[Peace-discuss] Fronting for the Democrats, who front for millionaires and killers

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

Signs of life.  Faint, but heartbeat.

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IMPEACH [this space for rent].

It's a great idea. But why single out CT?  Because he's "black"?
It seems that at least 4, 5 or 6 maybe 7 why not all 8 of the other 
clowns in
the Star Chamber need to go.  CT seems a vulnerable target.  Taking out 
this pawn they hope a progressive queen will grow back in the hole 
created.  More likely to get a neo-con neo-lib neo-fascist.  Judges are 
selected from among lawyers.  Affiant further saith not.

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Certainly a tax on transactions would not just raise revenue in the 
short term.
It would sling a spanner into the works of the machine [trading] that 
creates the virtual mindscape known as Wall Street.  Talk about being 
out of the picture.  Captain o Captain we've lost video contact with the 
mother ship.  Go pixel on someone your own size.  Dow ke dao feichang dao.

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"Obama can be made to ____________."

How high can Silly Putty bounce?

There is no doubt that he is for sale or rent.
There's also a long queue and a high entry fee.

The DNC doesnt seem to be a highly credible threat
to the Obot.  But why not a new Obot.
BO plus plus ("BO^++ ").

A new ergonomically designed superelliptical.
Not quite round but not square,
not brown or grey, not crisp not fuzzy, not mediocre no tautology,
neither verb nor adverb, participle nor preposition.
Fun for the whole family.
Get yours today.

"I supported War. Because I believe in Peace.
I supported the Financial System.
Because I believe in Equality for All Americans.
I supported surveillance and repression. Because I
believe in free will and the rights of all.
Let us move forward,united by the diversity of our
heritage.  I trust in your support and your vote as I
bring the war back home."

Il Duce!  Il Duce!



On 07/02/11 22:48, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [I'm using "millionaires" as does the recent "Merrill Lynch Cap Gemini 
> World Wealth Report" - not to mean those whose net worth, including 
> homes, amounts to a million dollars - but those who have what bankers 
> call "investible assets" of over a million dollars - and that's only 
> 1% of the US population (although many of that 1% have much more than 
> $1 million of investible assets. That's the 1% whom Obama et al. are 
> working for. See Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel prize in economics) in Vanity 
> Fair, on inequality, "Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%" 
> <http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105>. 
>
>
>
>      Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats
>      By David Swanson
>      http://warisacrime.org/node/58348
>
> On Friday I read in the New York Times that President Obama would be 
> happy to cut $200 billion out of Medicare in order to inflict pain on 
> his Democratic base, part of an imagined tradeoff in which the two 
> parties inflict pain on their imagined bases in order to reduce the 
> deficit without imposing sensible taxes on billionaires or shrinking 
> military spending to sane levels. Also on Friday I got an Email from 
> True Majority asking me to celebrate Obama's defense of Medicare.
>
> We've progressed from "I feel your pain" to "I inflict your pain," and 
> we're being told to like it.
>
> "President Obama: If you stand up to the Republican hostage-takers and 
> protect Medicare," it says on MoveOn.org's website, "we will have your 
> back." Or, of course, even if you don't do that, President Obama, even 
> if the whole idea of it is based on myths about who is on whose side, 
> MoveOn and most other online groups that don't have the back of the 
> Republican Party will have yours. That's the way this game works. 
> Except that it hasn't been working.
>
> True Majority's traditional focus was on reducing military spending, 
> but during the early Obama years it celebrated particular weapons 
> cuts, masking overall increases. MoveOn used to organize anti-war 
> rallies, albeit only in Republican congressional districts, as long as 
> the president was a Republican and the Democrats tolerated it. Now, 
> you'll have a hard time finding any of our wars' existence 
> acknowledged on MoveOn's website, which is dominated by opposition to 
> the Tea Party.
>
> Even in the bad old days of a Republican president, True Majority had 
> to be pushed hard by its members to oppose wars, and MoveOn conducted 
> a poll of its members asking if they preferred Nancy Pelosi's plan to 
> keep the wars going or President Bush's, and then used the inevitable 
> result to dishonestly claim that its members preferred Pelosi's plan 
> to Congresswoman Barbara Lee's proposal to actually end a war.
>
> All of the Democratic Party groups turned against single-payer 
> healthcare when instructed to do so, just as they can be counted on to 
> steer clear, cave in, and avoid a fight on any issue the Democratic 
> Party is on the wrong side of, which is of course just about all of them.
>
> I'm not suggesting we devote our energies primarily to criticizing 
> those who are gently nudging in the general right direction. I'm not 
> saying there's anything wrong with opposing Tea Party lunatics. I'm 
> suggesting that we need to understand what's happening in order to 
> create something better that is desperately needed and could alter our 
> entire public discourse.
>
> What if we had an online organizing force that answered only to 
> concerns of peace, civil liberties, and social and economic justice? 
> What if this new movement opposed Wall Street bailouts regardless of 
> partisan positions? What if it opposed wars no matter who was 
> commander in chief?
>
> When it came to electoral politics, all the same choices would remain. 
> Voters could still choose to back the best candidates or the lesser 
> evil compromises. Legislators could still choose to vote down 
> imperfect bills or negotiate the best deals they could pass. But the 
> left edge of the acceptable range of policy positions would cease its 
> rapid slide rightward. Elected officials of all parties would know 
> that no betrayals of popular progressive positions were going to be free.
>
> A new online movement at http://rootsaction.org is rapidly growing and 
> holds just this vision of independent progressive activism and 
> communication. In this moment when the President and the Secretary of 
> State have reportedly 
> <http://warisacrime.org/content/obama-wants-more-dead-rachel-corries-boost-aipac-standing> 
> condoned the possible killing of unarmed American activists on a 
> legitimate humanitarian mission, as opposed to a "humanitarian" war, 
> don't hold your breath for Democratic Party subservient groups to 
> speak out. But do count on RootsAction to be on top of the issue:
>
>     Freedom Riding to Gaza 
> <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4377> 
>
>
>     Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
>
>     You have urged our fellow citizens not to participate in an 
> unarmed nonviolent humanitarian mission to Gaza by sea.
>
>     But have you urged Israel not to interfere with ships in 
> international waters?
>
>     Have you urged Israel not to harm unarmed activists engaged in an 
> actual humanitarian mission, the very thing your government pretends 
> its wars are?
>
>     Have you urged Israel to lift the illegal and murderous blockade 
> of Gaza?
>
>     We encourage you to take these steps to ensure the safety of 
> Americans on board The Audacity of Hope sailing for Gaza in the 
> Freedom Flotilla. And we encourage you to pressure Israel in the way 
> that only a nation providing Israel with billions of dollars worth of 
> weapons every year can, by threatening to cut them off.
>
>     We look forward to your response.
>
>     In Peace,
>
>
>
> When President Obama shut down any possibility of the U.S. Department 
> of Justice prosecuting top U.S. officials for war crimes, Spanish 
> courts took up the burden, until the White House leaned too heavily on 
> the Spanish government. Pushing back was RootsAction, which organized 
> events at Spanish embassies and consulates to thank and encourage Spain:
>
>     Spain: Please do what the U.S. won't. Prosecute torturers. 
> <http://rootsaction.org/take-action/54-spain-do-what-the-us-wont-prosecute-torturers> 
>
>
>
>
> When presidents launch illegal wars, RootsAction doesn't stop to ask 
> which party the president belongs to:
>
>     We Will Never Accept Unconstitutional War 
> <http://rootsaction.org/take-action/109-never-accept-unconstitutional-war> 
>
>
>     The U.S. Constitution placed the power to make war in the hands of 
> elected representatives in Congress. The founders feared giving war 
> powers to an individual. Their decision leaves us, the people, to 
> compel our Senators and Representatives to accept their responsibility.
>
>
>
> RootsAction is not accepting the slow de-escalation in Afghanistan:
>
>     Obama Can Be Made to Withdraw More Troops 
> <http://rootsaction.org/take-action/134-obama-can-be-made-to-withdraw-more-troops> 
>
>
>     The majority of Americans want the war in Afghanistan ended. 
> President Obama promised a "significant" withdrawal this July. But 
> what he announced on Wednesday amounted to withdrawing about 1 percent 
> of U.S. personnel in July (10,000 withdrawn over six months from a 
> total of 200,000 troops and contractors). A White House spokesperson 
> told a conference call of reporters on Wednesday that public opinion 
> plays no role in such decisions.
>
>     Can public opinion play any role in Congressional decisions? Obama 
> cannot keep so many troops in Afghanistan so long if Congress refuses 
> to pay for it. In recent weeks, the House has twice passed measures 
> barring the use of funds for U.S. warmaking in Libya. Now before both 
> houses is the 2012 "Defense Appropriations" bill which would dump over 
> $100 billion into wars including Afghanistan.
>
>     Enough is enough, and Obama's "drawdown" is not enough!
>
>     Ask Congress to deny war funding.
>
>
>
> RootsAction is pressuring the President (and with him the media and 
> our society) to adjust his outlook in fundamental ways:
>
>     Mr. President, Wall Street's Dollars Can't Vote 
> <http://rootsaction.org/take-action/124-mr-president-wall-streets-dollars-cant-vote> 
>
>
>     President Barack Obama, holding the previous record (in 2008) for 
> campaign funding from Wall Street, is out to set a new mark in 2012. 
> With unemployment, foreclosures, and health expenses shattering the 
> lives of millions, Obama is pursuing cuts to human services and 
> massive spending on wars. How will that win an election? Perhaps by 
> raising enough Wall Street funding to purchase every advertisement on 
> every television network.
>
>     Sign an open letter to the President right now that tells him 
> we'll be thinking for ourselves, and reminds him that our government 
> was formed in the name of We the People, not We the Wall Street.
>
>
>
> When you click on a RootsAction alert (click on any headline in this 
> article), the letter that you end up sending to Congress or the 
> President or whatever target is involved reads like the alert you were 
> Emailed, not some watered-down version that misses the point. In this, 
> too, RootsAction is unique.
>
> RootsAction is even seeking to keep the power of impeachment alive in 
> our Constitution:
>
>     Impeach Clarence Thomas 
> <http://www.rootsaction.org/featured-actions/139-impeach-clarence-thomas>
>
>     Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been very busy accepting 
> gifts from organizations that file briefs before the court, attending 
> political fundraisers, ruling on suits in which he or his wife have a 
> conflict of interest, and hiding income. No wonder he hasn't had time 
> to ask a question from the bench in five years. Ask your U.S. 
> Representative to move to impeach him.
>
>
>
> These progressive leaders have strongly endorsed the launch of 
> RootsAction:
>
> * Jim Hightower, publisher and author
> * Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine, columnist
> * Cornel West, Princeton professor and author
> * Daniel Ellsberg, released Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers, author
> * Barbara Ehrenreich, author Nickel and Dimed, activist
> * Glenn Greenwald, civil rights attorney and blogger
> * Bill Fletcher Jr., labor and racial justice leader
> * Laura Flanders, GritTV host
> * Former U.S. Senator James Abourezk
> * Coleen Rowley, former FBI agent and whistleblower
>
> You can join and ask all of your friends to join. It's free. You don't 
> get more than one or two Emails per week. And it will bring our public 
> discussion up to the level of our public. See you there: 
> http://rootsaction.org
>
>
>

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