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 E. J. Dionne

 

 

TRYING TIME

USA ife less fair, listen / now, gather, nest, settle into / a CITIZENS ALERT! / In our parks and fields / tent domes and ridge poles cluster, / shifting encampments, / For all harm’s collateral, / justice is failing the people. /Read full post »

NOVEMBER 30, 2011 2:51PM

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 Why do I keep getting this error on my blog page.  I am unable to post from youtube or npr:

 

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The Occupy Wall Street Movement that started in September with about 1,000 persons in New York City grew by leaps and spread all across the nation--including her in Iowa City.  The growing city movements have lists of concerns and demands that cannot be ignored or trivialized.&nbRead full post »

 

By far the greatest impact of China’s rise has been felt in East Asia.  The main gainers have been the developed Asian tigers of North-East Asia—South Korea and Taiwan, together with Japan.  They have been the beneficiaries of cheap manufactured goods produced inRead full post »

NOVEMBER 19, 2011 6:17PM

EXPANDING THE EMPIRE FOR 21C RACE WAR

 

 

 

The end of white supremacy

But we should take heed of the fact that deindustrialization will mainly happen in the West and in the former Soviet Union, and that this dramatic trend will mark the end of 500 years of European domination of the world.  In aRead full post »

NOVEMBER 16, 2011 7:37PM

OPPOSING THE SYSTEM & MAKING A COMEBACK

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   Friedrich August Hayek

 

NEW DARLINGS OF THE RIGHT

Friedrich August Hayek CH  (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalismRead full post »

NOVEMBER 15, 2011 6:26PM

OPPOSING THE SYSTEM & THE SUPER CRAP

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DANIEL’S MIND

Mind may run / on a narrow gauge track / never slowing down to ponder / never looking back / makes rules with no exceptions / that might prove them to be valid / keeps blRead full post »

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 FROM STARGAZERS TO POLITICAL SUPERSTARS

 

 

Double Standard

When the Corporations get together / it’s called a Think-tank; / When the workers get together / it’s called a Union; / When the Corporations call for Self-Responsibility / it’s called CRead full post »

 

I am told that the best people have begun saying / HOW, from a moral point of view, the Second World War / fell below the standard of the First.  The Wehrmacht / Allegedly deplores the methods by which the SS effected / The extermination of certain peoples. 

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Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis

 

 

The Bill of Rights

 

The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, which limit the power of the U.S. federal government. These limitations serve to protect the naturalRead full post »

Change seems to present itself in strange ways.  Call it selfish, call it lazy, but its true: When it comes to things that possess the potential to adversely affect our personal lives—especially our wallets—angry Americans are a clientele (and a force) to be reckoned withRead full post »

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112 Congress of the United States

 

 

24“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

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Building the Barricade

We were afraid as we built the barricade /Under fire. / The tavern-keeper, the jeweler’s mistress, the barber, /All of us cowards. / The servant-girl fell to the ground /As she lugged a paving stone, we were terribly afraid /All of us cowaRead full post »

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 STIGLETZ  

  

'Put America back to work' to address deficit, says economist

7 October 2011 Last updated at 13:33 ET Help

The US economy added 103,000 jobs in September, ahead of many economists' expectations.

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To Moammar Gaddahfi—An Elegy

They’ve killed you Brother / --No matter how you / Cooperated with Them / --They got you--Your problem was / That you became a / Traitor to yourself. /--You drowned your / Black brothers seeking / A better life / Helping ThemRead full post »

 

Political Unconscious of the Christian Right

 
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Fredric Jameson and Louis Althusser

Fredric Jameson in The Political Unconscious: Narrative As A Socially symbolic Act (1981) explores Marxist Louis Athusser’s theory of how narrative persuades us

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When I think of why Barack Obama was helped into office against all odds, I think of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.  The wizards and elves in the film know the backstory and this pushes the plot along.  However, while Lord of the Rings is fantasy, Obama&rsquRead full post »

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Hey, jew boy with that yamaka on your head
You pale faced Jew boy,I wish you were dead.
I hated you jew boy cause your hang up with the Torah
And my only hang up was my color.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011 8:36PM

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY~FUCK YOU!

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In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet.In the new wars hum of motors and the tread of rubber tires.In the wars to come silent wheels and whirr of rods not yet dreamed out in the heads of men.

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THE BACK AND FORTH OF THE CHANGING FACE OF ANTI-SEMITISM

 

Trial by Innocence

 

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Walter Laqueur 

 

Walter Laqueur in The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism From Ancient Times to the Present (2006), writes that anti-Semitism is a permanent conditio… Read full post »

 

9Moses, I have seen how stubborn these people are, 10and I'm angry enough to destroy them, so don't try to stop me. But I will make your descendants into a great nation.     11Moses tried to get the LORD God to change his mind:

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Palestinians gave President Mahmoud Abbas a hero's welcome last month after he called for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. But the U.S. has since frozen some assistance, which is hitting Palestinian development projects.

 

Palestinians Feel Effects Of Frozen U.S. Aid

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After adopting the euro, Greece borrowed huge sums of money. The country is now on the brink of a major default. "They're going to default ... it's now a question of how messy it will be," says writer Michael Lewis. His new book Boomerang looks at Greece and

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry prays at The Response, his call to prayer for a nation in crisis, on Aug. 6 in Houston. The event was organized, in part, by members of the New Apostolic Reformation

 

 

A Leading Figure In The New Apostolic Reformation

October 3, 2011

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Today there are well-financed groups who are well-financed groups who are attempting to move the Jewish world even further to the Right.  Elliot Abrams, the son-in-law of Norman Podhoretz and Regan’s Assistant Secretary of State for Central American Affairs, wRead full post »