The Super Rich

DN pt 1

DN pt 2

 

Financial Suicide Bombers

Wait for it…

I’ll be writing more, but had to get this up there

Blankfein ‘I’m doing ‘God’s work’

Wall Street Front Running Goldman Code

Goldman Sachs  – No Health Care Reform is Best

Goldman Sachs Abandons Kittens (really)
Goldman proves once again that they will makes promises they never intend to keep. They will exploit and take advantage of even the weakest of creatures to fill their coffers.

Up to date News On Goldman Sachs goldmansachs666

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Quotes From  Lloyd Blankfein and on  Goldman Sachs

“I know I could slit my wrists and people would cheer,” CEO Lloyd Blankfein told reporter John Arlidge.

On Goldman Sachs they are “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” Matt Taibbi

“And as far as doing God’s work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.” -Maureen Dowd

From SNL Really with Seth and Amy “Can you not read how mad people are at you? When most people saw the headline ‘GOLDMAN SACHS GETS SWINE FLU VACCINE’ they were super happy until they read the word ‘vaccine.’” -Amy Poehler

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Matt Taibi on Goldman Sachs
“a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

 

Wanted!

Justice For Crimes Against the American People and The World
click to watch how they did it

Arrest Them!

 

You’ve Got The Power

here’s a few tips

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some suggestions
switch banks – join a credit union – as the big banks raise their rate upwards to 30% on credit cards you can find some great rates at a credit union – most hover around 6% and 8%. If you’re credit isn’t so great you can find a rate around 13%. better than double that to the big banks – remember you are shelling out interest and fees right into the pockets of these crooked thieving CEOs. Why not pay yourself instead? There are no CEOs and wasteful connected crooked board members to deal with at a credit union – the people who work at these institutions are part owners, when you join you also become part owner. Everyone is watching out for each other. You also gain at the end of the year – instead of bonuses going to people who use hard sell tactic to unsuspecting and naive consumers you gain honest money because everyone is watching each other. You split the profits and share the wealth. You can also attend the open meetings where decision are made and you get to have your say, speak up or get educated on finance. No one is out to stomp on anyone to get ahead at a credit union. It’s a civilized business, but you have to take the first step. You Got The Power!

Stop buying products Made in China. Yes, it’s tough, we’ve lost so many of our jobs to China, there are so many of their products you think they owned the stores we shop in, but make an effort, try and find products made in America or at least in a democratic nation, not a communist nation that treats it’s people like chattel, your purchase encourages only bad behavior in their government. I found socks today actually made in the USA the cost compared to the one’s made in China .49 more and they were better made. Worth it! You Got The Power!

Stop shopping at box stores, I know this is tough, but if you have no choice ask to speak to the manager, then ask him or her where they keep the product made in the USA. If they hear those words enough they will make their way up the food chain. Remember business wants to sell to the demand not leave stock sitting on the floor. You Have The Power!

Also, try resale shops, even ebay, support each other. It takes a little more effort to do, but we have to start somewhere, we have to dig or build our way out of this mess together. The little things add up – ask any person of wealth how they got or stay wealthy.

Support the local grocer and co-op. It costs a bit more, but give it a go, bring it into your consciousness when making a list or thinking about dinner. Start by trying to waste less food. Hook up with friends by having a pot luck instead of eating out several times during the week, then take what you saved and give it to a food bank, or add it to you credit union savings account, even if it’s only a few dollars. You’ve Got The Power!

If you choose to donate most churches will provide you with an envelop where you can write on the front, For Food Bank Only. Did you know that many Catholic Parishes in urban areas have come together and offer breakfast, lunch and dinner to the homeless?

If you have any more saving or sharing tips to help dig us out and unite US citizens against the crooks and corruption please leave them in the comments. Let’s spread these things around.
Thanks

Update:
more tips
Catherine Austin 2
stop watching MSM
move corruptions out of your life
know there is no privacy, be careful who you share your details with
do not break the law
simplify your life

Get Smart
ask what’s really going on
pull family closer, organize
network with like minds
read history
build equity including; healthy and knowledge
buy commodities – think long term and sound investments
demonetize

How they did it and what they are doing to you
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

foreclosure frets?
walk away, but keep the credit card alive

 

Senator Dodd

Dear Senator Dodd and Members of the Senate Banking Committee,

Greetings,

We bailed out the banks, currently we are giving them 0% on borrowed money, our wealth, and their greed will not allow them to give the American Public a break.

This is an Act of War on the American People by the Corporate Lending Institutions.

The time has come for the US Congress to protect all American Citizens. this time bailing out the Public Citizen.

I’m afraid Sen. Dodds cordial request to the Federal Reserve doesn’t go far enough. This will require an immediate act by President Obama.

I purpose a Public Debt Relief Option:
1. The Federal Government assumes all credit card holder debt – They, Congress, have the power to cut a deal with the Banks. Since these ungrateful institutions exaggerated their needs then quickly profiting off the backs of the American People it is the least our Government can do to help make amends.

2. If a citizen owes $12k to the bank and they sign up for the Public Debt Relief the Federal Government will pay the banks $8K. Two-Thirds of what is owed.

3. The American Citizen will now no longer have a credit debt to that Bank.

4. The Credit Card is now also closed.

5. The American Citizen utilizing this public debt option now owes the Federal Government $8k plus 3% interest.

6. Monthly installments will be made, no more than 17% of net income, automatic deductions from wages optional and IRS returns kept. Late fees of 1% within the first 30 days, 3 strikes maximum.

7. By law, once the debt has been paid this transfer will not affect one’s credit rating unless late more than 3 times.

8. However, until the debt is paid in full to the Government, Banks must be regulated with a hands-off policy to that debtor.

9. If a bank or a lending institution violates this policy they will be fined the amount offered in their letter of credit invite.

10. When the economy turns around; unemployment numbers below 4%, and depending on an individual’s income, the 3% rate can go up to as high, but no higher than 8% until that debt is paid.

This is a one time debt relief option only.

Since the Banks wish to terrorize the American Public with these new and higher interest rates, plus throw all the toxic waste on the backs of our children, which they created and Congress allowed, under these heretofore stressful conditions the Banks have decided to ignite incendiary financial bombs all across the nation, thus destroying our peaceful coexistence and happiness and forcing the American People into indentured-servitude for decades to come.

It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to step in, take action and protect the American People from these Financial Predatory Terrorists.

Anything less will put the American People and the nation in grave danger and in harms way.

Senators I implore you to please act quickly!

Thank you for your time.

Reminder: Fraud

New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers

GMAC Asks for $2B more

Bernanke’s trillion-dollar decision

Debtor’s Revolt this is only a start

The American People, in general and in great numbers want to be and act responsibly, but they also want a fair shake, they are a hearty people and believe in justice.

These are tough times, the majority of citizens, unlike the banks and corporations, are not looking for a hand out, they want to work and be productive, but the cards are stacked against them now and their freedom to move forward and provide for their families is systematically being suppressed through financial means.

This is a shock to all liberty loving people, President Obama has to act immediately. He must show the same mercy the previous Administration showed towards the banks now upon the American People.

He must avoid the coming calamity set into motion by the The Wall Street Banks and the Federal Reserve.

Time is running out, On 30 November 2009 Banks will be raising interest rates across the board on the American People. During these tough economic times the American People have relied on credit cards to make ends meet, pay utilities, rent or mortgage, medical bills and buy food. They are not using their cards for frivolous things, but due to unemployment the majority of Americans are now using their credit cards for survival.

This is a direct attack on the well being of citizenry throughout the nation.

As commander and chief and head law enforcement for the peace and well being of this nation I implore President Obama to act now and freeze all credit card interest rates.

Those who are at a rate beyond fair, 5% above prime, must be given the opportunity to receive a fair rate. Debt must be repaid, but not at the price of forcing the American People into indentured-servitude or death.

We must be fair and we must learn from our mistakes if we want to be a nation that can trust our government, business and each other again.

Bankers Vs. The People: Which Side Is The White House On?

 

Afghanistan In Three Minutes

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and fast

what are you doing this weekend?

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
CIA Facts

Dividing the World? start here

What’s next?

 

Missing: Hope and Change

photo – kayvee

Help Find – Reward

 

So This is Capitalism

So this is Capitalism, eh?

The New Job Expectation and Motto of the US should be, “Shut up, and be glad you’re alive. Now, get back to work or you’ll be replaced.”

What a terrible atmosphere this is creating, Americans living under greater stress and fear to provide for themselves and their families. Apparently, this is just how corporations like it, and while President Obama wants to improve our image in the world we’re not looking so good to each other right now.

Hard to convince me we are not under the throngs and duress of a Corporate Financial Coup.

1.  Fact – President Obama has surrounded himself with people from Goldman Sachs his largest campaign donor.  Quid Pro Quo?

2. Fact – President Obama hired and reappointed the same people in Federal Reserve under Bush, the people who failed the system, the one we are suffering under now.

3. Fact – President Obama is backing down, he’s changing his mind and allowing corporate tax cheats to get a pass.

4. Fact 1 & Fact 2 President Obama has allowed Big Pharma and Big Insurance  to continue their theft while Fact 3 still, 44,000 uninsured Americans die needlessly every year due to lack of health care; that’s 120 people each day. If that many Americans died in Iraq or Afghanistan we’d lay complete and utter waste to those countries.

5.  …and speaking of Afghanistan, FACT even after the announcement of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize President Obama decided only days later to quietly send 1300 more troops to Afghanistan.

Democrats FAIL.

Time for a change, time for a Third Party and the time to start is now, because apparently the good will of the people and their vote for change meant nothing.

Someone should have mentioned to the Nobel Committee before they voted, you reward good behavior after the fact, not what you think someone says they might do.

Now before the Obama droolers are all over my dissatisfaction with this president, let me remind them Bush and a Democratic Congress bailed out the Too Big To Fail Banks FACT within a week and that bailout money is still going towards bankers bonuses (President Obama -  FACT a. Before and Fact b. After) and profits while Americans are losing their jobs and homes;  FACT one every 13 seconds; and that number will double by year’s end; that’s one every 6.5 seconds.

Meanwhile, the rest of us pay for these losses, bankers toxic waste, dumped on us by these big banks as they continue to FACT get fees for foreclosing on us all. (looking for a better and more credible sources, but banks are charging the homeowners and ultimately collecting those fees from the tax payers).

Here’s a good question the American People haven’t even wrestled with, “What are our priorities as a nation and as a people?” Are we still in, “As long as it’s not me” mode heading towards “You’re on your own buddy” abdication?

FACT – It is you.

Finally, to the die hard Obama supporters, the bloom is off the rose and here’s a no-brainer piece of advice to the Teabaggers, LGBT Community and Health Care Advocates Protesters, find a way to join and hold hands or right now, this is as good as it gets.

 

For Sale Lichtenstein

On the block: Lehman art for under $2,000.

The first batch of artworks from the collection that once filled the corridors of Lehman Brothers’ offices will be hitting the auction block on November 1. And while the works by David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg may be small potatoes for museum curators, the collection provides the opportunity for aspiring patrons of the arts to pick up brand-name artists for under $2,000. Bankers looking for an elegant office decoration — and one with a conversation-starting provenance — should check out the catalogue at freemansauction

Obviously, Lehman’s creditors, who have lost most of their money, are hoping Freeman’s will be able to generate more proceeds than have been estimated. Freeman’s will also be auctioning off another 30 lots of European fine paintings, from the Lehman collection, on December 6, and another 500 lots, or so, also from the Lehman collection, on February 12 of next year. These two subsequent auctions are not expected to generate much in the way of proceeds either, according to Henry, perhaps between $280,000 and $430,000 from the two sales.

The modest valuations on these first groups of artworks from the Lehman collection stand in sharp contrast to the priceless art collection once owned by Robert “Bobbie” Lehman, one of the patriarchs of the investment bank. When Lehman died in 1969, his foundation donated some 3,000 of his artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Fifth Avenue. The museum has called that Lehman collection “one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States.” The Robert Lehman wing of the museum opened in 1975.

The collection being sold by Freeman’s is also not part of the personal collection of Dick Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman, and his wife, Kathy. The Fulds sold a group of 16 artworks through Christie’s last November for around $13.5 million below the $20 million the auction house guaranteed the couple. Kathy Fuld is on the board of the Museum of Modern Art.

Still, the 283 lots that Freeman’s will be selling early next month do include any number of iconic images by many familiar artists. For instance, there is a group of 10 Berenice Abbott photographs of New York City street scenes (as well as one of the Flatiron Building) on which Freeman’s has placed a seemingly modest price range of between $6,000 and $10,000. There is a set of nine Walker Evans photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge, priced at $1,000 to $1,500. There is a Christo print of wrapped buildings in lower Manhattan ($1,000 to $1,500) and a signed Alexander Calder print ($800 to $1,200). There is a 1973 David Hockney print of spring flowers in a vase that Freeman pegged at between $7,000 and $10,000.

A Roy Lichtenstein print, “I Love Liberty” from 1982, is estimated to fetch between $15,000 and $25,000. The Lichtenstein is one of the few lots being sold subject to a reserve price, or floor, so that if a minimum bid is not received the artwork will not be sold. Most of the collection, however, will just be sold without a price floor, which may be why Freeman’s has put relatively low price ranges on a number of the pieces.

There are also a number of prints by artists such as Jim Dine, Louise Bourgeois, Claes Oldenburg, Wayne Thiebaud, Yaccov Agam, Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Robert Indiana, and Andy Warhol. In many ways, the collection is very typical of what Wall Street banks and law firms use to line the many walls of their offices. There are also a slew of works by lesser-known artists as well as French, Indian, and Chinese artists.

Although the dollar amount is relatively small, selling the collection is a bit of a coup for Freeman’s. Usually, one of the three titans in the auction art market, Christie’s, Sotheby’s (BID), or Phillips, would be expected to sell such a collection. But Kelly Wright, an art advisor to Lehman, conducted a beauty contest earlier in the year and Freeman’s was selected. “We are very excited about it,” Henry said. “This is a very important provenance in the art world and there are number of top quality artworks being sold in good condition.” Of course, Freeman’s will get its pound of flesh. The auctioneer will add 25% on the first $20,000 of the hammer price of each lot, and 20% on the portion from $20,001 through $500,000.

In its glossy and colorful 250-page catalog, Freeman’s does acknowledge, briefly, the circumstances that led to the sale: “The company’s history ended abruptly in September 2008, when it was forced into bankruptcy during the recent financial crisis.” Not quite as dramatic sounding as the fall of the Medici, a previous patron of the arts whose banking empire was undone by fiscal mismanagement, but nevertheless a sign of our times

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Militia Sends Threats

I don’t know who these people are or if they are real – here’s a google serach on US militias found Colorado militia not sure this is the group. Another was this U.S. National Militia Directory and on the wiki

I don’t condone this and also have a hard time believing anyone would be this stupid to broadcast their ill intentions over You Tube. But whether you believe Tim McVeigh acted alone or not tensions in the US are high, people are angry about many thing in the nation, so watch and take warning around government buildings just in case.

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ps  – I’m a pacifist

 

D.N.A. the New Barcode?

Will your D.N.A. be the new barcode?

George Orwell couldn’t have dreamed this up

IBM scientists are working on ambitious research where nano-sized holes will be drilled into computer chips and DNA passed through to create a ‘genetic code reader’.

IBM said that experts from nanofabrication, microelectronics, physics and biology are working together to master a technique where a long DNA molecule passes through a three nanometer wide hole (a nanopore).

As the molecule passes through the nanopore one unit of DNA at a time, an electrical sensor can ‘read’ the DNA.

The challenge of the silicon-based ‘DNA Transistor’ would be to slow and control the motion of the DNA through the hole so the reader could decode what is inside it.

IBM claimed that if the project was successful it could make personalized genome analysis as cheap as $100 to $1,000, and compared it to the first ever sequencing done for the Human Genome Project, which cost $3 billion.

For any doubter out there, ‘Big Blue’ has released a video of its own discussing the possible implications, and some of the processes involved:

Interesting, and slightly scary, stuff.
from Ken Eakins

 

Hero

he.ro – ˈhɪəroʊ – [heer-oh] –noun, plural
1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.

2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.

3. the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.

Representative Alan Grayson
Florida’s 8th congressional district

Alan Mark Grayson (born March 13, 1958)

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GOP Health Care Plan: G-SAD
Don’t get sick, and if you get sick sell all your possession until you’re poor enough to beg, then die quickly.

GOP G-SAD (Get Sick And Die)

 

The Financial Coup – results

I’ve been watching a number of videos on the Debtor’s Revolt on the You Tube and I came across this video.
Upper Middle Class

I pegged the guy as a republican, I’ll skip, for now, how I came to that conclusion, but what I hope this video and the words following will do is advocate something we need as Americans to think about very carefully, that we are all citizens of this nation and that we need each other to survive and prosper.

That said, the first question I have in response to this video is, did this man lower his rents to help his exiting tenants or did he do this in order to avoid empty apartments, avert bigger loss, stay afloat essentially, cover his ass?

Here’s the low down, the banks don’t care if this guy defaults on the loan because the tax payers, the rest of us, through Congress, will bail the banks out.

What this man has is potential toxic waste – the banks win if he defaults, they got their fees and will get more. Any money “lost,” our government, we the tax payers, will fund with our savings and pensions.

Does this man understand that? Does he care?

If Bank Of America (BOA) lowers his rate who’s rate will they increase to make up the loss? The vulnerable family trying to make ends meet? The elderly? The college student? Yours?

Other than some bad PR, BOA is not being hurt, they made a bundle on the last bailout, they are only hurting us and as long as Congress keeps looking the other way they will find what ever fall guy they need to mitigate the heat or change their name. Meanwhile, they continue to keep stealing our savings, create more jobs loss and lower our standard of living.

If this man’s property is resold BOA will get their fees again and they hope the new owner will also default, it is how they get more of our savings, by picking our pockets one at a time and now tossing us all into the bottomless abyss of debt-money from China and the Saudis; both countries with abysmal labor and human rights violations.

We’re all just about broke, we will never pay China or the Saudis back. This is a new Ponzi Scheme brought to you by Wall Street yet again, and it’s not only hurting us and our children, but also our reputation in the world.

The American people are just starting to figure this scam out, China and the Saudis will only buy up so much more of our debt without requiring political favors or the ability to make large investments in the US. We are being forced to sell our county, our land and our wealth to inimical foreign interests. We are losing our country, soon followed by the lose of our security and our rights.

The banks are making billions off these losses and they are buying up our local solvent institutions or forcing them out of business, this Democratic Congress has done nothing, but allow them to act with impunity. Madoff was small potatoes.

President Obama hasn’t done anything other than make idle threats. I suspect, that like President Bush, President Obama is surrounded by the same people from Goldman Sachs and Wall Street who are gambling with our future and masterminding a good part of this scam. (see: indentured-slavery)

Not only are the banks too big to fail, they are stealing the country’s wealth; your life savings and our children’s future. This massive debt is leading to pay cuts and job loss, it is lowers our standard of living and is dividing us by class and political angst.

This is a financial coup.

If our government wanted to help its people, they would start by breaking up these behemoth banks, give these foreclosed and investment properties to Americans without homes first or subsidizes fair and affordable housing based on income.

Remember what Ronald Reagan said about home ownership – “it supplies stability and rootedness.”

Do we want to sell our country’s borders to the highest bidder regardless of their corrupt track-record?

Unfortunately, the actions of Congress demonstrate they won’t do anything short of a revolt and why should they? They gave up on us long ago when former politicians were allowed to lobby and infiltrated out system of governance for quid pro quo pay backs. Public service is now a mere career step to bigger and better things and the American People are divided, they on their own without representation, traveling down the road of a dog eat dog society.

So I pose my question to this BOA customer, why should hard working people, those also in debt, losing their own homes, education, jobs, health care, working without a living wage help you?

So we can continue to preserve the status quo?

I would be weary of this man’s investment plight, should he not also be advocating affordable housing, living wage jobs, universal health care and free education for all his countrymen and women?

In these hard and very vulnerable times shouldn’t we also be helping our neighbors, secure our country and preserve the rights for all.

I hesitate and wonder… once relieved will this man go back to serving these corporate masters, the wealthy socialist elitists on Wall Street?

I may be pre-judging this American citizen, however, in this economy, in our current society is his outrage, his plea for help, is his only interest to cover his ass?

Is he hoping this video will call to arms the viewer, his fellow Americans to put pressure on BOA in order to be one of the lucky and then quickly renew his membership in the “As Long As It’s Not Me” club?

Stay tuned…

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The Debtors Revolt Trickle Count Down To The Collapse

Lower Middle Class – 4 June 2009

The Middle Class – 8 September 2009

Upper Middle Class – 30 September 2009

Update
Right now it would seem that if the vast majority of the American People wanted a change to our financial system, this crisis, the streets in DC and the State Houses would be full of outraged citizens with pitch forks and rope. Apparently, the brand of capitalism the people in the US want is a combination of sink or swim, as long as it’s not me and you’re on your own Pal. Until that attitude changes a lot of Americans are going to need a good strong pair of Chinese made boot straps.

 

Michael Moore’s Message to Barack Obama and Blue Dog Democrats

Public Citizen

Big Pharma gets what they want and Private Insuranxce gets what they want and The American Public gets screwed, again.

Here’s the low down

Republican Health Care Plan

“Don’t Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!”

 

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I Bailed Out US Banks And All I Got Was This Toxic Waste

 

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The Facts

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Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us

okay, if we can’t eat um maybe they can come up with few good ideas…

At a little noticed meeting with Senate Democrats, Warren Buffett, the famous investors’ guru, told the lawmakers that rich people are not paying enough taxes.

A tax increase for the very wealthy? Many of the Senators backed away from that recommendation, even though it came from the world’s second richest man.

That is just one reason why Mr. Buffett plays a central role in my first work of fiction, Only the Super Rich Can Save Us! The title is derived from an exchange between Buffett and a woman from New Orleans. Buffett is leading a convoy of critical supplies right after Katrina to help the fleeing poor stranded on the highways without food, water, medicine and shelter. At one stop, Buffett was distributing supplies when a grandmother clasped his hands, looked right into his eyes and cried out: “Only the super-rich can save us!”

Her words jolted Buffett to his core. Arriving back at his modest home in Omaha, he knew what he had to do.

The next scene is early January 2006. Buffett and 16 enlightened super-rich elders gather at a mountaintop hotel in Maui, and devise an elaborate strategy to take on the corporate goliaths and their Washington allies, and to redirect the country toward long overdue changes.

What follows is a top-down, bottom-up mobilization of Americans from all backgrounds in a head-on power struggle to break the grip of the corporate titans on our government.

With four out of five Americans believing that the U.S. is in decline, imagining the super-rich powerful engine revving up an organized citizenry is a precondition to revitalizing democracy.

Tom Peters, the best selling author of In Search of Excellence summed up my book’s objective by calling it a work of fiction that he would love to see become nonfiction.

Step by step, week by week, Buffett’s super-rich, who call themselves “the Meliorists” build their campaigns—first privately and then openly launching their initiatives during the 4th of July weekend with media, fanfare and parades.

Turning real, well-known people into fictional roles does not mean that their past achievements and beliefs are overlooked. To the contrary, I extend their achievements and beliefs to a much more intense level of what I believe they wish to see our country become.

Over the years, I have spoken to many super-rich and found many of them discouraged and saddened about our nation’s inability to solve major problems—a society paralyzed because the few have too much political and economic power over the many.

Buffett, in my ‘political science fiction,’ to use my colleague Matt Zawisky’s phrase, selected people like George Soros, Ted Turner, Ross Perot, Sol Price, Yoko Ono, William Gates Sr., Barry Diller, Bill Cosby, Joe Jamail, Bernard Rapoport, Leonard Riggio, Phil Donahue, and others because each brought unique experience, determination, money and rolodexes to that secluded Maui hotel where they met every month.

The “Meliorists” address the enormous mismatch of resources between citizen groups and the corporate supremacists. This time the entrenched CEOs are challenged by the retired or elderly billionaires and mega-millionaires who know the ways and means of business and political power, and can throw the resources, smarts and grass-root organizing talent against the corporate behemoths, who are not reluctant to counterattack.

In 1888, a Bostonian by the name of Edward Bellamy published a tremendous bestseller about a utopian U.S. in the year 2000 called “Looking Backward.” The book inspired the then-growing progressive movement.

Obviously, Bellamy’s utopian dream was not actualized. In my book, I show not a utopian society but a primer for how the super-rich, as a catalyst, could provide the means for millions of Americans to upgrade their quality of life and their livelihoods while confidently building civic and political institutions to hold and extend their gains.

I mean this book to interest anyone searching for ways to make fundamental, sustainable change. With this book you could see how your favorite big issue could be handled strategically and tactically. If you just want to escape your despair over our national gridlock and peer into the possible, into what could happen now if enough people and progressive super-rich come together, this book is for you, too.

Every week, leading reformers in our country produce documentations, diagnoses, denunciations of injustice and proposals to address it. Little happens. Too many mismatches. We need major catalysts. But first, we need imaginations rooted in fulfilling available potentials—transformations for us and for posterity.

By the way, my fictional Meliorists have a task force on posterity as well.

For more, see Only The Super-Rich.
Take it from there.
-Ralph Nader

 

Make Up Your Mind!

a little history:

muslims hate commies, but some did help the nazis, and nazis hate the muslims and the commies and the pacifist. the commies hate the nazis and the muslims and they don’t know what a pacifist is. the pacifist sorta like the commie, but commies don’t believe everything has spirit so pacifist only like the sharing part of the commies and pacifists don’t like the nazi’s, cause a lot of pacifist are jews, pacifist like the muslims but not the ones who blow things up, as i said, the muslims hate the commies and most don’t remember the nazis unless you bring up the jews and muslims are completely confused by pacifist, but all in all there is good, bad and mislead among all ideologies, so to the loonie-toon republicans, please make up your mind.

I think that covers it

 

Financial Crack Whores

House Moves To Extend Unemployment Benefits
“Despite predictions the Great Recession is running out of steam, the House is taking up emergency legislation this week to help the millions of Americans who see no immediate end to their economic miseries.

A bill offered by Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., and expected to pass easily would provide 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits for more than 300,000 jobless people who live in states with unemployment rates of at least 8.5 percent and who are scheduled to run out of benefits by the end of September. “ more

While I think an extension on benefits is helpful – it’s one of those tiny band-aids in the box seldom used and never sticks.

This extension is nothing in comparison to what we gave and are still giving the Financial Crack Whores on Wall Street.

Sure, this will extend the life a couple of months for some average Americans to pay their bills on time like, minimum credit card payments which, ironically go directly into the pockets of the Financial Crack Whores, but Americans are starting to tire of treading just to keep their heads above water.

What Congress needs to address and have all, but failed to do are on the bigger issues – housing and jobs.

A good and patriotic start would be to lower and freeze the salaries of these Financial Crack Whores, they are still raking in profits off of free tax payer money. small solution below

It’s been a year and Congress hasn’t even begun to untangle the knots in this gnarly ball of thread. It’s time for a serious investigation of these institutions. Open Their Books!

We can start here

Congress needs to get money flowing on Main Street not Wall Street by supporting tax incentives to companies that hire Citizens of the United States, expand and crating new business IN THE US and bailout the disadvantaged homeowners and get our people out of tents and living off the streets. It would have been far better if Congress gave the money directly to the middle class and poverty stricken Americans, with limits (housing, bills, education, savings), instead of constantly filling the pockets and bailing out the wealthy. This would have set us on a quicker path to restoring our nation’s economy.

We all need this card.

The Justice Department also needs to devote time to get our priorities and the crooks in order.

Congress needs to do a lot more than extend benefits. Like the American People, Congress needs to get to work.

We know it can be done, almost a year ago, inside a week, we saved the world from a financial collapse, right?

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small solution…
bring all current credit card debt interest rates down to 2% above prime; bankers got a better deal on their bailout and with this program still make a profit. Those who sign up can not apply for more credit until the amount owed is paid in full. When all credit card debt is paid back then bank salaries can be renegotiated.

If we don’t start coming up with solutions fast societal morals will begin to deteriorate spiraling downwards towards a country that embraces only every man for himself.

 

Logic and Reason Free Zone

All that stands in the way of Universal Health Care in America are the greed of the medical- industrial complex, the lies of right wing propaganda machine, and the gullibility of the voters who believe those lies.

Let’s not let volume beat reason.

Czars in the US

Crazy for God -  The Village Idiots 6:15

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pssst…

Congrats Ron Paul

 

Killing You

Which loved will suffer and die before you get mad?
Would you profit off the pain, suffering and death of another?
How long will it take before you act?

sign up – spread!
sick for profit
this is not only immoral it’s nothing short of terrorism

 

Americans Thrust Into Poverty

“A new comprehensive economic survey shows that the recession has plunged 2.6 million more Americans into poverty, wiped out the household income gains of an entire decade and pushed the number of people without health insurance up to 46.3 million…

The nation’s poverty rate rose to 13.2 percent in 2008, up from 12.5 percent in 2007, the Census Bureau data showed. That was the first significant increase since 2004 and the highest level in 11 years.

In all, 39.8 million Americans were living in poverty in 2008, defined as an income of $22,025 for a family of four. The last time there were that many poor people was 1960, although the nation’s population was smaller then.

Almost one in five children younger than 18 are living in poverty, with the total number rising from 13.3 million in 2007 to 14.1 million in 2008.”
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it’s headed your way, get active now!

 

Joe Wilson Resign

“YOU LIE”
Twice!

Poster Child
The New Republican Legacy

ah um ah um issues um illegals um respectfully um I called the President of the United State of america in front of millions of people world wide, with troops in harms way a liar. ah um

Joe Wilson Rush Approved!

Miller Challenges Wilson
Rob Miller, Wilson’s Opponent, Raises Over $100,000 Off “You Lie”
Why Miller is Running

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mounting…

Censure

Joe Wilson Is Your Preexisting Condition

Joe Wilson called the President of the United State of America in front of millions of people all over the world, when our troops are in danger a liar

Joe Wilson, where kids get their rude and bad behavior

Joe Wilson makes history by being a douche

Joe Wilson ate the last ice cream bar you were saving for after work

Joe Wilson hates your cat

Joe Wilson wants illegal immigrants to die of a contagious disease and spread it to your family members

Joe Wilson dealt it, then denied it

Joe Wilson steals from the library

Joe Wilson’s words cost him $150k $160k $170k $180k $190k $225k $400k $500k each, so far

Joe Wilson has done unto Jesus

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Addison Graves (Joe) Wilson

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oh, you guessed it!

Sorry, now send me money!

September 10, 2009
by Joe Wilson

“Today I need your help more than ever before. I’ve been under attack by the liberal left for months because of my opposition to their policies, especially government-run healthcare. They’ve run commercials in my home district and flooded my office with phone calls and protestors. They’ve done everything they can to quiet my very vocal opposition to more government interference in our lives. Now, it’s gotten even worse.
But I will not stop fighting against their policies that will only lead to more government interference, more spending, and higher deficits.

Will you stand with me today by making a donation to my campaign?…”

Some clueless history : I think he’s paranoid

all done

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HOUSE BILL – H.R. 3200
SEC 246. NO FEDERAL PAYMENT TO UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS

 

President Obama

 

Words Matter‏

Ever wonder what’s happening to words once they fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists? Too often reporters and editors don’t wonder enough. They ditto the words even when the result is deception or doubletalk.

Here are some examples. Day in and day out we read about “detainees” imprisoned for months or years by the federal government in the U.S., Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Doesn’t the media know that the correct word is “prisoners,” regardless of what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld disseminated?

The raging debate and controversy over health insurance and the $2.5 trillion spent this year on health care involves consumers and “providers.” How touching to describe sellers or vendors, often gouging, denying benefits, manipulating fine print contracts, cheating Medicare and Medicaid in the tens of billions as “providers.”

I always thought “providers” were persons taking care of their families or engaging in charitable service. Somehow, the dictionary definition does not fit the frequently avaricious profiles of Aetna, United Healthcare, Pfizer and Merck.

“Privatization” and the “private sector” are widespread euphemisms that the press falls for daily. Moving government owned assets or functions into corporate hands, as with Blackwater, Halliburton, and the conglomerates now controlling public highways, prisons, and drinking water systems is “corporatization,” not the soft imagery of going “private” or into the “private sector.” It is the corporate sector!

“Medical malpractice reform” is another misnomer. It used to mean restricting the legal rights of wrongfully injured people by hospitals and doctors, or limiting the liability of these corporate vendors when their negligence harms innocent patients. Well, to anybody interested in straight talk, “medical malpractice reform” or the “medical malpractice crisis” should apply to bad or negligent practices by medical professionals. After all, about 100,000 people die every year from physician/hospital malpractice, according to a Harvard School of Public Health report. Hundreds of thousands are rendered sick or injured, not to mention even larger tolls from hospital-induced infections. Proposed “reforms” are sticking it to the wrong people—the patients—not the sellers.

“Free trade” is a widely used euphemism. It is corporate managed trade as evidenced in hundreds of pages of rules favoring corporations in NAFTA and the World Trade Organization. “Free trade” lowers barriers between countries so that cartels, unjustified patent monopolies, counterfeiting, contraband, and other harmful practices and products can move around the world unhindered.

What is remarkable about the constant use of these words is that they permeate the language even if those who stand against the policies of those who first coin these euphemisms. You’ll read about “detainees” and “providers” and “privatization” and “private sector” and “free trade” in the pages of the Nation and Progressive magazines, at progressive conferences with progressive leaders, and during media interviews. After people point out these boomeranging words to them, still nothing changes. Their habit is chronic.

A lot of who we are, of what we do and think is expressed through the language we choose. The word tends to become the thing in our mind as Stuart Chase pointed out seventy years ago in his classic work The Tyranny of Words. Let us stop disrespecting the dictionary! Let’s stop succumbing to the propagandists and the public relations tricksters!

Frank Luntz—the word wizard for the Republicans who invented the term “death tax” to replace “estate tax” is so contemptuous of the Democratic Party’s verbal ineptitude (such as using “public option” instead of “public choice” and regularly using the above-noted misnomers) that he dares them by offering free advice to the Democrats. He suggests they could counteract his “death tax” with their own term “the billionaires’ tax.” There were no Democratic takers. Remember, words matter.

Using words that are accurate and at face value is one of the characteristics of a good book. Three new books stand out for their straight talk. In Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-party Tyranny, Theresa Amato, my former campaign manager, exposes the obstructions that deny voter choice by the two major parties for third party and independent candidates. Just out is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Pulitzer Prize winner, Chris Hedges. Lastly, the boisterous, mischievous short autobiography of that free spirit, Jerry Lee Wilson , The Soloflex Story: An American Parable.

Not withstanding their different styles, these authors exercise semantic discipline.
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Ralph Nader

 

Why We Need Universal Health Care

thanks nalts!

 

Tribute To Teddy

Cheers!

 

Health Care – What You Need to Know

The Bottom Line

The Private Health Plan -  more money from you,  cuts in doctor’s fees, and more profits for Private Insurance Companies

The Out Come -  Private Insurance Companies hold your loved ones health hostage for profit.

What You Should Ask -  How much profit to the Private Health Care Industry is your child’s life worth?

Profits for Private Health Care is like human trafficking the industry profits on human suffering and death.

Time to take the profits out of health care, it’s immoral.

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A line-by-line rebuttal to false email

The Health Care Cartel

 

The Banks

Obama to name Bernanke to 2nd term as Fed chief

The banks are happy

We should have seen the irony coming – Bernanke an expert on the great depression has help to caused another great depression. The past  seems to follow him like a dark cloud.

Best thing to do is stop doing business with banks. Switch over to a credit union, but if you can’t then use cash instead of credit – banks charge stores (3%) when you use your credit card and that’s reflected in the price of goods.  Stare asking stores to offer a lower price on items if you pay for them with cash.

If you’re really stuck and have to use the banks use as many free services as you can.

Since Congress is bought and sold by the banks and are doing little to nothing  to curb their greed do what you can and spread the following 5  ideas:

1. use cash not credit

2. start asking for cash discounts at stores

3. join a credit union

4. buy local money (with cash) where available

5. use free bank service not paid ones

spread some or all

Then sit back and wait to  see if the dollar  collapses.
In the mean time we can cut into their profits.

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