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Okay so I've been out of town a couple days... and now that i'm back... no ones talking about the crisis in Canada?

HELLO??? 

So the Queen of ENGLAND steps in to stop Canada from ousting PM Stephen Harper by dissolving Canada's "Congress" Parliament til after the new year... and its not NEWSWORTHY???

HELLO???

Right wing radical Stephen Harper is victorious in similarly questionable erection results as ole George W... just at a time when the US population had decidedly moved to the left.. in disagreement with radical right... all of a sudden Sarkozy gets erected in France, Harper in Canada, Rudd in Australia, Calderon in Mexico... and dozens more highly suspect upsets by the right in formerly leftist strongholds... hmmm

Then a flurry of "trade negotiations" privatizations and handshake pacts occur transferring power and resources into the hands of a few elite multinationals. The SPP (security and prosperity partnership) is formed, talk of the North American Union happens in secret with US, Mexico and Canadian leaders.... and no written agreements are made as it is an act of treason for to enter the nation into any agreements without proper authorization... 
now one of the handshakers.... is getting ousted from power... can't have that...

So Harper with an approval rating of 46%, realizes that in Canada... people ARE paying attention... Learns his citizens got their Congress (parliament) to schedule a no confidence vote for today...that would have removed him from power.... so he had his Alberto Gonzales-like Atty General last Friday... enact a little known loophole in Canadian law... that permits the Queen of England to disband their Parliament until after january... keeping him in office  Meanwhile here in the US we consumers... with the most corrupt leader in modern history in the whitehouse having an approval rating of 14%... can't even muster the attention to censure him or his administration... 
but yes, lets berate the auto leaders for flying jets... lets get our undies in bunches about the mumbai massacre... lets speak of the tragedy of 3 people dying during shopping outings on Black Friday... but lets miss the whole point.

Do you have any idea? The events surrounding us beg for far more participation than armchair quarterbacking and complete ignorance?

We no longer talk of the Bankers and Government officials and Bush Policies that have bankrupted our nation... 
we no longer are outraged at largest consolidation of wealth into the hands of a precious few... the world has ever seen... (adjusted for current economic values)... our media handlers have us on to the NEXT outrage... and their clueless lapdogs like Dose... react with knee-jerk response.

Just a tip... you might want to look up the SPP and the NAU, look up the "oil sands" of Alberta and the port being constructed in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, look up the Texas Corridor and what it intends to streamline... perhaps you might begin to see why Harper HAD to stay in power... you may then want to look closer at the bailout and what caused it... learn about the "purposely" unregulated Credit Default Swops... and how they—not Freddy and Fanny—killed our nation. Ask why Bush isn't doing anything but dancing and playing while the US tumbles into a depression....

perhaps... its because thats been the plan all along? a New World Order....connect the dots...buy a vowel...
the game is nearly over... and we stand to lose alot more than a door prize. 

We need to be CITIZENS in this democratic republic, not just consumers... it is our responsibility to future generations as well as the citizens of other nations of the world who cannot effect change in the US... 
but are very much victims of US imperialism-- er... Policy

thoughts anyone?

The term is derived from the opening line of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet The Crisis, published in 1776. 
"These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman,” 

Such is the beginning... and the origin of the name Winter Soldier... 
Watch a broadcast from a packed House Congressional hearing called Winter Soldiers on the Hill These are decorated soldiers testifying before Congress about their Iraq experience. 

Like the original Winter Soldier Testimony In 1971 by Vietnam Soldiers who spoke of the experiences  while deployed in Vietnam, many of these accounts are the first time citizens hear of rampant  improprieties by our forces. 

However this month is the first time that Congress has allowed these decorated US soldiers who've honorably served multiple tours in Iraq... to tell their stories into Congressional Record.

What do you think of a nation who only uses propaganda by paid Generals and contractors to tell the "story"  of whats happening in Iraq?

Sure we've all heard of a soldier who endured their tour, many will not talk about any problems, some don't even know they are doing anything wrong. But occasionally, we get soldiers who can describe their actions, who are capable (at great personal risk) of defining the improprieties... others simply don't talk about it.

My father flew bombers over europe during WWII... He was the arial photographer and side gunner. He was tasked with filming targets and missions. He never spoke of his time in the war... ever, Upon his death a few years ago, while moving my mother from our home, I stumbled upon several photo albums ... most showed B17s over germany and france bombing cities and factories... but most horrifying, were the photos he took upon landing in Germany... of the aftermath of war... the up close reality of the bombs, as wells as the horrors brought upon german citizens... from their own soldiers.

Listen to these accounts — what do you think?

What goes round comes round... live by the sword.... or in Catholic doctrine... the seven sins involve an eternity of betrayal by the very tool you used for wrong while living...
Ann Coulter has recently broken her jaw... and now has her yap tightly wired shut. A moment of silence from the beetchin barbie doll of the right... the wunderkind of insult... the uberkind of partisanship.... oh my how sweet universal justice is...

This is, after all, the woman who called 2004 VP nominee John Edwards the F-word in 2007 while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

"I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the 'gay hate word' " so I'm -- so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I think I'll just conclude here and take your questions."

The rehab reference was a right-wing joke (and we use the term loosely) about actorIsaiah Washington using that word for his “Grey’s Anatomy” co-star T.R. Knight and been forced by the network to undergo psychological treatment.

But her unfunny comments drew criticism from all fields, Democrats, Republicans and gay rights groups.

But here’s the best part about the Coulter broken jaw news. No really, this is really good: Seems she has a brand new book titled "GUILTY” due out in early January and, of course, was all booked on TV and radio talk shows to discuss the “much-needed reality check on a Left gone wild," declares the book's jacket.

Her latest work reportedly exposes and mocks the media's love affair with all things Democrat and all things President-elect Barack Obama.

Too bad Ann won’t be able to say a word about her new book.

That’s just a gosh darn shame.

Bush has buried language giving him and all his cohorts 
retroactive immunity for all their actions since they took office in 2000. 

Within an important bill that redefines the treatment of detainees... 
Bush's immunity clause fixes a huge flaw in his imperial pResidency 
that last year's Supreme Court ruling left open. 

They ruled in another case that UN international war criminal rules do apply 
to detainees in US custody... therefore Bush and his team of war hawks 
would face at least felony charges and possibly death for their cruel and illegal actions.


Yep BushCo can't rely on anyone else to support their unlawful actions, 
so they must pen redemption in a bill that sets straight their abuses 
before obama and the democrat-led Congress take rule.

So, is this what you hawk-blogging "fiscal-conservative" people 
consider ethical, moral or honorable?

why would anyone want a vicious occupying force with complete immunity and savage weapons to leave their neighborhoods?

Sure, lets all pretend we are doing nothing bad in Iraq... those silly people just don't understand the great sacrifice we Americans are doing to provide them a better life...

and I suppose you believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy too?

Its taken more than a year... most people never figured it would be signed... but it seems the Iraq Government is ready to renew the US /Iraq agreement.. with the provisions that 
1. No longer will the armed thugs the US calls Contractors (mercenary terrorists) be able to roam the country with complete immunity. They are going to be responsible for their actions to the people whom they - supposedly - were defending.  
2. troops will be removed from the urban areas by Jan20 and fully removed within 3 years.

So far the word from BushCo... is that they simply agreed to "strive" for observing the timelines... and their spokes-bimbo Dana Perino... actually said... "and alot of things can happen in that time"
so is it any wonder that iraqi people have actually taken to fist-fighting in Congress and massive protests in the streets.... because their leaders... ASSURED them that the terms were binding and legit..... else they would never sign....

so how do you feel about this administration lying to the very nation they supposedly came to save?  When do these piles of lies finally accumulate to the size of impeachable... or at least reprehensible? 
If this is the kind of democracy we're trying to promote.... are we deserving of the horrid collapse we're about to descend into....

what do you think? and what are you prepared to do about it?

Today, Ted Stevens — Alaska’s defeated Republican senator and a convicted felon — was granted time on the Senate floor to deliver his farewell speech. Stevens said that he still can’t believe that he’s “privileged to speak on the floor of the United States Senate.” He also added that he “doesn’t have a rear-view mirror. I look only forward, and I still see the day when I can remove the cloud that currently surrounds me.”
He was convicted of accepting bribes from everyone from logging industry to the oil industry... This is the same Senator who was put in charge of overseeing the regulation of the Internet by the Bush Administration... Where upon he several times extolled his expertise of  "that series of tubes" known as the internet. 
His "oversight combined with Bush's FCC hatchetman Kevin Martin... have ushered in the greatest media consolidation and privatization of our public airspace in its history.
What do you think of a Congress who praises a man who's whole career is woven with corruption and cronyism... to an extreme? 

Isn't it funny how the right always seems to have the "right" answers for everything... and it never involves the right? Nope, the banking troubles... caused by the left, the war, the deficit the decline of our society and all its ills... yep, liberals... the disgusting state of our union with its unregulated and unprecedented power and wealth-grab by the aristocracy, the systematic deconstruction of our rights and freedoms... caused by socialists.

Do they really think they can just will away reality and truth? Did they watch the Wizard of Oz so many times they think they can just click their heels and wish themselves back to Oz? Well you'd certainly think so round here.

They've fabricated a world that makes the yellow brick road of Oz, with its flying monkeys, talking scarecrows and witches from the four directions, seem par for the course. But even so,  they seem as spellbound as the wicked witches minions when it comes to following commands... O wee O, oh waaay oh...

The financial troubles we face today had nothing to do with 8 years of right-wing ideology and their regulators asleep at the wheel... O wee O

Extolling a vibrant fiction of scary trees throwing apples, flying monkeys and goons, they forget the fact that it was right wing leadership who passed the bankruptcy act for the credit industry and has emptied our nation's pockets to pay off the very crooks who stole our nation...  oh waaay oh

Or that their privatization policies and consolidation principles allow multinational corporations to hold us hostage for more ransom daily... or face millions of jobs lost... their foreign policy of imperialism has helped corporations expand to middle eastern oil fields, chinese labor pools, latin american resources and simply condoned diabolic chaos and genocide throughout the world and even within our secret "detention centers". O wee O, Oh way Oh!

Not even a wizard behind a curtain serving up their style of sensationalism and grandeur seems to be able to break the spell cast on these "fiscal con-servant-ives". They handily regurgitate hate-speak and lies while forming a fabric of conviction to justify every ill that befalls their little world of make-believe.

As our nation crashes into the very chaos that I and so many "rational lefties" have been warning about for years, these right-wing minions have assumed the costumes and garish colors of Oz and seem to prefer them.

They no longer cling to their true fiscal conservative (black and white tv) roots... they've traded them in for technicolor HDTV realities of consumption and consent. Ignoring the harshness of a desperate truth, they are content with their lazy-boys and surround sound, they enjoy visions of munchkins, and lollypops with occasional visits from witches and wizards.

Well we grayscale farmhands have tried again and again to awaken our  "dorothy" friends who fell in with a pen full of pigs and their slop. Awaken them to the reality of the world they truly live in... which ain't no technicolor fantasy. Its troubled, suffering and in dire straits. But even in the darkest moments, our community -our nation- has proven we can, not only seek that sliver-lining in those dark clouds, but we can sew together a world of cooperation and community if only we can all learn to face the truth; that we're not lions, scarecrows, tin men and wizards, but people struggling together to make a just and sustainable future. And that in that struggle, we build tighter bonds and stronger communities than anything in make-believe.

I pray that our Right-wing Dorothies realize there's no place like home... and no benefit to clinging to their technicolor lifestyles of consumption and greed. For it is but a dream, and no wizard or witch can can keep them from realizing there's no place like hope... and no better time than now to awaken to it.

To understand the meaning of the U.S. election results, it is worth looking back to the moment when everything changed for the Obama campaign. It was, without question, the moment when the economic crisis hit Wall Street.

Up to that point, things weren’t looking all that decisive for Barack Obama. The Democratic National Convention barely delivered a bump, while the appointment of Sarah Palin seemed to have shifted the momentum decisively over to John McCain.

Then, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed, followed by insurance giant AIG, then Lehman Brothers. It was in this moment of economic vertigo that Obama found a new language. With tremendous clarity, he turned his campaign into a referendum into the deregulation and trickle down policies that have dominated mainstream economic discourse since Ronald Reagan. He said his opponent represented more of the same while he stood for a new direction, one that would rebuild the economy from the ground up, rather than the top down.

Obama stayed on this message for the rest of the campaign and, as we just saw, it worked. The question now is whether Obama will have the courage to take the ideas that won him this election and turn them into policy. Or, alternately, whether he will use the financial crisis to rationalize a move to what pundits call “the middle” (if there is one thing this election has proved, it is that the "peoples" middle is far to the left of its previously advertised address).

Predictably, Obama is already coming under enormous pressure to break his election promises, particularly those relating to raising taxes on the wealthy and imposing real environmental regulations on polluters. All day on the business networks, we hear that, in light of the economic crisis, corporations need lower taxes, and fewer regulations—in other words, more of the same.

The new president’s only hope of resisting this campaign being waged by the elites is if the remarkable grassroots movement that carried him to victory can somehow stay energized, networked, mobilized—and most of all, critical. Now that the election has been won, this movement's new missions should be clear: loudly holding Obama to his campaign promises, and letting the Democrats know that there will be consequences for betrayal.

The first order of business—and one that cannot wait until inauguration—must be halting the robbery-in-progress known as the “economic bailout.” Author, Activist, Journalist, Naomi Klein, has spent the past month examining the loopholes and conflicts of interest embedded in the U.S. Treasury Department’s plans. She's just published feature articles in Rolling Stone, The New Trough, and her column in The Nation, Bush’s Final Pillage. Both these pieces argue that the $700-billion “rescue plan” should be regarded as the Bush Administration’s final heist.

Not only does it transfer billions of dollars of public wealth into the hands of politically connected corporations (a Bush specialty), but it passes on such an enormous debt burden to the next administration that it will make real investments in green infrastructure and universal health care close to impossible. If this final looting is not stopped (and yes, there is still time), we can forget about Obama making good on the more progressive aspects of his campaign platform, let alone the hope that he will offer the country some kind of grand Green New Deal.

Klein's best selling book, The Shock Doctrine details how terrible thefts have a habit of taking place during periods of dramatic political transition. When societies are changing quickly, the media and the people are naturally focused on big “P” politics—who gets the top appointments, what was said in the most recent speech. Meanwhile, safe from public scrutiny, far reaching pro-corporate policies are locked into place, dramatically restricting future possibilities for real change. Wonder where Cheney's been since the "collapse" ?... busy busy busy...

But it’s not too late to halt the robbery in progress, though it cannot wait until inauguration. Several great initiatives to shift the nature of the bailout are already underway, including bailoutmainstreet.com. I added my name to the “Call to Action: Time for a 21st Century Green America” and invite you to do the same. Stopping the bailout profiteers is about more than money. It is about democracy. Specifically, it is about whether Americans will be able to afford the change they have just voted for so conclusively.

 ( much verbage taken from Naomi Klein)

Yesterday Myra Sancheck did a piece on how Milwaukee needs more people to help be poll workers... yet the story never told viewers HOW?
Do they REALLY want to help voters get out their vote? 
Studies have shown overwhelmingly when more voters come out, Democrats win... 
So who's FOX trying to help?
Heres the story

Want a REAL bailout? Here's one you won't hear from Bushco or McSame.... even from Obama or the independents... why are we nationalizing our debt? Why are we socializing the banking industry while big Oil gets INSANELY RICH ON OUR OIL? For 8 years BushCo has been privatizing our profits and now on his way out, he's nationalizing the debit his practice of no oversight has created.

Gee, wonder why the gas prices are so low? Perhaps somebody doesn't want you to figure out what's been saving other nations around the world from poverty...they take back their natural resources. Drill Baby Drill.... what's that mean? Give BigOil the RIGHTS to all our natural resources in pristine Alaska and off our continental shores.... but WHY? Plenty of scientists and businessmen have shown us the math,  it won't be enough to quench our thirsts and it won't go online for several years... meanwhile we are heading into a great depression and tanking the world's economy with our debts.

As much as the righties here will hate to admit, Venezuela and many South American nations have begun to be more prosperous and elevated their peoples standards, by reclaiming their natural resources and renegotiating terms with multinationals.

Gee, all the major "trouble-spots" on earth, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Congo, Sudan, Myanmar, Georgian Republics... nearly all the world's tension spots sit ontop natural resources and involve who controls them... We're spending $12 Billion dollars a month to stabilize Iraq so Bush's Oil and Gas buddies can have free oil... to sell to us at $4/gal....

Dispite shortages, rising consumption, and huge government subsidies, no major oil company has built a refinery in 20 years...perhaps its because they are content watching the US taxpayers go broke providing them free military and economic leverage abroad. It certainly secures them foreign resources without effecting their bottom line.

Why has the cold war has been re-ignited,  why? cuz Russia sees our imperialist actions with missile bases and military aggressions in the middle east and abroad as a threat to world resources.... its simply doing to its resource-rich former republics, what we're doing to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and the middle east. BushCo's actions have been drawing them into that move for 8 years- and who wins... his friends in the military industrial complex.

Every nation that has "renegotiated" the terms by which their national resources are extracted, has improved the living standards of their peoples substantially. And why not us? Its not like the execs from BigOil haven't been swimming in profits from their last 8 years of unregulated acquisitions and growth. And don't forget the crisis that 9/11 averted, namely ENRON... who's entire federal case notes were lost in that mysterious third building that collapsed by itself that day.

Hey, If we're all losing everything to bail out the fat cats of Wall Street and all their investors... lets rethink the wealth of our nation and how we give it away? Just like Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela, we don't kick out BigOil as much as renegotiate as partners, not pawns.

Sounds crazy but think about it... the actions BushCo and his friends in finance (his base) will sink us into an economic dark age. They will create a two class society the likes of which has not been seen on earth since the last Dark Ages... it that what you want?

Every nation in modern history who's suffered similar financial destabilizations and government bailouts, has ended up either overthrowing their government or becoming much more authoritarian.

Now I know the knee-jerk reaction is to cry commie, but think about it... our free market capitalism died a few weeks ago with the bailout. Nearly every successful society in history has been a mix of capitalism with socialism. If we're to pay for the deeds of those who twisted our society for their enrichment, shouldn't we be able to use our natural resources for currency as well as our pocketbooks?  Just wondering what everyone thinks?

Wonderful tune to call voters out for Obama!

is it any wonder no one seems to agree... is it any wonder so many people vote against their best interests? Take a close look at this graphic... it shows the way humans have shaped themselves along two basic models... a Nurturing Parent or a Strict Father. Many of us have a combination of these thinking processes engaged all the time... nurturing parent at home, strict father at work... or visa versa....   all round the world...


any thoughts as we enter the final weeks of the race... and things get really nasty... are you following a strict father or nurturing parent model in your decision process???

It seems the media would like us to spend time wondering about Obama's possible ties to John Ayres...
Giving hours of valuable news time to "researching" the origin and depth of their "potential" relationship.

Fine, if they think its important to their consumers to become preoccupied with the potential trouble an activist from the 1960's might bring to an Obama whitehouse... Then why do they spend precious few minutes mentioning John McCain's relationship to the S&L crisis of the 80's and 90's?

Now Sarah Palin joins the media to desparately try to establish ties that Obama and Ayres somehow planted bombs together in the 60's.... when Barack was 5yrs old.

But how bizzare is it that the media has been so closed-lipped about John McCain's indisputably close connections to convicted felon, Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan and the FACT that McCain WAS one of the Keating Five, indicted in the infamous Keating Five scandal that cost 100,000 citizens their jobs and savings, and taxpayers more than $120 Billion Dollars (in 1990's Dollars)?

How is it that we're told to not pay attention to the FACT that Sen McCain, the ONLY major party candidate in History, was rebuked, reprimanded, censured and admonished by a Congressional Ethics Committee involving a financial crisis triggered by DEREGULATION???

gee- no possible correlation here —right?  No need for young voters to be troubled about questionable political pandering from 30years ago....

So tell us good McCain supporters, how is it that the "maverick " senator from Arizona spent weeks sitting in the congressional hot seat with cameras clicking and films recording as hs exploits and actions while being questioned regarding his close family friend and now nearly forgotten crook Charles Keating?

So I guess we really shouldn't be concerned he pushed for deregulation that led to the nation's biggest corruption scandal (besides ENRON) - involving banks, citizen's retirements,  saving&loans and serious economic stress....

There's really no story that McCain now today, during the greatest financial challenge since the depression, is again more pushing for further deregulation...





who's being fed a load of white noise here?  one-time political radical speculation vs proven long-time involvement with convicted white collar connections within the banking industry?

Which do you think is more important during an election?
I guess the media thinks the less you know about McCain... the better his chances.

Fare Imbalanced???   —you Betcha!