10.31.2011
Weekend Crap
The Natural Chaos of Markets here: [The Naturak Chaos of Markets] and here
The natural chaos of markets - macrobusiness.com.au | macrobusiness.com.au
The documentaries here: [All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace]
Television dominates this country. [A Nation of Vidiots - Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate]
"Still, statistics indicate that the growing disparity is genuinely overwhelming. In fact, the 400 wealthiest Americans now own more than the "lower" 150 million Americans put together." from [The Second Gilded Age: Has America Become an Oligarchy? - SPIEGEL ONLINE]
[Apple and the Centrally Planned Economy « Modeled Behavior]
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A couple on Israel
Only Arabs are "terrorists", Israelis are "Vandals". [Vandals set fire to Arab restaurant in Jaffa in suspected 'price tag' attack - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News]:
Note that Israel is the only country with nuclear weapons in the Middle East. [Report: Israel seeking to upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities]
Romney, like most of our leaders, would let Israel make our middle east foreign policy decisions. [Romney-Israel]
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Note that Israel is the only country with nuclear weapons in the Middle East. [Report: Israel seeking to upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities]
Romney, like most of our leaders, would let Israel make our middle east foreign policy decisions. [Romney-Israel]
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10.28.2011
Why Occupy? - Links
How to make OWS more effective. [Sefat: Top 10 ways OWS can Succeed: Counsel from Iran's Green Movement | Informed Comment]
Why Occupy ? #852. [The Price of Plutocracy | Mother Jones]
Why Occupy ? #852. [The Price of Plutocracy | Mother Jones]
10.27.2011
Deficits
This chart shows that the current budget deficits aren't the result of increased government spending but of reduced government income due to tax cuts and a bad economy caused by the financial crisis. Found here: [William Niskansen, RIP | ThinkProgress]
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Paul Ryan
There's a lot out on the blogs today on Paul Ryan. I thought this summed it up the best. [Paul Ryan And Equality Of Opportunity | ThinkProgress]
10.25.2011
Why Occupy? #421
If you've seen this.
You should read this.
[Don’t EVEN Get Me Started, Mythical Bootstraps College Student | Persephone Magazine]
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You should read this.
[Don’t EVEN Get Me Started, Mythical Bootstraps College Student | Persephone Magazine]
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Crap From the last few days
How much Democracy can you afford? [Political Irony › Money isn’t Speech, it’s Votes!]
I doubt we'll hear much from Walter Pincus in the future. [Leading U.S. columnist: Slash defense aid to Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News]
"Over Perry's nearly 11 years in office, the public sector in Texas has grown faster than the private sector." [Texas public-sector jobs may fuel reverse in fortune | McClatchy].
[FREE CANDY] If the pharmaceutical companies could capture all the marijuana sales, pot would be legal by prescription in a minute.
I doubt we'll hear much from Walter Pincus in the future. [Leading U.S. columnist: Slash defense aid to Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News]
"Over Perry's nearly 11 years in office, the public sector in Texas has grown faster than the private sector." [Texas public-sector jobs may fuel reverse in fortune | McClatchy].
[FREE CANDY] If the pharmaceutical companies could capture all the marijuana sales, pot would be legal by prescription in a minute.
We're not in the 70s
Our leaders learned everything they know about economics from the actions/economies they grew up in... the late 70's and 80's. We have different problems today but they're still stuck in the 80's . cut taxes.... reduce regulation.... Different times need different solutions. [Shocks: Demand and Supply « Modeled Behavior]
10.20.2011
Why Occupy?
Rich Lying bastards control the Media. [Doug Schoen Grossly Misrepresents His Own Poll Results To Smear Occupy Wall Street | ThinkProgress]
Stealing from our children. [Student loan debt hits record levels – USATODAY.com]
Privatize the profits, Socialize the losses. [BofA Dump Billions in Losses onto Taxpayers]
Politicians change "science" to fit their beliefs [Why even bother consulting the scientists at all? : Pharyngula]
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Stealing from our children. [Student loan debt hits record levels – USATODAY.com]
Privatize the profits, Socialize the losses. [BofA Dump Billions in Losses onto Taxpayers]
Politicians change "science" to fit their beliefs [Why even bother consulting the scientists at all? : Pharyngula]
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10.15.2011
New Israeli Settlements
Fat lady sings — Israel announces new E J’lem neighborhod called Givat Hamatos
Middle east peace process is dead and it's Israels fault. This declaration of new settlements flies in the face of the recent "quartet's agreement" that Israel was supposed to have accepted. The [UN] has responded. Someone in the US government needs to get some balls and stop our support of this crap.
But, i'm not sure people in the west even know about it. There is coverage in the Israeli press(above and [here]) but I couldn't find anything on CNN, MSNBC, The Propaganda Network, or the BBC. WTF?
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Middle east peace process is dead and it's Israels fault. This declaration of new settlements flies in the face of the recent "quartet's agreement" that Israel was supposed to have accepted. The [UN] has responded. Someone in the US government needs to get some balls and stop our support of this crap.
But, i'm not sure people in the west even know about it. There is coverage in the Israeli press(above and [here]) but I couldn't find anything on CNN, MSNBC, The Propaganda Network, or the BBC. WTF?
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10.14.2011
Iran
Pushing hard to make Iran look bad.
[Report: Saudi officials warned of Iran plot to attack Israel embassy in Argentina - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News]
and
[Iran could try to sabotage Gilad Shalit swap deal] (Update -- this post had this Headline, "Iran could try....." earlier in the day but it has been changed.
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[Report: Saudi officials warned of Iran plot to attack Israel embassy in Argentina - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News]
and
[Iran could try to sabotage Gilad Shalit swap deal] (Update -- this post had this Headline, "Iran could try....." earlier in the day but it has been changed.
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Why Occupy?
Ridiculous drug laws and corrupt cops. Dangerous Minds | Truly appalling new NYPD scandal exposes cops planting drugs
10.13.2011
Victoria Jackson
[Victoria Jackson], who's supposed to be a Birther, Tea-Bagger, Conservative, goes to Occupy Wall Street. Is she really that dumb?
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Bayh's Voter Fraud
[Bayh Denounces Baseless; Voter Fraud Accusations - Indiana News Story - WRTV Indianapolis]
I'd agree Evan doesn't live in Indiana. My test is where his kids go to school and it ain't Indiana. But that doesn't matter to Evan, he's US royalty who can live where he wants and still be the Duke of Indiana. Both parties do this shit though, they look around for a race they might win, find a DC-Corporate insider with some connection to the area, and send them back to representtheir lobbyist's interests the people. Hell, Evan's replacement, Dan Coats, moved from DC to Indiana to take Evans place. Do you think he's working for the people of Indiana?
Reason to Occupy #935
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I'd agree Evan doesn't live in Indiana. My test is where his kids go to school and it ain't Indiana. But that doesn't matter to Evan, he's US royalty who can live where he wants and still be the Duke of Indiana. Both parties do this shit though, they look around for a race they might win, find a DC-Corporate insider with some connection to the area, and send them back to represent
Reason to Occupy #935
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Israel - Palestine
[U.S.: Israel move to legalize West Bank outposts 'unhelpful to peace efforts' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News]:
Israel. Stealing more Land. Pissing-off more people. Not listening to the US, even though we send them over 3 billion a year. It's no wonder the Palestinians have given up on the peace process.
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"On Tuesday, Netanyahu's office announced instructed Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman to set up a task force to explore ways to legalize houses in the settlements that were built on private Palestinian land"
Israel. Stealing more Land. Pissing-off more people. Not listening to the US, even though we send them over 3 billion a year. It's no wonder the Palestinians have given up on the peace process.
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The Iranian Plot
A few links on the Iranian terrorist plot.
[The Iranian Plot: Bank Transfers of Mass Destruction]
[The Plot]
[Obama Team seeks isolate Iran]
[Juan Cole - Wagging the Dog]
[Frontline - Questions]
[Glenn Greenwald]
At this point I have to say I'm skeptical.
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10.11.2011
10.10.2011
Religion - Cult
Perry Supporter calls Romney's Religion a Cult.
I'd agree but lots of groups qualify as cults. Here's Webster's definition: [Cult]
Based on that I'd say the following are cults.
Cults are a lot like dictators or terrorists, if they're ours they're OK but if they're the other-side's, well, then they're evil as hell.
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I'd agree but lots of groups qualify as cults. Here's Webster's definition: [Cult]
- formal religious veneration : worship
- a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
- a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
- a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
- great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad. the object of such devotion. a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
Based on that I'd say the following are cults.
- All religions
- The "Tax Cuts are the Answer to Every Economic Problem" crowd.
- The "Gold Standard" group.
- The "Government is always bad" crowd.
- The Tea-Party is a cult of the Constitution (their interpretation only) or maybe the "Cult of Fox News"
- The extreme environmentalists
- The Hard-core Apple devotes's.
Cults are a lot like dictators or terrorists, if they're ours they're OK but if they're the other-side's, well, then they're evil as hell.
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10.08.2011
Pray to the TV
From Turn The TV Off | ThinkProgress
Hell, everyone in power in America has been raised on television, there are no "pre-tv" people left, it's no wonder they treat TV as a god.
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Washington, DC’s weirdest and easiest to fix pathology is the habit of high-level politicians and political aides gluing their eyes to low-audience nonsense on daytime cable television. For example:
In his West Wing corner office, [William] Daley keeps his television tuned to CNBC to keep track of how the fiscal battles are playing in the financial markets.
Hell, everyone in power in America has been raised on television, there are no "pre-tv" people left, it's no wonder they treat TV as a god.
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Shrinking Government
[The Era of Shrinking Government] including this chart which shows that the jobs killed by the Kenyan-Socialist administration are government jobs.
Also, [The Uncertainty Excuse]
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Also, [The Uncertainty Excuse]
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Inequality Trap
Chart from Way Off Base - NYTimes.com
I see commodity prices following the increase in the money supply. This makes sense to me, since most of the increase is being captured by wealthy individuals, banks, hedge-funds, etc. They use it to chase gambling profits around the globe rather which doesn't really drive up consumer prices. If the money supply increases were going to the masses, we might use it to drive up prices but that is so 1970's. I think we're in a inequality trap.
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I see commodity prices following the increase in the money supply. This makes sense to me, since most of the increase is being captured by wealthy individuals, banks, hedge-funds, etc. They use it to chase gambling profits around the globe rather which doesn't really drive up consumer prices. If the money supply increases were going to the masses, we might use it to drive up prices but that is so 1970's. I think we're in a inequality trap.
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Continuous War.
or "Ruled by Idiots" #734 and 735
#734 - [US Attorneys in California Threaten to Prosecute Medical Marijuana Dispensaries | Just Say Now]
#735 - [Ten years of the Afghan War] and
< a href="http://www.epi.org/blog/calculating-cost-afghanistan-iraq-war/"><[Cost of Afghan War]
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#734 - [US Attorneys in California Threaten to Prosecute Medical Marijuana Dispensaries | Just Say Now]
#735 - [Ten years of the Afghan War] and
< a href="http://www.epi.org/blog/calculating-cost-afghanistan-iraq-war/"><[Cost of Afghan War]
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10.06.2011
Corporats
Michael Tomasky: Data Show the GOP’s One-Sided War on Democrats.
Because both parties are on the same side.
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Because both parties are on the same side.
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10.04.2011
Tuesday Links
Here's a good quote from GinandTacos.com on [cops protecting the power structure].
[Religion as happiness insurance? | vox]
[Absentee Landlords] or even just landlords in general hurt communities. They drive the price of housing up. The quality of neighborhoods down. Property tax should be progressive, the more properties you own, the higher rates you should pay.
Bruce Bartlett: I'd Rather Be an Unlucky Ducky
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".....the guy waving the "WE CAME UNARMED…THIS TIME!" sign has nothing to fear from the police. It's the person with the "Why does 1% have all the wealth?" sign that ends up cuffed, in a van, and squinting through pepper spray."
[Religion as happiness insurance? | vox]
[Absentee Landlords] or even just landlords in general hurt communities. They drive the price of housing up. The quality of neighborhoods down. Property tax should be progressive, the more properties you own, the higher rates you should pay.
Bruce Bartlett: I'd Rather Be an Unlucky Ducky
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10.02.2011
Charles Krauthammer: Just making shit up.
Charles Krauthammer is not afraid to just make shit up if it serves his political purpose. Take this from today's opinion piece found here. [Krauthammer - Land Without Peace]
Here are details of the proposal from the Israeli new organization, Haaretz, article of 2008, headlined as [PA rejects Olmert's offer to withdraw from 93% of West Bank]
Krauthammer's paragraph sounds as if the Israelis had offered the moon to the Palestinians, including 100% of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem but the article from the time shows that is not true. First of all,......Its clear the offer was not 100% percent but 93%. Though by giving the Palestinians some "desert land near Gaza" that total Palestinian land was bumped closer to 98%. Still that's only 93% of the West bank. Charles also misleads on Jerusalem as negotiations over it were still on the table, the 2008 article stating that, "negotiations over Jerusalem will be postponed".
The Krauthammer version of history sounds as if the Israelis had been giving ground since the Camp David offer of 2000, concluding with the Olmert's "Ultimate capitulation" (Charles words) offer of 2008 but Haaretz paint a different picture.
The offer also demands that the Palestine state be demilitarized? What would our founding fathers have told the British if they had agreed to American Independence if the US would remain demilitarized without an army?
Then, this from the Haaretz article, makes it seem as if Olmert's proposal was less than legitimate and that the Israeli's didn't take it seriously.
Krauthammer is just making shit up to support Israel's view. He's an Israeli propagandist dressed up as a US opinion leader.
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Israel, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert makes the ultimate capitulation to Palestinian demands -- 100 percent of the West Bank (with land swaps), Palestinian statehood, the division of Jerusalem with the Muslim parts becoming the capital of the new Palestine. And incredibly, he offers to turn over the city's holy places, including the Western Wall -- Judaism's most sacred site, its Kaaba -- to an international body on which sit Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Here are details of the proposal from the Israeli new organization, Haaretz, article of 2008, headlined as [PA rejects Olmert's offer to withdraw from 93% of West Bank]
"Under the proposal, Israel would return to the Palestinians 93 percent of the West Bank,"and
"In exchange for West Bank land that Israel would keep, Olmert proposed a 5.5 percent land swap giving the Palestinians a desert territory adjacent to the Gaza Strip"and
"Olmert has agreed with Abbas that the negotiations over Jerusalem will be postponed."and
The security proposal includes a demand that the Palestinian state be demilitarized and without an army.
Krauthammer's paragraph sounds as if the Israelis had offered the moon to the Palestinians, including 100% of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem but the article from the time shows that is not true. First of all,......Its clear the offer was not 100% percent but 93%. Though by giving the Palestinians some "desert land near Gaza" that total Palestinian land was bumped closer to 98%. Still that's only 93% of the West bank. Charles also misleads on Jerusalem as negotiations over it were still on the table, the 2008 article stating that, "negotiations over Jerusalem will be postponed".
The Krauthammer version of history sounds as if the Israelis had been giving ground since the Camp David offer of 2000, concluding with the Olmert's "Ultimate capitulation" (Charles words) offer of 2008 but Haaretz paint a different picture.
"Compared to previous Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, the Olmert proposal falls between the one then prime minister Barak presented to Yasser Arafat at Camp David in July 2000 and the one he offered at Taba in January 2001
The offer also demands that the Palestine state be demilitarized? What would our founding fathers have told the British if they had agreed to American Independence if the US would remain demilitarized without an army?
Then, this from the Haaretz article, makes it seem as if Olmert's proposal was less than legitimate and that the Israeli's didn't take it seriously.
"But another Israeli official said Olmert was merely trying to establish his legacy. "There is going to be no agreement, period," he said on condition of anonymity."
Krauthammer is just making shit up to support Israel's view. He's an Israeli propagandist dressed up as a US opinion leader.
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Perry: US troops could aid Mexico drugs fight
[Perry: US troops could aid Mexico's drug fight]. Perry is an idiot. Spend even more money we don't have, kill more US soldiers, and push Mexico closer to a full scale revolution all to fight a failed drug war that could be resolved with the stroke of a pen. Does anyone really want a guy who thinks like that running this country?
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10.01.2011
Ruled by Idiots
We only give the Palestinians aid so they'll play nice with their oppressors and now Congress is blocking that [US Congress blocks aid to Palestinians]. We're stalling their [statehood process in the UN] but we're going to say they're just violent Islamic terrorists when they try another path [Resistance, the only option left for Palestinians].
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