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Mr. Fish is witty, imaginative, hilarious, sometimes excellent.<br>
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In this case Romulus and Reamus are nursed by a "she-pig",<br>
complete with testicles. "Tits" on a boar, some remark about utility<br>
of those doing the feeding?<br>
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I suppose there is a wood pecker about somewhere.<br>
(It's a left-hand thread if authentic.)<br>
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<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>"The flimsy excuses used by liberals and progressives
to support Obama, including the argument that we can’t let Romney
appoint the next Supreme Court justices, ignore the imperative of
building a movement as fast and as radical as possible as a
counterweight to corporate power. The Supreme Court, no matter what its
composition, will not save us from financial implosion and climate
collapse. And Obama, whatever his proclivity on social issues, has
provided ample evidence that he will not alter his servitude to the
corporate state. "</strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>By </strong></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges/"><font size="4"><strong>Chris
Hedges</strong></font></a></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>The November election is not a battle between
Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and
Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us. </strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>And if we do not immediately engage in this battle we
are finished, as climate scientists have made clear. I will defy
corporate power in small and large ways. I will invest my energy now
solely in acts of resistance, in civil disobedience and in defiance.
Those who rebel are our only hope. And for this reason I will vote next
month for </strong></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.jillstein.org/"><font size="4"><strong>Jill Stein</strong></font></a><font
size="4"><strong>, the Green Party candidate, although I could as
easily vote for </strong></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.voterocky.org/"><font size="4"><strong>Rocky Anderson</strong></font></a><font
size="4"><strong> of the Justice Party. I will step outside the
system. Voting for the “lesser evil”—or failing to vote at all—is part
of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy.
And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party
process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of
corporate power, assure our mutual destruction.</strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>All the major correctives to American democracy have
come through movements and third parties that have operated outside the
mainstream. Few achieved formal positions of power. These movements
built enough momentum and popular support, always in the face of fierce
opposition, to force the power elite to respond to their concerns. Such
developments, along with the courage to defy the political charade in
the voting booth, offer the only hope of saving us from Wall Street
predators, the assault on the ecosystem by the fossil fuel industry,
the rise of the security and surveillance state and the dramatic
erosion of our civil liberties. </strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>“The most common way people give up their power is by
thinking they don’t have any,” </strong></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://alicewalkersgarden.com/"><font
size="4"><strong>Alice Walker</strong></font></a><font size="4"><strong>
writes.</strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>It was the Liberty Party that first fought slavery.
It was the Prohibition and Socialist parties, along with the
Suffragists, that began the fight for the vote for women and made
possible the 19th Amendment. It was the Socialist Party, along with
radical labor unions, that first battled against child labor and made
possible the 40-hour workweek. It was the organizing of the Populist
Party that gave us the Immigration Act of 1924 along with a
“progressive” tax system. And it was the Socialists who battled for
unemployment benefits, leading the way to the Social Security Act of
1935. No one in the ruling elite, including Franklin Roosevelt, would
have passed this legislation without pressure from the outside.<br>
<br>
“It is the combination of a social movement on the ground with an
independent political party that has always made history together,
whether during abolition, women’s suffrage or the labor movement,”
Stein said when I reached her by phone as she campaigned in Chicago.
“We need courage in our politics that matches the courage of the social
movements—of Occupy, eviction blockades, Keystone pipeline civil
disobedience, student strikes, the Chicago teachers union and more. If
public opinion really mattered in this race, we [her presidential
ticket] would win. We have majority support in poll after poll on
nearly all of the key issues, from downsizing the military budget and
bringing the troops home, to taxing the rich, to stopping the Wall
Street bailouts, to breaking up the banks, to ending the offshoring of
jobs, to supporting workers’ rights, to increasing the minimum wage, to
health care as a human right, through Medicare for all. These are the
solutions a majority of Americans are clamoring for.” </strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>The corporate state has successfully waged a campaign
of fear to disempower voters and citizens. By intimidating voters
through a barrage of propaganda with the message that Americans have to
vote for the lesser evil and that making a defiant stand for justice
and democracy is counterproductive, it cements into place the agenda of
corporate domination we seek to thwart. This fear campaign, skillfully
disseminated by the $2.5 billion spent on political propaganda, has
silenced real political opposition. It has turned those few politicians
and leaders who have the courage to resist, such as Stein and Ralph
Nader, into pariahs, denied a voice in the debates and the national
discourse. Capitulation, silence and fear, however, are not a strategy.
They will guarantee everything we seek to avoid. </strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong></strong></font></font></p>
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<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>“The Obama administration has embraced the policies
of George W. Bush, and then gone much further,” Stein said. “Wall
Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama—$700 billion under Bush, but
$4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest
loans for Wall Street. Obama continues offshoring our jobs. Bill
Clinton brought us NAFTA, which was carried out under George W. Bush.
It was vastly expanded under Obama to labor abusers in Colombia, and to
Panama and South Korea. The Transpacific Partnership, being negotiated
behind closed doors by the Obama White House, is NAFTA on steroids. It
continues to send our jobs overseas. It undermines wages at home. It
overrides American sovereignty by establishing an international
corporate board that can overrule American legislation and regulations
that protect workers as well as our air, our water, our climate and our
food supply.” </strong></font></font></p>
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<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>Obama, who has claimed the power of assassinating
U.S. citizens without charge or trial, increased the drone war and has
vastly expanded the wars in the Middle East. He is waging proxy wars in
Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. His assault on civil liberties—from his
use of the Espionage Act to silence whistle-blowers to Section 1021 of
the National Defense Authorization Act to the FISA Amendment Act—is
worse than Bush’s. His attack on immigrant rights has also outpaced
that of Bush. Obama has deported more undocumented workers in four
years than his Republican predecessor did in eight years. There is
negligible difference between Obama and Romney on the issue of student
debt, which has turned a generation of college students into indentured
servants. But the most important convergence between the Republicans
and the Democrats is their utter failure to address the perilous
assault by the fossil fuel industry on the ecosystem. It was Obama who
undercut the international climate accord reached last year at Durban,
South Africa, saying the world could wait until 2020 for an agreement.</strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>“Obama is promoting oil drilling in the Arctic, where
the ice cap has already collapsed to one-quarter of its size from a
couple decades ago, and he’s opened up our national parks for
drilling,” Stein said. “He has given the green light to </strong></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.dangersoffracking.com/"><font
size="4"><strong>fracking</strong></font></a><font size="4"><strong>.
He has permitted the exhaust from shale oil [extraction] to go into the
atmosphere. He is building the southern pass of the </strong></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/join_the_blockade_of_the_keystone_pipeline_20121015/"><font
size="4"><strong>Keystone pipeline</strong></font></a><font size="4"><strong>.
He brags that he has built more miles of pipeline than any other
president.</strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>“There is a protracted drought in 60 percent of the
continental U.S.,” Stein said. “There are record forest fires and
rising food prices. We have just now seen the 12 hottest months on
record. Storms are growing in destructiveness. All this is happening
with less than 1-degree Celsius temperature rise. Yet we are now on
track for a 6-degree Celsius warming in this century alone. This is not
survivable. The most pessimistic science on climate change has
underpredicted the rate at which climate change is advancing.” </strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>The flimsy excuses used by liberals and progressives
to support Obama, including the argument that we can’t let Romney
appoint the next Supreme Court justices, ignore the imperative of
building a movement as fast and as radical as possible as a
counterweight to corporate power. The Supreme Court, no matter what its
composition, will not save us from financial implosion and climate
collapse. And Obama, whatever his proclivity on social issues, has
provided ample evidence that he will not alter his servitude to the
corporate state. For example, he has refused to provide assurance that
he will not make cuts in basic social infrastructures. He has proposed
raising the eligibility age for Medicare, a move that would leave
millions without adequate health care in retirement. He has said he
will reduce the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security,
thrusting vast numbers of seniors into poverty. Progressives’ call to
vote for independents in “safe” states where it is certain the
Democrats will win will do nothing to mitigate fossil fuel’s ravaging
of the ecosystem, regulate and prosecute Wall Street or return to us
our civil liberties. </strong></font></font></p>
<p style="font-size: small;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font
size="4"><strong>“There is no state out there where either Obama or
Romney offers a way out of here alive,” Stein said. “It’s up to us to
create truly safe states, a safe nation, and a safe planet. Neither
Obama nor Romney has a single exit strategy from the deadly crises we
face.” </strong></font></font></p>
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