Friday, April 8, 2016

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These draft-dodging chickenhawks shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a gun.
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Let's be VERY clear about this...

Those Talking Heads have convinced themselves that people have 'short memories.'

Instead, it would seem that the dastardly internet has made warped historical thinking more readily available and PK's hack job will not be easily forgotten.

Pathetic to read PK going so rogue and out of touch.

Push back from the table and view this issue as defining.
Those voices you believed reflected wisdom maybe aren't so wise.
Robert Reich

Ordinarily I wouldn’t pick on a particular columnist but I respect Paul Krugman. Also, his perch at the New York Times gives him broad influence – especially just two and a half weeks before the important New York State primary. But his piece today (which I’ve attached) is shot through with errors.
1. The biggest Wall Street banks did indeed precipitate the crisis on Wall Street in 2008 because of their gambling in newfangled financial instruments and fancy derivatives even they didn't understand.
2. Their size did make a difference because they were so interconnected with other financial entities both in the U.S. and around the world that they were "too big to fail." Today's biggest Wall Street banks are much bigger than they were in 2008.
3. Size also has a bearing on their political influence. The reason the Glass-Steagall Act was scotched by Bill Clinton's administration, and the Clinton administration wouldn't agree with the CFTC to regulate derivatives, had a lot to do with the influence of Wall Street over the Clinton administration and over Congress. The political power of the biggest players on the Street is even larger today – as evidenced by their capacity to whittle back significant parts of Dodd-Frank in the regulatory process.
4. Breaking up the biggest banks isn’t a radical idea. In fact, many experts – including the current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (who’s a Republican and a former executive of Goldman Sachs), and the former head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas -- have called for exactly this.
5. Bernie's other ideas -- for a single-payer plan, and for free tuition at public institutions of higher education – are sensible, and also backed by many experts. It’s well-established that a single-payer plan would be far less costly and deliver far better care than our own system, which is based on private for-profit insurers. As to free tuition in public universities, we were well on the way to this goal in the 1950s and 1960s. It was and is a logical extension of free K-12 education.
6. Finally, the current brouhaha over who's "qualified to be president" was arguably started by Hillary Clinton. Personally, I think neither she nor Bernie should be calling the other unqualified, but to blame Bernie for this exchange is simply incorrect.
What do you think?
Sanders Over the Edge
The revolutionary isn’t cute anymore. NYTIMES.COM|BY PAUL KRUGMAN

Mary Stone I especially like this comment on the original NYT article by reader Karen Garcia:
"This essay is breathtaking in its dishonesty. Orwell could have used it as an example of the hack genre in his classic "Politics and the English Language."

PK sets up the fraud by citing "many if not most... wonks." He names not a single name; doing so might out them as campaign surrogates or advisers. If he were honest, he would have cited the 170 economists attesting to the soundness of Sanders's proposals.

There's more weasel-wording: "some" Sanders supporters are angry cult members. This is not only ridiculous, it's a lazy and shameful way to categorize the millions of people I would assume Hillary needs should she win the nomination.

And how about that over-hyped editorial board meeting? The News is owned by billionaire Mort Zuckerman, a Neocon war hawk who's given hundreds of millions to the Clinton foundation. Robert Reich has already made short work of the media "going bonkers" over Bernie's answers, which were essentially correct.

PK fails to note that Sanders let off his steam based upon reading a provocative misleading headline in the Washington Post -- another big media contributor to the Clinton foundation.

No surprise that the consolidated corporate-owned media are actually the ones going over the edge here, with their identical talking points coming straight from the Clinton campaign. Not one original thought among the slew of sponsored content propagandists with the nerve to call themselves pundits and journalists."

http://kmgarcia2000.blogspot.com/


Ralph Karmac shared Bill Hupp's post.



Erin Brockovich's photo.
People all over this nation are affected. This is criminal and a result of corruption and bribery at high levels.
Erin Brockovich

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I am sick and tired of the deception and the politics.
In a modern society drinking water and air is a basic human right.
And a slight subtle message attached. Can you see it?
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 Bernie Botz's post.


Note to Self's photo.

Yup. Just your heart. Service heals.




Its a brief read, but it is an exceptionally important one. Watch the video too, it is illuminating. We have demonized the poor because we have been told by our media to view them (erroneously, btw) as predominantly nonwhite. Actual fact: The majority of recipients of social welfare programs like SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, etc, are in fact white, but the white recipients of these benefits are not who we see in the media. Think about that.


VIDEO ON LINK: 
https://www.facebook.com/4wardUSA/videos/1006901806067812/
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"Take Our Country Back"... "Make America Great Again"... Hmmm?
The Game The Republican Party Has Been Playing Is Not About Facts Or Truth
It Is About Using Hate To Manipulate
When signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 President Johnson turned to Sargent Shriver, who was sitting next to him and said "We just lost the South." That was the moment when the mass exodus of the last remaining Dixie Democrats happened. They leapt in the arms of the Republican Party and the transformation of the two parties occurred. Republicans were overtaken by the "conservatives" (code name for selfish, backwards bigots) and the Democrats became the new liberals, the stand for civil rights and progressive Government.
In 2000 Right-wing judges overruled the voters and placed one of their puppets & his handler (Bush/Cheney) in the White House. What happened next was 8 years of unrestrained corruption, incompetence & greed that nearly destroyed this nation.
http://www.dailykos.com/…/1209…/-List-of-Bush-Admin-scandals
No amount of spin could erase the horror of the Bush/Cheney regime. Thus beforePresident Obama was sworn in they launched a nonstop, no holds barred smear campaign. Designed to dehumanize, demonize & tear him down on every level.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/robert-draper-anti-obama-ca…

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