Goldstone Report: Palestinians' Anger At Their Leaders Intensifies

Does anyone mind if we put a little extra time into our own 300 + year old country and the mess we have to get on top of here for awhile rather than continue to wail and moan over the Middlle (frakkin') East and their 2000 + years of discord which they' seem quite content to carry out for the next 2000 years??? If they were as worried about it as much as America has been since 1948...they could have found a resolution by now. It's theirs. They created it. Let them wallow in it. So we can make our own needs our primary focus for a change. I know, I know...that sounds very much isolationist. And I really have no guilt over it at this time. America doesn't seem to mind being isolated as far as the genocides and tragedies occuring throughout Africa for the last 100 years are concerned, but let someone so much as sneeze in the Middle East and our media, DOD and the people in America go up 2 DEFCON levels because someone showed them a bright, shiney sparkly thing half way around the world.

Our country and gov't is at the moment in worse shape than at any time since the Civil War.

Give it a break people. America can not afford to visit the blood-mobile and donate, because we're already hemorrhoraging all over ourselves from a head wound.
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Iran To "Blow Up The Heart Of Israel" If Attacked, Says Top Official

We have much more pressing issues that warrants occupying our attention in America than this weekly barrage of empty threats from a country without nuclear capabilities, making angry overtures about how they would defend themselves from attack from an even smaller country which has an active and ready nuclear arsenal and (most likely) the international sympathies that would allow them to use them.
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NASA Moon Bombing: WATCH NASA's LCROSS Mission Crash The Moon (LIVE VIDEO, PHOTOS)

NASA or the United States does not own the frakkin' moon! By what rights does anyone have the ownership to deface the moon under any circumstances?? And look...it's not like they've run out of constructive things to do in space. Nasa hasn't figure everything out yet. The way I see it, we're all equal owners of the moon. Next time you want to rape it, call me first. I'll remind you of that while I'm saying, "No". Kids!
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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

There ar 2 points I fear many here today are missing completely. 1) This should be a good day for America. OUR President (whether you voted for or like him or not) has won a very prestigious award which reflects well on our country and all of us. And 2) It doesn't matter one iota whether you think he should have won this award. It's not within your jurisdiction or "field of entitlement" to have any say in the matter... any more than it would be if you thought he should have won it and didn't. Try to remember your limitations and humble out, a bit on occassion. Not every decision on the planet requires your approval.
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Dennis Miller on the O'factor....Show me the funny!

No one argues that Fox Broadcasting isn't a master at media manipulation, choosing just the right people (no pun intended) of any given stereo type because the messenger better carries the message. And too, they do manage with news and programming to cater to the baser wave lengths of the public as much as possible because it (through no fault of Fox) is an easy draw audience. The argument is that Fox dilutes it's news coverage so much with innuendo, subtle (and not so subtle) coded affronts to the current administration and plays upon the fears, insecurities and limited critical thinking of their viewership who oft times more than not are not inclined to question a talking head.

This was not the critical approach Fox afforded to or uses when a republican administration (specifically the Bush Administration) is at the reigns, by any stretch of the imagination.

Anyone can deny or discredit this claim, but you may want to view a montage of Fox over the years beginning with Bush I and all the way up through Clinton, Bush II then Obama.
See if you think, you're watching a "fair and balanced" news station.
So is Fox good at media manipulation? You bet.
But so was Joeseph Goebbels. So that doesn't say much for the worthiness of their content.
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New Baucus Bill Would Cover 94%!

Uh,...lessee...94% of 360 million...­h-m-m-m-m. That would leave 21 million Americans in the same boat that approx 20 to 45 million of them are already in now.
H-m-m-m. What does Baucus think we are, idiots??
Back to the drawing board fellas. If it were your family in that 6% of Americans uncovered, you never would have brought it to the table.
Why, oh why is this guy even on this committee???
He's reportedly accepted approx. 3 million in campaign funds from the very industries he's supposed to be designing this bill to protect us from and he's already come out with 2 ugly as hell options...in my book that's 3 strikes.
He should be outta' there.
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Afghan War: 8 Years of Americans Being Kept In The Dark

Whether we stay in Afghanistan or we leave it to it's own self determination (I propose the latter) it's time, once and for all for our government to finally openly state exactly what the need and purpose for our presence there honestly is and to what specific end. It is not the Taliban. And if it is, Afghanistan needs to pony up and handle this or any threat to their country and government the same way we would, the same way Israel does and every other country that isn't afforded the luxury of having billions of American dollars and thousands of American troops at their bidding for their personal "homeland security". That being said, the reason we are in Afghanistan is not bin Laden either. If you or I or anyone else in our own country "disappeared" for 7 years, we would be pronounced as legally dead and our possessions would be placed in estate to be divided between our next of kin. Well, aside from the occasional video or audio tape, which may or may not actually be Osama, I think it's safe to say that if he is not dead, he is most certainly an inert element in this Afghanistan mix, having no affect on Afghani existence one way or the other.

The reasons we are in Afghanistan appears to many Americans to be no more than a military expansion and strong hold to further destabilize other countries in the Middle East and ensure both a means to improve the opportunities to encroach upon Iran and Syria in order to ultimately enable the prospect of a land based delivery system (pipeline) for fossil fuels. In the end, all of this amounts to just so much speculation however, because Americans have not been factually informed on what the preoccupation is that their taxes, military and government are being put to use for. I think it's time that we genuinely begin to demand an honest explanation. 8 years without one...and we cannot afford to remain silent any longer. Ditto for Iraq.

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Arab States Have Launched Secret Moves To Stop Using U.S. Currency For Oil Trading

Well, that's just about a wrap. Now the Arab oil barons don't even want to touch American currency, because it isn't worth a penny more than the paper it's written on. This is how empires fall. Anyone want to stop all the "We're number 1!" attitude yet and take a sincere and long look at what America's status is becoming in the world? And how's that Federal Reserve national banking system working out for everybody on Main Street?

"Well you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changing!"
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TARP Watchdog's Report: Treasury Misled Public On Bailouts

Uh...we have no "treasury" in the common understanding of the word.
Since 1913 when we embraced the Federal Reserve, our "treasury" has been reduced to an accounting firm that merely tracks the money that we ask the "Fed" to print up for us and the skyrocketing interest vs principle that we ( after 100 years) will never escape from under.
While the term "treasury" provides some illusion to our independant solvency as a nation and a people, it is hardly representative of vaults filled with precious metals and such that provides genuine solid worth to our country's dubious fortunes or the value of our currency.
We're in debt because we bought into more a than questionable financial arrangement with national (and now international) banking systems rather than maintain a "pay as you go with currency spent, for the equal value of currency held, and now the piper must be paid; in much the same fashion as paying off a mortgage on a house or in these times, facing foreclosure.
The banks aren't failing. The banks are the Federal Reserve, collectively.
It's the Federal Reserve that is failing because it's purpose has run it's course. It and we as a nation are over extended beyond any hope of making good on even the interest on our loans, leaving both the lender and the borrower unable to secure either payment or capital on debt(s) outstanding. We are living in an economic structure best portrayed as an open ended spiral moving downward.
But be sure. We unfortunately do not have a "treasury" per se. And that's the real problem.
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As Layoffs Persist, Good Jobs Go Unfilled...(So were told.)

Either these companies are throwing up a smoke screen to make it appear that they are busy and solvent and hiring (when they aren't) or they've removed the word "training" from their vocabulary.
I don't care what a person's education or work history is, when entering a new work place there is always a period of training in order to orient the employee to the administrative, technical and procedural environment they are entering. Saying that nurses, engineers and other people specialized and educated to that purpose simply don't fit these jobs is pure bunk.
Minimal training on exactly how the company would like these people to use their skill sets (even at a temporarily lower pay scale) would certainly fill the needs of that company and help unemployment roles and the unemployed.
This is a thin veil that helps companies appear financially vital at a time when many companies are not and hiring has been frozen, not due to lack of skilled, educated people but because of the economy we're in and industry's something for nothing insistancy.
I don't care if you apply at Starbucks and have experience making coffee elsewhere...some training is required. The same applies to these companies and more so in the sciences.
Someone is selling a load of goods when they say they "just can't find the right people" for these positions. Make them the people you need. Or stop broadcasting to the main stream media your hardship in not being able to "find" people to work for you as if you're doing all you can to actually hire to fill your corporate needs.
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Goldman Sachs To Be Paid $1 Billion If CIT Fails; Taxpayers Would Lose $2 Billion

How does this work exactly? Goldman Sachs get 1 billion if CIT goes down, but the American taxpayer takes a loss of 2.3 billion? If this is how the banking industry does math, there's no wonder the economy is in bad shape.

The way I see it, (as simplistic as it may be,) is that a Republican President signed the original 700 billion TARP bill in 2008, when much of this debacle began. He could have, (it was well within his power to do) but didn't veto it. And Bush vetoed plenty of other things. Also, people keep making reference in the news about the treasury and it's dealings with the current economic deflation.

People. We haven't had any more than the illusion of a national treasury since 1913. Since then we've only had the Federal Reserve, which is basically a bank that prints and lends money to the United States on demand. It's a national sized A.T.M., nothing more, nothing less except every transaction brings interest on the priciple, just like a home mortgage.
The only reason the banks are failing is because the cost of running a country this way has over-extended our reliance on the Fed and the interest we need to pay them has reached a point where securing 100 years of these "loans" has finally surpassed the possibility of them ever being paid off .
The banks aren't failing, friends. The Fed and the way we run this country financially is failing...if not failed already. And unfortunately we have listed past the tipping point.
Our relationship with and the Federal Reserve or the banks/federal Reserve will never regain momentum or even a happy medium.
It's a concept who's time has gone. The bloom is off that rose.
We need an alternative to the way we've been doing things.
And considering the way the kids on Capitol Hill can't work together, that alternative will not present itself until we've slid even futher into this money pit.

About Goldman Sachs
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SNL Sketch Takes A Poke At BO

I support Obama, but I like to laugh too.
More often than not, the best humor comes from pointing out the truths around us.
This was a very funny skit.
And who knows, perhaps BO will see this and start to better understand that the people who most support him, (his base) are getting antsy these days.
Thanks SNL for showing that still, nothing is beyond humor.
And let's be serious for a moment. What ever did Bush/Cheney do benefit America or Americans in 8 years?

Whether BO is a smashing success at everything he does or simply redirects America from the arrogant, obstinate, imperialism that the world has come to expect us to be, Obama is at the very least credited with repairing America's image internationally, presenting himself as an intelligent and articulate representative and the type of individual that Americans can be proud of electing for their leadership. And even the short list of things he has accomplished shows he remains genuinely interested in serving the people, rather than just the industrialists in this country he voluntarily serves.

What did Bush/Cheney do for this country for 8 long years???

And that shit, isn't funny at all.

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Tony Blair Set To Become Europe's First President: Report

Is the MSM so Amero-centric that this process of unionizing Europe has gone so far as to have but one more country (Ireland) needed to sign on to the program... and the first many of us here hear of it is after a potential President is earmarked to take the reigns? Is this part of some grand scheme that was hatched during, prior to or as a result of Europe's participation in the "Coalition of the Willing"? It appears to be a rather big deal with ramifications for the whole global village. Why was the American public kept in the dark until nearly the last minute on this? How can anything benign and above board be played out so discreetly in a country like America where we are supposedly the roost of the most free and far reaching press in the world?
This was kept on the DL for a reason people. What that reason is, I don't know. But anything played this close to the vest is rarely a good thing. Will we be left out in the dark until the last minute before there's a President choosen for the PanAmericas?
I'm beginning to believe they could do that, any time they chose to, after this.
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Jon Stewart Nails The Dems

Why do we think the likes of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Arianna Huffington and Michael Moore are such proponents of health care in America?

Do you think they've been somehow bought? They certainly don't need the cash. Neither do they need to be "bought" by someone in order to support something. Whom would they possibly sell themselves to on this health care issue? They can afford the best health care celebrities can buy.

Maybe it's because like millions of other Americans, they think it's what the people of America need, which is obviously in sharp contrast to what the people we've elected seem to think.

Gee, are the very people we've elected to represent us "bought"? Duh. Ya' think!? The reluctance leading to the impotence of the Democrats in Washington and the convoluted logic of the opposition couldn't be put up for all to see any better, by anyone than what Jon Stewart's commentary video shows it to be.

The state of our Union, when we have so many politicians who can no longer simply approach an issue in the scope of health care reform, without grandstanding and creating their own twisted reasoning to justifying their own ignorance of the needs of the people, is negligent and pitiful. Ours is the country that spends trillions of dollars to "bring democracy" to third world countries while our legislators create fantasy scenarios to further their lucrative dependancies on industries that fund their war chests for relection that the majority of them have have lost touch with their constituencies and the very purpose they were sent to Washington in the first place. They display a veneer of national loyalty and a sense of patriotism that makes one wonder just where the point is in believing we have representation by these very grifters who are bringing this country to a stand still on the health care reform issue in particular and ultimately to her knees.

This is not a sad day for America. This is a sad era for America. And the people who we've sent to represent us, we the people, have taken the last 100 years to lead us here.

See Jon Stewart's comentary at:

http;//www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/01/stewart-destroys-dems-for_n_305948.html

Or at http://ComedyCentral.com

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Dan Rather Lawsuit Against CBS TOSSED In Entirety

So this falls under the sub-title that, you'll never win when you take on the media moguls. Did the courts even bother to validate Rather's story on whether or not Bush was given preferential treatment during his Vietnam War-era service in the Texas Air National Guard? Or was the money all that mattered? The bigger debate (and more frightening for CBS) was why he was released and whether or not the story that got him fired was true and factual to begin with... provided anyone was interested in the pursuit of justice. If this was the case, the money is secondary and payment could have been dismissed. But a truth and a blatant unfairness and cover up could have been none the less exposed and revealed. The press,including (and especially) the major networks were bound and gagged when it came to questioning the Bush administration. But I see this did not concern the court very much. It's all "show me the money!"
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Public Option Amendments Fail In Senate Finance Committee

National polls have shown that (of those polled) 65% of the American people are in favor of the public option. SO why the debate? Unless the message behind it all is that we are not truly represented and what the people may want in this instance or any other is irrelevant. We are not governed by the will of the people. We are ruled by the few and the elite who will decide what they think is best for us. It is time for us to flood these "servants of the people" with emails, letters and phone calls until they wake up and listen to the voice of the people! Then write down their names so you can help vote them out in their next bid for election. I sure hope this gives some perspective to the flag waving, rah-rah crowd and the "let's bring democracy to other countries" set. Who's going to bring democracy to America?? Because it was nowhere to be found on the Senate Finance committee today. Damned Skippy!
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Public Option Debate Poised To Explode In Senate Tuesday

I got an idea, get these grifters to stop modeling their Brooks brothers suits, get them in jeans and working clothes like the majority of Americans wear, put them in chamber and lock the doors from the outside until they come up with something that truly serves the people of America. Make them stop the posturing and the false sincerity and pompus "gentlemen" stump speeches and speak in plain down home terms and stop skirting around every tangent outlying the issue and get something done without hiding behind the formalities. And then, once they've hashed something out, let the peope vote on it. Sure that might be expensive, but we spend lots more in the country for less. And let's start replacing tv sitcoms, reality TV and CSI dramas with live coverage from the floor on every channel so the American people can't avoid but get a little civic information to replace the mindless "entertainment" that helps keep them in the dark on these issues and who actually works in gov't and who is just taking up oxygen....Oh, if only I ruled the world!
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U.S. Seeking Tougher Sanctions Against Iran

The Iranians claim they filed the changes in their nuclear programs 18 months before completion as it is stipulated. They have agreed to the inspections. And still, even over a weekend, more and more calls for tougher and tougher sanctions continue to fill the news. What more need the Iranians do in order to comply with the nonproliferation treaty they willingly signed not as a punishment but as an act of cooperation and good will. I'm afraid that this situation, just like the Iraq situation in 2002/2003 is about to begin spiraling out of countrol until it becomes irrepairable and once again civilians will pay with their lives. One need not send in troops or jet with missiles to create collateral damage. Unecessary overbearing sanctions will do just as well to destroy an economy, starve people, decay infrastructure and deny people basic services which are needed ty the people. Sanctions are little more than what was known as extortion in an earlier time. Play ball with the mob...you did ok, DOn't play with the mob, you find your shipments don't arrive on time, another black maket replaced free enterprise. Hospitals do without and at the lowest level people like you and I find shortages in basic everday goods and services. Make our governmet think twice about this approach. The sabre rattling grows stronger even with every consession the Iranians concede to. This could get ugly soon...over nothing. We've seen it all before.
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Obama Issues Ultimatum To Iran On Nukes

Here's a hypothisis that may not be too far off of being a possibility: Mixing it up with Iran could be an opening gambit for generating new interest in a draft. This would improve the unemployment situation, provide an expansion of our pillar industries... the DOD and thus inject a fresh avenue for cash flow into a tanked economy. A large enough incurrsion with Iran (which is good for business) and those in favor of such a scheme, would immediately start reviving interest in a draft due to our military being stretched so thin that we we no longer have the resources to put "boots on the ground" in Iran. Currently the contracted mercenaries out number our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan almost three to one, at more than 10 times the cost we spend on our troops, equipment and logistics. If we're gong to have any teeth at all to show Iran,...we need troops. If we want to curb unemployment we need jobs. And if we want to improve the economy quickly, war or a police action has always proved effective for us to this end.



Just a theory. And one I'm sure is being discussed behind closed gov't doors, given that scads of options are likely being considered there. Winter is coming on in America, be sure to avoid the draft.
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Obama: Iran Has Secret Nuclear Facility

BO, Focus, Dammit!!

The economy is in the tank, Americans are jobless and those who work are paying more taxes than ever. Tens of millions of Americans are health careless. We have two wars going on that are draining us dry, dividing the country and ain't worth a bucket of spit towards bettering the world or this country. Banks are spending taxpayer money like it's a gift from above and our representatives are lapping up industry dollars through lobbyists as if they've been on the desert for a week.

And you want to start kicking around yet another country because (GASP!) they might be trying to come up to a level playing field in the nuclear sciences? Where was the American indignation when Pakistan, India and Israel went queitly ahead and developed their nuclear programs either for energy or for an arsenal??

What bout Brazil? They're practically on our border by comparison to Iran and they have nuclear power.

But I can see how easy it is to become side tracked.

The difference is, Mr.President, I can afford to become sidetracked. You can't.

Keep your eye on the ball, Mr. President. And Iran isn't even in the same ball park you should be playing in right now.
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