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ocoastperson commented on the diary post That dog won’t hunt by Cynicman.
Dead Americans and millions, millions more dead other people – overwhelmingly “innocents”. Plus millions of children starving – no, experiencing “severe food deprivation” right now. Whole cultures wrecked.
Our fault.
What I really believe: God loves everyone, no exceptions. But I bet he does NOT approve of our constant empire-building exercises in death.
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post Uncle Sam = Big Brother? by Alan Grayson.
When your fascist comrade in Congress, Diane Fienstein, gives her speech about how TWO, count ‘em, TWO, terrorist plots were foiled by this massive $100 billion / year police state, ask yourself: Exactly how much did each of these foilings cost the US citizens? Also: How many US citizen lives could have been saved / [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post For the Good of the Empire by Ironcomments.
I was reading a book about the atrocities committed by the Japanese during WW II … the killing of 6 million innocent civilians, the enslavement of both Chinese and American servicemen, the medical experiments, the operating on and dismembering of victims without anesthesia, .. the magnitude was as great as what the Germans did. Yet [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post Brad DeLong: We Can’t Raise Employment Because Billionaire Wall Street Bankers Too Dumb To Breathe by Dean Baker.
“Billionaire Wall Street Bankers Too Dumb To Breathe” IF ONLY!!!!
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post NSA’s ‘Hoarding Complex’ on Full Display with Details on Top Secret PRISM Surveillance Program
This presents major opportunity for politically well-connected corporations to monetize the information. You know, make money. The government will definitely agree because, you know, it supports the efforts of our corporations. They are America, rah, rah, even if most of the peons working for them do so elsewhere.
And beyond monetization, there are major opportunities here for efficiently herding all of us in the directions we are best suited for. Why let some mommy and daddy push the kiddies into a lucrative career when the govt. knows everything that kiddie has done and by inference even thought, not to mention school records, health records, spending info.? Why not have a govt. computer figure out for what the kiddie is best suited or at least where they are most needed in our global society? If that means some minority kid who has the smarts to go to college winds up as cannon fodder instead, hey, the good of the majority has been maximized.
The opportunities to both take this info. and make money and take this info. and make decisions on behalf of all of us are just too compelling. THINK LARGE!!!
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post The Politics of “fooled but not swindled” by pagostino.
This is what I posted to the mikebar “In My Opinion …” entry: It’s totally relevant but being largely overlooked. The info. being collected by us will find its way to extract money from and control the absolutely innocents, if only because something has to be done with it. Anyone who thinks the government (aka private [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post In my Opinion about government telephone surveillance by mikebar.
Anyone who thinks the government (aka private contractors) will only be using their massive surveillance to catch terrorists is dumber than sh##. The private contractors who are kissy kissy with the government are going to find ways to monetize all this information, as we like to say. Remember those credit card records they are keeping? [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post Glenn Beck may have been proved right. by hopeful.
What the carriers did not do is provide the govt “direct” access to their servers. They could easily be providing every bit of data as it is gathered or nightly or whenever but if THEY send it, the government has no direct access. Apparently, the government knows about every single phone call we make, plus [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post So When Will Panetta Be Prosecuted for Leaking?
Since Mr. Panetta was risking the safety of people in our military he should not only be prosecuting for spying but also for aiding terrorists aka Manning. In short, the man should go straight to jail – for life. This is actually quite a serious thing for him to have done, great one or not. Even to encourage and promote Zero Dark Thirty there was no reason to name specific names in our military. This sounds like an A$Rho$e who was showing the important movie makers how much he knows – its a no excuse thing.
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post Big Brother’s Got Nothing on the NSA
Think “wither away”. There is no way to reclaim the Democratic party, except from the bottom up. And no way are enough people mad enough to actually say, do anything.
What with our current level of govt. secrecy, things are just going to get worse and worse. Join some third party, like the Greens or Progressives or whatever. At least there the message can be clearly made. You will never get the Dems to listen. Money talks way louder.
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post Robert Samuelson Wants to Abolish Peter Peterson’s and Bill Gates’ Bank Accounts by Dean Baker.
Extremely clear explanation of what we face w.r.t. SS and Medicare costs, government wise. Of course, it is impossible to project out 75 yrs. anyway, which is why the idea of reducing people’s benefits NOW because otherwise they would have been reduced 20 yrs. out is ridiculous. You are taking hypothetical pain which may never [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post Has There Been a Bigger Con Man in the White House than Barack Obama? by Ohio Barbarian.
Obama presented himself again and again, while campaigning, as a Constitutional Scholar. (quotes are deliberate, this was hyped BIG TIME). Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable and indeed logical to object to all the ways he is trashing our country’s following of the Constitution.
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post So much for trickle down
Actually, the article here said that the Walton family (together, $98 billion, let’s round up to $100 billion) is as rich as the combined wealth of 41.6 or 41.7 % of Americans, not quite 50%.
Wonder how that would compare to Bill Gate’s wealth (he’s currently the richest man in the world)? He’s only got about $60 billion. My guess is, only the lowest 35% of the population (remember, it’s only the people near the top of that 41.7% who have anything).
100 million Americans, the men roaming around, asking if you want yardwork done for $15/hr. (cash) and Bill (he would want me to call him Bill, right, we’re all buddies here) is worth more than all of them together, babies, old people, almost wives (kids mostly born out of wedlock with this group), fathers, … the men checking the fishing boats at the docks, do they need deckhands, .. what is Bill doing right now?
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post Making the Decision to be Free. by anarcritees.
Shorter nixonclinbushbama: Obama does not give one *#$!(fill in, your choice) about the “will of the people”. He ONLY cares about the will of the Petersons and other big money billionaires. You, not so much, NO, NOT AT ALL. YOU JUST DON’T MATTER TO HIM. He is an egotistic know-little who is a puppet and [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post The Filibuster Should Be Traded for Eliminating Lifetime Judicial Appointments
So you would do two things Republicans are going to hate – eliminate the fillibuster and lifetime judical appointments. Good luck having that happen. Especially since Mr. Harry Reid is almost as big a deal loving wimp as the big O.
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post Trustee Report: Social Security Trust Fund to Last Another Two Decades
The real problem with Obama’s plan is that it is a solution for something for which there may be no problem.
For example: How will immigration reform affect Social Security? Ans: Do lots to fix it for the 2030 decade. (More low income retirees means bigger problems later).
How about all the financial assumptions in their projections? Can you believe they really can predict things like wage growth / productivity growth economy growth out 2 decades? When the best of the best can’t do it successfully one year out?
I believe in raising the income cap but I also believe that the projections are full of it as well as being made by people with strong political views. The only “problem” that is real here is the disability fund and the taxation rate should be changed to fix that.
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post Taxation without Representation: A tale of two Tea Parties by Jane Stillwater.
Don’t forget: Obama is coming for your Social Security. And he has plans to greatly mess up Medicare. And by your I mean your Social Security. His plans impact the youngest the most. You will get less when you start receiving SS and the less gets greater as time goes on. And then, like older folks, [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post Teaching Our Children to Fear Dissenters: South Dakota Schools Edition
The push to equate environmentalists with terrorists has been going on for at least 15 years. Environmentalists who do things that don’t even get you arrested in my town, if done by some dumb teenager (like key the sides of cars) will not only get arrested for doing economic damage to some business, they will have 5 yrs. or 20 yrs. added on for committing violent “terrorism”. So kids run around in my town doing vandalism and don’t even go to jail for it, whereas if an environmentalist performs any economic damage to a business THATSALL FOLKS!
I am not advocating economic damages to businesses in any circumstances. But the demonization of environmentalists, or anyone who stands against business or government interests, is well along.
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ocoastperson commented on the diary post let’s work together to beat back the sparkleponypoopmunchers by acmerecords.
And while we are at it, if they have previously been incarcerated for certain icky really awful felonies, let them starve!! No SNAP benefits for them. I think prior posts of mine were deleted because I used the word evil in connection with denying people food because they were really bad people (in the past [...]
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ocoastperson commented on the blog post Schumer Ups the Senate Reform Rhetoric
When I read about the Senate “unanimously” voting to end food stamps (SNAP) for some convicted felons, the sheer evil of it just blew my mind. Now in America the concept that one must be “deserving” to obtain even basic benefits like, food, the idea that our American leaders would every one of them want Americans to starve when we live in “the land of plenty” …
I am so ashamed of them.
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