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    Neocons and Neo-Fascists in the Global Village

    July 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Corporations and Industry, Culture, International affairs, Lobbying, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism

    What is America? Is it merely a flag? Is it an armed force, with tanks and guns and planes? After all, that’s what many people see in villages around the world. That’s what simple groups of small villagers saw in Iraq…people with no television, no media elite, no sophisticated intellectual government in their region to [...]

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    Government by Lobbyist

    July 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Lobbying, Politics, Wall Street

    The recent Citizens United verdict by the Supreme Court makes one thing clear. For the time being, at least, lobbying is here to stay and has been given even greater abilities to interfere in the legislation and administration of the United States.
    What we have now is a law that says that any corporation, and probably [...]

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    Debts, Lies and Obstructionism

    May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Corporations and Industry, Politics, energy

    No mistake about it. We are in crisis mode. No matter what the stock market or the boys knocking down millions on Wall Street say…we are in an economic crisis. And we are in a political crisis.
    We have trillions of debt that we need to pay off. We owe about $12.8 trillion of which about [...]

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    Lobbying: Our Worst National Disaster

    April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Lobbying, Media, Politics

    There are about 14,000 lobbyists now in Washington. That is more than 26 lobbyists for every Senator, Congressman and member of the White House staff. Last year, 2009, lobbyists spent a staggering $3.46 billion on influencing government.
    This is a huge problem for the United States of America and its future.
    If you are a Middle Class [...]

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    The Next American Revolution

    February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Economics, Health Care, Media, Politics, wars and militarism

    It is time for all Americans to stop what they are doing and think about the future. Your future has already been mapped out for you by a relatively small percentage of Americans, who want to eliminate the middle class. The Neoconservatives, on a mission for the very wealthy and huge international corporations, have the [...]

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    The Neoconservative Republican Agenda Is Quite Simple. Lie and Lie Again.

    February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics

    In the cool, rarefied air of Senate multi-millionaires it may be possible to conduct policy discussions with great civility. At least on the non-producing Democratic side. On the other side, the Neocon Obstructionist Party smiles, makes sarcastic comments in the legislative chamber and then votes against everything. No exaggeration. They have voted against everything by [...]

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    Are Neoconservatives Making Us a Laughing Stock Around the World?

    February 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics

    I am sure that Senator Mitch McConnell, whom some pundit called, I believe, a “turtle-hybrid” recently feels that he has accomplished quite a bit for his Party this last year.
    The Neoconservatives, despite repeated and repeated and frustratingly, boringly repeated efforts by the President to have them join in, be part of the government of [...]

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    We Can’t All “Just Get Along.” Here’s Why.

    February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Media, Politics

    Our political system is broken. It didn’t happen accidentally. It was deliberate and it has been happening for a long time, gradually, methodically. Corporations have taken all their chips and gone all-in with the Neoconservative Republicans. And the Neocons are now 100% for corporations. They are the arm of corporations in Congress.
    Take the Republican [...]

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    Over Neoconservative Obstruction and Health Care Lobbying, Health Reform Passes.

    December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics

    Right to the end, the Neoconservative Obstructionists in the Senate fought their hardest for the health insurance industry, trying to get every benefit they could and putting pressure on all Democratic Senators with any political vulnerability.
    They fired salvo after salvo at health care reform. They said that the American People were basically ungrateful to [...]

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    Before Neocons Call People “Nazis” They Should Look in the Mirror.

    December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Shame on the Neoconservatives, as they call themselves. They want to be called “Republicans.” But we can’t really call them Republicans, can we? They are not traditional Republicans. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were more or less traditional Republicans. Neoconservatives are more like the old Dixiecrats. In fact the manic racist Strom Thurmond [...]

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    Down to the Wire on Health Care Reform

    December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Health Care, Politics

    Americans used to be winners. Now we are losers. The current crop of middle-aged Americans are so far from reality that it almost makes a grown man…of which there are fewer and fewer…cry. We started out a year ago electing a man as President who said that he would initiate the process of creating a [...]

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    The Great Right-Wing Propaganda War

    November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Culture, Health Care, Media, Politics, jobs

    There is a war going on in this country. It is a war against the American People and a war against the truth. It is not being waged by terrorists but by a group of hugely wealthy, arch-conservative individuals who merely want…more. Their personal assets, both individually and collectively are in the billions and they [...]

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    The Health Care Reform Battle and the Neocon Alternatives

    November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Politics

    On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the members in the House of Representatives of the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party spent an entire day doing their best to obstruct and prevent legislation. But the Affordable Health Care for America Act passed by 220 to 215.
    It was bi-partisan. One Republican voted with the Democrats. And 39 petty, cowardly [...]

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    What’s in a Name? Republicans Are Now the Neoconservative Obstructionist Party

    October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · General, Health Care, Media, Politics

    Shakespeare and the current Republican Party do not exactly fit within the same imagery. We do not see Sarah Palin quoting Shakespeare,  something that might not surprise us to hear from either the President or the Vice President. The point is that we have long, long since reduced our  expectations of erudition or even fiscally [...]

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    Turncoat Lieberman, Bought By Health Insurance Companies

    October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Health Care, Politics

    The clear message is that Senator Joseph Lieberman, like Duke Cunningham and others, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, has now taken his former respected status and sold his character and reputation to the highest bidder. In Lieberman’s case, his reputation was earned as a supporter in his early career of issues such as civil [...]

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