This article will tell you most of what you need to know about Nancy Pelosi and also why, despite good works in the past, her paygo rule and another new rule for a 3/5's supermajority proposal re tax increases on the bottom 80% are veiled attacks on the working class. Ponder this quote: "Yet headed into 2019, she has already begun handcuffing a populist agenda and has proposed a rule — called paygo — that any new spending would need to be offset by tax hikes or spending cuts ...
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Saturday, November 24, 2018
Nancy Pelosi and the Progressive Agenda
This article will tell you most of what you need to know about Nancy Pelosi and also why, despite good works in the past, her paygo rule and another new rule for a 3/5's supermajority proposal re tax increases on the bottom 80% are veiled attacks on the working class. Ponder this quote: "Yet headed into 2019, she has already begun handcuffing a populist agenda and has proposed a rule — called paygo — that any new spending would need to be offset by tax hikes or spending cuts ...
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Leave the Sentinelese to Themselves
The Indian government is correct in protecting the Sentinelese people from the rest of us. It's "their" island [India) "owns" it according to the outside world]. Allowing these aboriginal people to live unmolested and in peace is an enlightened policy unlike most of the world where they are attacked and killed and driven off their native lands by "civilization" (Africa, Brazil, Central America, etc.). India isn't treating its mainland aboriginal people any different from the way Europeans usually treat non Europeans so this is a welcome exception. The Sentinelese will hopefully be left alone until capitalist induced climate change leads to their island sinking beneath the waves or we discover oil deposits.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
No Proof Positive!? Who Killed Khaschoggi?
If the officials bending over backward to come up with reasons to exculpate Prince Salman based on not having 100% definite evidence did the same for the charges against Putin interfering in our elections all the sanctions and expulsions and hysteria over the threat to our democracy would never have happened. Prince Charming will no doubt remain welcomed at the White House.
Friday, November 9, 2018
We are all immigrants
So all of us here in the "Americas" have trekked from elsewhere -- can we all get along? It doesn't seem so since some of us want to wall ourselves off and disregard the common humanity we all share. Can we build a 1000 mile wall along land we stole from our Mexican neighbors less than 200 years ago and stop the history of populations moving about and immigration caused social disruptions and climate change? This isn't just ancient prehistory -- its the story of human life all over the Earth since our species appeared 200,000 or so years ago. We are not the only ones who want a wall to protect us from our fellow humans (i.e., from ourselves) -- but all walls eventually fall and only show us that we don't know what we are doing. Plato was right -- we should be ruled by the philosophers (the ones governed by science and logic, i.e, Marxists).
Friday, November 2, 2018
U.S. Foreign Policy at Work
Khashoggi was just the tip of the iceberg with regard to Saudi Arabia's actions -- Amal and hundreds of thousands like her are the victims of the policies of Bush, Obama, and now Trump all enabling Saudi Arabia and other pro-US dictators to destroy whole countries in pursuit of our desires to dominate the Middle East. This picture of Amal is a picture of our tax dollars at work -- if you want to keep it up be sure to vote Republican next week as all the official talk about stopping this war is just talk to distract us from the billions in arms we are selling the Saudis.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Bulger's World and Ours
Mr. Bulger has no fans in but we should be asking what kind of country allows such a man to thrive in a world of crime, corrupt police and FBI, prisons out of control, and politicians and officials of the state on the take: a country for, by and of criminals (with guns galore) from the various gangs, different "mafias," gangsters and banksters, CEOs of corporations that break the laws all the time (pollution, price fixing, bribes, etc), tax cheats and all sorts of criminals in high places committing sex crimes -- even in the ministry with evangelicals as well as bishops and cardinals covering it up, government violating the rights of minorities and women, putting children in detention camps, illegally suppressing the vote, etc). Our President wants to make "America Great Again" -- a country with more Bulgers and his enablers, big and little, than ever! Who would have thought the Whore of Babylon would turn out to be a man? Well, this stinking rot is the product of capitalism and we have a chance in six days to rally the decent electorate surviving in this swamp and get out the vote, and begin the long process of cleaning the Augean Stables of the effluent left behind by Trump and the GOP and conservative Democrats who created and empowered him, and ponder the creation of a new economic system.
Monday, October 22, 2018
NYT Article Provides Fertilizer for Thought
So, the Russians are against fracking in Europe and have a safer fertilizer which puts much less toxic cancer-causing cadmium into the food supply which they want to sell in the European market and so support those Europeans who want to enact saver environmental regulations re fertilizer safety: beware it's Putin again trying to take over the world! This is one group of capitalists trying to grab market share by producing a better product -- this is normal inter-capitalist rivalry according to their own "free-market philosophy" but of course when the "Russians" [a general term for evil forces emanating out of the Kremlin - excluding only those who have pro-American and anti-Putin sentiments who are the "opposition"] are involved nothing is as it appears and the "whiff of intrigue" permeates the atmosphere. Western, and certainly American, companies obviously don't have any connections with their governments.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Trump Ramps Up Chances for Nuclear War
So the US wants to leave the treaty because the Russians are threatening the Europeans (after NATO encamped on its borders) and it's the Europeans who want to keep the treaty. It is pretty obvious who is stirring up tensions and is a threat to the future of humanity -- and it isn't Russia.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Khashoggi Killing Will Blow Over (Oil, Arms, & Putin Didn't Do It)
"On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that four of the men identified by Turkish media as part of a 15-man hit squad sent from Riyadh to silence Khashoggi were members of [Prince] Bin Salman’s personal security detail. Another, Tubaigy, holds a senior position in the Saudi interior ministry." Rogue elements? We have a rogue element in the White House! Prediction: This will blow over for 3 reasons -- oil, arms sales, and Putin didn't do it.
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