Dennis Kucinich: ‘Why I Voted No On Bailout Bill’

Video from Youtuber yrrmom. Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now says the bailout as written is a “continuance of a transfer of wealth… upwards” adding “this is a very dangerous moment.”

Kucinich says that a former head of the FDIC told a group of congressmen yesterday that the “Bush Administration has been going around the last two weeks actually so tightening up on the practices of banks that they’re forcing them to have bigger reserves which forces them in a way… would kinda create, you know help to create the kind of tight money policies that we’re seeing, that we’re trying to alleviate with this bill. There needs to be a closer look at this…it seems to me there’s a possibility that this crisis has a little bit of manufacture to it…”

Kucinich says that congress has had no hearings on alternatives. He says we need to work on Plan B, to help Wall Street pay for its own problems via stock transfer tax and cancellation of dividends.

Speaker Pelosi from the House floor: “But it just comes down to one simple thing. They have described a precipice. We are on the brink of doing something that might pull us back from that precipice.” (emphasis mine)

So in effect, Wall Street gets $700+ billion from Americans that every economist agrees cripples our future goals, and in exchange we barter the future of generations of American children to come on a “might.”

Breathe, everyone.

For nearly a decade now, these (Bush) bad actors have successfully managed and terrified the American populace. If you’re terrified now, it’s because they want you to be… they’ve come back to us using their standard modus operandi (fear) for a coup de grace.

Let’s not help them. Let’s seize this moment and turn this crisis into an opportunity for change. The Orwellian thinking permeating our nation that a thing is either this or that, black or white doesn’t reflect a real world landscape where oftentimes there are a range of alternatives from which to choose.

This time let’s remain rational… let’s force our representatives to come up with a better thought out plan that benefits Americans and doesn’t target our progeny, condemning them to an Oliver Twist life in a country  “Third World, Only Shinier.”

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J Gowasky

Resourceful Neglect: What’s Really Going On In America

You don’t have to be a genius to realize that there’s a massive shifting of wealth taking place in our country. If you haven’t heard there are protests all over the country over the bailout plans.

More money, more money, more money: For a long time I thought that the rich and bloated could not have enough and that there was some sort of wild game played amongst themselves of who could build the highest mound of cash. I still believe that. But, now however, there’s a flip side to that thinking, because I’ve come to understand that not only will they have more money, but we’ll have far less or maybe even no money at all.

This massive redistribution of wealth (from funds that Americans will have to borrow via China?) pretty much seals the deal for me as, already, international banks are lining up for their share of redistribution funds.

I’m no economist. Nor have I conversed with any. I’m just an ordinary citizen whose brain stores important information for later retrieval. While lots of people are focused on the here and now, I’m wondering how we got here and were we’re heading.

Here’s how we got here: After George Bush staked down his claim to the White House and all of what it meant to be our first “dictator,” his first meeting was with the business community where groundwork may have been laid to cut taxes. Whether the scheme was hatched then or later the tax rebate scheme would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. It took effect in 2001 and was billed as helping the economy.

In early 2002, Bush began talking about “broader home ownership, especially among minorities” for those who previously could not afford them. This announcement came soon after the Senate and Congress began rewriting the bankruptcy code whereby distressed, bankruptcy-declared homeowners could no longer save their primary property. In 2005, a final industry-written bankruptcy bill was signed into law.

Plenty of Democrats, including my own senator, voted for that little piece of stink.

So we have several schemes in a span of just a few years: tax rebates that go mostly to the wealthy; the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq invasion with their accompanying patronage system that includes military privatization. Add to that mix, banking deregulation and a scheme to get more minorities into homes with the caveat of making home mortgages available to those who normally couldn’t afford them.

All these schemes were promoted as helping American taxpayers.

However, if the true goal is to make loads of money while impoverishing America, the scheme has to be widespread covering a number of institutions.

Is it mere coincidence that The Bush Family were deeply involved with the Savings and Loans scandal of the 80’s and 90’s? As was Sen. John McBush, who has a certain fondness for deregulating financial institutions. The similarities between the S&L Loan crisis to today’s banking and investment scandals are striking. The White House, with a slip of the tongue, revealed that they’ve had this bailout plan on paper for months. Oh really… how many months was that you say?

Here’s where we’re heading: The complexion of the American population is becoming browner, everybody. About the time we found that out American businesses had already begun shifting high paying jobs overseas to India, a country that has in place a tidy, though sl-o-o-wly evolving little known or talked about caste system that pretty much keeps everyone in their respective place. An aspect of the caste system operates by virtue of birth, placing darker-skinned aboriginal peoples of India on a lower socio-economic rung than the Aryan invaders, turned rulers and others.

By 2042, America’s white majority will no longer exist. I lay odds that it’ll happen sooner than that. Look at present day state demos.

Economists are saying that this $700+ billion transfer of American wealth from taxpayers will effect generations to come. If that’s the case, they’re talking about it impacting a mostly brown population and probably, by then, a much poorer white population. However, today’s wealth transfer ensures that future generations of the majority brown population will be horribly indebted.

I think a highly educated, militarily strong, wealthy browner-skinned America is anathema to those people who pull the world’s economic strings.

This whole Wall Street mess reminds me of the negotiated downfall of the apartheid South African government. Before the ANC took power certain economic structural controls were put in place. These controls are now so entrenched that anytime the post-apartheid leadership breathes a hint of economic equality for the majority population, the business community steps in threatening economic retaliation. For all their years of fighting, the majority population fares no better under black power.

A couple of years prior to relinquishing control, the South African nuclear weapons and ballistics program, initiated with Israel’s help, was dismantled by then President de Klerk… “they” couldn’t fathom having a black nation controlling nukes. In America, In addition to destroying the economy, Bush has successfully broken the military and has begun privatizing soldiers. Wonder what excuse they’ll give for depleting the nation’s vast arsenal of weapons?

Here’s a little duzy of a quote found on the web that is indicative of a certain mindset re: people of color having wealth and power:

“People think Apartheid was about social repression based on racialism. Nope. Those were tools. Reality was, Apartheid in South Africa and Zimbabwe was about economics. It set up a system where a small oligarchy united by racialism could maximize “rent seeking behavior“ against the majority. It was about “anti-market sustainable wealth transfer”.

“So after ‘white majority rule, ended in Zimbabwe” white elites said, “well we dug this hole for you, and we used the dirt to build up our platform. Out of the goodness of our heart we are now going to take our foot off your head, you climb out and up to our level by yourself.

“See, that is fair and free. Everyone is equal. LOL”

The real sad fact about the entire African continent is that it abounds in natural resources demanded by the rest of the world, yet because of oppressive economic forces and easily manipulated leaders, its original peoples remain mired in turmoil and poverty.

However, even with access to the wiles of technology, the white power structure has little power to control stampeding forces of nature. And along with a continuance of widespread economic oppression will grow leaders much like Hugo Chavez, who instinctively revolt against minority rule and oppression.

There are a very few people who enjoy controlling our economic destinies. They have that power only because we’ve surrendered ours to them.

J Gowasky

Letterman Skewers McCain: Viral Video

David Letterman mocks John McCain’s decision to cancel Wednesday night’s appearance.

McCain told Letterman that he had to rush back to Washington DC to meet with colleagues on the economic crisis. Instead watch as McCain shows up to interview with Katie Couric… at the same moment Letterman’s show is on!

Video is going viral!

Video by: Youtuber 1970oaktree

HAN

McCain Camp Wants To Postpone VP Debate!

The country and the world have known from the beginning of Sista Sarah’s Excellent Adventure that she is not ready for primetime. Now McClownsRUs have just admitted as much. Link to story.

Their motives are so transparent that it’s truly insulting.

HAN

McCain Campaign Timeout? WTF?

Senator Obama Says Debate Can Go On: “We Can Deal With More Than One Thing At Once.”

What is this? Sen. McLosingBadly reads the latest poll, sees that he’s 9 points behind Senator Obama and wants to call a timeout? WTF.

We hope the debate is not canceled. Ole Miss says it’s still on. Can’t wait to see the first time the camera takes to his empty chair after that first question is directed to McLosingBadly.

First, McAmericanLaughingStock let’s Karl Rove select his running mate and then he hides behind same said skirt, afraid to campaign without her for fear of too few people showing up.

Is this McStmblesAlot’s way of convincing the American public how courageous a war hero he is?

We think not. This ploy to delay the debate and try to regain lost ground is so obviously transparent.

Obama says the debate should take place Friday as planned: “It’s my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess.”

Also, apparently Obama called McCain this morning about issuing a joint statement on the proposed bailout and McCain was to get back to Obama. McCain instead publicly challenged Obama to suspend his campaign.

Obama Team releases debate history to media: Example: 1960 DEBATES
Sep 26, 1960
Soviets announce ready to put first astronaut into space
Oct 7, 1960
Cuba accuses US of links to invasion
Pentagon curbs spending in light of trade imbalance
Oct 13, 1960
KRUSHCHEV BANGS SHOE ON DESK
Bomb injures 33 in Times Square in 3rd explosion in 11 days
US embargo on Cuba announced
Oct 21, 1960
KRUSHCHEV SAYS USSR HAS NUCLEAR SUBS
Gold price problems in world markets

More debate history here.

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September 11 National Traumatizing Continues

The Pentagon puts a memorial in place before one exists in New York. That says a lot about the not so subtle continuing militarization of this country. Our feelings of loss and trauma on this day are first attached to the Pentagon and endless war.

The NYC memorial lingers on incomplete. A completed memorial in New York would allow Americans to have much needed closure and seek perspective. Closure and perspective are not part of the game plan.

A report says that post-September 11, 70,000 Americans suffer from post traumatic stress symptoms. Who wants to bet that that number is way higher?

Pre-September 11, 2001 George Bush’s approval numbers were tanking. There were predictions of his being a one-termer. To top it off, Congress had just approved that awful bankruptcy bill written by industry insiders that so many Americans suffer under today.

Post-September 11, 2001, Bush’s approval rating hit 90% after he standing on a pile of rubble with a bullhorn. Americans had their Dear Leader.

Each successive September 11, the population is traumatized all over again with solemn ceremonies and repetition of that day’s events which, by the way, affected peoples from other nations as well.

Will our emotions forever be held hostage, manipulated by those who would call themselves American?

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New RepubliCode For Black: “Community Organizers”

NY Governor David Paterson says the W.A.R. (we are republicans) Party are speaking code with smarmy references to “community organizers.”

“I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’ in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention – a ‘community organizer.’ They kept saying it, they kept laughing,” he [Paterson] said. -WCBS

Here’s the link with video and full story.

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W.A.R. (we are republicans) Party Convention Pictorial!

Highlights From Inside The W.A.R. Room 

The W.A.R. Party Had A Big-Ass American Flag!

Q: Just How Big Was It?

A: Not Nearly Big Enough To Cover Their War Crimes. But, The W.A.R. Party-Goers Had Fun Anyway!

First, There Were Raucous Scenes From The W.A.R. Floor As Vitality In The W.A.R. Room Was Evident Everywhere. The Red In This Photo Reminds Us That Sarah Enjoys Blood. Yum…

Then Came The Usual Round Of Token Speeches and Announcements.

At One Time They Pranced Out Their Dear Ladies… Eyes Glazing Brightly.

After Dear Ladies Spoke It Was Really Late… Time For Gramps To Wrap Things Up And Send Everybody Home To Bed.

Oh, Wait… Sorry…. This Guy Did That. Oh, By The Way, Don’t Let The Blue Background Fool You. He’s No Democrat. He Does W.A.R. Propaganda.

Last Came W.A.R.’s Great Leader. His Soylent Green Backdrop Reminds Americans The Direction Endless W.A.R. Can Take Us.

Now That W.A.R.’s Party Has Concluded, Americans Need To Just Mull Every Thing Over!

National Enquirer: The Only Magazine Daring To Ask Impertinent Questions…?

Many thanks to RNC for photo use.

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Do Americans Have “Soylent Green” In Our Future?

I don’t like to frighten people, I like to inform people… if I’m able. Information that some find helpful others find frightening. I never advocate fear. It leads to irrationality and bad decisions. If you’re spooked easily you may want to consider whether or not to proceed. I encourage readers who are easily spooked to not be. I encourage everyone to to grasp the enormity of the seriousness of our situation in America and think of the urgency of being proactive and not reactive.

I left out major parts of my post “John McCain’s Soylent Green Backdrop” and should not have. In leaving out this part of the post I omitted an opportunity at making present day American life comparisons with those presented in the movie “Soylent Green.” To some, the comparison may be unsettling. To others, sheer nonsense.

Movie synopsis/spoilers: “Soylent Green” is set in NYC, population 40 million. We don’t know why but, there is no access to wild, sprawling lands. We don’t even know if such a thing exists anymore. To say year 2022 NYC’s overcrowded is an understatement.

There are at least three social classes: mercilessly and desperately impoverished; workers, having microscopically more than the non-working; and the rich. By far, the desperately impoverished make up the majority class. The only food available to the masses comes in the form of red, yellow and green “food” squares tossed out at random times. No one, except for the rich, buys fresh food, meat or produce.

Inhabitants of this world are shown standing, sitting and sleeping in clusters everywhere… even on the stairs and landings leading to ridiculously cramped apartments, if you’re lucky enough to have a job. The workers appear to be employed by the Corporation/State. There are assassins, police, truck drivers, “food” producers and those working in the suicide clinic to name a few positions.

Female inhabitants are literal pieces of furniture. They’re bought/sold with luxury apartments that are owned by the rich who live behind impenetrable walls.

In one scene an inhabitant wears priestly garbs. This male is just as helpless and lifeless and miserable as other inhabitants crowding the church. As with every place in NYC, it’s normal for inhabitants who, when unable to fit inside the medium-sized, but impossibly overcrowded church, to simply and haplessly spill through its doorway and down the steps… totally unaware of their long ago God-given birthright to human dignity.

The dispassionate demeanor Soylent Green inhabitants display for their own floundering circumstance has been instigated by an insidious, out of control human force that brutally demonstrates its sole ownership of and rule over all breathing creatures in existence, human or animal. Soylent Green inhabitants have not the slightest sense of past, nor do they long for or wait for a better future. The umbilical cord connecting them to their hopes and dreams is completely severed.

The occupants exist in an irrevocable abyss of Now

Perhaps at one time during Soylent Green’s distant past, hope for a better life was demeaned and ridiculed by the Corporate power structure.

Instead, maybe Corporate/State identified a state terrorist and mounted endless wars in search of that terrorist.

Maybe the Corporate/State stopped funding education appropriately and the drop out rate grew astronomically. People became woefully uneducated, lost the ability to think for themselves and fell victim to a corrupt power structure.

Maybe the Corporate/State took control (at least in the beginning) of all but a very few local and national media outlets, changing media from a public service tool into a profit driven industry having two edicts: propagandize the corporate message of war & terrorism and turn hefty profits.

Maybe the Corporate/State shipped (in the beginning) blue collar jobs overseas before sending the better paying jobs leaving behind in Soylent Green a shrinking middle class, until none existed at all.

Maybe Corporate/State bequeathed the children of the empire an insurmountable debt that taxed and strangled the citizens into oblivion.

Maybe (once), there was a glimmer of hope. The people had before them an opportunity to pick a peaceful, brighter, more prosperous future for themselves and their family. But, maybe the population after countless years of being inundated with blood and death and despair, were now appropriately inoculated against any counter offensive vs Corporate/State. Maybe for far too many people a bloodlust took root inside their minds, strategically attaching itself to a selfish, unyielding call for nationalism, shrewdly disguised as patriotism.

For some others maybe fatigue or disappointment or every day distractions made it too late to hope.

Fait accompli.

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Some of us need to remove our rose-colored “America is number one” glasses. And fast. Our regressive domestic and foreign policies make our claim to a number one status pure lunacy.

And if we don’t put a stop to this not so new (now at least 8 years old) brand of conservatism- Neo-conservatism- ..their inhumane policies will continue, perhaps increasing the probability of some version of “Soylent Green” in our future.

This Neo-conservatism is religious cultism. It has bullied away countless followers of the more balanced ideology of conservatism. “Left Behind” then are members who have blind devotion and abiding loyalty to their leader(s). Demagoguery replaces rational thought.

Neo conservatism agenda is depleting our education system. Many of our children are in failing schools. Too many American schools lose accreditation. In addition the long-standing practice of “teaching to the test” is eroding the ability of citizens to think critically. In some schools science is taking a backseat to creationism.

This Neo-conservatism has placed Americans in the midst of the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression. Do you ever wonder what happens to those who lose property? Do they rent an apartment? Move in with relatives? Check this out here and here.

This Neo-conservatism that first started shipping blue collar jobs overseas is currently sending white collar jobs there. The official unemployment rate is 6.1. That number doesn’t count all Americans not working, who want to work. The real unemployment figure is guesstimated to be somewhere between 10 and 15%.

Food prices are are skyrocketing. More and more people are going hungry. Our nations is in hock up to the heavens.

Oh… have I mentioned that Neo-con’s are engaging a new and ongoing forceful attack demeaning community organizers… who are often the lifeline for people who’ve lost or are in danger of losing every material possession?

“Soylent Green” doesn’t document how the culture collapses. Nor does it mention what’s happening at the same time with the rest of the world. Have other cultures collapsed as well or did America alone crumble? We don’t know.

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America is being systematically and intentionally weakened. Your question may be why. I have my own theories which HAN may decide to publish sometime down the road. If we do decide to publish, it’ll post sooner rather than later.

Was the McCain-Palin campaign telegraphing a message of poverty and despair to their wealthy, Corporate sponsors? I don’t know. I don’t like conspiracy theories without factual evidence.

And I have only instinct and conjecture: McCain’s staging that night- which media chatterlings made muchado about – on the surface was plain silly. I won’t dwell on it anymore beyond this post. But, that a well-oiled machine was showing idiotic scenes behind him during what could possibly be his last major speech before a large audience is- quite frankly- baffling.

Conspiracy stuff aside, what’s really crucial is keeping Neo-cons away from the White House… for the immediate and foreseeable future.

These Neo-cons are dangerous and are playing for keeps. And so should Progressives, Liberals disaffected Republicans, Conservatives, Independents and anybody else not named, but who can sense the ferocity of the Neo-con agenda.

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J Gowasky

John McCain’s “Soylent Green” Backdrop

In 1973’s Movie “Soylent Green,” Sol ‘Suicided’ Watching Scenes Like This One Behind McCain

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It was creepy watching really old dude John McCain standing in front of a projected scene of crops blowing in the wind. It was like watching the suicide scene straight out of futuristic movie, “Soylent Green.”

In the movie, real old dude Sol (Edward G. Robinson), represents a connection to the past. He carries fresh memories of bygone days when human population was low, when land was plentiful and when fruit and food were easy to buy.

Sol, who’s had enough of the cruel and barbaric life that civilization has devolved into, signs an agreement to be suicided.

Inside the suicide clinic, an Orderly takes Sol into a room where he’s placed on a comfy bed. He’s given his suicide pill then watches a nature film, of his own choosing. Sol smiles as he sees long ago familiar scenes of wildlife, babbling brooks and fields and fields of flowers blowing in the wind, much like the scene behind McCain.

Sol dies with his smile frozen on his face.

Creepy.

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Have Republicans lost their minds? (Of course, they have).

Why on earth have Republicans decided to go after community organizations as a way of devaluing Senator Obama’s experience? Just Why?

Are Republicans so out of touch with this bad economy they’ve engineered?

Have they completely missed reading stories of the newly poor in this country? These “newly poor” families used to be middle-class. For some of these families, community organizations- like the ones Republicans mock- are what stands between them and starvation.

Republicanism=Sordid thinkers.

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Question: How Big Was The Projected American Flag Waving Behind McCain?

Answer: Not Nearly Big Enough To Cover Up All Republican War Crimes During The Last 8 Years.

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J Gowasky