From the House Clerk’s Office (the bailout vote): http://clerk.house.gov/evs/200…
October 2008 archive
Oct 03 2008
Told Ya
“The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nationstates involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future.”
U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies.
Oct 03 2008
The Herculean Task of Barack Obama
After the worldwide celebration….
There are a few issues on the table (Stop her! Stop her now, Do NOT let Nancy near that table!)
Oct 03 2008
The Peoples Republic Of Wall Street
Pepe Escobar cuts through the fog and bullshit emanating from the Washington, Wall Street, and media lockstep march to relieve you and your children of all the money they can, your future and the future of the country, while doing their damndest to stockholm syndrome you into giving it up to them willingly.
Pepe Escobar: What’s behind the “no banker left behind” bailout
The financial crisis may be the number one issue on US voters’ minds, but there seems to be no leadership at work in Washington, comments Pepe Escobar. The Wall Street bailout rejected by Congress and then approved by the Senate may not be the solution. It’s up to foreign analysts and economists to tell it like it really is.
What is in fact being saved – capitalism or a banking oligopoly?
Oct 03 2008
They Better Hope We Don’t Wake Up
Oct 03 2008
America pays the piper, big time pt.1
Boy does this hit the Nail on the Head, at least in this Part 1.
Robert Parry: After 28 years of drunken optimism and blind nationalism the US wakes up to a grim future
Oct 03 2008
What are you reading?
One of the series we used to have here at Docudharma was plf515’s What are you reading? To be real honest with you, I usually found his selections a bit intimidating. But that says way more about me than it does him.
I am a member of a book group that meets monthly. In September every year, we choose the books we are going to read for the coming year. I was not able to attend the meeting where this happened last month, but I found some of the selections very interesting and am looking forward to reading them this year. So I thought I’d share them here.
As a bit of background…the book group is all women who are mostly in their 50’s and 60’s. We are all professional women (one is recently retired) working mostly in the non-profit and health care sectors.
With that said, here are some of the selections for the coming year:
Oct 03 2008
Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government
“Over the last two weeks I have encountered just such an apocalyptic situation, where I and the Department of Justice have been asked to be part of something that is fundamentally wrong.”
(Excerpt from Deputy Attorney General James Comey’s draft letter of resignation to President Bush, dated March 16, 2004, which Comey did not in the end send.)
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull”
(George Orwell: 1984)
I: Main Core and PROMIS
Suppose that the United States Government, or more likely an unaccountable privatized intelligence colossus empowered by the reaction to the 9/11 attacks and fueled by the rampant cronyism of a system long ago gone rotten had a surveillance tool capable of peering into the most private aspects of American lives on a whim. Now suppose that the new growth industry of a previously unthinkable futuristic police state was already in place, is fully operational and has in fact been online being actively been being utilized for illegal domestic spying for years before those two airplanes even slammed into the World Trade Center. The ‘terrorist’ attacks were used as the justification for every unconstitutional reigning in of civil liberties ever since that heinous September morning seven years ago when the reset button was hit on two and a quarter centuries of American history and we all stepped forth into the brave new world of perpetual war, fear, suspicion and vengeance into a parallel reality in a place that would come to be known as The Homeland. What if this surveillance industrial complex was in possession of a database that was so large and so powerful that not only could it instantly process and retrieve the most minute or intimate aspects of a citizen’s lives but was also able to utilize extremely sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities to actually predict likely patterns of future behavior.
Oct 03 2008
Is Ahmadinejad Insane, or is Palin Lying?
Here’s what Sarah Palin told an international audience about the information and attitudes she has toward Iran, a nation that will loom large in the next decade and more of America’s future:
An armed, nuclear armed especially Iran is so extremely dangerous to consider. They cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons period. Israel is in jeopardy of course when we’re dealing with Ahmadinejad as a leader of Iran. Iran claiming that Israel as he termed it, a stinking corpse, a country that should be wiped off the face of the earth. Now a leader like Ahmadinejad who is not sane or stable when he says things like that is not one whom we can allow to acquire nuclear energy, nuclear weapons.
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…leaders like Ahmadinejad who would seek to acquire nuclear weapons and wipe off the face of the earth an ally like we have in Israel…
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dictators who hate America and hate what we stand for, with our freedoms…
Palin and her handlers must be aware that her words will be fact-checked. So you have to ask: where does she get her information? How does her information square with other sources of information about Ahmadinejad? If her information is not consistent with other facts and reports, who is wrong? Do Palin and her information sources know that their information is wrong? If so, WHY DO THEY PERSIST IN LYING? And if Palin and her handlers are lying, what can we assume about their character, their respect for the integrity of the communications process by which Americans make an extremely important decision — the choice of the next leader of the nation; their respect for the people of the United States; their respect for Constitutional principles that are “what America stands for”?
Who hates America more, Sarah Palin and her handlers, or Ahmadinejad and Iran?
You decide.
Above the fold: What Sarah Palin said.
Below the fold: Eye witness accounts from religious and civic leaders who spoke with Dr. Ahmadinejad on September 24, 2008.
Oct 03 2008
To The Leaders
A toast
Thanks to you
We have a multi-trillion dollar deficit that we can pull together to retire in a million years.
Because of you
children of the destitute starve under cardboard boxes.
Under you
our flag waves assent to the rape of the world’s resources and the decimation of penguins and polar bears.
We the people,
the hardest-working, most efficient in the world,
many of whom are recompensed with minimum wage,
whose fears of losing insurance or status are unfamiliar to you,
who watch life on television while you play at St. Moritz,
We salute you.
Raspberries!
Oct 03 2008
Docudharma Times friday October 3
Debates Have Questions And Usually Have Answers
Except One Person On That Stage In
St Louis Some How Failed To Notice
Palin and Biden Are Cordial but Pointed
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: October 2, 2008
Gov. Sarah Palin used a steady grin, folksy manner and carefully scripted talking points to punch politely and persist politically at the vice-presidential debate on Thursday night, turning in a performance that her rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., sought to undermine with cordially delivered but pointed criticism.
If the issues and positions were familiar to many viewers – on taxes and the economy, energy and oil, same-sex marriage, Iraq and Afghanistan – it was Ms. Palin’s debut in a nationally televised debate that made for unusual theater.
March marks 1968 Mexico killings
The massacre of students in the capital by troops just before the Olympics has yet to be properly investigated.
By Tracy Wilkinson and Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 3, 2008
MEXICO CITY — Thousands of Mexicans marched across their nation’s capital Thursday to demand justice for victims of a 1968 massacre of students by government troops — contemporary Mexico’s most traumatic atrocity and one that remains unresolved.Survivors of that bloody night 40 years ago and Mexicans who had not been born then joined forces, chanting “Dos de octubre! No se olvide!” (Oct. 2! Don’t forget!) as they converged on the downtown Zocalo plaza.
USA
Support Rallied as House Readies for Its Second Bailout Vote
By Lori Montgomery and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, October 3, 2008; Page A01
A tide of lobbyists representing corporate executives, small-business owners, farmers and retirees swamped Capitol Hill yesterday in hopes of pushing an emergency economic rescue plan through Congress, but the fate of the measure remained uncertain as the House prepared for a climactic vote at midday today.
Leaders of both parties said they were optimistic that they would be able to marshal more support for the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout than they mustered on Monday, when the House delivered a shocking defeat to the measure and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting 778 points, or about 7 percent.