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tgs1952 commented on the diary post The Maddow Transcripts: The 1st week of #OWS, TRMS mentioned “Republican” 170 times, “Obama” 95 times, and “Occupy” 0 times by jest.
Rachel Maddow encapsulates everything that is revolting about ‘liberals’.
Glenn Greenwald? He is the best. People dissing him here are really off base.
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post No More Veal Pen Politics by Michael Cavlan RN.
People seem to be taking what you have written amiss. I don’t. I have seen it for many years – criticism of Democrats policies until election time. It is happening elsewhere. If it happens here, then the whole rap about tribalism is just that, a rap, to attract those of us who are finished loyally [...]
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post Panetta: Israel ‘Increasingly Isolated’, And The Numbers Don’t Lie by CTuttle.
Our relationship with Israel is so totally bizarre that it defies rational explanation.
You are doing as good a job as anyone, showing that is true.
Recommended.
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post Obama Deficit Rhetoric Moves from Compromise to Campaign
Agreed.
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post Krugman and the Free Traders by Bin Quick.
Krugman was a free trade advocate. A few years back he began to back off in increments. He likes it in principle but … He is also still a defender of the likes of Larry Summers. He sometimes says things that seem to be on target, and he is definitely a good writer. So what’s [...]
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post The Kleptocracy’s Great Global Gamble and Why They are Doing It Now by OhioGringo.
Nice post, but you are giving them too much credit. As someone upstream wrote, the ‘gloves are coming off’. Outright murder, wars of aggression, straight ahead looting, oppression etc., are just done openly. Moreover, I think that those who think about the issue at all, believe that there will be ‘technological solutions, and profitable ones, [...]
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post Water Cooler – Alan Grayson to Run for Congress Again! by Bill Egnor.
Alan Grayson has some good qualities and I occasionally contributed to his efforts, but his views on Israel/Palestine are simply beyond the pale. He is the last thing we need.
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post Unmoved by Grand Bargain Talks, Jobs Report Comes In Terrible
pass the pending free trade agreements
Yeah, that’ll get things heating up again in the labor market.
Worldwide the results of neo-liberal economic policy are more disastrous by the day and yet leaders and economists have only neo-liberal solutions for those disasters.
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post Will Western Democracy End Where It Began?
Truly depressing. Michael Hudson has commented that the demand for privatising and so forth is, in fact, a new kind of warfare. Sacking and looting without shots fired.
Greece and Libya are emblematic of the new neoliberal warfare. Use cruise missiles and drones only when necessary. If you can loot via financial blackmail, then all the better.
Worth remembering the the Greek President who facilitated this is a ‘Socialist’.
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post NY AG Schneiderman: I’m Not Signing Onto Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
Amen Beach Populist,
You understand NY Democrat politics well.
The desire for ‘heroes’ at this point is as depressing as it is understandable.
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post Greek Bailout Halted in a Shock-Doctrine Play for Privatization
Greece will eventually default.
The prize the elites are going for is the privatization package – or should I say looting Greek assets at bargain basement prices.
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post Engelhardt, Welcome to Post-Legal America by Tom Engelhardt.
Excellent. Thanks.
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post Chernobyl and Fukushima Legacies: Photo Essay by Paul Fusco by mzchief.
Thank you.
Those photos are heartrending.
Does anyone doubt that the world’s elites would accept the risk of this happening, even multiple times, if they could make a buck and keep some semblance of the status quo in place?
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post GOP-Based Family Association Director Bryan Fischer Says “Jews Have No First Amendment Rights” by EdwardTeller.
‘Fischer took it a step further, calling Islam a “treasonous ideology” and adding that “from a constitutional point of view, Muslims have no First Amendment right to build mosques in America. They have that privilege at the moment, but it is a privilege that can be revoked.’
So, this is snark, right?
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post Members of Congress Blasting Libya Action, Kucinich Proposes Withholding Funding
Actually, the so-called ‘coalition’ is pretty confused as to where things go from here – the ‘hand-off’.
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post Obama, Britain, France, And Libya: Who’s Behind This And Why by Phoenix Woman.
‘The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) was a United States Congress joint resolution providing that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the United States is already under attack or serious threat.’ From the same source. Maybe I am not reading it [...]
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post James K. Galbraith: We Need to Make an Honorable Fight… the Fate of the Entire Country is at Stake by selise.
Thanks
Amazing speech. Realistic, no sugar-coating and inspiring.
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tgs1952 commented on the diary post Exposed! What Wikileaks Has Shown Us All by Kelly James.
Naomi Wolf’s take on Fascism is interesting:
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post Eric Cantor (R-VA) Should Be Impeached
If it was just the Republicans, then the Democrats could make the case. But the Democrats, even people like Pelosi, are just as insane on the issue. I mean Barney Franks and Anthony Weiner have been trying to get Jonathan Pollard released in exchange for a temporary settlement freeze.
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tgs1952 commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Roger D. Hodge, The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism
Hi Roger. Haven’t gotten to your book yet – but it is on my Amazon wish list for the holidays. I did recently read Paul Street’s book Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics which establishes how conservative Obama actually is and has been.
Personally, I didn’t expect much on the foreign policy front – are you surprised at how conservative his administration has been domestically?
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