whattheheck, my friend, i agree it's 'totally stupid', but not as an occasion to cast right wing dispersions on al gore. no, obama's goldman sachs economic team is behind this ... as matt taibbi points out in his piece in the rolling stone, "how goldman saches seized washington" : "The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the commodities-market casino that's been kind to Goldman, except it has one delicious new wrinkle: If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices will be government-mandated. Goldman won't even have to rig the game. It will be rigged in advance. …
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"I was just following orders," wasn't an acceptable defense for convicted Class A, Class B, or Class C criminals during the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trials or even during the Khabarovsk trials. What has changed but the name, face, culture or religion of the enemy? Morally unsustainable is just morally unsustainable. Yet to give you the illusion of closure for what every American knows in his heart of hearts is a desperate and cowardly aberration, we now have a very few weekend warrior (National Guard) privates and sergeants imprisoned as the "bad apples" whose souvenir photos exposed to the world America's …
Posted to President Obama said his administration will not prosecute Bush-era CIA agents who used interrogatio
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glad you guys are o.k., so far ... me too, over here, so far. have you noticed all the network generated public anger focused on Madoff? he was just a simple scammer crook with more zeros, not the cause of all the fake money appearing and then disappearing with true value, not the fake-made-of-nothing-money, floating ever higher up the pay-scale. like you said, whattheheck, congressmen and senators, like fla's graham, the sec, rating houses, and all of wall street are pulling off the greatest asset heist of all time. them and all their enablers. and of course it all started with …
Posted to The U.S. unemployment rate is now 8.1% – 3.2% higher than when the recession began in Dec. 200
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most americans don't realize that this bush administration initiated wall street bailout (and greatest heist in the history of money) under then treasury sec. paulson is not the stimulus bill. the problem is most americans get their information from the teevee and tawk radio. when republicans ruled, the rationale was that since they controlled both houses, it was only logical to put 2 repugs on the air for every 1 dem (be they blue dog dinos or not). now, i'm not sure what their rationale can be - but know that their boards of directors are supporters of this destruction of …
Posted to 67% of Americans trust themselves more than Congress on economic issues, according to a
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a simple yes, as should americans, chinese, pakistanis, burmese, or anyone else who commits crimes against humanity ... but i would distinguish between those giving the orders and not those driven to deeds by fear, circumstance and the horror and chaos of combat. the latter category need intensive psychological care.
Posted to Israel will protect its soldiers against any Gaza war crime accusations, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
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thoughtful. will be studied and celebrated by generations to come. underestimated and under-appreciated, as was Lincoln's address till long after the union had recovered from trauma. give it time, if the gawds will that our current experiment in governance will have a next time.
Posted to What did you think of Obama's inaugural address
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Uh ... Michael Moore has been a successful and patriotic filmmaker of conscience for decades now. Like most visionaries, it takes the masses a while to catch-up. Gee, I still remember the coast to coast booing he got for speaking the truth in front of a presumed 'librul' Hollywood audience. Same for Ayers who says that the lessons of the 60s; wars of aggression and civil rights, have yet to be learned [witness Prop 8 in CA]. Ayers paid for his crimes as a Weatherman, inspired by the black and white, patriotic sense of right and wrong patriotism of his youth, …
Posted to Moore Than You or Me
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wow, 40% with no stake in your elections ... this is exactly why "American democracy" has become an oxymoron.
Posted to The cost of all federal campaigns this election cycle will top $5.3 billion, according to a new repo
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oh, geeze, the gop/clinton/msm 'experience' meme again. please turn off yer tee vee. wasn't dubya an experienced governor of some backwater state? "due to Wright’s anti-white influence on him for over two decades." gee, i'm surprised the corporate got-cha media hasn't reported all the bad blood between obama and his mother's family. "The Rev. didn’t do him any favors." i've read this several times and it makes less sense each time. you mean his race-baiting a future president? i doubt most amerikans know anything of his sermons beyond the 'alleluia' closer the msm looped fer ya. what about the msm silence …
Posted to What will be Barack Obama's biggest liability in the general election?
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hey wth, how you doing? i couldn't agree more with your observations - except the wright comment. you have obviously been influenced by the repeated loops on your tv and lou dobbs type-talking heads. these looped edits and commentary were provided by the same fascist media you realize is lying to you. i found nothing in the full context of his sermons (i've seen two - try utube) that was actually offensive or wasn't true from one tribe's point of view. the real problem is all the tribal fingerpointing going on in the name of righteousness. I re-read some aldous huxley …
Posted to Alright, y'all are some serious fiction readers. That's heartening to hear! So, how about NON-FICT
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another thing no one discusses is that george w. bush didn't win in 2000 or 2004, privately owned touch screens and central tabulator software and voter roll caging by crosspoint did. (yes, it's documented do your own research) his occupation of the white house is a fraud sanctioned by the judiciary branch of government. that should scare every american, yet your corporate media is too busy pleasing sponsors to discuss it. 2008 is near and these tools of election fraud are still in use - don't believe a close election - only 23% want a third term for bush. a democratic …
Posted to The Nadir of Nader
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i am happy to say that i agree with whattheheck. 27-some-odd years of insane economic policy are coming home to roost. the destruction of the middleclass has been the goal. a frightened and beholden serf-class is so much more compliant. with all the important business and crises at hand - this issue did not need to be addressed at this time.
Posted to What's Your Opinion Of The Congressional Resolution Recognizing The 1915 Genocide of Armenians?
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i appreciate your struggle, stolenchild, but words still have meanings - even after 9/11. destroying cultures to steal their natural resources is indeed brutal and despicable and usually results in 'cultural genocide', but a nicer, no guilt, no complicity phrase would be 'collateral damage'. then there's 'freedom fighters' for those 'with us' and 'terrorist insurgents' for those 'against us'. if it's the american empire's divine right to take whatever we want from whatever 'other' culture in whatever brutal and despicable manner we deem necessary for 'our' greater good - wasn't it the ottoman empire's right too? the turkey vote is just …
Posted to What's Your Opinion Of The Congressional Resolution Recognizing The 1915 Genocide of Armenians?
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exploitation, misleading (lying), bribery - where's the button for all these three. junior rotc programmes is the same as exploitation of teenager's immature brain physiology - a brown shirt approach, if you will, isn't it? i'm all for a mandatory draft of all our youth - with service options. that way the people will stay involved in the democratic process and the congress will be pressured to do their Constitutionally mandated job. i think the far greater danger is a privatization of our military. witness the exploitation of the 50 state's national guard and our increasing use of private contractors (they …
Posted to Which U.S. military recruiting technique is most alarming?
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agreed, wth. kids aren't raised in total ignorance. the ever growing underclass realize the cards are stacked against them and some even opt for the military as their only hope for a hand up - that's not new - but should've been a thing of the past by now. what is truly criminal is how patriotism has been so calculatedly compromised by it's real beneficiaries - the upper-crust. just witness where and who recruitment efforts are aimed at - college republicans? "... enough brave, patriotic kids willing to serve to permit the whiners at ITT ..." ? oh, no, wth, not …
Posted to Which U.S. military recruiting technique is most alarming?
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hey whattheheck, how the heck are you? i agree about the loaded 'choice' we are given here as the editors no doubt intended, but nothing to discuss? o.k. i'll bite - i think we will eventually find that the attorney scandal is all about elections. the GOP needs to suppress the vote in order to win. this requires compliant 'party-first' U.S. attorneys in key states or pay-back for cronies (i.e. OK). the GOP meme you hear a lot is about a vast and threatening 'voter' fraud problem. some 20 individuals over the past 6 years have found themselves in trouble (including …
Posted to What do you think of the U.S. attorney scandal?
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well, wth, here we go again ... Good Mark Twain quote. Then there is: "there are none so blind as those who will not see" ... John Heywood (1546) the 'consensus' that led us to war was reached by false and/or cherry-picked information and a consorted suppression of facts. our MSM were insider cheerleaders. Your examples: 1. Validation by current consensus i would say wth, that the current consensus is/was derived through the exposure of information that the MSM chose to sit on or refused to show and was revealed by brave people who refused to be silenced by thebullies ... …
Posted to What do you think of the U.S. attorney scandal?
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My religious views shape all my political views, I can't separate them. My personal (ever evolving) relationship with God demands I consider all of His/Her/Its creation and children as my own. Again, it's my personal view that omniscient and omnipresent mean just that, and a creator cannot be separate from the creation.Therefore the well being of all everywhere must be reflected in my political choices as much as practicable or I'm a hypocrite.
Posted to How much does religion shape your political views?
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hey wth, i concur with your amazement. marketing and banking have ensured that consumers have traded their privacy for convenience. we are now digital data stored and shared - case in point is that since gov agencies were not allowed to collect such data on the citizenry, private collectors of our digital data are now contracted to do the work that the gov had no infrastructure to collect. these private collectors such as choice point collect data for 'legitimate' reasons - identification, credential verification, background checks, drug testing, pre-employment, etc. even wal-mart or convenience store cameras above cash registers collect 'legitimate' …
Posted to Do you think electronic voting can be accurate?
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whattheheck lives in denial. he read the account with the eye of an appeaser, an enabler, confident that he would never be subjected to the same treatment. such things only happen to them. whattheheck then offers what he believes to be reasoned thought, ignoring the content of Moazzam's story. and comes back does it again, saying he didn't say what he said. it's the same thinking that allows man's inhumanity to man to recur again and again in our shared experience. i have sparred with him before. he intentionally doesn't get it and, in fact, refuses to see the flawed logic …
Posted to Abandon Hope, All Who Enter Here
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whattheheck tries again. that he was illegally abducted, drugged and held incommunicato is beyond question, you dolt. that is what america does now. how he spent his free time, i'll admit i have to take at his word. the legislation that jr signed is meant to retroactively absolve the admin and their agents of war crimes. oh, and no, i didn't read it here first. i first became aware of my nation's horrific and illegal treatment of prisoners when a brave national guardsman disclosed the atrocities committed at abu graib. now the privates and sergeants are in prison - but not …
Posted to Abandon Hope, All Who Enter Here
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whattheheck, i apologize for losing my temper with you. i shouldn't have, you can't help it. it's just shows how tragically your free press has been compromised. my friend, you may consider me gullible and narrowminded and worse, but sadly, i' m just better informed.
Posted to Abandon Hope, All Who Enter Here
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400 billionaires + 7,700,000 millionaires = leaving 292,000,000 heirs to the national debt - currently at $172,000 each. look at the numbers. globalization, military spending, a crumbling infrustructure, and crushing debt are good for the economy. how could one see it otherwise?
Posted to How do you feel about the impact of globalization on the U.S. economy?
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I believe it is obvious that with the GOPs support and Joe's insistence on running as an independent after state Democrats rejected his latest reelection bid, Joe Lieberman is intended to be a 'splinter' issue. Bob Geiger over at huffpo did a tally: 1) 27 of 43 Senate Dems support Lamont. 2) 10 Senate Dems can't decide? (there was a vote in Conn. afterall) including: Baucus, Bingaman, Conrad, Dorgan, Johnson, Levin, Lincoln, Mikulski, (Bill) Nelson and Sarbanes. 3) the rouge gallerie of DINOs for Lieberman include: Carper, Pryor, Salazar, (Ben) Nelson, Landrieu, and Inouye. The grassroots have a lot culling to …
Posted to How do you think Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman will most affect the November elections?
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One rather lengthly, polite, fact-filled, point-by-point reply to an early whattheheck post was pulled along with the whattheheck post that prompted it. I wonder why? It is a shame that input from those who do not live within the news/infotainment/propaganda/gov-steno-pool/propaganda bubble that is north american media is deleted. The post in question contained no personal attacks or foul language, but challenged assertions that have become factoids only because they get repeated unchallenged. but i digress: whattheheck continues to chide those of us who refuse to be more afraid of Islamofundies than we are of christofundies. You see, both are philosophies of …
Posted to How do you think Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman will most affect the November elections?
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what the heck? whattheheck, you haven't really challenged my assertions so that we may debate - you challenge me ... "Through wonders of technology" - huh? No, my friend, i must assume that you have some years of catching up to do before you accumulate enough real-world exerience to see through my eyes. My "qualifications"? - Have you never watched your Sunday morning pundit-fests? And, oh, hey, have scott peterson, the runaway bride, arruba, john mark karr, that 'rocky' 8-more-years operative, the katrina anniversary, et al kept you infotained? "Protests too much"? Naw, the lack of massive popular protest movements, over …
Posted to How do you think Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman will most affect the November elections?
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whattheheck, That your middle-class father had the wherewithal to provide a helping hand to a child's future is what labor and social reforms were all about. Sadly, this era is gone for the most part, through initiatives launched by monied planners and handlers of an Actor-in-Chief back in the 70s. There are many who benefitted from the former era who somehow believe they got their upper-middle/middle class standard of living from 'the sweat' of their own 'brow'. A half-true notion that blinds them of the current efforts to dismantle the middle class so evident all around them, if they only opened …
Posted to How do you think Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman will most affect the November elections?
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If i were born on one side of the wall - i might have one point of view. If i were born on the other side of the wall - i might have quite another point of view. One thing is for sure - events are forcing all of us to take sides in the ultimate of horrors that mankind can manifest upon itself. "You're either with us or against us." We are all on the slippery slide into the worst and/or best of human nature and the ultimate of challenges to our very understanding of who and what we are. …
Posted to Do you think that Israel is justified to wage war in Lebanon?
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Muwakkil is correct with his facts and in his analysis. This is another example of how the disenfranchised are then targeted for political gain. We often hear about the military-industrial complex. I submit that we are in an ever expanding military-industrial-prison complex. Before you flame me, look at the numbers and what regimes they compare to - the nature of the crimes committed - and then the rash of new 'detention camp' construction across the country. Be silent until there is no one left to care when they come after you.
Posted to A Terrifying Distraction
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i, like many others, had to go with 'nope'. our electorial process, the most direct way for a non-pol citizen to participate in a representative democracy, has been privatized sic corporatized. the people's voice has been silenced and reps do not and have not reflected constituency concerns for quite some time. our news media is compliant and complacent, administration stenographers at best. no issues of importance to the populace are even discussed. no false statements are challenged. no dog and pony distraction challenged. we are told the economy is good, great, in fact. NOPE we are told the occupation of iraq …
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