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"E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"
ewj at pigsqq.org
Wed Oct 31 14:06:00 UTC 2012
Mr. Fish is witty, imaginative, hilarious, sometimes excellent.
In this case Romulus and Reamus are nursed by a "she-pig",
complete with testicles. "Tits" on a boar, some remark about utility
of those doing the feeding?
I suppose there is a wood pecker about somewhere.
(It's a left-hand thread if authentic.)
On 10/31/12 9:17, David Johnson wrote:
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> *"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. "*
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> *By **Chris Hedges* <http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges/>
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> *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. *
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> *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 **Jill
> Stein* <http://www.jillstein.org/>*, the Green Party candidate,
> although I could as easily vote for **Rocky Anderson*
> <http://www.voterocky.org/>* 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.*
>
> *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. *
>
> *“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they
> don’t have any,” **Alice Walker* <http://alicewalkersgarden.com/>*
> writes.*
>
> *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.
>
> “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.” *
>
> *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. *
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> *“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.” *
>
> *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.*
>
> *“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 **fracking*
> <http://www.dangersoffracking.com/>*. He has permitted the exhaust
> from shale oil [extraction] to go into the atmosphere. He is building
> the southern pass of the **Keystone pipeline*
> <http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/join_the_blockade_of_the_keystone_pipeline_20121015/>*.
> He brags that he has built more miles of pipeline than any other
> president.*
>
> *“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.” *
>
> *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. *
>
> *“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.” *
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