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KenBias commented on the diary post World Hunger and 2011: Are More “Food Riots” Ahead? by KenBias.
I saw that story too. It is one of those situations where I hate to be proven right.
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KenBias commented on the diary post GOP Governors Help Us Understand Actual Definition of “Class Warfare” by KenBias.
In the long-term I tend to agree with you. Short-term I am much more cynical.
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KenBias commented on the diary post GOP Governors Help Us Understand Actual Definition of “Class Warfare” by KenBias.
Wow, that’s absolutely infuriating. Thanks for that, I have always thought that from a critical perspective on the elite class — in America specifically — one of the most overlooked and pervasive problems with elites’ thinking is their complete lack of knowledge of how the vast majority of actual human beings live everyday. “Lack of [...]
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KenBias commented on the diary post GOP Governors Help Us Understand Actual Definition of “Class Warfare” by KenBias.
Agree 100% jest. To paraphrase your comment, “We’re doomed.”
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KenBias wrote a new diary post: GOP Governors Help Us Understand Actual Definition of “Class Warfare”
Referring to the title, the thirty-three Republican governors’ provision of “help” in this instance is of course an inadvertent act. (After all, what’s the point of helping someone if there’s nothing in it for you?) But nonetheless, these governors, in a letter written to HHS Secretary Sebelius , provide as clear-cut an example as I can imagine [...]
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KenBias commented on the diary post We Won’t Get Fooled Again… NO NO! by ukprogressive.
“Simple translation, they will ask you to show where it is written in the Constitution (a document written and adopted in 1787…) about support for any programme or initiative they hate like Healthcare and Banking reform, Education and Labour, etc…” Perfectly phrased. I’m sure this has been commented upon millions of times before, but for [...]
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KenBias commented on the diary post Cyberwarriors cross swords in Tunisia by Rohan Jayasekera.
Fascinating stuff — I need to check this out more closely when I get a chance. Btw, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell is that the “conventional wisdom” to which you are referring? I figured as much but in case you hadn’t seen that, it’s exactly what you refute here.
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KenBias commented on the diary post “Meh”: the Most Dangerous Man in Iraq by KenBias.
There are definitely documentaries out there about the direness of Iraq’s post-Operation Iraqi Freedom infrastructure, but maybe you’ve seen those already. As for my avatar, if you guessed “Fred Hampton,” you were right.
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KenBias commented on the diary post “Meh”: the Most Dangerous Man in Iraq by KenBias.
You know, Chalabi might be the only one I can think of that ever fit that description post-Saddam — and just to be clear, I just thought of how this could be misconstrued: saying Saddam was the “most dangerous man” in Iraq at one point does not mean things aren’t as bad now as they [...]
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KenBias wrote a new diary post: The BP Commission Report “Preview,” and the Zillionth Confirmation of the Pointlessness in Hoping for Justice
Judging my brief perusals of some of the major American news’ sources, this doesn’t seem much of “a story” yet in the United States – I guess everyone is going to just wait until at least the weekend, seeing as how we all have to say our most heartfelt good-byes to Robert Gibbs, and our most welcoming [...]
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KenBias wrote a new diary post: “Meh”: the Most Dangerous Man in Iraq
After three years of “religious study” in Iran, Muqtada al-Sadr ( “The cleric once described by the US military as the most dangerous man in Iraq” ) has made “a low-key return” to his home country. This particular characterization of Sadr’s homecoming – that is, the descriptive phrase, “low-key” – is in the title of The Guardian (UK) [...]
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KenBias and wendydavis are now friends
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KenBias commented on the diary post Mr. President: Thank You for Making Yourself Clear by KenBias.
Excellent point, I am ashamed to say I didn’t even notice that because it seemed so commonplace: especially painful in that regard because Vilsack was the one who ultimately decided to fire Shirley Sherrod. Perfect metaphor — although a “centrist” might see the word “cockroaches,” deliberately misinterpret your analogy, and accuse you of being “race-baiting” [...]
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KenBias wrote a new diary post: World Hunger and 2011: Are More “Food Riots” Ahead?
The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reports that its world “Food Price Index” has reached a “fresh high” (the index “averaged 214.7 points last month”) – surpassing the previous “record” (213.5 points, in June 2008) that led to worldwide riots just a few years ago. The FAO’s Food Price Index “…measures monthly price changes for [...] -
KenBias commented on the diary post Mr. President: Thank you for making yourself clear by KenBias.
Hahaha awesome points, especially, “Pete Rouse = Tom Daschle” I almost wrote that same exact thing.
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KenBias and David Swanson are now friends
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KenBias wrote a new diary post: Mr. President: Thank You for Making Yourself Clear
Barack Obama’s next chief-of-staff will be one of four men, the White House revealed today, divulging this information through a “very highly placed administration source.” The names named (to that classic White House clubroom member, Howard Fineman): the guy who’s already “acting” at the job; the classically forgettable Clinton-era secretary; the “Distinguished” Minority Leader-turned-Wunderlobbyist; and finally, [...]
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KenBias commented on the diary post President “Prepares” to Passby Prison Provisions by KenBias.
The importance of losing habeas corpus in this country cannot be overstated. One of the wisest men in America still alive today, Gore Vidal, said this about it in 2008: “We don’t have a republic any more. During the last 7 or 8 years of the Bush regime, they’ve got rid of the Bill of [...]
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KenBias commented on the diary post President “Prepares” to Passby Prison Provisions by KenBias.
I agree completely; well-said – what COULD possibly change from year to year? Aside, that is, from it eventually becoming the problem of a different president.
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