demeanor so cynical - it is really hard to tell.
But how can you not lub the guy.
Yeah, I saw your letter in the paper bashing Kanjorski and pro-O'Brien. No, I had a baseball draft, here's coverage of the blogger meeting though:
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As far as the health care bill, I'm with Chomsky and Kucinich: hold your nose and vote for it. I'm for single payer, and I think Pennsylvania will get it, one of the first states.
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