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Alice X commented on the blog post Why Isn’t the Name of the New Director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service Being Made Public?
In the Nation Security Act of 1947, much was learned, and expressed. from the just defeated Germany, which had (itself) learned much from the previous post war USA.
Imperialism goes around, it comes around.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Obama Nominating Major Campaign Contributor Penny Pritzker For Commerce Secretary
I voted for Nader.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Obama Nominating Major Campaign Contributor Penny Pritzker For Commerce Secretary
I never voted for him!
I saw him for what he was early on.
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Alice X commented on the blog post FDL Live Blog: White House Correspondents Dinner Swag
Corruption…
The Plutocrats and their Troubadours …
At best, Court Jesters, but I doubt many have the substance.
Woe are we. Are drones funny?
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Alice X commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Graeber, The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement
I am only making note here that I was busy elsewhere and could not attend. Mr. Graeber’s understanding and exposition of the trajectory of anthropologic/social history is a revelation, to me, and others, I am certain.
Thank you Mr. Graeber.
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Alice X commented on the diary post Reinhart and Rogoff Are Not Being Straight by Dean Baker.
The most important asset any country has is its citizenry at large, as per their health and well being. That asset is enhanced when the citizens are robustly educated, but not indoctrinated to accept anti-social enterprise; meaningfully employed, but not exploited by capital sociopaths and their minions. In a phrase, the establishment and maintenance of [...]
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Alice X commented on the blog post Bloomberg Calls For Reinterpreting Constitution After Boston Bombing
Police perform house-to-house raids in Watertown MA ripping innocent families from their homes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2LrbsUVSVl8
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Alice X commented on the blog post The Sinking Middle Class
Wealth Inequality in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
Well worth the repeat and even repeated viewing.
The middle class is the upper twenty per cent of wealth, minus the Plutocrats.
They are not exactly sinking.
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Alice X commented on the diary post Chained CPI Helps Fund Corporate Tax Breaks and Trickle Down by masaccio.
It is a war of the classes. The term class has been intensely repressed from the American vocabulary. The only usage generally observed in this USA is the “Middle Class”. This is a purposeful concealment of the actuality. Anyone who works for a boss, is working class. Eighty per cent of this US population is working [...]
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Alice X commented on the diary post Chained CPI Helps Fund Corporate Tax Breaks and Trickle Down by masaccio.
The standard CPI already excluded energy and food, two volatile components which if included and stated correctly would increase the inflation adjustment for earned benefits. And decrease the statement of GDP growth. This has been long understood by the few economists whose paychecks did not depend on lubricating the great kleptocratic engine of the Plutocrats. [...]
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Alice X commented on the blog post Breaking News- Evacuation of Cambridge Street
“If it bleeds, it leads.”
“Consistent with reporting on CNN.”
Is that the same CNN which vies with ‘Fox News’ as the most unreliable source of information on this globe?
It bears a thought that we have a Military-Industrial-National Surveillance State-Corporate Media reported-Private Prison-Congressional-Complex.
It does well not to forget it.
But if it bleeds outside of them, then you have the Health Insurence-Big Pharma-Hugely Overpaid Medical Elite-Corporate Complex.
That is another story.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Making the Indisputable Fact the US Engaged in Torture a Part of Consensus in Washington
AlJazeera segment on this topic here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Xvk5he0C0
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Alice X commented on the diary post The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up in These United States by Gar Alperovitz.
You might be attempting to describe the Bolsheviks.
I suggest reading Chomsky on: The Soviet Union versus Socialism, google it.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Boston Marathon Explosions & Hypothesizing Who Was Behind Attacks in Immediate Aftermath
On Sunday April, 14 a drone strike (US CIA) in Pakistan killed at least 4: here
The list of children (175) killed in drone strikes here.
On Monday 4/15/13 – at least thirty three killed in bombings across Iraq, here
The same day in Mogadishu, bombings killed at least twenty nine, here
Reported today from Pakistan, at least nine killed, forty five injured in a bombing, here
More than 45 years ago Martin Luther King Jr made an important speech about the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.
It is still the same.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Human Rights Groups Challenge Obama’s Claimed Targeted Killing Authority & Secrecy
Assassin in Chief.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Late Night: So What Is This Mondragon Thing, Anyway?
What is the natural state of human beings? Avarice and greed or altruism and wishing well for others.
I don’t know, but the former sure seems a strong hold.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: I Can’t Explain
lip sync! Fron a technical standpoint it is easy. From an artistic standpoint it is anathema.
J don’t care so much, who does it. They must do it live.
You have to get up awfully early to fool me.
Corporate bullshit!
Where is your live music
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Alice X commented on the blog post Brown-Vitter Bill To Break Up Too Big To Fail Banks Begins Roll Out
form ever follows function
Sherrod Brown is three years my junior. He was a Federal Congressional member from northern Ohio, a post industrial region much akin to my own in south east Michigan. Not withstanding Detroiters humor of ‘mistakes on the lake’, he is much like us. Now from and as a Senator confronted by a similar state gross R v D duality.
There are very few D’s that hold my support, clustered as we seem to be around Lake Erie.
I applaud his efforts and I hope he can keep his position, but I hold little hope.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Late, Late Night FDL: Over You
Artist as in the corporate design.
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Alice X commented on the blog post Late, Late Night FDL: Over You
Corporate production, digital pitch tuning. Blah…
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