The enemy is at home
rudkla - 1. Feb, 13:47
USA
Montag, 1. Februar 2010
The State of Obama’s Union
The Freeman
by Sheldon Richman
01/29/10
If we don’t get the analysis right, we won’t get the response right. Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. The threat is not from socialism in the sense of State ownership of the means of production, much less a proletarian uprising. Rather, he’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism, or corporatism. (Some would simply call it capitalism.) It is anti-free market, but not anti-business...
https://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/union-state-business/
The inalienable right to secede
LewRockwell.Com
by Scott Lazarowitz
02/01/10
During the time of President Obama’s State of the Union address, it was noted that HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan was Obama’s ‘Designated Survivor.’ This is a perfect example of how a government-monopolized defense system is actually a threat to the security of all Americans. If a catastrophe occurs in Washington, panic and vulnerability would spread across America, a result of an entire population compelled by force to be dependent on a centralized authority for their protection. Another catastrophe is the economic one that Americans have been suffering, due to the federal government’s monopoly in the production and distribution of money, thanks to President Abraham Lincoln and his War on Independence...
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz2.1.1.html
Obama 2.0: The ultimate insider
Orange County Register
by Alan Bock
01/29/10
Beyond the feisty and sometimes almost conversational tone and the interesting impulse to keep on pushing for some version of Obamacare even though it appears to be mathematically impossible to get it done this year, several things about President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address seem worthy of note. The first is related to the decision to keep pushing significant steps likely to lead toward a more comprehensive government takeover of health care despite the obvious fact that the political climate on the issue has changed drastically against it...
https://www.ocregister.com/articles/-231739--.html
By the way, free markets are free
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by George F. Smith
01/29/10
Having failed to learn what causes depressions and how to treat them when they arrive, our nation’s leaders are steering us straight into a monetary catastrophe. Predictably, the major media voices are clinging to the assurances of Keynesians, who see new wads of debt and paper money and conclude that the good times are ready to roll again; don’t pay any heed to the millions still looking for work. The free-lunch Keynesians even tell us how we got into the crisis and what saved us. Paul Krugman speaks for many when he blames market deregulation for the meltdown and hails the Fed’s printing press as our savior...
https://mises.org/daily/4036
Tax-tax-tax, spend-spend-spend
TCS Daily
by Larry Kudlow
01/29/10
The day after President Obama’s State of the Union, Congress went ahead and passed a $1.9 trillion — that’s right, $1.9 trillion — increase in the federal government’s debt limit. Let me tell you why this bothers me. First, in order to avoid bankruptcy, it means future tax rates are going to have to go up. Second, Mr. Bernanke bought a lot of our debt in 2009. That brought down the dollar and hiked the gold price. So, has Washington set us up for major inflation in the years ahead?
https://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=013010B
Constitutional oaths and a plea to President Obama
Last Free Voice
by Rhys M. Blavier
At this point you are probably wondering why I have spent almost a thousand words just to tell you want the different United States federal oaths are. It is very simple. OATHS MATTER! Whether we pay attention to them or not, our Constitution requires them and many people take them, which means MANY people are BOUND by them. Now, as you read through them, you might have noticed that there is only one thing which they ALL have in common (aside from all being very short). I’ll give you a minute to look back through them in case you haven’t noticed it yet...
https://tinyurl.com/ybpf9kx
We the corporations? I don’t think so
Huffington Post
by Barbra Streisand
01/28/10
Our country’s Founding Fathers never intended for monarchs or the business establishment to rule our nation. No, the Founders of our country began the Constitution with the words, We the People of the United States … That sentiment was again expressed when President Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address said it simply but powerfully, that our government was of the people, by the people and for the people. Corporations are not people nor are they individual citizens...
https://tinyurl.com/ycq4js7
Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
01/31/10
From indefinite detention and renditions to denial of habeas rights, from military commissions and secrecy obsessions to state secrets abuses, many of the defining Bush/Cheney policies continue unabated under its successor administration. Despite all that, there is substantial political pressure from all directions for Obama to reverse the very few decisions where he actually deviated from Bush/Cheney radicalism in these areas...
https://tinyurl.com/ybnxfyu
Crisis of the government party
Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan
01/29/10
Obama’s dilemma, evident in his State of the Union, is that the progressives, who were indispensable to his victories over Hillary, now feel betrayed, especially with apparent abandonment of health insurance reform, while conservative Democrats and independents, who were indispensable in giving Obama his November victory, are angry and alienated and disposed to vote Republican to stop what they see as America’s plunge into socialism. The non-negotiable demands of these two essential elements of Obama’s coalition are in irreconcilable conflict...
https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35391
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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America, Inc. Is Here. Get With The Program!
Let's abolish elections and instead, select our politicians by auction.
By Ernest Partridge
So let's get real! Let's simply acknowledge the obvious facts: that public offices serve private corporate interests, and that legislators' votes are bought and sold by bidders, politely referred to as "contributors." If this is the way things are let's bring the practice out into the open.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24587.htm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keynes
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Founding+Fathers
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+rights
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=indefinite+detention
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obamacare
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=elitism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporat
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=monetary
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Lazarowitz
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alan+Bock
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Kudlow
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rhys+M.+Blavier
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ernest+Partridge
by Sheldon Richman
01/29/10
If we don’t get the analysis right, we won’t get the response right. Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. The threat is not from socialism in the sense of State ownership of the means of production, much less a proletarian uprising. Rather, he’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism, or corporatism. (Some would simply call it capitalism.) It is anti-free market, but not anti-business...
https://www.thefreemanonline.org/tgif/union-state-business/
The inalienable right to secede
LewRockwell.Com
by Scott Lazarowitz
02/01/10
During the time of President Obama’s State of the Union address, it was noted that HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan was Obama’s ‘Designated Survivor.’ This is a perfect example of how a government-monopolized defense system is actually a threat to the security of all Americans. If a catastrophe occurs in Washington, panic and vulnerability would spread across America, a result of an entire population compelled by force to be dependent on a centralized authority for their protection. Another catastrophe is the economic one that Americans have been suffering, due to the federal government’s monopoly in the production and distribution of money, thanks to President Abraham Lincoln and his War on Independence...
https://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lazarowitz2.1.1.html
Obama 2.0: The ultimate insider
Orange County Register
by Alan Bock
01/29/10
Beyond the feisty and sometimes almost conversational tone and the interesting impulse to keep on pushing for some version of Obamacare even though it appears to be mathematically impossible to get it done this year, several things about President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address seem worthy of note. The first is related to the decision to keep pushing significant steps likely to lead toward a more comprehensive government takeover of health care despite the obvious fact that the political climate on the issue has changed drastically against it...
https://www.ocregister.com/articles/-231739--.html
By the way, free markets are free
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by George F. Smith
01/29/10
Having failed to learn what causes depressions and how to treat them when they arrive, our nation’s leaders are steering us straight into a monetary catastrophe. Predictably, the major media voices are clinging to the assurances of Keynesians, who see new wads of debt and paper money and conclude that the good times are ready to roll again; don’t pay any heed to the millions still looking for work. The free-lunch Keynesians even tell us how we got into the crisis and what saved us. Paul Krugman speaks for many when he blames market deregulation for the meltdown and hails the Fed’s printing press as our savior...
https://mises.org/daily/4036
Tax-tax-tax, spend-spend-spend
TCS Daily
by Larry Kudlow
01/29/10
The day after President Obama’s State of the Union, Congress went ahead and passed a $1.9 trillion — that’s right, $1.9 trillion — increase in the federal government’s debt limit. Let me tell you why this bothers me. First, in order to avoid bankruptcy, it means future tax rates are going to have to go up. Second, Mr. Bernanke bought a lot of our debt in 2009. That brought down the dollar and hiked the gold price. So, has Washington set us up for major inflation in the years ahead?
https://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=013010B
Constitutional oaths and a plea to President Obama
Last Free Voice
by Rhys M. Blavier
At this point you are probably wondering why I have spent almost a thousand words just to tell you want the different United States federal oaths are. It is very simple. OATHS MATTER! Whether we pay attention to them or not, our Constitution requires them and many people take them, which means MANY people are BOUND by them. Now, as you read through them, you might have noticed that there is only one thing which they ALL have in common (aside from all being very short). I’ll give you a minute to look back through them in case you haven’t noticed it yet...
https://tinyurl.com/ybpf9kx
We the corporations? I don’t think so
Huffington Post
by Barbra Streisand
01/28/10
Our country’s Founding Fathers never intended for monarchs or the business establishment to rule our nation. No, the Founders of our country began the Constitution with the words, We the People of the United States … That sentiment was again expressed when President Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address said it simply but powerfully, that our government was of the people, by the people and for the people. Corporations are not people nor are they individual citizens...
https://tinyurl.com/ycq4js7
Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
01/31/10
From indefinite detention and renditions to denial of habeas rights, from military commissions and secrecy obsessions to state secrets abuses, many of the defining Bush/Cheney policies continue unabated under its successor administration. Despite all that, there is substantial political pressure from all directions for Obama to reverse the very few decisions where he actually deviated from Bush/Cheney radicalism in these areas...
https://tinyurl.com/ybnxfyu
Crisis of the government party
Human Events
by Patrick J. Buchanan
01/29/10
Obama’s dilemma, evident in his State of the Union, is that the progressives, who were indispensable to his victories over Hillary, now feel betrayed, especially with apparent abandonment of health insurance reform, while conservative Democrats and independents, who were indispensable in giving Obama his November victory, are angry and alienated and disposed to vote Republican to stop what they see as America’s plunge into socialism. The non-negotiable demands of these two essential elements of Obama’s coalition are in irreconcilable conflict...
https://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35391
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
America, Inc. Is Here. Get With The Program!
Let's abolish elections and instead, select our politicians by auction.
By Ernest Partridge
So let's get real! Let's simply acknowledge the obvious facts: that public offices serve private corporate interests, and that legislators' votes are bought and sold by bidders, politely referred to as "contributors." If this is the way things are let's bring the practice out into the open.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24587.htm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernanke
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keynes
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Founding+Fathers
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+rights
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=indefinite+detention
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obamacare
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=elitism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=corporat
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=monetary
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Lazarowitz
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alan+Bock
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Kudlow
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rhys+M.+Blavier
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+J.+Buchanan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ernest+Partridge
rudkla - 1. Feb, 08:47
White House: US government deficit to hit all-time high
Fox News
01/31/10
As President Obama prepares to unveil his $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2011, which begins Oct. 1, the White House is projecting the current fiscal year will end with a $1.6 trillion deficit, congressional sources confirmed to Fox News. Next year’s budget will have a nearly $1.3 trillion debt, according to those sources, dropping to just over half that — $700 billion in fiscal year 2013 — before jumping back up to $1 trillion in 2020, the furthest out that budgeters will predict. A $1.6 trillion deficit would represent more than 10 percent of the gross domestic product, but the White House says over the next 10 years, the average deficit will represent only 4.5 percent of GDP annually...
https://tinyurl.com/yee7jdd
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=government+deficit
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GDP
01/31/10
As President Obama prepares to unveil his $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2011, which begins Oct. 1, the White House is projecting the current fiscal year will end with a $1.6 trillion deficit, congressional sources confirmed to Fox News. Next year’s budget will have a nearly $1.3 trillion debt, according to those sources, dropping to just over half that — $700 billion in fiscal year 2013 — before jumping back up to $1 trillion in 2020, the furthest out that budgeters will predict. A $1.6 trillion deficit would represent more than 10 percent of the gross domestic product, but the White House says over the next 10 years, the average deficit will represent only 4.5 percent of GDP annually...
https://tinyurl.com/yee7jdd
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=government+deficit
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GDP
rudkla - 1. Feb, 08:39
Obama approved secret operations in Yemen
President Barack Obama approved secret joint U.S. military and intelligence operations with Yemeni troops that began six weeks ago and killed six regional al Qaeda leaders, The Washington Post reported.
https://snipurl.com/u8k8n
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yemen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+operation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
https://snipurl.com/u8k8n
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Yemen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+operation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
rudkla - 1. Feb, 05:39
The Terror Card: Fear is the Key to Obedience
By Rev. Richard Skaff
Fear is conducive to regressive behaviors by responsible adults, where people become dependent on an illusory parent figure like the government or a corporation per example, in order to protect them from the evildoers.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24539.htm
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The mythical potency of terrorism fear-mongering
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
02/10/10
That Terrorism fear-mongering has long been a central GOP political tactic is beyond dispute, but its current efficacy is far from clear. Just consider a new Washington Post poll released today. After months of GOP and media pummeling of Obama for being generally ’soft on terror’ and specifically for the crime of using the rule of law against (some) accused Terrorists, Americans (a) approve of Obama’s ‘handling of the threat of terrorism’ by a margin of 56-39 (his highest rating by far on any single issue); (b) approve of Obama’s terrorism polices more so over the past couple of months (since the Christmas Day bomber incident) than they did previously; and (c) trust Obama more than the GOP to handle ‘the threat of terrorism’ by a margin of 47-42 (though that gap has closed modestly in recent months)...
https://tinyurl.com/yhrdbc8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Industrial+Complex
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fear-mongering
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=underwear
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Skaff
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
Fear is conducive to regressive behaviors by responsible adults, where people become dependent on an illusory parent figure like the government or a corporation per example, in order to protect them from the evildoers.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24539.htm
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The mythical potency of terrorism fear-mongering
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
02/10/10
That Terrorism fear-mongering has long been a central GOP political tactic is beyond dispute, but its current efficacy is far from clear. Just consider a new Washington Post poll released today. After months of GOP and media pummeling of Obama for being generally ’soft on terror’ and specifically for the crime of using the rule of law against (some) accused Terrorists, Americans (a) approve of Obama’s ‘handling of the threat of terrorism’ by a margin of 56-39 (his highest rating by far on any single issue); (b) approve of Obama’s terrorism polices more so over the past couple of months (since the Christmas Day bomber incident) than they did previously; and (c) trust Obama more than the GOP to handle ‘the threat of terrorism’ by a margin of 47-42 (though that gap has closed modestly in recent months)...
https://tinyurl.com/yhrdbc8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Industrial+Complex
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fear-mongering
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=underwear
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Skaff
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
rudkla - 1. Feb, 05:21
Sonntag, 31. Januar 2010
Obama will mehr Geld für Atomwaffen
Der Friedensnobelpreisträger strebt angeblich eine atomwaffenfreie Welt, inzwischen wird aber erst einmal aufgerüstet.
https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146996
US-Terrorliste sorgt für Einreiseverbote
Einreiseverweigerungen für Autoren und Künstler in die USA sind keine Seltenheit.
https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146997
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Friedensnobelpreis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nobel+laureate
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomwaffen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=atomwaffenfrei
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terrorliste
https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146996
US-Terrorliste sorgt für Einreiseverbote
Einreiseverweigerungen für Autoren und Künstler in die USA sind keine Seltenheit.
https://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146997
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Friedensnobelpreis
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nobel+laureate
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomwaffen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=atomwaffenfrei
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terrorliste
rudkla - 31. Jan, 05:36
Samstag, 30. Januar 2010
Can We Still Believe in That Change Obama Ran On?
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-3
This Week in Banking: Root Canals, Rhetoric or Real Reform?
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-9
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AWOL From the State of the Union: Peace, Reconciliation and Debt
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "On foreign policy, while the president said some good things, he missed key opportunities to say better things. In particular, he missed key opportunities to promote reconciliation as an essential way of ending our wars and promoting peace. In speaking about US domestic politics, the president is eloquent in his efforts to promote reconciliation, but he seems to have lost his voice in applying these ideas to our foreign policy."
https://www.truthout.org/awol-from-state-union-peace-reconciliation-and-debt56490
Drifting Toward Catastrophe: A Seven-Headed Beast
Bernard Weiner, Truthout: "This country, humanity, the globe are rushing pell-mell to disaster, mostly by neglecting what needs to be done while we're diddling with the political minutiae. This tendency to avoid the obvious larger questions reminds one of the thrust of Albert Einstein's famous quote: 'The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.'"
https://www.truthout.org/drifting-toward-catastrophe-a-seven-headed-beast56517
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The Annotated Obama
By Joe Bageant
No jobs, but lots of support. Yellow ribbons and free prosthetic limbs for all.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24540.htm
An Ugly Week For The Human Race And Other Living Things
By David Michael Green
Obama's peculiar sin is that he - unlike Reagan or Clinton or the pathetic Bush family goobers - is stuck presiding over the national decline at the moment it has slipped into fourth gear, and at a time after which all those other clowns have more or less exhausted the suite of remotely plausible diversionary tactics.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24543.htm
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False Hope in Financial Free Lunch
https://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo29.1.html
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=reconciliation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rhetoric
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=banking
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarah+van+Gelder
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Bottari
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Naiman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernard+Weiner
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+Bageant
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Michael+Green
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Daughty
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mogambo
This Week in Banking: Root Canals, Rhetoric or Real Reform?
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-9
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AWOL From the State of the Union: Peace, Reconciliation and Debt
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "On foreign policy, while the president said some good things, he missed key opportunities to say better things. In particular, he missed key opportunities to promote reconciliation as an essential way of ending our wars and promoting peace. In speaking about US domestic politics, the president is eloquent in his efforts to promote reconciliation, but he seems to have lost his voice in applying these ideas to our foreign policy."
https://www.truthout.org/awol-from-state-union-peace-reconciliation-and-debt56490
Drifting Toward Catastrophe: A Seven-Headed Beast
Bernard Weiner, Truthout: "This country, humanity, the globe are rushing pell-mell to disaster, mostly by neglecting what needs to be done while we're diddling with the political minutiae. This tendency to avoid the obvious larger questions reminds one of the thrust of Albert Einstein's famous quote: 'The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.'"
https://www.truthout.org/drifting-toward-catastrophe-a-seven-headed-beast56517
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The Annotated Obama
By Joe Bageant
No jobs, but lots of support. Yellow ribbons and free prosthetic limbs for all.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24540.htm
An Ugly Week For The Human Race And Other Living Things
By David Michael Green
Obama's peculiar sin is that he - unlike Reagan or Clinton or the pathetic Bush family goobers - is stuck presiding over the national decline at the moment it has slipped into fourth gear, and at a time after which all those other clowns have more or less exhausted the suite of remotely plausible diversionary tactics.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24543.htm
--------
False Hope in Financial Free Lunch
https://www.lewrockwell.com/daughty/mogambo29.1.html
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=State+of+the+Union
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=reconciliation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=debt
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rhetoric
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Corruption in Washington is Smothering America's Future
By Johann Hari
This week, a disaster hit the United States, and the after-tremors will be shaking and breaking global politics for years.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24533.htm
Corporations are people too!
Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress
By ERIC HENSAL AND WILLIAM KLEIN
"It's our democracy. We bought it, we paid for it, and we're going to keep it." Murray Hill Inc.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24536.htm
Your Disappointment In Obama Is Your Teaching Moment
By Carolyn Baker
Last week's Supreme Court ruling lifting limits on campaign financing by corporations was truly the last nail in the coffin of democracy and sealed the fundamental definition of fascism attributed to Mussolini which was simply, "the corporate state." Abramoff rules, and politicians no longer have any reason to function...
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24535.htm
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The 'Devastating' Decision
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-7
Fight Campaign Finance Ruling, One Step at a Time
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-0
Free Speech for Corporation: What Does the Citizens United v. FEC Decision Mean for You and for Democracy?
https://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/01-0
Unions Bash Democrats, Warn of Political Fallout
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/11
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Legislation to Counter Supreme Court's Campaign Finance Ruling Gaining Support
Kyle Berlin, Truthout: "In the wake of last week's sweeping 5-4 Supreme Court ruling, which struck down several longstanding prohibitions on corporate political contributions, Democratic lawmakers are proposing legislation to counter some of its effects."
https://www.truthout.org/legislation-counter-supreme-courts-campaign-finance-ruling-gaining-support56500
It's Not Too Late to Limit or Reverse the Impact of the Supreme Court's Disastrous Decision in Citizens United v. FEC
Fran Korten, Yes! Magazine: "Pro-democracy groups, business leaders, and elected representatives are proposing mechanisms to prevent or counter the millions of dollars that corporations can now draw from their treasuries to push for government action favorable to their bottom line. The outrage ignited by the Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission extends to President Obama, who has promised that repairing the damage will be a priority for his administration."
https://www.truthout.org/its-not-too-late-limit-or-reverse-impact-supreme-courts-disastrous-decision-citizens-united-v-fec565
Personal Corporatehood: Coping With the Reason Divided of Citizens United
Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "There's great consternation brewing over the recent Supreme Court decision that cements and extends the misbegotten logic of 'corporate personhood,' and rightly so. Surely, one of the most farcical and tortuous doctrines ever established in our system of jurisprudence, this conflated concept has drawn the ire of (small-d) democrats at least as far back as Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in 1816, 'I hope we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.'"
https://www.truthout.org/personal-corporatehood-coping-with-reason-divided-citizens-united56509
Remembering Our Humanity
Michael N. Nagler, Truthout: "The decade has not begun with a paean to human wisdom. Two recent acts of folly in particular share a deep and pernicious connection that bears some pondering, and I am not even referring to the capture of Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts. I am referring to the 5-4 Supreme Court decision on Thursday last week ratifying an absurd and dangerous notion that had been let loose in the public discourse almost by accident nearly a century ago, namely the legal 'personhood' of corporations, and secondly to the introduction of full-body scanning for 'security' that is coming soon to airports near you."
https://www.truthout.org/michael-n-nagler-remembering-our-humanity56572
Big Money in Politics
Bill Moyers Journal: "In the wake of a controversial Supreme Court decision giving corporations and unions more freedom to spend on elections, many federal and state lawmakers are hoping to curb Citizens United v. the FEC's effect on elections. The 'Journal' explores how some legislators are fighting to curb Big Money spending even as the court invalidates laws in 24 states aimed at keeping elections clean."
https://www.truthout.org/bill-moyers-journal-big-money-politics56629
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The Supreme Court 5 And Their Magic Fact Appearing Cabinet, Because Only The People Speaking Out Can Reverse The Dreadful Corporate Personhood Decision
This is the third in our series of lambasts against the various multitude of gross errors in the ruling by the Supreme Court 5 (Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Scalia & Thomas) to turn corporations into super citizens. The first alert addressed their constructive treason in expressly empowering foreign corporations to speak in our elections, the second vivisected their haste and derelict abandonment of all prudent procedure.
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This third installment will demonstrate their ad hoc prestidigitation of findings of fact on which to ground the opinion. Again we will reference specific page citations to the actual opinion, together with our review of all the legal filings in this case, including the so-called "amicus" (friend of the court) third parties, and the transcript of the oral argument, itself telling in many ways.
We had already pointed out that Kennedy, writing for a skin's teeth of a majority, plowed ahead without sending the case back down to the lower court for the development of a factual record on the issue THEY wanted to rule on (in a predetermined and unprecedented way as it turns out). Instead he conjured facts out of thin hot air to justify his holding, and we will have to play detective somewhat to figure out where this factual garbage even came from.
Critical to Kennedy's justification for why corporations should for the first time be awarded the right to spend unlimited amounts of money to tilt the tables of our elections was the finding, as a matter of fact, that existing PAC (political action committee) alternatives were too BURDENSOME and suppressive of this magical new corporation free speech right to drown out the voice of actual citizens in our elections. (opinion pp. 21-22).
And as support for this sweeping and totalitarian assertion of factual reality, what source does Kennedy lean on?? Why, little more than his OWN DISSENT in the one of very Supreme Court cases (McConnell) this opinion revisits and overrules (so much for respect for stare decisis), where HE made that assertion in DEFIANCE of the majority ruling in that case. Again here, he just recites his personal grudge list of the cruel and unusual (in his opinion) filing requirements for PACs, absent any determination by any trier of fact
(besides his absolute self) that these requirements are per se onerous.
Oh, but it gets worse. For you see, no actual party to this litigation made any such factual claim that we can find in the record on appeal. Instead, in this part of the opinion Kennedy is just essentially regurgitating verbatim the ARGUMENTS of one of the THIRD PARTY amicus briefs!! (opinion p. 22) What he did here was take the assertions of a non-party in a tangential filing, the ONLY one to make such arguments, totally after the fact of anything tried in the actual case, and he elevated those arguments to the pedestal status of a complete factual record from the court below.
How much more offensive to any sense of judicial fair play could it possibly get? The point of a TRIAL is to take testimony, to try factual assertions in the crucible of a fact finding court, to have a judge determine based on a full and fair record what facts are to be given weight, with both parties given an opportunity to present any relevant evidence. But in our new Supreme Court of the Five Kangaroos, they can sit as judge, jury and executioner of all facts without any such procedural fairness, and based on their OWN prejudicial predetermination.
To her credit, in oral argument Justice Sotomayor attempted to address the fact that the Court appeared to be bent on proceeding in the absence of an adequate factual record on the issue it purportedly was to decide (oral argument p 25, lines 12-22). Here was attorney Ted Olsen's response to her question.
"It is the government has the burden to prove the record that justifies telling someone that wants to make a 90-minute documentary about a candidate for president that they will go to jail if they broadcast it. The government has the obligation and the government had a long legislative record and plenty of opportunity to produce that record and it's their obligation to do so." (oral argument p. 25, line 25 - p. 26, line 7, and please take careful note of Olsen's unbelievably snaky reference to a "legislative" record, as contrasted with a FACTUAL record by trial in a lower court, and his inflammatory use of the word "jail").
Where did this guy get his law license ... out of a cereal box??
In the first place, the government was not the "plaintiff" (the one bringing the case) here. The government was not prosecuting a case here to put anybody in jail. The plaintiff in this case was so-called Citizens United, both on appeal and in the court below. In our system of justice the plaintiff is ALWAYS the one with the burden of proof, and where, as here, they ABANDONED the issue that the Supreme Court 5 raised from the dead by a wave of their unilateral godlike hand, there was NO requirement for the government to make a case to the contrary. Indeed, on the issues that WERE tried below, the government DID develop whatever factual record was necessary to win, even by the biased standards of this Supreme Court (opinion p. 10).
What kind of dishonest advocate would try to throw the obligation of proof back on the defendant so long after the fact of an issue waived?
And what kind of dishonest Supreme Court would try to pass off as justice such a short shrift of a factual record? Kennedy asserts in the opinion that it's really all OK because in one of the stare decisis cases (which they are REVERSING) there was a record of 100,000 pages on roughly the same issue (opinion p. 15), so they can rely on that, totally disregarding that THAT case ruled AGAINST Kennedy's zombie proposition. What has changed? Nothing has changed but an additional right wing drop kick ideologue on the court to vote to take the SAME facts and arrive at the diametrically contrary result many years later. 100,000 pages of record that went the other way against a new record in this case of ZERO pages. Some record!
It just so happens that Anthony M. Kennedy is the LAST person who should ever be allowed to make a finding of a fact about anything in the real world, let alone from the bench of the Supreme Court. Consider this pearl of cave dwelling mentality from his mouth in the oral argument, in defense of the admittedly ad hominem corporate hit piece about Hillary Clinton in this case.
"But, No. 1, the phenomenon of -- of television ads where we get information about scientific discovery and -- and environment and transportation issues from corporations who after all have patents because they know something, that -- that is different." (oral argument, p. 73, lines 5-10)
Oh sure, that's what corporations do all day long with their TV ads, finance educational and enlightening public service announcements. You mean like all those ads from defense contractors pitching their new missile system as being people friendly? If any court ever needed a factual record to tell them what is actually going on out here in the real world it surely must be this one.
But alas, at this point this alert is already quite long, and we have still only scratched the surface of the totally bogus findings of purported fact on which this outrageously heinous decision was based. So we will have to keep you in suspense until the next installment of the analysis of this shameful decision in ... the ongoing and tragic Saga of the Outlaw Supreme Court 5.
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Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress
By ERIC HENSAL AND WILLIAM KLEIN
"It's our democracy. We bought it, we paid for it, and we're going to keep it." Murray Hill Inc.
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Your Disappointment In Obama Is Your Teaching Moment
By Carolyn Baker
Last week's Supreme Court ruling lifting limits on campaign financing by corporations was truly the last nail in the coffin of democracy and sealed the fundamental definition of fascism attributed to Mussolini which was simply, "the corporate state." Abramoff rules, and politicians no longer have any reason to function...
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The 'Devastating' Decision
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-7
Fight Campaign Finance Ruling, One Step at a Time
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-0
Free Speech for Corporation: What Does the Citizens United v. FEC Decision Mean for You and for Democracy?
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Unions Bash Democrats, Warn of Political Fallout
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/11
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Legislation to Counter Supreme Court's Campaign Finance Ruling Gaining Support
Kyle Berlin, Truthout: "In the wake of last week's sweeping 5-4 Supreme Court ruling, which struck down several longstanding prohibitions on corporate political contributions, Democratic lawmakers are proposing legislation to counter some of its effects."
https://www.truthout.org/legislation-counter-supreme-courts-campaign-finance-ruling-gaining-support56500
It's Not Too Late to Limit or Reverse the Impact of the Supreme Court's Disastrous Decision in Citizens United v. FEC
Fran Korten, Yes! Magazine: "Pro-democracy groups, business leaders, and elected representatives are proposing mechanisms to prevent or counter the millions of dollars that corporations can now draw from their treasuries to push for government action favorable to their bottom line. The outrage ignited by the Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission extends to President Obama, who has promised that repairing the damage will be a priority for his administration."
https://www.truthout.org/its-not-too-late-limit-or-reverse-impact-supreme-courts-disastrous-decision-citizens-united-v-fec565
Personal Corporatehood: Coping With the Reason Divided of Citizens United
Randall Amster J.D., Ph.D., Truthout: "There's great consternation brewing over the recent Supreme Court decision that cements and extends the misbegotten logic of 'corporate personhood,' and rightly so. Surely, one of the most farcical and tortuous doctrines ever established in our system of jurisprudence, this conflated concept has drawn the ire of (small-d) democrats at least as far back as Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in 1816, 'I hope we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.'"
https://www.truthout.org/personal-corporatehood-coping-with-reason-divided-citizens-united56509
Remembering Our Humanity
Michael N. Nagler, Truthout: "The decade has not begun with a paean to human wisdom. Two recent acts of folly in particular share a deep and pernicious connection that bears some pondering, and I am not even referring to the capture of Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts. I am referring to the 5-4 Supreme Court decision on Thursday last week ratifying an absurd and dangerous notion that had been let loose in the public discourse almost by accident nearly a century ago, namely the legal 'personhood' of corporations, and secondly to the introduction of full-body scanning for 'security' that is coming soon to airports near you."
https://www.truthout.org/michael-n-nagler-remembering-our-humanity56572
Big Money in Politics
Bill Moyers Journal: "In the wake of a controversial Supreme Court decision giving corporations and unions more freedom to spend on elections, many federal and state lawmakers are hoping to curb Citizens United v. the FEC's effect on elections. The 'Journal' explores how some legislators are fighting to curb Big Money spending even as the court invalidates laws in 24 states aimed at keeping elections clean."
https://www.truthout.org/bill-moyers-journal-big-money-politics56629
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The Supreme Court 5 And Their Magic Fact Appearing Cabinet, Because Only The People Speaking Out Can Reverse The Dreadful Corporate Personhood Decision
This is the third in our series of lambasts against the various multitude of gross errors in the ruling by the Supreme Court 5 (Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Scalia & Thomas) to turn corporations into super citizens. The first alert addressed their constructive treason in expressly empowering foreign corporations to speak in our elections, the second vivisected their haste and derelict abandonment of all prudent procedure.
Be sure to submit the two action pages on this issue from which we are just starting to build the movement and political will to repudiate the rogue Supreme Court 5.
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This third installment will demonstrate their ad hoc prestidigitation of findings of fact on which to ground the opinion. Again we will reference specific page citations to the actual opinion, together with our review of all the legal filings in this case, including the so-called "amicus" (friend of the court) third parties, and the transcript of the oral argument, itself telling in many ways.
We had already pointed out that Kennedy, writing for a skin's teeth of a majority, plowed ahead without sending the case back down to the lower court for the development of a factual record on the issue THEY wanted to rule on (in a predetermined and unprecedented way as it turns out). Instead he conjured facts out of thin hot air to justify his holding, and we will have to play detective somewhat to figure out where this factual garbage even came from.
Critical to Kennedy's justification for why corporations should for the first time be awarded the right to spend unlimited amounts of money to tilt the tables of our elections was the finding, as a matter of fact, that existing PAC (political action committee) alternatives were too BURDENSOME and suppressive of this magical new corporation free speech right to drown out the voice of actual citizens in our elections. (opinion pp. 21-22).
And as support for this sweeping and totalitarian assertion of factual reality, what source does Kennedy lean on?? Why, little more than his OWN DISSENT in the one of very Supreme Court cases (McConnell) this opinion revisits and overrules (so much for respect for stare decisis), where HE made that assertion in DEFIANCE of the majority ruling in that case. Again here, he just recites his personal grudge list of the cruel and unusual (in his opinion) filing requirements for PACs, absent any determination by any trier of fact
(besides his absolute self) that these requirements are per se onerous.
Oh, but it gets worse. For you see, no actual party to this litigation made any such factual claim that we can find in the record on appeal. Instead, in this part of the opinion Kennedy is just essentially regurgitating verbatim the ARGUMENTS of one of the THIRD PARTY amicus briefs!! (opinion p. 22) What he did here was take the assertions of a non-party in a tangential filing, the ONLY one to make such arguments, totally after the fact of anything tried in the actual case, and he elevated those arguments to the pedestal status of a complete factual record from the court below.
How much more offensive to any sense of judicial fair play could it possibly get? The point of a TRIAL is to take testimony, to try factual assertions in the crucible of a fact finding court, to have a judge determine based on a full and fair record what facts are to be given weight, with both parties given an opportunity to present any relevant evidence. But in our new Supreme Court of the Five Kangaroos, they can sit as judge, jury and executioner of all facts without any such procedural fairness, and based on their OWN prejudicial predetermination.
To her credit, in oral argument Justice Sotomayor attempted to address the fact that the Court appeared to be bent on proceeding in the absence of an adequate factual record on the issue it purportedly was to decide (oral argument p 25, lines 12-22). Here was attorney Ted Olsen's response to her question.
"It is the government has the burden to prove the record that justifies telling someone that wants to make a 90-minute documentary about a candidate for president that they will go to jail if they broadcast it. The government has the obligation and the government had a long legislative record and plenty of opportunity to produce that record and it's their obligation to do so." (oral argument p. 25, line 25 - p. 26, line 7, and please take careful note of Olsen's unbelievably snaky reference to a "legislative" record, as contrasted with a FACTUAL record by trial in a lower court, and his inflammatory use of the word "jail").
Where did this guy get his law license ... out of a cereal box??
In the first place, the government was not the "plaintiff" (the one bringing the case) here. The government was not prosecuting a case here to put anybody in jail. The plaintiff in this case was so-called Citizens United, both on appeal and in the court below. In our system of justice the plaintiff is ALWAYS the one with the burden of proof, and where, as here, they ABANDONED the issue that the Supreme Court 5 raised from the dead by a wave of their unilateral godlike hand, there was NO requirement for the government to make a case to the contrary. Indeed, on the issues that WERE tried below, the government DID develop whatever factual record was necessary to win, even by the biased standards of this Supreme Court (opinion p. 10).
What kind of dishonest advocate would try to throw the obligation of proof back on the defendant so long after the fact of an issue waived?
And what kind of dishonest Supreme Court would try to pass off as justice such a short shrift of a factual record? Kennedy asserts in the opinion that it's really all OK because in one of the stare decisis cases (which they are REVERSING) there was a record of 100,000 pages on roughly the same issue (opinion p. 15), so they can rely on that, totally disregarding that THAT case ruled AGAINST Kennedy's zombie proposition. What has changed? Nothing has changed but an additional right wing drop kick ideologue on the court to vote to take the SAME facts and arrive at the diametrically contrary result many years later. 100,000 pages of record that went the other way against a new record in this case of ZERO pages. Some record!
It just so happens that Anthony M. Kennedy is the LAST person who should ever be allowed to make a finding of a fact about anything in the real world, let alone from the bench of the Supreme Court. Consider this pearl of cave dwelling mentality from his mouth in the oral argument, in defense of the admittedly ad hominem corporate hit piece about Hillary Clinton in this case.
"But, No. 1, the phenomenon of -- of television ads where we get information about scientific discovery and -- and environment and transportation issues from corporations who after all have patents because they know something, that -- that is different." (oral argument, p. 73, lines 5-10)
Oh sure, that's what corporations do all day long with their TV ads, finance educational and enlightening public service announcements. You mean like all those ads from defense contractors pitching their new missile system as being people friendly? If any court ever needed a factual record to tell them what is actually going on out here in the real world it surely must be this one.
But alas, at this point this alert is already quite long, and we have still only scratched the surface of the totally bogus findings of purported fact on which this outrageously heinous decision was based. So we will have to keep you in suspense until the next installment of the analysis of this shameful decision in ... the ongoing and tragic Saga of the Outlaw Supreme Court 5.
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rudkla - 30. Jan, 05:56
