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POPSBreaking: OWS Close To Historic Accord On Drumming UPDATE: ACCORD THREATENED BY DEMAND FOR EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS Meanwhile, another member of the drum corps was lashing out at the Community Board meeting. "I am an occupier, I am a drummer, and, despite what they say, I am also a human being," Ashley Love, a young member of the OWS People of Color Working Group, told the packed Community Board meeting last night. Mother Jones reports that Love was met with booing when she informed the locals, "It's primarily a commercial area; not too many people live there. The majority of the drummers are people of color with low-income or no-income backgrounds, and Wall Street was built by slaves when they brought the Africans over here. The council people back then prohibited drumming because it was a way of protesting. It was a way of communication. And I just think you guys are scapegoating us." by Ace http://bit.ly/18hXaP http://ace.mu.nu
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POPSIt's the scapegoating, stupid: Why extreme right-wing ideology so often inspires acts of violence ndeed, the scramble among right-wing pundits to come up with some kind of decent rationale that will let them talk about Breivik -- or better yet, blame liberals or Muslims for him -- is on, as Media Matters reports. Over at Red State, a regular contributor tied Breivik's attack to the pro-choice movement and end-of-life issues. Then there's the post over at Breitbart's "Big Peace" site titled "Anders Behring Breivik: Jihadist":
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POPSBillions in Profits but Paid No Taxes
General Electric (and others): Again have made $billions in profits but paid not one single dime in taxes; billions in profits and paid not one dime, again. When Republicans pass, over and over again, tax cuts for the SuperRich and our largest corporations they often PRETEND the rate is high. But besides the rate not being high in comparison to similar countries, the LOOPHOLES and the DEDUCTIONS allow these people and companies to avoid paying any tax at all. This is not myth or argument; this is fact. And with almost 1,000 people working just in it's tax office and with hundreds of high-priced lobbyist passing out checks to Congress it will probably go on and on; it's disgusting, especially consider the now rampant attacks upon labor, teachers, education, medical care, etc. -- but keeping up the SCAPEGOATING these greedy corrupt capitalist keep the focus off themselves -- it's been this way for decades and decades, that led to the last major tax reform of 1986. But the loophol
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POPSNON-Health Care (Anniversary) In my state it made news how several transplants previously allowed are now denied. What didn't make the news is that almost a quarter-of-a-million people were also tossed out of getting any benefits (single people without kids). Also, seniors now longer get Vision, Dental, or Hearing aid. !? What exactly is left? I think big expensive exams in hospitals still get coverage. They so popular I've know people who get the same test two or three times in a year...because it's covered, the doctor orders it, the hospitals gets the big bucks. One of the many things conveniently covered up in our USA generations of global wars and scapegoating of social issues is that basic things like our courts, the law, our hospitals, medical care, our prisons, our schools are all debased and degraded. Next time a President wants to 'send humanitarian aid,' or 'protect the people,' he or she might want to start in our own neighborhoods.
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POPSYes, Jared Loughner was 'crazy'. That doesn't exculpate the milieu that unhinged him The writings of Jared Lee Loughner are an odd jumble of right-wing Patriot and anti-Federal Reserve themes mixed with rhetoric similar to that from people who are mentally unbalanced. It is too early to tell where this story will lead. It is clear, though, that aggressive right-wing rhetoric targeting Democrats as treasonous encourages some unstable people to act out in aggression or violence. And then there's the classic demand to return to the gold standard: No! I won't pay debt with a currency that's not backed by gold and silver! No! I won't trust in God! What's government if words don't have meaning? Suffice to say that he's a very confused young man.
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POPSEven MSNBC Can’t Believe How Bad Obama’s Speech Was
Obama Gives Political Speech Not Presidential Address on Oil Spill Obama gave his first Oval Office address tonight, but it sounded more like a political speech than a presidential address. First, the fingerpointing. From the White House transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-nation-bp-oil-spill One place we’ve already begun to take action is at the agency in charge of regulating drilling and issuing permits, known as the Minerals Management Service. Over the last decade, this agency has become emblematic of a failed philosophy that views all regulation with hostility — a philosophy that says corporations should be allowed to play by their own rules and police themselves. At this agency, industry insiders were put in charge of industry oversight. Oil companies showered regulators with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations. http://bit.ly/aCyP1d
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POPSArizona..The Hate Zone
"They pit working people against one another, and require neighbors to police one another. In this light, these laws will foster a climate of suspicion and antipathy, in which violence - both rhetorical and physical - can flourish. Indeed, on some level these laws themselves potentially constitute a form of "hate crimes" by persecuting and scapegoating a particular group based on that group's identity, and thus raise the specter of racially motivated violence in our communities. Heartbreakingly, it's more than just a mere specter of violence at this point for Juan Varela's family, as recently reported by the Associated Press: "Tension surrounding the passage of Arizona's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration contributed to the slaying of an Hispanic man, allegedly shot by a white neighbor, a representative of the dead man's family said Friday. Police and the family said the arrested man, 50-year-old Gary Thomas Kelley, allegedly directed racial slurs at 44-year-old Juan
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POPSWelcome to Arizona: “It’s a Dry Hate...” From a peace and conflict studies perspective, these laws promise to deepen divisions, drive a wedge through communities, separate family units, and undermine constructive dialogue. They pit working people against one another, and require neighbors to police one another. In this light, these laws will foster a climate of suspicion and antipathy, in which violence - both rhetorical and physical - can flourish. Indeed, on some level these laws themselves potentially constitute a form of "hate crimes" by persecuting and scapegoating a particular group based on that group's identity, and thus raise the specter of racially motivated violence in our communities.
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POPSBrkn, Pt5: For further study on Republican lies and corruption and the scapegoating of Democrats for Rep's "sins"
For further study: The Rise and Fall of "Obvious Truths": Part One. by SillyMickel Adzema http://www.entertonement.com/clips/rzznhtzjsk--The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Obvious-Truths-Part-1 The Rise and Fall of Obvious Truths, Part 2. by SillyMickel Adzema http://www.entertonement.com/clips/dhvsqlbnjl--The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Obvious-Truths-Part-2 "The Rise and Fall of 'Obvious Truths' Part 3" http://www.entertonement.com/clips/gjhxqmkbdn--The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Obvious-Truths-Part-3EntUp The Why of Obvious Truths, Culture War and Matrix Beginnings: Pt. 1, "Whatever Happened to the Sixties Generation?" The Fear they Engendered in the Privileged, the All Out Campaign to Slander, Distort their Values, and to Scapegoat Them, the Big Lie of the 'Conservative Backlash,' and the Eventual Morphing of All of This and More Lies into the Big Web of Deceit, More Easily Termed The Matrix, and Its Adoption as the ONLY Strategy of Republican Politics" http://www.entertonement.com/clips/yjfphlpwyq-
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POPSIranian Government Guilty of Genocide Genocide has no statute of limitations. Genocide is defined internationally as the attempt, in whole or in part, to eradicate -- i.e. exterminate -- a group of people on the basis of religion, race, culture and/or politics, etc. Where is the world's outrage? The Iranian people are complicit in this genocide, and they will have the shame of allowing. Future generations will see Iran the same as we now see Nazi Germany. Iran just hasn't launched its final extermination assault on Iran's largest religious minority. Give it time.
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POPSVintage Moonbattery: Copenhagen's A Battle To Humble And "Redefine Humanity" So this isn't the place for rationality. It's the place to reverse the Industrial Revolution. You do have to read this entire self-caricature, though, because there's just so much I couldn't include. There's an entire section on how the people who disagree with him - the bullies who call him bad names - are angry because he's just too decent. Then there was a part about how we have to reign in "adventurers," which a cynical person might read as a pointed version of banal Blue State nannyism. "I'm too priggish to have fun so you're not allowed to have any either." The Guardian (http://bit.ly/691nUu)
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POPSObama’s UN Gambit: King of the Universe and the Polls While “non-proliferation” is mentioned, “disarmament” is not. Similarly, a UN Secretariat compilation “forecasting the Council’s program of work” for the month of September " based on prior activities and requests " lists non-proliferation specifically in relation to Iran and North Korea and does not list disarmament. But in light of Obama’s wishes, a tailor-made subheading will likely be adopted under the existing entry “maintenance of international peace and security.” The new item will insist on simultaneous consideration of nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament and make no mention of particular states. This is no trivial technicality. The linguistic formula, which Obama’s confrere Qaddafi will undoubtedly exploit, shamelessly panders to Arab and Muslim states. It is a familiar recipe for stonewalling efforts to prevent Iran or other Muslim and Arab states from acquiring nuclear weapons until Israel is disarmed or Israel’s (unofficial) nuclear
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POPSMy 1933 Nightmare
...as America's post-war hegemony began to erode internationally, and within the country white males were being challenged for their domestic dominance as well. These "Reagan Democrats" " i.e., consummately selfish pricks who were happy to take government largesse when it was helping to bring them into the middle class, but then immediately pulled the ladder up behind themselves afterwards, demanding tax cuts " began to lash out politically, responding to any line of crap that would harmonize with their embarrassing victimization trope by promising a feel-good response offering the muscular bludgeoning of women and dark people, both at home and abroad. In reality, of course, they were voting for a political movement that was talking tough-guy nationalism and scapegoating gays and other out-groups, but purely as a mask for further savaging the prosperity of these very idiot voters supporting their own undoing. In exchange for some cheap rhetoric and the occasional third-world war, they
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POPSRich on Palin Frank Rich on Sarah Palin and the fringe that now controls the GOP. Some of the nationalist fervor, the fear and the scapegoating are reminiscent of prior troubled times. May our present time's more level heads prevail.
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POPSLeonard Pitts, Jr. – "You don't really know me" More: So I was not surprised (it was just another day at the office) last week when a white woman from suburban Philadelphia called police from her cellphone, claiming she had been locked in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men. Nor was I shocked (it was just another day in the life) when police said Bonnie Sweeten was actually holed up in a luxury hotel at Walt Disney World, and there never was a kidnapping, much less by two black men… University of Florida law professor Katheryn Russell-Brown, author of The Color of Crime, has documented 92 such incidents between 1987 and 2006. She cautions that white men are sometimes victims of racial hoaxes: witness the cases of Tawana Brawley and the Duke lacrosse team. But she says the overwhelming majority of the time -- 67 percent, to be exact -- it is the other way around: white liars blaming black men for things that did not happen
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POPS The Clever Manipulation of Projection and Paranoia OBAMA AND THE NEO-MARXIST LEFT In order to achieve his collectivist agenda, Obama and the left need a scapegoat. Watch and see who is being scapegoated and you will understand what is now happening in this country. To maintain popular support, the dedicated socialist "needs voters to stay angry at designated class enemies. When all else fails, they will crank up the hate and the projection ; and "turn feral with frightening speed." Obama will attempt to preserve the illusion of private enterprise, even as he demonizes entrepreneurs and scapegoats them to avoid having the federal government accept its own role in the current economic crisis. Through the clever use of projection and paranoia; by scapegoating the productive and the wealthy, Obama's government will grow bigger and more powerful and never have to take responsibility for the worsening state of the economy. The necessary scapegoats are in place...let the show trials commence! via Dr.Zero's astute observation
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POPSequality is sexy - love not H8
(CALIFORNIA) Day of Decision on Proposition 8 California's battle over same-sex marriage went before the state's highest court, with civil rights lawyers seeking to overturn a voter-approved ban on gay weddings. Hundreds of supporters and opponents gathered outside the Supreme Court in San Francisco for the hearing, which came 10 months after the court legalized gay marriage in a landmark ruling last May. That ruling was cast into doubt last November when voters passed a change to California's constitution that redefined marriage in the state as a union between a man and a woman. Supporters of same-sex marriage are seeking to have the results of the referendum, known as Proposition 8, quashed on the grounds that minority rights should not be vulnerable to a simple majority vote. The stakes in California are high – a good decision would help fortify the LGBT community against what could be some very difficult years of economic strain and scapegoating. A bad decision woul
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POPSTalking Heads Resort To Repugnant Demagogic Attacks On Octuplets' Mother Anyone in media making prejudicial and racist comments should be taken to task by other media, but don't expect that to happen. Why? Because media fail to do what the Society of Professional Journalists' (I belong to SPJ) Code of Ethics tells them to do: "Expose unethical practices of journalists and the news media." As American and foreign media carried sensational headlines, the lives of these babies were held in the balance, and only one talk-show host got it right, and that was Mike Gallagher, who said that each of those children is a gift from God and that we should be praying for those children. I would take his comment one step further: We should also pray for the mother and praise her for not aborting a single child.
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POPSPicking Winners and Losers Based on Their Ideas of Fairness Emanuel -- on Obama's behalf, by the way -- might as well have stated: "We liberals are not the least bit concerned about the economy, not because it isn't every bit as bad as you've heard, but precisely because we believe it is. You see, we finally have a chance to implement our ideas on a grand scale. We've helped brew the perfect storm by imposing policies that largely led to the mortgage meltdown and scapegoating corporations for them, thereby demonizing and discrediting the free market to the point that full-blown government solutions are now plausible rather than political suicide. We are not sorry for our current predicament, but elated about it. In our view, the ends always justify the means, so what's a little widespread economic hardship en route to our grand vision for an America where we are in power and we get to pick winners and losers?
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POPSMass Starvation And The Rest Of Us Will Be Cannibals," Turner said. In April, media mogul Ted Turner told PBS's Charlie Rose that global warming would make the world 8 degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years. "Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state, like Somalia or Sudan, and living conditions will be intolerable," he said. Turner blamed global warming on overpopulation, saying "too many people are using too much stuff." Crops won't grow and "most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals," Turner said.
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POPSThe GOP's McCarthy gene More - "Republicans continue to push the idea that this is a center-right country and that Americans have swooned for GOP anti-government posturing all these years, but the real electoral bait has been anger, recrimination and scapegoating. That's why John McCain kept describing Barack Obama as some sort of alien and why Palin, taking a page right out of the McCarthy playbook, kept pushing Obama's relationship with onetime radical William Ayers. And that is also why the Republican Party, despite the recent failure of McCarthyism, is likely to keep moving rightward, appeasing its more extreme elements and stoking their grievances for some time to come. There may be assorted intellectuals and ideologues in the party, maybe even a few centrists, but there is no longer an intellectual or even ideological wing. The party belongs to McCarthy and his heirs -- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Palin. It's in the genes."
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POPSI'll Take Hope Over Fear and Loathing, Thank You Very Much I am by training a historian. My focus of study has been 20th century Europe and the rise of fascism. The "othering' taking place on the right and from the Republican candidates themselves is horrifying to behold. Who's to blame for the economic crisis? Barney Frank (faggot!), ACORN (niggers!), Barack Hussein Obama (half-breed Muslim!). I see it on the internet, I see it on TV, I see it in newspapers, I see it here on ClipMarks: race-baiting, fear-mongering, scapegoating. Enough! Not here! Not now! Not ever again! If I may quote Obama, "Not this time!
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POPSThe Woman, the Witch and the Goddess Superstition is often the chief reason. This factor is strongly linked to the lack of medical care and awareness in rural areas. In absence of health care facilities, there is exploitation by ‘ojhas’ or witch doctors who profit from the villagers’ ignorance. INTERESTING READ ABOUT WITCHES AND SUPERSTITIONS AT http://desicritics.org/2007/10/10/083705.php
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