Maybe Ron Paul is bigoted against blacks, as some are now claiming he is, but at least he’s not bigoted against Muslims like all of the other Republican presidential candidates are, including Barack Obama. There is really no other way to explain why all of them continue to support our long and brutal wars of aggression against the Muslim world, most of which are aimed at killing innocent Muslims.

Some of this can be explained by all of these presidential candidates being in the back pockets of the oil industry, the weapons industry, and last but not least, the Israel lobby. But most of this can be explained by their blatant bigotry against Muslims, especially Muslims that share the same region of the world with Israel.

Believe me, I’m no fan of Ron Paul for a number of reasons, a number which is too numerous to count, but I think he deserves an enormous amount of credit for having the guts to go up against our corrupt imperialist warmongers, who are second only to our corrupt imperialist banksters, when it comes destroying our country and our economy from the inside out.

Hasn’t anyone here wondered why all of the GOP presidential candidates are completely batshit crazy? I think it’s because the Republicans have no need to defeat Obama. Why should they?

Why should the Republicans waste their precious time and money running a presidential candidate to defeat Obama, when he’s the perfect Republican president. Obama is everything that a Republican would want from a president; he’s pro-war, pro-Wall Street, and pro- police state. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that Republicans and Democrats are colluding with each other to make certain that the vast majority of elected officials in Washington make policy decisions and enact laws with a pro-war/pro-police state/pro-Wall Street agenda in mind.

This is one of the dangers of having a duopoly, be it on Wall Street or Pennsylvania Avenue. If it were discovered that Verizon and AT&T were colluding with each other to keep cell phone rates artificially high, they’d be fined and broken up, and their CEOs would be thrown in jail.

So I’d like to see the same thing happen to the Republicans and Democrats when it’s discovered that they have been colliding with each other to only support political candidates who are pro-war, pro-Wall Street, and pro-police state. Now that it’s all too clear that Republicans and Democrats have become nothing more than two sides on the same coin, then it’s time to break up this corrupt political duopoly of ours, that’s based on a fascist blend of corporatism and militarism.

Perry is a shinier version of GWB. I don’t like Obama but at least he doesn’t think he gets direct calls from Jesus every morning.

Perry is funded by the Wall Streeters that run Pennsylvania Avenue. He pretends to hate them just like Obama pretended to hate them before he got elected. If Perry fools enough people, like Obama did, and actually gets elected, he will not bite the hands that feed him. It will just be the continued employment of the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Perry call girl ring for the neoliberal financiers that run the international banking cartel.

Rest assured my fellow plebs, Barack Obama and other sociopathic politicians, who are being hired by the plutocratic power structure within our too-big-to-fail-’n'-jail banking system to give us plebs massive doses of a neoliberal form of shock therapy, will make certain that the holes in the social safety net are just small enough to prevent the fat cats on Wall Street from falling through it:

http://www.otherwords.org/media/safety_net

And this cartoon by the masterful Mr. Fish depicts Obama and his reverse-Robin Hood agenda to a T:

http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/obamahood_20110727/

Social Security has still managed to pay for itself, despite being raided several times over to pay for our trillion-dollar wars and keep many of other federal programs afloat, namely Medicare and Medicaid. Talk about maintaining resilience in the face of repeated predatory attacks!

And Medicare and Medicaid wouldn’t be in so much debt today had our for-profit health care system not used them as a way to socialize its losses. This is why our medical-industrial complex is the epitome of crony capitalism, second only to our military-industrial complex.

Recall that the Republicans didn’t object at all to raising the debt ceiling throughout the Bush years. This is because back then the debt ceiling needed to be raised in order to pay for our bogus war on Islamic terrorism and bail out the financial terrorists on Wall Street. But unfortunately we are now in a situation where our elected officials on both sides on the aisle are too beholden the war profiteers at the Pentagon and the sociopathic bankers on Wall Street to ever put them on the chopping block.

This leaves our elected officials no other choice but to put social security on the chopping block, despite the fact that unlike the our military and our banking system, Social Security pays for itself! This is what happens when you have a debt-based economy like ours — you reward your debtors and you punish your savers. Like all debt-based economies, we steal from our savers and hand out the loot to our debtors.

And because we have a pro-war, pro-Wall Street corporatist in the White House, it’s pretty much a given that he’ll go along with the Republican plan to first make sizable cuts to Social Security before raising the debt ceiling. The goal of all pro-war, pro-Wall Street corporatists, including our warmongering Nobel Peace Prize winner of a president, Barack Obama, is to starve Social Security in order fatten up the debt-making machines at the Pentagon and on Wall Street. And once Social Security is on its deathbed dying of starvation, Wall Street bankers will step in and claim that they can save Social Security by privatizing it, which is just another way of saying that they’ll make Social Security just another cog in their debt-making machine.

Obama is a pro-war, pro-police state corporatist, making him a Republican through and through. So Republicans have no reason to spend a single dime from their war chest on running a candidate to defeat Obama. It would be best for them to save their war chest for a time when the Democrats actual have a presidential candidate who’ll run this country of ours like a real, honest-to-god Democrat would — someone who’ll put the interests of Main Street above the interests of Wall Street, someone who values the labor market more they do the capital markets.

What concerns me most about Wall Street pouring millions of dollars into Obama’s 2012 election campaign (see link below) is that this means that in order for Obama to give his corporate overlords their money’s worth, he’ll have to be an even bigger and more powerful pro-war, pro-police state corporatist than he was throughout his first term in office. For this reason, Democrats maybe be better off having a Republican defeat Obama in 2012. I’m basing this on the simple truth that a Democratic president who’s bought and paid for by Wall Street is more likely to screw over working and middle class Americans and rob them of their social safety net than a Republican president who’s not bought and paid for by Wall Street.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43523321

Long gone are the days when the battle lines were drawn between Republicans on the Right and Democrats on the Left. The battle lines are now being drawn between rentiers on Wall Street and workers on Main Street.

Recall that throughout the bubble years in the housing market we never complained about illegal workers from Mexico being a burden to us. This is because we profited enormously by paying them below market wages to do dangerous and backbreaking work on our homes.

But now that the housing bubble has burst, leaving us with little to no money to be made in our homes, we are out to demonize illegals from Mexico as welfare queens and parasites to our economy. What narrow-minded hypocrites we are!

From the bears who explained Quantitative Easing, we now get a crash test dummy simplifying the Federal Reserve’s current outlook on life, the universe and everything, courtesy of Bennie’s very first press conference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T64Loi2FJT8&feature=player_embedded

I agree with you, Transparait.

If the world’s demand for oil were up by a sizable amount, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries would’ve made plans to increase their oil production. Since they didn’t, the world’s demand for oil is probably not up — at least not up by any sizable amount.

The value of the dollar has an inverse relationship with oil prices. So whenever the value of the dollar moves down, as is the case today, oil prices move up. And since the world is losing confidence in the dollar, commodities are usurping the dollar as a safe haven for investors. This also helps explain why oil prices shot up over the past 18 months or so.

The Fed putting its pedal to the metal, both in terms of quantitative easing and dropping interest rates, didn’t alone cause oil prices to shoot up, but it did set this ball in motion. Ben Bernanke is the invisible man behind the eight ball in terms of rising oil prices. And he’s probably also the invisible man behind the eight ball in terms of social unrest in the Middle East. When the cost of food eats up roughly 80% of your income, as is the case for most people living in the Middle East, and when food prices around the world have increased by roughly 30% over the past year or so, you too would be all fired up and ready to kick some dictator butt!

So it shouldn’t take a PhD in economics to realize that the recent parabolic rise in oil prices, including most other commodity prices, is largely due to the Fed’s ongoing actions to hand out gigantic sacks of nearly interest-free cash to our TBTF banksters. So why is the White House and why is the mainstream press trying to mislead us into believing that the oil companies and the oil speculators are to blame for this?

All I can figure is that our bankster-owned White House and our bankster-owned press are still trying to hide that fact that our banksters are still too far into debt to function without taxpayer-backed handouts from the Fed. What the oil speculators and the oil companies are doing is merely symptomatic of a diseased banking system created by Bennie and the Fed…

If the Obama Administration is really upset with S&P for downgraded our nation’s debt, then they should go after this rating agency for deliberately keeping the mortgage market artificially inflated by continuing to give mortgage-backed securities a AAA rating when they should have been rating them as junk. But the Obama Administration won’t do this because if they did, then they would also have to go after Goldman Sachs for lying to their investors about how mortgage-backed securities were a safe and secure investment.

And we know that Goldman was lying about this because there is no other way to explain how they made enormous profits by making side bets that the mortgage market would collapse. But with a presidential election just around the corner, the Obama Administration can’t afford to expose the fact that their largest campaign donor should be put behind bars. And Obama is too consumed by greed to ever turn down any of the lucrative deals that awaits him when he leaves public office, courtesy of Goldman Sachs.

In order for Obama to maximize his own personal wealth, he knows, as any aider and abettor of financial crimes would know, that he must protect Goldman at all costs.

Don’t you think we oughta find out exactly who these so-called anti-Qaddafi “rebels” are and what sort of government they want for the people of Libya before we decide to arm them to the hilt? For all we know, they could be just another despotic group of trigger-happy, torture-loving rebels no different from Qaddafi and his gang of thugs. Or worse, they could be the Libyan equivalent of al Qaeda or the Taliban. But if these Libyan rebels do turn out to be our enemy or evolve into our enemy, this won’t be the first time that we have found ourselves aiding and abetting the enemy.

As to why we continue to make military decisions that invariably come back to bite us in a never-ending cycle of blowbacks, all I can figure is that our top priority isn’t to win wars, but to keep them in a perpetual state. Because if we were to win any of our wars in the Middle East or elsewhere in the world, we would be forced to downside our military, which would slow down the pork-laden gravy train going to defense contractors and lobbyists.

You know that you’re living a country that views war as nothing more than money-making machine when it refuses to put a stop to its wars for the sake of the protecting profits for the K Street-Wall Street axis of evil.

“UPDATE: Then there’s the little item that the new head of the rebel military lived for two decades in suburban Virginia and nobody can figure out what he did for a living there. Maybe he’s just a run-of-the-mill exile who returned to help his country, but the proximity to Langley and the history of intelligence assets leading opposition movements in US wars does point to one option.”

Sounds like we’ve got another Hamid Karzai on our hands, minus the poppy profits of course– someone who can string us along while sucking on the tit of the military-industrial complex.

Speaking as a Southerner, I can vouch for the fact that Southern Rock peaked out upon the death of Duane Allman. But his younger brother, Gregg, deserves enormous credit for carrying on the Allman sound and building upon it.

Here’s The Allman Brothers Band with Duane performing “Whipping Post” at Fillmore East on 09/23/1970 (Parts 1&2):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhKnc0XZrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K8SYmWjV6w

We decide which dictators to prop up and which ones to take down based on how nice they are to us, not on how nice they are to their own people. So as soon as we get done taking down Gaddafi, the next Libyan dictator we decide to prop up will be nice to us, but will be mean as hell to his people.

And notice that we’re stepping in to help the rebels in Libya that actually have weapons, but we aren’t willing to step in to help the peaceful protesters in Bahrain who are, for all practical purposes, weaponless. I suppose that if the protesters find some way to arm themselves, we’ll help take their dictator down like we are doing for the rebels in Libya. But as long as the Bahrainis remain oil-less and as long as their dictator remains nice to us, and especially to the Israelis, despite him being mean a hell to his people, we’ll continue to prop him up so that he is free to slaughter his people into submission.

If it’s true that you eventually become what you create, America will soon become a dictatorial state no different from the ones in the Middle East.