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sandyt commented on the blog post CEOs Push Back Against Misinformation on CNBC
For the American right and the European bankers, austerity is not a problem. On the contrary, it is the policy objective.
A feature, not a bug! Paul Krugman is constantly denouncing their stupidity, but I don’t think they’re being stupid.
Working CEOs want more demand, but finance capital is afraid of it, I think. Mass poverty increases their power over society and forestalls the risk that inflation might someday, somehow erode their asset values to some negligible degree.
I do think Kramer is being stupid to try to get working CEOs to help him flack, but that’s not a surprise, is it?
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sandyt commented on the diary post Feeding Occupiers, $0.18 per meal by jimintampa.
EX-cellent, as Monty Burns says…
If we want to show people we support them, food is the absolute best thing, along with clothing and shelter. All of which we are doing here at FDL. This could start a trend of FDL Occupy recipes. Attention FDLers, Jim is ahead of the game here.
Recommended.
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sandyt commented on the diary post The Dems and Reps are not divided. And we’re learning not to be. by sandyt.
Hi Donkey – I agree in part but I think you’re missing something I should have made more clear. I was not writing about political competition, which is what the R tactics are. I am trying to focus on policy differences, which I think are outweighed by policy agreements (and dwindling to boot). It used [...]
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sandyt wrote a new diary post: The Dems and Reps are not divided. And we’re learning not to be.
I was going to write about what I’m thankful for this season; I was focusing on the Occupy movement and how it has generated some appeal to people who call themselves conservatives. Both sides share concerns around the issues of wealth inequality and, to some extent, militarized and brutal policing. It occurred to me that this kind [...] -
sandyt commented on the diary post This Weds: The Internet Fights Back — Please Join Day Of Protest Against “Internet Blacklist” Bill by demandprogress.
And even if you did, we couldn’t hear you!
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sandyt wrote a new diary post: Occupy Seattle: Random Shots
Most of these are from Seattle’s 3000-5000 person march last Saturday. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this is my biggest post so far… Some signs showed a lot of work… What do you value? Others, maybe a little less… Simple Math: Some were warnings… Declaration of Intent: Others were reminders. In Uniform: And my favorite (I’m from [...] -
sandyt commented on the diary post A Message to OWS from the Tea Party Founder. “Don’t leave and don’t settle” by cmaukonen.
Thanks, cmaukonen. The idea of TPers uniting with OWSers around any sort of program at all has to be a nightmare for Big Capital and their servants in Big Politics. For that matter, they were afraid of TPers alone; look how much money they spent to hijack the movement (or to keep it within bounds, [...]
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sandyt commented on the diary post Valley Forge? Don’t let it happen! by sandyt.
Thanks, O.G. I emailed Cleveland PD, like a number of others. That’s really impressive, and a sign of the times, I hope! Your point about liberal groups is well taken, but I am perhaps less skeptical than you. Groups like that have a lot of good people in them, and they are feeling the same [...]
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sandyt wrote a new diary post: Valley Forge? Don’t let it happen!
This is being written in too much haste and perhaps too much emotion. But I am getting vexed. I am concerned about a lack of support for the #Occupy movement from their natural allies (and purported supporters). I live near Seattle, and I have been trying to support the occupy folks there at Westlake Park. [...]
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sandyt commented on the blog post GOP Keeps Letting Their Masks Slip
It’s really good to see all this stuff in one place. Thanks for pulling this together.
I think both parties have outlived their reason for being. With three wave elections in a row, and a fourth coming up, the voters are obviously disgusted and ready for alternatives. FDL is part of that.
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sandyt commented on the diary post Both Barrels from the New Aristocracy by sandyt.
Done. Thanks for the link.
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sandyt wrote a new diary post: Both Barrels from the New Aristocracy
Wow – a double-barrel news day for American pensions and retirement security. Barrel One, from the Private Sector First up, everybody’s favorite job creators and patriotic Americans, the CEO class (AKA the ruling class, the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class, MOTUs, bloodsucking vampires). It seems that sending our jobs overseas, smashing the labor movement, and laying us [...]
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sandyt wrote a new diary post: Scientific integrity: a comparison
The climate denial crowd would have us believe that the world’s climate scientists are deliberately misleading the public about climate change . These alarmists are in cahoots with government funders and are locking out their opponents. There is no global warming; it is all a lie . The Times’ Greenland Maps – Off by a Factor of 300 Anyone who [...] -
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sandyt wrote a new diary post: Labor Day questions: Who is ‘productive’? Who gets to decide?
I am writing to follow up on Eli’s excellent post about democracy being ‘un-American’. He and the commenters bring out the connections between Matthew Vadum’s rant and the Republican efforts to shackle actual human voters and unleash corporate power in elections. But I thought there were a few other points worth drawing out. Blowing the Script To [...]
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sandyt wrote a new diary post: Climate Scientist investigated (again!), vindicated (again!)
One of the world’s leading climate scientists, Michael Mann of Penn State, has been vindicated by the National Science Foundation. Almost no one noticed. Mann is the author of the famous “hockey stick” graph showing rising global temperatures. The graph, based on research conducted in 1999, was included in the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental [...] -
sandyt wrote a new diary post: The Best People in America
I joined FDL some weeks ago. I signed up to do volunteer work at some level or other. To my pleasant surprise, FDL got back in touch, and before I knew what was going on, I had signed up to do member outreach. So I wound up in something called the M. E. T. – [...] -
sandyt commented on the blog post FINAL VOTE
For the many weeks of this shameful betrayal I have relied on FDL’s reporting and analysis above anyone else’s. I have to call out a huge thankya to Jane, Jon, DDay and all the others. Everyone on the thread, thanks for being members! Recruit your friends if you can; we have a TON of work to do.
