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ideological, theological and political debates with the radical
Christian right are useless. It cares nothing for rational thought and
discussion. Its adherents are using the space within the open society to
destroy the open society itself. Our naive attempts to placate a
movement bent on our destruction, to prove to it that we too have
"values," only strengthen its supposed legitimacy and increase our own
weakness.
The
people of the world watch in awe and amazement at what is happening in
and to America; they are watching as the self-proclaimed greatest
democracy in the history of the world is imploding right before their
eyes. They see a country that has lost its vision and its stability,
weighed down by a government that is no longer capable of governing.
By John Whitehead
Transforming America's Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance Despite a general consensus that zero tolerance policies have failed to have any appreciable impact on student safety, schools have doubled down on these policies to the detriment of children all across the nation.
The
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives has the power to
end the government shutdown and avoid the U.S. entering into default on
October 17. Speaker John Boehner refuses to exercise that power. Why?
Who will save us?
Democrats
have already made too many concessions. They're right to stand up to
the Imperial Congress. But that won't be enough. It's time for the
people to take their government back from the extremists, before their
empire collapses and takes us all down with it.
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true obscenity is all this pain and suffering. All these
cancer-treatment denials, all these kids kicked off Head Start or baby
formula, it's all because a bunch of toddlers in the House want to stomp
their little feet and cry about the Affordable Care Act. Even though
this government shutdown does NOTHING to advance their lost cause. How
does Ted Cruz sleep at night?
If
nothing breaks, thuggish House rubes trump the Senate, the White House,
federal agencies, and a growing majority aghast at leaps off the cliff
solely to dramatize one's purity. Who let the howling dogs in?
In
states where Arnold has operated, the end result is usually that
retirement benefits are cut in order to keep financing the corporate
subsidies. And in some states like Rhode Island -- and now, possibly
California, depending on Arnold's specific ballot initiative language --
reformers additionally press to use some of the remaining pension money
to pay newly mandated Wall Street fees for "alternative investments."
Anyone
but the deluded, clueless and/or marginally conscious can see the
crisis is being created by the very congress that claims it's Mr.
Obama's fault for not being willing to negotiate away a law passed by
the congress, tested by the Supreme Court and ratified again by an
election of the same president.
By Andrew Schmookler
Obama Should Say, "My Oath of Office Tells Me, No Concessions to Blackmailers" A brief speech that casts the Republican tactic as an assault on the American constitutional order, and hence the refusal to negotiate with the hostage-takers as part of the presidential oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
1.61 billion dollar human brain project has started in Europe.
This is part one of a review essay of two books devoted to the subject of the historical Jesus
President
Obama, a Constitutional scholar and lawyer knows what time it is. He
will absolutely will not allow the Federal Government to default. The
Republican extremists know this and are trying to force his hand. He is
damned if he does let the government default and he will be damned by
using an Executive Order to keep it running.
By David Swanson
Is the Federal Government a Drug-Induced Hallucination? You laugh, but that could be a side-effect. Consider:
By Thomas Farrell
Can Martha C. Nussbaum Help Save Our Embattled Democracy? Our American experiment in democratic government is embattled today because the Republicans are up to no good. But Martha C. Nussbaum has just published a timely book about why love matters for political justice. But will conservative Republicans read her book? Probably not. But perhaps Senator Elizabeth Warren and other articulate Democrats will. Her book deserves to be widely read and discussed.
Glenn
Beck was incensed over reports of leaked emails that indicated House
Speaker John Boehner coordinated with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
to exempt Congress from Obamacare, saying, "This is officially my
snapping point. I have had it with John Boehner ... I am for hope and
change, I am for transparency," Beck said, as he called for linking arms
across party lines. "Enough of this Kabuki theater ... This is a
nightmare! ... John Boehner and the GOP: they are nothing but lies."
On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece.
By Press Release
How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much; How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter 
An
Interview with David Robinson Simon author of MEATONOMICS: How the
Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much; How to Eat
Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter
Five
years after the financial crisis in the United States helped spread a
deep global recession, policy makers around the world again fear
collateral damage, this time with their nations becoming victims not of
Wall Street's excesses but of a political system in Washington that to
many foreign eyes no longer seems to be able to function efficiently.
Consider
this: a radical, militant organization commits threatening acts which
place the United States on security lock-down. Or perhaps they hack into
Wall Street's vast, intricate computer network, sending the stock
markets and banking system into chaotic panic. Or they make hostile
demands which, if not met, could bring down our financial system and the
global economy. We'd unequivocally label these acts terrorism. So why
shouldn't we consider the Republican Party's similar acts of extortion
of the past week terrorism? These traitorous rebels are holding Boehner
hostage as well. They've strapped him behind the wheel of the GOP
crazy-bus, on Cruz Control, and sent him driving the party off a cliff.
Despite what the president says, he has the power to avoid a debt default.
Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia got a lot of attention for his colorful
interview with New York magazine on Sunday. While most of his claims
were as real as it gets -- including the notion that he may have gay
friends -- The Huffington Post found a few holes.
Making
the rounds of TV news shows Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said
failure to raise the US debt limit means 'credit markets could freeze,
the value of the dollar could plummet, US interest rates could
skyrocket.'
Government
workers form the human infrastructure that underpins a great deal of
what is good and necessary in the American experiment. We the people
care for one another, we take on great challenges, we achieve great
things, and we do this by forming a more perfect union and asking some
of our fellow citizens to do perform the tasks that are necessary to its
maintenance.
When
Charlie Rose pounded Netanyahu for his defense of the indefensible
settlements, he was speaking for the vast majority of American Jews who
do not think the settlements are "helpful to Israel's security." Change
is in the air. In a touch of diplomatic irony, history will record that
the word "change," in this current moment, originated with Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani.
How
is it that Ted Cruz, a freshman Senator from Texas, is able to call the
shots in both houses of congress? Perhaps we are seeing a surface
fracture caused by a much deeper rift in power structure behind American
politics. Follow the money!
After
9/11, the excuse for missing clues was too much data -- trying to sip
from a fire hose -- but with the priority now excusing NSA spying, the
metaphor is for more data -- you can't find a needle in a haystack
without a haystack. Twelve years after 9/11, it's time to stop using it
to justify illegal and counterproductive policies.
On
Tuesday SCOTUS is to hear arguments in McCutcheon v FEC, a case calling
for lifting spending limits by individuals to candidates &
political parties during an election cycle. If approved by the Court as
was done w/ Citizens United in 2010 where corporate donations savaged
the electoral process in its favor it would mean another potential money
bonanza to the Republican & Democrat stooges inhabiting the halls
of Congress.
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel tried to take his campaign
against the Iranian leadership to Iran's young population last week,
saying that if they were truly free, they would be able to wear jeans,
listen to Western music and participate in free elections. The problem
is that Iranians do wear jeans and manage to listen to whatever music
they want to listen to, just like people almost anywhere, except maybe
in North Korea.
By Eugene Elander
Barack Obama must honor his Oath of Office, and the Fourteenth Amendment! Hpw the present, and any future, crises over our public debt can be avoided is presented in this article, which relies on sound Constitutional principles to resolve public debt issues. Latest Articles
Burma needs transparency extracting natural resources
Burma's faulty legislation and centralized government control of land and natural resources often fails to protect local populations from corruption and may lead to growing inequalities or frustrations between rich and poor, state and civilian, and also between and amongst various ethnic groups and numerous regions of the country.
Poet Writes For The Moment
His poems defines the life method and explains how it differs from other knowledge and wisdom.
'Operation
Terror', the 9/11 Hollywood thriller full-length movie, is coming to
Berkeley -- Saturday, October 19th -- and will be simultaneously
streamed on the Web. OPERATION TERROR is the 90-minute Hollywood 9/11
fictional thriller that is banned from theaters because it bites too
close to the truth. Q&A afterwards with the movie producer, Art
Olivier. Also, Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
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Written
by a Princeton historian, this article proves that YES HE (Obama) CAN!
save the world from a US default, according to the 14th Amendment.
Shutting
down the government is really just the beginning when it comes to
Republicans' efforts to sabotage the economy. With less than two weeks
to go before an unprecedented default on our obligations, Republicans
are digging in and threatening a global economic calamity that could be
even worse than the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic
collapse.
Bernie Buzz: Who's Behind the Government Shutdown?
Bernie Buzz: Who's Behind the Government Shutdown? Charles and David Koch, the oil industry tycoons, have thrown their financial weight behind the right-wing Tea Party extremists who forced the government to close. In Senate speeches, Bernie tied the shutdown to the Kochs and other billionaires bankrolling the attempt to undo the Affordable Care Act. The New York Times echoed Bernie's point in a Sunday exposé on how the Koch brothers "have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort." But defunding the health care law is just the beginning. They also support a right-wing extremist agenda to undo virtually every major piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years to protect the middle class, the elderly, the sick, and the poor. On the seventh day of the shutdown, Bernie assessed the situation in an interview on MSNBC. ALSO on this link so much info on major issues...
A single-payer system, like Medicare, is the cure for America's ailing healthcare - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
A single-payer system, like Medicare, is the cure for America's ailing healthcare - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. He says: "I start my approach to healthcare from two very basic premises. First, healthcare must be recognized as a right, not a privilege. Every man, woman and child in our country should be able to access the healthcare they need regardless of their income. Second, we must create a national healthcare system that provides quality healthcare for all in the most cost-effective way possible. Tragically, the United States is failing in both areas. It is unconscionable that in one of the most advanced nations in the world, there are nearly 50 million people who lack health insurance and millions more who have burdensome co-payments and deductibles. In fact, some 45,000 Americans die each year because they do not get to a doctor when they should.... read more
To
watch John Boehner speak Sunday--in a segment with ABC's George
Stephanopoulos--was to watch him issue talking points from another
dimension, where legislative hostage-taking is routine and the American
public is eager to threaten the full faith and credit of the United
States. The interview was rife with dishonesty, but there were five
statements--in particular--that stood out for their recklessness and/or
brazen disregard for the truth.
Message To USA from Queen Elizabeth
Spoof, but with several ideas I could promptly get behind. DG
Florida
Governor Rick Scott's (R) administration is acknowledging problems with
its attempt to remove noncitizens from state voter rolls during the
2012 election, admitting that the program was flawed from the beginning.
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