Daily Topics - Wednesday October 27th, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: "Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." -- Abraham Lincoln
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - special Wednesday edition! Senator Sanders spends the hour talking about issues that affect us all and taking your calls too www.sanders.senate.gov
Hour Two: Birthright citizenship vs. coporate personhood...good trade? Thom has a rumble with Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Intstitute www.businessandmedia.org
Hour Three: The Best of the Rest of the News with Thom
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#2
Chris Hedges | The World Liberal Opportunists Made
Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Chris Hedges begins: "The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism."
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"Liberals decry, for example, the refusal of the Democratic Party to restore habeas corpus or halt the looting of the U.S. Treasury on behalf of Wall Street speculators, but continue to support a president who cravenly serves the interests of the corporate state. "
#3
Green Party: ‘Whether you elect Democrats or Republicans, you’re getting a GOP agenda’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/green-party-whether-elect-democrats-r...
#4
In a lecture presented at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Noam Chomsky was asked about the potential for black-box voting machines to be abused and steal elections while leaving no fingerprints. Chomsky replied that the people would very likely be heard anyway if ruling class hubris was beyond control. He may have been thinking we might be protected by the 1878 Posse Comitas act. President Bush signed the repeal of Posse Comitas in 2006.
#5
The 14th Amendment contains a trap for those who would tinker with the current stare decisis about the meaning of US "jurisdiction" with respect to citizenship.
While the US has in recent years been hostile to the concept of "universal jurisdiction", it at the same time claims "extraterritorial jurisdiction" over any person, from any nation, who commits a crime against a US citizen anywhere in the world. That means that the US effectively claims criminal jurisdiction over all of humanity ... which if 14th Amendment stare decisis is abandoned could mean everybody in the world is an American Citizen under the 14th Amendment.
#6
Thom,
You should try to be more accurate in your reporting of current news stories. You repeatedly have stated today that Tim Profitt wants an apology because he hurt his back while stomping on the moveon.org women activist. However, if you check out:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/kentucky-stomper-hit-victim-pain/
you will see that in fact he claims it was his bad back that prevented him from bending down to deal with the woman once she was on the ground, and therefore he had no choice but to use his foot. His demand for an apology is because he claims that she was the one who started it all.
Ed
#7
Let's see ... "I had to stomp her because I couldn't bend down and punch her." I guess that explains it all!
#8
Election Issue: Why are we at war with Afghanistan? We are told it is because the folks (a bunch of "crazies", as Thom puts it) from there attacked us. This week a new video was posted to the net. Anyone who thinks a bunch of crazies flying airplanes brought down the buildings will have no doubts after seeing this video. Game, Set, Match. Look for the you tube video link:
#9
Israel admits and is relieved that America and England are also war criminals.
#10
During G. W. Bush's presidency the republicans were saying over & over; " If you don't support your President you are un-patriotic! " Now with B. Obama as our President they are saying; " If you support your President then you are un-patriotic. "
#11
Thom Incorrect about Weimar Inflation, a couple of points. First, the reparations were denominated in Gold Marks, that is a set amount of physical gold, as well as other commodities- lumber, for one. Inflating the mark after the agreement did not change the required, physical quantities of materials set out in the treaty. Second, the Weimar had a Privately Owned Central Bank (Like the US FED) controlling the currency, which was inflating it in defense of shorting in the markets. The "Weimar Inflation" is one of the mainstays of Private Banking Myth that Government cannot be trusted to control the currency, thus a private institution is required.
The amazing thing to me is that while everyone "knows" about the Weimar Inflation, who thinks about "How did Germany go from being bankrupt to becoming an economic powerhouse capable of challenging the world in less than a decade?" Hitler took over the Reichsbank, and financed the rebuilding of Germany with Labor Treasury Certificates issued by the government, the same way Lincoln won the Civil war with Greenbacks. No debt, no interest, and it circulates indefinitely, not like unsustainable debt based money which leaves the economy when the debt is paid or defaults. If Government can issue the Treasury Certificates for which Federal Reserve Notes are traded, why not just issue the notes directly?
If you understand Fractional Reserve Banking, then you understand that much of the money in the system is based largely on the reserves of the Federal Debt deposited in Private Banks. Pay down that debt and you reduce the banks reserves and the amount of credit they can issue.
To educate yourself see Stephen Zarlenga's book "The Lost Science of Money"; Ellen Brown's book "Web of Debt", and online videos "Money as Debt" and "The Money Masters". Real change will be difficult without monetary reform restoring the issuing of currency to the People, in their representative the Government.
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in regards with your debate with michael medved, medved mentioned on his show that he is good friends with the Koch brothers and that they have nothing to do with the tea party .