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solerso commented on the blog post Late Night: ‘It Is Not A Story. It Is A Life.’
French Generals haven’t been any worse than American ones, probably better on average. Id hate to see what David Petreaus or Stanley Mcrystal or any other of our now-a-days “heros” would have made of Dien Bien Phu – oh wait, we kind of did didn’t we? Except those two make Westmorland look like McArthur. Other than that what was the big French “surrender”? To Nazi Germany, who overran all of Western Europe and were only stopped by the English Channel? Oh yes the Maginot line…well that was a political – economic disaster. Can anyone imagine what a Maginot Line the US congress and the US military industrial complex would have made?
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solerso commented on the blog post Tackling racism and lack of diversity in the LGBT community
What Roland Martin and others in the Black community are trying to articulate, even though they don’t know it, is that the identity politics movements born in the 70′s (including the shift from Black Civil rights to Black “liberation”) care nothing for the issue of class. This is what he means by “for white people”. He is in love with the capitalist market state fantasy.
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solerso commented on the diary post Why I don’t defend James Rosen or the government by Libby Spencer.
“I’ve never seen “ignorance is bliss” or ” what we don’t know won’t hurt us” used as a global policy” Really?? didn’t you use that same retort on someone else a few lines ago?? In any case you defend “ignorance is bliss” as Domestic “homeland security” policy all the time – whenever Obama is justifiably [...]
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solerso commented on the diary post Why I don’t defend James Rosen or the government by Libby Spencer.
This Time. But the threat is implicit, and at all times, its about the intimidation. Rosen and everyone else at AP knows that the govt can at anytime invoke the frighteningly ambiguous language of the NDAA , declare that Rosen has provided “support” to “an enemy” and make him disappear.
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solerso commented on the diary post Why I don’t defend James Rosen or the government by Libby Spencer.
and suppose after “keeping an eye on N Korea” we learn they’ve developed the LOB missile and they have 10 of them aimed at S Korea… what then? Do we have “a responsibility” to restart the shooting war in Korea? What are “we’ going to do about it..Bomb North Korea? “We” don’t have any right [...]
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solerso commented on the blog post Director Alex Gibney Responds to ‘We Steal Secrets’ Review Posted at Firedoglake
I wont say its a lie that “Assange charges a whole lot of money” for an interview, but Chris Hedges travelled to Britain 2 weeks ago to Interview him for truthdig. Is gibney going to claim that Truthdig paid a “$100,000″ for the interview? (laughable) or Chris Hedges paid it? (far more laughable)..This film is a hit piece on behalf of all the same persons hollywood fat heads are perpetually out campaigning and raising money for – the democratic party, in this case,especially Obama, holder, hillary clinton and the forever-war establishment.
http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_death_of_truth_20130505/
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solerso commented on the blog post Late, Late Night FDL: Beth
Hilarious! I think I just crafted one in my pants
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solerso commented on the blog post Fallout Continues From Discovery Of Major Flaws In Key Austerity Paper
I suppose it was fraud. The “errors” are apparently so massive that they had to be part of an overall method – the data and classes of data that were selected or ignored,selected to get the results they wanted and or were being paid to deliver. Was no one reviewing their work? did no one proof read the thing? did no one test out the results? of course they did..
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solerso commented on the diary post A Step Torwards Closing the Internet Sales Tax Loophole by WI Budget Project.
sale tax is the most regressive kind of tax there is… the less one makes the larger the percentage of ones income gets payed in taxes..we should be working to abolish sales tax and to enforce the payment taxation by those wealthy enough to scoff at paying taxes (that is to avoid paying them) .
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solerso commented on the diary post Corporate Welfare and the Case for Taxes and Regulation by dakine01.
I would go so far to say tht we don’t even HAVE “private” sector anymore, not in the way the term is used – arrogantly thrown around by little would be mini-galts. Not since they decided to murder the manufacturing industry and eat its corpse. Anyone who is not working directly for the government is [...]
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solerso commented on the blog post AP Twitter Account Hack Leads To Dip In Financial Markets
WTF is
“the Syrian electronic army”? according to CNN…”We are a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths who could not stay passive …”OH! ok, in another words a CIA front group…what a load BUULLLLSHIT…most recent Gulf of Tonkin moment?
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solerso commented on the blog post Bloomberg Calls For Reinterpreting Constitution After Boston Bombing
bloombergs defeat in the next NY mayoral election (he will try to buy himself a fourth term) should be mission # 1 for all reasonable people of conscience
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solerso commented on the blog post Jeremy Scahill: Anwar al-Awlaki & How He Became an American the US Government Targeted & Killed
“Yet, there is still no evidence from the US government, even after his execution”
even after his murder…”execution” implies that the killing was judicial.the end of some “due process” of justice…of course, as we all know, it was not.
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solerso commented on the blog post Simpson and Bowles Show Problem With Obama’s Budget Gambit
you spelled “serious people” correctly but can we gets some scare quotes around “tough choices” from now on, too?
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solerso commented on the blog post Update: Suspect
Pinned DownAlive and in Custodynow lester holt and the other media idiots on MSNBC and the boston sturm troops are having an impromtptu TV parade and everyone is cheering and talking about how much they love adore and owe money and sexual favors to, “first responders”…
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solerso commented on the blog post Austerity Economics Takes A Major Blow As Key Research Paper Discredited
whats special abut Japan, or did you just use a globe and some darts
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solerso commented on the diary post Imprisoned for Blogging! by Robert Meeropol.
Wheres the “improvement”? At least, under Stalin’s regime there was employment
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solerso commented on the blog post Technological Unemployment To Hit Service Sector
Robots didn’t replace manufacturing jobs, unless that is what our hilarious investing class overlords are calling 14 hour per day – 7 day per week East Asian workers – working for the equivalent of 5 or 10 dollars per day….which is pretty cruel really, if that’s a joke.
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solerso commented on the blog post Barrett Brown’s Mother Targeted, Faces Year In Jail
the whole point of the injustice dept here is to get Brown to rat out everything and everyone he knows, who may have ever had anything to do with Anonymous…this is standard operating procedure for those goons and “barbarous” is the correct and appropriate word. America is a barbarous nation. Bradley Manning is now nominated for the Nobel Peace prize and many who understand that process believe he will win it…
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solerso commented on the blog post Democracy Is Supposed to Be About Making Lives Better
better for whom has always been the issue.At my brothers famillies table tonight i listened to a network news anchor run through a list of stories about those very measures that our govt uses to determine if lives are getting better or not – a huge fall in the life expectancy of women living in the south, the ongoing war on wages, acid rain contributing to karst sinkhole phenomena,the daily “sequester update”…and it ended with a mention that there are a record number of billionaires in america, something like 15% more over past 10 years…without really trying to, some network just told the truth..life in america is getting better all the time for oligarchs…its getting worse for everyone else
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