Yesterday, I lived through some experiences that rank among those that I will never forget. I took a tour of the White House and within an hour visited the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Monument.
Occupy Wall Street is proving to be identical to the beginnings of the American Revolution. There will be no silencing of our voices, and any attempt to demonize the 99% is truly un-American. This article represents the second of a multi-part series of articles demonstrating this point.
Where the Tea Party’s protests against TARP were directed only towards President Obama, Occupy Wall Street protests are directed to those elite few who have corrupted our government to suit their whims. Occupy Wall Street is a revolution in the making, as opposed to the Tea Party who only wanted to alienate liberals and Democrats.
True change has never happened by the single actions of government or political leaders but by the united actions of the American people.
As is always the case, after any presidential candidate debate, FACTCHECK, pulls back the covers and reveals the truth.
Forget about Republican or Democratic ideologies and just look at the facts of where things stand in this country right now. The richest 0.1 % of Americans own more wealth than the lower 50% combined. The richest 5% has more wealth than the lower 90% combined. And 20% of Americans own over 85% of the country’s total wealth.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement is an inevitable reaction of people in this country to the gross income disparity that currently exists as a result of our broken government and its corrupt relationship with corporate entities. While the movement is gaining tremendous support it still lacks the leadership and coherency to be effective. However, many of the most successful movements in this country started just this way. In fact, they pretty much all did.
Main stream media is intent on framing the death of Steve Jobs as the uber hero of modern computer technology. We (you) … ”are very sad at the profound loss of Steve Jobs” to our (your) psyche. Hop on our grieving gravy train and we can get through this together. Let the tears flow for the “hands on man at Apple who died too young, Steve Jobs.” Cut to commercial.
It’s a movement that is growing by the minute. Millions of Americans across the nation have decided that now is the time to revolt against the greed of Wall Street.
‘Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race’ – Bertrand Russell
The Obama Administration decided to pass up an opportunity to appeal the decision of the 11th Circuit court judges ruling the individual mandate as stated in the Affordable Health Care for America Act (Obamacare) as unconstitutional. Due to the fact that judges from the 6th Circuit court issued a separate ruling to uphold the bill as constitutional, the case will likely be subject to a Supreme Court hearing just months before the 2012 election.
So now historian fraud, David Barton, is suing two former candidates for the Texas Schoolboard and writer W.S. Smith for defamation of character over videos on Youtube attacking his historical perspective.
In 2007, the world became engulfed in the largest economic slump since the Great Depression. The crisis was so damaging it was coined ‘the Great Recession’ and there was much comparison of the recession to the Great Depression of the 1930s in the mainstream media. However, what many failed to do was an in-depth analysis of both the Great Depression and the Great Recession, to compare and contrast the two.
Everyone agrees that owning a gun is a constitutionally protected right. But it’s something else completely to believe we have the right to threaten gun violence as protection against our own government. When you take the second amendment piece by piece, it doesn’t say anything remotely related to people protecting themselves from the American government.
Pat Buchanan is a very controversial figure. He worked in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and has since been a very vocal pundit on behalf of the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. Throughout his long career, he has been a presidential candidate, advisor, political speaker, analyst, and an author. But throughout that career, he has also been a sexist, racist, and a Nazi sympathizer.
We hear it all the time. The media, politicians, pundits, and even President Obama have endlessly referred to Social Security and Medicare as ‘entitlements’. Republicans talk about these programs as if people don’t actually pay for them, and distort the word ‘entitlement’ as if it means something horrible. The Right Wing, as always, is wrong.
I am sorry but I believe that the drone attack on Al-Alwaki and Samir Khan was wrong. Both of these men were American citizens and should have been taken alive and given a fair trial. But of course this is the Patriot Act in effect which gives the president the right to declare any American citizen an enemy combatant.
A longtime political operative once adequately summed up Ron Paul’s brand of stalwart Libertarianism by using this adage ‘when you first hear about it, it seems like a big, delicious bowl of ice cream. Then, after awhile, you realize that mixed in with the ice cream, there is a sizable chunk of dogsh$t.’
Regardless of your politics, for those of us who support the existence of the Jewish State of Israel, watching events on the world stage in the past week has been tantamount to helplessly watching your own child get bullied on the school yard.
The idea of the American dream is one of the most successful pieces of propaganda ever perpetuated. If we believe in the dream, we can dismiss or outright ignore economic, social, and demographic realities that have more to do with economic impoverishment than any supposed behavioral deficiencies on the part of welfare recipients.
