Saturday, March 16, 2013

31613/Aunt Jama holding a chicken leg!

31613/FBI issues thousands of them a year to banks, phone companies and
other businesses demanding customer information. They're sent without
judicial review and recipients are barred from disclosing them, a federal
judge in San Francisco declared the letters unconstitutional, saying the
secretive demands for customer data violate the First Amendment-    Boxer
and Feinstein (both jews) according to her wikipedia page. And EFF lawyer
Matt Zimmerman has a jewish name.  merely validating what I've validated
so many times before. And I lied when I said I wasn't suprised my heart
sank truth be told-That American Jews are Anti-American or in conspiracy
with the terrorists? -The point is simple. And you got it, even though
you feign not to know-Constitutional Republic?? Really? The USA is
now, and has been for awhile, a Plutocracy. The country is by and large
run and controlled by the rich, the powerful and by large corporations,
lobbyists by the thousands in Washington D.C and each and every state
capital with millions and millions of dollars to spend to sway our too
pathetic too often bought parasite "politicians" and the ridiculous
idiotic ruling of Citizens United-make lobbying illegal. If you are a
lobbyist and or member of congress you are guilty of taking and or giving
bribes-corporate supranationals control all of the money. They are
hoarding cash by the TrillionsUSD. Unions? Really? Union membership is at
its lowest since the 19th century- disappointed when Obama renewed the
Patriot Act. This is what happens when the Government has a knee jerk
reaction to a crisis without thinking through the ramifications of the
laws that they pass. Violating our individual liberties in the false hope
of temporary security is not the answer-implemented W, but the GOP spin
continues like the playground bully. denying everything-BE VERY AFRAID OF
MONEY POWERS EVIL FALSE FLAG CIA OPS TO FOMENT CITIZENRY TO WAR, FOR THE
PROFIT OF A FEW, PLAYING US FOR FOOLS 9/11 =INSIDE JOB/ THE BANKERS’
MANIFESTO OF 1892 "We [the bankers] must proceed with caution and guard
every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs
of restless commotion.Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently
yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that
we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance how
to fleece "the lower order of people" and "the common herd" believe me
these Mafioso have only gotten worse more cunning and deceitful-3
individual forces -all parts of a whole 1) Wall St.+ The Federal Reserve
who create The Dollar as debt out of thin air for mortgages,loans etc
+big Corp/ Military etc. 2) The White House.The Pentagon/Cia/Mosad
etc.The Council of Foreign Affairs 3) The People. No 1+2 have conspired
to fleece The People. Now The People have The Internet and have started
to figure it all out what our "Money Masters" have really been
up..creating money out of thin air -dipping in social engineering The
People by means of a cunning form of slavery "MONEY"-fiat' "PROMISSORY
NOTE CONTRACT", now created at the click of a mouse once the victim
has signed to repay an I owe you ie: the mortgage or loan papers bailouts
etc, load your victim enemy up with debts. then go in and strangle them
get everything on the cheap, no doubt whatsoever,that these evil money
powers are REALLY behind all the PROXY WARS +ALSO DONE 9/11 +JFK MURDER,
100+years of MEDIA CONTROL, If you can't get what you want by deceit get
a "Royal Charter" and INVADE-Obama and the left want complete control
over our lives. Look at New York's Bloomberg-libertarians have become a
front for teabag Republicans-Nothing you can do non violently to unseat
these people. They will never give up power without a terrible blood
bath. Jerrymandering and lobby money has made them un defeatable- who
started the most expensive wars in our Nation's history? Who enacted the
Patriot Act? (Granted, with the help of the Democratic wing of the
National Party). Who started Guantanamo? Torture? Rendition, to some of
the most despicable countries on the planet, including Syria? take off
your ideological blinkers--Pictures streamed from man’s stolen iPad are
‘continuing fountain of entertainment’-Statue of Liberty will be coming
down and replaced by Aunt Jemima holding a chicken leg!--the three day
event, a gathering of thousands of conservatives from across the country,
have focused on finding new ways to win elections in the future. In the
end, we'll win. We'll win for the same reason we've won before, because
our cause is right, and just. he exited, the audience gave a standing
ovation.Mitt told activists to remain optimistic despite the loss. "I
left the race disappointed that we didn't win. But I also left honored
and humbled to have represented values we believe in, and to speak for so
many good and decent people, It is up to us to make sure that we learn
from my mistakes and from our mistakes, so that we can win the victories
those people and this nation depend upon, It’s fashionable in some
circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions,
about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism. We may not
have carried the day last November 7th, but we haven’t lost the country
we love, and we haven't lost our way," "I would urge us all to learn
lessons that come from some of our greatest success stories, and that is
30 Republican governors,-/Jeb Bush: GOP has a perception problem ‘Obama
zombies’ invade CPAC after dark The Ticket/Last American Man’ facing
shutdown from North Carolina gove … The Sideshow - 18 hrs agowalked out
into the Appalachian Mountains, where he has lived for 30 years. In that
time, he’s faced down wild animals and entitled children. But the
proprietor of Turtle Island may have finally met his match in the form of
red tape. offering paid courses to visitors who want to stay at Turtle
Island for trips ranging from two hours to two weeks. These buildings
aren't fit for public use," Joseph A. Furman, county planning director,
tells the WSJ, describing toilets made of sawdust and open-air kitchen
facilities. because, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the Watauga
County planning department has created a 78-page report detailing the
various health and sanitary violations at Conway’s nature paradise. For
his part, Furman says it’s not about forcing Conway and Turtle Island
into the modern age. It's about making sure the visitors to his wooded
paradise don’t leave with illness or injury, We need to respect our
ancestors' way of life, but we also need to do it in a sanitary manner,
There needs to be give and take on both sides," he told the WSJ-I'm so
sick of Government intrusion into our lives-you will get a lot sicker as
time goes by-Why do you think it's the government? I suspect there are
competitor businesses using the local authorities as a tool. That's good
business practice, and fully to be supported. Why pay for your own attack
dogs if you can get other people to pay for them for you?-kill yourself,
we wont miss you. Im sick of you paranoid lunatics always complaining
about the government-that damn government that gave you an education
(well, at least the opportunity, your post would suggest that you might
not have taken advantage of that) roads, electricity, clean food and
water, and some thing like a living wage. I just can't stand that the
government has to be so nosey-more thumbs up than the rest of you did?
Looks like more people are siding with HIM!-yet the rethugs who own NC
hoot and holler about less government. you betcha-such a racist lump of
porcine excrement!-Uhmerican freedom is a lie.-To be free one needs to
make a stand and tell the bureaucrats NO MORE! It must be backed by will,
resolve, determination and the weapon of your choice. You might fall but
the next one that stands will have those idiots saying "Is it really
worth it?-I am all for a peaceful revolution after all it is how we are
designed. it is simple and free reject D&R we can win this fight one
person at a time and armed only with truth-Where the population goes the
corrupt politicians follow and bring along their low life #$%$ kissing
helpers-    Living "with" nature as was done more than 100 years ago was
NOT safe or sanitary, BY MODERN STANDARDS; yet people survived, and in
many cases were doing a BETTER job than "modern" man at it!-Yep. Know
what the life expectancy was 100 years ago. "doing better"? If ya
consider dying before 45, and women a lot younger, doing better-I've
known people born in the 1800's and they were healthy and tough even in
their old age (80's -100's). They all were well read, believed in honest
living and would even climb a mtn just to "get some air". Maybe you are
mixing up those active hard working people with the dark age europe?-
American just love our freedom if we didn't we wouldn't be Americans!-
Hence the bitter words to the dictator/traitor in office and his gestapos
in CA-Oh ya. Just like the people #$%$!ng and bathing in the same river
water. You are WRONG-Death rate was pretty high. We survived because our
grandparents had like 10 kids so 5 or 6 would survive to adulthood- Equal
protection under the law...where are the govt flunkies going after the
real estate developer scammers getting huge bailouts, not arresting mega
bankers for stealing US citizen tax money, not acceptable!
(constitutional constipation?) " /. mankind takes over satmornslam/
31513/ Looks like that pushback on the prostitution angle of the Robert
Menendez scandal didn't cut him any slack with federal prosecutors
pedophile posse goes to work: WP: Federal grand jury has reopened probe-
unfortunate. Although no administration believes it, it's healthy when
Congress keeps its feet to the fire, not with cheap shots, as with the
Benghazi imbroglio, but in a serious fashion, by broadening the
discussion about major geopolitical concerns, certainly war and peace.
Are You Really Rich or Merely Affluent? reports recent data shows there
is a wealth gap growing, even among the wealthy.Robert Frank-More:Booming
Market Adds 300,000 New Millionaires), according to the Federal Reserve,
With the tax cut in place, lower earners used the extra money to pay down
debt, which has recently grown to $40 trillion nationally- CNBC/Patriot
gives his final warning: Pushing Us Ever Closer to the Edge by Emperor
Misha I As the ever diligent and tireless Imperial Staff has been keeping
you well up to date on, the natives are getting restless, the Browncoats
are getting louder in their warnings to the federal tyrants and their
minions, yet the ProgNazis and their RINO collaborators — a word to the
latter: historically, no matter how brutal the revenge upon the
instigators after a successful insurgency, the treatment that their
collaborators got was invariably orders of magnitudes more merciless.
Enemies are enemies, collaborators are treasonous backstabbers. You might
want to at least think about that, keep pushing right on. we would like
to remind you that we mean all of you. You, ProgNazi reading this while
laughing to yourself at the bluster and bravado of this silly Internet
blowhard, may think yourself safe, ensconced behind all of the
paramilitary protection that the Enemy Occupation Force that you've built
can provide. But can you say the same about everybody that you love and
care about? Can you say the same about everything that you love and care
about? And can you even say that said wall against the inevitable
consequences of your own lust for power that obviously overrides the oath
that you, with lies in your heart and treason on your mind, made when you
made it to DC, that said wall can protect you 24/7? Every minute of every
day for the rest of your lives. Can you? Because if you think you can,
then you're deluding yourself. More and more firearms and ammunition
manufacturers are joining the ranks of those who refuse to serve traitors
to the Constitution (Beretta being one of them, for crying out loud!), we
understand that their number is now up to close to 200 with no signs of
slowing down, more and more local LE departments are declaring that they
will not, under any circumstances, assist the federal tyrants in DC in
violating their citizens' unalienable rights, some have even gone so far
as to declare that they will, further, arrest and prosecute any federal
agents trying to do so in their jurisdictions, thousands, tens of
thousands of patriots are speaking up openly, stating that they WILL NOT
COMPLY ON PAIN OF DEATH with an enemy overthrow of our nation's supreme
law, yet the mindless, power mad tyrants in Moscow on the Potomac press
on regardless as do, sadly, too many state governments across the nation,
thinking that they're doing What the People Want, convinced by their own
press and manufactured polls. We are MUCH better equipped, mentally, to
handle the kind of situation that you're FORCING upon us than your mall
ninjas, no matter how much you try to buy up all of the latest and
greatest military equipment for them. Equipment alone doesn't win the
battle. Look up Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion of if you doubt us.
Moreover, we're all bound to an oath that we, unlike you, took seriously
when we made it. We're all trained, finely honed, to focus on the mission
and our honor, second to absolutely nothing else. And we're supremely
well equipped to train those of our fellow patriots who didn't Just ask
the Egyptians, Syrians et al how they fared about the Israelis in 1947
when the pisslamists were armed to the teeth against a bunch of rag tag
Jews. Or ask, if you could, our Founding Fathers who went up against, and
DEFEATED, the world's most preeminent military power with nothing but a
bunch of armed peasants They're in for one heck of a surprise nicedoggie/
mcconnel is excited about rubio wabc/Taibbi spent the day at the Senate
hearing on J.P. Morgan Chase and the infamous "London Whale" trades.
Chase, supposedly the most successful and highest-functioning of the big
banks, has paid $8B in settlements and twice that in legal fees since
2009 rs/overwhelming 78 percent of Catholics now disapprove of how the
church has handled the issue of sexual abuse of children by priests, and
two-thirds disapprove strongly abc/William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: The
sequester is "brought to you by your friends in the GOP, who tell us that
we're broke, and can't afford nice things anymore ... but whatever you
do, don't look at all the ways we throw billions at our friends through
the money laundering process of warfare and militarization./
31413/Dylan Voted Into American Academy of Arts and Letters-
Hawaii's 'Steven Tyler Act': 'Now I Can Walk Around
Naked'-Clive Burr, Ex-Iron Maiden Drummer, Dead at 56 rs/The GOP's Real
Agenda, Tim Dickinson, The GOP's Real Agenda Republicans have pretended
to be more moderate - but their politics are harsher and more destructive
than ever, The hardcore rump of the party is even working to punish
moderate outliers like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. like a wounded
beast: Rarely has it been more dangerous, their plan also contained a
huge giveaway to reckless Wall Street speculators by eliminating the
funding necessary for the government to shutter huge financial
institutions. The bill also would have given Congress the ability to zero
out the budget for the hated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the
watchdog agency brought to life by Elizabeth Warren that protects
homeowners and credit-card holders from the abuses of predatory lenders.
brutal for jurisdictions whose economies are dependent on federal and
military contracts. Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., are poised
to lose a combined 450,000 jobs, double the losses projected for a
megastate like California. Some Republicans have attempted to blame the
president for the pain caused by the "Obamaquester." But for the big
bosses of the conservative movement, the true problem is that its cuts
don't go far enough. Pointing to a right-wing think tank slamming the
sequester as "insignificant," the GOP's anti-tax Svengali, Grover
Norquist, snarked, "Ouch. Ouch. I cannot stand these 'meat cleaver' cuts
in sequestration. Chain-saw massacre stuff. Jindal wants to abolish
income and corporate taxes, financing the giveaway by increasing the flat
tax on purchases. Jindal claims the proposal "will put more money back
into the pockets of Louisiana families." That's a lie. Taxes on the
poorest 20 percent would rise nearly $400 a year in order to lower taxes
on the top one percent by $25,000, state is on track to pile up $2.5
billion in debt by 2018, yet Brownback is still calling on the
legislature to whittle away at income tax rates, he declares are on a
"glide path to zero, Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, a creationist who blasts
science, "all that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology,
big-bang theory, as lies straight from the pit of hell', Rubio in Florida
doubts whether humans are driving climate change and believes we should
just let it ravage the planet in any case: "We can pass a bunch of laws
that will destroy our economy," he said, "but it isn't going to change
the weather." DECLARE WAR ON WOMEN, limited government ends at a woman's
vagina. Arkansas passed a bill outlawing abortion after just 12 weeks'
gestation, a law "designed to dial the clock back 40 years," said Nancy
Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The measure was
vetoed by Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, who decried it as "blatantly"
unconstitutional. Republican governors, including Rick Scott of Florida
and Christie in New Jersey, have embraced this Medicaid expansion as a
sweetheart deal: The federal government will pay all costs for new
enrollees for three years, ponying up 90 percent thereafter. But other
GOP leaders who despise government are content to put the health of
millions at risk rather than sacrifice ideology. Rick Perry in Texas,
calls Social Security a "disease", refusing to expand Medicaid, claiming
it would "threaten even Texas with financial ruin." In fact, Perry is
looking a gift horse in the mouth. The feds would give the state $100
billion over a decade to cover nearly 2 million residents, while
requiring just $15 billion in state matching funds. Sen. Ted Cruz of
Texas, Channeling Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Cruz has declared Barack Obama to
be "the most radical" president in our history, adding that Obama was
educated at Harvard Law School by "Marxists" who, Cruz insists, "believed
in the Communists overthrowing the United States government-The idea that
Krugman has attacked ad hominem shows a misunderstanding of the term "ad
hominem". He doesn't go directly to personal qualities, if at all,
instead, he attacks ideology and intransigence. I don't care what kind of
a "conservative" you "are", you aren't using the words properly so fifty
cent phrases really don't improve your argument at all-doesn't have any
respect for Paul Ryan: He knows that Ryan's claims and plans are
completely 100% bogus. There's a difference between doing that and, say,
calling someone a big fat idiot.- They think they're smarter than the
internet. That's funny.- The wiser heads in the GOP (e.g. Frum) get that
there's a problem and the party needs to adapt. The problem is that
angry, old, white people outnumber the wiser heads by significant amount-
As long as people like you blame ONLY the Republicans or ONLY the
Democrats, then YOU TOO are part of the fascist problem. How soon you
forget that at the end of 2010 it was the Democrats who refused to raise
taxes on the rich, that last year both the Republicans and the Democrats
voted for the fiscal cliff, and that the Democratic Senators refused to
eliminate the filibuster three times since they took control of the
Senate. The Democrats and Republicans have merged into the Democratic
Republican Party, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Fascist
Elite, Ltd-the "plague on both your houses" mentality that brought us
(via that super-narcissist, Ralph Nader) George W. Bush in 2000. How's
that working out for you?-Really, we're still blaming Nader for Bush?
Gore won the election, it was stolen by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and
the Supreme Court-it is worse to try and paint someone else's agenda as
fact when it is merely your own propaganda-use a small blog website that
suspiciously has the same name as your screen name as a source? Twice??
And you're talking about "intellectual dishonesty"?-boggles the mind...
Next he'll be quoting himself-Half of all 'comments' on the net are from
PAID trolls hired by Republican and Neocon fundraising groups...there
needs to be a better expose on this although the NYT and other magazines
have written about this shady practic-The sequester was born of
republican obstructionism. Common knowledge. This is quite naive and
shows a complete absence of knowledge in economics. Think 'financial
crisis' and the near obliteration of capitalism. That doesn't even make
sense. The courts seem to have disagreed with you as well as the majority
of Americans. Did you even read the article? Invasive probing and
Violence Against Women Act? I couldn't care less what your views on
abortion are. The logical flaws exist in your head-I have no problem with
YOU or your fellow right wingers not going for an abortion but forcing
your religious beliefs on everyone smacks of a Taliban type government.
Are you one of those that wants to force their religious beliefs on
everyone?-The facts are everywhere you just have to look for them. But
you won't see them through your blinders- Wisconsin, Florida where people
stood for hours to vote. Wake the hell up would you-Total self denial, I
have no doubt. All those self deniers are the root of the problem-Thank
god. A person with a brain. Too bad your not our president. Total
honesty. I applaud you for taking this liberal leaning article full of
false info and Breaking it down for the brainwashed youth of america-A
frog has a brain-why is a music magazine so concerned with politics?
Rolling Stone is no doubt on Obama's payroll based on all the pro liberal
articles that flood pages instead of actual music news. So I guess if we
can blame George Bush for things like Hurricane Katrina and 911 we can
blame Obama for shitty bands like Cults and Foster the People?-STFU
rs/one for the Nazicrats, Assault Weapons Ban Passed -a real Group Of
Phonies GOP-Mass murderers, serial killers, statutory rapists,
America haters, draft dodgers, political mega criminals, sociopaths, war
criminals, terrorists, GuNazis, Klansmen, adulterers, hor mongers,
Congressional corrupters, fascist propagandists, cosmic liars,
environmental terrorists, Tim McVeigh(R); Ted Bundy(R); David Duke(R);
Wayne LaPierre(R); George Bush(R); Dick Cheney(R); Dick Nixon(R); Spiro
Agnew(R); Tom DeLay(R); Ken Lay(R); Joe McCarthy(R); Jack Abramoff(R);
Ted Nugent(R); Rush Limbaugh(R); Jesse Helms(R); Strom Thurmond(R); Lee
Atwater(R); Karl Rove(R); Donald Trump(R); David Vitter(R); Larry
Craig(R) What a party rbg/41 percent of financial service workers want
out, due to declining bonuses that in turn helped drop salaries 18
percent in 2012. In fact, hopes have turned from an increase in bonuses,
which have long fueled salary structure on the Street, to higher base
salaries, according to the survey of 1,431 workers by eFinancialCareers.
"We've hit the pain point on compensation-let me get out my violin-
overpaid idiots destroy companies, drive down share prices, aren't held
accountable for their poor performance and get paid ridiculous amounts.
Here's an idea. Why not take all those executive bonuses and pay them
back to the shareholders in the form of dividends? The salary of a few
million dollars alone should be enough to attract plenty of "talent" to
run these companies. Good riddance to those who aren't happy with their
sky-high salaries-PLUCK WALL STREET!-If the 'talent' that's lost is the
kind that got us into the housing bubble, I say good riddance msnbc/bama
tells Stephanopoulos  basically, it's not a big deal if there isn't a
budget. There's no way to get one that balances in 10 years, there may be
no way to bridge the partisan gap, and there's no immediate debt crisis.
abc/an update on a 2011 Watson Institute report, produced ahead of the
10th anniversary of 9/11, and found the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
and Iraq that followed 9/11 have now cost nearly $4 trillion (without
interest) and as many as 329,000 lives. U.S. medical and disability
claims for veterans in the last 12 years total $134.7 billion. Reuters
reports that the new study concluded that both the war and the $212
billion reconstruction effort that came after it were failures as the war
"reinvigorated radical Islamist militants in the region, set back women's
rights, and weakened an already precarious health care system" while
"most of [the reconstruction] money spent on security or lost to waste
and fraud. Halliburton, until 2007, owned a considerable stake of Kellog
Brown and Root, one of the major contractors in Iraq allegedly
responsible for misbehavior, abuse of funds, and less than adequate
project completion. To top it all off, the U.S. now reportedly owes the
country $7 billion, a number caught in an audit that also revealed U.S.
Army diplomats had lost gas receipts totaling to $1 billion-Now that the
Wall Streeters have the rest of the country either unemployed or working
at Walmart wages, their salaries are next in line, SURPRISE!-
businessinsider/ After taking a drubbing in the recent elections, the
Republicans have been talking a good game about reforms to make them more
appealing to Latinos, women and gay-friendly millennials. In reality, the
GOP's severely conservative agenda is moving full steam ahead/It kills
Mitt not to be in the Whitehouse-At least Romney still has his car
elevators and Rafalca, the dancing horse./Kevin Zeese and Margaret
Flowers, Truthout: There is another climate bomb in the United States,
shale gas hydraulic fracking, which emits methane, more dangerous than
CO2/Valerie Tarico, AwayPoint: The Vatican claims to promote a
"comprehensive culture of life," but it is the Church's comprehensive
culture of corruption that refuses to die/Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chavez, Mi
Amigo Greg Palast, Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill
him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers - and it's
the ketchup/Rand Paul is absolutely right. We need to undo parts of the
National Defense Authorization Act and the PATRIOT Act that give
extrajudicial killing powers haartman/GOP Congressman Convicted in
Abramoff Scandal Lacerates Boehner in New Book National Journal- ACLU
Launches National Investigation Into Police Militarization ACLU- How Wall
Street Devoured Corporate America The Atlantic/

Thursday, March 14, 2013

31413/kills me not to be in the Whitehouse

/31413/It kills me not to be in the Whitehouse~Mitt/Clinical Dilemma: Recommending Pot To Patients : NPR
TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. In 18 states and
the District of Columbia, marijuana is medicine by popular vote. A lot of
doctors don't see it that way. They say pot presents problems that
include potency, efficacy, corruption, and of course it's still illegal
under federal law. imho, doctors are human like anyone else, and if they
are hardwired to feel marijuana is illegal or not " good", they will be
reluctant to order it-You can't prescribe marijuana anywhere. Doctors
recommend it. It's not a medicine that you can prescribe anywhere. So the
issue is recommendation. And what we're talking about with Dr. Bostwick
is a thoughtful consideration of a physician who's got an ongoing
relationship with a patient when the patient's got a lot of problems
after having tried a lot of other medications. That's not what medical
marijuana is about in this country. Ninety percent-plus of the marijuana
recommendations are sold by doctors who virtually the only thing they're
doing is putting out those recommendations. CONAN: And is too fine a
point to call that corruption? DUPONT: It's a kind of de facto
legalization-when you get the certificate, you go to a dispensary, and
you pick out how much you want, of which thing, and it's a discussion
that bears no relationship to medicine anywhere in the country. That's
what medical marijuana is as it's going on in the country today. CONAN:
But Dr. Bostwick, yes, there is that, and that's hard to deny, and when
you see signs, neon signs, it's a little difficult to equate that with
medicine, yet there are oncology patients and others who benefit from
marijuana. BOSTWICK: Well, one of the challenges here is that marijuana
has been used medicinally for 5,000 years, and including in the U.S. for
100 years legally. And the illegal, the Schedule One designation of
marijuana, which made it illegal, was actually a political decision as
well, not supported by science, because the science hadn't yet been done.
CONAN: Schedule One, of course, is federal law, but go ahead. BOSTWICK:
Right, federal law, but the effect of being a Schedule One drug is that
it's very difficult to do research on that drug, there's enough
literature, much of it anecdotal, to support that marijuana is not
completely without any kind of benefit. That being said, Dr. DuPont's
description of particularly the situation in Colorado is very accurate
and quite crazy. (LAUGHTER) DUPONT: You were talking about the history
about this, and let me just add to that, marijuana was used historically,
but by the 1930s it was virtually abandoned. It was still legally
prescribable, but nobody prescribed it. It had vanished from any kind of
use at all. So by the time the Controlled Substances Act came in 1970,
this medical use was ancient history, I think the point is that look at
what's happened to morphine. Morphine came from opium when it was
purified. And it wasn't only that morphine became used as a purified
chemical, but the synthetic analogs were developed. That is exactly the
future of cannabis. And the reason it's so interesting is I'm in favor of
that, and the people who are supporting medical marijuana are against it
because all they want is smoke dope, Marijuana has been researched by the
National Institute of Drug Abuse for nearly 40 years. And there's plenty
of research going on about that. The issue really has to do with how do
you - when you're doing the research, how do you justify studying a plant
as opposed to studying the specific chemicals. I think that's a very
difficult problem. But it is possible to do it, and the National
Institute of Drug Abuse, in that 40 years, has produced marijuana to give
to researchers so they can do studies of marijuana, this is an end-run
around that that is very dangerous, not just for the marijuana, but for
the precedent it sets for other drugs. CONAN: So given that, would you
say a recommendation of marijuana in any circumstance is malpractice?
DUPONT: No. I think the physician is dealing with - and Dr. Bostwick
presents it in a very good way. There's a different issue about what
happens with a physician talking to a patient when he's got a
relationship and is doing everything possible he or she can do to help
that patient, What happens between a doctor and the patient, that's an
entirely separate thing and a sacred thing, as far as I'm concerned,
around the issue of working with that patient-.have to wait till the next
generation of doctors- BOSTWICK: The Sativex that's currently in phase
three trials actually contains ratio of TCH to CBD, and there are
variable ratios with several different preparations of it. So yes, that
makes total sense. And certainly we know that drug dealers going only for
a high will try to get rid of the CBD. So I'm not disagreeing with that
at all. But I am saying that in the absence of these compounds that we're
talking about, theoretically, patients do titrate the medication to
effect.-PAUL: Yes. I'm a cannabis expert and a physician here in Denver,
and I take issue with the gentleman who talks about pot pushers and
things like that, because I have evaluated patients in the past,
thousands, and they are basically desperate. Eighty to 90 percent of
these people have been in pain and have been given multiple pain
medicines, and 25 percent were addicted. And you have to look at the
patient, as a whole, who's coming in and saying, OK. I don't have the
psychological problems, but I'm trying to deal with my pain, and I'm
trying to deal with sleep, et cetera, et cetera. And this works for me,
and they're grateful to be able to get the recommendation. Now, do all
the people - are some of the people using it for recreation? Of course
they are. But in the big scheme of things, there's never been a reported
death from cannabis use, as opposed to, what, 200,000 deaths from
prescription medicine and 20,000 deaths from opiates? frankly, if they
order dilaudid and oxycontin, grass should be mousenuts to them- it
should be governed by the same laws as alcohol, and ...as for side
effects... name one med that does not have any.-duh, pot-Related NPR
Stories, With Pot Legalized, States Enter Uncharted Waters Feb. 7, 2013
Colo. Task Force Navigates New Pot Rules Jan. 7, 2013 It's Legal To Sell
Marijuana In Washington. But Try Telling That To A Bank. Nov. 16, 2012 /
31313/5 Most Dangerous Places To Be When An EMP Strikes, in an instant
the nation's power grid will fail as anything with circuits (including
most automobiles beforeitsnews-DHS Purchased Enough Ammo to Sustain a Hot
War in America For Years US Air Force Stops Reporting Data on Afghanistan
Drone Strikes-Gun Debates Come Down to Matter of Trust Where Are All of
the Principled Liberals?-California or Texas Liberty and Self-Government?
-Stunts, Scare Tactics Designed to Make You Give Up Guns-Singing Alto in
the Republican Choir- Barack Obama is no Abraham Lincoln- Divorcing
Marriage and the Government-PatriotUpdate dedicated to the ideals of a
free press/Speaking in her distinctive, no-nonsense style, "Autism is a
very big spectrum, ranging from people with severe handicaps to high
functioning people like Einstein, Steve Jobs and Mozart. Half the geeks
in the Silicon Valley are on the spectrum. PhD), Temple Grandin ftg/
The Shame of Israel Apartheid Week The blood libel seems to have gained
respectability in the halls of academia now that Israel Apartheid Week
has become an annual rite on college campuses across North America.
Characterized by hate-speech promoted as political discourse, Israel
Apartheid Week proclaims its goal is to educate people about the nature
of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement, Its
architects contend they are not antisemitic.  However, Israel is not an
apartheid state under any definition of the term, and to argue otherwise
requires the repetition of odious lies and the denial of historical
facts. Because the claim of Israeli apartheid is a malicious fiction, the
antisemitic motivations underlying Israel Apartheid Week cannot be
minimized or ignored  By Matthew M. Hausman- On questioning the Jewish
state  What does the right of self determination mean if not the right to
be what you want to be. One peoples right to self determination negates
the right of others in the same space. The right of self determination is
not predicated on whether you will be democratic. The right of self
determination on one level is the right to discriminate. If Israel is
denied the right to favour Jews in immigration or to refuse political
rights to others in its midst, it is denied the right of self
determination. See also this rebuttal by Fresno Zionism titled A Jewish
State Can be Democratic and Moral. But I would like to make the point
that it can be undemocratic and (im)moral. Ted Belman-Defenders of
Israeli policies routinely accuse Israel’s critics of denying her right
to exist, while the critics (outside of a small group on the left, where
I now find myself) bend over backward to insist that, despite their
criticisms, of course they affirm it. The general mainstream consensus
seems to be that to deny Israels right to exist is a clear indication
of anti-Semitism (a charge Jews like myself are not immune to), and
therefore not an option for people of conscience joelavene, IsraPundit/
new gang leader has been elected-He was ordained 13 December (1:13 pm)
elect pope 13 March..whats it with the 13's ?-If you add today's date up
13/03/2013 it equals 13-/useless republicans-A great time for a suicide
bomber to do his job-Maybe they should put in a Smoke Stack, more
efficient than what these Bozos are doing-They don't tie their shoes...
they use Velcro and slip ons-same could be said about Democrats-How about
CANCER- that needs to be cut out of this body!-What do you call the most
Powerful Influential lobby in DC? AIPAC. Are they more Loyal to the USA
or Israel? It seems the Partisans on both sides of the Aisle are
completely Owned. Ignorant sheep deserve to be lead to the Slaughter?-
The stare down.who will flinch?-criminal conference or organisation-
Unfortunately the Democrats are no better-Correction, destructive-Ditto
for dems in the senate!-makes a conservative feel better to make a
libertarian statement-Most of the time, they're wrecking stuff-Overpaid-
Treasonous-Obstruction!-Not doing their gig-Liberalism (from the Latin
liberalis) is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of
liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views, generally
they support ideas such as free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom
of the press, freedom of religion, free trade, and private property.
Liberalism first became a distinct political movement during the Age of
Enlightenment, Liberalism rejected the notions, common at the
time, of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, and the
Divine Right of Kings-a cabal of anarchists-96 billion in corp welfare?-
Prole Augury The Republican party are the lackeys for the plutocracy and
you are a rube who gets his vote fleeced by the to indulge propensity to
hate others-it takes a long time to recover from 8 years of republican
stupidity-AINT THAT THE TRUTH, Sad Part is, People like "Trailer Park
Trash * vote these "CLOWNS" in, They (Republicans) haven't learned a DAMN
thing from them 4 turds, (Mc-Cain/Palin, Romney/Ryan), They STILL want
the "Circus Act" of Reagan and the 2 Bushes, (DUMB AND DUMBER),
Hence forth, That's why they watch "Fixed-Noise" (Fox News), You feed
Maggots (Shit), They turn into flies and want more (Shit)-The Republicans
have done nothing but obstruct and introduce fanciful proposals that
could never get passed no matter who controlled the senate. This is a
lesson in failure all right, Republican failure FB/sisteen seagull sez
mario bergogilo from buenos aires pope francisI? 50:1 longshot/no rules,
like italian luggage checkin, like at an italian sex party jenna, what
have the children done for us, well they make our shoes and wallets
kenithjdonaheu/
31213/What actions would you take if you were President of US?-Get the
country out of the United Nations, and get them off our land. Use my
secret hit list to put down the Rothschilds, Rockefellers....elitist
assholes really-i keep coming up with more stuff, I'd definitely waste
no time instituting federal voter ID requirements-You want smaller gov't,
but you want to make more gov't by forcing yet another piece of I.D. for
voting-Clearly * is a conservative-means an end to subsidizing solar and
other alternative energies that simply cannot be productive on a mass
scale the way traditional fiuels are?-Those aren't loopholes, those are
credits. I'm talking cheats. offshore stuff, putting money over in
another company to hide it, moving money to a different account or a
different person's name to hide it, subsidizing OIL companies and
HEALTHCARE companies which are making money hand over fist and aren't
benefitting the environment, R&D is good or nothing would ever get
discovered-take all money out of lobbies and allow no donations of more
the 5oo$ from private citizens only in elections, and new policies for
the 21st century. leaving 1950s' behind-Bleed the Senate would be the
first-End the Fed-Repeal Obamacare! the most efficient and most
bipartisan way to fix the problem! .this is a case of people in a better
situation getting money from the federal government and poorer people
being denied it. This is perverse...it targets the working poor and
penalizes them. Absurdly stupid-people with jobs get a tax break, the
people without jobs get free healthcare. Would you prefer they trade?-
Legalize marajuana and sell pre-rolled joints in cigarette/cigar type
packages and tax the hell out of them to help with the national debt. Cut
military spending by about 2/3d's for a few years and reduce government
employees by at least 1/3rd. Seriously make lobbying congress close to
impossilbe (with stiff, draconian fines involved and possible dismissals-
Push for consumption tax. Eliminate income tax- I'd hang most of
Congress.- I would recommend an Amendment to the Constitution
establishing a separation of industry and state; the amendment would make
taking bribes from lobbyists and financial support from PACs
unconstitutional. It would also render any law requiring American
citizens to do business with private industries unconstitutional. I would
propose the Truth in Legislation Act that would make the oath of office
taken by the President, Senators, and Congressman as binding as the oath
taken in Federal court; this would make lying in an official capacity
perjury and a Federal crime. I would propose legislation restricting how,
when, and by whom consumer credit reports can be accessed and sweeping
changes to how credit scores are used against consumers-I'd decrease the
number of politicians and cut out all their crazy spending on lavish
trips and jets and hotels. And I'd cut their pay-Reading the responses on
this thread, I am struck by the same thought over and over. Many of the
responses are just facetious and stupid (the ones talking about shooting
people or some crap). A few are valid. An overwhelming majority though
just shows how stupid people are about the power of the presidency.
Apparently even the "smart, informed" ones. It is sad-don't be too hard
on them *, many good ideas, sum not so much--someone that says smoking
pot is part of their religion things are done to let them do so BUT when
it is the best way to relieve pain/depression/stress for a patient they
are just about shit out of luck? In most parts of the country at least-I
think the debaters question is referring to why atheists seem threatened
by religion. Can't they just not believe? Why do they need company?-can't
speak for all atheists, but I don't hate religion. I just choose to not
take part in it. Does that mean I'm some heathen who eats baby hearts in
my cheerios every morning? Or that I'm hateful towards religious folk?
No. It just means that I try to be a good person without labeling myself
under some religious doctrine and that my beliefs are different. I don't
agree with hateful or mean atheists because they basically turn into the
hateful and mean religious fanatics that do everything their religion
tells them not to-elaborate on whyyou beleve hate is a natural part of he
humanmakeup?- Hate is much easier for humans than love. Have you had your
eyes closed for the last 200,000 years? The wars, oppression, genocide,
abuse rape torture and general assholiness of most people in everyday
life?-terribly venal with reports all over of corrupt behavior and MOSTLY
the personal damage it causes by not allowing a person to have a TRUE
perspective of how the world operates-education coddling abuse poor
parenting ect. Is no excuse! They make a choice! I grew up in a very
secure home! I went to all the parties were there was drugs and alcohol!
Guess what I chose not to do it and to make sure my friends got home
safe! I was always there safe ride home! My choice and there's as friends
we took care of each other. I was not taught the streets like you say
parents should. But between my parents and church I new no matter what I
do I have to answer for it one day!-Wal-Mart & ALEC Scandal: Company
Subjects Female Prison Laborers to 'Slave-Like' Conditions company is
using sub-contractors to evade labor laws and hire prisoners for cheap.
policymic-Another reason to hate Walmart. This is an outrage and
something needs to be done. Thus is modern day slavery. I have no problem
with putting prisoners to work, but it should be for the state not a
corporation whose purpose is to make a profit-Making people atheist, it
has become a hobby of mine after moving to Mississippi. It is amazing how
many closet atheists live here. In the land that time forgot admitting to
being one can mean trouble in some parts-CHRIST W@RRI0R would LEAD THE
CHRISTIAN TR00PS T0 W@R and C0NQUER EVIL with HER B0DY A LEGAL CHRISTIAN
PUNCHING BAG until the YESHUARIAN FLOWER_CHILDREN P0KED 0UR HEADS UP from
the MACADAM T0MB of the YESHUARIAN UNKN0WN'S EVIL T0 ALL CHRISTIANATED
RePUBLICAN'S throughout Anglo TWISTED HIST0RY from the T0P down and
BACKWARDS-wabc Cannibal city cop Gilberto Valle found guilty on all
counts for planning to kill & eat women- most states have sold their
prisons to private companies that benefit from imprisoning as many people
as they can-PRISONS are FOR-PROFIT BUSINESSES with fat gov contracts,
often unnecessarily incarcerate, for private profit-Wahhabi Invasion: How
Saudi Uses Money To Radicalize Kashmir- If they were doing anything bad
they would tell us so. Pew: Only 3 For Every 10 Americans,Trust The
Government cbslocal-Stewart Rhodes founder of "Oath Keepers", Sheriff
Richard Mack and the County Sheriff Project, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
All these men are different. However, what they all do have in common is
a love and passion for FREEDOM, LIBERTY, NATURAL RIGHTS,
Constitutional form of Freedom-TIME to WAKE UP,
Take responsibility for the world you live in and what will be left for
our future... Our CHILDREN!-wiki 1893, New Zealand, became the first
country in the world to grant women the right to vote, followed soon
after by the self-governing British colony of South Australia in 1895, in
the United States were granted the right to vote from 1920, in the United
Kingdom were granted partial voting rights in 1918 and full rights in
1928-fb/abc The World According to Dick Cheney: The former vice president
gets personalThe World According to Dick Cheney: The former vice
president gets personal-pulling the strings of the W puppet.-man is
liar,a thief and yes a murdering thug-Down with the t-bagger GOP
obstructionists, for war crimes profiteering waterboard and imprison
Cheney - LACK of integrity within the GOP was well EXPOSED during and
after the Bush Cheney years. It sure didn't just start then. "Broken
Government" John W. Dean-So much hatred from so many people who are so
pathetically stupid. You loser Liberals are a joke, you really are a sad
collection of some of the most easily led, stupidest people imaginable.
So ignorant of the things you scream the loudest about. And for you
pathetic little #$%$ sticks comparing Cheney to Hitler, you truly are the
#$%$ of the earth-yet you think liberals are the haters. You didn't offer
up any defense of Cheney, you just insulted everyone else to satisfy your
desire to be right despite all the evidence to the contrary-Cheney is, at
least, a habitual liar. That is evident by his recent public statement
that, if put in the same situation, he would do it again. "Hubris: The
Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War-he is the
only one with answers & making money for dead bodies, hitler had more
principles than cheney-FOX FAUX NEWS talking points, Right Wing Cunts are
the #$%$ of the world! Cheney is a vile evil doer. His comes during the
Iraq war where so vile and arrogant ems to forget he was the VP! making
Bushwacked act like a puppet of #$%$!-you must be the only person in the
USA that doesn't know of Cheney's profits, through no-bid contracts,
pertaining to the wars-Character assassination and rumors may be great
for the hate-filled Left, but not for me y/al-CIAduh') from the get-go:
Taliban, US colluding on bombings to create 'need' for foreign troops to
stay beyond 2014 - Karzai 10 Mar 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai on
Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince
Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave, an
allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan rejected as
"categorically false." [LOL!] show the insurgent group is conducting
attacks to demonstrate that international forces will still be needed to
keep the peace after their current combat mission ends in 2014. "The
explosions in Kabul and Khost yesterday showed that they are at the
service of America and at the service of this phrase: 2014. They are
trying to frighten us into thinking that if the foreigners are not in
Afghanistan-Two years after the nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's
northeastern Pacific coast, forests that cover 70 percent of the
Fukushima Prefecture have been found to contain high concentrations of
radioactive cesium-Hundreds of Millions on Secret Israeli Bunkers The
Washington Post fleshed out the original Construction Project in Israel,
called 'Site 911,' in November-After swarms of grasshoppers swooped en
masse Locusts arrive in Tel Aviv, northern Israel-81 public entities to
fly UAVs in U.S. airspace 08 Mar 2013 Florida lawmakers are hoping to
restrict the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as
drones, in Sunshine State skies. Thursday a House committee unanimously
passed the Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act, which limits police
to use camera drones only if they have a search warrant or can prove
"imminent danger." In 2011 Miami-Dade Police were the first in the
country to have a Federal Aviation Administration permit to use drones
similar to those used in Afghanistan. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul
(R-Ky.) plan to try to attach a prohibition on drone strikes against
American citizens on U.S. soil to the government-wide spending bill due
up on the Senate floor-sickened 14 people and killed 8. Most of the
infections have occurred in the Middle East, but a new analysis of three
confirmed infections in Britain suggests the virus can pass from person
to person rather than from animal to humans,  The virus is a coronavirus,
part of the same family of viruses as the common cold and the deadly
outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that first emerged
in Asia in 2003.the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Reportby 2018, all
products in U.S. and Canada stores must be labeled if they contain
genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This is the first national grocery
store to set a deadline from GMO labeling. "We are putting a stake in the
ground on GMO labeling to support the consumer's right to know," said
Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, in a press release. During the
November election, a mandatory GMO labeling initiative, Prop 37, was
introduced in California. Millions of d*llars poured in from various
corporations such as [terrorists] Monsanto and PepsiCo against the ballot
measure, which was ultimately defeated.-legitgov/passes taste test, Would
you eat a steak made from human sewage? Believe it or not, this concept
has already been approved. mnn-fb/CIA Director John Brennan took the oath
of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press, perhaps befitting
his status as America's top spy—the White House took pains to emphasize
the symbolism of the ceremony-Tea Party is a front for the John Birch
Society which is a subversive organization. The Tea Party is funded by
Americans for Prosperity which is a Pac of the Koch Brothers whose father
was a co-founder of the John Birch Society. The John Birch Society is an
ultra-conservative right wing organization that was declared a subversive
organization 50 years ago. Its Agenda is to destroy America-Doesn't it
sometime seem that they are doing and reporting this stuff to see if they
can get someone to snap?-Can you imagine what outcry there would have
been if the LA cop killer was a tea party person? Instead he was a gun
grabbing Obama supporter, so he was just killed in silence-the media is
obviously on board. Maybe they're thinking of the endless stream of
headline material-Brennan defends drone strikes, even on Americans. Isn't
that all you really need to know?-every option he can get and use- The
CIA does not, and can not operate inside the borders of the U.S. So, his
stance of drone use, is mute when it comes to drones in the U.S.-
Progressive liberals were at least consistent: oppose drone strikes and
all the bee ess that Cheney/Bush pulled. TeaPublicans? Not so much -
defended everything in previous administration (wiretapping, rendition,
etc) to the teeth, but the nanosecond Obama goes down that path, they are
shocked, just shocked. Gotta go mop up all the crocodile tears flooding
these boards-America elected the enemy,  declared his run for his senate
seat in the house of a known terrorist who wanted to destroy America, by
spurring a communist revolution. America knew it, and voted for Obama
anyway. Sit back, and watch the show. America will not wake up, and
figure it out. she is drunk on her pro sports, her MTV, and her sexual
deviance. She is drunk, stoned, and wanting more destruction. It will not
be long now. y/
31113/Will the next pope embrace liberation theology? The conventional
answer would be: fat chance. The chances that a true radical will be
selected as Pope are next to nil. That’s because none are in the running.
all the eligible cardinals were appointed to their positions either by
Pope Benedict XVI or by Pope John Paul II. Both men vigilantly stacked
the deck with cardinals whose views range, in the words of one religion
professor, from conservative to ultraconservative. Liberal theologian
Hans Küng gives a harsh assessment  “They are partly responsible for the
stagnation that stifles every attempt at modernization of the church
system/John Paul II condemned “the resurgence of a certain capitalist
neoliberalism which subordinates the human person to blind market
forces-God’s Rottweiler,” leading the effort to silence creative and
non-conformist voices within Catholicism. During Ratzinger’s tenure as
doctrinal enforcer, the church is said to have officially rejected
liberation theology-Dionne argued that “An all-male hierarchy adopted
policies to cover up the [sex abuse scandal plaguing the church] and
seemed far too inclined to put protecting the church’s image ahead of
protecting children, we can at least hope for a church leader who
recognizes and validates the critical social justice work carried out
largely by nuns, rather than spending his time reprimanding women
religious. Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana. Not only would Turkson, as an
African, blasted speculative trading, reiterated previous church warnings
against “idolatry of the market,” and argued, “No one can in conscience
accept the development of some countries to the detriment of others.”
This is what has led some commentators to suggest that liberation
theology may make a comeback if Turkson becomes pope. Naunihal Singh New
Yorker, Turkson has a strong conservative side. He is notably homophobic,
even by church standards, having defended anti gay legislation in Africa
and having linked the Catholic Church’s pedophilia scandals to cultures
that are permissive of homosexuality (rather than to an internal
institutional culture that prizes secrecy, hierarchy, and obedience).
Turkson also caused a scandal last year by showing a fear-mongering and
discredited anti Muslim video to a meeting of church officials. The
British Independent has dubbed the cardinal “Conservatism’s Cape
crusader.-Hummes opposing the use of condoms to prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS in Brazil) would open the door for the revival of social justice
ministry in the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, you should only put your
money on the Brazilian to become the next pope if you like betting on
long shots. As of this writing, the odd-makers have him at 50:1--
It is entirely possible as a pretext that the Justice Department is
using to justify its failure to prosecute powerful friends on Wall
Street. In Washington, this possibility can never be ruled out., there is
the possibility that the Justice Department really believes that
prosecuting the criminal activities of Bank of America or JP Morgan could
sink the economy. If this is true, then it makes the case for breaking up
the big banks even more of a slam dunk, since it takes the logic of too
big to fail one step further, the simple argument against too big to fail
is that it subsidizes risk-taking by large banks. In principle, when a
bank or other company is engaged in a risky line of business, those who
are investing in the company or lending it money demand a higher rate of
return in recognition of the risk. However, if they know that government
will back up the bank if it gets into trouble, then investors have little
reason (facts) to properly evaluate the risk. it turns out that we also
give them a get out of jail free card when it comes to criminal activity,
then we are giving these banks an incentive to engage in criminal
activity. There is a lot of money to be gained by assisting drug dealers
and other nefarious types in laundering their money. In principle, the
laws are supposed to be structured to discourage banks from engaging in
such behavior. But when the attorney general tells us that the laws
cannot be fully enforced against the big banks, he is saying that we are
giving them incentive to break the law in the pursuit of profit. Our
anti trust laws are supposed to protect the country against companies
whose size allows them inordinate market power. In principle, we would
use anti trust law to break up a phone company because its market
dominance allowed it to charge us $10 a month too much on our cable. How
could we not use anti-trust policy to break up a bank whose size allows
it to profit from dealing with drug dealers and murderers with impunity?-
militarism is such an accepted fact of American life? Where there is so
little restraint placed upon the military, and so little concern for
civilian casualties?, Two books grapple with these important questions.
Nick Turse's "Kill Anything That Moves" looks at how the Vietnam War set
the precedent for the "collateral damage" of today, while "National
Insecurity" by former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman exposes the astronomical
costs of America’s "defense" policy.to/christian protesters in pakistan
euronews/tunisia freedom of press under fire f24/juggling chainsaw
filibuster sez coulter, ronpaul proud of filibuster son, on geraldo

Monday, March 11, 2013

31113/bama profits, Nothing else matters, No matter the cost

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