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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Engelhardt, The Last Empire? by Tom Engelhardt.
“No ‘what if’ about it! It sure looks that as long as there’s money to be made in fossil fuels, it will be made, despite desertification, ocean acidification, ocean level rise, species extinction, etc. etc. There’s little serious talk anywhere about changing the nature of industrial society or going beyond business as usual.” No worries, [...]
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Larry Summers Says that Reinhart-Rogoff Type Mistakes Are “Distressingly Common” Then Goes on to Prove His Point by Dean Baker.
Snake oil salesman derides other snake oil salesmen. Sheesh, when you can categorize economist as left leaning or right leaning, shouldn’t that make alarms go off in people’s heads that economist are not scientist? Baker et al ( meaning economist) are fucking charlatans. They are paid for their beliefs. Baker is no different than the [...]
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Eduardo Galeano: Not So Elementary, My Dear Watson by Tom Engelhardt.
“Consumer society is a booby trap. Those at the controls feign ignorance, but anybody with eyes in his head can see that the great majority of people necessarily must consume not much, very little, or nothing at all in order to save the bit of nature we have left. Social injustice is not an error [...]
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Reinhart and Rogoff Are Not Being Straight by Dean Baker.
Remind me again which one of those heroes you mentioned is hammering the idea of a sustainability economy? Pointing out the flaws of other people’s ideas is one thing but actually promoting something that is utterly a different paradigm is another.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Reinhart and Rogoff Are Not Being Straight by Dean Baker.
Economist= pseudo-scientist/intellectuals. These are the high priest of the status quo. John Locke the psuedo-intellectual defender of slavery and Adam Smith religious zealot of self interest. These are the founders of “economic philosophy” and yet we wonder how capitalism is such a rapacious system on humans and the earth. Paul Krugman is the John the [...]
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Ironcomments commented on the blog post Fallout Continues From Discovery Of Major Flaws In Key Austerity Paper
Economist= pseudo-scientist/intellectuals. These are the high priest of the status quo.
John Locke the psuedo-intellectual defender of slavery and Adam Smith religious zealot of self interest. These are the founders of “economic philosophy” and yet we wonder how capitalism is such a rapacious system on humans and the earth.
Paul Krugman is the John the Baptist of “pop” economics and Mosler is waiting for his turn to bathe in the river Jordan and be called the anointed one, much like Keynes.
Resource based economy is the only economy humans should concern themselves with not this monetary-market bs that is in the end one giant pyramid scheme being played on the powerless.
“Consumer society is a booby trap. Those at the controls feign ignorance, but anybody with eyes in his head can see that the great majority of people necessarily must consume not much, very little, or nothing at all in order to save the bit of nature we have left. Social injustice is not an error to be corrected, nor is it a defect to be overcome; it is an essential requirement of the system. No natural world is capable of supporting a mall the size of the planet… [If] we all consumed like those who are squeezing the earth dry, we’d have no world left.”- Eduardo Galeano -
Ironcomments commented on the diary post Sibel Edmond on the Marathon Bombing – “If they by elisemattu.
“CIA isn’t allowed to operate on US soil.” What makes you think they don’t? Evidence suggest that they do, psy ops is not supposed to be conducted on American citizens but it is done all time, even to high ranking elected officials. What makes you think our exceptional American government would not kill its own [...]
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Operation Ghetto Storm: 313 Extrajudicial Killings of Blacks in 2012 by wendydavis.
Blackagenda report another must read site.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Sibel Edmond on the Marathon Bombing – “If they by elisemattu.
“Violent islamist extremist” and the CIA go hand in hand. They create the need for further U.S intervention in any given country, AFRICOM is the perfect example. This seems to be the pattern of how the American-Nato empire expands.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Violent Islamic Extremism: No in Boston, Yes in Syria by fairleft.
“Violent islamist extremist” and the CIA go hand in hand. They create the need for further U.S intervention in any given country, AFRICOM is the perfect example. This seems to be the pattern of how the American-Nato empire expands.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Sibel Edmond on the Marathon Bombing – “If they by elisemattu.
Boilingfrogs.com is a must read.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Sibel Edmond on the Marathon Bombing – “If they by elisemattu.
Highly Recommended.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post Gabby Giffords’ NYT Op-Ed by Teddy Partridge.
Agreed
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Ironcomments commented on the blog post Perhaps the Best Argument Yet Against the Filibuster
Those who voted yea should be demanding that those who voted in opposition to explain and defend their position on the issue. This is the whole point of debating an issue.
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Ironcomments commented on the blog post Perhaps the Best Argument Yet Against the Filibuster
The filibuster did not halt this legislation. It was the mere threat(a possibility) of a filibuster. No one actually filibustered anything. This is just more evidence that this is all theatre and propaganda. The two factions of fascist conspired for this outcome.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up in These United States by Gar Alperovitz.
“Even as we learn more and more about the various forms and their positive and negative features and tendencies, hopefully we can engage in a far-reaching and thoughtful debate about how a new model might be created that is both systemically sophisticated and also appropriate to American culture and traditions – a model that nurtures democracy [...]
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post The View from the “Down” Handbasket by TarheelDem.
Religions is another one of those destructive dogmas/rituals that humans find hard to shake.
And you are partially correct on genetic mutations. The majority have a null to negative effect on an organism at any given time in a particular environment.
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post The View from the “Down” Handbasket by TarheelDem.
I served in the military as well and my thoughts on patriotism have evolved to what I have written in the other reply. I grew up in a low income minority community and just became one of the many who either went to jail or joined the military. My nephew was recently deployed to Afghanistan [...]
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post The View from the “Down” Handbasket by TarheelDem.
Here is something to get you started
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Ironcomments commented on the diary post The View from the “Down” Handbasket by TarheelDem.
The evolution of ideas is easily observable. We humans once thought fire was some magical thing the gods gave us or that the earth was the center of the universe. Science is the evolution of how we understand the universe.
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