Meanwhile the Pentagon says they will be in Afghanistan 10 more years.

I think most people have missed the point. Work is not the place for sex. I know people that have had heterosexual sex at work and got fired. Anyone that has sex at work is stupid and whether or not it is heterosexual or homosexual, deserves to be fired. I do not know the facts and can wait until the matter is resolved.

Democracy Now had a special today about Woody Guthrie and I guess he got tired of listening to Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” on the radio so he wrote this song. At least that is what was reported. I guess ass-face Malkin heard the program.

There is good media in the US and it is called Pacifica, but it is radio with no pictures. It is public radio but accepts no corporate money. They interview people all over the world and the programmers keep up with the leading stories of the day. As far as I can see people want everything free and do not want to support it. It exists in 5 cities and the programs are archived for 3 months. At the moment I am listening to Juan Cole discuss the Middle East.

I suspect Venezuela would help support Ecuador to relieve any undo US pressure. I think the Cuban Embassy in London would have been a better option. Philip Agee lived there for years.

Assange interviewed Rafael Correa one month ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2012/jun/20/julian-assange-ecuadors-president-rafael-correa-video

As other people have pointed out Sweden could have sent representatives to interview him in England, but they did not. The trial in Sweden would be conducted in private, the sure sign of a real democracy. No reporters or witnesses. I don’t think there is any reason to hurry Assange out of the embassy. Australia, his country of birth, has refused to protect him.

I listened to Mark Weisbrot discuss the issue on Pacifica today and he said the NYT article about Assange was the worst article he has read in the Times in many years.

My current thoughts, but they change periodically.

Former Obama professor: The president ‘must be defeated’ in 2012

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/18/former-obama-professor-the-president-must-be-defeated-in-2012/

I saw Gar Alperovitz speak about his book “America Beyond Capitalism” in Glendale a couple of years ago. He spoke quite a bit about coops and if I remember correctly Cleveland seemed to have more coops being developed than some other places.

Check out Democracy Now today. After losing 3 trillion for J. P. Morgan Jamie Dimon lies about the type of hedging J. P. was doing and the Dems throw softball questions.

Check out the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement. Obama and some Dems want to sell the country into corporate slavery. I don’t know how many Dems are involved. I am sure the only reason it got this far is that it was kept a secret.

Check out his attack on whistleblowers. I believe Obama will throw anyone in jail for anything he wants. Or put a drone up your ass. I no longer trust anything the Dems or Obama does.

Enthusiasm and boots on the ground could change the result.

I believe that the Democratic Party likes Blue Dogs more than they like progressives like Kucinich and Feingold. I believe the Democrats conspired with Republicans to redistrict Kucinich out. I know a couple of people who have worked on campaigns and the Party did not help them at all. I believe the candidates were too progressive. I believe the Dems love the big money pouring in to the Party and I do not believe they will ever run on real issues and forgo the big bucks. The real debates run by the League of Women Voters years ago were abolished in favor of a no issues debate run by the parties themselves. The Obama and Clinton administration stooges are now a permanent fixture in the Democratic Party.

The Democrats will find the craziest Republican they can find and run on fear of the crazy Republican and the Supreme Court.