Sioux Rose

Excellent commentary by Scheer who I once personally wrote to suggesting he wear a bullet proof vest. (I know Rich M and others will see the above article as a subtle endorsement of Obama and the Democrats; but that hardly diminishes from the facts of his assessments.)

A few years ago seeing the calamity in slow motion I wrote a piece no one would publish entitled, "Why I'm Glad I Believe in Karma." If anyone would care to read it, it's published on my website: www.siouxrose.com

Sioux Rose

Excellent commentary by Scheer who I once personally wrote to suggesting he wear a bullet proof vest.

Very soon we will all need bullet proof vests.

Didn't he already ( long ago ) deal with the FROG thing

¿ ___ explosively ___ ?

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( I suspect a plague of blue whales would raise a really nasty cloud )

Namaste

Joe Sixpack will determine the outcome of this election and he is still bought in to supply-side economic myths. Until he views those myths with the same disdain he views Bin Laden there will not be enough upward pressure in the US to make any positive changes.

Amen.

Very well written. And although Bush and McCain are both puppets, we as a people have a hand in the mess. We’ve allowed our elected officials to sell the Constitution to corporate America. Who now uses it to make us pay for their financial losses. Corporate America is now treating Americans the way it has treated foreign companies – with ignorance and contempt. This bailout only delays the inevitable. More war on the middle class. With our government in bed with our corporate bosses, Americans in the middle class are being told to pay the losses and suffer the consequences of corporate greed and corruption. They took away the corner store and the corner gas station and gave us imported materials with which we were supposed to make our lives better and more enjoyable. They outsourced jobs while recruiting foreign workers who would gladly undercut local salaries. They played monopoly with the American middle class. You can see it every night on American television. You can vote with your dollars and stop buying and stop paying taxes or you can vote with your feet and leave. But voting in the ballot box is ratifying the status quo.
Hoa binh

Sheer is censoring himself to protect the policies and votes of Obama. That's crappy journalism and he knows it - or he should. He's no better than the worst journalism of the right. He's a cheerleader and a hypocrite, not a journalist in the best sense.

In a debate with Ralph Nader a couple of years ago, Sheer was asked a question concerning his staunch support of Democrats:

"Where will you draw the line, Robert?" Robert said, "The war." But Obama does not promise to remove all troops and bases and end the war on Iraqis. Not only that, Obama says he will increase troops levels in Afghanistan and be at the ready to militarily go into Pakistan. So what does Sheer do, he moves back the line to accommodate more killings. I'm convinced that if Obama proposed chopping the legs off "terrorists," Sheer would still support him. How much different is that than blowing up innocent people, something Sheer tacitly approves of by his one sided pieces.

Some journalist, eh?

Chris Hedges is far the better writer and he is not a whimp.

True: the question IS, what are we going to do about it?
People are so stunned by years of never-ending, endlessly repeating, shocking events- it would not be an exaggeration to say that a significant number of Americans (USAns) may be nearly immobilized by PTSD.
Beheadings, downed towers, torture, sky high gas, food and housing prices, job losses, witnesses to unspeakable cruelties that we've visited on other nations, polar bears without habitat, clear cuts in our forests, and the ugly list goes on. Trouble is: what "therapy" will get us out of this stupor & into action?

A couple of thoughts:

for M. Shiblikov and Sioux Rose: you'll need flak jackets PLUS helmets because it makes more sense to shoot at the head. Besides, poison or heart attacks, car accidents, falls from high windows, and fast-acting cancer are probably the methods of choice. Have been for 50 years.

for Mr. Scheer: The Christian values those people claim to espouse are a perversion of the Capitalist Protestant values (see Max Weber) of material success and accumulation of wealth as proof of grace. Ironically, the usury of the current system and of the banks in countries dominated by so-called Christians and Jews is proving disastrous to our societies, whereas Sharia banks and ethical funds have been on a fairly steady course.
The rising tide,unfortunately, is not the Muslim system or Judeo-Christian ethical investment, but rather the Chinese economy, with such a strong value attached to material success ("luck" rather than the Christian "grace") that it can be just as ruthless as our "Masters of the Universe" have been on Wall Street and the Wal-Mart empire against Main Street.
So where do we run to?

Hey Penelope October 8th, 2008 2:33 pm

That therapy you're looking for is called JUSTICE.

The Bushs have been a PLAGUE upon the country for three generations.

Many CD'ers may not know that grandpappy Bush, Prescott, was involved in a Fascist coup to overthrow the government of FDR.

This is one of the most fascinating political stories of the 20th century and should be taught to all schoolchildren.

Only with a media under 100% control of the White House could this story have been suppressed for 12 years of Bush presidencies.

The full story is here:
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/53-index.html

Mixing movies and real life. How many people mix up fiction from movies into thinking it's history, but it's only "reel" life? I'm thinking of how so many of us think the circle the wagons thing from movies of my childhood (long long ago,but sound was already invented,and color) really existed? It didn't happen except in movies. It's such a pervasive myth that it's used in "circle the wagons" in political talk.

Bush has said that God told him to…. He then must be a prophet. It would be blasphemous to talk disrespectfully about this 20th Century messenger of God. Therefore, I will only talk about the Plague.

What did they do in the old times when they wanted to get rid of someone afflicted with plague? On land, they burned them; on ships, they threw them overboard. I may be wrong.

Just go ahead and do it, but be careful that he may become the second George W. the Christ. You just don’t impale a prophet. He may have a second coming in the carcass of McBomb.

Bush's connection to the true God, God the father of Jesus of Nazareth, is about as real as the connection between adultery and chastity. Satan is the one Bush worships. You can tell that by the ease with which he has people killed and tortured.

"I've known Nancy Pelosi for many years; I consider her an admirable person. I think she is fighting the good fight." Comments by Robert Sheer - Nation Magazine's 2007 Nader/Sheer debate.

Robert Sheer has very low standards - imo.

In an Asia Times interview this year, Howard Zinn said that the Republicans are only slightly to the right of Obama. Robert Sheer emphatically disagrees with Zinn on this point:

Responding to Nader's comments that the similarities between the two parties are far greater than the differences:

"So instead of saying, a pox on both their houses, which is basically what your argument is, that the similarities tower over the differences. No, they don’t."

Obama is far more god-deluded than McCain is.

McCain probably figured it out when he was a POW. Nothing fails like prayer. Nobody's listening. God doesn't exist.

If Scheer is going to criticize Bush for invoking God, then he'd better be prepared to do so for another 4 years if Obama wins in November.

Educated men of civilizations long ago learned how to manipulate people into every manner of darkness by using the name of God. Jesus told the Political Religious Factions of Israel their father was the devil. He told them they would travel a 100 miles to seek one convert & then turn him into a child of Hell 100 times worse than themselves.

Jesus stated his Kingdom is not of this world, nor worldly things so it isn't about America or any other Nation upon the earth, but America is quite possibly a Beast Kingdom in the Book of Revelation or Mystery Babylon that builds the globalist system of the Beast some refer to as the New World Order as Mystery Babylon fornicates with the Kings of the Earth possibly through the U.N.

Jesus did not teach religion, nor gave any indication he came to start a new religion. All man did was take Jesus & turn him back into a religion & Political State Religion that began murdering, torturing, & thieving in Jesus's name instead of Caesar's name.

Your Nation was founded by mostly Freemason's & Deists who stated they patterned your Nation after the Roman Republic that would become a warmongering Empire.

Forget the vests, what we need is a bunker to protect ourselves from our ungovernment. In regards of the pressing question what we can do about all this, I humbly reiterate an idea that I published more than two decades ago in Germany, where a deluded conservative chancellor 'was re-elected' to run the BRD for sixteen (16) years.
Pondering about a festering democracy that employed only a minority of eligible voters, as the majority did not see any sense in voting, as the results were always detrimental opposite from the promises the poli-thugs made before any election. Therefor I realized that the whole filth of lobbyism and partisanship could only be uprooted through an entirely new 'democratic' system, one that is not based on capital.
The US is not the only country in the world that sends out 'invitation' letters to its citizens to partake dutifully in the judiciary as a juror. Judging over another fellow country wo/man should imply that any citizen that matches the requirements for jury duty has the capacity to do so. Realizing that a government can entrust its citizens to judge itself, the idea was born for 'Parliamentary Duty'. So in my version of government the citizen will receive a letter for invitation to parliamentary duty. Setting aside details, the goal would be to fill the 'house' with randomly picked citizens, from the youngest possible to the oldest possible. No preferences in the color of Your skin or Your economical status, employed or unemployed, laborer or business owner. You get the idea. The result would be a parliament, filled with all walks of life and ideologies (if any), but no lobbyism and partisanship. As I realized that political parties are the biggest obstacle for progress by preventing such through nepotism and cronyism, the parliamentary duty was the all out fix. Imagine a parliament without majorities implied through an 'electoral' process that caters to the powerful through fear mongering of the voters. The argument against my idea that surfaced most frequently, was based on the doubt, that 'ordinary' people would not have enough knowledge to perform as randomly picked lawmaker. Fortunately though the recent developments world wide in terms of the peoples prosperity make clear that the status quo is obviously created by 'professional' politicians that follow their own little agenda. A fact that doesn't quite work that well with a randomly selected citizenry representation. As I believe that the biggest lie of two centuries was the little angry man's promise to reduce government size. The US gov has become a state within the state and it is no longer the people's state. I have way more faith in 'ordinary' people, than in their elected representatives, corrupted by a bankrupt political system. Without the political filth the chances grow that the country returns into its original state, the one that says "By the people, of the people, for the people" nothing gets closer to that than my system of self rule. Ponder that for a possible solution. Maybe not achievable in a few weeks, but certainly inevitable if mankind intends to survive the age of the military industrial world.
The complete dissertation will be available on my web site soon.

Forget about elections - the only vote You have is at the register

Forget the vests, what we need is a bunker to protect ourselves from our ungovernment. In regards of the pressing question what we can do about all this, I humbly reiterate an idea that I published more than two decades ago in Germany, where a deluded conservative chancellor 'was re-elected' to run the BRD for sixteen (16) years.
Pondering about a festering democracy that employed only a minority of eligible voters, as the majority did not see any sense in voting, because the results were always detrimental opposite from the promises the poli-thugs made before any election, I realized that the whole filth of lobbyism and partisanship could only be uprooted through an entirely new 'democratic' system, one that is not based on capital.
The US is not the only country in the world that sends out 'invitation' letters to its citizens to partake dutifully in the judiciary as a juror. Judging over another fellow country wo/man should imply that any citizen that matches the requirements for jury duty has the capacity to do so. Realizing that a government can entrust its citizens to judge itself, the idea was born for 'Parliamentary Duty'. So in my version of government the citizen will receive a letter for invitation to parliamentary duty. Setting aside details, the goal would be to fill the 'house' with randomly picked citizens, from the youngest possible to the oldest possible. No preferences in the color of Your skin or Your economical status, employed or unemployed, laborer or business owner. You get the idea. The result would be a parliament, filled with all walks of life and ideologies (if any), but no lobbyism and partisanship. As I realized that political parties are the biggest obstacle for progress by preventing such through nepotism and cronyism, the parliamentary duty was the all out fix. Imagine a parliament without majorities implied through an 'electoral' process that caters to the powerful through fear mongering of the voters. The argument against my idea that surfaced most frequently, was based on the doubt, that 'ordinary' people would not have enough knowledge to perform as randomly picked lawmakers. Fortunately though the recent developments world wide in terms of the peoples prosperity make clear that the status quo is obviously created by 'professional' politicians that follow their own little agenda. A fact that doesn't quite work that well with a randomly selected citizenry representation. I believe that the biggest lie of two centuries was the little angry man's promise to reduce government size. The US gov has become a state within the state and it is no longer the people's state. Therefore I have way more faith in the 'ordinary' people, than in their elected representatives, corrupted by a bankrupt political system. Without the political filth the chances grow that the country returns into its original state, the one that says "By the people, of the people, for the people" nothing gets closer to that than my system of self rule. Ponder that for a possible solution. Maybe not achievable in a few weeks, but certainly inevitable if mankind intends to survive the age of the military industrial world.

The complete dissertation will be available on my web site soon.

Forget about elections - the only vote You have is at the register

Sorry for the double post, my pc is acting weird.

Forget about elections - the only vote You have is at the register

Scheer is right. God is punishing us for the 8 awful years of war,pestilence and despair brought on by the BushTeam. George W. Bush-the ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction.

And while I am at it, who not celebrate the demise of one awful economist and the resurrection of another:

Milton Friedman, aka, Bush's Godfather (markets can do no wrong; only governments do wrong) is officially dead. Maynard Keynes (the deficit spending British economist) is back for a second time. He worked his magic for the New Deal and helped save capitalism, for a while. Once the capitalists got back in the saddle they reverted to their old rape sand pillage ways. Now Keynes is back for New Deal: Part 2.

How many time do we need to bring Keynes back before we put a stake in Friedman's heart

Dr Wu, the last of the big-time thinkers

Accepting responsibility is not a deficit specific to this administration. It has been characteristic of politics probably since before I started paying attention to it. Did big George and Reagan ever state and accept any responsibility for their part in Iran-Contra? I wasn't alive long enough to remember Nixon's disgraceful exit from the White House, but I don't recall him ever taking responsibility for any part of Watergate. I do remember reading about him saying he wasn't a crook. The CIA has never, admitted any culpability for any of their operations, even just the ones that are beyond a mere suspicion, where convictions could have been had in an open court. And then there's the ridiculously easy ones, simple mistakes, or dumb errors: Clinton's “I did not have sex with that woman.” The only thing I can recall from my history lessons about a politician accepting responsibility was something about Harry Truman having a sign on his desk that said, “The buck stops here.” The only official I can recall that admitted the government erred was Robert Clarke when he said, “Your government failed you.”

hoodeet October 8th, 2008 2:35 pm:
The “material success” you ascribe to the Chinese is just another variation of “He who has the most toys...” which is capitalism personified.

itsjustkarma October 8th, 2008 4:39 pm:
That's a really interesting idea, parliamentary duty. Please hurry with your website, I want to read more.

I wish people would see the Bush Administration's for what it is--the almost complete success of the Protestant "ethic" of "wealth follows virtue", and "invade the HOly Land" to bring about the apocolypse.Unregulated "free market" (have to go throw up--I'm back), the poor fight the idiotic wars and pay for them. Drain the wealth from the working classes, by denying health care, offering to pay for it, with an equity loan, de-funding public pension systems, like social security, so taht the working classes are forced into roullette style "free mkt",through schemes like IRAs and 401ks. If all else fails, give granny a reverse moprtgage. If she doestn die soon enough, dont let her get out of her misery. Put her in a Medicaid nursing home, where someon will surely make a "mistake".

I just dont think that Bush thought the apocolypse would be man made.Maybe he still doesnt think it is! Who knows what that fucker thinks!

Honestly, though, I really dont think he cares much. As long as the haves and have mores staAY that way--

Sick of capitalism yet? Capitalism kills.

A plague on BOTH their houses! Unfortunately , not ALL are punished!