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I don't know where I read it now, but it seems part of the reason why these homegrown proto-fascist terrorists have grown without gaining attention from the police state is because all of the attention has continued to be focused on Muslims and Arab names, with the Trump officials demanding resources put in place to surveil BLM and antifa groups that if anything, present a much less of a threat to society and governing authorities than fascist wannabes.
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America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
My beef is that I don't think that 'least worst option' is anywhere near acceptable to most working Americans during these times....which were already getting bad in the US before Covid-19 struck! They were already heading into a recession....so they would have taken us with them, but along came a global pandemic to distract everyone from money and economics for a little while, but after a year of this with no end in sight, nobody here or in the US is willing to accept the usual bullshit claptrap from politicians! As for Bernie....he started as a radical, who tried in the 70's to start a real leftwing party .... but then gave up! His "independent socialist" label has been a fraud for decades because it's been predicated on the unspoken contract he has with the Democratic Party: he refrains from criticizing the Party, while they refrain from selecting primary opponents to run against him for his senate seat. Every so often he proposes leftwing legislation....which almost immediately get shot down or watered down so much that it's unrecognizable. I even think there was collusion with his 2016 presidential run! The Dems' experts informed them that preselected candidate - Hillary, had huge...almost Trump level negative ratings and just did not appeal to most typical voters. The Dems often want a pseudo-left progressive to run on the left of the main candidate to prevent left third parties from rising up and taking away votes....and that was Bernie's job in 2016. BUT, he became too popular, because Clinton was so goddawful horrible and had no real reasons for running for president...other than feeling "it's my turn." By convention time, Bernie endorsed the hag who stole the nomination from him (revealing this is why Wikileaks and Assange became the targets of liberal persecution), and still keeps his mouth shut, even though the Bitch rags on about him ruining her chance to sit in the Oval Office in that slimy documentary they did for her a year ago. And oh yeah, AOC! I don't know what to make of her now, but when she burst on to the scene in New York, she was a definite outsider who knocked off one of the Party oligarchs, and the rest of the kleptocracy will never forgive her for that, so I don't know why she is even bothering. They have tried and will continue to try to take away her seat in every congressional election and refuse to give her any committee appointments....which her fans have told us is why she supported Octogenarian Nancy...so, someone else will have to figure it out! -
The Trump Second Impeachment Thread
Right To Left replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
NO it's not coming! There will be no Trump Senate Impeachment trial to celebrate, because Mitch knows how to count, and has already calculated that he doesn't have the Republican votes needed, and so has already stepped out too far and pissed off too many Trump deadenders, who other GOP Senators and House members will not cross! -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
No, not buying! The only reason why almost 80 year old Joe was brought out of mothballs was to make sure that the will of America's true rulers would be followed after they dumped out the volatile and unreliable servant - Donnie. As middling and meek as his so called "socialism" is, the last thing the DNC would allow was a win for Bernie Sanders during the primaries. They carefully scripted a plan to rig the first caucus in Iowa (an unnecessary counting app created by a Buttigieg financier) and then made sure other, lesser centrist options dropped out before Super Tuesday primaries....but left Warren in just to siphon votes away from Bernie. Not surprised much of the left still didn't bother with the election and took to demonstrations and rioting instead! -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Yes, Slow Joe won the money sweepstakes two to one before winning the presidential race against Trump by a much closer margin. I'm surprised your link is from Newsweek though! I'm not sure whether to feel hopeful that they will emerge from their status as controlled opposition, or they have since fired that writer for presenting an honest perspective on his candidacy and the steep odds against a career politician in the pocket of Big Pharma fighting to lower drug prices. -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
You actually believe that Joe is a good guy? Better not look at his almost half a century long record as a senator and congressman repping Delaware then! -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Any chances the problem is relying on systems of For Profit Medicine? How much did Jonas Salk earn for the Polio vaccine? Oh well, long time ago, people had different expectations back then. Now it's all about money! -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Well, Daily Kos just doesn't get this comedy thing....unless this counts as funny to brainwashed MSNBC koolaid drinkers! For those of us old enough to understand there are no good guys and bad guys in politics....especially in bought and paid for US politics, it's just another orangeman bad yawner! -
Were you a Mulroney crotch sniffer back when he was the Prime Minister? Either that, or your rightwing brainwashing is so thorough, you have no awareness that it was the great Mulroo privatizing Connaught Labs for no good reason (suspicious minds like mine assume money changes had behind the scenes every time on privatization deals) Connaught Labs was privatized to private - for profit interests who would..........increase efficiency from 'wasteful' government management! When Canada was a world leader in vaccine research and production As the Trudeau government struggles to figure out how to get a coronavirus vaccine to Canadians, one thing is clear: this task would be a lot easier if the Mulroney government hadn’t privatized Connaught Labs three decades ago. The sale of the remarkable Connaught Labs to foreign interests made no sense back then, and it makes even less sense today. Its consequences loom over the country, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledging last week that Canadians won’t get the coronavirus vaccine as soon as citizens in the U.S., Britain, Germany and other countries because we no longer have sufficient domestic vaccine capabilities. This will be stunning news to anyone familiar with Connaught’s groundbreaking work in developing vaccines and other medical treatments over seven decades before its privatization. Indeed, it’s ironic — and infuriating — that we find ourselves in a disadvantaged position regarding the coronavirus vaccine since Connaught was a world leader in vaccine development and production. If Connaught Labs still existed today, its scientists would almost certainly be involved in the quest to come up with a coronavirus vaccine, working collaboratively with other researchers — just as they played a key role in helping U.S. virologist Jonas Salk develop the polio vaccine in the 1950s. From the early part of the 20th century, Connaught created and produced high-quality medical treatments and vaccines for Canadians, including vaccines for smallpox, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, as Canadian medical historian Christopher Rutty has documented. And the rest is at: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/11/30/when-canada-was-a-world-leader-in-vaccine-research-and-production.html
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And exactly how much longer do you expect the central banks to be able to keep pumping new money into the banking and finance systems before a critical mass is reached where too many people realize there is no way they will get full returns on investment? Inflation wouldn't be low and shouldn't be low...we're talking permanent zero percent interest loans coming from the Federal Reserve banks in the US for christs sakes! Back when Japan went through their much smaller economic meltdown in 2000, their central bank went through to 'negative' value interest rates, and now the rest are doing it as well to try to keep priming the pump and keep the already richest men in the world earning more billions in undeserved riches. Either Japan was going rogue 20 years ago, or more likely -- they were set up to plot out this 'flood the markets with free money scheme,' since Japan didn't pay the economic price expected if they weren't a close US ally. Similar to when banks in Malta made a seizure of deposits to cover their debts. The 'great minds' who come up with economic schemes have a hard time in the transition from theory to practice, since people are unpredictable and they don't know exactly how the public will react. And that's why some, suspicious skeptics considered Malta a test run for asset seizure plans by the big players. Similar reasoning led Bush/Obama administrations' cautious bank bailout announced in 08 to be careful not to let the first round of money creation go over the one trillion mark! It was seen as a psychological breakpoiint to just pull up a trillion....now no one has 2nd thoughts about it! And every time since then, when the stock market has faltered, even a bit, in comes Treasury with the money hose to flood the markets with and keep equities rising higher and higher for no valid reasons! At some poiint.....and I don't know when...but likely real soon, the search for real value will lead to more than a few buying gold and crypto's and there will be a mass exodus out of the Dollar (both) and the Euro and all of the other fiat Dollar-linked currencies, and we will have the economic crash that should have been expected when it became clear that all future recessions would only hit the little people on so called "Main Street," while Wall Street and its Euro and other equivalents continue getting richer no matter what's going on in the real world. *a little off the track, but I can't think of a greater example than Elon Musk winning the billionaire sweepstakes now! His electric car company that isn't worth a pot to piss in, keeps going up and up -- way beyond the values of companies actually making a significant number of automobiles....electric cars included! This shit lets you know the system is rigged! I would like to see interest rates rise also, at least a little! Since I'm retiring very soon and have no outstanding loans or debts to pay off. Aside from my pensions, I want to keep my savings in the careful, conservative investments like GIC's and not have to wade out into the market stream where it's impossible to judge stocks by earnings ratios any more! So far, I have been ignoring everything I see about the "Great Reset" because it was coming from sources I have long considered suspect. But now that the Great Reset is being announced over in Davos as official international financial strategy, it's time to question what they have in store for younger people, and I mean aside from leaving us ageing out boomers as the last generation of humans who will not be debt serfs to our future overlords!
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We're all getting forced to carry our portable surveillance devices around with us now! Maybe time to go on a rant about the so called benefits of new technology....and the technocracy that's been created by it to keep us under constant surveillance and harvest all of our information for fun and profit. I bought my first cellphone (called a carphone back then...cause they were too big and heavy to carry around) 25 years ago. That phone did everything I needed from a portable phone. It was just for making calls, and I paid a minimum monthly plan with no free airtime or long distance cause I wanted it just for emergencies, since I had a 50 mile (80 km) drive home from work at 3 in the morning. When it broke down, I discovered that I couldn't get it fixed (because we don't service analog phones anymore....but we got these great deals on digital flip phones....with fake antennas). Okay, so I had to buy another one.....which got stolen, I bought a newer, smaller flip phone, and when that one failed a few years ago, I found that there is absolutely nothing besides computerized tracking phones to select from. I'd rather do without internet and just buy what I need, but that's not allowed anymore. Same if you bought one of those Ipods or small mp3 players to listen to music and podcasts with several years ago. I still have an Ipod Shuffle -- I had to pay twice what it cost retail when they stopped making them for no good reason in 2015, because there are other freaks out there also, who just want to carry a small audio player on them instead of lugging their stupid phone around in a pocket or on one of those ridiculous armbands just to listen to music and podcasts because Apple won't produce them anymore because they want us to buy Iphones instead. I refuse to buy Iphone....and my aggravation over this is the first reason why!
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Thanks off the top! My political thinking has kept me moving more and more to the political left over the past 20 years. So, I am living disproof of that old Winnie Churchill's patronizing quote many years ago implying that socialist thinking is mostly youthful idealistic thinkiing....and you become a conservative when you have to go out on your own and earn a real living, and earn enough to support a family etc. etc.. Well in my life since turning 40, I've been moving the other direction. But, I think this has to do with taking note of the failed promises we were given after the Cold War was declared over and "a new world order" was replacing prior left/right ideologies, with some smeared liberal capitalism going global, along with trade, in a brand new peaceful world where every nation would enjoy "peace dividends" as all of us innate savages were forced to be peaceable with each other through mutual benefit of being so interdependent on each other for trade and commerce........how has that worked out btw?? So, I've studied Marxism in all its various forms to some degree, but I still don't know whether I can classify myself a Marxist, since Karl himself declared that future generations would have to finish his theory and adapt it to the whole range of conditions around the world. And most Marxists since, are academics who still haven't thought out just how vicious and desperate capitalists and their small armies of supporters dependent on capitalism will act to defend the system. Basically, it looks like they are willing to go out with a bang or a whimper, since the sociopaths with the most power don't care if we all go out with a flash or the slow dying of from environmental destruction! It's one thing to 'fight the system' when we deal with rational actors, BUT I don't believe the superrich today are at all rational! Their greed and obsession over measuring their billions they can never spend, means they have all the power and are willing to keep driving to extinction faster and faster these days! So, I wish I was more of an optimist, and I don't like telling younger people just how pessimistic I am about the future. Maybe something will change to make the picture look better, but I feel forced to be a realist about it and avoid talking about how I really feel most of the time when I'm around family or talking to friends....which I don't see too often now because of the pandemic.
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You tell me! How many? Before checking, I'd wager very, very few longshoremen would be getting paid $60 per hour! If that's even close to top rate.....and in a union shop also! And I'm figuring there are not very many young men hired anymore to do the grunt work on the docks, because........so many cargo ships today are container ships. The most efficient setup is to have containers offloaded by a crane operator who can drop each container on a railway flatbed or truck flatbed trailer. Not many hands are needed anymore at shipyards anywhere in the world these days. That's another example of how high tech and automation have mostly served to eliminate jobs. And if the crane operator gets paid $60 an hour, that might be more plausible! Now, with the declining number of jobs, having a union is extra important, because if the union has any clout, they can protect senior employees from being fired when there's no work for them. Better if the employer has to take some responsibility for looking after the welfare of their employees, instead of focusing solely on executive salaries and stock compensations! Everything's expensive in NYC! So, I wouldn't expect schools to come cheap either. Certainly private schools don't! It's your value judgment that NY teachers are overpaid; but if they live in New York, a teacher can't afford to live on the same salary as a teacher in West Virginia! Schools falling apart, is the fault of the city and state governments.....and possibly the feds....depending on what the Dept. of Education is kicking in after four years of having a patronage appointment in charge whose only concern was expanding her own family's chartered schooling empire! When it's all said and done, after the failures of unbridled capitalism over the past 40 years, you rightwingers have an even steeper hill to climb to try to make your case that 'unions are greedy' while business owners are self-starting, unselfish 'job creators!'
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Ultimately, 'debt is here to stay' only until lenders feel they won't get paid back OR receive equal or greater compensation...such as loans to banana republic former colonies that Wall Street banks never intended or expected to be paid back....just seize control of assets or extract other favors from the debt serf nation, out of fear of US government reprisal. And, since inflation is continuing to rise, and rising too fast for the Fed and allied financial manipulators to hide it from average consumers and smaller investors, they are going to have to start raising interest rates, because America's (and allies) adversaries are smelling blood in the water now, and adding to their forex reserves to increase the value of their currencies in an obvious effort to push the $USD further out of the reserve currency basket. China’s forex reserves grow by over $100 BILLION in 2020 despite Covid-19 pandemic If the US economy (and Canada and England and the EU) can't deal effectively with either the Covid-19 pandemic or their lack of real economic growth, all they can do is just keep pumping out $Trillions more of fiat currency coming from nations that can't even prove they are financially solvent in the long term anymore! For the past, almost 7 years, the US Dollar has been declining about 1% per year in its share as Global Reserve Currency. It will be interesting to see what the 4th quarter numbers are and what they will be for this first quarter of 2021, because up till last year, it was looking like major investors were looking for safe havens to avoid the Dollar, but finding few other options besides gold. Gold has run up in price, but the volatile cryptos - like Bitcoin look like they are going to make real moves, if big investors become comfortable they can park their money in Bitcoin and feel safe that regardless of hiccups - when billionaires pull back or fear of possible state interference with crypto investments, it will keep rising in value over time....since they are limited reserves ---- nobody can just instantly create $billions worth of bitcoin like they can with paper currencies! US Dollar as “Global Reserve Currency” amid Fed’s QE and US Government Deficits: Dollar Hegemony in Decline
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Speaking as a union member, I can say that there is corruption at the top of every international union, BUT as organized labor disappears, so do good-paying jobs! It started with FTA/NAFTA, because employers - from big to pissant 'small business owners' who try to scam both their employees and their customers for their own enrichment, won't pay a nickel more or charge less than they absolutely have to! Business wants everything and NOW. While organized labor is just trying to grab a share. As for public sector unions......well we only have to look south of the border to see what you wonderful conservatives will do when you have a chance to privatize public services and schools!
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Everyone's going down at once thanks to modern debt-driven capitalism! Eventually, empires bring the worst aspects of imperialism they inflict on colonial subjects, back home with them. So, nevermind Ontario....you got a federal debt level you can't possibly pay back, along with corporate and business debt and consumer debt that has made everyone owing on skyrocketing medical debts, college loans that never get paid back, and mortgages on over-inflated homes again because inflation is a thing of the past....or so we were being told!
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America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Scanning some of the news blurbs a little while back, I came across that CNN video you posted of their take on the Portland protests, and reading through the transcript, what jumped out at me is that CNN makes it ALL about RACE! As if Covid job losses, lockdowns, poverty, increasing homelessness etc. isn't part of the increasing radicalization that they find so inexplicable in Portland or Seattle and other dot.com bubble clusters that were supposed to lead the way to a bright new techno-driven future and solve all of our earthly problems....including climate change. So, when things go wrong, it seems like CNN and the shitlib journalists/narrative spinners they send out into the field very rarely, are tasked with making conflicts all about race, gender, new trans issues that maybe a room-full of people actually have to deal with, instead of mentioning the growing economic divide. And when MSM does let someone talk about debt and income inequality that's now couched as specifically race-bound, they are very careful never to mention the causes....just the symptoms! Nobody at the Times or CNN wants to tell their readers and viewers that these damn tech monopolies have even dislodged the major banks as the prime cause of concentration of wealth at the top. A couple of days ago, I heard Thomas Frank (used to be called upon all the time 10 years ago as an MSNBC pundit) mention that what he finds fascinating and disturbing about the 2020 Election is that the major corporations who had been buying politicians and political influence in both parties have all lined up consistently behind the Democrats! Trump and most of the other Republicans running for office were all but abandoned by the corporate donors they depend on......except for the dying oil and gas industries. Big Oil was the only major corporate sector still standing behind Republicans! But, the now 'cancelled' Thomas Frank's main concern to watch for are signs that the monied interests running everything are all lined up behind one party. If America didn't look like much of a democracy when only two parties were effectively allowed to compete, what will it be like as a one party state? As for Joe, I'm not surprised that one of his first job orders was to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline that was supposed to transfer Dilbit down to Louisiana refineries. Right now, the braintrusts running the FAANGS and their investors think that windmills and solar panels are going to fill the space that carbon fuels have been doing since the start of the Industrial Revolution...and do it without any carbon footprint. I better not open that one up on this thread too, but the unsupported belief that these products produce energy with no carbon footprint is the biggest modern delusion of them all! -
Fortunate for us that the rest of the world - especially the US now, are in ruinous levels of debt that can't be paid off either. When everyone's doing it, where is the growing army of billionaires going to put their money when every fiat currency is inflating itself to ruin? Maybe things would be better if Covid relief didn't start at the top and trickle down on us! Pay people who work for a living to stay home if their jobs and workplaces can be closed during a pandemic; cover the costs of closing small businesses also, but how many big corporations have beat everyone to the trough (especially in the US) before millions of working people got a few scraps were left! And some people wonder why there's a dangerous left to rightwing divide now, and people are rioting in the streets! And have to make up stories about Russians or Chinese and others being the culprits, rather than corruption and failing centrist economic policies.
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America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Looks like they found all the clips CNN et al tried to bury after Joe won the nomination. It's always bugged me that ..... even long before last year, he would start trying to talk ghetto when he's under pressure. Someone should have told him to stop embarrassing himself years ago, so it's too late now if he ever gets riled up by a tough question that sneaks through. -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
I was a sucker in the early 2000's, and I actually thought DN was working on a shoestring budget, until I found out about their generous donors! Why they and other fake or sold out ageing activists feel the need to keep pushing hard on the begging for money all the time is beyond me. The donors set the limits of what topics and areas they are allowed to be activist about (mostly race, gender discrimination and poverty stories) and what they either aren't allowed to talk about or have to parrot the standard line if they do....just about everything connected with foreign wars and regime change ops here. It was a pattern I first notice 10 or 11 years ago. And it's been the same thing with other proclaimed socialists with podcasts and Youtube shows. It's bad enough with bought and paid for 'progressives,' but the progressive label is meaningless to begin with. The approx 100 member Progressive Caucus of House Democrats, includes everything from AOC and other 'Squad' members through neoliberal pro war hawks like Hakeem Jeffries. I'd like to see him define 'progressive' in no more than one paragraph. I'd bet he would start dissembling half way through and look for the exit. So, when I hear about the growing size of the political left in America and the relatively newfound concerns that some may be 'dividing the left,' I want to see some clarity about what this "left" believes and stands for first! If anyone on the left is a multimillionaire and/or they are taking big capitalist donations for their cause, they are not worth listening to....let alone investing in! Because as soon as their funders yank the leash, they have to jump! It's not too different than the same dilemma on the right. How do libertarians maintain clarity of message and purpose when there are loads of corporate funded clowns trying to tell everyone what they are supposed to do? In the end, everyone who's on the left or right has to read, learn and pay attention, and be able to think for themselves. No way around it! -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
I used to be a subscriber to DemocracyNow, and then I noticed when Amy Goodman started ignoring negative reports from US regime change targets like the Syrian debacle that I could see the same kind of reports on CNN! Why was I paying to watch some alternative news coverage from the left side when they were skewing to the center on foreign policy and dropping staff who wouldn't follow the new program - like Aaron Mate. And then I found out DN collects millions in corporate foundation money and Amy pays herself one million per year for her services! You wouldn't know it from her appearance, but I tell everyone who's listening that they are contributing to a rich foundation-funded front group by supporting them. They don't need the money, and as we've learned more recently, neither does TYT....could have figured that out from their high production values. Now, not only do they look like an MSM production, they actually are one on most issues. And I'm sure the Ford Foundation, Raytheon and others who have been generous with their funding tell them where the third rails are, and what they are free to be radical leftist on and what they are not allowed to cross the corporate line! -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Well, one thing we know for sure, is that Kamala was vetted by the same inside pros who got behind Obama when they put a lot of money behind an upstart candidate for Senate in 2006...I think it was! Some of these candidates appear groomed, because they are! And to be a handpicked candidate, I'm sure the people with the billions who are doing the picking know what and what not to expect from them when they win! So, lackluster Kamala .... who couldn't explain her way out of direct questions about her early, disparaging comments against Biden and just laughed hysterically until the reporter moved on... was brought back in as the VP candidate, and will almost certainly inherit the top job. Then, she runs for president in 2024, and her success or failure depends a lot on what the economy is doing then. She's already past the first hurdles that everyone else has to clear. -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Yeah, I get it now! I must have lost the scent with all the pundit background noise that goes on down there. So it looks like Biden promised a fracking ban/ then appeared to reneg on it during the primaries/ now says Yes, we're banning fracking. I'll wait and see what he has to say tomorrow. Maybe someone will insert new programming soon. -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Personally, I'm not going to listen to a paid liar like John Brennan anymore than I will pay attention to whatever Tim Poole has to blather on about now! What this attack on the Portland Democrat HQ shows is that the Democratic Party is only considered "left" by the CNN and MSNBC pundit gallery and Joe is about to be given the world's shortest honeymoon in Washington! -
America Under pResident Biden
Right To Left replied to Shady's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
????? So where's the lie here? Is he going to follow through on a fracking ban, or is it all smoke and mirrors, like his former boss's environmental plans?