BuzzFlash.net: published http://buzzflash.net buzzflash.nethttp://buzzflash.nethttp://buzzflash.net/img/es/buzzflash_buzz-logoalt1_small.jpg Collaborate publishing site and blog's communication swapping Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:15:01 -0600 http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/meneame/ en <![CDATA[War, Budgets and Blind Ambition: The Limited Minds of the American Elite: by Chris Floyd]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076610 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076610 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:15:01 -0600 OrpRam Abuse of Power/Corruption greed-prd fscsm-mltrsm-fnncl fraud-empr-pwr-ineqlt http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076610 The American elite's unbounded, unquestioned, indeed unconscious sense of imperial entitlement and dominance -- based ultimately on war, the threat of war and the profit from war -- is one of the defining characteristics of our age. --- --- The ending of the imperial wars and the dismantling of America's global military empire -- and its global gulag -- would save trillions of dollars in the coming years. Not only from direct military spending, but also from the vastly reduced need for "Homeland security" funding in a world where the United States was no longer invading foreign lands, killing their people, supporting their tyrants -- and inciting revenge and resistance. This would release a flood of money for any number of "new domestic initiatives," while also giving scope for deep tax cuts across the board. Working people would thrive, the poor, the sick and the vulnerable would be bettered, businesses would grow, opportunity would expand, the care and education of our children would be greatly enhanced, our infrastructure could be repaired and strengthened, our environment better cleansed and cared for. In short, people could keep more of their own money while government spending could be directed toward improving the quality of life of all the nation's citizens. -- This is no utopian vision. Many problems, much suffering would remain. But it would be a better society -- more humane, more just, more secure, more peaceful, more prosperous than it is now. Such an alternative is entirely achievable, by ordinary humans; it would require no divine miracles, no god-like heroes to bring it about. --- But such a society is precisely what our elites cannot -- or, to be more accurate, will not -- imagine. --- --- --- A better world -- not perfect, by no means perfect, but much better -- is entirely possible. We could easily dismantle the empire -- carefully, safely, with deliberation -- over the next ten years. It is a reasonable, moderate, serious option. It would not require violent revolution, or vast social upheaval. But our elites do not want this. They can no longer fathom life without the exercise -- and worship -- of power that empire entails. They will not accept -- or even contemplate -- any alternative to it. --- --- And thus every option and policy we are offered -- whether from right-wing Republicans or "progressive" Democrats, or from "serious" news analysts on "serious" papers -- must fall within these pathetically cramped, constricted mental horizons. --- Empire -- the imposition of dominion by violence and threat of violence, and the financial and moral corruption this breeds, the example it sets at every level of society -- is the canker in the body politic. --- Until it is dealt with, there will be no healing, no hope, no change -- just more degradation and disaster all down the line.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076610 <![CDATA[The Free Market Fetish: Garbage In, Garbage Out: By Paul Craig Roberts]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076612 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076612 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:50:01 -0600 OrpRam Business and Economy greed-prd dbtsm-fscsm-fnncl fr mrkt fraud-ineqlty http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076612 The failure to regulate financial markets has produced enormous losses to all Americans except the super-rich. But the U.S. government is guilty of an even greater failure. Washington has not only permitted but also encouraged the unemployment of its citizens by enabling greed-driven corporations to send American jobs abroad in order to maximize profits for CEOs’ bonuses, shareholders, and Wall Street. --- The dispossession of American labor has been heralded by offshoring’s pimps in the major universities as "the New Economy. -- "The "New Economy" is a hoax like most everything else the bought-and-paid-for-media feeds to Americans. There is no new economy. There is an unemployed economy. --- If jobs offshoring is a benefit to America, as the hired pimps of the transnational corporations claim, why is more than one-fifth of the U.S. work force unemployed? Why does the U.S. have the largest trade deficits in world history? Why is the U.S. dollar losing value over time to other tradable currencies? --- Greed, and elected representatives who are toadies to special interests, are decimating the American economy. --- --- --- American power is on the precipice, about to fall. Perhaps it is a good thing. The world will be rid of bullying, of invasions of innocent countries based on blatant lies, of torture and murder of woman and children, of redistribution of income from the poor to the rich. --- The criminal record accumulated by the United States makes it the least indispensable country on earth.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076612 <![CDATA[Carrie Underwood channels Elvis for national anthem, mispronounces 'perilous']]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076511 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076511 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:25:02 -0600 zelator Video thank you thank you very much http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076511 When I heard Queen Latifah (an old Rutgers alum, who I met in the 80s) was going to do the national anthem, I was pretty excited. Little did I know that I was somewhat misinformed! It was Carrie Underwood, in a spangled white spandex outfit, who sang the Star Spangled Banner, rendering it like a true hillbilly. What's worse, she mispronounced the word "perilous" in the phrase "thro' the perilous fight" as PER-UH-LIS, in typical down-home southern linguistic butchery. Also, Pete Towhshend (of The Who) did not smash his guitar, or anything else. This was one super bowl where the football was actually the best entertainment.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076511 <![CDATA[Whaling: Japanese Authorities Breach Human Rights]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076609 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076609 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:05:02 -0600 Fiore Environment whaling japan human rights http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076609 The Japanese government breached a series of internationally guaranteed human rights by detaining two Greenpeace activists who had uncovered major corruption in the Japanese whaling programme, according to a working group of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). (1) Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, known as the “Tokyo Two”, are due to stand trial on February 15th, but it has been revealed that the UNHRC’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) informed the Japanese government in December that the rights of the two men have been breached by the Japanese justice system.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076609 <![CDATA[Protest Ship 'Bob Barker' Rammed by Illegal Whaler]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076231 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076231 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:45:01 -0600 Fiore Environment whaling protest ramming http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076231 The Bob Barker had been actively blocking the slipway of the Nisshin Maru, the Japanese whaling fleet’s factory ship when the collision occurred. Four harpoon ships, the Yushin Maru 1, 2, and 3 and Shonan Maru 2, were circling and making near passes to the stern and bow of the Sea Shepherd vessel. The Bob Barker did not move from its position. At which point, the Yushin Maru 3 intentionally rammed the Bob Barker, creating a 3-foot long 4-inch deep gash in the mid starboard side of the Sea Shepherd vessel above the waterline. No crew was injured during the collision. The Bob Barker continues to block the slipway of the Nisshin Maru, preventing the transfer of slaughtered whales and effectively shutting down illegal whaling operations. The incident demonstrates a continued escalation of violence by the illegal whalers in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076231 <![CDATA[Cast Your Vote: Who Should Receive FDL Action PAC Election Support]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076589 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076589 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:30:01 -0600 DandelionSalad Progressive Issues progressive congress take action http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076589 Choose 3 Representatives from any district in the US. Of course, I chose Kucinich for one of the three. "It’s going to be a tough election year in 2010, so helping good incumbents keep their seats is going to be as important as supporting challengers was in 2006 and 2008. It's a rare breed of representative who stands up for progressive values and doesn't back down. That's why we want to choose members of Congress who aren't afraid to fight. We're calling them FDL Fire Dogs. Two thousand people who hailed from their districts nominated 180 members of Congress for support from FDL Action PAC. Now you get to decide — who should we help?"

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076589 <![CDATA[The World's Greatest Insurance Heist: Timothy Geithner and AIG-Gate: By Ellen Brown]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076592 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076592 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:25:01 -0600 OrpRam Abuse of Power/Corruption greed-prd dbt-fscsm-pwr-crrptn-fnncl bnk ins fraud http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076592 Each day brings more revelations of efforts of the NY Fed and Goldman Sachs to hide the details of the criminal conspiracy of the AIG bailout. . . . This is a real crisis on the scale of Watergate. Corruption at its finest. --- But unlike the perpetrators of the Watergate scandal, who wound up looking at jail time, Geithner evidently has a golden parachute waiting at Goldman Sachs, not coincidentally the largest recipient of the AIG bailout. At least that is the rumor sparked by an article by Caroline Baum on Bloomberg News, titled “Goldman Parachute Awaits Geithner to Ease Fall.” Hank Paulson, Geithner’s predecessor, was CEO of Goldman Sachs before coming to the Treasury. Geithner, who has come up through the ranks of government, could be walking through the revolving door in the other direction. Geithner has been under the House microscope for the decision of the New York Fed, made while he headed it, to buy out about $30 billion in credit default swaps (over-the-counter derivative insurance contracts) that AIG sold on toxic debt securities. The chief recipients of this payout were Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank. Goldman got $13 billion, roughly equivalent to its bonus pool for the first 9 months of 2009. --- Critics are calling the New York Fed’s decision a back-door bailout for the banks, which received 100 cents on the dollar for contracts that would have been worth far less had AIG been put through bankruptcy proceedings in the ordinary way. --- --- In a Bloomberg article provocatively titled “Secret Banking Cabal Emerges from AIG Shadows,” David Reilly writes: The New York Fed is a quasi-governmental institution that isn’t subject to citizen intrusions such as freedom of information requests, unlike the Federal Reserve. This impenetrability comes in handy since the bank is the preferred vehicle for many of the Fed’s bailout programs. It’s as though the New York Fed was a black-ops outfit for the nation’s central bank. --- The beneficiaries of the New York Fed’s largesse got paid in full although they had agreed to take much less.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076592 <![CDATA[Tomgram: Washington’s Greatest Afghan War Danger: Self-Deception; Pratap Chatterjee: Destabilizing Pakistan]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076614 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076614 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:30:02 -0600 OrpRam The World greed-prd fscsm-mltrsm-rsrc wr fraud-gncd-pwr-empr http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076614 Operation Breakfast Redux: Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969? --- --- While the CIA and the U.S. military have been expending enormous effort studying the Afghan and Pakistani situations and consulting experts, and while the White House has conducted an extensive series of seminars-cum-policy-debates on both countries, you can count on one thing: none of them have spent significant time studying or thinking about us. --- --- As a result, the seeming cleanliness and effectiveness of the drone-war solution undoubtedly only reinforces a sense in Washington that the world’s last great military power can still control this war -- that it can organize, order, prod, wheedle, and bribe both the Afghans and Pakistanis into doing what’s best, and if that doesn’t work, simply continue raining down the missiles and bombs. Beware Washington’s deep-seated belief that it controls events; that it is, however precariously, in the saddle; that, as Afghan War commander General Stanley McChrystal recently put it, there is a “corner” to “turn” out there, even if we haven’t quite turned it yet. --- --- In fact, Washington is not in the saddle and that corner, if there, if turned, will have its own unpleasant surprises. Washington is, in this sense, as oblivious as those CIA operatives were as they waited for “their” Jordanian agent to give them supposedly vital information on the al-Qaeda leadership in the Pakistani tribal areas. Like their drones, the Americans in charge of this war are desperately far from the ground, and they don’t even seem to know it. It’s time for Washington to examine not what we know about them, but what we don’t know about ourselves.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076614 <![CDATA[Return of the Birthers Sparks Angry Exchange at Tea Party Convention]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076546 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076546 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:20:01 -0600 rgernreich Right Wing tea baggers birthers http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076546 The biggest kerfuffle of the tea bag ball last weekend was a verbal brawl outside the hall between Andrew Breitbart and WingNutDaily editor Joseph Farah sparked by Breitbart’s displeasure over Farah’s speech exhorting tea baggers to return to demanding to see the original hard copy of Pres. Obama’s birth certificate.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076546 <![CDATA[Palin and the tea party 'movement': nothing new - Glenn Greenwald]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076237 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076237 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:25:01 -0600 Fiore Right Wing palin tea party http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076237 Is there any other nation in the world where a leading politician can appear in public -- without controversy -- wearing the flag of a foreign country? It was a huge scandal on the Right when immigration reform marchers waved Mexican (along with American) flags in order to display cultural solidarity with Mexican immigrants who were being demonized and living in wretched conditions, as non-persons, in the U.S.; isn't it obviously more significant when someone who recently wanted to be Vice President and is now the leader of this Fox-News-sponsored political movement appears at events in the U.S. wearing an Israeli flag melded to an American flag, as though the two nations are joined as one entity? Why should an American political leader be wearing an Israeli flag?

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076237 <![CDATA[What to Say to Those Who Think Single Payer Advocates Are Wacko: by Paul Hochfeld]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076590 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076590 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:25:02 -0600 OrpRam Health and Wellness greed-prd dbt-fscsm-fnncl ins phrma fraud-health http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076590 What do we say to our more conservative friends, who genuinely think that the Single Payer solution to our health care crisis would be a disaster? Try what follows. In the end, you may simply agree to disagree. That's O.K., but what follows may give them pause to think.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076590 <![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich: Every occupation fuels an insurgency]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076587 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076587 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:30:02 -0600 DandelionSalad Video kucinich antiwar economy healthcare http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076587 Nice interview with Kucinich on Russia Today; 11 1/2 minutes or so. "The war in Afghanistan, jobs and health care. All big issues in America. And one man with strong opinions on all of them is U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich."

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076587 <![CDATA[Incentives to Going 'Off Grid' Bring Power to the People: by Matt Ford]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076593 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076593 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:35:01 -0600 OrpRam Environment grd-prd fscsm-unsust-env-cco2-sci-off grid alt e http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076593 The price of power has always been a political issue -- but now campaigners argue it could be the key to starting a green energy revolution. --- Roofs in the Vatican City covered with solar panels point the way to off-grid power.On February 1, the British Government announced details of the rates that will be paid for renewable power generated by homeowners and communities. --- --- Called the Clean Energy Cashback, or feed-in tariff (FIT), the aim is to provide an above-market bonus that will encourage individuals and groups to invest in solar panels, wind turbines and other forms of green power. - It's the first national scheme of its kind in the UK, although FIT plans have been operating in other EU countries and at regional levels in the U.S. - Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council told CNN that the announcement will help make small scale renewables a more attractive and viable option, for householders, communities and businesses. King also believes that it will also support an emerging green industry and generate high quality jobs. --- But others are less enthusiastic about the UK's plan, and believe the Department of Energy and Climate Change's ambition that two percent of electricity generated from small scale renewables by 2020 doesn't go far enough.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076593 <![CDATA[Is Genetically Modified Corn Toxic?]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076491 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076491 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:35:01 -0600 PHred42 Health and Wellness gmo monsanto environmantal suicide http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076491 In the United States, we grow and eat corn whose genes have been tweaked to make the plants more resistant to pests and pesticides. Most European countries don't, largely because the citizenry fears it isn't safe. But try as scientists might, they haven't been able to find any good reason why we shouldn't eat genetically modified (GM) food.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076491 <![CDATA[Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies: by Thom Hartmann]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076594 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076594 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:50:02 -0600 OrpRam Business and Economy greed-prdtry dbt-fscsm-fnncl fr mrkt fraud-ineqlty http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076594 Globalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class. --- Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for those benefits aren't making anything close to the income (or, therefore, paying the taxes) that their parents did. --- --- Globalists/corporatists/conservative "free market" and "flat earth" advocates say this is a great opportunity to cut benefits for the old folks (and for the young folks in the future), thus bringing the countries budgets back into balance, and this story is the main corporate media storyline. --- --- But it overlooks the real issue (and the real solution): how globalization is killing these nations' economies and what can be done about it. --- --- From the days of Adam Smith, classical economics pointed out that manufacturing and extraction are the only two ways to "create wealth." --- "Wealth" is different from "income." Wealth is value, which endures at least for some time. Income is simply compensation for work. If you wash my car for $10 and I mow your lawn for $10, we have a GDP of $20 and it looks like we both have income and economic activity. But no wealth has been created, just income. On the other hand, if I build your car, I'm creating something of value. And if you turn my lawn into a small farm that produces food we can all eat, you're creating something of value. Not only do we have an "economy" with a "GDP," we also have created wealth. --- --- --- The transnational corporations benefiting from globalization are also, in most cases, the transnational corporations that own our media, so even the word globalization is rarely heard in reports on economic crises around the world. --- But globalization is the villain here, and one that needs to be taken in hand and brought under control quickly if we don't want to see virtually the nations of the world end up subservient to corporate control, a new form of an ancient economic system known as feudalism.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076594 <![CDATA[Tea Party Convention, Sarah Palin, Chaucer, Dickens and Stupid Aholes]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076458 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076458 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:50:01 -0600 rackjite Republicans republican media http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076458 In the years following Godfrey Chaucer the phrase "stupid assholes" became one of the most definitive and ubiquitous in the English lexicon. Using the Pimbo Bender we trekked back to the 13th century to find where exactly the term originated.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076458 <![CDATA[PHOTO: Sarah Palins Crib Notes]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076462 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076462 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:55:01 -0600 rackjite Image republican tea party http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076462 Here is a close up of Sarah Palin's crib notes which she wrote on the palm of her hand to help her along WHILE she accused the President of using a teleprompter. The words on her hand were "energy," "tax," "lift American spirits" and "budget" which was crossed out. Well maybe she didn't write them, after all the words were spelled correctly. But hey, she leads the Republican pack for President in 2012! Ahead of runner ups Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich! Oh and Mitt Romney, who like Glenn Beck, believes Jesus is from Michigan!

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076462 <![CDATA[Pakistan: Marxist victory in “Taliban territory”]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076333 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076333 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:05:01 -0600 rjones2818 The World pakistan ghufran ahad lawyers http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076333 In a Taliban dominated area of Pakistan a Marxist lawyer has defeated the candidate of the Islamic fundamentalists. In spite of a Fatwa being issued against him, comrade Ahad stood firmly on the ideas of revolutionary socialism and won the position of President of the Malakand District Bar Association.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076333 <![CDATA[Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor by Noam Chomsky]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076271 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076271 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:05:01 -0600 Sparrows Right Wing chomsky interviewed right-wing uprising iww http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076271 [Note: Look at the answer Chomsky gives during an interview for why the situation with the Tea Partiers must be addressed. But not by name-calling.]: DK: On that note, I’m also looking to think ahead with what’s in the future for the labor movement and the IWW. More generally, if you had one piece of advice to offer future generations of Wobblies—especially in light of the tough financial times that we are facing and will probably continue to face for a long time in the Western world—what would it be? NC: Well, I get a lot of letters from people. When I go home tonight I’ll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don’t like what’s going on and want to do something about it, and [they ask me] if I can give them some advice as to what they should do, or can I tell them what to read or something. It doesn’t work like that. I mean, everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you’re willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing. There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they’re kind of truisms. It’s only worth mentioning them because they’re always denied. First of all, don’t believe anything you hear from power systems. So if Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they’re doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is. You have to rely on yourself and your associates—gifts don’t come from above; you’re going to win them, or you won’t have them, and you win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot. So take right now, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It’s very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that’s not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances. I listen to talk radio a lot and it’s kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them. I’ve never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, “I’ve done everything right all my life, I’m a god-fearing Christian, I’m white, I’m male, I’ve worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I’m supposed to do. And I’m getting shafted.” And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there’s nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is. Well Rush Limbaugh has answered – it’s the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don’t care about you—they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists and so on. Well, you know, the reaction we should be having to them is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren’t we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany. Hitler was appealing to groups with similar grievances, and giving them crazy answers, but at least they were answers; these groups weren’t getting them anywhere else. It was the Jews and the Bolsheviks [that were the problem]. I mean, the liberal democrats aren’t going to tell the average American, “Yeah, you’re being shafted because of the policies that we’ve established over the years that we’re maintaining now.” That’s not going to be an answer. And they’re not getting answers from the left. So, there’s an internal coherence and logic to what they get from Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they’re very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything—a crazy answer, but it’s an answer. And it’s our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don’t ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, ”Take over your factories.”

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076271 <![CDATA[Business Gears Up to Battle New Obama Workplace Safety Rule]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076583 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076583 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:05:01 -0600 SNance Health and Wellness workers osha chamber of commerce http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076583 At issue is a regulation that would force employers to identify when a workplace-related injury or illness is considered a musculoskeletal disorder (MSD), a term broadly used to describe ailments caused by repetitive stress, like carpal tunnel syndrome or strains from frequent heavy lifting.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076583 <![CDATA[I'm so proud of you, Robin Cook...]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076269 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076269 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:20:02 -0600 CwV The World margaret cook integrity vs iraq buildup http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076269 Those politicians cannot argue that they took the pro-war decision because they had the wrong information. We, the public, saw the truth, as did many backbenchersand others of little clout. But of all the statesmen and their shadows in our Mother of Parliaments, only one got it right: Robin Cook.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076269 <![CDATA[Branson warns of oil crunch within five years]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076356 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076356 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:50:01 -0600 protect_democracy Business and Economy peak oil http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076356 Their call for urgent government action comes amid a wider debate on the issue and follows allegations by insiders at the International Energy Agency that the organisation had deliberately underplayed the threat of so-called "peak oil" to avoid panic on the stock markets. Ministers have until now refused to take predictions of oil droughts seriously, preferring to side with oil companies such as BP and ExxonMobil and crude producers such as the Saudis, who insist there is nothing to worry about.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076356 <![CDATA[Media Watchdog Refutes Palin's Tea Party Claims]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076515 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076515 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:10:01 -0600 SNance Right Wing lies palin teabaggers http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076515 A Washington media watchdog organization is correcting record after it identified "numerous false and misleading claims" former Alaska governor Sarah Palin made about Obama administration's national security and foreign policy during her speech at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076515 <![CDATA[A Four-Letter Word]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076285 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076285 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:45:01 -0600 helptheimmoral The World peace israel palestine http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076285 The main question is, of course, why people of conscience are running away from the vision of peace. This is a fact: peace has become a four-letter word. (In Hebrew, the word for peace, shalom, indeed consists of four letters.) A decent person does not want to be seen in its company. It should not be uttered in polite society.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076285 <![CDATA[Paul Krugman: America Is Not Yet Lost]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076405 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076405 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:01 -0600 RicKelis Washington krugman unworkable senate rule change http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076405 We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end — [and] when it came, [it] would be something grand and tragic. What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly farce — we’re paralyzed by procedure. We’re re-enacting the dissolution of 18th-century Poland [when] any member could nullify legislation by shouting “I do not allow!” This made the nation largely ungovernable. [In] the U.S. Senate, rules that used to be workable have become crippling now that one of the nation’s major political parties has descended into nihilism, seeing no harm — in fact, political dividends — in making the nation ungovernable. With the national G.O.P. having abdicated any responsibility for making things work, it’s only natural that individual senators [like Richard Shelby] should feel free to take the nation hostage until they get their pet projects funded. Senators themselves should push through changes [to unworkable] rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster. This is something they could and should do, by majority vote, on the first day of the next Senate session. Democrats should [highlight] a simple message: a vote for a Republican is a vote for paralysis. After the [Poland's] post-World War I resurrection, the country [adopted a new] national anthem. It begins, “Poland is not yet lost.” Well, America is not yet lost. But the Senate is working on it.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076405 <![CDATA[Japan baulks at $2.9b troop bill]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076291 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076291 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:20:02 -0600 Fiore Military us japan troops http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076291 In a country where land is a precious commodity, many United States bases in Japan boast golf courses, football fields and giant shopping centres whose food courts offer everything from Taco Bell to Subway and Starbucks. They are the most visible point of grievance in a sharpening debate about the cost to Japan of supporting the 47,000 American service members here - about US$2 billion ($2.9 billion) a year. That's nearly a third of the total, and about three times what Germany pays to host United States forces on its soil. But facing economic woes and seeking a more equal relationship with the US, Japan's new reformist Government is questioning whether it should spend so much on US troops - a topic that was taboo under the pro-Washington administrations that governed Japan for most of the post-World War II era.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076291 <![CDATA[The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism, Part 2 by Dahr Jamail]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076299 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076299 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:20:02 -0600 Sparrows Military us military barbarism roe iraq http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076299 In the second part of his interview with Truthout, Dr. Mestrovic examines the fallacious nature of the rules of engagement, Operation Iron Triangle in Iraq, the rampant nature of atrocities in the US military today, and the possibility of a solution. In Operation Iron Triangle, Iraqi detainees were murdered by US soldiers under the command of a legendary American colonel, Michael Steele. On May 9, 2006, American soldiers executed three unarmed men they had captured in an operation in the so-called Sunni Triangle in Iraq. Several of these soldiers were court-martialed and imprisoned, but some within the military say that responsibility ultimately lies with Colonel Steele.) Truthout: What are your thoughts about the "Rules of Engagement?" How are these brought into being? Are they truly expected to work in the field? Given that they are clearly not working, why is that? [see response in article]

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076299 <![CDATA[Falklands oil prospects stir Anglo-Argentinian tensions]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076355 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076355 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:20:02 -0600 protect_democracy The World falklands oil http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076355 Argentina's anguish has sharpened with realisation it may have lost ­valuable natural resources in the South Atlantic as well as national pride. Argentina has claimed "Las Malvinas" since Britain occupied them in 1833, making the archipelago a source of national yearning for Argentinians. Losing the 73-day conflict in 1982 aggravated the sense of injustice. It has worsened since the islands began to thrive: fisheries ­licences generate millions of pounds, which could be dwarfed by oil and gas revenues. A scramble is under way off South America's Atlantic coast and the Antarctic. Argentina and Britain have extended claims over the continental shelf around the Falklands, and with Australia, China, France, New Zealand and Russia claim waters further south. President Cristina Kirchner has raised the prospect of Argentinian troops in the Antarctic to protect resources. ­Brazil, meanwhile, has posted troops in the Amazon and is beefing up its forces to protect oil and gas deposits 200 miles off its Atlantic coast.

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076355 <![CDATA[CEOs to Hill: Quit Calling Us for Campaign Cash - ABC News]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076282 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076282 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:40:02 -0600 Sparrows Elections campaign finance ceos tell congress enough w/money http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076282 Dozens of current and former corporate executives have a message for Congress: Quit hitting us up for campaign cash. Roughly 40 executives from companies including Playboy Enterprises, ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's, the Seagram's liquor company, toymaker Hasbro, Delta Airlines and Men's Wearhouse sent a letter to congressional leaders Friday urging them to approve public financing for House and Senate campaigns. They say they are tired of getting fundraising calls from lawmakers — and fear it will only get worse after Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. [Note: The AFP ran an article in its Feb.8,2010 edition, Vol.X, Number 6, entitled, "40 Corporate Executives Tell Politicians, Lobbies 'Stop Begging for Money' ". The first paragraph reads: Some corporate executives say they are sick and tired of elected officials constantly begging them for donations. forty top businessmen recently sent a letter to Congress asking them to stop the phone calls and get the money out of politics."]

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]]> http://buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=1076282 <![CDATA[Obama to hold televised summit on healthcare]]> http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076314 http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076314 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:10:01 -0600 Mike5000 Health and Wellness healthcare summit obama transparency http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1076314 US President Barack Obama will hold a televised, summit-style meeting to discuss healthcare reform with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

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