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• RANT OF THE MOMENT
• The testimony was excruciating. The memory of it is corrosive and maddening. If corporate media had noticed rather than denied the mounting evidence, an enraged public would fill the streets. AGAIN, the corporate media types hide behind their masks and blinders and deny the ignorance they have built into the American psyche. Their hands are as bloody as those of the Bush / NeoCon criminal gang. AGAIN our democracy is undermined by the corrupt power of wealth and the abuse of illegitimate power. AGAIN private citizens have to organize in an attempt to push the sad truth into the face of a mis- dis- and un-informed public. Forty years ago I was transformed by the teach-ins that exposed the VietNam insanity. Now I'm haunted by Dylan's words, " ... Waiting to find out what price ... you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice ... " The same criminal mentality that stole two national elections sold us an unnecessary war. The same blind greed that created the chasm between rich and poor pushes our economy toward collapse and drags the global economy with it. The same corrupt materialism that drove us into war pushes the planet toward eco- disaster. If the NeoFascist Bush movement escapes prosecution and punishment, our sense of justice will take decades to restore. If President Obama escapes assassination and makes good on his promise to purge the "mindset that led us into war," we may have a chance.
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• BUZZ OF THE DAY
• It’s so amusing when the aging “free- marketeers” get their hackles up over the “REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.” Obama mentions “spreading the wealth around” in the midst of the biggest socialization of the U.S. economy … maybe ever … and the right wing- nuts go ballistic. Why are the left, the green advocates, or the human rights movement so reluctant to ask the questions: “Why has the obscene gap between rich and poor grown, since around 1980, to the widest imbalance in the history of money?” or “How does the exercise of such wealth impact human rights?” or “Does the conspicuous consumption of the super- rich have an environmental impact?” or for that matter, “How did the mountain of private wealth get ‘DISTRIBUTED’ in the first place?” Legally? Ethically? Morally?
• LINK TO PAGE: ECONOMEDIAPOLITICS
• QUOTE OF THE WEEK
• George Soros (paraphrased): "Bush's power to manipulate realtiy exceeds his ability to understand reality."
• LAST WEEK
• Bernie Sanders: “The people who can best afford to pay and the people who have benefited most from Bush’s economic policies are the people who should pay for the bailout. … If a company is 'too big to fail,' it is too big to exist.”
• PREVIOUS WEEK
• .... "because the profits are privatized and the losses are socialized. ... The only light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train wreck." Nouriel Roubini, on PBS News Hour
• ... link to his site.
• http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini
• LINKS OF THE MONTH
• When you understand "THE SHOCK DOCTRINE," you'll see that this is the time for a new administration to implement a REVERSE SHOCK.
• LINK to the Naomi Klein book
• LINK to the on-line film
• If you see the film "FLOW," you'll never buy bottled water again.
• LINK to the FLOW film site